IEM September ES Agenda 2009/10
Please read the agenda, along with each
of its links (all links available in ES Handbook for future reference)
before your ES Group meeting and take any questions with you to the meeting. The agenda quiz must be completed in your ES
WEBfiles BEFORE attending your ES meeting!
This agenda has been posted 9/10/2009 and the agenda
quiz is due 9/21/2009.
Please note that if you must
miss your ES meeting, you should inform your Area Facilitator and ES Advisor
and make arrangements with another AF to attend another meeting that month.
(All meeting times and dates are posted in the ES handbook along with AF e-mail
addresses and meeting date, time, and location). If you miss the meeting
altogether, you will be reminded of your responsibility to attend and will be
held responsible for the information given at the meeting, plus you will need
to earn 2 more PG hours in an optional PG session. If you miss another meeting,
it will become a discipline issue and may result in a drop in your student
load. We do not believe that you can effectively serve your students if you
miss critical information about the school and your job. Thank you for making
these meetings a priority as you schedule your time for this school year! The ES Support Department.
1) Dates to Remember and Dated Duties
a) For ALL 1st semester 2010 graduates:
·
September 25, 2009 is the last date to email
to your advisor your graduate’s preliminary assessment. (See Grad Procedure in
ES Handbook at: http://www.ieminc.org/handbook/graduation/graduproc.htm).
·
If you have a 2010 expected graduate, plan to
spend some time now going over
the graduation procedure, and take any questions with you to the ES meeting for
the compilation.
·
The grad packet is also done for those who
are taking a “Completion” instead of a diploma.
·
Be sure the graduates/completers are marked
with their "expected grad date" in ES Webfiles
View Students, Graduation tab.
b) CAHSEE dates: October 6 & 7 for
your 11th and 12th grades only! Remind them NOW of those
dates if they need to take a test! They all should have received this attached letter in the mail: OGCS SSCS . Ask them about it now or at your next meeting
with them.
c) Remember the Scantron testing window for returning
students: The calendar lists
the testing window as September 14 to October
23. Be sure ALL returning students
in grades 3rd to 12th grades are Scantron tested during this
period! (Your new enrollees still have
20 school days to test from the first day they enroll (new enrollees for this
school year should be done) all year
long.) K - 2nd need to be WRAT tested. (2nd graders can do Scantron if
they wish!)
d) Payroll Snapshot Dates: September 17 at noon; October 16 at noon.
e) Report Card HQT coding DUE BY SEPTEMBER 11th: If you are not NCLB
certified in all of your HS subjects and are serving HS students, please
take a minute to make sure that all of your students are covered for the NCLB
component in their courses. Those earning any number of credits this
semester need to be signed up by 9/11/09. Remember if you are not highly
qualified in a subject, your students need to be enrolled in either:
1. A community college class
2. An online class
3. An SME CP course
Remember, choosing to do NOTHING is not
acceptable. A student cannot get credit
for any course that does not have a HQT to assign the grades and credits.
(Online courses and community college do qualify as Highly Qualified.) Contact
your Advisor if you need help!
f) Learning Styles
Results Entry: Enter
all of your students' LS results and your ES LS results in ES Webfiles by October 31, 2009. See info flyer given to you in your All ES
Meeting packet for entry details.
g) HH info: Deadline to mail your HH
Info packet of envelopes to the office is October 31 , 2009. (See info below in
Section 3d.)
2) Things to Do
a) Constitution Day: Remember that September 17th is/was Constitution Day
for all students, as required by the federal mandate. Please document the Constitution
Day activities in your learning records for
September. If no work was done, then enter this comment on the LR: “No
Constitution Day activities completed”. Address any questions to your ES
Advisor.
b) Citrix Server Name: Check your "name" in each Citrix server to be sure that you
have all ES privileges you should have when accessing Webfiles. To do this, follow these directions: Every
time after you log into FRED this month, go to Edit and choose
"Preferences" at the bottom of the choices. On the General tab, be sure that you user
name is your login name (same as your email name).
c) SME INFORMATION:
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THERE IS NOW A HELPFUL RECORDED WEBEX CALLED “SME” TO HELP YOU WITH THE INFO BELOW!
Check the video page on our ES protected page at http://www.sscs.cc/video/SME%20training.wrf .
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ALL ESs should complete 1
& 2 below.
