Monday Morning Memo: Monday Morning Memo 1/24/22

As we kick off 2022, it's time to share our "words" for the year. For 2021, mine was BELIEVE. I needed it... A LOT...during 2021.

For 2022, my word is PERSPECTIVE.

Here's a link to other words of the year! You can still share yours--just shoot me an email!

A HUGE thank you to everyone who helped make Tuesday night's Board meeting happen! SOOOO many hands went into it, and I worry that--if I name names--I will leave someone out. I am so lucky to be part of the D114 team, and I appreciate your support and hard work each and every day more than you know!

If you'd like to check out the amazing presentation on our Teaching and Learning Cycle, it's linked here. I couldn't be more proud of our District's work, and our Board members were blown away by our story.

-From Heather

Kudos to Katie Jalove and Fred Miller for doing an optional peer observation to see how each other does their IRLA groups in ELA. I hope you gained some good insight and ideas!

~From Stephanie Kaye

Kudos to Georgette Franco for being our immediate response point person to register a

new Spanish speaking student. Thanks for being so flexible and responding

so quickly to all my emails!

-From Michele Burgess

Thank you to Mike for always being so prompt with any tech questions or issues. It is greatly appreciated.

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Thank you to Chris Brown for always being willing to help her students in STEM and collaborate together. It is greatly appreciated.

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Thank you to all Mike and all the teachers in administering, assisting, troubleshooting MAPS. Your help is appreciated. :)

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Thank you to the staff for always keeping PE/Specials teachers in the loop about any situations. It really helps keep things consistent for those kiddos and alleviates any issues. We greatly appreciate it.

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Thank you, the 3rd-grade team (Sherry and Loren too) to be willing to allow students when the time comes to check the weather in the mornings during their morning work in order to assist with classroom data on the weather for STEM.

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Thank you Paula for calling PLTW Support and getting answers to rearranging classes in skyward to easily roster my students in the clever portal. I appreciate it. Also, thanks for letting me barge in and use your coffee maker.

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Thank you Sue for always sending out PTA emails, scheduling conferences rooms and being on top of important dates. Much appreciated.

-From Victoria Miller

Thank you to all of the transportation drivers and aides, and

to all of the staff who helped with students waiting for their buses after school.

This is another great example of One Team...All In!

You are all greatly appreciated!

Thank you to Mike and David for getting Blackboard set up for transportation!

Thank you to Paula for helping me get the first few messages out!

Thank you Michele for fixing student info for the import!

I appreciate all of your help!

Andrea De Matteo

Special thanks to Christine Spittler, Matt Peters, Mike Fefferman and Christine Franke for your help on Wednesday in the library. Greatly appreciated!!!!!

-From Kim VanHoorelbeke

Thank you to Abbey Kadera for filling in and supporting families with translation needs at the last minute! Don't know what I would have done without you!!

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Thank you Lisa Werner for being so quick to respond to get the needed supports for a Stanton student, now we have tools in place to help make the student successful!

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Thank you Fiona and Ellie for doing those little extras to help teams plan and prepare. "One Team.."

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Thank you Alana for helping problem solve for one of our evals, I think we are set for success.

-From Lynn Smolen

Thanks to Sue Giandonato for helping stuff report cards. Jill & I appreciate it!

-From Michele Burgess

Please send me KUDOS to give shout outs to colleagues! I LOVE to put them in the Monday Memo! 🎉

EQUITY TEAM WANTS YOU!

The Equity Core Team has been working hard together for a long time, and we have learned a lot. We'd love to welcome anyone interested in exploring equity and how to reach out to ALL students in our classrooms in new and different ways. If this is something you'd like to be a part of, please plan to join us on THIS Wednesday, January 26 at Stanton at 3:15. We'll share some of our efforts, show you some great activities we learned at Deep Equity Training, and then get input from YOU on how to move forward to help us all continue to grow. Participants will be paid for their time, so mark your calendar if this sounds like something that interests you. More info coming after break!

