Attention DPS Families! The Young Author's Cover Art and Writing Contest deadline is quickly approaching. Please have your students get their submissions in as the deadline is March 6th!
Attention Madison Families! Please join us for our first Madison Family Game Night!
Reminder: There is no school this Friday, February 27th due to Spring Parent Teacher Conferences.
Congratulations to Lindsay Drew, our Spirit Award winner from Madison this week. She is doing amazing things with students every day! So many have gained skills and graduated from speech under her expert care. Her passion for students can be seen in all that she does, whether providing services, mentoring an aspiring speech pathologist, or providing support to our special education team. We are lucky Mrs. Drew is a part of our school!
Attention DPS Families! The 5 Essentials Survey ends on March 13th.
A 25% response rate per school is required for state reporting.
Parents: your answers help guide decisions, it takes less than 10 minutes to complete, and you can do it on your phone with your submission being anonymous.
Please take the survey here by clicking this link https://survey.5-essentials.org/Illinois/
Attention Madison Families! Spring Pictures this Thursday!
Congratulations to last week's Spirit Award winner Sarah Hansen! It is truly remarkable all the amazing things happening in the music program and all the extra time Mrs. Hansen has put in to create great experiences for students! Madison choir fest and Madison talent show happened in less than 1 week's time all while she continued to plan engaging experiences in our music classes daily. Thank you so much Mrs. Hansen. You are appreciated! 🙂
Attention DPS Families! SMILE Program - The Mobile Dentist will be arriving at our school district starting next month! Please read our news article with more information here: https://www.dps170.org/article/2705301
The 4th annual band fest was a blast at the high school tonight! Our 5th grade band students have grown so much! Congratulations to Mr Hansen and our wonderfully talented and hard working musicians!
Parents, please help us improve our schools, take the survey for every school where you have a child currently attending: https://survey.5-essentials.org/Illinois/
Congrats to a new bunch of positive office referral award winners! We have so many great students doing amazing things!
Attention DPS Families! Congratulations to Kelli Full who is a 2026 ISBE Those Who Excel and Teacher of the Year awardee! #BePurple
Due to a house fire, students whose bus stop is at 4th & College are being moved to west 6th & College.
PJ day for Madison Students!
Our amazing 5th grade choir at choir fest after their performance with Mrs Hansen and Mr Sagel. You sounded great and we're proud of you!!!
Attention DPS Families! The 4th Annual Band Festival is this Friday at Dixon High School in Lancaster Gymnasium. It starts at 7pm and admission is FREE. #BePurple
Choir fest was awesome this past Friday! So proud of all our choir students and we're very appreciative of the collaboration with RMS and DHS! Amazing to hear hundreds of voices all raised in song! Incredible job choir department!
Reminder that Madison K-Kids are selling candy grams before school starting tomorrow!
Stupor Bowl Eve! Come join us at RMS tomorrow to support the DPS Foundation fundraiser!
Attention DPS Families!
Friday, February 27th has been set aside for parent/teacher conferences. This is the third year that Dixon Schools has had Spring conferences. The goal of these conferences is for teachers to communicate interventions and strategies to help students to finish the year successfully. These conferences are being held in just one day and teachers will be focusing on students who may not be prepared to move on to the next grade level. Over the next 2 weeks teachers will be reaching out to specific parents and guardians to invite you and your child to a conference. As noted, these conferences have a specific purpose and are scheduled by an invite. However, if you have a specific academic or behavior concern that you would like to address, please contact your child’s teacher through email or Seesaw to request a conference.
Respectfully,
Doug Stansford
Assistant Superintendent
Friday, February 27th has been set aside for parent/teacher conferences. This is the third year that Dixon Schools has had Spring conferences. The goal of these conferences is for teachers to communicate interventions and strategies to help students to finish the year successfully. These conferences are being held in just one day and teachers will be focusing on students who may not be prepared to move on to the next grade level. Over the next 2 weeks teachers will be reaching out to specific parents and guardians to invite you and your child to a conference. As noted, these conferences have a specific purpose and are scheduled by an invite. However, if you have a specific academic or behavior concern that you would like to address, please contact your child’s teacher through email or Seesaw to request a conference.
Respectfully,
Doug Stansford
Assistant Superintendent