If you are certified in all HS subjects,
you do not need to do #3! Here’s some helpful steps to complete this
task:
1. Check your certifications.
a. In FRED, go to VIEW/ES
Detail
b. Select the NCLB tab
c. Review what you are
certified in.
d. If you find a discrepancy,
email Linette Harris (lharris@ieminc.org) asap and cc your
advisor.
e. If you are unsure about
what you are certified in, please email your advisor so they can help you.
f. Note for September: If you
have received an email from Linette that you are certified, copied to your
advisor, you may use that for now to consider yourself
"certified". Do check back in
a month to be sure they are listed in Webfiles.
2. Review your report cards.
a. Make sure they are all
coded with the proper NCLB component on the right hand side:
§
0 – N/A: select this option for classes that do not need an HQT
component (like PE, electives, life skills, and core courses NOT being used for
graduation requirements.)
§
FOR
CORE CLASSES (English, Math, Science, History, Arts, Language)
·
1 – HQT ES is certified: select this option if you are certified in the
particular core subject area (e.g. English, Arts, Math, etc.)
·
2 – HQT Online Course: select if it is an online course (like Odysseyware, ALEKS, etc.)
·
3 – HQT SME course: select if student is enrolled in the CP SME
course
·
4 – Community college: select if student is attending a community
college class.
Note: The a-g designations on the report card ARE
NOT the same as your HQT designations--do not confuse the two, but contact your
advisor if you need help!
3. Make sure your students
are signed up for SME classes if they are not enrolled in college or online
classes.
a. In webfiles,
go to View / HS report card
b. Select the green “CP
Enrollment” tab. You will be able to see all of the CP courses for that
student listed here. If the course is not listed, they are not signed
up.
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HQT SME Course Enrollment Date – Less Than 5 Credits
1. In the CP course
enrollment form, enroll all students for an HQT SME course, using the beginning
of the semester date, 8/17/2009, or their enrollment date in the school if not enrolled on 8/17.
2. If you need to change
an enrollment date, email Shelley Ross, curriculum@ieminc.org and cc the HQT SME
instructor with the course number, student name, and new
enrollment date.
3. If a student is attempting
less than 5 credits, email Shelley Ross, curriculum@ieminc.org and cc the HQT SME
instructor for a drop date that will be pre-scheduled by Shelley and your HQT
SME. Please email the course number, student name, and amount of credits
attempting. We will communicate that pre-scheduled drop date to you, and office staff will request the drop at
that date for you.
4. Any changes to the pre-scheduled
drop date, need to be emailed to Shelley Ross, curriculum@ieminc.org, prior to the
pre-scheduled drop date, as we cannot back-date drops.
1. If you will be in one course, although different
"sections (a or b), in any one semester, you do not need to drop from one
section to enroll in the next. For
example, if you need 2 credits of Algebra 1a, then expect your student to
continue on to do 3 credits of Algebra 1b in the same semester, you may just
leave them in the one HQT SME course for the entire semester (no need to drop
and enroll in another course). But, if
you will finish Algebra 1b, and go on to Geometry, that is a different course,
and you need to enroll in BOTH courses before 9/11/09.
d) Parent list serve: IF the parent sent in an email address on their student application, they will be sent an invitation to join by the school secretary. Encourage your parents to be on the school parent listserve! If they declined and now wish to join, or did not give us an email address, or rejected their first invitation to join, you or they can send an email to the school secretary (sssecretary@ieminc.org or ogsecretary@ieminc.org ) and request to be added. The school name and the parent name and email address of choice needs to be sent. Please remember to print out all parent listserves and start a file of them to take with you on your LR visits to your families. Let them look through your file of emails while there, as we want everyone to be informed of all school information, and the listserve and ES visits are the way we communicate with our parents.
e) Listserve email web login
info . If you have not set up an
account with Yahoo Groups (they host our Listserves), please do so now. When
you have a yahoo account, you can access the school listserves at any time and
view all past messages. Step by step
directions are located at: http://www.ieminc.org/handbook/computerrel/eslistserve.htm .
f) Record
Keeping: (http://www.ieminc.org/handbook/recordkeep/faqesfiles.htm) What student records
should an ES keep? Set up your files now so that you are keeping what you need
to keep, and know what you can get rid of when. The office keeps a general file
on each student, but it is the ES's responsibility to keep copies of their
educational records for each student on file in their home offices, and pass
them to the new ES if a transfer occurs. It is recommended that K-8 records be
kept for 2 years, and high school records for 4 years. For High School, the ES
or the parent should keep documentation for the grades and credits that have
been assigned, and any info that will help answer questions that might come
from another high school or college: name of texts, topics covered, if it was
a-g, etc. Copies of learning records are kept in the database, but you may want
copies of tables of content, and some work samples as the portfolios collected
are sufficient for an audit but may or may not be sufficient for transfers to
other high schools or admission to some colleges. An exception is parent permission slips, which you should keep forever.
