Friday, November 13, 2020

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Canvas Leadership Update

Curriculum and Instruction

Audience: ALL Principals 
Title: 2nd Quarter Daily Minutes for Remote Learning

Many of you are wondering if we will need to increase the amount of daily learning time from 360 minutes to 385 minutes to meet KSDE’s required 1116 hours of seat time.  Bridgette Desmet and I reached out to the state to seek more information. Here is the information that was shared with us:

Question: Are we able to claim a traditional length of day as long as we live stream and/or have meaningful contact?  Our traditional day for students is 385 or more after taking out time for lunch, etc. 

KSDE Response:

The short answer is YES but make sure you are meeting the requirements for providing services to Remote Learners as outlined in Navigating Change:

For a Remote Learning student to be funded full-time, the student must participate in a minimum of six hours (360 minutes) of learning activity each day. This is the total of learning time in one day, not screen time (KSDE, Navigating Change).

For Remote Learners who are participating in their classes via live stream, you will take attendance as normal. Since students are engaged in those sessions, parents are assuring their students are participating in learning. Therefore, there is no need to collect a Parent Assurance form from them.

For Remote Learners who are NOT participating in their classes via live stream, you will need to have the following documentation:

  1. (Signed) Parent assurance document. If the parent refuses to sign, please document that fact (you can record/note it on the Parent Assurance document itself and date it and then have that on hand for your KSDE auditor.
    1. The Parent Assurance document helps families of Remote Learners understand the commitment needed to be successful as a Remote Learner and on it remind parents that you want them to call if they need to report their child as absent on any given day that the student would have been a Remote Learner. ​It may be beneficial to remind parents again to contact the school when they know their child/children will be absent and provide them with the school phone number again.
  1. Log of daily meaningful contact with the student (this means a phone call or interactive videoconference from the teacher).
    1. We will continue to document meaningful contact with students in Infinite Campus and place the students as Present in the system if meaningful contact was made. It is important that teachers continue keep a log of their previous and future meaningful contact with students. This information may be needed for auditing purposes.
      1. The A2A team shared this information with all attendance clerks/secretaries.

Therefore, we will continue to follow the KSDE’s Guidance of 360 minutes of learning a day for Remote Learners throughout 2nd quarter.

All Principals

RE: Fastbridge Data Conversations

In the next few weeks, buildings that opted into the Fall Fastbridge assessment window will be contacted by your Lead IC who serves as a member of our district Fastbridge training team. We want to assist building principals, coaches and leadership teams in accessing and reading the Fastbridge reports and provide support on how to use the reports to have student-centered data conversations. These are informal meetings to help determine which reports might be most useful to your building at this time. We will explore these reports together to consider what students may need instructionally through core instruction. Lead ICs will reach out soon as we grow together in learning more about our Fastbridge universal screener.

All Principals

RE: Student-Centered Coaching Books

Buildings will receive their copies of The Essentials Guide for Student-Centered Coaching in the next few days. We will send copies via interschool mail to buildings for principals, assistant principals, instructional coaches, and designated SPED staff.

Diploma+

Hats Off to Dr. Brooke Brutto. Dr. Brutto has already scheduled a Connector training for her entire building. It looks like Lindbergh is ahead in the race to win the building prize for the first to reach 25% of the teachers requesting a Connector session and sharing it with their students. Below are the steps to take to be next leader training all of your teachers on this awesome tool.

Step 1:

Email Brittany Verrette at bverrette@prepkc.org.  Send Brittany 2 or 3 different  90 minutedates & time periods that you can host the training. Brittany will find a time that works for her and block off that time.

Step 2:

Principals, instructional coaches and support staff should all plan on attending the training so they can share goals with the group, ask questions, and show teachers that the building and district support this initiative.

