NRES Staff Newsletter
Week of November 15, 2015
Around the Building
Saw this in the hall and it made me laugh
Two-Hour Delay Waiver Day, November 18th
This month in STAR:
- Schedule and prepare for winter screening (11/30/2015-12/11/2015)
- Consider assessing all students at the end of the first marking period. Some reports require three data points to calculate a trend line. An assessment here enables you to have a trend line for all students after winter screening.
- Generate a State Standards Mastery Report by class or by student. This provides you baseline information as to where your students are performing in relation to the standards.
- Generate Student Progress Monitoring Reports for all students who have a goal set in the Goal-Setting Wizard. This report requires four data points to calculate a trend. Analyze the data to determine if changes in the intervention plan are needed.
New Value-added Video Series and Facilitation Guides available on portal
how parents can link to their child's account in Reading Eggs
Parents should go to www.readingeggs.com There is box that says "PARENTS
Click Here". After giving their email and creating a password, they will go
into the site and link using their child's username and password.
New Ohio’s State Tests Web pages published
The department made revisions to several Ohio’s State Tests Web pages this week in an effort to make information more accessible to the general public, teachers, test coordinators and other administrators. The new or revised pages are:
- Ohio’s State Tests in English language arts, mathematics science and social studies. – This page provides a general overview about the tests, including their purpose, test length and who takes what test and when.
- Content Preparation page for teachers – This link serves as a “home page” for teachers who are planning their instruction so students will acquire the knowledge and skills called for in Ohio’s Learning Standards. Teachers will find test blueprints, test specifications, sample test items, practice tests and other resources that will help them and their students get ready for the state tests. The department will continue posting resources on the pages for each content area:
- English language arts;
- Mathematics;
- Science; and
- Social studies.
- Test Administration Resources for Ohio’s State Tests – This page includes links to testing manuals and resources that test coordinators and test administrators use most often. It also links to TIDE and Ohio’s State Tests portal.
If you have comments or questions about these Web pages or suggestions for more information you would like to see online, please send those to statetests@education.ohio.govwith “testing website” in the subject line.
World Book series now offers new interfaces and more support for students and teachers
World Book Kids, World Book Student, and World Book Advanced have new interfaces this year that include more photographs, more educational videos, and more access to informational text on current events. World Book is available at no charge to all schools in Ohio throughINFOhio, Ohio's PreK-12 digital library.
World Book resources include:
- Research tools to help students manage research projects;
- A read-aloud option for articles;
- Hundreds of images and videos;
- Lexiled articles so that teachers can easily differentiate text to meet student needs;
- Faceted search for curriculum correlations; and
Lesson plans, classroom activities, experiments and dozens of graphic organizers for core subjects at all grade levels.
Educator license renewal for 2016-2017 now open
Educators who are ready to request renewal of their licensure credentials for 2016-2017 may now do so. Please note:
- E-signers should pay special attention to the effective year of the licensure request, and change it to the correct effective year if necessary before approving the request.
- Please announce to those staff members whose licenses will expire in 2016 that they will each need a SAFE account to access CORE and renew their licenses. Here are some quick tips on how to set up an account.
- All educators should verify that their email addresses within SAFE are current.
- Remember to inform those who hold coaching permits (pupil activity permits) of the recent changes outlined on the Coaching Web page about verification of training and two new permit terms for certain educators.
More information about licensure is here. Please send any questions toeducator.licensure@education.ohio.gov or call (877) 644-6338.
Transition to New Assessments: Impact on Report Cards and Educator Evaluation
The Ever Increasing Burden on America’s Public Schools
MEMO 611-This week's quotes and articles come from Educational Leadership, Wharton Leadership Nano Tools, The Education Gadfly, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The District Management Journal, Changing Schools, Let's Grow Leaders, and a YouTube video. The headlines:
- Understanding the fundamental attribution error
- How leaders can build trust
- A study of teacher merit pay in Houston
- Two case studies of data-driven improvement
- An elementary school improves student attendance
- A richer and deeper view of student success
- Demo lessons: some suggestions
- Ten common budget planning mistakes
- Questions to ask before spending money on new technology
- A California teacher on effective use of online resources
- Why a boss's feedback might be ignored
- Economics videos
If you want an HTML version of this week's Memo, please click here:
http://www.marshallmemo.com/issue.php?I=f9b377c2f78b09179827654ada78c17e
To listen to a podcast of last week's Memo (#610), please click here:
Things to do:
- Send interims home by Friday.
- Send 2 Hour Delay Plans to Rob
- Schedule and prepare for winter screening (11/30/2015-12/11/2015)
- Professional Growth Plan to evaluator/December 1st (Complete in eTPES)
10 Day Forecast
Monday, November 16
- Pledge-Fairbank
- Mathsgiving
- Interim Week
- 4th Grade Conference, 11:45 a.m.
- 504 Meeting-4th Grade, 2:15 p.m.
- PTO Meeting, 6:00 p.m.
Tuesday, November 17
- Pledge-J. Roberts
- Interim Week
- Mathsgiving
- IAT Follow-up-Harris, 10:00 a.m.
- IAT-3rd/4th Grade, 11:00 a.m.
Wednesday, November 18
- Pledge-Clay
- Interim Week
- Mathsgiving
- 2 Hour Delay-Waiver Day
Thursday, November 19
- Pledge-Kugler
- Interim Week
- Mathsgiving
Friday, November 20
- Pledge-B. Roberts
- Interim Week
- Mathsgiving
Monday, November 23
- Pledge Chrisman
- 3rd Grade Team Meeting, 7:55 a.m.
- 2nd Grade Team Meeting, 10:00 a.m.
Tuesday, November 24
- Pledge Everhart
- Second Harvest Food Bank Barrel Pickup
- IAT-Mann-7:30 a.m.
- Kindergarten Team Meeting, 1:05 p.m.
Wednesday, November 25
- Conference Make-up Day, No School
Thursday, November 26
- Happy Thanksgiving, No School
Friday, November 27
- Thanksgiving Break, No School
Northridge Elementary School
Email: robshaffer@nelsd.org
Website: www.nelsd.org
Location: 4445 Ridgewood Rd E, Springfield, OH, United States
Phone: (937) 342-4627
Twitter: @NRES_Principal