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May 17, 2019
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Looking for Information About T-Shirts?
Well. Maaaayyyyybeeee.
Still want a shirt? Act now. Email Cathy today. Let her know your size. Make sure you have an email signature that is not in comic sans and has your location. Use the subject line: "Is it too late now to say sorry, Justin Bieber?"
We're placing shirt orders over the weekend.
BPAC Invites All D34 Staff!
Noche de Juegos (Game Night)
The parents who serve on our Hispanic Bilingual Parent Advisory Committee (BPAC) cordially invite you to celebrate with them at at the year-end event, “Game Night!”
Set up time: 5 PM
Party time: 6 to 8 PM
Clean up time: 8 to 8:30 PM
Details: Play some carnival games and board games; dance; eat delicious homemade food; and most importantly, take advantage of the multiple opportunities to practice your Spanish!
For more information contact Alan Hernandez at ahernandez@glenview34.org or 998-5014.
Friday, May 24, 2019, 06:00 PM
Hoffman Elementary School, Harrison Street, Glenview, IL, USA
Summer Building Access
This summer the District will be undergoing some major equipment replacement at all schools except Hoffman. As you know the last day for staff will be June11th at 3pm. Construction will begin the very next day on the 12th. These extensive projects are scheduled for completion in August. Keeping in mind that there will be items left on the punch list, getting rooms back into ready condition and allowing for unforeseen conditions that might arise, the District is recommending the first day staff is allowed back into the buildings be August 9th. If this date changes, we will contact staff accordingly.
Retirement & Recognition Party
Introducing...our list of honorees for the D34 Recognition Celebration 2019 on May 30 at 4pm. Our honorees include our colleagues who are retiring at the end of this school/work year and those who are completing a “milestone” year this spring.
Join us as well celebrate our honorees at Maggiano’s Restaurant in Old Orchard from 4pm to 7pm (remarks at 5pm). In addition to appetizers and sweets, the GEA is sponsoring a champagne toast for all, and the GPA will cap off the evening with dessert! Let’s all join in this special event as our banquet room will hold hundreds for the occasion!
Please accept this invitation on behalf of the Board of Education, the GEA, and the GPA to come together as the D34 family to celebrate one another.
More About the Recognition
Recently, the Personnel Committee reviewed the District’s staff recognition program with an eye to update it, make it more inclusive and create opportunities to share and celebrate at the building and District levels. This includes our District-wide Recognition Reception on May 30th - and the recognition itself. Here are some details about this new celebration:
A milestone year begins at five years of service and continues every five years after that. Per the Personnel Committee’s direction, each person celebrating a milestone year receives a personalized pin (for your lanyard) to show your D34 pride and so others can recognize your years of service. Our retirees will also receive a special gift. The pins and the retiree gift replace the glass/crystal gifts that have been given in past years (picture frame, bowl, etc.).
For the purpose of recognition, years of service are counted differently than they are for the staff seniority lists as the seniority lists must follow established guidelines. For recognition, a year of service is equivalent to a school year (with the staff member starting no later than November 30 of that year). FMLA leaves do not impact a year of service unless the leave was an entire school year in length. This means that a year’s leave of absence is not counted as a year of service. Your FTE status (full time or part time) does not impact your year of service so whether you are a 0.5FTE or a 1.0FTE, your year of service is counted. For those who came through the DePaul Clinical Model Program, your years with DePaul do not factor into recognition. If you started with D34, resigned, and then returned to D34, only your most recent years of service are counted for recognition.
Mandated Training: Now's the Time!
Your old user accounts have been deleted so that means, your first time log in will be slightly different. Please follow the directions below when logging in the first time you wish to complete trainings that will go towards the 2018-19 school year.
Job Postings
Visit Frontline to learn more or apply for any of the positions listed:
2019 Summer School
- Special Education Teacher
- School Nurse (RN)
- Associates
2019-20 School Year Positions
Certified Staff
- Early Childhood Classroom Teacher
- 1st Grade Classroom Teacher
- 2nd Grade Classroom Teacher
- Intermediate Classroom Teacher
- Interventionist (Reading Specialist)
- PE Teacher
- Special Education Resource Teacher
- Special Education Classroom Teacher
- ELL Teacher
- Primary Bilingual Spanish Teacher
- Middle School Bilingual Spanish Teacher
- Middle School RLA Teacher
- Middle School Instructional Innovation Specialist
- School Psychologist
- Occupational Therapist
- Student Services Instructional Coach
- Primary Music/Drama Teacher
- Part-Time PE Teacher
- Part-Time Drama Teacher
- Part-Time Drama/Life Skills Teacher
- Part-Time Speech Language Pathologist
- Part-Time Early Childhood Fine Arts Teacher
- Literacy Coach
Support Staff
- Associate
- Cook
- School Nurse (RN)
- Assistant to Payroll & Operations
- HR Specialist
- HR Manager
- Chief consoler for those who didn't get a t-shirt
Where All Means All
Another wonderful and innovative idea by Dr. Paula Kluth, consultant, author and advocate of inclusive education. Kluth, Paula “Don’t We Already do Inclusion?”. Cambridge Book Review Press, 2013
GET MOVING
Do you have students with disabilities who need frequent movement breaks? In a typical inclusive school, we might see a handful of students with autism, movement differences, or learning disabilities, wandering the halls to take a break from “sitting and getting.” This support may be necessary for some no matter what happens in the classroom, but one way to make these interruptions from instruction less frequent for certain learners is to simply offer more movement in the context of daily lessons.
