What's Up Willowbrook

Fall MAP (Measures of Academic Progress) student reports for grades 1-8 will be emailed home the week of October 21. MAP assessments were administered at various times this school year between August 26 to September 16. Should you not receive a copy of your child's reports in the next week or have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact your school building's office or the Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum and Instruction.

The week of October 21, we will celebrate Character Counts! Week. All Willowbrook students are invited to represent the Six Pillars of Character by dressing in the appropriate colors each day (see below).

Monday, October 21-Friday, October 25

• Character Counts Week
• Character Counts food drive

Friday, October 25

• PTO Trunk or Treat (6:00-7:30 p.m.)

Thursday, October 31

• Prek 3 - Halloween parade (10:15 a.m.)
• All school Halloween parade (1:45 p.m.)

Tuesday, November 5

• No school - District holiday

Friday, November 8

• Half day school - dismissal 11:45 a.m.
• Preschool PM students attend from 8:50-11:20 a.m. No school for students in the AM class.
• Walking school bus (8:00-8:30 a.m.)
• Veterans Day Assembly - more info coming soon!

**Parents are welcome to join us each Friday at 8:45 a.m. for our Flag Raising Ceremony**

From Monday, October 21 through Friday, October 25, the students of District 30 and District 34 will come together to collect food items for the Northfield Township Food Pantry. Collection boxes will be located at Wescott, Willowbrook and Maple Schools. This food drive benefits the Northfield Township Food Pantry. Thank you for your help.

The most needed items are: Boxed cereal, canned soup, canned corn, canned beans (no black beans), snacks (granola bars, pretzels, Goldfish crackers)

Guidelines and details

We look forward to celebrating Halloween with classroom parties and an all-school parade. All students are invited to proudly wear their costumes on Thursday, October 31. Grades 1-5, please have your child bring their costume in a bag to change into after lunch. Preschool and Kindergarten students should wear their costumes to school for convenience.

For safety reasons, and out of respect to our younger population of students, we ask that students DO NOT bring weapons or wear masks to school. It is difficult to judge what is a scary mask or whether a student's vision is impeded. If parents understand this policy ahead of time, families can prepare an appropriate school costume.

There will be time for students to change into their costumes or retrieve accessories from their lockers after lunch. The morning preschool parade will begin at 10:15 a.m. Our little ones will parade through the hallways for all to see. Our all-school parade begins at 1:45 p.m. Please see the map below that shows our route up and down Happy Hollow Road. We will place our preK and kindergarten students at the front of the parade, just behind the Maple percussionists. In the event of inclement weather, we will hold an indoor parade.

PTO room parents will lead classroom parties from 2:30 to 3:00 p.m. This should give us enough time to open the pick-up lanes and pack the students up.

Dear Parents and Guardians,

This month, our RULER: School-Home Connection below has focused on the Mood Meter, an excellent and user-friendly tool for checking in on how our students are feeling. To help you incorporate the Mood Meter at home, we've created magnets and markers that families can use together. Placing a Mood Meter magnet on your fridge lets everyone plot their dot and share their feelings.

If you would like to receive a Mood Meter magnet and an informational pamphlet, please fill out the form below. We will send a green envelope with all the materials home with your child by the end of next week.

I appreciate your support, and we look forward to continuing our School-Home partnership!

Best,

Katie Compagno

To help our students develop self and social awareness, the RULER program recognizes emotions and uses the Mood Meter to plot how we feel. The Mood Meter is used as needed to check in on how students are feeling. Developing self and social awareness is important because it helps us understand our feelings, get along better with others, and make good choices.

• How to recognize our feelings through the changes in our bodies.

• How our feelings affect our actions and our thoughts.

• How to use the Mood Meter as a tool to develop self and social awareness.

• Complete a Take Home Mood Meter and track your emotions for an entire week.

• Check out the free app (iPhone & Android), How We Feel, created by the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence.

• Ask your child about the Mood Meter: What is a Mood Meter and how does it help? When can you use a Mood Meter?

Click to see our students, parents and staff discuss and show how we are living our Strategic Plan in our schools each day! (You might even see someone you know 😊) We thank those who spoke off the cuff and from the heart when asked what they love and value about our schools ... and we thank YOU for partnering with use to ensure our Strategic Plan is so much more than a piece of paper.

Willowbrook is required to conduct six safety drills during the school year. We've already completed a bus evacuation drill and two fire/evacuation drills. On Thursday, October 24 we will facilitate a law enforcement drill with the Glenview police on site. We will be emphasizing the run and hide options with our Willowbrook students at Thursday's drill.

