APS Weekly Newsletter
March 22, 2024
🗓️Save the Date🗓️
🌷March 25-29: SPRING BREAK
🌷March 29: Professional Development Dossier and OPAL Submission deadline
🌷April 6: Writing Fair (POC-Whitney Anderson)
🌷April 12: 2024-2025 Registration Opens
💻April 15-19: ASR Testing 5th-8th Grade
💻April 22-30: MSSA Testing 3rd-8th Grade
💜April 25: Purple Up Day
🌷April 26: Snow Day - NO School
🌷April 26: RSVP deadline for Retirement Party
🌷May 10: Retirement Party from 5-7pm @ Civic Center
If you haven't already, fill this survey out! But only once 😎
📣 Judges Needed! Join us in shaping the dreams of budding authors. You can enjoy a cup of coffee while reading winning submissions from our young aspiring authors across the district in one or more of the following categories.
✏️Bound Book- Illustrations required/ min of 4 and max of 32 pages
✏️Cartoon, Comic, or Graphic Novel- Min of 4 and max of 32 frames
✏️Essay- Submissions on a single subject or personal view/opinion limited to 5 typewritten pages
✏️Poetry -Limited to two typewritten pages
✏️Short Story- A fiction entry of less than 3,000 words
✏️Flash Fiction- A fiction entry limited to 1,000 words
✏️Bilingual entry- Any category: bound book, short story, essay, cartoon, or poetry)
Your support means the world to these young voices yearning to be heard.
Note: *Students will not be present for the judging as it is a reading and scoring event only.
Volunteer, sign up at the link below!
PowerSchool News!
The new User Interface will be here soon...use the newsletter below to find the tips and tricks and quick videos to get acquainted before we transition.
Sharing is Caring! Share the amazing things you are doing!!!
Professional Development
Gold Series!
📑ASSESSMENT ALLEY📑
🚨DUE April 10th🚨
Testing Calendar
I want to emphasize how much information is packed into the Assessment Resource Newsletter!
This year's brand new edition has a pretty cute and encouraging otter 😍😅 I just updated it with more resources such as ASR practice test opportunities, writing tips, Istation modeling, and more...if you haven't already started, you should be incorporating opportunities to scaffold testing strategies, model question type, and exposing them to the types of test sets they may see in your weekly lesson plans. Embedding and modeling sets our students up for success and gives them confidence. There are so many resources in different places...this newsletter allows for the majority to be downloaded in one place. Your time is too precious to have to be searching all over for support.
🌞It's HERE!!!! Summer Camp INTEREST form!🌞
State Assessment Review Opportunities
Dear Educator,
Recruitment for the 2024 Cognia Summative Assessment Bias and Sensitivity Review is underway. Below you will find information about the Bias and Sensitivity Review and the anticipated commitments for individuals to participate. Please be sure to review the “Next Steps” section below to be considered for this opportunity.
Purpose
Participants of the Cognia Summative Assessment Bias and Sensitivity Review will review items developed for use in Cognia’s Summative Assessment to ensure that they are diverse and provide a fair and bias-free testing experience to all students.
Scope
- Training: A recorded training is available for use as a resource throughout the series of reviews.
- Independent Review: Review items to identify bias and sensitivity concerns, document feedback within the provided form, and submit the completed feedback form to Cognia.
- Virtual Committee Meeting: Meet with the appropriate content team to discuss the feedback collected from all participants.
Expectations
- Educators selected to participate will need Microsoft Excel to properly access and submit feedback to Cognia.
- Educators applying/selected to participate must complete the independent review and attend the committee meeting in entirety for all grades and content areas listed above.
- Educators selected to participate are asked to remain on camera during the committee meetings.
Stipend
At the end of each review, participants will receive an email providing a reimbursement form to complete and submit to Events@Cognia.org. Please allow 6-8 weeks for processing. Stipends will be available for participants as outlined below.
