November School-of-the-Month

Trinity Lutheran, Roselle

Topic: Student Assessments and Portfolios

Assessment:
·         Aligns with portfolio
·         Teacher identifying the child has met a standard
·         Week by Week
·         Tadpoles
·         Creative Curriculum
·         Teaching Strategies Gold
Struggles:
Authentic
            Time to do assessment
Portfolios:
·         Purpose is to show a child’s progression of learning and meeting the early learning standards
·         Not a scrapbook, but an important document
·         Also shows if a teacher is teaching

New Movie: Highland Park Community Nursery School and Daycare Center (No Small Matter)
·         Underfunding
·         Importance of funding
·         Pay is not sufficient

NID ECE Blog:

Upcoming Conferences:
·         Pre-K & Kindergarten Conference
§  March 6-8, 2019
§  IL ASCD
§  Renaissance Schaumburg Convention Center Hotel
·         Leadership Connections National Conference
o   May 9-11, 2019
o   Wheeling, IL
o   McCormick Center for Early Childhood Leadership at National Louis University
·         Concordia University Chicago Early Childhood Conference
o   August 2, 2019
o   Concordia University Chicago
·         LEA Convocation
o   October 10-12, 2019
o   St. Louis, MO at the St. Louis Americas Center
o   Theme: Opening Eyes, Minds, Hearts

In-services that you can provide in-house:
·         Exchange Out of the Box Trainings
·         Gateways ilearning

Next Meeting: Wednesday, January 16, 2018
Shepherd’s Flock Child Care
800 W Oakton St
Arlington Heights, IL 60004
Jennifer Soukup, Director | 847-368-7391 | jsoukup@lulife.org
Topic: Integrating the Faith

Topic Idea for 2019-2020

ALICE Training – invite trained speaker






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