Curriculum Corner
Pass Christian Public School District
Please see the document below in order to understand how i-Ready data correlates to MAAP performance. Ken Tam, Executive Director of Personalized Learning & Assessment, hosted a webinar on growth and proficiency. To watch a recording of the webinar, click here.
Shout out to the following teachers whose classes have 75% or higher average lesson pass rates:
DES: Ms. Abney, Ms. Flowers, Ms. Russell, Ms. Wilson, Ms. Karr, Ms. Monti, Ms. Peterson, Ms. McGrew, Ms. Lashway, Ms. Deschamp
PCES: Ms. Milevsky, Ms. Bernard, Ms. Hilton, Ms. Sellier, Ms. Jacobs, Ms. Nunnery, Ms. Gegenheimer
Please continue to monitor online instruction to ensure students are on their research-based instructional pathway. For ways to motivate and engage students in online instruction, check out i-Ready Central Ideas. The Build a Snowman challenge is so cute!
Fluency without Fear
MTSS
Good news!! We will no longer require that MTSS paperwork be uploaded to Google Drive. You can print any documents currently housed in the Drive and create a student folder or binder. The binder should be chronological in order, with the most current data/meeting information at the front. Please see your TST Chair/Assistant Principal for more information.
SHOUT OUT!
Thank you to our district Speech/Language Pathologists, Tamara Collins (DES) and Shelby Miller (PCES). They worked tirelessly to complete our required speech language screeners for our first graders! We appreciate you!
Using a Greek and Latin Roots Approach to Build Vocabulary and Reading Comprehension
Timothy Rasinski’s blog, “Knowing Root Words Can Aid Comprehension” describes high school students who mispronounced biplane during their reading of an informational text about the Wright Brothers. The mispronunciation led to a lack of reading comprehension. Consider how the students’ pronunciation and comprehension could have been affected if they had understood the prefix bi- when reading. In the article, “The Latin-Greek Connection”, Rasinski, Padak, Newton and Newton explain the benefits of building vocabulary through morphology, instructional methods to use and a table of Latin and Greek roots and affixes.
Special Educator Spotlight: Dayna Clark
PowerTeacher Tips & Tricks
1. From the Progress menu, select Standards. The graph on the Standards Progress page shows the distribution of grades for each standard aligned to the course, for the selected class and reporting term.
2. Click the graph to open the Standard Grades Distribution window.
3. On the left side of the Standard Grades Distribution window, view the score distribution for the selected standard for each reporting term in the school year.
4. On the right, view the grade trends of the students in the class for the selected term, compared to the previous term. A red arrow in the Grade column indicates that the student’s level of mastery is trending down between the selected terms. A green arrow indicates an upward trend, while no arrow indicates no change.
5. To compare trends between a different selection of subsequent terms, click a term in the Score Distribution column.
On the right side of the Standards Progress page, the number in the Assignments column indicates the number of assignments that you’ve used to give students opportunities to practice the standard or to assess their levels of mastery.
Making Connections Conference Call for Presenters
Your Curriculum & Instruction Support Team
Patty Cooper, Chief Academic Officer
Rob French, Special Services Director
Tricia Cox, Assistant Special Services DirectorSusan Walters, Director of Student Assessment
Melissa Saucier, Federal Programs Coordinator
Rymsky Labat, School Psychometrist
Shannon Ladner, Secretary
Heather Holliman, Instructional Coach
Alison Pace, Instructional Coach
Email: pcooper@pc.k12.ms.us
Website: https://www.pc.k12.ms.us/
Phone: 228-255-6200