Murphy Team Update
For the Week of Sept 14-18
Mission:
- Lapeer Community Schools is a dynamic community organization embracing our students with a quality learning environment, developing independent and confident learners for the future.
- Murphy Elementary School is united in learning for all children and focused on excellence, as we step into the future.
Vision:
To maximize the achievement of all Murphy students as they prepare for the future.
- At Murphy we're not just building things - we're building better people - in partnership with our families.
- We know that we are all strong individually but we are even stronger when we work together.
Upcoming Important Dates:
** Teachers must be onsite at least twice per week (Tuesday for collaboration and one other day of choice)
Monday, September 14:
- Reading/Writing Zoom Sessions with Teachers
- Math Zoom Sessions with Teachers
- I have a meeting with PTC to plan meeting dates and topics
Tuesday, September 15:
- Specials Classes Zoom Sessions with Teachers
- Collaboration for Grade Level Teachers - Teachers must be onsite
- I will be in IEPs for most of the day
Wednesday, September 16:
- Reading/Writing Zoom Sessions with Teachers
- Math Zoom Sessions with Teachers
- I have a K-12 Admin Meeting in the AM
Thursday, September 17:
- Science Zoom Sessions with Teachers
- Social Studies Zoom Sessions with Teachers
- PD from 3:30-4:30
Friday, September 18:
- Specials Classes Zoom Sessions with Teachers
- More IEPs
K-5 Assessment Window
(per the email to elementary teachers on Sept 1 from M. Bradford)
As you know, for the 20-21 school year, school districts must, within the first 30 days of school administer both benchmark assessments in grades K-8 to measure proficiency in reading and math. Our benchmark assessments are NWEA. Our diagnostic assessment in reading is DRA and used to determine MTSS groups (intervention/acceleration Zoom times).
Therefore, we have developed a timeline of assessments to be administered in order to stay within the required window for NWEA and to avoid overwhelming students, families and you during our remote learning window.
Week of Sept 8th in person testing
- K-5th Math NWEA
- 1st-5th DRA (use DRA scores to determine groups for intervention/acceleration zoom times and instruction)
- Kinder – letters and sounds
Week of Sept 14th - remote learning
- Math end of year assessment - teachers please communicate to parents not to help their child and explain the purpose is to identify next steps in instruction
Week of Sept 28th - remote learning
- 3rd-5th Reading NWEA – I will email you several NWEA resources and parent letter shortly
Weeks of Oct 5th - 19th - in person testing
- K-2 Reading NWEA
- Send home all student NWEA reports and K-3 parent intervention letters no later than Oct 19th per state requirements
Weeks of Oct 5th – Oct 31 in person testing
- K-5 pre writing prompts
Weeks of Oct 5th – Nov 20th in person testing
- all other required MLPP assessments by grade level – ex. sight words
Student Username and Password Conventions
From the Desk of Beth Rupprecht
I am so very excited to finally share that Illuminate is integrated with Google Classroom!
Bottom line: you can post your Illuminate assessment to Google Classroom, students will see it as classwork, click on the link, identify their Gmail address, and not have to log into Illuminate or need a code.
Below you will find the tutorial on how to do this.
Posting Assessments into Google Classroom – Illuminate Education Enter the Start Date, or the first day the assessment is available.; Enter the End Date, or the last day the assessment is available.; Select a single or multiple Google Classroom(s) to post the assessment to.. This is based on your Google Classroom setup and if the email account matches your Illuminate User Account information.; Select Post to Google Classroom to continue. support.illuminateed.com
While students are being assessed, you can also live proctor and monitor their progress.
https://support.illuminateed.com/hc/en-us/articles/360001575874-Live-Proctoring
PLEASE reach out for further help or questions you may have!