David M. Cox Elementary School Dream It! Believe It! Achieve It! NOT LIMITS!

Cox Cub News

Volume 7, Issue 4 Mrs. Tara Imboden, Principal imboden@interact.ccsd.net
Sept. 11-15, 2017 Mrs. Erica Silas, Assistant Principal elsilas@interact.ccsd.net

Cub Cheers: Congratulations to the students in Mrs. Blohms Class they did our
Friday Announcements and were fabulous! Congratulations to the following
students for receiving Cox Cub of the Week: Nikolas Asmunson, Ella Creer,
Jacob Riggs, May Vardi, Alani Levesque, Soren Harris, Brenden Mott,
Gwendalin Hajek, Kenzie Hawkins, Brooklyn April, and Miguel Vallejo.

Picture Day: TOMORROW, the 19th is our Fall Picture Day! Picture
order forms came home last week; we can always use some parent
helpers that day too! Extra forms are in the front office. *This will be
the class pictures for the Yearbook.

School Organizational Team

Final Week to Submit Your Name for Ballot
Families,

Each year the School Organizational Team (SOT) for our school has to be re-elected. The SOT is comprised of teachers,
support staff, and parents which assists with school decision making, budgets, school performance plan, and other entities in
collaboration with the administration all relating to the Reorganization of CCSD. Members of the SOT attend trainings offered
through CCSD, meet monthly after school hours, complete duties as needed for the school with the administration, and
address the public concerns/suggestions relating to the school at each meeting. The first SOT which began in January of last
school year has graciously agreed to continue for the remaining of this year as nominees. This year would be a commitment
of the team from October 2017 through September 2018 (including summer months).

If you would like to be nominated for the SOT election ballot to be held at the October PTA meeting. Please submit
your name through email to imboden@interact.ccsd.net by Friday, September 22nd to be added the ballot.

Thank You Families: Well, today we had the VIP Party and the school came out to see me eat 14 Crickets! The students
were so supportive, counted for me, and cheered me on! It was truly gross! I think I even would have rather been slimed
again after experiencing this! I cant thank you enough for supporting our school funding projects; I was blown away by the
amount of money raised. I completely believed I would maybe have to only eat 1 cricket! I was happy to be wrong and
happy I didnt get sick in front of the student body!

PTA News: *We are in need of a parent or group of parents to run the annual Yearbook for our school! If youre
interested in helping in any capacity please contact Mrs. Gondek at illinirdhd@aol.com Some PTA Events Needing
Family Help: Yearbook (throughout year), Bike Rodeo (Oct. 6), Milers Jogging Program (Sept. 18th), Fun Run (Aug. 31st),
School Pictures (Sept. 19th), Holiday Store (Dec. 18-22nd), Staff Soup Luncheon (Dec. 22nd). If you are able to help with any
of these events please email Mrs. Gondek at illinirdhd@aol.com
 Early Bird Computer Lab Open: Parents, does your child need to practice Lexia? Work on taking AR tests? Our
intermediate computer lab is open every morning beginning at 8:40 am until 9:05 am (supervised by a classroom
teacher).

Infinite Campus (second posting): Parents, teachers are putting grades into Infinite Campus now. Please make
sure youve put the app on your mobile device and your computer access works. Ms. Penney in the front office
can assist you if youre having issues with the account. *Remember with the apps, you need to refresh the
data for it to currently upload. Teachers is grades 1-5 put 2 grades per week in Reading/Language/Math and
Science/Health/Social Studies and Specialists enter grades as the units of study are completed.

Bookworm Book Drive!

In addition to getting a new (unused) book each Bookworm Breakfast, the students also get to choose a gently-used
book to take home as well. These books come from our communities! Each year we ask parents to go through their
childrens book collections and donate books to go towards our Bookworm Breakfast. Books should be elementary-aged
appropriate of course no teen novels please and can be dropped off at the front office.

