Administrators' Notice

Contents

Enter PreK Experience in SILK – for K-5 Principals and Attendance Clerks
ESL Announcements – for All Principals
Nutritional Services Video – for Secondary Principals and Teachers

Enter PreK Experience in SILK

From Kimberly Shaw
Please ask your attendance clerk to enter the pre-school experience in SILK for all kindergarten students. To do this, click on the Services and Guidance tab. Select Services and then click new. Then click on Service and select PreSchool Program and then under Service Provider select the pre-school.
Please share this with your attendance clerks and ask that this be completed by end of day October 15th, 2015.

ESL Announcements

From Kristen Scott
n our ESL department professional learning on October 9th we went over MAP data. Your ESL staff will be creating a plan for your building and they will then present it to you. We ask that you help them refine the plan based on your building priorities. The deadline for submitting the plan will be mid second quarter; and a template will be provided to the ESL staff.

We also clarified that aides and translators are not to be translating instructional materials; this is not our program. If you have specific questions about this please email Kristen Scott.

Nutritional Services Video

From Josh Mathiasmeier
The Nutritional Services staff is looking for a class or group of students to produce a video reflecting ???A Day in the Life of Nutritional Services???. This video will assist us in recruitment and training of new hires.
Ideally, we would like to highlight Breakfast in the Classroom, lunch service at elementary/middle school/high school, transport and drivers and Central Kitchen production.
The video could be as simple as footage with background music, or as elaborate as a short documentary with commentary and interviews in addition to the footage.
The end result should be 8-12 minutes in length.
If you have student/students that would be interested in this project, please contact Nutritional Services with interest for further discussion.
We appreciate your assistance in helping us support our students??? talents and provide much needed exposure to our employees.

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Submitting Student Samples of Performance Tasks – for Elementary Administrators and Teacher Leaders
ESL Announcements – for All Principals
Community Forum – for Schlagle and Washington Cluster Principals/All Administrators

Submitting Student Samples of Performance Tasks

From Alan King
We wanted to provide more information about submitting copies of student samples from the Performance Tasks for this year. The purpose of this collection is to provide annotated exemplars for teacher use. The annotations highlight specific criteria established within the scoring key. The exemplars represent a point in time, showing varieties of authentic student thinking in response to content specific prompts.

Like last year, after each Performance Task (not including Letter ID & Modified Sentence Dictations), classroom teachers will submit copies of two student samples along with a cover page (linked in the Pacing Guides). Selected samples must Meet the Expectations of the Performance Task in the Content column, as well as in at least two of the other three columns.

This year, schools will need to determine their own process for collecting and submitting student samples. Hard copies of these student samples should be sent to the Curriculum Department (Math: Attn-Amanda Kain, SS/ELA and Science: Attn-Teri Fulton. As an alternative this year, samples can be submitted electronically instead of hard copy. Links to submit the samples electronically are included on the cover page (linked in the Pacing Guides).

For your convenience, the link below provides an overview of the Performance Tasks for Administrators and Teacher Leaders. The intention of this document is to provide those outside the day-to-day instruction and planning with the same information teachers are seeing embedded in their Pacing Guides. Teachers will continue to access the same information via the GVC-Pacing Guides so that Performance Tasks remain in the context of the units of study.
Link to Performance Task Doc

Please let us know if you have any questions.
Elementary Curriculum Team (Suzie, Jen, Teri, Amanda, Julie)

ESL Announcements

From Kristen Scott
n our ESL department professional learning on October 9th we went over MAP data. Your ESL staff will be creating a plan for your building and they will then present it to you. We ask that you help them refine the plan based on your building priorities. The deadline for submitting the plan will be mid second quarter; and a template will be provided to the ESL staff.

We also clarified that aides and translators are not to be translating instructional materials; this is not our program. If you have specific questions about this please email Kristen Scott.

