Message from CLA

Dr. Bland, Early Learning Center Principal

Summer Update from Dr. Bland

Dear Early Learning Center Families,

I hope you are squeezing in every last minute summer activity before the start of the 2024-2025 school year. I’m thrilled to announce that I will be the new principal of CLA’s Early Learning Center! Joining me on this exciting journey is our new assistant principal, Maya Sarli, and our new special education coordinator, Kristin Johnson. We’re also delighted to welcome back Alysha Gillani as special education coordinator.

Our entire staff looks forward to encouraging, helping, guiding, nurturing, and supporting all of our students academically and socially this school year. We can’t wait to see all of our students!

Teacher assignment(s) and busing information will be viewable in Infinite Campus on/after August 19th. We look forward to welcoming our students and their families on Tuesday, September 3rd to "Meet the Teacher". If your child will be attending a MORNING Session, we ask you to attend from 12:45-1:15. If your child will be attending an AFTERNOON Session, we ask you to attend from 1:30-2:00. We too look forward to welcoming students and staff for the 2024-2025 school year on Thursday, September 5th for our first day of school.

Thank you for taking time to read our communication. If you have any questions or concerns related to the information shared, please feel free to reach out at any time. Until then, we are diligently preparing for everyone's arrival. Home-school communication is very important to us so please anticipate receiving information from us regularly moving forward. This upcoming school year is going to be AMAZING. We cannot wait to see you in a few weeks!

Dr. Rachel Bland

Early Learning Center Principal

Transportation Request

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Meet the Teacher-EC/ECDEC Programs - All Preschool Programs

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

If your child will be attending a MORNING Session, we ask you to attend from 12:45-1:15.

If your child will be attending an AFTERNOON Session, we ask you to attend from 1:30-2:00.

We encourage you to bring your child to meet their teacher during this time period. Please bring your child’s school supplies with you to drop off in the classroom. This is the only time teachers will be available to meet you and your child before the first day of school.
While you are here for Meet the Teacher, you may pick up your child’s safety harness (if required in your child’s IEP) to be used on the bus.
There will be a school bus available (by Door 17) for students to have a chance to practice getting on and off before their first day.
We have limited time for each session and we ask families to please follow the times provided to ensure we have enough parking and space in the classrooms for all students and parents.

Every Day Counts: Attend Today, Achieve Tomorrow, Wildcats!

Nine days or less for school success!

Across the state, student absenteeism is getting a lot of attention right now, and for good reason. In Illinois, more than 1 of every 4 students misses about 2 days a month, or 10% of the school year. Students missing this much of the school year are considered Chronically Absent. Missing two days a month may not seem like a lot, but it equals missing a whole month of school. In fact, if starting in kindergarten, a student who misses just 1.5 days each month will have missed 175 days by the end of their senior year. That’s a whole school year of lost instruction!

In District 15, about 1 in five students (21%) was Chronically Absent. The positive academic and social impact of regular attendance is so important that District 15 has committed to reducing the number of chronically absent students in half (from 21% to 10%) by 2027. To support this goal, District 15 is starting an “Every Day Counts: Attend Today, Achieve Tomorrow” initiative in the Fall of the upcoming school year.

This Fall, parents will see some new actions and communication from the District and CLA. These actions are designed to promote regular student attendance. In the Fall, families will begin to receive information about the importance of attendance, tips on how to help students attend as much school as possible, and regular updates to help families track how often their student is absent each month. Our schools are also organizing themselves to reach out early and support students and families experiencing attendance difficulties. If you are concerned about your child’s attendance, consider logging into Infinite Campus to check exactly how many absences they had this year.