Weekly Family Updates 1/31/22

   

Kindergarten Roundup for 22-23! PLEASE SHARE THIS INFO!!!!

5Essentials

Annually, the State of Illinois asks school districts to administer the 5Essentials Survey to gather feedback from students, parents, and staff. This feedback helps guide the district in future planning. Your participation in the parent portion of the survey will help us understand the conditions at your child’s school and guide improvement. Your identity and survey responses will be kept completely confidential and will never be connected to you or your child.

On behalf of the Illinois State Board of Education, the Illinois 5Essentials Survey will be administered online by UChicago Impact at the University of Chicago. The survey gathers data related to five indicators that can predict important student outcomes, including improved attendance and larger test score gains. These five indicators that affect and predict school success are:

• Effective Leaders
• Collaborative Teachers
• Involved Families
• Supportive Environments
• Ambitious Instruction

The Illinois 5Essentials Survey for students and teachers will be conducted now through March 11, 2022. The Parent Survey Supplement will be conducted during that same timeframe.

To take the survey please visit https://survey.5-essentials.org/illinois/ and select the appropriate survey to begin.

Day of SERVICE

We are excited to plan a full service-based Day of Service for the spring to say THANK YOU to our community. If you have ideas for meaningful service projects our students can complete that can also be done within COVID protocols, please contact your building principal. We'd love to have your input! 

Drive If You Can

If at all possible, we'd invite as many of our families to drive their kids to school as possible. By reducing the number of students on a bus, we decrease exposure to COVID, speed up bus routes, and help us when/if we have to double up routes due to illness. THANK YOU! 

HELP WANTED!!!!
Fox Lake Grade School District 114 is looking for full time paraprofessionals. Full time positions are available at Lotus Elementary School and Stanton Middle School. Must have a PARA License (SUB or PEL also acceptable). Pay ranges $12 - $15 per hour. To apply, follow this link. You may also visit our district website www.d114.com and select Employment > Job Postings.

Please know that there was no ruling on Friday related to masking. We are monitoring this and will share information with our families as soon as we have it!

Linked here is the most updated decision-making flow chart, provided by our legal counsel. This is what we are following. If you have questions, please reach out to me. 

Please check out this document for information on how quarantine is calculated under the new guidelines. We worked with all the other local districts to make sure we are all handling this consistently, and especially close contacts that occur at home. 

You can sign your child up for surveillance testing using this easy link! 

Please remember that these tests are for student use ONLY!

Current Local COVID Data

1/28/22

Current D114 Daily Data

1/28/22

CDC thresholds and local data for Lake County

Indicator	Low Transmission	Moderate Transmission	Substantial Transmission	High Transmission	Current Status
Incidence Rate: Total new cases per 100K persons in the last 7 days	0-9	10-49	50-99	100 or greater	1,084.08
7 Day Average Test Positivity Rate	Less than 5%	5.0%-7.9%	8.0%-9.9%	Greater than 10%	10.66%

D114 Local Zip Codes Data from Northwestern University COVID Dashboard--ALL DATA INCLUDES ACTUAL AND PROBABLE CASES!

Indicator	Low Transmission	Moderate Transmission	Substantial Transmission	High Transmission	Current Status
Incidence Rate: Total new cases per 100K persons in the last 7 days	0-9	10-49	50-99	100 or greater	1943.2
7 Day Average Test Positivity Rate	Less than 5%	5.0%-7.9%	8.0%-9.9%	Greater than 10%	23.05 %

Remote Learning Access

To access short term remote learning, students must:
1. Have positive COVID diagnosis, or
2. Be identified as close contact by D114

Situations that do not qualify for remote access:

1. Symptoms in the absence of a COVID diagnosis.
*Students should stay home until symptoms resolve.
*Student will be encouraged to take a COVID test and share results
*COVID testing can be done onsite using O'Hare surveillance weekly testing or Binex Now Rapid with parent/guardian permission.

2. Student identified as close contact with a family member
*Student should stay home and monitor symptoms
*Student will be encouraged to take a COVID test and share results
*COVID testing can be done onsite using SHIELD PCR (once program launches) or Binex Now Rapid with parent/guardian permission.

3. Family vacations.

4. General illnesses.

5. Any other non-COVID related reasons.

Remote Learning Parameters:
Student get “eyes and ears” into the classroom using Google Classroom and Google Meet.
Student is provided at least 5 hours of instruction, of which 2.5 must be synchronous.
Remote access is given 24 hours after notification that a student qualifies.

Eat Out 2 Help Out D114 PTA Fundraiser

Where: Culver's Fox Lake: DRIVE THRU ONLY

When: Monday, February 7th 

Time: 5-8pm

*Mention D114 PTA Event to help us receive 10% of purchases back to our organization. 

When: Thursday, February 10th

Time: 6:30 pm

Where: Virtually

Click the link below to be admitted into the meeting. (*you will need a Gmail account)

https://meet.google.com/rps-xjos-qnn

Friday, February 18--Institute Day (no student attendance)

Monday, February 21--Presidents' Day--No School

Tuesday, February 22--February Board of Education meeting at 7PM at Lotus

Enrollment form for winter sports is attached to this week's email. 

D114 Text-A-Tip

United Way

 

Ways to access:

*Call 211 from any phone.

*Text your zip code to 898211

*Access the database via web at https://211lakecounty.org/

 

You can reach us at District Office at 847-973-4028. Feel free to email me with questions, ideas, or concerns at heather.friziellie@foxlake114.org. We are here to help, so don't hesitate to reach out for assistance!

With commitment to our students and families, 

Heather Friziellie, Superintendent