We would love to take time to celebrate all the connections made among our staff, students and community over the next month. Please take a moment to complete the Connections Survey to share your stories. Feel free to also share with families and students to also complete the same survey to share the connections to our great district! Thank you in advance for helping to distribute this survey.
Tuesday, April 2, 2024
Episode 2 of THE 302 Podcast
Episode 2 of THE 302 Podcast: The One Where We Work as a Group
Linked below is episode 2 of THE 302 Podcast about group work with two very special guests. In this episode, we have a conversation about collaboration and cooperation and some strategies for keeping students engaged during group work.
Click this link to listen on Spotify and listen for another contest opportunity
This episode's Show Notes
For fun, we generated a Word Cloud of this episode (here is a link to the Word Cloud Tool Generator)
As always, if you're interested in being a part of the podcast, visiting our Knight Wave Studio, or wanting us to explore a topic, please reach out (THE302Podcast@kaneland.org). Happy listening!
~Faye Licari, Elsa Glover, and Rachael Walker~
Lucky Duck Instant Flag Winners!
Congrats to all who are starting to find the lucky mini ducks. Remember to send your mini ducks back home to Sarah Mumm at the district office with your name on a post it to enter into the raffle! We had a few instant winners who find the special green pennant lucky duck flag! Congrats to Jessica B. at KHS and Terri H. at KST! Keep looking for those flags and ducks!
Monday, April 1, 2024
Lucky Duck Weekly Winner
If you are the holders of lucky duck number 3, you are the weekly winner. Please email Sarah Mumm for your sweet treat!
Writing Norming Is Coming! (K-5)
Please remember writing norming meetings are coming in the month of April. In the Spring, each staff member will score up to three of their own students' writing, share their class’s work with another grade level peer by random shifting, work collaboratively with a teacher from another school, and continue to have valuable discussions of what narrative writing should look like at their grade level. The rationale for this assessment practice is to provide experiences for inter-rater reliability, district accountability and for professional growth and discussion among peers. The assessment practice will provide staff a vision of writing across the district. This will also link to the expectation of looking at cross school and cross district data during the Spring Data Dives. Coaches will be sending reminder emails for your specific date. MTSS Co-Teaching staff is invited to the specific grade levels they teach with.
Summer Professional Development is Now Open (EC-12)
We are excited to open our summer professional development offerings. Spaces are limited in June, so sign up early. Please use the google form linked to the session you would like to attend to sign up. You can access the full listing of sessions here.
Lucky Ducks have Invaded! (EC-12)
While we were all out we had an invasion of mini lucky ducks! To culminate all of the great connections we have made this school year finding our lucky ducks since the first kick off day, we will host one last mini-competition. This spring if you find anywhere in your school a mini duck, return it to the Department of Educational Service to Sarah Mumm with your name on a post-it with the mini duck. For every mini duck you return you will gain an entry into the Summer Fun Lucky Duck give away raffle! The raffle will be mid-May so get hunting, there are over 25 mini ducks hidden in every school campus!
If you were lucky enough to be one of the FOUR green lucky duck mini flags please email a picture proof with the flag to Sarah Mumm at 10358@kaneland.org for a special prize!
Good luck and happy mini duck hunting!
Remember you have 6 weeks left to find your school lucky duck match to be entered in the HUGE raffle from the beginning of the year! We have over 128 matches already!
Spring 2024 Roadshow (EC-12)
Welcome Back! We hope you had a very relaxing break. We are excited to share the annual Roadshow sharing expectations for next school year. We will be hosting in person roadshows at all schools this coming month. Please see the dates below.
KHS 4-17 3:00pm
HMS 4-24 2:50pm
KIPLA 4-23 2:40pm
KST 4-9 8:05am
KBK 4-12 8:05am
KME 4-23 8:05am
KSS 4-22 8:05am
Remember you can select how you access the information on the roadshow:
L-Legacy video with Ed Service delivery explanation of all slides with no question time
D- Differentiated - Go to designated room at your school to hear information from Ed Services on slides most relevant to your grade span - only general questions will be taken
I- Flipped experience- Go to designated room at your school for a Q and A based on your pre-reading of the slides and specific responses to your grade span
P-If you have reviewed, and you are all good on the content, please sign off using this google form and enjoy the gift of time
Please access the roadshow below.
Have a great Spring month!
Feedback Conference Reflection (EC-12)
In order to write the best possible common SIP goal we are asking all staff to take a moment and reflect on your current feedback practices in your classroom. This is baseline data and by no means should all areas be high ranking. We will be focusing our PD attention on feedback next year, so this is just initial data. Please complete by April 30th this survey.
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