The District 25 Dish

This edition of the District Dish features the following:

• Need 2 Know
  Calendar Updates | Upcoming Events
  SHIELD Testing | New Enrollment Deadline
  Kindergarten Pre-Registration | Now Open!
  Illinois Essentials Survey | Now Open!
  
• Community Information
  D25 Scholarship Opportunities
  Tax Season | Remainder of Your 2021 Child Tax Credit.
  COVID-19 Testing Sites
  
• Instagram | @ahsd25social
  South's Puppet Show | Photos
  Ivy's Poppin' Resolutions | Photos
  
• D25 Features | VIDEO: South's Audio Play
  
• Help Needed
  Administrative Assistant for Student Learning
  Building Attendants
  Substitute Teaching Assistants
  ... and more!
  
• COVID-19 Updates
  Updates to the Protocols & Guidelines
  Days off | No SHIELD testing
  COVID-19 Dashboard | NEW Real Time Dashboard
  
• Feel Good Story | VIDEO: Self-Reflection & Self-Growth
  
• Board of Education
  Upcoming Meeting | January 20 at 7:00 pm
  
• #d25ItsPersonal

Thank you! Click around and enjoy!

Middle School | 2nd Quarter Ends

• January 21, 2022

Spelling Bee | Thomas Middle School

• January 25, 2022 at 2:45 pm - 5:00 pm at TMS

Spelling Bee | South Middle School

• January 26, 2022 at 2:45 pm - 5:00 pm at SMS
  

Middle School | Progress Reports Issued

• January 28, 2022

The deadline to enroll your child in our SHIELD testing program is February 1, 2022. You can always unenroll your child from the SHIELD testing process. Please click the links below and fill out the form if you would like to enroll or unenroll your child.

Enroll my child into SHIELD testing

Unenroll my child from SHIELD testing

Kindergarten pre-registration for the 2022-2023 school year is now open!

Click here for more information.

It’s that time of year again and we want your input! Please participate in the Illinois 5Essentials Parent Survey, as a part of the Illinois 5Essentials Survey administration. The survey responses will never be connected to the identity of you or your child as school reports will only present aggregated information of how parents responded as a whole.

In order for the survey report to be generated we need at least 20 percent of our parents to take the survey.

Please CLICK HERE to take the parent survey. It is open now through March 11.

If you have any questions about the survey, please contact 5Essentials Customer Support at 1-866-440-1874 or 5essentials@uchicago.edu.

The Arlington Heights Council of PTAs will be giving away scholarships to D25 graduates that are heading off to college!

There will be 6 ($1000) Achievement Scholarships and 3 ($1000) Power of Courage Scholarships awarded this year.

Click here to apply for the Achievement Scholarship.

Click here to apply for the Power of Courage Scholarship.

Form must be submitted by Sunday, February 27th, 2022 at 11:59 PM CST.

Many families got up to half of their estimated 2021 Child Tax Credit as advanced payments last year. Follow the steps in the document below to get the remainder of your 2021 Child tax credit!

Click here to view the document in English.

Click here to view the document in Spanish.

1. IDPH | No Appointment Required
Hours: 8:00 am - 4:00 pm
Location: Arlington Racetrack 823 Wilke Rd.
Click here for more information.

2. Walgreens | Appointments Only | Rapid & PCR Available
Locations:

1000 E Northwest Hwy Arlington Heights, IL 60004

1711 W Campbell St. Arlington Heights, IL 60005

1 N Elmhurst Rd. Prospect Heights, IL 60070

3 E Golf Rd. Arlington Heights, IL 60005

Click here to schedule an appointment at Walgreens.

3. Staywell Pharmacy | No Appointment Required

Hours: 9:00 am - 5:00 pm (Weekdays)

Location: 912 E Northwest Hwy, Palatine, IL 60074

Click here for more information.

Please Note: District 25 compiled this list as a resource for our community. These testing sites are not affiliated with D25.

Mr. Skym’s sixth grade class created puppets for their final performances of the puppetry unit!

Our cardinals had 3 days to make their puppets out of a sock or bag using the various craft supplies in Mr. Skym’s class. Then they picked their groups and figured out what scenes they will perform based off of their puppet characters!

The performances show the various skills they learned including: movement, voice, improvisation, script reading/writing, characterization, and subtext!