Brittany’s Goal is:

  • 90-minute training sessions with each elementary building
  • November, December, and January
  • all should be completed by Friday, January 29
  • school training sessions will be booked on a first email, first served basis

Remember: An easy way for your staff to begin with the Connector is by sharing a saved session with their students. There are thousands of saved sessions. The way for teacher’s use of the Connector to count toward our 100% goal is to actually schedule a session and share that with your students. Brittany will walk teachers through the process of requesting a session and the teacher will even have a host supporting the entire Zoom session to help if any need arises. It can’t get any easier than this.

The sooner you set your training the better!!

ESOL

To begin testing the week of November 16th please ensure that ESL staff have shared testing schedule with Jacqueline Rodriguez. ESOL staff have a plan for safe return to buildings on their designated testing days. Testing days are organized by cluster to reduce the burden on parents with students in multiple buildings and to allow transportation in hardship. The testing schedule will be as follows: Mondays (Schlagle), Tuesdays (Harmon), Wednesdays (Washington), Thursdays (Wyandotte), and Fridays will be used for buildings with large number of students to test. The testing rotation will continue until we have screened all students able to complete the KELPA-p in person. Administrators will work with staff to adjust teaching schedule or provide coverage for on testing dates

Please remember that all in person services are subject to change as directed by the health department. The ESL testing plans is a working document and will be revised as we move forward with testing to ensure safety. The testing protocol can be found here.

Federal Programs

REQUIRED: General & Title IX Investigations Training for ALL BUILDING and DEPARTMENT Administrators

REMINDER: NEXT WEEK is the 2nd quarter investigations training for ALL administrators (principals, ALL assistant principals, department directors).  This training is a collaborative effort of the Human Resources, District Title IX and Legal Teams.

This training will focus on issue spotting, organizing and documenting investigations, and real-world scenarios to practice processing all types of student and staff employee misconduct. Additionally, updated and new Title IX forms will be reviewed.

Please click on the link below to sign up for your training session and to get the Zoom link to place on your calendar for your upcoming training session.  Please be sure to note the date/time of trainings on the bottom of each sheet, to ensure you sign up for the correct training!

Tuesday, 11/17/20, 3:00 – 5:00 p.m. – High School Admin Teams

Wednesday, 11/18/20, 12:00 – 2:00 p.m. – Washington/Wyandotte Cluster Elementary Admin Teams

Wednesday, 11/18/20, 3:00 – 5:00 p.m. – Middle School Admin Teams

Thursday, 11/19/20, 1:30 – 3:30 p.m. – Harmon/Schlagle Cluster Elementary Admin Teams

Human Resources

Above and Beyond Bonus 

This is a reminder that if you have any employees who qualify for the Above and Beyond Bonus but have not received payment, please have them submit an appeal form. Salary employees do not qualify for the Above and Beyond Bonus.

(Link to Form: https://forms.gle/rH7wm5FMHMticbEt7)

 

Extra Duty Board Agenda Items  

Due to the Thanksgiving break, we ask that all items for the December 1st agenda be submitted by 12:00 pm on Tuesday, November 17, 2020. This will allow us to comply with our deadline.

If you have any questions or concerns, please reach out to Ana.Perez-Sievert@kckps.org.

Student Services

KCTC Survey 

Our district utilizes the Kansas Communities That Cares (KCTC) Survey to gather information needed to plan prevention strategies and judge their effectiveness, measure the district’s social-emotional strengths and weaknesses, and provide data for our current KESA plan. Between November 2020 and January 29 2021, our district’s 6th, 8th, 10th, and 12th grade students will be participating in the KCTC survey and we are asking for your help in doing this. KCTC and KCKPS Flyer

Our timeline for implementing the KCTC survey:

  • November 2020
    • Provide communication to Middle and High School students
    • Coordinate KCTC Training with building representatives
    • Upload KCTC in Infinite Parent Portal
  • December 2020
    • Gather permission slips via Infinite Campus Parent Portal from all 6th, 8th, 10th, and 12th grade students
    • Start proctoring the KCTC as your school community feels ready and collects permission slips
  • January 2021
    • Continue to proctor the KCTC survey
    • The KCTC survey window closes January 29