Thursday, November 19, 2015

Contents

ESL MAP Testing – for Secondary Administrators
ESL December Professional Learning – for EC5 Administrators
Use of Kitchen Facilities – for All Building Administrators
Spring 2015 Student State Assessment Reports – for Building Administrators and Teacher Leaders
ELPA Professional Learning for ESL Staff – for All Administrators

ESL MAP Testing

From Kristen Scott
Secondary administrators,

Please allow your ESL teachers to give the winter MAP to their classes so they may have data to monitor their building plan.
If you have any questions or concerns please let me know. Thank you.

ESL December Professional Learning

From Kristen Scott
We will pull the EC5 ESL staff on Wednesday afternoon, December 16th from 1:00 to 3:30 here at the Central Office. This will allow the ESL staff to remain with their building on December 18th.
Please forward this information to your ESL staff. Thank you.

Use of Kitchen Facilities

From Josh Mathiasmeier
We are in the season of celebrating and many of us are planning appreciation of our own employees during this season. In response, we thought it would be important to remind all staff that no outside food can be brought into the kitchen for cooking or service. If you are interested in purchasing food for celebrations or having a special event, please use the Nutritional Services Request form here. We can purchase, cook and serve for your event and look forward to doing so! In the interest of protecting our students and community from any potential foodborne illness and to maintain compliance with all local, state and federal regulations, it is extremely important that we all follow this policy. If you have questions or concerns, please contact us directly at 627-3900 and we will be happy to assist you. Happy Holidays!

Spring 2015 Student State Assessment Reports

From David Rand
Between now and Thanksgiving break, schools should be receiving printed copies of last spring’s ELA and Math individual student state assessment reports through inter-office mail. Please distribute these reports to parents prior to winter break in the manner that will best ensure the reports make it home. The reports that you receive will be based on your current school year enrollment as of the end of October so you should have very few reports for students that are not in your building this year. We are currently working on a student report in Spanish and will provide those to buildings as soon as they are ready. Please note that these reports were created by the district in an attempt to make them more parent friendly and will look different that student reports you may have accessed in the KITE Educator Portal. If you have any questions regarding these reports, please contact David Rand in DERA. Thank you very much!

ELPA Professional Learning for ESL Staff

From Kristen Scott
This is a heads up to all building principals that we will be pulling ESL staff on specific Wednesdays to provide training on the ELPA test (the new KELPA test).
High school ESL staff will be pulled Wednesday, February 24th from 1 to 3.
Middle school ESL staff will be pulled Wednesday, March 2 from 1:30 to 3:30.
EC5 3:30 release buildings ESL staff will be pulled Wednesday, February 24th from 2 to 4. And EC5 4:00 release buildings ESL staff will be pulled on Wednesday, March 2 from 2:30 to 4:30.

This information will come out again in mid-January.