Kudos to Sarah Groebe for being an amazing CICO coach, both last year and this year. She really goes above and beyond with the students that she works with and goes out of her way to make sure the points are filled in on her card. Thank you, Sarah!
-From Katie Jalove Filippelli (Instructional Coach at Stanton)
Huge Kudo's to Ms. Saranzak. We had a new Kindergarten student from Ukraine start on Thursday. Our little guy has only been here in the United States for about a year. He cannot speak any English. When he and his parents came this morning, Ms. Saranzak had a wonderful folder all ready for him. She had pictures of different things showing a bathroom break, hungry, ill, etc. Under the pic she had the english words describing the picture, below that it was translated into Ukrainian. There were also letters, numbers, etc. If he needed something, he could point to the picture. He can point to what he needs, Ms. Saranzak will then say it in English. Mom and Dad were so impressed, and I think it helped them feel a little at ease. Amazing, amazing, amazing!!!!!
-From Paula Kvacik (Administrative Assistant at Lotus)
Russ Xhemaili and Sonia Miller for coming in late Thursday night to clean out the refrigerator and to Michelle Magnes for notifying us.
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Kim VanHoorelbeke for providing our students an opportunity to visit with an author
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Natalie Udstuen for always making sure we have sub coverage, especially this week with all the moving parts and to all the staff that pitched in and covered classrooms.
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Mark Perlman and Marla Walinski for coming over from Stanton to help fill in for some of our sub needs. This was a HUGE help and much appreciated. Thank you to Jeff and Rachelle for your flexibility and for making this happen. True example of One Team All In!
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Sue Pinkawa and Paula Kvacik for managing the office with a heavy flow of traffic this week.
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Lora Viers and Sharon Preskill for making sure all our students were in compliance with Health Records.
-From Matt Peters (Lotus Principal)
So many people to be grateful for this week...
A big thank you to the Reading Recovery team for subbing for K, 1, and 2 so that teams could engage in fishbowl modeling. One team all in!
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Kelly Roland, you are light and love and I'm so blessed to call you a trusted colleague and friend.
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Natalie, thank you for finding subs to cover so many grade levels while Lauren from ARC was here.
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Thank you, 3rd grade, for being vulnerable and sharing your planning process with everyone. A big thank you to all grade level teams, Reading Recovery, PE, and specials for your engagement, patience, and humor.
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Kinder, I ended my week with so much excitement after getting to see our Ki
-From Erica Barraza (Instructional Coach at Lotus)
Karen Brnot and the NJHS for taking on the Pay It Forward program sponsored by the Enchanted Backpack. I can't wait to see what they come up with!!
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Norm Fischer for getting the district truck serviced and for picking up some extra duties as Don continues his recovery.
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David Roat for spending Thursday morning making sure our internet was up and running prior to the start of our school day.
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Rachelle Peters and our Attendance Team. Great work TEAM!!!!
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Meghan Reimers and Kim Mack for cheering on our Big Ten Varsity boys to victory!!
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Marla Walinski for supporting her boys as the qualified for the playoffs
-From Jeff Sefcik (Stanton Principal)
From Me
Thanks to Karen Brnot, Stephanie Kolk, Caitlyn Fenton, Anna Morris, Erin Connolly-Jordt, and Abbey Kadera for making student recognition so fabulous at the Board meeting.
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Awesome job to Katie Jalove Filippelli and Natalie Molidor for doing an OUTSTANDING job presenting Fall benchmark data to the Board. Thanks to Erica Barraza and Amanda Lorenz for your help in putting the slides together.
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To Mark Perlman and Marla Walinski for coming to help at Lotus and to Rachelle Peters for making this happen!
-From Heather 💓
Conferences Fall 2023
Medicaid Billing
You know who you are...please be sure to document your billable hours. This generates a TON of funding for our Special Education programming!
"I'm not reading to the worm" said a student very upset about reading fluency being a change in her normal
routine. Even better part after she did it the practice. She said it was too easy and then after she completed the
real test the next day, she asked if she could do it again
-Thank you, Sherry Tietjen, for this one!
"You’re not the boss of me at school, you fool. And you aren’t either, you old lady!"
(student talking to Allie and Heather...Allie was the fool, and Heather was the old lady)
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Student who acted like a puppy, tried to eat off the floor, tried to get into Matt Peters' lap, and then growled at
me and tried to sniff my butt to “greet me”.
-Funny moments from Heather's week
-Heather 💝
