Contents
Submitting Student Samples of Performance Tasks – for Elementary Administrators and Teacher Leaders
ESL Announcements – for All Principals
Community Forum – for Schlagle and Washington Cluster Principals/All Administrators
Submitting Student Samples of Performance Tasks
From Alan King
We wanted to provide more information about submitting copies of student samples from the Performance Tasks for this year. The purpose of this collection is to provide annotated exemplars for teacher use. The annotations highlight specific criteria established within the scoring key. The exemplars represent a point in time, showing varieties of authentic student thinking in response to content specific prompts.
Like last year, after each Performance Task (not including Letter ID & Modified Sentence Dictations), classroom teachers will submit copies of two student samples along with a cover page (linked in the Pacing Guides). Selected samples must Meet the Expectations of the Performance Task in the Content column, as well as in at least two of the other three columns.
This year, schools will need to determine their own process for collecting and submitting student samples. Hard copies of these student samples should be sent to the Curriculum Department (Math: Attn-Amanda Kain, SS/ELA and Science: Attn-Teri Fulton. As an alternative this year, samples can be submitted electronically instead of hard copy. Links to submit the samples electronically are included on the cover page (linked in the Pacing Guides).
For your convenience, the link below provides an overview of the Performance Tasks for Administrators and Teacher Leaders. The intention of this document is to provide those outside the day-to-day instruction and planning with the same information teachers are seeing embedded in their Pacing Guides. Teachers will continue to access the same information via the GVC-Pacing Guides so that Performance Tasks remain in the context of the units of study.
Link to Performance Task Doc
Please let us know if you have any questions.
Elementary Curriculum Team (Suzie, Jen, Teri, Amanda, Julie)
ESL Announcements
From Kristen Scott
n our ESL department professional learning on October 9th we went over MAP data. Your ESL staff will be creating a plan for your building and they will then present it to you. We ask that you help them refine the plan based on your building priorities. The deadline for submitting the plan will be mid second quarter; and a template will be provided to the ESL staff.
We also clarified that aides and translators are not to be translating instructional materials; this is not our program. If you have specific questions about this please email Kristen Scott.
Community Forum
From David Smith
The Kansas City, Kansas Public Schools will be hosting a community forum on Wednesday, November 4 at 6:30 pm at the Kansas City Community Church, 5901 Leavenworth Road. The Forum will give participants a chance to learn about our work, engage in conversation with others, and help guide us as we implement Diploma+. All parents, families, staff and community members are invited, although the focus for this forum will targeted toward people living in the Schlagle and Washington clusters. Principals in those two clusters will be receiving copies of the attached flier this week to send home with students. In addition, for principals in those two clusters, if you are working with community partners whom you would like to see invited, please forward their contact information to Grace Elmore and we will send them an invitation.
