Monday, October 9, 2023

TUESDAY Morning Memo 10/10/23

            



Mark Perlman for driving back from Chicago on Monday to support our girls volleyball players. 

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Graduate Zendrea Pfau for returning to Stanton to speak to our volleyball team on the importance of being a great teammate. 

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Coach Becmer and Coach Falster for leading our girls bill through another great regular season. Good luck competing for the conference championship!

-From Jeff Sefcik (Principal at Stanton)


I have a kudos for the memo next week!

I just as having car problems and norm came and checked the transmission

-From Maddie Hansen (Special Education Teacher at Stanton)


Thank you to Erin for sharing your knowledge and resources from the TEACCH training with the ECSE team. Your enthusiasm to make sure all your students have access and are able to learn is infectious!

-From Allie Mixon (SpEd Coordinator at Lotus)


Thank you to Abbey Kadera and Kimberly Jacobs-Leable for helping with so much of the EL paperwork at Stanton and sharing so much of their knowledge with me. Thank you to Brian Crask for embracing a new position supporting students.

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Thank you to our incredible lunch/recess supervisors: Chris Carvell, Lemar Wilson, Lauren Plescia, Mike Fefferman, Jack Resnick, Scott Donovan, Niccole Culbertson, Jamie Smeigh, Jackie Mathews, and Brian Crask. 

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Thank you to Kim Husko and Kendra Smeigh for all of their support with getting students to school. You are making a difference! Thank you to Chris Carvell for supporting students in stem!

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Thank you to David Roat for all of his help getting map testing up and running and Betty Cwiak for creating the map sessions.

-From Rachelle Peters (Assistant Principal at Stanton)


Mary Santi,  thanks so much for thinking of the students Always and your generous donations for our PBIS store.  The kids will be beyond excited.  

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Thanks to all Lotus Cafeteria supervisors for allowing us to assist you during lunch to help promote the new incentive charts.  

-From Kim VanHoorelbeke (Library Paraprofessional at Lotus)


Thank you Maddie for helping me with the detailed information requested at the last minute from the State Auditor.  

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Thank you to the Food Service for an amazing breakfast and lunch for Teacher Institute Day, for always going above and beyond, proving one more time One Team All In, every day!! 

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Thank you Don, for helping arrange all those spork boxes in the shed, I really appreciate it.

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Thank you Kim VanHoorelbeke for teaming up with Sonia to create the incentive program to improve the behavior in the cafeteria. Wishing you girls all the success on this new endeavor. 

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Thank you Norm, Cari, Eddy and Russ forall you do for the food service, we appreciate you more than you know.

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Thank you to Jill, Michele, Sue and Paula for always having the foodservice back at all times, and doing things go smoothly in the buildings.

-From Georgette Franco (D114 Food Services Coordinator)


A big kudos to Kim Jacobs-Leable for making sure one of our kiddos got their books from the book fair VERY last minute. You are always going above and beyond for our students and I so appreciate YOU! I also wanted to thank Don for getting my new blinds up so quickly due to user error, I promise I will be more careful with them! Finally, I wanted to say how much I enjoyed collaborating with my first grade teammates Cary Scarpino and Kendra Logar on Friday during our institute day, we got a lot done and had a lot of laughs while doing it! 

-From Jen Groot (First grade Teacher)


To Georgette Franco and the Kitchen teams at both buildings for an amazingly positive Food Services audit!!

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Sonia Miller or the Lotus cafeteria incentive idea

Kim VanHoorelbeke for digging into the PBIS data over, and over, and over again

-From Heather






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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!





October PTA Meeting
This Thursday, October 12th, 6:00 pm (NEW TIME!) @ Lotus Library
* We will be reviewing our budget for the year! 

Stanton Halloween Dance
Friday, October 27th 7:00-8:30
Costume Contest 
$3 door entry, $2 if you bring a canned good. 
Pizza and drink will be provided. 
*Candy and sodas will be available for extra charge. 
Volunteers: We are looking for some staff to help chaperone the dance. If you are interested, email Victoria at pta@foxlake114.org





We hope everyone has enjoyed their nice long weekend.

Don't forget your IEA/NEA membership has its perks!  Don't forget to check out the Deals and Discounts page on the IEA website.

October 17 will be our next EAFL Spirit Day!  Join us in wearing your EAFL shirt and then jump into or onto the Board of Education meeting to stay informed.  The Board meeting will be at Lotus School starting at 7 PM.  If you would prefer to log on from home, please follow the Google Meet link: Meeting ID:  meet.google.com/xat-hhyy-rji


October 24-26, Steve Podgorski (our IEA financial planner) will be holding online initial meetings for those with questions about financial planning topics.  Please use the link below to sign up for a time. 




Second Grade---you're up next!!!!


  

(OR GREAT STUFF WE HEARD LAST WEEK!)


Recently I was working with a first grader on i-Ready. When the student was logging onto Clever, David Roat's name popped up. The student asked what it said and I mentioned David's name. A few days later, this student was working on i-Ready again. As he was logging on, the student said, "Who's David?" It took me a minute to figure out what the student was talking about. Before I could answer, the student said, "Is he the CEO of i-Ready?" I replied no and said that David Roat worked at Stanton. A couple of days later, the student and I were going into the classroom where Lisa Werner works. She wasn't there and I commented that Ms. Werner worked at Stanton on Mondays. The student said, "Is that where David is?" I guarantee you, David, that when this student enters Stanton in four years, he will remember that you work there!


Thank you, Mary Santi, for this share!!!!




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Make it a fabulous 4 day week!
-Heather 💝