Oner Medrano for his assistance with a student that was in crisis. Oner can always be counted on to roll up his sleeves and help however he can!!! Thanks Brother!!
and
Andrea Sekulich for facilitating our ACCESS testing. and
Coaches Bressett and Medrano for coaching up their girls!!
and
Rachelle, Coach Carvell and Coach Bailey for providing our wrestlers to compete on the Big Mat at GCHS!
-From Jeff Sefcik
A shout out of thanks to Nicole Mild for donating some cool items to our PBIS Store. Much appreciated.
-From Kim VanHoorelbeke
Thank you Tina Guryn for your help on Thursday!!!
You saved me a trip to Stanton.
-From Karen Lobodzinski
Thank you to Rachelle Peters for always being there for me when I have a bazillion questions or an ear to listen to me. I love our conversations -especially when they turn to something silly about our own kids and we get to laugh for a few minutes!
To Emily Armbrecht for working together on creating a fun RAFT for her music students, and inviting me into her 5th grade music class to go over it with students!
To Trina Neukam for extending her students in math who were showing a great understanding of the skills. A great way to learn is to teach the concept to others and allowing those students to create a Blooket for the class was a great way to do that!
To Scott Donovan for setting great routines and procedures in his classroom. From the minute students walked into his classroom, they knew to take out their Chromebooks and begin working on the Bell Work. No time was wasted and they were 100% engaged in the GimKit!
To Karen Brnot for creating engaging activities for the students and for continuously going over classroom rules and expectations with her classes.
To Jamie Smeigh for taking the time to highlight famous African Americans in Social Studies in a cool and engaging way (video clips on each person) in honor of Black History Month.
To Sarah Groebe for flipping it around when discussing an assessment! When going over the quiz corrections, students were asked to explain why the wrong answer may have been considered as a right answer. It was really cool to hear the students explain why someone may have chosen a different answer, why it was incorrect - and then explaining what the correct answer is and why!
-From Stephanie Kaye
Thanks to Jeff Sefcik for organizing a great threat assessment procedure training!
-From Heather
Thank you to the sixth grade team for holding a productive PST meeting with a student and their guardian. We have a great plan moving forward.
Thank you to all the grade level teams for filling out the SAEBRS screener this week.
Thank you to Erica Barraza, Amanda Lorenz, Stephanie Kaye, Mike Sementa and Jessica Urban for always supporting and providing guidance when I need it.
THank you Kendra Logar for always having a positive attitude and doing what is best for the students in her classroom.
Thank you Ellen Murfin for advocating and problem solving for a student in her classroom.
THank you Lynn Smolen for your support and problem solving, I appreciate all of your collaboration and support.
Thank you Molly Monk, Ellie Seyfurt, Kim Hanson and Grant Chapman for all the help and support you give our most complex students and for always problem solving and advocating for those students.
Thank you Alana Carlson for always jumping in and helping students that are brought up in MTSS meetings. I appreciate your support and dedication.
Thank you to Jeff Sefcik, Matt Peters, Rachelle Peters and Natalie Udstuen for all of your support and guidance. I appreciate all of you!
-From Cathy Jawnyj
A big thank you to Mike Stozek for all his patient, consistent help all the time. Thank you, Mike, for so quickly getting resources I needed to help our EL students. I appreciate all that you do, Mike!
Thank you to Erica Barraza and Amanda Lorenz for being great instructional coaches, always available to give valuable advice.
Thank you Matt Peters for your patient help as we navigate through our TBE program.
Thank you Victoria Miller for your countless hours of organization and planning for IAR.
Thank you Natalie Molidor, Maureen, Emily and Erin for being such a wonderful team to work with. I love collaborating with you!
-From Abbey Kadera
Please send me KUDOS to give shout outs to colleagues! I LOVE to put them in the Monday Memo! 🎉
NEW!!!! Lake County ROE Educator of the Year
I'd LOVE to see D114 have a bunch of nominations for these different categories--NO STAFF deserves it more!!!
The Lake County Regional Office of Education will be hosting the first Educator of the Year Ceremony. The Ceremony will be held at the Lake County Fairgrounds on May 4th, at 5:30 pm. There will be a social hour with dinner. The awards ceremony will take place after the dinner. Ticket information will be provided at a later date.
