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As your partner in professional learning, the Kane County Regional Office of Education will keep you updated on the latest workshops, academies, and subscriptions available through our office.

Arts Ed Institute and host site spots still available

We have received an outpouring of interest for the 2025 Kane County Institute Day, set for Friday, February 28 at the Q Center in St. Charles. We are thrilled to host over 1,000 anticipated guests for a day of learning and networking!


As a reminder, the deadline to register is this Friday, February 7. Several partner organizations will be joining us remotely to offer specific content areas at host sites around Kane County, including:


  • Career and technical education
  • Math, Science, Computer Science/AI, STEM, Social Studies (Grades 6-12)
  • Art Projects
  • Life and Data Science
  • Agriculture
  • Food/Chemistry


We also still have spots remaining for the 2025 Arts Ed Institute at Central High School in Burlington. Click below to view schedules, speakers, and register today!

*Note: Scroll down the Kane County Institute Day webpage and click a partner organization logo to sign up for a host site.

Arts Ed Institute Registration/Schedule
Q Center Registration/Schedule
Kane County Institute Day Page

Analyzing data is an essential tool in assessing and empowering those we teach. However, the classroom experience goes well beyond data points, and these numbers can often miss telling the entire story.


In this course, participants will identify and examine priority data sources from their setting (i.e. behavioral, academic, and demographic data) and learn strategies to engage their teams in identifying possible trends and blindspots that indicate inequitable practices.


You will be exposed to activities and strategies to help you foster a more equitable lens as your examine complex data, while also helping your teams have difficult conversations to address concerning patterns of disproportionality that is born out of the data. The Equity Journey Continuum from ISBE will also be part of this course as we help you leverage additional data to tell your district's equity story.

Price: $175 I PD Hours: 4.5

Register

A variety of Administrator Academies and Evaluator Academies are on the horizon! Browse what we have in store from now until summer.

MARCH 20

AA#1814: Key Practices Impacting Instruction for English Learners at District, School & Classroom


APRIL 16

AA#1452: Teacher Evaluator Competency Skill Building for Pre-Qualified Teacher Evaluators, Professional Development Plan


APRIL 22

AA#3000: Illinois Performance Evaluation Retraining: Student Growth


APRIL 22-23

AA#4050: Evaluator Initial Training & Retraining for Principals & Assistant Principals

APRIL 23-24

AA#2001: Illinois Performance Evaluation - Initial Teacher Evaluator Training


APRIL 8, 15, 22, 29

AA#4059: Book Studies for Leaders: Enhancing Instructional Practices: The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt


MAY 21

AA#3670: Leading with Collective Efficacy: How to Empower Your Schools to Thrive

All Admin. Academies
2025 Admin. Academy Flyer

Would you like your district to become a destination for computer science education? The Kane County ROE now offers a trained SCRIPT Facilitator to guide your team through an alignment program to create an equitable computer science curriculum that is accessible for all students.

SCRIPT stands for Strategic CSforAll Resource & Implementation Planning Tool, and the program targets six specific areas:


  • Teacher capacity and development
  • Curriculum/Materials Selection and Refinement
  • Leadership
  • Partners
  • Technology Infrastructure
  • Community


Through this SCRIPT Program, we can help you establish a rigorous,

inclusive, and sustainable framework and a common understanding of computer science. Contact Faye Licari, Instructional Coach at the Kane County ROE, at flicari@kaneroe.org to learn more about this free opportunity.

New classroom strategies are at your disposal with our weekly series, Branching Out! Here are just a couple examples of these complimentary tips from our Professional Learning team.

Random Acts of Kindness

Kindness never goes out of style, and we could all use more of it!


Faye Licari, Instructional Coach at the Kane County ROE, prepares you for February's Random Acts of Kindness Week with processes you can implement now to share joy and boost morale for your students, colleagues, and yourself!

Book Tastings

Do you have students who only want to read certain books? Jordan Eggleson will walk you through "Book Tastings", which can give them the opportunity to sample different genres.


Utilizing this strategy can help students step out of their comfort zones and potentially find their new favorite read!

New installments of Branching Out are released every Thursday across our social media platforms and website. You can also browse our full catalog below. With over 100 episodes and counting, there's a video for every educator looking to branch out!

Full Branching Out Playlist

Have a question?

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