Community Forum

From David Smith
The Kansas City, Kansas Public Schools will be hosting a community forum on Wednesday, November 4 at 6:30 pm at the Kansas City Community Church, 5901 Leavenworth Road. The Forum will give participants a chance to learn about our work, engage in conversation with others, and help guide us as we implement Diploma+. All parents, families, staff and community members are invited, although the focus for this forum will targeted toward people living in the Schlagle and Washington clusters. Principals in those two clusters will be receiving copies of the attached flier this week to send home with students. In addition, for principals in those two clusters, if you are working with community partners whom you would like to see invited, please forward their contact information to Grace Elmore and we will send them an invitation.

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Revised District Continuous Improvement Plan??- for All Administrators
Materials from ESL Presentation on October 1??- for EC5 Administrators

Revised District Continuous Improvement Plan

From??David Smith
The District Continuous Improvement Plan (DCIP) has been revised, and is attached. It is also available on the district website, here: http://www.kckps.org/index.php/goals-and-progress

Materials from ESL Presentation on October 1

From Kristen Scott
Attached you will find:
1. The Power Point presentation
2. The language acquisition chart
3. The descriptors and examples of ESL writing
4. Charted participant responses on how to use the language acquisition chart and writing information.

We hope that you find this information useful as you continue to support your staff around ESL instruction. As stated in the presentation, if you would like for the ESL department to come and provide professional learning around these or any topics please contact us!

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State Reporting Information for Principals??- for Principals
Materials from ESL Presentation on October 1??- for EC5 Administrators

State Reporting Information for Principals

From??David Rand
Principal???s Building Report (PBR)
Superintendent???s Organization Report (SO66)
Early Reading Assessment

Greetings,

The purpose of this notice is to let principals know that we will be submitting the above reports for your building. The Early Reading Assessment has already been submitted for all schools and we are currently working on the PBR and SO66. You may receive reminder e-mails from the state regarding these reports; you may disregard these e-mails. If for some reason you receive an e-mail at a later time that indicates the due date has passed and the data has not been submitted for your building, please forward that information to myself (david.rand@kckps.org). Please let me know if you have any questions regarding this information. Thank you very much!!!

Materials from ESL Presentation on October 1

From??Kristen Scott
Attached you will find:
1. The Power Point presentation
2. The language acquisition chart
3. The descriptors and examples of ESL writing
4. Charted participant responses on how to use the language acquisition chart and writing information.

We hope that you find this information useful as you continue to support your staff around ESL instruction. As stated in the presentation, if you would like for the ESL department to come and provide professional learning around these or any topics please contact us!

Contents

Requests for Family Advocacy Interpreters??- for All Principals
Substitute Time Reporting??- for All Administrators
Elementary GVC Feedback Survey for Instructional Window 1??- Elementary Administrators (please share with all teachers)
Materials from ESL Presentation on October 1??- for EC5 Administrators

Requests for Family Advocacy Interpreters

From??Rosie Rodriguez
Family Advocacy: October 21st and 22nd

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.

Form Here

Substitute Time Reporting

From??Sherry L. Samples
Substitutes will automatically be paid for the time in the system for the job that they accept. If a substitute arrives late or leaves early the time is to be changed for the job time in Subfinder. Failure to do so results in payment of time not worked. This should be monitored through your time in/out sheet.

As an example, a substitute has no students the last hour of the day. He/she signs out at 3:30 but actually leaves at 2:30.

Please share this expectation with those others responsible for substitute processing.

Thank you.

Elementary GVC Feedback Survey for Instructional Window 1

From??Suzie Legg
The Curriculum Department is seeking your feedback around our current Guaranteed and Viable Curriculum (GVC), specifically the Unit Learning Goals and Performance Tasks. This feedback will be requested at the conclusion of each instructional window and will be used to inform the future design of these elements within the GVC.

This survey will take about 10-15 minutes to complete. Specific feedback versus general will be most helpful. Thank you for your thoughtful feedback.

You can access the feedback form via this link – https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/1516iw1

The form will be open through Friday, October 23rd.

Materials from ESL Presentation on October 1

From??Kristen Scott
Attached you will find:
1. The Power Point presentation
2. The language acquisition chart
3. The descriptors and examples of ESL writing
4. Charted participant responses on how to use the language acquisition chart and writing information.

We hope that you find this information useful as you continue to support your staff around ESL instruction. As stated in the presentation, if you would like for the ESL department to come and provide professional learning around these or any topics please contact us!