Hello Donovan Parents,

It's once again time for the 5 Essentials survey. Follow the link below to take the 2021 Parent's 5 Essential online Survey. Thank you for your interest and input. It is much appreciated by all stakeholders.

Link to survey: Parent 5 Essential Survey
Link to survey: Teacher 5 Essential Survey
Link to survey: Student 5 Essential Survey

Opens Feb. 3, 2021 and closes April 2, 2021.

What are the 5 Essentials and 5 Essentials Survey?
5 Essentials is an evidence-based system designed to drive improvement in schools nationwide—it reliably measures changes in a school organization through the 5Essentials Survey and provides individualized, actionable Reports for each school. The 5Essentials system is based on more than 20 years of research by the University of Chicago Consortium on School Research on five components found to be critical for school success:

Effective Leaders: The principal works with teachers to implement a clear and strategic vision for school success.

Collaborative Teachers: Teachers collaborate to promote professional growth.

Involved Families: The entire school staff builds strong relationships with families and communities to support learning.

Supportive Environment: The school is safe and orderly. Teachers have high expectations for students and support students to realize their goals. Classmates also support one another.

Ambitious Instruction: Classes are academically demanding and engage students by emphasizing the application of knowledge.

The 5Essentials Survey is taken by all prekindergarten through 12th-grade teachers and all fourth- through 12th-grade students and usually requires no more than 30 minutes to complete. The information collected through the survey is rigorously reviewed and analyzed to generate a 5Essentials Report for each school.

The 5Essentials Report includes a breakdown of teacher and student responses and, most importantly, provides a comprehensive picture of the school environment based on five essential areas critical for school improvement in a meaningful context of similar and successful schools.

Donovan 2021 Homecoming Week

Click the YouTube link for today's COVID 19 relay competition between the classes. https://youtu.be/OdpOSpmIAps

The video will be unavailable until 9th hour today or 3:00 pm.

DISTRICT NEWSLETTER 

Click the link to view the January 2021 Donovan Community Unit School District #3 Newsletter.

Dear Donovan School Community, 

The purpose of this letter is to give you a preview of the school year that is ahead of us. As I’ve previously stated, the State Board of Education released guidance for schools to open for the start of the new school year. I want to be very clear, at this time, Donovan CUSD 3 is committed to in-person normal school days and confident in our ability to provide an environment that is as safe as possible for students and staff. To do this, we will all need to work together and all of us will be inconvenienced. Kids need to be in school with their friends and professional teachers. Inconvenience is a small price to pay to keep our kids and the adults that serve them safe and healthy. In-person learning this fall will look a lot different than years past. As of July 1, 2020, the following guidelines will need to be followed:

[Donovan CUSD #3 DOES NOT have the authority to waive any of these State requirements]

1. Face coverings will be required for ALL students, staff, and visitors. 
1. Face masks are required at all times when indoors, as well as when individuals are within 6 feet of others outdoors. 
2. The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) has communicated that face shields have not been deemed effective for source control and are only to be used when other methods of protection are not available or appropriate. 
2. No more than 50 individuals can gather in one single space within the school. 
3. Schools must conduct symptom screenings and temperature checks….OR...require that individuals self-certify that they are symptom free before entering schools
1. Students must be COVID19 symptom free and not have a temperature over 100.4 in order to attend school and we will check temperatures at school throughout the day.
2. We are still awaiting  guidance on how self-certification can be accomplished
4. School buses are limited to no more than 50 people. 
1. All 3 daily routes have more than 50 students riding. 
2. Parents are encouraged to transport their child(ren) to and from school. You will be asked at registration on July 22 if your child(ren) intends to ride the bus. 
3. Routes will be altered and possibly added based on the number of students needing daily transportation.
5. Donovan staff will be increasing schoolwide cleaning and disinfection

Perhaps the most important concept will be that sick kids and sick adults cannot come to school. We are making arrangements for staffing issues. Parents, please start planning on how you will handle illness situations in your families. 

If remote learning becomes necessary, expectations for students and teachers will be clear to all involved. State guidance for remote learning this school year will be more demanding on students and teachers than last spring and more aligned to day to day learning. Daily work will be assigned and letter grades will be earned. 

More details will be available at Registration on July 22, 2020, from 1:00 - 7:00 p.m. at Donovan High School

Thank you, 

Toby Coates, District Superintendent

Please click here for a pdf version

Attention Parents & Caregivers: 

NEW (Updated 7-14-20) 

2020-2021 School Calendar Highlights

The Donovan Community Unit School District will dismiss students every 2nd Wednesday of the month to allow all staff time for district training, staff meetings, and professional development. The Elementary school students will dismiss at 1:22 and the Jr/Sr high school students will dismiss at 1:30 on these days.

Please contact the Elementary School (815) 486-7321 or the Jr. / Sr. High School (815) 486-7395 with questions or concerns.  
We look forward to providing the best education possible to your child(ren). 

Website HELP!

Helpful Navigation Tips

In an effort to better serve our viewers we have implemented some redundancy thoughout our website. For instance; When you select any Board of Education webpage you will be re-directed to the Board of Education portion of the district website. We have added this feature to ensure that no matter what building site you are visiting you always have access to the district level information you require. Here are some other helful website tips that may come in handy.

Tip #1: All of our district websites are color coded for ease of identification. 

            1.  Grey & Burgandy=District Level
            2.  Red & White=Elementary School
            3.  Red & White/Black=Junior High School
            4.  Black & Gold/White=High School

Tip#2: When selected, the following menu items will re-direct you back to the district website.
These sections are part of the redundancy feature of the websites. All menus items and content are       identical on all of the school district websites. About Us, Board of Education, Parents, Public, and Staff

Tip #3: Use the global icons bar on the right-hand side of each homepage for quick access to: District       Calender, Lunch Menus, Administration & Staff Directory Information, Classrooms, I-NOW Parent Porrtal, Local Weather, One Call Now and Google Classroom.

Tip #4: You can always use the "Select a School" button at the top of all pages to get to where you want to go within the district.

Tip #5: You the colorful interactive shortcut buttons to the right side of any homepage for quick access to the most frequently used webpage.