D15 Family Newsletter

The POC’s Clothing Closet needs your fall/winter clothing. They are currently experiencing many shoppers and it is difficult for them to keep clothing on the racks! The POC is now accepting clothing donations that will directly support people in our community. The Community Resource Center is located at 1585 N. Rand Road, Palatine, IL 60074.

The POC is looking for volunteers for a few of their upcoming events!

• Saturday, October 7 from 9-11 am - Roots Garden End of Season Clean-Up. Location: 1475 N Hicks Rd.

• Friday, October 20 from 6:30-7:30 pm - iCompete Candy Crawl. Location: Falcon Park Recreation Center at 2195 N. Hicks Rd.

The POC’s annual event, the iCompete Candy Crawl, is coming up on Friday, October 20! This event is for D15 students who are eligible to receive free and reduced lunch. We are excited to participate and can’t wait to see some of our students and families there!

Enjoy the beautiful fall weather.

Your partner in education,

Laurie Heinz

Superintendent of Schools

If you would like to see what transactions your student has on their breakfast/lunch account, here’s how you can set up an account: On the Nutrition Services page on the D15 website, click on the green icon for School Café.

This link will take you to the website where you can pay for school meals and monitor student account balances, transactions, and request low balance alerts. There is also a quick guide to help with creating your student’s account.

Be sure to type in “Community Consolidated School District #15” for the school district when asked. You need your student's school ID number to create an account.

If you need any assistance with creating an account, please reach out to Nutrition Services at (847) 963-3929 or woodst@ccsd15.net.

Adding Money to Your Student Account:

If you need to add funds to a student's meal account, there are two ways to do this.

1. You can add money to any student's account on School Café. There is a service charge.
   Or

2. Put cash or a check made out to Nutrition Services in an envelope with your child’s name and “student meal account” on the envelope, and drop it off at your child’s school. There is no service fee for this transaction.

No experience necessary - We offer paid training to help you earn your Commercial Driver’s License. Once licensed, the starting rate of pay is $25/hour.

Benefits include:

• Blue Cross Blue Shield HMO and PPO coverage options— no-cost health insurance for employee, District-paid long-term disability insurance, Dental, and vision;

• Flexible spending account;

• $50k life insurance;

• 403b/457 savings accounts;

• IMRF pension;

• 9 paid holidays, 10 sick and 3 personal days.

Schedule: 25 hours/week qualifies employee for full benefits. 25-40 hours/week are available. These are 10 month positions with optional summer hours.

Find additional details and apply today at: www.ccsd15.net/hiring

Please contact Andy Elbert with any questions - elberta@ccsd15.net.

We are so excited to share this year's dates for High Five Fridays! District 15 has invited local first responders and community partners to join our schools each Friday in October, November, April, and May to greet our students as they arrive at school. This partnership between District 15 and our local first responders brought so much joy to the students, staff, and first responders last year and we are so excited to bring it back!

Free developmental screenings for children ages birth to 33 months old are offered to families who live in District 15 through the District's Early Intervention Program.

The D15 Early Intervention Program offers playgroups and assessments for children turning three years of age who may display developmental delays or may be at risk for learning problems. The program encourages parents to be active participants during the assessment process.

A nurse, social worker, psychologist, and speech pathologist work closely with families to ensure a positive and comfortable transition into early childhood services.

Screenings are held at the John G. Conyers Learning Academy, 2800 Central Road in Rolling Meadows.

Dates offered for 2023-24:

• October 18, 2023

• February 12, 2024

• April 10, 2024

To make an appointment or for more information, visit the Free Developmental Screenings webpage or contact Genna Guttman, at 847-963-3434.

This month's virtual SPARK Meeting will be on Monday, October 23, 2023 beginning at 7:00pm. Nimra Burney, SLP from In2great Pediatric Therapy will join us to discuss “Gestalt Language Processing”. Please help us spread the word to anyone you know who may benefit from this information.

Make sure to check out the e-flyers page on our website for available events and resources for our families including an adaptive soccer program, support groups, parent resources from NSSEO, and an Autism Discovery Team. For these resources and more, head to www.ccsd15.net/e-flyer.

• October 7 - IESA Regionals
  

• October 9 - No School (Indigenous Peoples’ Day)

• October 10 - No School (Teacher Plan Day)

• October 11 - D15 Job Fair

• October 11 - D15 Tournament

• October 11-12 - Board of Education Meeting

• October 12 - BPAC Meeting

• October 14 - IESA State Meet

• October 18 - Free Development Screenings

• October 18 - D15 Job Fair

• October 23 - SPARK Meeting

• October 25 - D15 Job Fair

• November 7 - Half Day of School (Half Day Teacher Institute Day)