Schedule for the Week of March 1
Hinsdale Central and Hinsdale South will be serving as vaccination sites again March 3-6. During these days, we will be partnering with Osco to administer the second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine to everyone who received the first dose Feb. 4-6 or on Feb. 10.
In order to accommodate the vaccination process, we will need to make the following changes to the schedule at Hinsdale South. Please note that these changes only apply to Hinsdale South because the vaccination event at the building will take place during the school day (9 a.m. to 5 p.m.) on Friday, March 5. That is not the case with the sessions at Hinsdale Central, which are being held on Wednesday (remote learning day), after school on Thursday (1 p.m. to 9 p.m.) and on Saturday.
- During the week of March 1, we will be swapping the Wednesday and Friday schedules at Hinsdale South.
- On March 3, students from South who are in Learning Cohort B will be on campus for in-person instruction (early bird physical education and periods 4/5/6, 6/7/8, nine and 10). They will also eat lunch at school on this day.
- On March 5, all students from South will learn from home. Teachers from South, as well as teachers from Central who are being vaccinated on March 5, will let students know if their classes will be synchronous or asynchronous on this day. This decision will be based upon issues such as the teacher’s vaccination schedule.
- The Monday, Tuesday and Thursday schedules at South will remain the same.
While we intend to proceed with our normal hybrid schedule at Hinsdale Central this week and at both schools on Monday, March 8, we will be monitoring the health of our faculty and staff members following the second dose to see if any of them experience significant side effects. If we need to adjust our schedule (e.g. shift to fully remote instruction on March 5 and/or March 8) to maintain the continuity of instruction in our buildings and, more importantly, give our employees time to recover, we will let our students, staff and families know as soon as possible.
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COVID-19 Data
Below is the COVID-19 data for the district as of Friday, Feb. 26.
- Current number of positive cases among students and staff - 3
- Current number of students and staff in isolation - 60
- Current number of students and staff in quarantine - 24
- Total number of positive cases among students and staff since the start of the 2020-21 school year - 315
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Future Ready Facilities
During its meeting on Feb. 23, the District 86 Board of Education received a brief video update on the district's Future Ready Facilities plan that included:
You can access the video update by visiting http://bit.ly/3qOa6Ft. You can also visit http://bit.ly/3kqqg5i to access a recent article about the status of the pool project at Hinsdale Central that was published by The Hinsdalean. |
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Data Science Club
Dr. Rachel Baumsteiger and Dr. Jessica Hoffmann, who are researchers at Yale University, recently met with the members of Hinsdale Central's Data Science Club to talk about their work in the areas of mental health and student well-being, as well as their experience in data analysis.
During this meeting, Dr. Baumsteiger and Dr. Hoffmann shared their process for developing social-emotional surveys. They also discussed how data science methods help school districts analyze mental health in their learning environments.
Senior Gabi Camara wrote an article about the visit by Dr. Baumsteiger and Dr. Hoffmann for the Devils' Advocate, which is Central's student-run publication. You can access Camara's article by visiting http://bit.ly/3dNsVon. |
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Latest from the Stinger and Devils' Advocate
Senior Lauren Packard wrote an article for Hinsdale South's Stinger newsmagazine about the two new police reform bills that were recently proposed in the state of Illinois. The first bill would change many fundamental aspects of law enforcement; while the second, which was ultimately tabled and dropped by its sponsor, would have eliminated the school resource officer position and prohibited members of law enforcement from being on school property unless "urgent and immediate action was necessary." You can access Packard's story by visiting http://bit.ly/3dLhhur.
Meanwhile, in the update email we sent on Feb. 1, we shared a link to a story from the Devils' Advocate about how Hinsdale Central students and sisters Amelia and Stephanie Zayed turned their interest in makeup into a startup business called ZBeauty. The piece, which was written by senior Natalia Berti, received an Excellence in Writing Badge from the Best of SNO (School Newspapers Online). You can access Berti's story by visiting http://bit.ly/3kozpLS. |
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Paton Mehrhoff
Last week's edition of The Hinsdalean featured an article about the summer program that Hinsdale Central junior Paton Mehrhoff is creating for students in grades two through five to help them learn about the principles and foundational concepts of economics prior to entering middle school and high school. She got the idea after she read about a children's economics program in Scotland, and reviewed a report her cousin did about a similar initiative in Michigan.
You can check out the story by visiting http://bit.ly/3bFBn6z. Photo credit to Jim Slonoff from The Hinsdalean. |
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Summer School
Registration for the district's summer school program is now open. Given the construction that is scheduled to take place at Hinsdale Central and Hinsdale South during the summer months, and several other challenges created by the COVID-19 pandemic (e.g., lack of alternative locations, adjusted class sizes to accommodate health and safety guidelines, need for additional staff, increased costs for services such as transportation, etc.), we decided to deliver the program via a virtual format.
You can access additional information about or register for our summer school program by visiting http://bit.ly/3bBhxJI. |
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Board Briefs
If you missed the edition of Board Briefs for the District 86 Board of Education meeting that was held on Feb. 23, please visit https://conta.cc/3aOyVeF. |
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Community Speaker Series - March. 10
New York Times bestselling author Julie Lythcott-Haims will be the next featured presenter for the 2020-21 Community Speaker Series. During a webinar being held on March 10 from 7 p.m. to 8:15 p.m., Lythcott-Haims will highlight the ways in which overparenting harms children, their families and society at large. She will also offer practical strategies that parents/guardians can use to help children develop the resourcefulness, resilience and inner determination necessary for success.
The webinar is free and open to the public. However, registration is required if you want to take part in the livestream of the event, or watch the recording of it afterward.
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