Parents: Please remember to complete the daily symptom reporting form beginning on Monday, January 4th. A form must be completed each day for each student who is on-site for in-person learning. Reporting forms are found on the front page of our website: www.dps170.org
Parents: We have updated our COVID protocol to reflect the change in quarantine days. Students who are positive, exposed to someone positive, or exhibiting COVID-like symptoms are now out for 10 days instead of 14. Masks are still required when on campus. https://5il.co/o8yv
We are looking forward to seeing students and staff return on Jan. 4th! We return to the schedule we had prior to our adaptive pause. K-5 students go Mon.-Thurs. 7:45 am-1 pm with Friday remote. 6-12 students go A/B schedule Mon.-Thurs.-7:45 am-1 pm with Friday remote and/or onsite help.
Grab & Go Meals resume on Monday, January 4th. Meals can be picked up from 8 am to 11 am at Washington, Jefferson, Madison/RMS, and Lincoln School on Mondays and Wednesdays. Grab & Go Meals are free to any student enrolled in Dixon Public Schools. If you are not on the list to receive a meal, contact your child's school on Monday to be put on the list.
We look forward to seeing students and staff return to buildings on Monday, January 4th! We return to the same schedule before the adaptive pause. Kindergarten through 5th grade attend Monday-Thursday from 7:45 am to 1:00 pm. with Friday as remote learning. 6th through 12th grades attend Monday/Wednesday or Tuesday/Thursday from 7:45 am to 1:00 pm with Friday as remote learning or onsite help/assistance.
DPS Staff: Please check your work email for a COVID vaccine interest survey. The survey remains open until noon tomorrow (Wednesday). I need to provide numbers to the LCHD on possible vaccine numbers. All staff need to complete the 3 question survey.
DPS #170 Staff Members: There is a COVID-19 Vaccination Interest Survey sent to your DPS #170 email account. Please read and respond to this short survey by Wednesday, December 23rd at noon.
Congratulations, Mrs. Bally on achieving National Board Certification! We are proud of you and your hard work in achieving this certification. https://nbrc.illinoisstate.edu/ #GoPurple
From our friends at KSB. A presentation on Telehealth 24/7 Urgent Care by Aaqil Khan on 1-7-2021.
Click on the link below to see the revised calendar for the 2020-2021 school year. This calendar reflects the move of our January School Improvement Day from Monday, January 4th to Friday, January 22nd. #GoPurple
https://5il.co/o4x4
Parents: Click on the links below for this week's COVID data. The data reflects those currently out as COVID positive/under quarantine. This will be the last report until we return on January 4, 2021. Happy Holidays to everyone!
https://5il.co/o3sh
https://5il.co/o3si
At Wednesday's Board Meeting, Mrs. Empen announced that January 4, 2021 will be a full day of school from 7:45 am-1:00 pm. The School Improvement half-day will be moved to January 22, 2021. Click on the link below for the revised school calendar.
https://5il.co/o3ia
A light show will be running in the DHS green house during the evening, from 5pm to 10pm for the next couple of weeks. Happy Holidays! #gopurple
A summary of the learning plans for January 4th through January 22nd has been posted.
https://5il.co/o0ol
Thank you to the Kiwanis Club of Dixon, IL for the generous donation to our preschool program for new playground equipment.
We are extremely thankful for their generosity and investing in the youth of our community.
Parents & Students:
The Internet Outage for 12-17-2020 has been rescheduled for between 4pm and 6pm, so there should be little or no impact on school day activities.
https://www.dps170.org/article/368771
The monthly Board of Education Meeting will be streamed on youtube starting at 6pm tonight, 12-16-2020.
https://youtu.be/zsYf0Loz7PQ
Parents/Students:
Lumen Touch, our student information system, is very concerned about the integrity of our systems and your privacy. Lumen was fortunate to intercept some suspicious activity and conducted an immediate review of all servers and customers leading to the discovery of an employee user account being compromised. Your information has not been compromised but out of an abundance of caution ALL users will be required to change their password. The next time you login to Lumen you will be required to change your password.
Passwords must contain the following:
Password should be no less than 8 character.
Password should include 1 uppercase letter.
Password should include 1 lowercase letter.
Password should include 1 special, non-alphanumeric character.
These adjustments have been made in order to keep your data protected. If you have any problems please use the Portal Help Request link http://parent.dps170.org/index.php?a=add and we will get back to you as soon as possible.
Thank you.
Dixon Public Schools is having their Regular Board Meeting on Wed., Dec. 16th at 6:00 p.m.
Due to COVID-19 and the Governor's orders, we are limiting the number of persons to 10 who can be on-site at the Board meetings to Board members and Administrators. We will continue to video stream the meeting through YouTube and will provide the link to this video on our website and social media sites prior to the meeting. Those wishing to submit public comment need to email them to the Board President, Linda Wegner at lwegner@dps170.org and the Superintendent, Margo Empen at mempen@dps170.org by Noon on Wednesday, December 16, 2020. Public Comment received after this time, may not be guaranteed to be read aloud at this meeting.
Parents: Click on the links below for this week's COVID data. The data reflects those out currently as COVID positive/under quarantine. This data reflects info from parents who notified us since we are on an adaptive pause.
https://5il.co/nugr
https://5il.co/nugs