Month: October 2016

Contents

New Items

EC5 ESL Professional Learning-October 12??- for EC5 Administrators
Professional Development for Elementary Art Teachers??- for Elementary Principals

Previous Items

DLM Assessment Training??- for Principals and Special Education Staff
Co-Teaching??- for Principals
PTA Play??- for Elementary Principals
National School Lunch Week??- for All Administrators
Requests for Family Advocacy Interpreters??- for All Principals
ESOL Technology??- for All Principals

New Items

EC5 ESL Professional Learning-October 12

From Kristen Scott
Just a reminder that we are pulling all EC5 ESL staff to our professional learning session next Wednesday October 12th from 2:00-4:00 at the Central Office. I have asked those staff that are late start schools to work with you to ensure that they are here at 2:00.
Please email me if you have any questions.

Professional Development for Elementary Art Teachers

From Alan King
Elementary Art teachers will be participating in a two day professional learning session on November 2 & 3. They will be absent from the building’s professional learning on November 2.

Previous Items

DLM Assessment Training

From Michelle Colvin
MANDATORY DLM training will be held for all special education teachers who have students taking the DLM Assessment (Alternate State Assessment). The training will take place on Wednesday, October 12, at the South Branch Library at 3104 Strong Avenue, KC, KS during the following times:

High School Teachers – 1:00 to 3:00
Middle School Teachers – 1:30 to 3:30
Early Elementary Teachers – 2:00 to 4:00
Late Elementary Teachers – 2:30 to 4:30

Special Education Teachers, please arrive at this training with a fully charged computer as well as headphones/earbuds.

Prior to this training, you need to complete the following steps:

1. Access your KITE educator log in at https://educator.cete.us/AART/logIn.htm
If your KITE login is not working your should request a new password be sent to your email account. Your Moodle Training for DLM will not work unless you have a working KITE login.

2. Access the Moodle Training Site before our training on Wednesday.

a, Use a recommended browser to go to http://training.dynamiclearningmaps.org
* Google Chrome 51.x
* Mozilla Firefox 47.x

b. Enter your Username (your email address) for example: clarym@usd204.net

Password: At your first login, use your temporary password which is the first part of your email address, up to the “@”.

c. AFTER you are logged in you should see “My Courses for training” for RETURNING or KS NEW participant.

Once you make it this far, you are ready for training on Wednesday.

Co-Teaching

From Jennifer Martin
We were fortunate to have Dr. Richard Villa in our district for training with teachers and administrators during the 15-16 school year. Since that time, we have further strengthened the resources that are available in the district to address co-teaching as an effective instructional strategy.

If you would like building-level professional development, we have a team of co-teaching coaches available. Please contact Danita Long (Danita.long@kckps.org) to schedule initial training or get details about how the team can further support co-teaching in your building.

PTA Play

From Stephanie Dickson
The PTA play this year will be Click Clack Moo: Cows That Type by Doreen Cronin. This award winning children’s book tells the story of Farmer Brown’s cows, who find a typewriter in the barn and mayhem follows.
Tuesday, Nov. 8th 9:30 and 11
Wednesday, Nov. 9th 9:45
Cost $2.50 Contact Teresa at IARC 627-6850 to reserve your space.

National School Lunch Week

From Josh Mathiasmeier
National School Lunch week is October 10-14. The theme this year is “Show Your School Lunch Spirit.” In accordance with this theme, Nutritional Services will have a “Spirit” Lunch-O-Meter that will measure the number of lunches that each site serves next week. During the week, the Meal-O-Meter will be filled up to show the progress towards the goal. If the school meets the goal, all students will get a treat the following week. Please join us in celebrating National School Lunch Week with your school spirit and lunch participation. Have a healthy day!

Requests for Family Advocacy Interpreters

From Rosie Rodriguez
Family Advocacy: October 26 ??? October 27
It???s time to begin gathering your building needs for interpreter requests. To facilitate this process, please fill out the following information and return to my attention, on or before Monday, October 17^th.

