The Winnetka Public Schools community has shared a deep commitment to Progressive Education for over 100 years. Our School Board, administrators, and staff are honored to continue our history of excellence by cultivating rich experiential learning opportunities and fostering the academic and social and emotional skills that our students need to thrive now and into the future. To further advance this important work, the District embarked on an ambitious Strategic Planning process starting in March 2020 with the involvement of over two-thousand contributors representing students, staff, parents, community members, and alumni. One of the results of this process is the District’s Portrait of a Graduate:
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Bulletin Archive 2023/2024
Absence Reporting
Marla’s Brown Bag Lunch
Marla’s Lunch will be offering Hot Lunch throughout the school year. Families can now add a profile for each child to order lunch at school.
Login to Marla’s Lunch, order and check out by noon on Wednesday for the following week.
2023/2024 Hot Lunch Program Chairs: Anna Armsby and Jackie Blackett
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2023-2024 District Calendar
Annual Traditions
About the Bulletin
The Crow Island Bulletin, our school newsletter, is published every Sunday at 5:00 PM by the Crow Island PTO Communications chairs. It is distributed via email to all school parents. The Bulletin contains information about upcoming school programs and events.
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If you are looking for quick finger-tip resources you can access our 101 document. This provides highlights of information that might be needed quickly around absences, lunch, and other information. Feel free to print and put on your fridge! You can access that here: Crow Island 101.
more >>Order School Supplies
The Crow Island PTO offers prepackaged school supply kits for your convenience through Educational Products, Inc. EPI will deliver the supply kits to Crow Island and PTO volunteers will deliver the kits to each classroom before the first day of school. Your child will arrive on the first day with all of his/her supplies. It’s so easy!
Orders can be placed until June 4, 2023 by clicking HERE and using the following school code: CRO020 (letters C, R and O followed by zero, two and zero).
If you wish to purchase supplies independently, a copy of the supply lists can be found HERE.
2023/2024 Committee: Claire Winnard, Joanne Wallace, Nicole Serafine, Heather Pfeffer, Jenny Lehman, Laura Freechack, Anna Armsby
Questions? Contact crowislandprograms@gmail.com.
PTO Texts
Sign up today to receive easy text reminders from the PTO (through Remind)! If you choose to opt-in, you can expect to receive an average of 1-2 texts per month, with important reminders from the PTO about school events, outings and deadlines.
more >>DirectorySpot
As a convenience to parents, the Central PTO publishes a school directory each year using DirectorSpot. This online directory app (available for iOS and Android users) contains contact information for all five D36 schools. The directory also contains often-requested information about the school, such as school hours and a school calendar. If you encounter problems, please contact Sarah Sims at Sarah.Sims@me.com.
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