Return to School Attendance Guide: HERE
Please update your Google Classroom codes as needed- I updated a few that you sent me but please double check. I will leave link here for the year. CODE
Great Things From the Week
Teachers setting up their classrooms - almost felt like August.....almost
Thank you all
Teachers completing Parent Teacher Conferences - Thank you
Classified Staff Helped get the rooms set up, student and teacher shields installed.
Thank you Amber for working on student First- Aid
Thank you Teresa for translating PTC
Thank you Carlos for stopping everything to help raise tables.
Amy getting books bused to student's houses.
Thank you all for your hard work.
CST and Planning Time
Many of you are finishing your first trimester assessments- A few things to note:
CST- We are rebooting our CSTs and we will start with In Person on Nov 18th- Virtual teachers will be next on Wednesday Dec. 2nd. Click here for sign up document - it will all be virtual, we will just talk about kids and discuss how we can best support you in this digital space.
Planning Time and Assessments - I would like for you to select 5 target students for your next trimester to focus on (you decide who and why) - I am looking for improvement. Improvement can be better attendance, better math score, 3 more letters, etc.
You decide the students and the goals - We will discuss these at CST - there is no wrong answer.
If you need additional planning time I will time card you to work on your data analysis (I would love for your grade to work on data analysis together)- If you plan beyond your contract times
Distance Learning Tips!
Tip 3: Relationships
Building relationships with your students is by far the MOST impactful thing you can do to increase engagement, participation, attendance and learning outcomes. Student centered practices are essential in any classroom, perhaps even more so in a virtual one.
Elements of teacher-student relationships should include:
Teacher empathy - understanding
Unconditional positive praise regard - warmth
Genuineness- the teacher's self-awareness
Nondirectivity- student-initiated and student-regulated activities
Encouragement of critical thinking - not traditional memory emphasis
Action Plan:
How will you build or refocus on relationships throughout the school year?
Why are relationships central to your distance learning efforts?
AVID
Advancement Via Individual Determination
Our AVID commitment is to hold all students to high expectations, Students need to be explicitly taught how to use organizational tools. They need to be monitored and held accountable. Take the time to teach your expectations and check in to make sure they are adhering to those expectations.
AMAZING RESOURCES LINK
https://sites.google.com/view/rims-avid-elementary/home
WICOR
W- Writing to Learn (we spent a lot of time on writing last year, with a heavy focus on teaching students how to read a text, pull out important information, take notes and use evidence to answer Essential Questions) Students can not write with out experience (in person, virtual or otherwise). They can not write about something they have not had a number of experiences with. We can not skip this step, they need visuals, multi-media, sensory, compare and contrast and other opportunities before they can write to a topic or subject.
I- Level of questioning -Click here for more information
C- Collaboration - We explicitly taught students how to collaborate, we used the 4 L's (or a variation). we provided sentence frames, assigned roles for each collaboration partner and followed up with feedback and checking for understanding.
O- Organization - It is so important to keep students organized, with hand held items, digital items, etc. We will all use the AVID binder and require students to be AVID ready (set a 30 second timer and they should be able to find what you are asking them to find- if not they are not AVID ready and they need support to become AVID ready. Peer support, teacher support, parent support, etc. )
R- Reading to Learn - Once students acquire the skills to decode, they shift to reading for a purpose, to learn. It is important that we are not just assigning reading to read, but rather to make connections, and expand a students learning process. Close Reading Skills are a great skill w need to teach all students. Use your protocols to walk them through how to identify important information and answer the Essential Questions.
EQUITY
Our equity goal for the year - Provide access to a quality education for all
Teachers please remember our students have many factors that hinder or support their learning. It is important that we are being flexible and supportive. There is no requirement for Independent work and I am fully against assigning homework in this digital space. I know students need to practice, but please be mindful of the workload our parents are already experiencing and the workload on students. If an independent assignment is essential and needs to be assigned please be gentle with setting due dates and times. Flexibility is the key. We will discuss more in staff meeting.
Shattering Inequities Book Study:
We will review at our December 16th Staff Meeting at 1 pm
Chapter 3 and 4-
Bring an item to the meeting that has some symbolic connection to your childhood. It could be a picture, sports memorabilia, a keep sake, etc.
Prompts:
1. Share your item and your story, share your background and how it brought you to education and to the work you do for kids.
2. How does your experience lend to an equity lens.
3. When you are looking at your data, specifically data around subgroups, how has your experiences helped you view that data with a flashlight rather then a club?
