- Evanston/Skokie School District 65
- Our Team
Our Team
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District 65 Superintendent
In June 2020, Evanston/Skokie School District 65 welcomed Dr. Devon Horton as its new Superintendent of Schools.
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Department Roles & Responsibilities
Our district team works hard each and every day in support of our students and schools. They serve in important roles to help make sure staff members are paid, students are registered, technology is working, meals are served and many more important activities. Review our Roles & Responsibilities to help better understand the functions across departments.
Admin Roles & Responsibilities
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Deputy Superintendent
Key Staff
- Deputy Superintendent
- Director of Professional Learning
- Director of Research, Accountability, and Data
- Director of Student Assignment
- Executive Administrative Assistant
Department Responsibilities
- Assist with student placement
- Coordinate events for incoming kindergarten families (information night, open house, registration)
- Kindergarten Information Nights
- Magnet Program Support
- Permissive Transfers
- PowerSchool Student Information System
- Professional Learning
- Residency oversight/hearings
- Selective Enrollment Programs (magnet schools/programs)
- Strategic Planning
- Student Registration
- Research, Accountability, and Data
- Analytic Requests
- Applied Research on District Priorities
- Board reporting
- Data interpretation and use in decision-making
- Data Systems Support
- Data Quality
- Data Tools for continuous improvement
- Ensure student records are in compliance w/ federal and state laws, (FERPA, etc)
- External Research Partnerships
- Grant management and reporting
- Program evaluation
- Support data tools
- State Reporting, Federal Reporting, and Compliance
- Student Assessment (data and logistics)
- Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis
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Business
Key Staff
- Chief Financial and Operations Officer
- Business Manager/CSBO
- Business Office and Compliance Manager
- Executive Administrative Assistant
- Director of Buildings and Grounds
- Nutrition Services Coordinator
- Director of Transportation
- Transportation Coordinator
- Purchasing Coordinator
- Accounts Payable Staff
- Accounting Specialist
- Payroll Staff
- Fees Collection Staff
- Director of Technology Services
Department Responsibilities
- Accounting and Payroll Operations
- ADA Reports and Auditing
- Annual Budget
- Annual Financial Audit
- Annual W-2 and 1099 preparation
- Billing and bill payment
- Board Finance Committee Liaison
- Board meeting planning assistance
- Board of Education Treasurer's Reports
- Bonds and refinancing
- Budget Transparency
- Budgeting
- Building security access and monitoring
- Buildings and Grounds
- Capital Improvement Projects
- Cash/investment reporting
- Central Treasury
- City of Evanston CARP Committee
- Commercial Liability Insurance Committee (CLIC)
- Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR)
- Cybersecurity
- Daily/monthly/annual accounting tasks
- Deferred Compensation
- District 65 Green Teams
- E-Rate Technology program
- External/internal auditing
- Facilities Management
- Facility rental/room reservations
- Head Start Quality Assurance
- Information technology
- Joint City-Schools Committee
- Joint District 65 and 202
Park School Financial Meeting - Joint Insurance Committee
- Legislative/government liaison work
- Long Term Financial Planning
- Manage contracts and agreements
with external partners/vendors
- Manage investments
- Nutrition Services Operations
- Optional retirement planning (403b and 457b)
- Property/Casualty Insurance
- Property tax levy
- Purchasing and P-card program
- Reduced-fare CTA bus service
- Rev-trak (online credit card payments)
- Risk Management
- SELF (Workers Compensatation Cooperative)
- Software maintenance and updates
- State Compliance Audit
- State/Federal financial reporting
- Student activity funds
- Student fees (General and Childcare)
- Student Transportation Services
- Regular/Summer Building Use
- Tax Deposits
- Technology HelpDesk
- Technology infrastructure
- Technology leasing
- Telecommunications
- TRS/IMRF (Employee Retirement Funds) Reporting
- Tuition estimating and billing
- Union Contract Negotiations
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Communications
Key Staff
- Executive Director of Communications
- Communications Specialist
- Specialist for Family and Community Partnerships
- Bilingual Support Specialist
- School Webmasters
Department Responsibilities
- Blackboard Mass Notification System
- Community Partnerships
- Development of District Marketing Materials
- District 65 Mobile App
- District 65 Social Media (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube)
- District 65 Website
- District 65/202 Community Leaders Breakfast
- District 65/202 Realtors Breakfast
- District 65 Logo and Branding
- Emergency and Crisis Communication
- External Affairs and Family/Community Engagement
- Fast 5 e-newsletter
- High Five! Staff Recognition Program
- Media Relations (press inquiries)
- Oversight of District Communication Effort
- School Board/District Communications Support
- School PTA Liaison
- School Year Calendar Development
- Social Media Registry
- Social Media Guidelines for Staff
- Special Event Planning
- Student and Staff Recognition
- Student Handbook Development
- Translation/Interpretation Requests
- Website support for school webmasters/PTA leads
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Curriculum & Instruction
Key Staff
- Assistant Superintendent of Curriculum and Instruction
- Director of Literacy
- Director of MTSS & SEL
- Director of Mathematics
- Director of Science
- Director of EvanSTEM
- Director of Social Studies
- Director of Instructional Technology
- Instructional Technology Facilitators
Department Responsibilities
- Acceleration Testing for Illinois Acceleration Act
- Access to Innovate (A2I)
- African Centered Curriculum (ACC)
- Articulation with District 202
- Board meeting planning assistance
- Collaborate with community organizations re: instruction
- Culturally Relevant Pedagogy