Interpreter Request Form PDF

ESOL Technology

From Kristen Scott
Principals,
If you have technology that was purchased by ESL funds in the past that you are wanting to get rid of, please fill out a work order and have it sent to our department at the Central Office. Many of you have reached out to me about the Smart Boards, I-Touch devices and such that you are not using due to the new technology provided by the district.
We would need for this equipment to be sent to us by no later than the end of this month. After that we will not be collecting it and it will remain in your building.
If you have questions or concerns please email me.

Contents

New Items

DLM Assessment Training??- for Principals and Special Education Staff
Co-Teaching??- for Principals

Previous Items

PTA Play??- for Elementary Principals
National School Lunch Week??- for All Administrators
Requests for Family Advocacy Interpreters??- for All Principals
ESOL Technology??- for All Principals

New Items

DLM Assessment Training

From Michelle Colvin
MANDATORY DLM training will be held for all special education teachers who have students taking the DLM Assessment (Alternate State Assessment). The training will take place on Wednesday, October 12, at the South Branch Library at 3104 Strong Avenue, KC, KS during the following times:

High School Teachers – 1:00 to 3:00
Middle School Teachers – 1:30 to 3:30
Early Elementary Teachers – 2:00 to 4:00
Late Elementary Teachers – 2:30 to 4:30

Special Education Teachers, please arrive at this training with a fully charged computer as well as headphones/earbuds.

Prior to this training, you need to complete the following steps:

1. Access your KITE educator log in at https://educator.cete.us/AART/logIn.htm
If your KITE login is not working your should request a new password be sent to your email account. Your Moodle Training for DLM will not work unless you have a working KITE login.

2. Access the Moodle Training Site before our training on Wednesday.

a, Use a recommended browser to go to http://training.dynamiclearningmaps.org
* Google Chrome 51.x
* Mozilla Firefox 47.x

b. Enter your Username (your email address) for example: clarym@usd204.net

Password: At your first login, use your temporary password which is the first part of your email address, up to the “@”.

c. AFTER you are logged in you should see “My Courses for training” for RETURNING or KS NEW participant.

Once you make it this far, you are ready for training on Wednesday.

Co-Teaching

From Jennifer Martin
We were fortunate to have Dr. Richard Villa in our district for training with teachers and administrators during the 15-16 school year. Since that time, we have further strengthened the resources that are available in the district to address co-teaching as an effective instructional strategy.

If you would like building-level professional development, we have a team of co-teaching coaches available. Please contact Danita Long (Danita.long@kckps.org) to schedule initial training or get details about how the team can further support co-teaching in your building.

Previous Items

PTA Play

From Stephanie Dickson
The PTA play this year will be Click Clack Moo: Cows That Type by Doreen Cronin. This award winning children’s book tells the story of Farmer Brown’s cows, who find a typewriter in the barn and mayhem follows.
Tuesday, Nov. 8th 9:30 and 11
Wednesday, Nov. 9th 9:45
Cost $2.50 Contact Teresa at IARC 627-6850 to reserve your space.

National School Lunch Week

From Josh Mathiasmeier
National School Lunch week is October 10-14. The theme this year is “Show Your School Lunch Spirit.” In accordance with this theme, Nutritional Services will have a “Spirit” Lunch-O-Meter that will measure the number of lunches that each site serves next week. During the week, the Meal-O-Meter will be filled up to show the progress towards the goal. If the school meets the goal, all students will get a treat the following week. Please join us in celebrating National School Lunch Week with your school spirit and lunch participation. Have a healthy day!

Requests for Family Advocacy Interpreters

From Rosie Rodriguez
Family Advocacy: October 26 ??? October 27
It???s time to begin gathering your building needs for interpreter requests. To facilitate this process, please fill out the following information and return to my attention, on or before Monday, October 17^th.