NUTS and BOLTS
Want to get supplies to your students onsite or virtual?
see schedule below:
**During these pick up weeks, we will always have school supplies available, students just need to come by during assigned distribution days as communicated OR you can tell us what supplies you need and we will set up a pick up for your class.
District Mail Pick Up and Delivery to Home Schools | Distribution to Families at Home Schools Exact dates are to be determined |
Week of September 14th
| Week of September 21st
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Week of October 12th
| Week of October 19th
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Week of November 9th | Week of November 16th |
Week of December 7th | Week of December 14th |
Week of January 11th | Week of January 18th |
Week of February 8th | Week of February 15th |
Week of March 8th | Week of March 15th |
Week of April 12th | Week of April 19th |
Program change window for your reference: We are not advertising as we are mostly full
School Level | Parent Program Change Selection Window | End of Grading Period | Possible Start Date of New Program Choice |
Elementary
End of 1st Trimester
| 10/9/2020 - 10/16/2020
| 11/6/2020
| 11/9/2020
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Elementary End of 2nd Trimester | 1/29/2020 - 2/5/2020 | 2/26/2021 | 3/1/2021 |
Middle/High End of 1st Semester | 11/18/2020 - 11/25/2020 | 12/18/2020 | 1/4/2021 |
The Instructional Services team is happy to announce two supplemental resources for your students!
Lexia Core5 Reading: a computer adaptive literacy program that provides explicit, systematic, personalized learning in literacy.
Dreambox: an online math program that dynamically adapts to the student, providing personalized instruction aligned with state standards.
These resources can support you with planning for asynchronous instruction and are meant to:
- Address learning loss
- Fill in gaps in student understanding
- Provide enrichment opportunities
- Provide opportunities to deepen understanding of content standards
Lexia Core 5 and Dreambox should be used to support and supplement, but not replace, your core curriculum.
These resources are anticipated to be available to you and your students on October 14, 2020. The links below will provide instructions for you to get started. Question and Answer support sessions and further professional development to support you in using the data reports to meet the needs of students will be coming soon. Please reach out to our team for support!
TK-K
Math (TK-K) |
Teachers will administer the Eureka Math End-of-Module 1 Assessment synchronously or asynchronously using Seesaw or one-on-one interviews using the revised version of the assessment The data should be used to guide instruction No data will be collected by the district
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1st-2nd
Math (1st-2nd) |
Assessment Information | Enter By |
Teachers can choose to administer the assessments synchronously or asynchronously using Seesaw or Kami. Assessments should be rubric scored, and data should be entered into Illuminate. Click here to learn how to enter the data. |
1st grade | 10/27 |
2nd grade | 10/30 |
ELA 2nd |
Assessment Link | Number of Questions | Give By | Enter By |
Information Coming Soon |
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3rd-6th
Math |
Grade | Assessment | Scoring | Due Date |
3 | Number and Operations in Base Ten: Link |
All assessments will be automatically scored within 1 day of when the students submit them. | 11/4 |
4 | Number and Operations in Base Ten: Link | 11/4 |
5 | Number and Operations in Base Ten: Link | 11/4 |
5 | Ratios and Proportional Relationships: Link | 10/23 |
ELA |
Grade | Assessment | Number of Questions | Give By | Enter By |
3 | Literary Text: Link | 14 MC, 1 Short Answer | Give by 10/28
All MC questions will automatically be scored within 1 day. | Complete hand scoring: 11/4/2020 |
4 | Informational Text: Link | 13 MC, 1 Short Answer |
5 | Informational Text: Link | 14 MC, 1 Short Answer |
6 | Informational Text: Link | 15 MC, 1 Short Answer |
Teacher Resources | Student Resources |
Teachers can copy links (above) and post directly to Google Classroom or Log in to Illuminate and post through Illuminate. Video / Handout
Quick Guide: IAB Hand Scoring Video / Handout | Student Logging into Illuminate to take Assessment Video
This video can be added to your Google Classroom for students to view. |
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This week-
Brown will be onsite Monday PM, Tuesday and Friday
Roe will be Onsite Thursday and Friday
Lori will be onsite Monday to Friday 10:30-3
Amy will be onsite 7-11:30 Monday to Friday
Tiger Store Fill this week
11/9- Office Monday Meeting 10:30
11/10- Coffee With Principal 9-9:30 am both English and Spanish
11/11- Veteran's Day - Holiday
11/12- District AAPAC Meeting 7-7:30 pm
11/18- In Person CST Day
11/18-11/20 - Student item distribution 7-3
11/18- Classified Meeting 1-2
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