g) New ESs: Don’t
forget the important Observation Visit
with your AF (http://www.ieminc.org/genericforms/ESobserv.pdf),
and the forms that must be sent to the training office by both the ES and the
AF after that visit!
h) Cell Phones: Included in your stipend reimbursement is funding to
help pay for a cell phone plan for you. Please enter this cell phone number
into the database on the ES detail page as your work number. For a complete
listing of stipend reimbursements we pay automatically in your ES paycheck, go
to: http://www.ieminc.org/handbook/esjob/esreimsti.htm .
i) ES Pay check stub reminder: Employees
who elect direct deposit have been set up with an email account using your
school IEM email address. All employees that have direct deposit will
receive their pay stub through this
email account, with directions to open it as it is password protected. This is
different than your Payroll Snapshot
which is available the first week of every month in ES Webfiles, View/Payroll
Snapshot. Any stipend positions you are being paid for, or classes you are
teaching will not show up on your snapshot, but will be listed as separate line
items on your pay stub. If you have a question after you receive your pay stub,
paycheck, or about your payroll snapshot, please email Janet Marsh (jmarsh@ieminc.org) and not
payroll/personnel with your questions. They can only verify the amount they
paid or deductions made, Janet ONLY can research if the amount is accurate.
j) Persuasive Writing Assignment: Remind your families of the deadline for the Persuasive
writing assignment this month at your LR meeting. Give them any help they need
to get started if they haven’t yet started. You may want to have the students
do their writing while at the meeting with you. The writing documents are all
linked to the website on the curriculum page under "CURRICULUM
RESOURCES" at the Writing link: (http://www.sscs.cc/Handbook/writing_2010/wr_per_index_10.dwt). Remember you can provide Write Reflections to them
as well to help with their writing.
k) Transfer checklist: Be sure to follow the timeline listed on the
transfer/drop checklist and let your Advisor know that all has been done on
time by submitting the form to them. Reminder: Do not email office staff for a
transfer, but email your advisor only to initiate a transfer during the school
year. Your advisor will forward the request on when it is complete and
approved.
l) Portfolio samples: Remember to start collecting and assembling your portfolio samples now and at each meeting, checking to be sure that each part of the label is complete and accurate! You will have a portfolio assignment this month (see networking section for assignment) and every month until the March portfolio collection. Read the attached document and be ready to discuss any additional ideas to add at your meeting.
3) Training Items
a) Webex trainings: There is now a SME
recorded Webex to refer to when you have questions about working with a SME: http://www.sscs.cc/video/Transcript%20coding.wrf.
b) Transfer & Drop Policy/Procedure: Read
the Transfer & Drop information on the webpage at http://www.ieminc.org/handbook/transferdrops/indexiema.htm . Please read
all of the policy documents on that page and bring your questions to your
meeting. All ES initiated transfers are to be communicated to Cindy only by
your ES Advisor during the regular school year (summer has a different
process)! Cindy will no longer be
processing any transfers during the regular school year that do not come from
the Advisors. Even parent initiated requests must go through your ES Advisor
for approval.
c) ES Communication/Professionalism:
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The ES Communication
Protocol document is attached. Please read
the school standards for appropriate and effective communication.
·
Visit the School
Personnel Webpage (http://www.ogcs.org/handbook/index3.htm ) to see who
does what in the school business offices.
·
Remember you are
the professional representative of the
school when you visit with a student/parent. Dress the part, be punctual and call if
something delays you for a meeting even for a few minutes, and do not take anyone with you to a meeting
if you have not obtained prior approval from the parent (children, pets,
parents, neighbors, others checking into our school, etc.).
d) HH Info: New HH info must be collected
from every family at your next LR meeting!
