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Indian Prairie 204 board renews three-year e-learning plan required by Illinois school code
Summary
After a public hearing, the Indian Prairie CUSD 204 Board of Education approved a three‑year renewal of its districtwide e‑learning plan. The plan preserves five total e‑learning days per school year, defines day‑1 asynchronous and day‑2 synchronous instruction, and will be forwarded to the regional office of education for approval.
The Indian Prairie CUSD 204 Board of Education on Aug. 4 approved a three‑year renewal of the district’s e‑learning plan, following a public hearing required under the Illinois School Code.
Doctor Lee, who presented the plan to the board during the public hearing, said the district’s e‑learning plan “is a districtwide day that we allow student instruction to continue, in lieu of the district scheduled emergency days.” He told the board the plan was developed with stakeholders including teachers, students, support staff and building leaders and had previously been adopted when the program started in 2019.
The plan describes an instructional cadence for emergency days: day 1 is asynchronous with assignments posted in Google Classroom and teacher office hours for questions; if a second e‑learning day is needed it becomes synchronous instruction with a set schedule by level (elementary, middle, high). The plan requires five hours of instruction for a day counted as an e‑learning day and limits the number of e‑learning days to five per school year. Doctor Lee said the district maintains roughly 300 portable Wi‑Fi hotspots for student use and that teachers will individually follow up with students who experience outages on an e‑learning day.
The plan also notes that election days count as an e‑learning day and therefore use one of the five allowed days. Following board approval, the district will forward the plan to the regional office of education (ROE) for review, as required by state law.
The board approved the plan by roll call: Miss Gintz — yes; Miss Jane — yes; Miss Deming — aye; Mister Rising — yes; Miss Donahue — yes; Miss Fosdick — yes. The motion that the board approve the e‑learning plan renewal was made and seconded during the meeting (motion text: “I move that the board of education approve the e learning plan renewal as presented.”). The board president announced the motion passed and directed staff to forward the approved plan to the ROE.
The district’s next steps, as announced by Doctor Lee, include ongoing professional development for staff, continued communication to parents and guardians, and submission of the approved plan to the ROE for its required review and acceptance.
