Lincolnshire Prairie-View School District 103 notes

Early release day: Schools in Lincolnshire-Prairie View School District 103 will have an early release day today to provide professional development time for staff members.

Students will attend school from 7:50 to 10:50 a.m. at Daniel Wright Junior High School and from 9:05 a.m. to 12:05 p.m. at Half Day and Sprague schools.

Once students are released, district teachers will spend time collaborating as a professional learning community, working to improve student achievement through teaming. The specific focus of the session will be on common formative and summative assessments.

Grade level and subject area teams will analyze current ISAT data, determine areas of strength and improvement and begin the initial development of common summative assessments. Results will be integrated over time with instructional practices and curriculum design.

For more information, contact Katrina Bruley at (847) 295-4030 or e-mail kbruley@district103.k12.il.us.

Teachers give presentation: Staff members Tabatha Otto and Renee Zorc from Daniel Wright Junior High School recently presented at the International Reading Association's Conference in Overland Park, Kan.

Otto and Zorc were selected to present "Nudging the Nonfiction Neurons" at this conference.

They have made similar presentations on this unit of study at the American Library Association Conference in Washington, D.C., the Illinois Reading Council Conference in Springfield, the Illinois School Media Library Association Conference in Arlington Heights and the Illinois Gifted and Talented Conference in Chicago.

Otto and Zorc were also honored with an American Association of School Librarians' award for this unit last year.