This information is critical for many state reports we do, plus our AYP
and API results. See directions at this link in the ES Resources: http://www.ieminc.org/handbook/studentenrollment/hhinfo.pdf . Bring any questions to your ES
Group Meeting. Deadline to mail to the IEM office is 10/31/2009.
e) Learning Center reminder: Please note that ES's may not use any of our school vendor sites to meet with students or conduct school business, such as writing learning records, creating PO's, or any other aspect of your job. Charter school law dictates that we may not operate a learning center outside of our chartering county and we cannot even have the appearance that we are operating one by having ES's hang out or serve students there. There must be a strict separation of vendor and school. Always meet with your families at their homes or a public building such as the library or a coffee shop. This includes vendors who are paid for tutoring or classes, such as European Educational Services or Corban Learning Center. Families should also understand that the vendor is not an extension of the school, but is being paid for by our school to provide a specified educational service.
4) Messages from School
Departments
a) ASSESSMENT
· ES Test Proctor Assignments: Check out your 2010 Test Proctor assignment on the assessment website. Select your school from the list at the top of the page and it is located under “2010 Assessment Info”. Remember you must make a trade as needed, then email Sara at Scantron@ieminc.org with the trade information. (Schedule to be posted the end of September).
·
SCANTRON: Here are some changes
that Scantron has made to their web-site:
1. The FIRST thing you will
see is a brand new landing page at www.edperformance.com.
All the previous functionality is still available, with some additions.
This page has been reformatted with larger fonts and to reflect the current
product branding. Student and Staff login buttons are still prominently
on the left. However, you do not need to choose their testing subject
first anymore. It will ask you which test you would like them to take
after you select “Student Login” and then type in the Site-ID.
2. Three new templates are
available under Site Admin / Print Profiles. Each has a different focus
to improve the conversations with either students or parents. The new
templates are: Student Goals Summary, Portfolio Record, Parent Review.
3. Your students will also
see a new addition to the testing experience, a navigation language
option. During the sign in process, your students will have the
opportunity to change the navigation (not test question) language to Spanish,
if it will make them more comfortable. This will affect all buttons and
instructions throughout the test enabling your ELL or other students to focus
on the test and not translating any instructions. The update your students will
not see, but will experience, is the improved test delivery speed.
Information delivery to and from the student workstation has been
improved and will result in smoother testing, especially during heavy internet
use times of the day.
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CAHSEE: The sites for the October CAHSEE are now posted on the school
web-site at http://www.ieminc.org/Assessment/index.htm#CAHSEE.
Please let any of your 11th and 12th grade students
that have not yet passed the CAHSEE, know which site they are assigned
to. If they are NOT marked in FRED as having passed the CAHSEE and yet
they say they have at a previous school, make sure to send their previous
results and/or transcripts to Fina in the Assessment office so that we can
correct that error.
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STAR REWARDS: You should have received
your student’s STAR rewards that were passed out at the all ES meeting. OG
teachers will be getting their 6-11 grade reward planners at their next AF
meeting. Please remember that the monkey planners were for grades 2-5
and the leather planners were for grades 6-11. E-mail Sara at ssatterfield@ieminc.org if you have
any issues with the rewards.
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OGCS CELDT: Please make sure to have all CELDT testing
completed and returned to the Placerville office no later than October 16th.
·
SSCS CELDT ONLY: Nancy Thomas and Jennifer
Allen, the EL Support Teachers, are giving the CELDT to all of the English
Learners this month. High school ELs
will have the opportunity to test as a group at the Sylvan Oaks library, over
two sessions. We will continue to test
in students’ homes as necessary. All first through eighth graders will be
completed by September 4, 2009.
·
Postage Reimbursement Changes for Assessment Coordinators: Please note that the
cost-center code for assessment reimbursement for postage is (OG) 170-15 and
(SS) 160-15 with both object codes being a 5902.
b) GUIDANCE
· Our High School Handbook is now available on our school website. From the main school webpage à click “Educational Resources” à select “Guidance” from dropdown menu à click “2010 High School Handbook”.
· WebEx Training “Questions and Answers on the High School Handbook”, for ESs only, will be held on Tuesday, September 22nd from 9-10am and 2-3pm. Contact Brandy Anderson (banderson@ieminc.org) to sign up for one of these meetings, and earn a professional growth hour.
· For the students who plan to apply to a 4-year college directly out of high school, they should start to make plans to take the PSAT in the 10th grade, and SAT in the 11th grade. Students who score very highly on the PSAT, could be awarded scholarship money from the National Merit Scholarship Corporation. Visit www.collegeboard.com from more info on SAT/PSAT tests.