Parents or guardians who have concerns or questions about the drill or their student's participation should contact Mrs. Compagno, Willowbrook Principal.

The Special Lunch Committee wants to thank the following volunteers for helping to serve Special Lunchon October 16: Jenny Chabraja & Josh Lemeshow. Your help is greatly appreciated!

As we embark on another exciting school year, we want to recognize and celebrate our staff members' incredible dedication and hard work throughout the school year.

We are launching a "Staff Shout-Out" initiative to acknowledge and appreciate their efforts. This is an opportunity for you, our valued parents and guardians, to highlight the exceptional work of any staff member who has positively impacted your child or family weekly throughout the school year.

Click the button below to submit your "Staff Shout-Out"

Due to a change to the State of Illinois School Code, Willowbrook Health Office will only be able to distribute over-the-counter (OTC) medications (such as acetaminophen and ibuprofen) to students with a completed Medication Authorization Form (for OTC). The new requirements include a physician’s signature along with a parent/guardian's signature.

Please return the completed form to the school’s health office if you would like your child will be able to receive over-the-counter medications at school. Thank you

Please take a look at our lost & found in the foyer by the front office. It is overflowing with jackets and sweatshirts. Thank you!

Quest Food Management Services offers a preorder system via myMealOrder

• The meal will consist of an entree, side, fresh fruit, and vegetable, including milk or water.
• All orders must be placed at least three days in advance.

Visit mymealorder.com to open an account, learn more about our preorder system, and view the menu. If you have any questions, please reach out to Ashley Jenkins, Food Service Director for Quest at ajenkins@questfms.com.

Northbrook/Glenview School District 30 will have three school board seats to be filled at the Consolidated Election on April 1, 2025. Candidates who are elected will fill four-year terms expiring in April 2029.

Candidates for the office of the school board can now circulate nominating petitions for signatures. The period for filing nominating petitions concludes November 18, with November 12 being the first day permitted to file a petition.

A candidate for the school board is required to file the nominating petitions, Statement of Candidacy, and receipt for filing their Statement of Economic Interests with the applicable county election clerk and not with the school board secretary or the administrative offices of the school district. The county clerk may have petition forms available, or blank petitions may be downloaded from the State Board of Elections website, elections.il.gov.

DETAILS ON SEEKING CAUCUS ENDORSEMENT: Candidates who are interested in seeking endorsement from the District 30 School Board Caucus should contact Caucus Chair Marci Goldgar at marci257@aol.com by Friday, October 18. The School Board Caucus is a committee of District 30 residents that includes families both with and without children enrolled in Willowbrook, Wescott and Maple schools. The Caucus' role is to source, screen and endorse potential school board candidates. To be considered by the Caucus, candidates will need to complete a detailed application as well as an interview.

Want to know what's going on around the community? District 30 uses a "Virtual Backpack" to share community information while saving paper, costs, and lightening the loads our students bring home. Please click the button below to view upcoming Community Events.

Any time a student feels unsafe, any adult in their school can help!

But sometimes, students or parents wish to reach out for help in a different way or after school hours. Safe2Help Illinois offers students a safe way to share information 24/7 that might help prevent any threat to school safety, including bullying, self-harm or other serious concerns.

The goal of this program is to get students to “seek help before harm;" it is not intended to suspend, expel, or punish. Safe2Help Illinois also offers a Mental Health Toolkit that provides resources for parents and educators reinforce the components of this program.

Safe2Help Illinois offers around-the-clock help via:

• Hotline: 844-4-SAFEIL
• Text line: 72332
• Email HELP@Safe2HelpIL.com
• Plus a website full of resources for young people seeking help for themselves or a friend. Its Ways To Get Help page is a directory of specialized hotlines, and other sections of its website provide practical steps for dealing with depression or helping a distraught friend. The checklist called "20 Questions To Ask Yourself If You Feel Like Giving Up" can help older children overcome a bout of anxiety or depression.

Willowbrook School is part of Northbrook/Glenview District 30, which exists to create an inclusive community that inspires learning, fosters resiliency, and cares deeply for every child. We honor childhood and foster intellectual, physical and social-emotional growth. District 30 serves more than 1,200 students in pre-K through 8th grade across Willowbrook, Wescott and Maple Schools.

We prohibit harassment and discrimination of all forms within our district and follows all policies and procedures to ensure a safe environment for all.

Main Office: 847-498-1090

Health Office: 847-400-8860

Location: 2500 Happy Hollow Road, Glenview, IL, USA

Website: district.30.org/willowbrook

Facebook: facebook.com/ngsd

Twitter: @district30