Parents, residents, business people and anyone else interested in receiving regular updates from District 196 can subscribe to the Backpack Online email list services. Name and email address are all that is required to subscribe and users can unsubscribe at any time.

Named after the traditional method of school-to-home communication, the student backpack, Backpack Online offers numerous email lists to support improved communication between the district and residents, between schools and parents - even between individual classroom teachers and parents. Click on any of the links below to see the email lists that are available for a given school or department and to subscribe.