- Curriculum Adoption Committee (CAC)
- Curriculum development, instructional improvement, program evaluation
- Curriculum Review and adoption
- D65/202 Joint Literacy Goal Committee
- District Instructional Tech Committee and Department Standing Committees
- District-wide Instructional Technology
- EvanSTEM Northwestern Partnership
- Literacy
- Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS)
- Operationalize student instruction & achievement goals
- PE/Fine Arts/World Languages/Computer Science
- Social Emotional Learning (SEL)
- Social Sciences
- STEM
- Student Assessment (calendaring and data use)
- Student Assessment Tool Selection
- Summer curriculum projects
- Summer school
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Human Resources
Key Staff
- Assistant Superintendent of Human Resources
- Director of Human Resources
- HR Partners (2)
- Employee Services Coordinator
- HR Operations Specialists (2)
- HRIS Analyst
- Administrative Executive Assistant
- Director of D65 CREATE, Teacher Residency Program
Department Responsibilities
- Additional Assignment Forms
- Aesop
- Annual Employee Survey
- AskHR Support System
- Aspiring Leaders Program
- Board meeting planning assistance
- Complaint Manager (discrimination/harassment)
- Contract Negotiations
- CREATE 65 Teacher Residency
- Disability
- Education Management Staffing Solution (ESS)
- Educator Licensure
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Employee Benefit Days (allocations and audits)
- Employee Change of Information
- Employee Evaluation Tools/Records
- Employee Insurance Portal
- Employee Job Descriptions
- Employee Policy and Procedure Development
- Employee Records
- Employee Report of Injury
- Employee Work Calendars
- Employee Investigations
- Employment Verifications
- Frontline Recruiting and Hiring
- Health/Dental/Life Insurance
- High Five! Staff Recognition Program
- Job Descriptions
- Joint Evaluation Committee
- Joint Insurance Committee
- Joint RIF Committee
- Joint Track Committee
- Joint Training Committee for Paraprofessionals
- Kronos - Accounts and Supervisor Support
- Labor Relations
- Lead on Negotiations
- Leaves of Absences
- Mandated Employee Training (GCN)
- MyAlio
- MyLearningPlan (account set-up)
- New Hire Onboarding
- Non-Mandated Tuition Reimbursement
- Process a Variety of Forms and Reimbursements
(e.g., employment verifications, tuition reimbursement, employee change of information, loan forgiveness, coursework approval, additional assignment forms, etc.) - Professional Development
- Request Forms
- Reconciliations Recruitment
- Responds to a Variety of Employee Inquiries
- Retirement
- Staff ID Badges
- Staffing/Assignments/RIF Process
- State and Federal Reporting
- Student Loan Forgiveness
- Student Teacher/Practicum Placements
- Subpoenas
- Support Principals/Hiring Managers
- Supports District Priorities & Initiatives
- TalentEd Perform
- Track Movement Forms and Approval
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Unemployment claims
- Volunteer Background Checks
- Workers' Compensation
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School Operations
Key Staff
- Assistant Superintendent of Schools
- (10) Elementary Principals
- (3) Middle School Principals
- (2) Magnet School Principals
- Director of Culture and Climate
- Student Engagement Coordinator
Department Responsibilities
- Alternatives to Suspension
- Bell schedules
- Building security
- Chronic Absenteeism and Truancy
- Business Department on building needs
- Crisis Drills (ALICE training)
- Eighth grade graduation coordination
- Emergency and Crisis Planning
- Evaluation of school administrators
- Joint Executive Committee
- Lead professional learning for school principals and assistant principals
- Liaison to local first responders/ District 65 Incident Commander
- Operationalize student instruction & achievement goals
- Oversight of school and district crisis response plans
- Planned student absences
- Policy Development and Refinement
- Restorative Practices
- School Climate Teams
- School Improvement Planning
- School procedures and policy review
- School Resource Officer Liaison
- Special investigations
- Student attendance program/procedure
- Student discipline
- Student/staff safety
- Support disciplinary review board and expulsion hearings
- TURN Network
- Collaborate with Business Office on building needs
- Assistant Superintendent of Schools
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Student Services
Key Staff
- Assistant Superintendent of Student Services
- Director of Special Services
- Director of Multilingual Services
- Health Services Coordinator
- Director of Early Childhood
- Executive Administrative Assistant
- Administrative Assistant of Multilingual Programs
- Special Services Claims and Data Analyst
- Park School Principal
- Rice Education Center Principal
- Quality Assurance Manager (Head Start)
- Quality Assurance Manager (Early Head Start)
Department Responsibilities
- Agency Linkages
- Assistive Technology
- Bilingual/Dual Language Programming (TWI/ESL)
- Board meeting planning assistance
- Content-Area/Standing Committees
- Curriculum Adoption Committee
- CARES Team (crisis support and intervention)
- DCFS Referrals
- District 202 Special Education Liaison
- Early Childhood Programs
- Home/hospital instruction
- Health services (including immunizations, medications, communicable disease response)
- Individualized Education Plans (IEPs)
(development, implementation, compliance) - Inclusion
- Legal Liaison
- Management of Park School
- Management of Rice School
- Mental health crises/hospitalizations
- Park School Advisory Committee Member
- Private facility placements
- Professional development for special services staff and bilingual educational professionals
- Quality Assurance (Head Start and Early Head Start)
- Related services: social work, speech/language therapy, occupational therapy, physical therapy, orientation and mobility training, vision services, audiological evaluations, psychological services, transitional vocational services, assistive technology, and transportation
- School health services
- Section 504 Plans
- Special education programs (resource and instructional)
- Special Education Summer School
- State Reporting/Reimbursements
- Student Transitions
- Therapeutic Day