·
WORK
PERMIT INFORMATION: All Work Permits granted last year and over the summer
are now expired! If the original permit was
granted through our school, the student needs to mail or fax in a new
application to our office, Attention: Brandy Anderson. Brandy will now be processing the school work
permits. Please make a note of
this. ES Approval will also be needed
for these renewals.
c) CURRICULUM DEPARTMENT
·
SSCS ROP: Remember - all SSCS students enrolled in a ROP
courses must also be registered/enrolled in the "ROP Admin" SSCS CP
course. SSCS ROP Procedures are
linked here.
·
Learning Styles – Kaleidoscope
Profile Results
ES Kaleidoscope Profile Results:
ESs are required to enter their ES Kaleidoscope Profile score card results from
their Inservice into the ES Webfiles. The ES fields can be found by going into
FRED, click on “ES View” which opens to the Welcome tab. At the top, click on “View”, and on the drop
down click on “ES Detail”, then click on the “ES Training Tracker” tab. On the top right, you will see “Educator
Profile,” and four gray rows below.
Click on the drop down for each row to enter your ES Profile
results.
Student Kaleidoscope Profile Results:
--ESs are to have each of their students complete a Student Kaleidoscope
Profile (grades 3-6) or (grades 7-12).
Profile folders with stickers, score card, and instructions were
included for each of your students in your August Inservice
packet. If you feel you did not receive
the correct number of grade level folders, or simply need more for newly enrolled
students, contact Kirstine Larsen, iemtraining3@ieminc.org.
--Upon completion, ESs are required to enter the student’s score card results
into the ES Webfiles before leaving for winter break. (This is a change from the earlier October 31st
deadline).
To locate the fields to enter the student’s learning style score card results,
go into the ES Webfiles, click on ES View, at the top
click on “View”, and on the drop down click on “Testing”, then click on the
“Learning Styles” tab. To the right in
each student row, click on all three boxes and select from each drop down to
enter the student’s results. If the
student has tied scores in a category, then pick one to enter for that
category.
--While it is not mandatory that students complete this learning styles
assessment, the expectation is that almost all will. If you
have a parent strongly object, then put “Parent Declined” for the score
result. This is located on the Sensory
Preferences drop down only, at the bottom.
After entering the results in WebFiles, ESs can use
their discretion as to what to do with students’ completed Kaleidoscope
folder.
·
School-Wide Writing
Assignment
The below is for 504 and IEP students ONLY…not regular education
students:
If the modifications or accommodations on a student’s 504 or IEP are in
conflict with the policies stated in the Directions handout of the school-wide
writing assignment, the 504 and IEP modifications and accommodations always take precedent and
must be followed. If you have any
questions about this, email Shelley Ross, curriculum@ieminc.org.
·
Discovery Education
streaming - Systems Requirements
If your family is having trouble using Discovery Education streaming, have them
first check their systems requirement by going to this link.
http://help.discoveryeducation.com/support/index.cfm?event=showAsset&criteria=requirements&guidAssetId=f6ceb770-1b78-cd48-f800-5e2819268d29
·
Discovery Education streaming - Not too late to purchase a license!
--Family
licenses for Discovery Education streaming
for the 2009-2010 school year can still be purchased at special, prorated
pricing. To obtain this pro-rated pricing, go to,
http://www.ieminc.org/handbook/curriculum/vendor/DE%20pro-rated.pdf
To learn about Discovery Education streaming.
go to their information link,
http://www.discoveryeducation.com/products/streaming/streaming.cfm
·
CAHSEE Grant Money
Hot off the Press Update: There
is some CAHSEE grant carry-over money from last year that we can use
this year until it is gone. But there is
no new money for this year.
Whether or not there is grant money, does not mean that ESs and students are
off the hook doing CAHSEE Intervention.
Any CAHSEE Intervention PO’s from now…forward, can be written as CAHSEE
Grant PO’s and the funds will not come out of the student’s IF.
--To create a CAHSEE Grant PO for Intervention:
ESs DO NOT click “DONE” on their PO.
Also, ESs need to go to the ES Notes, and click “Other,” then write the
word, “CAHSEE” in the ES Notes. This is
a little different process from last year.
Failure to follow this process may mean that the money does not come
from the CAHSEE grant.
--ALL 11th
and 12th grade students who have not yet passed both sections of the
CAHSEE MUST receive immediate CAHSEE Intervention. ESs need to email Fina Hustrulid, fhustrulid@ieminc.org,
with the CAHSEE Intervention for each of their 11th or 12th
grade students. (ESs with any 10th
graders that would benefit from early Intervention, can also do PO’s for those
students using the CAHSEE grant money.
