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Added Nov 06, 2019 •

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Hello Byron families this is superintendent of schools Buster Barton reaching out to share some important information with you.  First we will be having our annual law enforcement drill next week, November 13.  This drill is required thru the Illinois Schools Safety Drill Act.  This was recently amended to ensure schools were doing all they could to best prepare students and staff or acts of targeted aggression.  We at the Byron School have adopted the A.L.I.C.E. protocol and we have done training with students and staff and will be employing these strategies as we move forward in the drill.  You should have received communication from building level administration on these drills but if you have any questions at all, please feel free to reach out to the administrators or the site in which your child attends and they can answer any questions you may have.  Secondly, our Board of Education is still seeking input and information from our community on a potential facility expansion project brought forward from our Byron Park District. The Byron Board of Education has worked with Park District officials over the last couple of months to gain more information and clarity on their proposal.  The proposal would essentially add twelve thousand square feet to the east of our PE Center and Park District entrance.  It would also extend our parking lot to the east adding several spaces.  The proposal being offered would be fully funded by the Park District and it would essentially add more space for Park District programming.  In addition to that it would better separate the two entities.  The school district and park district throughout the course of the day essentially separating both entities during the school day.  If you have any questions or would like to provide any feedback, please reach out to the Byron Board of Education members, the Byron Park District Board or administration from either entity to provide that.  Finally, the Byron School District is in the midst of creating a strategic plan.  It was kicked off with a District wide collaborative visioning activity which involved all members of the school district all staff.  After that was generated we invited community members to come in and give feedback on our district.  Approximately, eighty community members did just that.  Using the feedback from our staff and all the community members we will be creating sub-committees in critical areas of our district and using that feedback to generate action items and recommendations for improvement which will feed our strategic plan. If you would like to add any insight or feedback to that process, please feel free to reach out.  I look forward to seeing what these sub-committees create over the next several months and sharing all that information with you. That’s all I have for now.  I hope your year is going well and if you need anything at all please reach out.

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