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Ms. Manon's Bio

 

The 2024-2025 school year will be my 11th year teaching at CPS. I have an undergraduate degree in Fine Arts - Theater from Illinois State University. After living in Los Angeles and working in the music industry, I made a return to the Midwest. I received my Masters in Curriculum and Instruction from University of Illinois-Chicago. 
 
After graduating, I worked at Pritzker Elementary teaching the gifted first grade class for 9 years. I also worked as the Gifted Coordinator for the school. I love teaching novels and writers' workshop as part of a balanced literacy program. This will be my second year teaching at Decatur Classical. 
 
When I am not at work I love competing in trivia nights, watching any Chicago sports team, reading, attending comedy shows and hanging out with my handsome cat, Jake. 
 

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Title IX and Bias-based Behavior Student Training

The District’s Office of Student Protection and Title IX’s includes providing training on preventing and reporting abuse to all Pre-K-12 CPS students. Here are some details:

  • The sessions have been broken down by grade and are all around 30-45 minutes. 
  • Parents have the right to opt-out of the Office of Student Protections and Title IX Student Training. If you choose to opt your child out please email your child’s homeroom teacher by Tuesday, October 29. 
  • Decatur will share the training video the week of November 4 with students
  • If you wish to teach your child this material yourself, you can access the videos to the sessions on the OSP website at www.cps.edu/osp. 

For questions about course content, please submit them here, and the OSP Training Team will get back to you as soon as possible.

Tech Contract

Students will sign this technology contract. I want to make sure that students are using technology safely and correctly. 
 
They will use an iPad once a week for about 20 minutes when their Daily 5 group has their technology day. 
Friday is our Library day for both 3rd grade classes. Students can return their books before Friday but may not check out a new book until the previous is returned. 

3rd Grade Curriculum Night

Curriculum Night

You are invited to join us for Decatur Classical’s Curriculum Night. You will have a chance to meet your child’s teachers and learn about how we support your child academically and socially. Please see below for details.

What: Decatur Curriculum Night

When: Thursday, September 12th

Parking + Entry: Please park legally in the neighborhood and enter through door 1 (main entrance).

Schedule: Each session will be offered three times, you are free to drop in to either of the three options. For example, you could attend essentials at 5pm, math and science at 5:30, then ELA  and social science at 6:00pm. Sessions are all 25 minutes with 5 minutes for transition.

Topic

Location

Option 1

Option 2

Option 3

3rd Grade Math and Science

Room 110

5:30pm

6:00pm

6:30pm

3rd Grade Social Science and ELA

Room 106

5:30pm

6:00pm

6:30pm

Essentials

Music Room

5:00pm

5:30pm

6:00pm

 

Content: In order to keep sessions engaging, interactive, and focused on classroom learning, we will not address logistics or other school wide issues on curriculum night. We will provide a factsheet in all sessions.

 

Questions: We ask that you please submit any questions ahead of time here. Depending on the nature of the question, we will either address it on curriculum night or we will email you directly.

 

Thank you!