APS Weekly Newsletter
February 2nd, 2024
🗓️Save the Date🗓️
❄️February 2: Happy Groundhog Day!
❤️February 8: Child Find 9am-12pm @Hawaii Complex, Building C Special Programs Gym
❤️February 8-9: Parent Teacher Conferences - Kids NO School
❤️February 13: The "Write" Stuff-Sentences 4:30-5:30pm (Register below!)
❤️February 19: President's Day - NO School
❤️February 20: The "Write" Stuff-Sentence Expansion 4:30-5:30pm (Register below!)
❤️February 21: LETRS Phases 8 & 10 Cohorts
❤️February 21-23: CFA 3
❤️February 22: Licensure Cohort 4:30pm @AHS
❤️February 28: 6th Annual Alamo Educate and Innovate
☘️March 5: The "Write" Stuff-Single Paragraph 4:30-5:30pm (Register below!)
☘️March 7: Licensure Cohort 4:30pm @AHS
☘️March 13: AHS ASR Test Day
☘️March 16: District Science Fair (POC: Catherine Diaz)
☘️March 19: The "Write" Stuff Multi-Paragraph 4:30-5:30pm (Register below!)
☘️March 20: AHS SAT Day
🌷March 25-29: SPRING BREAK
🌷March 29: Professional Development Dossier and OPAL Submission deadline
🌷April 26: Snow Day - NO School
Parent Teacher Conferences - Next Week!
6th Annual Alamo Educate and Innovate
🤔Professional Development🤔
LEAP Pathway
Leading Educators through Alternative Pathways (LEAP) is an intensive and innovative approach for a year-long alternative licensure program tailored to prepare teachers to be successful in New Mexico’s diverse classrooms. With the collaboration of stakeholders in education, LEAP was designed to be application-based, asking participants to immediately utilize strategies they learn, and is practitioner-focused, drawing heavily from teachers’ daily problems of practice. Thus, candidates will be required to work in a classroom setting as a teacher-of-record. https://cesleap.org/
📢Data! Data! Read All About It!📢
❤️Love the Bus Month❤️
It's that time of year again, folks! February is officially Love the Bus month. Let's give a round of applause to the unsung heroes who keep our kiddos safe on their way to and from school. These rock stars make the yellow school bus ride a reality for our young scholars!
📑ASSESSMENT ALLEY📑
🧐Explaining Istation to Parents at PTCs🧐
⭐Istation doesn’t use the word “proficiency”. Their description of instructional levels identify students potentially at risk of failure. This level then determines the intervention needed to increase the student’s percentile rank. Level 1 and 2 are at 40th percentile and below. Level 3 is 41st percentile to 60th. And Level 4 and 5 are above the 61st percentile rank.
⭐Istation will say that level 4 and 5 still need "intervention"; their intervention looks different. But at the end of the day, we can communicate to parents that levels 4 and 5 are on target to be at grade level as long as they continue to make normal growth month to month. Levels 4 and 5 are not saying they are already at grade level. They are where they should be for their grade level and at that month.
⭐Another way that it was communicated to me in a training, is that Istation's levels express a child's READINESS for the grade level's content material that is expected at that time. For example, when a 2nd grader takes ISIP and scores a Level 1 in August, this is indicating that they do not currently have all the skills they need to make them READY for the skills for SECOND GRADE. They have some gaps that need intervention in order to be more READILY able to progress in the content. With this being said, this means that our ultimate goal is a level 4 or 5 in May, because that indicates a student's READINESS for the upcoming grade level.