Click here to view the photos.

What better way to ring in the 2022 New Year than by writing down your New Year resolutions? But this time… on pop tarts!

Ms. Swanson’s class at Ivy Hill created their own poppin’ resolutions for 2022! They each designed their own individual pop tarts, and wrote down what they resolve the most for the new year!

Click here to view the photos.

South Middle School put on its first ever audio play called ‘Treasure Island’ with the help of South’s Drama teacher, Wesley Skym. Take a look at how our Cardinals prepared for this brand new concept!

Arlington Heights School District 25 has an opening for a full-time Administrative Assistant for the Department of Student Learning.

Click here to apply directly.

Arlington Heights School District 25 has openings for substitute teaching assistants for the 2021-22 school year.

Click here to apply directly.

Part-time positions are available working independently to monitor, support and provide service to community groups using our facilities.
Starting salary is $13.00 per hour. Mostly evening and weekend shifts.

Click here to apply directly.

Arlington Heights School District 25 has openings for Elementary and Middle School Guest Teachers for the 2021-22 school year.

Click here to apply directly.

Arlington Heights School District 25 has an opening for a Full-Time Floating Custodian, second shift, to assist in filling in for absent custodians and/or assist in maintaining grounds and facilities within Arlington Heights School District 25.

Click here to apply directly.

Arlington Heights School District 25 has openings for Substitute Building Clerical Assistants.

Click here to apply directly.

Arlington Heights School District 25 has an opening for a part-time (3 hours/day, Monday - Friday) Food Service Employee. Starting salary is $15.00/hour.

Click here to apply directly.

This year, all students are attending school in-person, 5 full days a week. As guidelines and protocols change throughout the year, we will continuously update our COVID-19 Protocols & Guidelines Q&A Document.

Below are specific categories that received updates since the last District Dish was sent out. You can see those specific updates by clicking the links below and reading the Q’s & A’s in orange. The date of the change is always listed as well.

• COVID-19 Symptoms & Isolation Guidelines
• Remote/In-Person
• Exclusion Process, Academy Program, & Close Contact
• Test-To-Stay
• Breakfast/Lunch & Recess
• COVID-19 Vaccination
• SHIELD Testing for COVID-19

That document and all other COVID-19 related topics can be found on the COVID-19 Hub section of our website: www.sd25.org/COVID19.

For the 2021-22 school year, SHIELD testing will not take place on the following non-attendance days:

• February: 17th, 18th
• March: 21st, 22nd, 23rd, 24th, 25th
• April: 15th
• May: 27th, 30th

The District 25 COVID-19 Dashboard is live and available to access on our website under the COVID-19 hub (www.sd25.org/COVID19) or by clicking here. There are two dashboards.

One shows the number of students and staff excluded from school in real time.

The second Dashboard reports out weekly, on Mondays (or Tuesday if Monday is a day where the District is closed), the positive COVID-19 cases per school from the past week, as well as the positive case trend district-wide for the year. This Dashboard is also reporting the District's SHIELD testing data.

Our students are learning about themselves via our Social Emotional Learning curriculum called RULER. In this lesson, students reflected on how they would be described by different people in their lives, and then they found four words of growth that they can focus on this year. This student’s vulnerability was powerful.

BOARD AGENDAS:

As a reminder, our board agendas are made public the Tuesday before each board meeting and can be accessed via our BoardDocs online program. To access BoardDocs, visit our website: www.sd25.org/BoardAgenda or click here.

UPCOMING BOARD MEETING:

When: Thursday, January 20, 2022 @ 7:00 pm

Where: Dunton Administration Building

Click here to livestream today's meeting via YouTube.

The recording of the meetings will be posted the day following meetings at www.sd25.org/CatchUpOnMeetings.

Our teachers teach from a personal place. #d25ItsPersonal has become a way for our teachers and staff to share daily occurrences, and reasons why they do what they do for a living and why it's fulfilling, right here in District 25. Here is a look at a few tweets that show our staff's personal side!

Together Today 2 Transform Tomorrow

Website: www.sd25.org
Location: 1200 South Dunton Avenue
Phone: (847) 758.4900
Facebook: facebook.com/ahsd25
Twitter: @ahsd25

Instagram: @ahsd25social