July 2023 Staff Newsletter (English)

JULY 2023

STAFF NEWSLETTER

HUMAN RESOURCES UPDATES

Special Permission Required

Robert Gurney Assistant Superintendent for Human Resources

robert.gurney@ccsd21.org

Tel 847-520-2724

● As we look forward to the opening of school in August, there will be days that staff will request to use personal days If you are looking to use a personal day on the following days in August or September, please fill out the personal day request form and send it with the supporting documentation to Bob Gurney in Human Resources as soon as possible:

○ August 21, 22, 23, 24 or 25

○ September 1, 5, 22 or 26

● Special permission is required for the use of a personal leave day for the first and last five calendar days. It is also needed if the personal day is on a day preceding or following a non-attendance day, school holiday, vacation or recess period, or for observance of a recognized religious holiday or the staff member’s faith.

● Verification of Employment

● Loan Forgiveness Requests: Staff members who need loan forgiveness forms completed should send their respective forms to annabel salgado@ccsd21 org Please remember to include all the pages of the form so it can be completed in accordance with the state requirements

● 2023-2024 Calendar with staff member roles

COMMUNICATIONS UPDATES

● You may have noticed that our July newsletter looks a little different. We have redesigned the look and feel of this publication to be more user-friendly and easier to read. Each CCSD21 department will still have its own section with a table of contents that will link to the full story on the website and, more importantly, the entire issue will be formatted to read like a magazine! We hope you like our new look. Enjoy reading!

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Director of Communications

cassandra young@ccsd21 org

Tel. 847-520-2728

EQUITY & LEARNING UPDATES

● Summer 2023 Professional Development Catalog

Assistant Superintendent for Equity & Learning

beatrice childress@ccsd21 org

Tel 847-520-2743

INFORMATION SERVICES UPDATES

● Planned Skyward and PowerSchool Outages for July: CCSD21 will take advantage of July’s Energy Conservation Days over this month to complete some major work on critical systems so that it will have minimum impact on everyone’s work, as detailed here:

Mike Frantini Chief Technology Officer

mike frantini@ccsd21 org

Tel 847-520-2732

● On Fridays this month, Skyward and PowerSchool will be temporarily unavailable Maintenance will be performed on these systems during the day with downtime averaging between two and three hours:

● Friday, July 14: PowerSchool will be offline for about

Beatrice Reyes Childress

three hours during the day for system upgrades

● Friday, July 21: Skyward will be offline for about two hours during the day for database updates

● Please let us know if you have any questions or concerns. Thank you for your understanding and patience!