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A Day of Learning - Institute Day 2023

Hosted by Kane County ROE

Kane County Regional Office of Education (ROE) hosted Institute Day 2023 on March 3 at the Q Center in St. Charles. Institute Day featured 65+ breakout sessions and two keynote speakers Aaron Polansky and Monica Genta. The event was free to all attendees. 

Kane County Institute Day brings together educators from across the county and is designed to help colleagues on a variety of topics such as social emotional learning, student experiences, curriculum discussions, sharing teaching methods, and partaking/listening to guest speaker lectures.

Save the date for Institute Day 2024 taking place on March 1 at the Q Center. Want to learn more? Contact Professional Learning Coordinator, Raven Szalkowski at rszalkowski@kaneroe.org.

Photo 1 - Keynote speaker is Monica Genta. Monica is the author of four books, Game Changers, 180 Days of Awesome, Crushing It For Kids, and The Rooted Classroom, a classroom teacher, and international educational consultant and keynote speaker. Monica’s TED talk has been viewed by thousands of educators from all over the world.

Photo 2 - Attendees sitting in the main ballroom listening to the keynote during Kane ROE Institute Day.

March is Women's

History Month

For use in the classroom or your community, a list of lesson plans and other teaching materials on women’s history in America from Smithsonian Magazine.

This Week's

Progress Report

✏️ Learn about putting concrete practices in place to help support collaboration and result in increased performance with Adaptive Schools Seminar in this week's Progress Report.

Illinois Arts Education Week

🎨 This week is Illinois Arts Education Week! Arts education benefits both students and society. Involving students in the arts gradually teaches many types of literacy while developing intuition, sensitivity, reasoning, & imagination.

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"Branching Out" is a weekly YouTube series with quick videos designed to help

educators branch out of their comfort zone and integrate new ideas and technology into their classrooms.

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