Personalized Learning 3.0 Progress

 We are coming up on the first quarter of the year. For those who kicked off PL Academy 3.0 last year, you should be done with roughly half of the 10 Tenets. From an Ed Services point of view, we have seen so much growth with the implementation of these teaching practices. In the month of September, our administrative teams have been in over 100 classrooms across the district and shared out all of the wonderful things happening for our kids. From technology enhancement to Kindergarteners explaining why they are proficient, our tenets of 3.0 are already having a positive impact on our students. We want to encourage you to keep at these tenets. We have almost 200 signed up at our IgKnight Conference in November, so we will have a significant amount of evidence to share out in the 2nd semester!

Keep up the good work!

Tenet H in the Spotlight!

The Purpose: The purpose of proficiency-based progress is to show responsiveness in learning progression when students inevitably reach proficiency at various points in time.

Tenet H Expectations: Show evidence and rationale of the progression of next steps in student learning. Evidence must include student samples of learning progression along with a rationale of the choice for the next steps in learning. Evidence should include how a student’s progress is individualized or personalized.


Tenet H focuses on the key questions of a professional learning community:

• What do we want all students to know and be able to do?
• Our reported standards and tables
• How will we know if they learn it?
• Formative and summative assessments, small group conferencing, goal setting
• How will we respond when some students do not learn?
• Re-assessment? What is your criteria for a student to show they have acquired new knowledge?
• How will we extend the learning for students who are already proficient?
• Continuum, next reported standard, MTSS intervention to extend learning, pulling in the next proficiency table...

Some great examples can be seen in every building across the district - from students discussing what the criteria in a PBP table means to them, to nearly every grade and department doing some type of small group conferencing, GRID method of teaching, Must Do/May Do options, to teachers empowering their students to self-assess using the PBP table to decide if they need to re-assess. 

our students have a lot of options when it comes to self-guidance and empowerment. Teachers continue to offer individualized and personalized opportunities for our kids. 

Kane County Day Call for Proposals

 This March Kane County will once again hold their all county professional development day.  They have many keynote speakers and highlighted speakers, but would love staff from all districts to present share in order to provide opportunities to learn from each other.  If you are interested in presenting a session during Kane County Day on March 1st please complete thier call for proposals.  Breakout sessions will be 1 hour and 15 minutes and there will be five breakout sessions. The call for presenters will close on December 4^th, 2023.  Here is the linked Google Form.

If you have any questions, please contact Jordan Eggleson at  jeggleson@kaneroe.org or 630-762-2056 or me (Katie) kalgrim@kaneroe.org or 630-675-4447.

 

IgKnight PL Academy Expansion

As per the IgKnight rollout plan, we will be expanding next year to include 9th-grade students. An informational night is being held for anyone interested in learning more. It will be held at KMAC on Tuesday, October 17th from 6-7pm. Please help by sharing the date, time, and location with anyone you may know who is interested in learning more. An event flyer can be found HERE. 

Looking for Your Lucky Duck Match?

 Please remember the first HUGE Lucky Duck raffle will be happening this December.  Be sure to find your match before then and submit it to Sarah Mumm at 10358@kaneland.org.  We have had 20 matches so far!  This is a poster that some staff put together to help out.  You might just see your match here and contact them!

K-5 Report Card Support

 The K-5 Report Cards went live this week.  Your school will be offering with the amazing help of Faye sessions to support you completing the grades.  Here are two great resources as well for you:

• Step-by-step
• Video

Please remember you can also reach out to Faye at any time for help!  Thank you to the tech department for the awesome work setting up the report cards.  If you have edits for next year, we will be asking for you to submit them at the end of each trimester, please note them for those collection times.