Contents
ESL MAP Testing – for Secondary Administrators
ESL December Professional Learning – for EC5 Administrators
Sign Up for Hour of Code Dec 7 – 13 – for All Admins to Share with Teachers
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.
Sign Up for Hour of Code Dec 7 – 13
From Alan King
Principals, please share this with your teachers:
The ability to code is becoming the essential skill of the 21st Century!
We would love for you to get involved in this year’s Hour of Code event!!
The Hour of Code asks students, teachers, parents and community members
to spend one hour coding during the week of December 7-13, 2015!!
Anyone who registers their event will be issued a $10 iTunes, Amazon, or the
Windows store as a thank you!
Please register on the Hour of Code website & email Julie Leach or Audrey Fryar to let us know your class/school is participating!
For more information on how to get involved go to: http://tinyurl.com/kckhourofcode
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.