Thursday, September 24, 2015

Contents

Information from your EDs – for EC5 Principals
District Inservice – for EC5 Administrators
ESL Aide Professional Learning – for Secondary Principals

Information from your EDs

From Dr. Alicia Miguel
T1. H R is reminding us that any staff that is absent 3 consecutive days must be reported to their office. HR will then contact the employee to inform them of FMLA if their absence goes beyond the 3 days. H R has shared that failure to do any of the above could result in a fine to the district/supervisor.

2. Reminder that the Kansas Horizon Award is open for nominations. This is for a teacher who has completed one year of teaching with us. You may obtain more information from H R.

District Inservice:

From Dr. Alicia Miguel

This is a reminder that District Inservice is from the system???s perspective, a more global view of what the system is focusing on than the specific needs of your school. From the September 21 email, the purpose of district inservice is “to come together as a district to build common knowledge and understanding as a system”.With this in mind, and looking at the handout with Learning Goals and Targets that was provided for you last week (attached), the focus of next District Inservice should come from the Foundational Targets (at the bottom of the handout):

Foundational Targets
Identify and explain the relationship between:

Teaching Map (attached) and Big 3 Plus
DCIP targets and the teaching map
DCIP targets and the evidences of the Big 3 Plus

Understand:

DCIP
Non-Negotiable Targets for Achievement
Literacy Plan
KCKPS Growth Tool
Instructional practices of the Teaching Map
Literacy Grounding Statement
Big 3 Plus Evidences

These targets are to be addressed over the three District Inservices. You and your partner school(s) will decide how you divide this work among the three district in service dates. You will have 90 minutes on Thursday, October 1 to get together with your partner school and plan. The only thing that is specific to your school from the list above is the Literacy Plan, that you have already addressed on a separate Wednesday, and will continue to be the focus throughout the year.

Teaching Map Crosswalk

District-Professional-Learning-2015_16.docx

ESL Aide Professional Learning

From Kristen Scott
Please see this document and respond by September 25th.