SEL Commitment Team Joint Statement

 The SEL Commitment Team met for our final meeting of the school year on Thursday. We reviewed our progress from this year and made small edits to our action plan for next school year. The following action items will be the focus of the SEL Commitment for the 2023-2024 school year:

-Students can identify their learning and social-emotional needs and access age-appropriate supports

    This is achieved and monitored through our SIP goals, homeroom lessons, 2nd Step, and other grade-span-specific resources that are already available to students

-Students participate in resilience and growth mindset scenarios

These lessons are happening across the district and are one of the 10 tenets of Academy 3.0

-Staff can assess the needs of students through the completion of SEL questionaries and surveys

-Community can identify the link between SEL and MTSS practices

The Department of Educational Services is planning ways in which we can better communicate to our community 

-Community can participate in advisory groups to further understand how social-emotional learning impacts the home

We already have several parents committed to the District's Commitment Team for next year 

K-5 Writing Audit

This week we met with our writing consultant to revise and finalize the writing audit document.  This is the form that will be used in September for the initial audits and April for the post audit.  Please feel free to reflect on the audits and reach out to Coaches or Ed Services for any professional resources or support in writing practices.  

Need Books for Student Home Libraries

 We are very excited to have a partnership with the Lions for Literacy program from the Elburn Lions Club.  This year they had very successful book drives and have the ability to offer our classrooms up to 30 books to share with students in your classroom that do not have the ability to have at home libraries or books available.  The intent to provide summer reading resources for students as they leave for summer.  If you would like up to 30 books to give away for the summer, please email Sarah Mumm at 10358@kaneland.org and share how many books you would like and what student age range.  We have the follow book ranges to choose from:  age 0-3, age 4-7, age 8-10, age 11-14, or adult age.  If you would like to focus on male or female based text please share how many of each focus you would like.  Thank you!     

Long-term Planning for Proficiency-based Progress

 As we wrap up the year, I wanted to share some of the tools that you can be using for planning around proficiency-based progress. We will be sure to repost this at the start of the year as well.

The best tool to use for long-term planning is the PBP table itself. As we have finalized these tables this year, teachers and students will have increased access to multiple grade levels of standards. So for planning, part 1 is done - clarity! 

Long-term planning really taps into the co-constructed feedback process with students, and it is helpful to look at planning in terms of content, process, or product. I would recommend looking at this through the lens of process and the questions we ask about our KLCs- what do I want my students to know, how do I know they have gotten it, what do I do when they a) are not proficient, or b) they demonstrate proficiency sooner than the rest?

Co-constructing feedback allows you to look at student data together to plan out what the next steps may be for each individual student. SMART goals may help to set a time-bound goal tied to the individual student, or it may look best charting each of your standards on a continuum. 

However you choose to track student progress, it is critical that it remains tied to student data (based on your formative and summative assessments) and the language of the proficiency tables!