the RAH
October 3-7, 2016
from Bret-
MAP Grade-Level Individual Student Reports (ISR’s) will be delivered to your site soon. Please let parents know via your newsletters these are available and can be picked up immediately. For parents who would like to wait, reports can be distributed at parent/teacher conferences.
Please review the process outlined by Jim Farrell for inappropriate images found on school devices. I uploaded that process into the Elementary Learning Canvas course under the toggle files (file name = Administrators Process for Discovered Images).
The GRIC/FRIC data collection window is October 18 through November 18. Concerning the Writing IC - A check won’t happen until the spring, as we wish for you to return and facilitate writing training around best practices you receive at Elementary Learning meetings.
The Explore team met on Wednesday. Agenda items included: survey results, calendar options, and initial ideas about sites. If you want more information about our discussions, contact me.
Here is an article posted on NEA’s website about flexible seating. It might help sway teachers still hesitant to try it.
What are you reading?
One Sole Purpose in action this week-
Where are you with your drills?
Dr Quirk offers a better way-
A Better Way to handle artifacts in TOWER:
- · Ask teachers to create a Google folder in their Drive as a home for any/all artifacts they would like included in their portfolio for purposes of feedback and/or evaluation
- · Embed a link to that folder into a Word doc – upload the Word doc to TOWER as an artifact
- · Through that one upload you can access all artifacts by clicking on the link
- · It will update as additional artifacts are added to the folder and will be accessible from year to year by repeating the process annually
- · As always for a successful TOWER upload, please don’t include numbers or punctuation in the title of the Word doc uploaded and keep the optional TOWER descriptor under 200 characters
BOE Study Session
Tuesday, Oct 4, 2016, 05:30 PM
1359 East Saint Louis Street, Springfield, MO, United States
from J-
In working with Nichole Lemmon, we wish to thank you for continuing to support the completion of BrightBytes surveys at your site. As a reminder, BrightBytes metrics are now included in the district strategic plan and 100% participation from staff in certified positions and students in grades 3-12 is appreciated. BrightBytes surveys will be collected through Friday, October 7. If you have any questions about collection, how many surveys have been completed at your site, or data use, please contact Nichole. Participation to this point has been somewhat light, so please emphasize participation this week. Instructional Technologists may be beneficial in helping classroom teachers get student surveys done as the BOY iReady testing window closes.
Also, please review the following information regarding district Chromebook filters and processes for reporting student use of inappropriate sites:
· District Chromebooks are filtered using a product called Securly. Securly filters Chromebooks at school and at home.
· Websites are filtered upon categories and blocks items such as pornography, proxy websites used to bypass filtering, weapons, drugs, gambling, hacking and other non-educational websites.
· Parents can find out more about how we keep students safe and secure on their Chromebooks on the IGNiTE@Home website.
· If a student, parent or teacher reports that inappropriate content is available to students, please send any websites or Chrome extensions you believe should be blocked to Bret or Sheila immediately.
Here is an FAQ that you may provide to parents who have questions regarding district filtering policies.
Looking ahead as we end the quarter on Oct 14, a reminder that Oct 17 is an End of Quarter Workday. While some PD may be appropriate, the majority of time should be given to teachers for work. I like the 2/5 rule - if you require any time of them, make it less than 2 hours with you and give them the 5 plus hours gift of time for their work.
Thanks for David Martin for finding and sharing this powerful video. Worth the watch!
I'm looking forward to visits at Bingham, Delaware, Pittman, Sequiota, Wilder, & Field this week. For all, please let me know how I can support you. Have a fantastic week!