Bookworm Breakfast: We would like to invite all our families to the first Bookworm Breakfast of the year! Students and
Parents are invited to the multipurpose room beginning at 8:00 am for a book sharing, book giving, and a small breakfast
hosted by Hopelinks. The Bookworm Breakfast is from 8:00 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. and is always on the fourth Tuesday of each
month. Tuesday the 26th will be our first Bookworm Breakfast!

Musical Performances: Each year our students showcase their musical talents in grade level performances. This year our
performances are scheduled for the following dates and all performances are held in the MP Room at Cox and are at both
9:30 am and again at 2:30 pm:
-First Grade: May 11th
-Second Grade: December 15th
Did you know that we host
-Third Grade: October 13th
-Fourth Grade: February 23rd
Adult Education Classes
-Fifth Grade: March 9 th Some parent questions here at DMC?
have come up about Interested?
getting newly adopted
A Look Ahead: textbooks in math for our
Contact the Adult
*All events listed are subject to change. school goal. Education Office at
Sept AIMS Testing/School-wide writing There is a new math 799-8650
Sept 5-29 PTA Membership Drive textbook program getting
Sept 18 Milers Begins great reviews; Envision 2.0
Sept 19 Fall Picture Day which a number of high
Sept 27 Boy Scout Mtg. 6 pm MP Room performing schools utilize Did you know that
Sept 29-Oct 6 Library Book Fair 6 pm in our district and aligns we currently have
Oct 2 Family Coding Night with NVACS. 47 G.A.T.E.
School Data Presentation Night The average cost to outfit Students and have
just ONE grade is
Oct 4 National Walk/Bike to School Day
approximately
14 waiting to be
Oct 6 Bike Rodeo Day $14,000.00. tested? Wow!
Oct 10 SOT Mtg. 5 pm Library This is something which
PTA Meeting 6 pm Library our staff is looking into
Oct 12 Read By 3 Family Night 5 pm with the fund raiser this
School Data Presentation Night spring. Kiss and Go ZONE!
Oct 13 3rd Grade Musical The district does not pay
Oct 18-20 GATE at Astro Camp for textbooks, it comes out Parents,
of the school budget and Please remember that the
Oct 25 Cub Scout Mtg. MP Room
our school does not have front of the school is a drop
Oct 27 No School off and go, not a park and get
the money in our budget
Oct 31 Monster Costume March Field 2:30 pm out of the car. It is a red zone
with the upcoming cuts to
afford textbooks at this and people are not able to
time. drop off their kids due to
parked cars.
MILERS begins on MONDAY There is NO LEFT TURNS
8:30 am, enter through bike rack OUT OF THE LOT!
gates. We have gate entrances on
Robindale, Clark, and
Sandalwood to drop off
besides the front of the
School State Exam Data: Our SBAC exams for 3rd-5th will be released by the state on the 15th. Below is some unfiltered
data of how our school ranked in our zone and compared to the district. We are always proud of our kids performance as these
tests are extremely difficult!

School Compared to CCSD Overall Unfiltered DMC Grade Level Data

ELA Proficiency Third Grade

DMC % CCSD % Difference
Levels (overall) ELA Proficiency 54%
Proficiency 65.00% 49.00% +16.00 Math Proficiency 66%
Fourth Grade
Math Proficiency ELA Proficiency 72%
DMC % CCSD % Difference
Levels (overall)
Math Proficiency 56%
Proficiency 56.00% 41.05% +14.95 Fifth Grade
ELA Proficiency 69%
Math Proficiency 43%
David Cox Ranking in Performance Zone 10 *No Science Yet
(out of 16 elementary schools)

ELA Proficiency
Ranked 3rd Our school-wide academic goal for 2017-2018 is
Math Proficiency to increase math proficiency
Ranked 4th in grades 3-5 by 5%.
*Were of course working to go higher than 5% but that is set as the
school percentage goal.