District 301 News
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HBT Newsletters 24-25
HBT Newsletters for the 24-25 School Year Each month HBT posts a newsletter. You can return to this post to find the previous newsletters for the school year. June 2025 May 2025 April 2025 March 2025 February 2025 January 2025 December 2024 November 2024 October 2024 September 2024 August 2024
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MAP testing celebration
2nd grade students hit their growth target! This school year District 301 transitioned from Fastbridge testing to NWEA Map testing. Our focus was on growth from the fall administration to the winter administration. We tracked the students progress compared to the amount of growth MAP suggests a student should make. The HBT second graders had…
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NWEA Map Testing
HBT Tackles Winter MAP Testing For the last two week HBT students have been taking their Math and Reading MAP Growth winter benchmarking assessments. These tests are a great way for the HBT staff to know how their students are doing academically but it also provides them with a roadmap for how they may need…
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Friday Focus – January 24, 2025
🎉 FRIDAY FOCUS 🎉 Here’s what’s happening across Central 301 this week: 📅 Calendar UpdatesThe Board approved changes to the 2025-2026 calendar, including a new last day of school on June 2, 2026, and aligning the end of Semester 1 with winter break. 🏫 New Classrooms OpenThe new classroom addition at Central High School is…
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Coyote Culture
Coyote Culture Committee Takes on 2025 Prairie View staff and students kicked off their return from winter break by refocusing on our behavior and Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) practices and needs. The teachers and staff that are apart of the Coyote Culture Committee worked on rebuilding structures and systems to support a school-wide approach to addressing…
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Blue Bot Exploration in Kindergarten
STEAM Activity Using Robots and Coding Kindergarten students engaged in an introduction activity with Blue Bots, how can you make a robot get to the bus safely? Learning how to program and control the small robots using simple commands, students planned a route on the grid to get from the classroom to the bus. Through…
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Cereal Topple
Country Trails wrapped up our 3rd Annual Cereal Drive with an exciting cereal topple event. Thanks to the generosity of our families, we collected 832 boxes of cereal to be donated to local food pantries. Students had a blast watching the cereal topple unfold, starting upstairs, winding through the upstairs hallway, down the stairs, through…
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2De Incentive
Ms. Dettlo’s class celebrated reaching their goal with a fun and creative shaving cream activity. Students displayed their artistic talents while using shaving cream to decorate their desks. It was a creative way to clean our desks too!
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2025-2026 School Calendar
At the January 21, 2025 Board of Education meeting, the Board approved an amended school calendar for the 2025-2026 school year. The approved calendar can be viewed here or by visiting the calendar page of the District website.
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Congrats Dance & Cheer!
As first semester wrapped up, so did Fox Valley Conference competitions. We are proud of both of our Rocket teams for their high placements at the conference performances. CHS Dance finished third in conference last week and last night CHS Cheer took 1st place. Congratulations to both teams!
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Prairie Knolls Middle School Yearbook
If you and your student(s) are interested in purchasing a PKMS 2024-2025 yearbook, please visit the link provided below. The yearbook is a special keepsake that captures the incredible memories, achievements, and friendships your student(s) have made over the course of the school year. The final day to purchase a yearbook is March 15, 2025.…
