In order to best plan next year's focus professional development on potent feedback, we would love for staff to share a reflection of current feedback practices. Please take a moment to fill out the feedback relfection form linked below by February 29th. Thank you in advance for any relfection feedback that you can share to better assist us in planning of professional development.
Friday, January 26, 2024
Wednesday, January 24, 2024
6-12 SBG Transition Update
I just wanted to keep everyone updated on the last few steps of the transition planning for SBG to traditional grading. We have our Kaneland Connects Commitment team meeting next week, which will be the final data collection from the community stakeholders. We will then bring an updated protocol to both grade spans for final review and adjustments. As always, if you have any questions, please feel free to reach out.
Revisiting Tenet B
Growth Mindset
We are getting into arguably one of the more difficult portions of the year - the month of February. Between weather, lack of sun, and cold temps, it can be a struggle to actively engage students during this time. This is a great time to revisit the growth mindset concept with your students and share ways in which they can persevere through this period. That might be video discussions, SEL/homeroom talks, conferencing, etc. The important thing to remember is connection - not just a poster hanging in the room, but true connections to your students to keep them motivated!
Canvas/Google Doc Reminder (recurring post)
For the last few years, Canvas has stopped supporting Google Docs Cloud Assignments and has advised users to switch to Google Assignments. It is now official that Google Docs Cloud Assignments will be deprecated. Please use the Google Assignments external tool instead. HERE is a guide.
SIP Kaneland Connects SIP Goal Post Assessment
It is that time of year again to have our students reflect on the commitments in Kaneland Connects and progress of each one. This is part of our evaluative student growth goals. Please take time between January 26 and February 2nd to have your students take the assessment linked below. Grades 2-12 will also be sent directly to students through School Messenger but also please draw attention to taking the survey in your class periods. All EC-1 (and it is an option for 2nd grade) should print the survey linked below and give the survey to all during next week. All printed surveys need to be returned to Sarah Mumm by Friday at 4:00pm. Please contact the Educational Service Department at any time with questions.
Tuesday, January 23, 2024
Five School, One Book Submissions
WOW our students have been busy! In just two weeks of the Five Schools, One Book program we have had over 150 submissions of the service project that goes along with the reading of the mysteries. Keep up the great promotion of the community read program! Here are a few of the pictures shared showing the application of the reading into a project! Enjoy!
Writing Status of the Class and Sharing in Writer's Workshop Examples
Based on the writing audits, making sure that we implement a status of the class process as part of writer's workshop is essential and an area we all can work on. Our writing consultant has shared these resources for all staff to gain more insight on how to begin to set up the status of the class process and create opportunities for sharing. Please see the following resources shared to assist in reflecting on your practices and implementing these as part of the non-negotiables for writer's workshop.
Kaneland Connects Commitment Team Invite
All staff is invited to the second Kaneland Connects Commitment Team meeting to reflect and review our progress on the third year of our Kaneland Connects plan. The next meeting will be held at KMAC on January 30th from 5:00-7:00. If interested in attending please email Sarah Mumm. We look forward to a great discussion. The following is the agenda for the evening.
January 30, 2024 Meeting 5:00-7:00
Welcome from Dr. Leden
People Search Icebreaker
Overview of progress since September (new activity in rollout)
Focus on Community goals acquisition and reflection
Review community goals for this year
Carousel ideas to make the goals come alive for our community
Review preferred template updates: Take a moment to read through your table’s assigned action plans from the last meeting. On a notecard write any further ideas or questions you have and drop them in the commitment bucket.
6-12 breakout on next steps plans for SBG commitment
K-5 breakout on use of PBP tables within classrooms and promoting the table at home
Next Agenda Planning: (Dr. Leden)
Drop questions in the commitment bucket you would like to see answered or reviewed at our final meeting of the year - Tuesday April 23, 2024
Summer School
We are very excited to share that summer school this year will be held in July! We are hoping this will assist in the reduction of summer learning slide for our students and allow for early high school credit for students. This upcoming BOE meeting we will be sharing the revisions to structures and fees. Please take a moment to review this presentation to learn more about summer school! Please feel free to contact Kara Salto (K-5) and Brock Feece (6-12) with any questions.
Learning Forward Sharing
This past month 9 staff members attended the annual Learning Forward Conference in Washington DC. This upcoming BOE meeting the team will be sharing just a small bit of their learning from the 3 day event. Please take a moment to review and learn some of the amazing learning and sessions that were attended during the conference. Learning Forward Summary
Educator Advisory Council
On January 22nd EAC met for their monthly meeting. The following were topics discussed:
The team took time to review the options for Rigby assessment structures and explore further options for the future. Multiple subgroups created possible options that might meet the needs of all and presented them. These options will then be shared with MTSS Coordinators and brought back for a final discussion at EAC next month. The goal is to collect data effectively in order to guide instruction and monitor overall progress, while still keeping as much Teacher to Student instructional time as possible.
The team reviewed the feedback on word study. The committee is in agreement that the kindergarten team should address this as a district wide team.
The committee reviewed the Kaneland Connects feedback that will be shared with the committee on January 30th.
The committee took time to acknowledge the celebrations shared from our staff. They will also be shared in the blog.
The committee shared various responses to the Writing PD plan. We shared ideas and questions for clarification. Sarah and Anne will meet to discuss next steps.
Personalized Learning 3.0 Reminder
Personalized Learning 3.0 evidence is coming due in May 2024. We wanted to share a friendly reminder that Kane County Day on March 1st is a great time to focus on collecting and preparing evidence and reflections. Please contact any Ed Service member to share your evidence with so we can update the grid for completion. If you do plan on working on PL 3.0 evidence, please complete the internal google from for attendance purposes and be sure to sign in at a school on March 1st. If you are a first year teacher, remember your due date is May 2025. If you have any questions at all, please reach out to Laura, Sarah or Patrick.
Kane County Day Clarification
Kane County Day is coming up on March 1st. We are excited to offer external sessions through the ROE Conference or internal options through filling out a google form. If you are deciding to stay internal, please complete the google form to let us know your plans. Your plans are approved unless you hear from Sarah or Patrick. The google form completion is the approval and the attendance. Please know that on the Institute day we do log attendance and share it with the regional office. No matter where you choose to do your work, please make sure you sign in and out at the session or school. If you have already filled out the google form, your plan is approved. We look forward to a great day of professional learning.
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