Kern Team Weekly Update
8/27/2018
To-Do List
- Continue collecting MAs for track C students
- Get Household Data forms signed via Parent Portal or uploaded to SIS
- Get Handbook Signature Pages (Attached below) signed and uploaded to SIS
- Distribute Track B Star 360 logins details found in HST Handbook 11.1
- Field Trips Due Sept 1
- Work on SMART Goal- Due 1st RC meeting
- Work on Training Tracker and Safe Schools Training-Due September 28.
Make sure to keep your Main Brain updated and mark off completed items
Send in your Teacher Attendance to Alicia Lacy by the end of the month. Form below.
Need a grade level change?
We have a new email address to support you with questions about grade level placement, grade level errors, retention, kindergarten continuance, and accelerated promotion.
gradelevelhelp@inspireschools.org This email address is monitored by representatives in the Curriculum Department and Student Support Departments. For more information, please see HST Handbook Section 8.4.
Testing & Assessment
STAR 360
If you get the pictured error when you log in to Renaissance or can't find all of your students, please click here to see how to resolve it. DASHBOARD ERROR/CHANGE SCOPES
Helpful Hint: To view student roster in Renaissance for different scopes, click the drop down menu under "school" to toggle between scopes.
Teacher login and troubleshooting teacher login issues
Preparing Student Accounts and Email Templates for Families ***Student accounts must be prepared prior to emailing families.
Troubleshooting student login or tech issues.
Monitoring Completion of STAR 360 Assessments
Reading STAR 360 Plan of Action
Important details to remember:
*If you have new students who are not on your Renaissance roster, please check back every few days. A bridge is connected between Pathways and Renaissance, so all new students will be uploaded automatically.*Students will not show in Renaissance until they have officially started their track with a signed Master Agreement.
*Track C students will show in Renaissance on 9/5/18, so they will not be able to take the Star 360 until then.
*Please verify the grade level is correct in STAR 360 and Pathways prior to messaging Usernames and Passwords to families.
*The two-week assessment window is a general guideline. If a family needs more time, please be flexible.
*All general testing questions and concerns should be submitted to testing@inspireschools.org
Master Agreements
Tip: If you are NOT getting emails from School Pathways about Master Agreements being signed by your families, have no fear, there is a way to check at any time.
Go to Teachers>Compliance>Sign Documents Compliance
On another note: Please keep those Calendar C Master Agreements coming in! Calendar B is closed.
Parent Portal
It’s time to start utilizing our Parent Portal features. We hoped you enjoyed watching the Parent Portal short clip on all the features available for parents. In order for them to start using the Parent Portal, a link, login, and password need to be sent. The SIS Team has been working behind the scenes making sure everything is ready for this distribution. This year we have two ways in rolling out logins/passwords:
TWO WAYS:
1. MANUALLY: Follow the directions on the Parent Portal Logins Handout in Section 2.15 . This handout will give directions on how to manually give logins/passwords to your families at any time.
2. *MASS EMAIL: Submit a survey to the Parent Portal Login - Mass Survey and the SIS team will mass email (1 time only) all logins/passwords to your parents. After the one mass email, you will need to manually give logins/password to all additional parents.
*If you already gave your families their logins/passwords manually and decide to utilize the mass email way all previous logins/passwords will change as well.
Media Release & Parent Student Handbook Forms
Upload signed Media Release form into Student Notes section of the Dashboard.
A-G High School Students need a Proctor Agreement
UC rules require that major assessments (unit tests and finals) in a-g courses be proctored. To meet this requirement, Inspire is asking that each student have an educational partner (parent or learning coach) that will serve as a proctor for Inspire a-g courses. The proctor is simply agreeing to monitor the student while the student is taking major assessments. No special scheduling or reporting to the teacher is required. Please have each of your high school a-g students complete a Proctor Agreement with the proctor of their choice. HSTs should collect the Proctor Agreement and keep a copy in the files for the student. If you have questions about this, please ask your HSSC. (Note: this is a different process than BYU proctoring. Students taking BYU courses will still need to arrange in-person proctoring for those courses)
High School Students in Driver's Ed
Teachers please make sure that students enrolled in Driver's Ed (same with Driver's Training) only receive 2.5 credits for the semester. The teacher will need to manually change the credits in Pathways. Please note the 2.5 credits on the IGP as well.
Enrichment
Open Office Hours with Enrichment every Monday afternoon from 3:30 – 5:00 P.M. All teachers are welcome, and we love your questions and feedback!
eDynamic Learning orders . . .
All courses cost $85 each.
Order requests should be entered by families in the EOS, and Enrichment will take care of processing them.
HSTs will have access to their student’s accounts, and will be provided a copy of the course syllabus, teacher’s guide, etc.
Rainbow Resource . . . Religious or Not Religious?
Please feel free to reference Rainbow Resource’s Religious Content Spreadsheet when approving orders to help determine whether items have religious content or not.English Language Learners
Resources & Classes
Please view the EL Resources Folder for all things EL :)
All of the following can be found in this folder:
Please view the EL Intervention Strategies PDF, as it has been updated for this year. Here you will see the support options, by tier, that we have to offer this year.
There is also an explanation of THE ALL NEW AND IMPROVED one-on-one, personalized classes, 2018-19 ELD Class Schedule. These classes start next week and will fill up fast, so speak with your families and sign your EL kids up ASAP!
