BCISD Curriculum Connection
August 2021 Back-to-School Edition
Welcome Back!
It was wonderful to see everyone at Convocation. Isn't our BCISD community a blessing?! Thank you for your participation and focus in all the professional development and campus planning this week. Even if you took away only one new thing to try out that benefits students right away, it will pay off. Thank you for "sharpening the saw" in advance of our students' arrival.
Grants and Funding Available for your Classroom Projects
What's Going on With HB 4545??
We have heard questions about whether we would ever add those times to teachers' duties. We want to assure you that staff will be able to voluntarily apply for those tutor times for extra duty pay. In the meantime, we will be communicating with parents to see how many may wish to waive the 1:3 ratio to allow for more school-day intervention to count towards the 30 hours. Once we have more solid information about anticipated after-school numbers, you will see information about tutoring beginning, likely at the end of September.
If you have questions, please reach out to your campus Interventionist or our Coordinator for Academic Recovery and Assessment, Carol Morris.
What's a RIPICS?
Changes to STAAR for 2021-2022
The State is continuing the push forward to fully-online assessments in one year, and we will likely be mandated to administer some of the fully-online "STAAR 2.0" field tests this spring. Start thinking about ways that students can gain confidence and practice with online testing. Talk with your Instructional Coach about whether online testing through Eduphoria could be a first step for you.
We will proceed with planning towards BCISD testing fully online this year. Because the 2022-2023 school year will contain never-before-seen question types, we want students to at least gain comfort in the online environment this year when they have familiar question formats.