SWEATSHIRTS ARE HERE!
If you didn't get a sweatshirt/didn't get the size you wanted, please let me know. I re-ordered and should have what you need and will get it to you!

ROTARY CALCUTTA RAFFLE

If you/a team would like to buy a $100 raffle ticket to support rotary, please let me know! I'll get a you a ticket! See below for details...

SUPPLY MONEY

If you haven't yet spent your supply money for the year, you can still do so through Feb. 1 in case there are things you need once the new furniture is in place over winter break. Please reach out ot Andrea DeMatteo with any questions.

COVID Updates

NEW NEW NEW!!!

If you have a family member who would like to participate in weekly surveillance testing, we now have the capacity to send tests home for you to give them! We'll mail them in, and you'll get results back via email.

To participate, your family member(s) must register using this link:

Family/Community Member Consent Form

Please let me know if you have any questions!

Please check out this document for information on how quarantine is calculated under the new guidelines. We worked with all the other local districts to make sure we are all handling this consistently, and especially close contacts that occur at home.

Linked here is the most updated decision-making flow chart, provided by our legal counsel. This is what we are following. If you have questions, please reach out to me.

Current Local COVID Data

D114 Daily COVID Data

1/21/22
CDC thresholds and local data for Lake County
Indicator
Low Transmission
Moderate Transmission
Substantial Transmission
High Transmission
Current Status

Incidence Rate:
Total new cases per 100K persons in the last 7 days
0-9
10-49
50-99
100 or greater
1,463.24
7 Day Average Test Positivity Rate
Less than 5%
5.0%-7.9%
8.0%-9.9%
Greater than 10%
13.68%

D114 Local Zip Codes Data from Northwestern University COVID Dashboard--ALL DATA INCLUDES ACTUAL AND PROBABLE CASES!
Indicator
Low Transmission
Moderate Transmission
Substantial Transmission
High Transmission
Current Status

Incidence Rate:
Total new cases per 100K persons in the last 7 days
0-9
10-49
50-99
100 or greater
1795.4

7 Day Average Test Positivity Rate
Less than 5%
5.0%-7.9%
8.0%-9.9%
Greater than 10%
17.25 %

The Winter iReady diagnostic and Reading MAP benchmark windows have been extended.

As students are completing benchmarks,

Take time to check in on their goals and celebrate growth!
If students went down in iReady, check their online paths so they aren’t starting back over and repeating
lessons they’ve already done. This may mean you have to change their paths manually.

*Data reports will resume once students have completed their diagnostic.

-Formative Assessment (updated bi-weekly)

Video

Relationships Matter

Pre-correcting and prompting is a classroom management strategy you can use to tell and

remind students of behavior expectations before potential behavior problems occur. A

pre-correction tells students how to approach a new task or situation. A prompt sounds and

looks like a pre-correction, but you use it to remind students of expectations for familiar tasks

or situations. Both pre-corrections and prompts describe what’s expected of students in a

way that is obvious and easily understood.

See examples of the different ways you can pre-correct and prompt in the chart below.

-Community Builder:

Headbandz- Classroom Procedures/Expectations Version

Ahead of time create cards for different spaces or procedures in the

classroom or building. For example, bathroom, turn in bin, calm down corner,

hallway etc. For the game Headbandz, students place the pile of cards face

down. One student takes a card and without looking, places the card to

his/her forehead so the other students can see it. The other students give that

student clues by explaining the expectations of the space or procedure. The

goal is to try to get the student to guess the word without saying the word.

Example: “Bathroom” clues, “only two pumps of soap, quiet while waiting,

throw paper towels in the garbage.”

-Weekly Cheer/Silly Sport/Brain Break:

Thank you to all of the staff that attended the January Board of Education Meeting. There were some amazing presentations given and it was awesome to have the opportunity to honor so many students. We can't wait to see you all again next month on February 15th.

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