If you or a parent want to sign a student up, here is the sign up sheet/links:
FALL SEMESTER ELD Support Classes Sign-Up Links:
SESSION A- MONDAYS, 8/27/18-9/17/18:http://signup.com/go/MohDhua, TUESDAYS, 8/28/18-9/18/18:http://signup.com/go/gSTyjey, THURSDAYS, 8/30/18-9/20/18:http://signup.com/go/ctQpqen
SESSION B- MONDAYS, 10/1/18-10/29/18:http://signup.com/go/HvEDkUF, TUESDAYS, 10/2/18-10/30/18:http://signup.com/go/tqjOnYo, THURSDAYS, 10/4/18-11/1/18:
SESSION C- MONDAYS, 11/19/18-1/7/19:http://signup.com/go/BuKTWxB, TUESDAYS, 11/13/18-1/8/19:http://signup.com/go/KOJtiCH, THURSDAYS, 11/15/18-1/10/19:
If you have questions about this class or signing up, please reach out to Linda Moreno, our ELD teacher, lindam@inspireschools.org, and/or me at lisam@inspireschools.org
If you are interested in the voluntary EL trainings beginning in September, please also see EL Training Plan for more info and then submit the RSVP-EL Intervention Trainings Survey, also housed in the EL Resources Folder.
As always, if you have questions/concerns about an EL student, at any time, please contact me so that we can work together to support our kids. Thanks so much!
New SIS Email Address
The Student Information Team is excited to present an important new email address:
This email will connect you to every member of the SIS Team- Jasper De Jesus, Jamie Post, Brenda Olvera, Adriana Ramirez and Susi Hernandez- so they can quickly assist you with your School Pathways questions and needs.
You may begin to use this email address immediately instead of individual email addresses to ensure timely responses!
Mondays- Live @ 5
Join us for our continuing series of conversations designed to share our stories of what works and be inspired by the journeys experienced by our panelists, all of whom are homeschooling their own children, and they happen to work at Inspire. They are sharing their homeschool heart with new to homeschooling parents and veterans, who may want to hear from others which may help them re-frame their plans for this school year.
Sign on Monday at 5 p.m. by clicking on this link (or copying and pasting it into your web browser): http://bit.ly/SignUpInspiringParents
Academic Decathlon is Now an A-G Approved Elective Course!
Students will study a thematic curriculum to prepare for a regional competition put on by Inspire Charter Schools. Top performing students will continue on and represent Inspire at the state competition! We have a spot saved for us at the state competition!
To enroll a student in the course, there are two things the HST needs to do:
Add the course to the students signed MA
Fill out the Academic Decathlon Enrollment Survey
If you have any questions, please contact Bryanna Brossman at bryanna@inspireschools.org or 951-290-3013.
National Honor Society
National Honor Society is for students in grades 10 - 12 and National Junior Honor Society is for students in grades 7- 9.
Students who are eligible for NJHS and NHS and have been at Inspire for at least one semester will be contacted via email the first week of September with directions on how to become a member.
To be eligible for NJHS the students must maintain a 3.0 GPA that is verified with an official report card.
To be eligible for NHS, the student needs to maintain a 3.5 overall GPA.
Field Trip Update
Thank you all for your remarkable patience and cooperation as we move forward with the launch of the Field Trips & Event (FTE) site.
WONDERFUL NEWS; the site is up and ready for families to being booking their field trips. https://www.icsinspirationstation.net/#/
Teachers, please continue to put in your field trips/events so we can offer our families as many educational opportunities as possible. Use this link to submit your field trips: https://admin.icsinspirationstation.net/#/
Many of you have questions regarding payments for your upcoming field trips. Below are important steps in the payment process:
- Contacting vendors about payment options
Payment options, in order of preference are as follows:
Purchase Orders
Credit Card (by phone or online)
Check (mailed to venue)
Check (mailed to organizer)
that our school's preferred method of payment is a
purchase order and/or credit card payment.- All field trips must be being entered into the FTE prior to payment(s) being requested.
If you need payment before the event has been finalized, you can add the event as a draft.
If the event was previously planned with a Google survey, please share the survey responses form (with editing permissions) with Serena (serena@inspireschools.org) and the FTE Team (icsfieldtrips@inspireschools.org)
- Please use the following survey for ALL payment requests: Field Trip Deposit & Payment Request
IMPORTANT: If you need payment within the next 2 weeks and have previously submitted a payment request via email, you must fill out the survey with your payment request.
- Contracts and/or documents which require a signature
If you have a contract or any documents that require a signature, those can be emailed to icsfieldtrips@inspireschools.org. In the subject line of the email, please use the following format:
SIGNATURE REQUIRED: Field Trip/Event Name -- Date of Event
Example - SIGNATURE REQUIRED: San Diego Zoo - 10/14/18
If there's a deadline date (for the contract), please provide that in the body of the email and provide any additional necessary information.
We're working on an update to the FTE, soon, all payment will be able to be entered and managed directly from the FTE. We greatly appreciate your continued patience, understanding, and cooperation while we work on ironing out the wrinkles and streamlining the process.
If you have any questions or concerns, please contact our FTE Team: icsfieldtrips@inspireschools.org