5/20/22 Enews From CCSD93

Dear Friend of CCSD93,

Messages From

Superintendent Hill:

CCSD93's inaugural Inclusive Track season concluded with its final event this week! As with Inclusive Basketball, Inclusive Track brought together middle school students with disabilities and those without to practice and compete together, in this case in track and field events.

Adding to the tremendous spirit of community brought about by this season, the Carol Stream Police Department joined to participate in the weekly practices, helping to lead students through the events while forging meaningful relationships. I’m so thankful to all of our student, staff and police partner participants for making this a successful program.

Thank You, CareFest Volunteers, for Beautifying Our Schools!

Last Saturday, I had the opportunity to work alongside volunteers from Wheaton Bible Church for their CareFest event, which served to beautify all CCSD93 elementary and middle schools! I’m extremely grateful for the time, effort and energy that each participant contributed to mulching, weeding, gardening, planting and more. Their efforts are helping our schools to look terrific as we head into summer.

Staff Members Honored as Personalized Educators

CCSD93’s educators have the opportunity to earn what we call the Personalized Learning Certificate and achieve the status of being a CCSD93 Personalized Educator. In order to attain this, staff members must engage in hundreds of hours of classes and programs that are part of CCSD93’s Personalized Learning professional development series outside of their workday.

Throughout the past few weeks, CCSD93 Assistant Superintendent for Teaching, Learning & Innovation Jonathan Zimmermann and I had the pleasure of presenting staff members who have earned this status between the beginning of the pandemic and now with their certificates. Congratulations to the educators depicted below! Their commitment reflects a strong connection to CCSD93’s first two Strategic Goals of providing a relevant education for all students and facilitating engaged and connected employees.

Cloverdale & Roy DeShane Students DARE to Remain Drug- & Alcohol-Free

This week, our Cloverdale and Roy DeShane 5th graders celebrated graduation from the Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E.) program!

I was grateful to be invited to honor these students’ commitment to remaining drug- and alcohol-free along with their school administrators, Carol Stream and Bloomingdale police officers and local leaders including Carol Stream Mayor Frank Saverino.

Congratulations to all students, with special acknowledgement to essay contest winners Ava P. of Cloverdale and Niko C. of Roy DeShane! I thank Carol Stream Police Officer Pablo Castro for his dedication to leading the program at all of our elementary schools.

Congratulations, 8th Graders!

Today was the last day of school for CCSD93’s 8th graders! I’m thrilled that we will have the opportunity to honor their accomplishments at tomorrow’s graduation ceremonies at Glenbard North High School. Families of 8th graders, please note the ceremonies will be brought indoors to the gymnasium due to weather.

Stratford’s staff and student body celebrated their 8th graders with a clap out for their final day of middle school today. Experience the excitement by watching this video.

Please review the following for more from CCSD93 as we enter the final week of the school year!

Sincerely,

Dr. David H. Hill

Superintendent of Schools

CCSD93

Keep Your Child Engaged With Summer Learning Opportunities

As we look toward the summer, CCSD93 encourages students to continue to engage with learning resources. All families are invited to visit CCSD93’s Summer Learning website at www.ccsd93.com/summer for a variety of learning opportunities. Be sure to use the navigation bar (across the top on a desktop or in the upper left on a mobile device) to access great content by grade level.

You’ll find online resources for which CCSD93 has provided student logins like iReady, Brain Pop, Khan Academy and more; additional online activities; and links to our public library websites.

Of particular interest is the Carol Stream Public Library’s Summer Reading Program. Students can earn prizes for reading! You can find more about it on the K-8 Summer Activities page of our Summer Learning website, and by watching the video linked here!

Last Day of School for PreK-7: 5/26/22

5/26 Board of Education Meeting Preview

CCCSD93’s next Board of Education meeting will be held at 7 p.m. on Thursday, May 26, 2022 at CCSD93's District Office, 230 Covington Drive in Bloomingdale. All community members are invited to attend. The following are among the agenda items.

There will be a Board Salute to Sportsmanship Award winners from the middle school girls soccer and track seasons.
The Board will vote on the approval of a designation of interest earnings resolution.
The Board will continue its self-evaluation process.
The Board will vote on the approval of the CCSD93 Portrait of a Graduate statements and imagery.

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