Monday Morning Memo: One more week...

@D114Stanton

@D114Lotus

@FLGSD114

#District114proud

It's one more week until we all get a much needed Spring Break! Keep smiling this week, support each other, and remember how lucky we are to work with our students...and each other!

Thank you to Sabi Hasani​

 for always helping to switch over the PE uniform wash!

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​Thank you to Sabrina Garofolo for being so kind and patient with our friend during 1st hour, it is great having you in class!  ​

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Thank you Oner Medrano for your pep talk that seemed to get our girl back in PE and for organizing the spiritwear for the track team!

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Thank you Liz Anderson for your dedication to keeping the 7th grade team organized!

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Thank you Betty Cwiak for organizing another great reading contest for 3rd quarter!

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Thank you to everyone who has helped me save boxes for my move! 

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Thank you to all the coupon fairies who keep putting coupons in my mail box so I can continue to get donatable items free/cheap! 

-All from Melissa Williams

Kudos to Paula Kvacik

Thanks for working with me on our project, 

I appreciate your time and effort!

Andrea De Matteo

To everyone who make Kindy Roundup so amazing! What a warm welcome for our kinders and a great way for the families to connect with us...even if they've already been in PFA. The event showed exactly who we are...ONE TEAM, ALL IN. So proud! ❤

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To Erica BARRAZA...so sorry for mis-spelling your name last week. 😎

-From Heather 

Thank you to Matt Peters, Tiffany Tardio, Tiffany Mihovilovich, Samantha Harshaw, Samantha Rusciolelli, Brittney Mason, Gina Crosthwaite, Alana Carlson, Fiona Wisnewski, Abbey Vraney, Tegan Maybrun, Michelle Magness, Kristine Shanahan, Sue Pinkawa, Michelle Magness, Kelli Kuehn, Paula Kvacik, Colleen Robinson, and Georgette Franco for all helping with Kindergarten Registration!  Couldn't have done it without each of you and it was so important for our new Kinders to have such a positive start!

-From Natalie Udstuen

Thanks to Victoria Miller for helping us out in the office at the end of the day on Thursday.

From Colleen and Paula

Thank you Chris Carvell for always willing to problem solve and work for the best outcome of all of our students. 

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Thank you Dan Olson for always having a positive attitude and being a team player. I really appreciate everything you do for our  students.

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Thank you to Oner Medrano for going above a beyond with your classroom. You truly care about your students.

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Thank you Beth Rendon and Abbey Vraney for always problem solving with me to provide success for our students. 

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Thank you Cindy Carlino for always providing guidance.

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Thank you Keli Swierczek for leading our team!

-All from Cathy Jawnyj

I want to thank Andrea for helping me sooooo much with the fee reporting for you!  It was so hectic yesterday with Sue out and the day before with Kdg screening, that there was no way I could have accomplished it by myself!!!

-From Paula Kvacik

When you have a kudo to share for someone, please just email me and I'll include it here! The goal is to create system celebrations--so your input is truly welcome!

News from the Business Office

Friday, March 30

Just a reminder that, per my earlier memo, Friday, March 30 is a paid holiday indicated for Good Friday. The buildings will be closed, and all 12 month staff are OFF! 

As you can probably tell, I LOVE infographics! When we think about social emotional learning (SEL), it's the ultimate goal to not just adopt a curriculum material, but also to embed SEL into learning every single day. Here's an awesome infographic with quick ways for ALL of us to help grow our students' SEL skills...

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Speech and Language Tips from Abbey

Check out this week's tips from Abbey! She came up with the fabulous idea of putting each week's ideas on a slide, then adding the slides so all the info is in one place...you can go back and look at any time!

Click here to see her amazing ideas! Updated today!

FACILITIES UPDATES

Don't forget...if you have a maintenance request, please use the work request link to share it. Our team will take care of it ASAP!

YES, YOU CAN CHAT!

Thanks to our amazing tech team (aka Mike and David), Google Chat/Hangouts is now open for staff use. Please note that students cannot access this feature. I LOVE Google Chat--it's a huge timesaver.

Below is a link to a great video explaining the basics of Hangouts. The extension and Hangouts are only available to staff.

Video link:

https://youtu.be/GLUp_0t9xJk

Extension:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/google-hangouts/nckgahadagoaajjgafhacjanaoiihapd?hl=en

Mike and David are happy to help if you need assistance!

Education Association of Fox Lake News and Updates

Don't forget our spring articulation meeting is this week, Wednesday, March 21st at 1:45 at Stanton. Please plan to attend as we have lots of important information to pass along and we will be holding nominations for officers positions. A special treat will be served!

Thank you Matt and Tiffany for holding the helping with the election of regional leadership on Thursday!

A quick blurb of education related legislative updates can be found here: https://ieanea.org/2018/03/08/iea-legislative-update-march-8-2018/

Melissa Williams, President
Maureen DeVoss, Vice President for Certified Staff
Chris Brown, Vice President for Non-Certified Staff
Katy Gardner, Treasurer
Betty Cwiak, Secretary
Barb Brown, Region Representative
Matt Shannon, Stanton School Representative
Tiffany Tardio, Lotus School Representative

Link to D114 Friday Facts Blog--ADDED 3/11/18

LINK to Strategic Planning Presentations/Documents--ADDED 2/25/18

STIPEND MEMO--Updated 12/10/17

Hourly Stipend Payment Request Form--Updated 12/10/17

Flat Rate Stipend Payment Request Form--Updated 12/10/17

Business Office "Who Do I Go To"

Work Order Request

Technology Support Request

17-18 Payroll Schedule--UPDATED 10/22/17

Mentor Expectations

Mentoring Log Sheet

Mileage Recording Form

Early Release Plan 17-18

Blue Cross Blue Shield:

www.bcbsil.com

Guardian:

www.guardiananytime.com

Workshop/Conference Request Procedure

Questions for thought as you read...

Found this today in a Facebook post. While it's about ways to say "Be careful" differently, I like these sentence/question starters to help our kids take risks and think strategically.

Questions:

How do these stems connect to the mathematical standards of practice?

What's one way you could ASK instead of TELL?