IL ASCD Area Representatives

In 2014 when IL ASCD reorganized our leadership team, the role of Area Representative was created. Our “Area Reps” as we call them are a link to and from the various regions of our state. IL ASCD follows the same areas established by the Regional Offices of Education.

Our Area Reps are led by two members of our IL ASCD Board of Directors, Denise Makowski and Andrew Lobdell.

Denise and Andrew are the Co-Leaders of our Membership and Partnerships Focus Area.

AREA 1: (Green)

Denise Makowski

Chicago

773.535.7252 dmakowski@cps.edu

Andrew Lobdell

Principal of the Junior High School in the Lena - Winslow School District # 202 815.369.3116 lobdella@le-win.net

AREA 2: (Dark Blue)

AREA 3: (Yellow)

April Jordan

Jennifer Winters

Stacy Stewart

Erik Briseno

Chad Dougherty

Heather Bowman

AREA 4: (Pink) Vacant

AREA 5: (Light Blue)

Mica Ike

AREA 6: (Gold) Vacant

Contact information for them can be found HERE.

• Encouraging IL ASCD membership to educators in their local areas;

• Assisting with professional development;

• Attend board meetings and the annual leadership retreat, when possible;

• Disseminating information from IL ASCD board meetings or other sanctioned IL ASCD activities to local school districts or other regional members

• Being a two-way communication vehicle between the local IL ASCD members regarding IL ASCD or any educational issues.

• Keeping IL ASCD Board of Directors apprised of pertinent information regarding personnel issues (e.g., job vacancies, job promotions) and district program awards/recognition within the local area.

• Communicating regularly with IL ASCD Executive Director and the Co-Leaders of the Membership and Partnerships Focus Area.

James Robinette

When the end of the school year approaches, administrators typically begin to hear about how staff are going to spend their time off. It is wonderful to talk with the staff and build relationships by listening and telling them how great their plans sound. The problem is that the plans do sound great. For some administrators, there may not be summer plans because of a twelve-month contract or just overall work expectations for the summer. Self-care for administrators is extremely important.

Administrators have a difficult job that really is twelve months whether or not there is a twelve-month contract. Some districts offer vacation time so that administrators can take time off during the summer if they so choose. When the time comes to utilize that vacation time, the administrator may not have a lot of leave time available because they took time off during the school year for winter or spring breaks. Just because there may not be a lot of vacation time available, doesn’t mean that there aren’t possibilities to take some type of time for a little self-care.