The Weekly Eagle

Staff Edition -December 13, 2024

A Peek At The Week Ahead

Saturday, December 14

Happy Birthday, Tom Kujawa!

Robotics Tournament at AJHS

Monday:

Happy Birthday, Jen Cotsiopoulos!

Library Schedule A - Closed Periods 4 & 6

Team Meetings

Tuesday:

Happy Birthday, Maralee Scott!

Team Meetings

8th Grade Basketball "A" Team Conference Tournament

Wednesday:

8th Grade Basketball "A" Team Conference Tournament

Early Dismissal

Wear Your Team Attire (see Staff Party Section) or Ugly Holiday Sweater

Thursday:

8th Grade Basketball "A" Team Conference Tournament

Friday:

Happy Birthday, Tim McNamara!

Time Sheets Due

Tuesday, December 24:

Happy Birthday, Ryan Consdorf!

Friday, January 3:

Happy Birthday, Luanne Falkner!

Upcoming Dates

December 21-January 5--Winter Break

January 6--Teacher Institute Day

AJHS Staff Party!

We are so excited to celebrate our amazing staff during our early release next week. Just a little bit of homework in advance. Our activity takes place in teams - so find a group of 7-10 people and create a team. Please come up with a team name (required) and feel free to have a team uniform/theme (not required but fun). List your team and members on the doc below before Tuesday. If you need help finding a team, just email Dana. Assistants, Office Staff, and Nurse are all included!

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1mtnyPB56awVpEEdYN5eKgcc1k-VXP3DV9GoS4tCUfxg/edit?usp=sharing

docs.google.com

Orchestra Students Playing on Friday Morning

From Nicole

I have prepared my 7th graders to play holiday music and hope to perform from 7:35-7:45 a.m. in the Fine Arts lobby next Friday, Dec. 20. Those who wish to participate and can come early will just show up and do it. Hope to see you there!

D102 Holiday Card Collection

Please place your holiday cards in the bin :)

Winter Break Construction Update

Over winter break the lighting will be upgraded to LED lighting in both existing gyms and the cafeteria. This work is being performed as part of the phase 2 work at AJHS and is being done now in an effort to get ahead for the summer given the large scope of work.

25-26 Scheduling

Please fill out a short survey on your scheduling preferences for next year. BLT will review the survey at their next meeting. It's hard to believe we have to start thinking about that again already!

Access Testing

Access testing coming in February. Students will miss classes during the week of February 10. BLT considered an extended advisory schedule for the week so they wouldn't miss classes, but for this year, it was decided that we will run a regular schedule. Students will be excused for all work they miss during this time. A more detailed schedule will be provided after winter break.

7th Grade Staff Snowflake Interest Form

Thank you to all of the 7th grade staff for signing up for Snowflake 25! We are in need of more teacher volunteers and are opening up the opportunity to all staff. All staff members are invited to volunteer to participate in Snowflake 2025 which is being held on Thursday, February 27, 2025! This would entail being assigned to a small group (15-17) of 7th grade students and working together with two Stevenson High School leaders to facilitate and participate in small group activities throughout the day as well as supervising/chaperoning your group in large group assemblies throughout the day.

Volunteers will be provided with a pizza lunch, warm fuzzies, a commemorative Snowflake 2025 t-shirt, and a day filled with education and memory making!

***By volunteering for Snowflake, you are foregoing plan time and a duty free lunch on the Snowflake program day. We are excited to let you know that by volunteering for Snowflake, you may leave when the students leave from February 27th until Spring Break!! Thank you, Dana!

Please fill out the form below demonstrating interest by Tuesday, December 17th.
Staff Snowflake Interest Form

Reach out to Lori or Carolyn with questions!

Robotics Tournament

On Saturday, December 14, AJHS is hosting its 4th robotics tournament for the FIRST Lego League Challenge Robotics League. Come support our several of the AJHS robotics club teams who are competing at this tournament along with other teams from around the state! Robot matches take place from 10-3 pm and it is free and open to the public! Come join us if you can, we would love to see you there! If you have any questions, please reach out to Tony Cho at acho@d102.org.

7th Grade Field Trip

Additional information for the 7th grade field trip to the movie theater on Wednesday, December 18.

-Students are grouped by their advisory class

-7th grade students will attend 1st and 2nd period as usual

-3rd period: students head to their advisory class (put away all belongings in their lockers and grab their jackets)

-9:30ish called down for buses

After the movie around (12:00ish)

-students head to lunch right when we get back (12:30ish)

-30 minute lunch

-After lunch, the students will follow the rest of their schedule. Most likely just 8th period.

