Strategic Planning:
District 67 is kicking off our strategic planning process! The process will kick off in October when representatives of our District will begin meeting to create the D67 five-year strategic plan, intended to build academic excellence and the six core competencies of our Portrait of a Learner - Adaptability, Empathy, Citizenship, Communication, Confidence, and Critical Thinking. Our process will consist of three meetings over the course of the fall and early winter, during which the D67 Planning Team will convene in person on the following dates:
Thursday, October 6 1:00-3:00pm
Wednesday, October 26 8:30-10:30am
Tuesday, January 10 1:00-3:00pm
If you are interested in serving on the Planning Team, please complete this form by 12pm on Thursday, September 22.
District-Sponsored Landline/SMS-Text/Mobile Phone Survey:
In an effort to stay in sync with the perspectives of our community members, the district has commissioned a confidential telephone and text survey of residents regarding various education matters in our community. The survey, a sanctioned polling effort being conducted by Fallon Research, is currently underway and will end Monday, September 19. If you are contacted by Fallon Research, I hope you will consider participating in this important effort. Results will be tabulated, shared with the Boards of Education, and our community later this fall.
District Social Media Update:
Recently, we have received a few community questions regarding our use of social media in District 67. As many of you know, District 67 uses social media as one way of telling the stories of our schools and how our exemplary faculty and staff develop compassionate, confident, and accomplished students.
Some of our District administrators and teachers have school Twitter and Instagram profiles and share family-friendly, positive content on these profiles pages and via the hashtag #LFmoments. We take our responsibility for safe social media usage seriously and continue to educate our staff on how to appropriately use these platforms in a safe and secure manner. Staff members have also been instructed to not share student personal information (including first or last name), to post about events in the past tense, to not tag locations on any posts, and to not extend “friend requests” or “follows” to parent private accounts.
While many of these accounts are public, we prioritize every family’s right to opt their children out of photography and videography used for communication purposes, including social media. During the annual registration process, families are asked whether they would like to opt out of the use of their student’s images. We would like to give families an additional opportunity to consider this topic. To opt out, please click here. The link will stay open through 5pm on Friday, September 23.
Sex Education Standards:
Some of our families have asked for an update on the District’s sex education offering.
With support from the District 67 Board of Education, our District did not adopt the National Sex Education Standards. Given that sex education has historically not been part of our K-4 programming, it was determined that District 67 would not add sex education standards to our elementary (K-4) curriculum.
At the middle school level, and in alignment with recent Illinois State Board of Education guidance, our District will continue to use our current middle school sex education curriculum with no change. Our middle school sex education curriculum meets the Illinois Physical Development and Health Standards.
As always, parents and guardians have the right to opt out of this curriculum for their students.
