Important Dates Coming Up
Shelter In Place Drill - Monday, March 2, 2020
SEL Leadership Meeting - Tuesday, March 3, 2020 - 7:00AM [LRC]
Green Team Meeting - Wednesday, March 4, 2020 - 7:00AM [LRC]
Principals' Advisory Council / BLT - Thursday, March 5, 2020 - 2:35PM [H102]
Illinois Youth Survey - Friday, March 6, 2020 [Science Classes]
Staff Meeting - Friday, March 6, 2020 - 1:50 [Cafeteria]
Board of Education Meeting - Wednesday, March 11, 2020 - 7:00 PM [Sundling]
March Madness School-wide Celebration - Friday, March 20, 2020
Chicago Fire Student Outing - Saturday, March 21, 2020
Spring Break - March 23-30, 2020, returning on Tuesday, March 31.
Harper College PTA Night - Wednesday, April 1st, 2020 - 7:00 PM [Winston Campus]
8th Grade Harper College Trip - Friday, April 3rd, 2020
News for ESC
Employee Assistance Program
This is the time of year, when it seems like spring will never come. It can be a time when we get bogged down with work, snow, and cold. This can be a good time to "reset" habits and patterns to achieve better balance and greater happiness. Attached please find tips on "spring cleaning".
The EAP helps staff manage the stresses of everyday life or even work-related concerns. The EAP provides a range of free services including legal consultation, child care and elder care referrals, financial consultation, pet care consultation...just to name a few. This confidential service is designed to help staff with any issue affecting overall health, well-being, and life management.
Staff can access these services via email, on the web, via mobile app or via phone (855-775-4357) 24 hours a day/7 days per week. This short video provides an overview of the many services the EAP can provide.
Student Health Practices in Cafeteria
Per the Health Services Department, we will need to attend to health practices such that students wear disposable gloves when wiping tables. Hands should be covered to protect from the cleaning solution and germs. No student should put their hands into the trash to retrieve items. Students must be permitted an opt-out option. Lunch supervisors, in collaboration with the Assistant Principals please review the practices at our school and make changes as necessary.
ESY/DOI Summer School Opportunities
As we continue to plan for our summer programs, we want to remind you that there are two opportunities available for staff this summer: Student Services Extended School Year (ESY) for students with IEPs and Department of Instruction (DOI) summer school for students at our Title I eligible schools. If you would like to teach during one of these programs, please click on one of the links below to express your interest in teaching at one of the programs. If you have already completed this form, there is no need to reapply.
ESY - Special Education
DOI - General Education
SEL “Snack”
Rita Pierson reminds us to believe in, connect to, and develop relationships with our students in her TED Talk, Every Kid Needs a Champion.
D15 Staff Self CARE Club
“Self care is giving the world the best of you, not what’s left of you”. Continuing on our self care journey, self-compassion, balance, and reframing negative thinking into positive self talk will be the topics for our second meeting. The mission of the Self CARE Club is to practice Compassion, Awareness, and Reflection Everyday.
Our next Self CARE Club meeting is Tuesday, March 3rd, at ESC from 4:00-5:00. Please RSVP if you are planning to attend. ***This is a reschedule from February 25th***
No need to have attended January’s meeting! All D15 staff are welcome!
Tenured Teachers SLO
For all tenured Teachers the final SLO data must be submitted to the evaluating administrator no later than March 31, 2020.
Staff Shout-Outs!!!!
- Shout out to Susie Gronwick for making Spanish class such a fun, engaging way for our students to be introduced to the language. I always enjoy stopping in 8th period to engage with our kids. You rock Susie!
- Gillingham-I have been so impressed with your creative planning this year and I continue to learn so much from you!
- To our awesome reading specialist, Maryann! Thanks for sitting down and analyzing reading data with me and contacting another school to get info about a student. You are also hilarious and a great addition to our staff!
- SHOUT OUT to Giannopoulos for setting up a student's parent-teacher phone conference after MULTIPLE unanswered calls on top of changing his schedule as well. Your hard work does not go unnoticed. You are awesome and I am fortunate to work with someone like you!
- Mingo and Winston Wrestling coaching staff for hosting a great tournament.
- Thank you to every teacher who takes the time to fill out student eDPRs and connect with our students! It is not always easy to find the time, but you are making a difference in a students life!
- Shout out to the SEL committee for putting together a great SEL SNACK this past Friday. Devlin, Matkovic, Karahalios, McArtor, Cano, you guys ROCK!!!
- Shout out to Tomas and Andrew for doing an amazing job with discipline!
- Thank you John for always stepping in and helping in the Main Office!
- Jen & Vaneza - the school wouldn't be able to run if it weren't for your efforts! It's much appreciated!
- Patrick, you do an amazing job cleaning the staff bathrooms by the main office!
- Shout out to everyone who stayed after to cheer on our Wrestlers during the District Tournament and to those who helped coordinate things to make it a successful event!
- Shout out to Ofc. Stearns for always going above and beyond to keep our school safe and build positive relationships with our students and their families!
- Shout out Cano for an amazing job leading Yellow Team!
- Shout out Ms. Hagan for coordinating the Architectural Tour 8th Grade End of the Year trip!
- Cristina Correa, for coordinating a very successful Community School!
- Amy Berry for empowering our Warrior Leaders, and starting the Staff Spotlight!
- Ethan & Steve for helping the Churro guy with his set-up!
- Our amazing Nutrition Services staff for being innovative and thinking up ways to increase the number of students who have access to a breakfast!
- Tim Schneiderwind for always being flexible and going above and beyond with anything asked of him!
- Shout-out to the AIME staff for always being positive!
- Shout out to Dr. Karahalios, McArtor and Matkovic for leading our school to be a model of what schools can do around SEL!
- Our clinician team for being the best in the District!
- Shout-out Ms. Martelli for setting up a partnership with Enchanted Backbacks!
- Shout out Liz Ashmann for being such a great leader in our school and such a help when it comes to everything SpEd!
- Kate Ruiz for the amazing job you do with our Robotics Team!
- Shout out Gabrielle Devlin for starting the eSports club! Kids were very excited about it - creating something to connect students who may otherwise not be to our school!
- Heine!! For coordinating the staff outing on Friday.
- Shout-out Eckman for the amazing job you are doing with Mr. Chubb the student teacher!
- Karey Jones and Colleen Scott for representing Winston in the District Math Committee!
- Ms. Stanimirov's student teacher, Jon Frohn, for his help in lunch duty!
- Mr. Ostrand & Ms. Oliver for running a very tight lunch detention!
Winston Campus Jr. High
Email: dacostam@ccsd15.net
Website: www.ccsd15.net/wcjh
Location: 120 North Babcock Drive, Palatine, IL, USA
Phone: 847.963.7400
Facebook: facebook.com/winstoncampus
Twitter: @winstoncampus