Celebrate May The month of May is filled with reasons to cele-brate, especially in our schools. May 2 - 6 is Teacher Appreciation Week . The National PTA says “Teachers are real life superheroes. They educate, innovate, encourage and support. Every

day they touch the lives of millions of children and their work and impact ex-tends far beyond the boundaries of the classroom.” School Nutrition Employee Week is also May 2-6, with School Lunch Hero Day on the 6th! Be-tween preparing healthy meals for students, ad-

hering to strict nutrition guidelines, navigating student food allergies and offering service with a smile, school nutrition professionals are true he-roes. So be sure to thank your favorite lunch hero! National Nurses Week is May 6-12 with School Nurses Day on May 11th. Nurses are dedicated and caring individuals, including the ones looking after our students. Be sure to recognize your school’s nurses for all that they do. Also, click on the photo of “Building Strong Children” for a couple of great PDFs with more information. Cinco de Mayo, Mother’s Day and Memorial Day, just to name a few, are also on this month’s calendar.

MAY 2016

News For You Michelle Mueller

ROE #40 Superintendent

Congratulations

Mike Kelly, Superintendent

Carlinville Unit #1

Thursday, April 21 Mike.Kelly

was honored for his expertise and

leadership. The Illinois State

Board of Education, Horace Mann,

IASA and IPA some of this state’s

top school district superintendents

and principals. Read the complete

news release on our home page.

IMPORTANT - Don’t Procrastinate Licensure - Want to save $500? Be sure to

check your renewal date! And don’t wait until June twenty-something! Each year many people experience issues during that final week when the system can get bogged down! Get ahead of the rush - you’ll be glad you did!

Fingerprinting - Each year from mid-August

through September we are very busy with finger-printing new hires, etc.! Plus, since all schools in the state are experiencing the same influx, the results often take longer than normal getting re-turned. So if you know that you are going to need printed (applying for sub position or if someone you know needs to be printed for any reason) we encourage you to schedule that appointment to get it done soon. We do expand our appoint-ment hours during that time frame, however …

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IMPORTANT … (continued from page 1) … people sometimes still find it difficult to get in when they want and schools can’t get the background results back as quickly as they need, if everyone waits til late August. We will be scheduling appointments for fingerprinting throughout the summer.

Administrators and HR - Now is a great time to send in your info

about staff openings in your district for the upcoming school year! It is not limited to educators—we are happy to include ANY staff openings on our site throughout the year. We do have people use the “Employment Op-portunities” page and ask us if we know of any openings in our schools. And we recommend that people watch that page when they ask us if we know of anything available.

5/3 - Principals Meeting, Carlinville 9:00 5/19 – Superintendents Meet, Jerseyville 9:00 6/8 - Family Engagement Framework, 9:00, Carlin-ville ROE 6/8 - A Collaborative Approach to Family Engage-ment, 1:00, Carlinville ROE 6/13 - Building Cultural Competency, 9:00, Carlin-ville ROE 6/14-15 - Directions Midwest Education Confer-ence, Collinsville. Have you registered?

Bus Driver Refresher Course August 9,10 and 11

Carlinville ROE For more information/registration contact

Patty at 217-854-4016 Ext 20

Bus Driver Initial Training

May 4 and 5 Jerseyville ROE For more information/registration contact Penny at 618-498-5541

Summer 2016 PD Opportunities In Agriculture The Macoupin County Farm Bureau is offering two great opportunities for Professional Development this summer. Summer Agricultural Institute 2 will be held June 1 and 2. Space is limited and you must register by May 13. And Connecting to Agriculture will be held June 13-17. Space is limited and you must register by May 13. More information may be downloaded from our professional development page. The U of I Extension - Hillsboro will be offering Nu-trients for Life in July. Visit their website for details at www.nutrientsforlive.org/.

Family Engagement Family Engagement will be a core princi-ple of ESSA in 2017/18. ISBE has devel-oped Family Engagement modules to as-sist schools with understanding what is ef-fective family engagement. Seventy-six per cent of Illinois schools agree they are not engaging families in ways that increase stu-dent outcomes. The ISBE Family Engage-ment Trainings have been developed by a cross sectional team of ISBE, the American Institute for Research, and the Academic Development Institute and are aligned to ESSA standards. Professional Development (2 CPDUs each) are offered for each of the three modules: the Framework, Collaborative Ap-proach to Family Engagement, and Cultural Diversity. The first module, The Framework, will be offered June 8, from 9:00 to 11:00 at the Carlinville ROE. The second module, The Collaborative Approach, will be offered June 8 from 1:00 to 3:00. The third module will be offered June 13, 2016, Cultural Competency, from 9:00 to 11:00. Each PD is limited to 15 participants. Participants must register online. Go to www.roe40.com, click on Our Services, click on Educators, then Professional De-velopment, click on Calendar and Register for the selected PD.

UMMER

AFETY

UGGESTIONS FOR OUR

TUDENTS

What do you think of our Newsletter? I work in the Carlinville office of ROE #40, and one of my duties is putting together this newsletter and sending it out each month. Over 90% (over 1400) of the mailing list is all of the staff in the ROE #40 schools that have school e-mails. (The districts update this for me at the first of each school year.) So my goal is to include items relevant to YOU - school staff. This is the final issue of News For You until September. If you can spare a mo-ment, I’d love to hear from you. Good, bad or ugly -I can take it! Just drop me a note! Do you read at least some of it each

month? Is the information provided helpful/

interesting? Is there something missing or that you

would like to see more of? Would you be willing to provide me with

info or an article to share with all of our dis-tricts next year?

Have a fantastic summer! JuDee Lair, Admin Assist

S As we are about to send our students off for the sum-

mer, it’s a great time to remind them that we want to

see them back next year!

Do an activity, read a story, or just talk with them

(especially the younger students) about “Stranger Dan-

ger”, wandering off alone or without telling a family

member where they are going.

Bicycle Safety

Ride in single file and use hand signals

Wear a helmet, and bright clothing in daylight and

reflective clothing at night

Make sure you have white front reflector and red

rear reflector, as well as reflectors on spokes and

pedals.

Please note

ROE #40 Offices will switch to

Summer Hours beginning

Monday, May 23rd

Mon - Fri 7:30 to 3:30

Fridays 7:30 to Noon

Incredible opportunity this summer

for High School Seniors interested in Geosciences

Read all about it on our home page

www.roe40.com