APS Weekly Newsletter
September 22nd, 2023
Time to gear up for Parent Teacher Conferences next week!
Enjoy the time connecting with your students' families and talking about their children. Building that communication early is so important for the success of you, your students, and your school. Thank you for your dedication!
PTC Online Blog Resources
Save the Date
⭐September 20-22: CFA #1
⭐September 25: Caring Hearts Career Fair 2-5pm @ The HUB
⭐September 28: Child Find - 9am-12pm @ 1200 N Florida Bldg C (gym)
⭐September 28-29: Parent Teacher Conferences (NO school for students)
⭐October 4: LETRS Cohort 6&8 1:15-3:15pm
⭐October 9: Indigenous Peoples" Day Holiday - No School
⭐October 10: Dyslexia Screener Data Due
⭐October 11: PSAT 9/10/NMSQT @ AHS
⭐October 11: Community Meeting at Chaparral Middle
⭐October 11: 40th Day
⭐October 12: Grades due NLT 8am
⭐October 13: Report Cards
⭐October 19: School Board Meeting - 6pm
⭐November 10: Veteran's Day - No School
📑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 reading 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.
Other PTC Data Resources for You or Parents
How-To Score CFA questions
Dyslexia Screeners Due in TWO weeks!
iMSSA Scores for PTCs
iMSSA data reports are downloaded. Please find data reports downloaded HERE by school. Please note that complete item analysis reports will not be available until the testing window closes statewide. This is why those are currently not down loaded. Stay tuned for those.