Ellsworth Spotlight
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Spring Fest 2025 - Friday, May 2nd from 5:00pm-7:30pm
Spring fest is back with one of our favorite festivals! Join us Friday, May 2nd from 5:00-7:30 on the school blacktop.
News
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13th Annual Schoolwide Book Club is here!
Click to find more information and the reading schedule! The book club runs from April 14th to May 16th
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Online 2025-2026 School Supply Sale Now Open!
Prepackaged school supplies will be available through School Tool Box for the 2025-2026 school year. Order by 6/22. Click to link to SchoolToolBox.com
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Kindergarten Class of 2038
Visit our Kindergarten Preview pages for more information - click on the title!
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Resources Support
Happy Fall! School is back in full swing and it has been great to watch the kids learning and connecting. We hope all have had a great start to the year. However, we know that sometimes circumstances outside of school can cause difficulties and struggles. If you and your family find yourself needing extra support please (click for rest of article)...
Upcoming Events
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Wednesday
7:30 AM - 8:00 AM Spring Running Club --- H&S
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May 2, 2025
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5:00 PM - 7:30 PM Spring Fest - H&S
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May 5, 2025
7:00 PM Board of Education Meeting
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May 6, 2025
7:30 AM - 8:00 AM Student Council Meeting
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May 7, 2025
7:30 AM - 8:00 AM Spring Running Club --- H&S
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May 9, 2025
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May 14, 2025
7:30 AM - 8:00 AM Spring Running Club --- H&S
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May 15, 2025
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM Home and School Meeting
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May 19, 2025
7:00 PM Board of Education Meeting
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May 21, 2025
7:30 AM - 8:00 AM Spring Running Club Rain Make up Date if needed --- H&S
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May 26, 2025
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May 27, 2025
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May 28, 2025
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May 29, 2025
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Adaptability
• Work effectively in a climate of ambiguity and changing priorities, roles, and situations.
• Demonstrate agility and resilience in thoughts and actions.
• Respond productively to feedback, praise, setbacks, and criticism.
• Understand, negotiate, and balance diverse views and beliefs to reach workable solutions.
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Communication
• Articulate thoughts and ideas effectively using oral, written, and nonverbal communication skills in a variety of forms and contexts.
• Listen effectively to decipher meaning, including knowledge, values, attitudes, and intentions.
• Use communication for a range of purposes and audiences including to inform, instruct, motivate, and persuade.
• Seek, contribute, and respond to feedback to achieve collective outcomes.
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Critical Thinking
• Understand the bigger picture and propose solutions that consider the effects on the whole system.
• Consistently improve the quality of one's own thinking by skillfully analyzing, assessing, and reconstructing.
• Apply disciplined thinking that is clear, rational, open-minded, and informed by evidence.
• Access, evaluate, and integrate information effectively, using appropriate tools and resources wisely, ethically, and efficiently.
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Learner's Mindset
• Embrace curiosity to experience new ideas, while developing positive attitudes and beliefs about learning.
• Possess the desire to learn, unlearn, and relearn.
• Find and maximize opportunities to actively listen and elicit diverse perspectives from others.
• Adopt a dynamic mindset, embracing flexibility and taking ownership, with intrinsic motivation and an eagerness to evolve.
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Global Citizen
• Demonstrate awareness, sensitivity, concern, and respect to connect with others' feelings, opinions, experiences, and culture.
• Value and embrace diverse cultures and unique perspectives through mutual respect and open dialogue.
• Demonstrate personal, civic, social, local, and global responsibility through ethical and empathetic behaviors.
• Elicit diverse perspectives and contributions.
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Top 10% of Illinois schools - Illinois Report Card
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96% Illinois Science Assessment Proficiency
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1 teacher who was also an Ellsworth student
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34 families speaking 17 different languages
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230 students at Ellsworth
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In 1928 Ellsworth was established