The Educator of the Year Ceremony will resemble a mini Oscars like celebration. I have included all of the information in this email. The information can also be found on the ROE shared drive under the Educator of the Year folder and on the ROE website under the tab Educator of the Year later today.
There will be 9 categories for nominations. Districts can submit as many nominations for the categories, but all the paperwork must be included for each nomination to be considered. Paper or electronic nomination packets are due to the ROE by Friday, March 18, 2022.
Here is all of the information about 2022 Lake County Educator of the Year.
2022-23 Calendar
During this week's CTT mini lesson, representatives from the Calendar Committee will be sharing out the 3 options we've built for consideration along with some basic information about the calendar process. Staff will have an opportunity for INPUT on the options, and the committee will review the feedback to determine a model to recommend to the Board for consideration and (hopefully) approval at the March 15 meeting. Prior to the calendar presentations, everyone will be emailed the options and the survey link. THANK YOU to the Calendar Committee for your hard work!!!!
COVID Updates
We now have N95 and KN95 masks available for staff in each building's office. Please request them if you'd like! :)
Family Member Surveillance Testing
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:
Please let me know if you have any questions!
PLEASE BE SURE TO LABEL THEIR SAMPLE BAG WITH FULL NAME AND DATE OF BIRTH.
Please check out this document for information on how quarantine is calculated under the current 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
2/20/22
Current D114 Daily Data
CDC thresholds and local data for Lake County
Indicator | Low Transmission | Moderate Transmission | Substantial Transmission | High Transmission | Current Status
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Incidence Rate: Total new cases per 100K persons in the last 7 days | 0-9 | 10-49 | 50-99 | 100 or greater | 234.73 |
7 Day Average Test Positivity Rate | Less than 5% | 5.0%-7.9% | 8.0%-9.9% | Greater than 10% | 4.25% |
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
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Incidence Rate: Total new cases per 100K persons in the last 7 days | 0-9 | 10-49 | 50-99 | 100 or greater | 262.4
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7 Day Average Test Positivity Rate | Less than 5% | 5.0%-7.9% | 8.0%-9.9% | Greater than 10% | 5.90 %
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Remember the 5 Non-Negotiables of the Ready Classroom
Watch the unit flow & progression video
Review the prerequisite reports
Do the lesson quiz before you teach a lesson
Use the lesson slides
Preview the interactive tutorials prior to lesson
Even with one day less of school this week, we did an awesome job with time on iReady! Way to go everyone!
This week:
Last Week:
-Formative Assessment (updated bi-weekly)
Video
Relationships Matter
Use the next 2 activities throughout the month (and the rest of the year) to keep Black history at the forefront of your lessons and encourage your students to keep learning more. Stay tuned next week for more!
Timeline Activity
Have students put together their own timelines, whether individually or in groups, that focus on specific historical events or people. They’ll have fun putting all the events together and learn lots along the way!
Study & Create Art
Have students put together their own timelines, whether individually or in groups, that focus on specific historical events or people. They’ll have fun putting all the events together and learn lots along the way!
-Community Builder:
Blind Artist
Have your students form pairs. The students can’t see each other. One student
gets a drawing you have prepared earlier. Ideally, the drawing should be
something relevant to what you are teaching. The student holding the drawing
needs to give good instructions to the other student. The other student needs
to draw it without being able to see the original picture
-Weekly Cheer/Silly Sport/Brain Break:
Tuesday is EAFL spirit day. Wear your EAFL shirt and make sure to join us as the board meeting Tuesday Night.
As your executive board, we realize there has been a lot of information and changes lately. If you have any questions, concerns or need support in any way, please feel free to reach out to any one of your board members. We are here to help and guide in any way we can.
LOTUS UPDATES
PBIS THOUGHT: "KINDNESS IS FREE" 
Important dates:
February 21 (week) Mid Trimester Celebration (Board Game Time)
February 25 Classroom Winner announced for "get caught walking quietly"
February 25 Staff Raffle Winners announced.
Prizes:
- New spring ones are in store.
-Big prizes are displayed in the library to help give them a visual on what they can purchase or work towards.
Tuesday, February 22--February Board of Education meeting at 7PM at Lotus and
on Meet
Please have a great week! YOU are so appreciated!
Heather
