Friday Buzz...
One School, One Team, One Goal!
March 21st PD
Each grade level, please list a math and reading standard to focus on for the upcoming PD on March 21st. The PD focus is project based learning (PBL).
Week at a Glance...
A Week: March 12th-March 16th
PLCs:
Tuesday: 2nd Grade
Wednesday: 1st Grade
Thursday: Kindergarten
MISA Window Opens: March 12th-16th; 5th graders will be testing please keep student movement and noise level to a minimum in the hallway. Thank you
School Improvement Team Meeting: March 13th @ 3:45 p.m. in the Media Center
Interim Distribution: March 13th
Pre-St. Patrick's Day Fun: Friday, March 16th; Dress in your favorite St. Patty's Day attire and if you can find the tricky and elusive Leprechaun or St. Patty's day item, you will win a prize! You must bring the item you have found to the Main Office to claim your prize! Happy hunting!!
In the Know...
- April 25th-May 25th is Open Enrollment for Carefirst. More information to follow.
- The Request for Modification of Building or Grounds form has been updated to include fields for entering the requested information.
- UNIFY: 18.01 Release
UNIFY is releasing updates on Monday, March 5. You can view short videos about the new features here: Unify release videos
Information about updates is always available in your Shared Reports tab in UNIFY and the UNIFY support page on the DAA site. Contact Kristen Maher (kmmaher@smpcs.org) or Jeffrey Gibson (jsgibson@smcps.org) for questions or assistance. - UNIFY: My Reports
If you are looking for reports on mid-year tests, UNIFY has several pre-built reports available under Reports --> My Reports --> Teacher Reports. More information about each report can be found on the county UNIFY support page: https://sites.google.com/smcps.org/unify/reports/myreports. Contact Jeffrey Gibson (jsgibson@smcps.org) if you have additional questions about the reports available under My Reports. - The Rotary Club of Lexington Park is once again offering a $2000 Marco Polo grant to be given to a teacher in St. Mary’s County to encourage educational travel during the summer of 2018. Please complete the application, which is due to Dr. Maher no later than April 9.
- Unify: Access archived data for your current students. The below link directs to a resource describing how to view archived data for students currently in your class.
https://sites.google.com/smcps.org/unify/reports/baseball-card
Further questions about building Baseball Card reports can be referred to the Office of Accountability and Assessment. - Unify: Creating Tests From PARCC Release Items The Unify question database contains pre-created PARCC release items for ELA and Math. For directions about how to build and release tests using these items, you may look at the Unify Support Site. https://sites.google.com/smcps.org/unify/create-resources/create-tests . Further questions about building tests from existing PARCC items can be referred to Jeff Gibson in the Office of Accountability and Assessment (jsgibson@smcps.org).