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Students, Parents and Staff:
Click here for a free trial of World Book Online!
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Click here for information concerning Student Drug Testing Program for Extra-Curricular Activities - Morton High School
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Accolades
During the school year, the district Accolades program recognizes and thanks individuals who make our district outstanding. Each month a different group is identified for recognition. Throughout May, please submit Accolades recognizing the retirees, administrators and substitutes of District 709. Comments will appear the following month. Read April comments recognizing volunteers and parents.
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Accelerated Reader
All Morton District elementary schools and the junior high are now using a new web-based Accelerated Reader program. The following links will help parents become acquainted with the program.
AR - Elementary Parent Letter
AR - MJHS Parent Letter
AR Log in
AR BookFinder offers Quick Search and Advanced Search. The Advanced Search allows you to search based on interest level, book level, topics, subtopics, fiction and nonfiction, and language.
From the Advanced Search, click on "Interest Level" (lower grades K-3, middle grades 4-8, or upper grades 9-12). Click on "2000 point scale." Enter your student's Lexile range reported on the MAP Student Progress Report. Click "Go." You will receive a customized reading list of AR books.
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The Illinois Learning & Technology Purchasing Program (ILTPP) has established a Microsoft purchasing program for all Illinois K-12 teachers, staff, and students. These are licenses that students, faculty, and staff buy on their own and will personally own forever. In the past this group would have to pay $499 for Office Professional in local stores. Through this purchasing program, the same product costs less than $90. Parents and staff can literally save hundreds of dollars and obtain lifelong learning tools. All pricing and orders can be found at: http://www.cdwg.com/academic/store. From the menu on the site, choose K-12, United States, Illinois, Morton Community Unit School District 709, to see the software available.
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- 2007-2008 District Calendar
- 2008-2009 District Calendar
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 Assistant Superintendent
Craig Smock
Mr. Smock graduated from Illinois State University in 1990 with a degree in Secondary Mathematics Education. He taught math and coached tennis at Ottawa Township High School for eight years. While there, he obtained a Master’s Degree and Certification in Educational Administration from ISU in 1996.
His first administrative position, in 1998, was as principal of Bradford High School, a small, rural school of around 65 students. After serving two years in that district, he became principal of Peoria Heights High School, a school of about 250 students, in the year 2000. At that time, he and his family moved to the community of Morton, where they now reside.
In 2005, after a five-year tenure at Peoria Heights, Mr. Smock earned his Educational Specialist Degree (Ed. S), or Superintendent’s Certification, from ISU and was hired as principal of Pekin Community High School, a school of over 2,200 students. After two years in that role, he was hired as Assistant Superintendent of Morton School District in the spring of 2007.
Mr. Smock and his family have lived in Morton for over seven years, and he and his wife, Peggy, are both graduates of Tremont High School. They were blessed with three children. Cassie, Ryan, and Kayla all attend Morton Schools. The Smocks are very thankful for the outstanding school system and for the wonderful community in which they live.
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