Student Services
Weekly Updates!
Teachers Participating In The California Alternate Assessment (CAA)Training
On Monday, January 13th special education teachers who administer the State California Alternative Assessments met for a training coordinated by Student Services. The training topics included this year's updates from the State, the timeline for administering the CAA science assessments and the inclusion of one additional Performance Tasks (PFT). Teachers would need to give a total of four performance tests spread out for the entire school year.
Teachers going through the CAA tutorial provided by the State
Teachers answering questions after going through the tutorial
Teachers listening to guidelines for administering the CAA
NWEA And CAASPP Interim Assessments Coming Soon!
Kindergarten through 2nd-grade teachers are preparing for the NWEA assessments in both ELA and Math. The 3rd through 11th grade are also preparing for their SBAC - ICA Interim assessments to be administered at the dates below. The purpose of these assessments is to determine if students have mastered the state standards. The results from these assessments will help determine appropriate intervention for students.
Dates for Testing
NWEA
K-2
1/21 - 2/7
Smarter Balanced Interim Assessments
K-11
2/3 - 2/28
Math Adoption Training At The C and I Building
High school teachers with the district-wide academic TOSA met for two days, at the C & I Building on Tuesday and Wednesday to receive training on a proposed math textbook called College Preparatory Math (CPM) Math. Teachers went through designing lesson plans, participated in some strategies that involved fun hands-on activities. During the training, teachers were observed having fun in their math training, which will transfer into their classroom when they start the piloting process at the high school.
Ice - Breakers
Teachers are starting their training with an Ice-breaker. Creating as many math words with a sentence provided.
Introduction to Cyclic Models
Teachers conducting an experiment with a pendulum that will result in a sine curve.
One Of The Few Math Strategy
Teachers actively listening as presenter demonstrates a maths hands-on activity.
10 Facts About School Attendance
- Absenteeism in the first month of school can predict poor attendance throughout the school year. Half the students who miss 2-4 days in September go on to miss nearly a month of school. Read more...
- Over 8 million U.S. students miss nearly a month of school each year. Read more...
- Absenteeism and its ill effects start early. One in 10 kindergarten and first-grade students are chronically absent. Read more...
- Poor attendance can influence whether children read proficiently by the end of third grade or be held back. Read more...
- By 6th grade, chronic absence becomes a leading indicator that a student will drop out of high school. Read more...
- Research shows that missing 10 percent of the school, or about 18 days in most school districts, negatively affects a student’s academic performance. That’s just two days a month and that’s known as chronic absence. Read more...
- Students who live in communities with high levels of poverty are four times more likely to be chronically absent than others often for reasons beyond their control, such as unstable housing, unreliable transportation and a lack of access to health care. Read more...
- When students improve their attendance rates, they improve their academic prospects and chances for graduating. Read more...
- Attendance improves when schools engage students and parents in positive ways and when schools provide mentors for chronically absent students. Read more...
- Most school districts and states don’t look at all the right data to improve school attendance. They track how many students show up every day and how many are skipping school without an excuse, but not how many are missing so many days in excused and unexcused absence that they are headed off track academically. Read more...
Contact Us
Angela Ehrlich,
Director of Student Services and Accountability
Email: aehrlich@soledad.k12.ca.us
Website: http://soledadusd.org
Location: Soledad Unified School District, 1261 Metz Road, Soledad, CA, USA
Phone: 831-678-3987