Tenant A Personalized Learning 3.0 Sharing

 Each week of this new year we will be providing a video to help share ideas of evidence that has already been turned in per tenet.  We are excited to share that two staff members have already completed Personalized Learning 3.0 Academy and earned their credit hours!  Kudos to the staff! For more information, feel free to reach out to Nicole Dyche at KSS or Kristi Purnell at KBK if you have any questions/ideas of evidence. 

Here is a video from Tenet A to help you on your journey.  Please remember you do not need to complete the 10 core tenants until May of 2024. 

More evidence is available upon request if you have further questions! 

IgKnight Conference 2023: Call for Proposal Open

This year we will once again be hosting our own internal professional development conference, IGKNIGHT 2023!  In order to allow personalized choices for staff members, we will host sessions in a variety of formats, including in-person, and self-paced.  We are looking for internal staff who are interested in sharing their knowledge, experiences, and resources with colleagues. While IgKnight 2022 is still fresh in your mind, we are seeking early bird proposals. If you have a session topic request but do not want to facilitate the session, please still submit and we will try to find presenters. If you did not feel IgKnight 2022 had enough options for your specific role, please submit suggestions. Early bird proposals are due by March 15th. An additional opportunity to submit proposals will be offered in the fall. Click HERE to submit! 

IgKnight Academy Update

Registration for Kaneland IgKnight Personalized Learning Academy closed on December 16, 2022. We have 107 students registered across grades 3-8. Registration was expanded to include incoming 3rd graders based on high family interest. At this point, we have hired 6 internal candidates and are interviewing externally for a 7th position. In the upcoming weeks and months, we will determine any additional positions that are needed based on student enrollment, continue minor updates to the Academy learning spaces, finalize logistics with transportation and food service, and begin diving deeper into curriculum planning to support learning across customized pathways. 

Happy Holidays from Educational Services

 

Although originally published on the Education World website in 2021, this list of 35 Must-Do Winter Break Activities for Teachers is still incredibly relevant. However you choose to spend your holidays, we wish you all peace, love, and joy! 

~Kaneland Educational Services Team~

Initial Learning Forward Conference Take Aways

 This past week we were blessed to take part in the International Learning Forward Conference again in person!  It was great to see over 5,000 educators back in-person learning and networking together.  This conference focuses on professional development, student empowerment, and equity.  The learning that our Kaneland staff does at this conference has created many of our district structures, such as MTSS, Kaneland Connects, our IgKnight Keynotes, Learning Walks, and so many more!  Although for the next year you will see much more depth in topics we will be bringing back to our district, the team that attended wanted to share initial ideas and take away lessons from the amazing sessions.  Here are a few briefs on our learning:

-Be sure your bookcases represent your students and the world around you. Students need to see themselves! 

-The graphic below shares the diversity in text.  

-Student need and deserve:  the ability to see themselves modeled in literature, and learning, adults that are committed to changing learning and culture to meet their needs, and to learn how to celebrate the world and create it to what they deserve!

-Inquiry circles provide educators opportunities to hear actions and needs through the student lens.

-Mood Meter. Not only does it help the teacher understand how each student is feeling as they enter the learning space, but it also gives students the vocabulary they may not have for naming their emotions.  

-Powerful sharing and quotes:

-Perseverance in researching and developing actions around a problem of practice is accomplished through the LF Academy.  Congrats to Carrie and Laura!

Thank you to the 14 staff members who attended and took time out of their weekend to attend.  Your dedication to professional learning and making personal time sacrifices do not go unnoticed!  We value you! 

Learning Forward Kaneland by the Numbers:

14 staff attended from Kaneland

Over 16 hours of fun road trip collaboration while driving down and back

2 Academy Graduates

273 hours of learning 

Over 200 pages of notes taken

Over 60 sessions attended 

Connections made in and outside of sessions…..NUMEROUS! 

Count Our MTSS Blessings

 It has almost been an entire semester kicking off the shift to MTSS.  We have been to multiple conferences and schools that they are very impressed with all the FTE and structures for MTSS we have here.  We want to take time and count our blessings that Kaneland has put forth such effort to fund and maintain our MTSS structures.  Here is a bit of a quick comparison.

Kaneland:  5 MTSS FTE per K-5 School, 7 MTSS FTE at Harter Middle School, and 6 MTSS FTE at the high school

Batavia:  1 to 1.5 MTSS FTE per school K-5

Geneva 0 certifed MTSS FTE, 1-1.5 non-certifed per school

D300 1 certifed per school

Thank you to all staff that have been flexible during this first year shift.  Keep up the great work! We are excited to see where our MTSS journey takes us.

 

Kaneland Cares Closet

 If you are looking to donate or purchase items for the Kaneland Care closet, check out this wishlist:

https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/2GCUF6LFHPBIV?ref_=wl_share