Active learning does not need to be that formal, however. You can build movement into lectures by replacing hand raising with different actions. For example, if students know the answer to a question, have them stand. Or use collaboration as an excuse to move; two or three times during a lecture or whole-class discussion, have students find a partner (someone wearing the same color shirt, someone with the same birthday month) and review a key point from the lesson.
Finally, you can create opportunities for movement during routines. Instead of passing out papers, have students come and retrieve them at the front of the room. Before having them transition to book circles, insist that they touch all four classroom walls, shake hands with two classmates, and do one jumping jack.
How much movement do your students experience during one hour in your classroom? How much do they experience in a day? What are some new ways you can bring movement into your classroom?
Kluth, Paula “Don’t We Already do Inclusion?”. Cambridge Book Review Press, 2013
VirtuEL: Free Online EL Conference
This section is where we highlight all of the wonderful things going on in the district, schools, and classrooms. If you have items to share or would like an event covered, please fill out the Staff Shares Request Form.
Don't want to write something up, but you want to share? Fill out that form! Or, even easier, email Cathy Kedjidjian and she'll be excited to come to your classroom and share your story!
Tech 2019
Third graders and LRC Director Lisa Funke from Glen Grove presented at Tech 2019 at the Illinois State Capitol. This one day event allows legislators to see first-hand how technology is used in the classrooms across Illinois and to talk with students and teachers that use it. This event started in 1990 and is presented by the Illinois Computing Educators (ICE).
Pictures are of Senator Laura Fine and Representative Jennifer Gong-Gershowitz, both legislators’ children graduated from Glen Grove.
submitted by Lisa Funke (GG)
EC Teacher Appreciation
For teacher appreciation week our EC students shared their thoughts on their teachers through a video. Teachers were surprised with the video at the start of teacher appreciation week. Teachers enjoyed what the students shared, and the students loved being movie stars for the day
submitted by Jobeth Wilson (WB)
CareMobile at D34
Many of you may have been wondering what that colorful van was in the district last week. D34 was fortunate to once again partner with Advocate Health and have the Ronald McDonald CareMobile visit our students at Glen Grove and Hoffman. The CareMobile brings a nurse practitioner directly to our students who are having trouble accessing health care due to a lack of insurance. In the 2 days, 21 students were able to receive full school physicals and immunizations that are necessary for them to attend school! We have already scheduled our next date for August. They are such a great resource for our families and we love to have them visit!
submitted by Rebecca Vance (Admin)
Springman's Cookin'...for Youth Services!
The Springman Foundations team organized staff to head to Youth Services on May 13 to give back to their students and the community. They helped prepare a meal for the Spanish-speaking Mom's Group, and made treats and prepared activities for the last Study Buddies session of the year. Study Buddies is a free academic program at Youth Services for students in first through eighth grade.
They received a quick and hearty thank you from Youth Services that read, in part, "From the meal and treats to cleaning up afterwards and setting up the gym; your group accomplished a lot!"
Are you thinking about organizing your own building, team or other group service project? Youth Services has opportunities for groups to prepare meals and snacks (like our Springman friends did), do yard work, help with the Halloween haunted house, and join the holiday gift wrap gang. Email Jennifer Fitch at Youth Services or call her at 847-724-2620 x143 to talk through how you want to help!
Kudos!
Welcome!
And now...drumroll please...here's your LAST chance to get a D34 swag bag with the old logo. There might be some extra goodies in it, which are sure to be collector items (and we better not see them on eBay).
Let us know where you're headed this summer, and send a picture of what you hope your vacation will look like. Then, this summer, please remember to share a picture from your vacation spot. We want to stay connected with our community this summer on Facebook and Twitter. On #WhereIs34 Wednesdays, we will share pictures and stories from staff and families who stay close to home or travel afar. You can use the hashtag yourself on Twitter, share as a response to the Wednesday post on the D34 Facebook page, or send pics and tales to Cathy to post!
(Bonus question in the raffle response: new logo means new swag. Give us your swag ideas!)
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