Interpreter Request Form PDF

ESOL Technology

From Kristen Scott
Principals,
If you have technology that was purchased by ESL funds in the past that you are wanting to get rid of, please fill out a work order and have it sent to our department at the Central Office. Many of you have reached out to me about the Smart Boards, I-Touch devices and such that you are not using due to the new technology provided by the district.
We would need for this equipment to be sent to us by no later than the end of this month. After that we will not be collecting it and it will remain in your building.
If you have questions or concerns please email me.

Contents

New Items

PTA Play??- for Elementary Principals
National School Lunch Week??- for All Administrators

Previous Items

Requests for Family Advocacy Interpreters??- for All Principals
ESOL Technology??- for All Principals
ELPA21 Results-Update??- for All Administrators

New Items

PTA Play

From Stephanie Dickson
The PTA play this year will be Click Clack Moo: Cows That Type by Doreen Cronin. This award winning children’s book tells the story of Farmer Brown’s cows, who find a typewriter in the barn and mayhem follows.
Tuesday, Nov. 8th 9:30 and 11
Wednesday, Nov. 9th 9:45
Cost $2.50 Contact Teresa at IARC 627-6850 to reserve your space.

National School Lunch Week

From Josh Mathiasmeier
National School Lunch week is October 10-14. The theme this year is “Show Your School Lunch Spirit.” In accordance with this theme, Nutritional Services will have a “Spirit” Lunch-O-Meter that will measure the number of lunches that each site serves next week. During the week, the Meal-O-Meter will be filled up to show the progress towards the goal. If the school meets the goal, all students will get a treat the following week. Please join us in celebrating National School Lunch Week with your school spirit and lunch participation. Have a healthy day!

Previous Items

Requests for Family Advocacy Interpreters

From Rosie Rodriguez
Family Advocacy: October 26 ??? October 27
It???s time to begin gathering your building needs for interpreter requests. To facilitate this process, please fill out the following information and return to my attention, on or before Monday, October 17^th.

Interpreter Request Form PDF

ESOL Technology

From Kristen Scott
Principals,
If you have technology that was purchased by ESL funds in the past that you are wanting to get rid of, please fill out a work order and have it sent to our department at the Central Office. Many of you have reached out to me about the Smart Boards, I-Touch devices and such that you are not using due to the new technology provided by the district.
We would need for this equipment to be sent to us by no later than the end of this month. After that we will not be collecting it and it will remain in your building.
If you have questions or concerns please email me.

ELPA21 Results-Update

From Kristen Scott
Administrators,
The following information was emailed to your ESL staff:
I wanted to update all of you concerning information I learned today in the monthly ESOL webinar put on by the state.
Cut scores and performance categories were approved by the ELPA21 Consortium and sent to Questar yesterday. Questar now has to put that information into all of the testing data on individual students; once that is done the data will be sent to CETE. Once CETE has all of the information uploaded and configured the data will be released to KSDE. So what that all means now is that it might be November until we get the results.
Please remember that for students who were with us and already had an ILP, we are continuing with that ILP. You are creating new ILPs for any new student into our system.
If I am notified that this may change I will let you all know. Until then if you have any questions please let me know.

Contents

New Items

Requests for Family Advocacy Interpreters??- for All Principals

Previous Items

ESOL Technology??- for All Principals
Student Trip Funding??- for All Principals
FAS Work Day Expectations??- for All Administrators
ELPA21 Results-Update??- for All Administrators

New Items

Requests for Family Advocacy Interpreters

From Rosie Rodriguez
Family Advocacy: October 26 ??? October 27
It???s time to begin gathering your building needs for interpreter requests. To facilitate this process, please fill out the following information and return to my attention, on or before Monday, October 17^th.