ILT Update

This year, as part of the 8th grade advisory program, ALL 8th grade students will reflect on how they have developed the D102 Portrait of a Graduate skills during their time in District 102 or previous school experiences if they are new to D102. ILT feels it will be valuable for all students to consider their strengths as they have developed over their time before high school.

On December 12 and 13, advisory teachers will review a Portrait of a Graduate presentation with their classes. Students will be provided with a Google Doc template (which they should copy and name for themselves) to draft their answers to a series of reflective questions and will have time to work during advisory between January 21-24. Final submissions will be made on a Google survey (they can copy and paste from their drafts in the Google Doc). Students who wish to spend additional time outside of advisory will have until January 31st to submit their forms. After that date, advisory teachers will be provided with a list of students who have submitted forms and we will ask that you follow up with any students whose are missing.

While all students will be expected to submit the reflection, they will also answer questions regarding interest in being considered for their photograph to be on the POG poster, to be considered as the graduation speaker, to be considered for both, or will let us know they are not interested in either.

The advisory calendar will be updated and with links to necessary presentations and forms prior to the scheduled dates. Forms are linked here as well, and the presentation slides will be added to the calendar when they are ready.

8th Grade POG Reflection Form Draft Worksheet 24-25

8th Grade POG Final Reflection Form 24-25

Contact a member of ILT and/or administrator with any questions.

Tardy Tuesday

Please fill out link for Tardy Tuesday

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1c8u0wXY7ZV7DGAzvUSFtC2riD55S510BBxkF65A7Gko/edit?usp=sharing

Holiday Candy

Please bring in any holiday candy after break for the jar. We appreciate all the halloween candy, but it's almost gone!

Teacher of the Month Parking

Congratulations, Molly Hugen, you won the January Teacher of the Month parking spot!!

School Spirit Week

Student Council wants you to show some school spirit the last week before winter break!

Monday- Winter Wonderland Day (wear blue and white)

Tuesday- Dress like a teacher day

Wednesday- Ugly Sweater Day

Thursday- PJ day

Friday- AJHS/SHS Spirit wear

Kudos to all of the staff who came to see the Play performance this past Friday. It made me so happy to see so many people show up to support the students!!

Kudos to Gail Simon and Millie Frank, as well as all the teachers that supported an INCREDIBLE school play! It was such a joy to see students shine on stage and behind the scenes.

Kudos to Ms. Falkner for the special delivery for a student.

Kudos to Gail and Millie for putting on a wonderful production and kudos to Irina for being the best makeup partner!!!

Thanks to Stein and the adult SEL committee for the fun cookie buffet! It was so beautifully put together too!

Kudos to Ginger for stepping into science and doing all the things. It's not easy, but she is rocking it!

To Mr. Cho for being nominated and winning the Coach/Mentor award at the Elgin Qualifier. This award goes to the coach or mentor whose leadership and guidance is clearly evident and best exemplifies the FIRST Core Values. The award is on display in the Science wing case! Well deserved, Tony!

Thank you to Becky for organizing such a "sweet" event this Monday!!! Thank you to all who brought goodies!!!

Thank you Malewig for staying for the boys game!

Thank you to Irina, Rachael, Nancy and Maggie for all the support with the school play last week. Millie and Gail really appreciate you!!!

Kudos to Becky Stein for an AMAZING cookie exchange this week. Entering the lounge on Monday morning immediately brought a smile to my face and set the tone for a great work week!

Kudos to an AMAZING performance on Friday, Gail and Millie!

Malewig..... your Athletic Director-ship is unmatched. Thank you for all of your student-athlete support with academic & behavior eligibility and rewards & consequences.

Tammy.... another successful MAP testing cycle in the books! Thank you for all of your planning and assistance!

Adam, just a public 'Thank You' for all you do!

To whoever scheduled the bells on MAP day to match the different schedule..... YOU ARE AMAZING! Thank you!!!!!

Kudos to Mara Reich for all her support as a coach for robotics club!

Kudos to Tom Ivarson, Keetra Tipton, Nancy Braun, Melissa Abbatacola, Kim Prochnow, Mara Reich, Sarah Dengsaveng, Christina Lovering, Ginger Stephens, and Jenny Choi for sharing your rooms after school for the After School Program!

Kudos to Diance Bischoff, Tom Ivarson, Kim Prochnow and Keetra Tipton for allowing us to use the rooms for the Robotics Tournament this Saturday!

Staff Fun!

Kerri is going to attempt to do a staff version of this...I have it set up in the office. Feel free to bring props and stop by to get your picture taken and join in the fun :)