- Mathematics Grades 4,6,8 Independent Review: $300.00 & Committee Meeting: $75.00 = Total $375.00
- Mathematics Grades 3,5,7,9 Independent Review: $300.00 & Committee Meeting: $75.00 = Total $375.00
- ELA Items Grades 3,5,7,9 Independent Review: $300.00 & Committee Meeting: $75.00 = Total $375.00
- ELA Items Grades 4,6,8 Independent Review: $300.00 & Committee Meeting: $75.00 = Total $375.00
Substitute Reimbursement
Substitute expenses will be paid to the school district for teachers requiring a substitute to participate in the committee meetings. Please note that Cognia will pay for either a stipend or substitute expenses for the committee meetings. Please contact Cognia Events at Events@cognia.org to request a substitute reimbursement form. Please allow 6-8 weeks for processing.
Professional Development Certificates – New for 2024!
At the conclusion of 2024 Cognia Summative Assessment Bias and Sensitivity Review, you will be eligible to receive a professional learning development certificate. The professional development units will be predetermined based on the expected number of hours to complete the scope of work for each round of review. Please note: The professional learning certificates will be sent 7-10 business days from the completion of the feedback survey.
Next Steps
- Educators who wish to participate must complete the online registration at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/Cognia24BiasApp no later than Sunday, March 24, 2024. *Please be sure to select “NM Representative” for the State/Entity within the application.
- Cognia Events will send acceptance memos to applicants selected to participate and to individuals placed on the waiting list approximately a week from the close of the application. If you have any questions, please contact Cognia Events by e-mail at Events@Cognia.org.
If you have any questions, please contact Cognia Events by e-mail at Events@Cognia.org.
Dear Educator,
Recruitment for the 2024 Cognia Summative Assessment Item Review is underway. Below you will find information about the Item Review and the anticipated commitments for individuals to participate. Please be sure to review the “Next Steps” section below to be considered for this opportunity.
Purpose
These are stakeholder committees that use a grade and content lens to review items developed for the ELA, Math, and Science assessments. In ELA, the committees meet to review passages as well as items developed to the passages.
Scope
- Training: A recorded training is available for use as a resource throughout the series of reviews.
- Independent Review: Review passages and/or items to identify content concerns, document feedback within the provided form, and submit the completed feedback form to Cognia.
- Virtual Committee Meeting: Meet with the appropriate content team to discuss the feedback collected from all participants.
Expectations
- Educators selected to participate will need Microsoft Excel to properly access and submit feedback to Cognia.
- Educators applying/selected to participate must commit to completing the independent review and attending the committee meeting in entirety for all grades within the group they are chosen for.
- Educators selected to participate are asked to remain on camera during the committee meetings.
Stipend
A stipend of $225.00 per grade within a content committee will be available to participants. This stipend is provided in two parts; participants will receive $150.00 for completing the training and independent review (submitting a completed feedback form) and $75.00 for attending the committee meeting. (Example: An ELA Item Review Grades 3-4 committee member would qualify for $225.00 for grade 3 and $225.00 for grade 4 if they complete all item reviews and attend all committee meetings). At the conclusion of the review, participants will receive an email providing a reimbursement form to complete and submit to Events@Cognia.org. Please allow 6-8 weeks for processing.
Substitute Reimbursement
Substitute expenses will be paid to the school district for teachers requiring a substitute to participate in the committee meeting. Please note that Cognia will pay for either a stipend or substitute expenses for the committee meeting. Please contact Cognia Events at Events@cognia.org to request a substitute reimbursement form. Please allow 6-8 weeks for processing.
Professional Development Certificates – New for 2024!
At the conclusion of the review and completion of the feedback survey, you will be eligible to receive a professional learning development certificate. The professional development units will be predetermined based on the expected number of hours to complete the scope of work for each round of review. Please note: The professional learning certificates will be sent 7-10 business days from the completion of the feedback survey.
Next Steps
- Educators who wish to participate must complete the online application at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/Cognia2024IRCApp no later than Sunday, March 24, 2024. *Please be sure to select “NM Representative” for the State/Entity within the application.
- Cognia Events will send acceptance memos to applicants selected to participate and to individuals placed on the waiting list approximately a week from the close of the application.
If you have any questions, please contact Cognia Events by e-mail at Events@Cognia.org.
Flyers!
Purple Up Day 2024
April 25th!
Yoga and Kickboxing!
Yoga, Monday and Wednesday at 4pm and 5pm
Kickboxing, Tuesday and Thursday at 4:45pm
PRE-K Round up!
April 24th, 2024
9:00am-3:30pm