Ms. Crystal

Today I completed my first full day as an #AssistantPrincipal! Incredibly excited to begin building relationships with the SHES community & continue putting our students first! A special thank you to all the students, families, colleagues, and mentors that inspired this journey.

Thank you, Crystal Farkaschek, Assistant Principal at Sleepy Hollow Elem School, for everything you do! #APWeek25 ilprincipals.org

It was an honor to present the Student Leadership award to two very deserving 5th graders this morning at the 2025 Illinois Principal Association’s Kishwaukee Student Leadership Award Breakfast. 🥳

Updated tip sheet: ELL Tips for Math Teachers We have expanded our #ELL tip sheet for math teachers, which you are welcome to print and share with colleagues! #ELLchat #MLL #MLLchat colorincolorado.org/guide/ell-tips…

There are so many ways to launch a vibrant classroom conversation! Here are a few of T @chemelnalis's favorite prompts. ⬇️

🏗️ Scaffolding Think, Pair, Share can help facilitate deep discussions and drive thinking from ALL students. This handy resource is designed to help students master the WHAT, WHY, and HOW of the process. 👊 Support my work by tapping REPOST and grab a FREE high-quality copy here: jamieleeclark.com/graphics

@PrincipalProj @sherrillknezel This is great! Is there a digital version of this?

Looking for a tool to guide equity conversations with your staff this year? Consider this tool from leader Ken Williams, featuring art by educator @sherrillknezel.

Does your staff need more strategies to support multilingual learners? Do you need more professional learning resources to support your staff? Click for a rich research-backed library from @ColorinColorado! colorincolorado.org/article/how-us…

Always comes back to relationships!

Ts, your love is powerful! ⚡️ (inspiration via educator @MrEugenePark) #BeTheOne

When your team sits down to look at school data together, this guidance from @caselorg keeps the discussion inclusive and meaningful. schoolguide.casel.org/resource/estab…

There is no greater honor as a teacher than being invited to your former students’ big life events! So proud of Gigi at her dance recital! What a great surprise! #Impact

What a great end to an amazing school year!! Wishing these bulldogs a happy, fun, and safe summer!! #summerbreak #fieldday @HodgkinsSchool

Nothing but smiles in first grade! Can’t believe we are wrapping up the year already! #FieldTripFun @HodgkinsSchool

These Bulldogs had a blast at the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum! We connected and deepened our learning on the butterfly life cycle while also learning about other amazing animals in the wild! Thank you to all our chaperones for joining and learning with us! @HodgkinsSchool

What a great resource to use digitally or physically with students to formally assess instructional impact within a given lesson!

Do you aspire to be a high-trust leader? Find some habits on this list that you already demonstrate – plus pick one you'd like to focus on this spring! (Via @franklincovey) unthsc.edu/values/wp-cont…

A special thanks to the Assistance League Chicagoland Midwest for reading What Do You Do With A Tail Like This to our 1st graders today!! Students engaged in an interactive read aloud and all students took a copy of the book home to build their home library! 📚@HodgkinsSchool