Interpreter Request Form PDF

Previous Items

ESOL Technology

From Kristen Scott
Principals,
If you have technology that was purchased by ESL funds in the past that you are wanting to get rid of, please fill out a work order and have it sent to our department at the Central Office. Many of you have reached out to me about the Smart Boards, I-Touch devices and such that you are not using due to the new technology provided by the district.
We would need for this equipment to be sent to us by no later than the end of this month. After that we will not be collecting it and it will remain in your building.
If you have questions or concerns please email me.

Student Trip Funding

From Dr. Kelli Mather
Student trips will only be funded by the District if the student(s) earned admittance by taking part in a KSHSAA sponsored competition or event.

If the student(s) did not advance to a competition or event through KSHSAA, the trip will not be funded by the District.

Please contact me if you have any questions.

Memorandum PDF

FAS Work Day Expectations

From Executive Directors
As you plan for your FAS days this year, please note that it is an expectation that staff will still work their required number of hours, per their job description, on both Thursday, October 27th and Friday, February 10, 2017. For example, teachers will work an eight hour day on each date.
In consideration of the needs of your families, you may identify the need to have evening opportunities and therefore we encourage you to consider using your available evenings that you can require teachers to stay late.
If you have additional questions, please contact your Executive Director.

ELPA21 Results-Update

From Kristen Scott
Administrators,
The following information was emailed to your ESL staff:
I wanted to update all of you concerning information I learned today in the monthly ESOL webinar put on by the state.
Cut scores and performance categories were approved by the ELPA21 Consortium and sent to Questar yesterday. Questar now has to put that information into all of the testing data on individual students; once that is done the data will be sent to CETE. Once CETE has all of the information uploaded and configured the data will be released to KSDE. So what that all means now is that it might be November until we get the results.
Please remember that for students who were with us and already had an ILP, we are continuing with that ILP. You are creating new ILPs for any new student into our system.
If I am notified that this may change I will let you all know. Until then if you have any questions please let me know.

Contents

New Items

ESOL Technology??- for All Principals

Previous Items

Student Trip Funding??- for All Principals
FAS Work Day Expectations??- for All Administrators
ELPA21 Results-Update??- for All Administrators

New Items

ESOL Technology

From Kristen Scott
Principals,
If you have technology that was purchased by ESL funds in the past that you are wanting to get rid of, please fill out a work order and have it sent to our department at the Central Office. Many of you have reached out to me about the Smart Boards, I-Touch devices and such that you are not using due to the new technology provided by the district.
We would need for this equipment to be sent to us by no later than the end of this month. After that we will not be collecting it and it will remain in your building.
If you have questions or concerns please email me.

Previous Items

Student Trip Funding

From Dr. Kelli Mather
Student trips will only be funded by the District if the student(s) earned admittance by taking part in a KSHSAA sponsored competition or event.

If the student(s) did not advance to a competition or event through KSHSAA, the trip will not be funded by the District.

Please contact me if you have any questions.

Memorandum PDF

FAS Work Day Expectations

From Executive Directors
As you plan for your FAS days this year, please note that it is an expectation that staff will still work their required number of hours, per their job description, on both Thursday, October 27th and Friday, February 10, 2017. For example, teachers will work an eight hour day on each date.
In consideration of the needs of your families, you may identify the need to have evening opportunities and therefore we encourage you to consider using your available evenings that you can require teachers to stay late.
If you have additional questions, please contact your Executive Director.

ELPA21 Results-Update

From Kristen Scott
Administrators,
The following information was emailed to your ESL staff:
I wanted to update all of you concerning information I learned today in the monthly ESOL webinar put on by the state.
Cut scores and performance categories were approved by the ELPA21 Consortium and sent to Questar yesterday. Questar now has to put that information into all of the testing data on individual students; once that is done the data will be sent to CETE. Once CETE has all of the information uploaded and configured the data will be released to KSDE. So what that all means now is that it might be November until we get the results.
Please remember that for students who were with us and already had an ILP, we are continuing with that ILP. You are creating new ILPs for any new student into our system.
If I am notified that this may change I will let you all know. Until then if you have any questions please let me know.