This is optional for those 10th grade students). Fina will track all CAHSEE Intervention (11th
& 12th, and optional 10th graders) and run her report
the first Tuesday of each month
to check to see that all mandatory students are receiving Intervention. ESs with a chronic pattern of not emailing
Fina will be noted and the ESs Advisor will be contacted.
Please refer to your August ES Agenda
for CAHSEE Intervention vendors and Prep materials.
·
11th & 12th
Graders Who Have Not Yet Passed the CAHSEE – Verifying Scores
ESs may verify a CAHSEE passing score from an unofficial “parent” copy of the
transcript. If so, communicate those passing
scores to Fina. If the ES is not able to
verify a passing score from an unofficial “parent” transcript, the ES may
not just take the word of the student or parent. That ES needs to order Intervention right
away for that student. ESs may not
wait for CAHSEE test score results to arrive before ordering Intervention
materials. At the very least, the ES
should print out some of the FREE CAHSEE prep lessons from the CDE website to
give the student work while the test scores arrive. Be sure to communicate that to Fina.
The links to these FREE CAHSEE Prep materials are:
·
Preparing for the CAHSEE:
A Mathematics Study Guide (2008), http://www.cde.ca.gov/ta/tg/hs/documents/mathstudyguide08.pdf
Mathematics Teacher Guide, http://www.cde.ca.gov/ta/tg/hs/documents/mathteacherguide08.pdf
·
Preparing for the CAHSEE:
An English-Language Arts Study Guide (2008), http://www.cde.ca.gov/ta/tg/hs/documents/studyela08guide.pdf
English-Language Arts Teacher Guide, http://www.cde.ca.gov/ta/tg/hs/documents/elateacherguide08.pdf
See August ES Agenda for complete list of CAHSEE Prep materials and vendors.
·
Vendors – CHECK THEM OUT!
*Ascend Education, KMB of Shreveport dba* (Math), http://www.ascendedu.com
--Ascend Education (math) assesses your
students’ needs based on our California standards and automatically assigns
each student an individual education plan based on those needs.
--Students are then guided through instructional content including video
instruction (the Grasp Math videos), interactive learning activities both
online and print practice problems.
--Special school individual pricing of $60 per individual 12 month license.
--3rd Grade through CAHSEE
Prep.
--To view the Ascend
Education video, go to http://www.ascendedu.com/
--Ascend presentations are held every Wednesdays 3:00pm and Thursdays 10:00
Central time for anyone who wants to attend.
To sign up, go to http://www.ascendedu.com/presentation.html. Attendance will qualify you for a free 30-day
trial period.
*eTAP*, http://www.etap.org
--K-12 online supplemental home study resource
that includes instruction, assessment, and test prep for Math, English, Science, and History, CAHSEE Prep, all on one single
easy-to-use website!
--Correlated to the California state standards.
--But here is the cool part! eTAP lessons are partnered with Discovery Education videos
(sold separately) and Personal Professors archived lessons (included). The student is given the eTAP
instruction, then has the option to view a Personal Professor video of the
standard, and/or view a Discovery Education video on the lesson. This makes for
multi-sensory, very effective learning.
--Great for students with learning problems and independent students.
--Free Demo
Lessons, http://www.etap.org/demo/index.html,
click on the subject, then the lesson.
*The Learning
Springs* – NEW! http://www.learningsprings.com
For The Learning Springs additional charter
school specific information, go to, http://www.ieminc.org/handbook/curriculum/vendor/vendor_info_index.dwt
--User-friendly courses.
--CA standards aligned (correlations are listed in lesson 1 of each course).
--Core courses grades 5-12; 4th grade Health and Life Skills.
--Affordably priced! Check it out! We receive special school pricing listed in
the PO Notes.
--Individual; Full unlimited; and 90-day license options. Teacher support option.
--Courses can be set up with either the parent having the ability to manage the
course with ES “view only,” or the ES can manage the course with the parent
having “view only.” ES login may not be
“shared.” After making that decision,
please email Kirstine Larsen, iemtraining3@ieminc.org, so she will know
which way to create the logins.
--After submitting PO and receiving the
logins, the ES can schedule a FREE individual (let me repeat…individual…amazing!),
ES training on The Learning Springs system by emailing Ron Davies, Director of
Sales, rdavies@learningsprings.com,
1-317-385-2191 (cell).
*Revolution Prep, http://www.revolutionprep.com –
RECOMMENDED!
--CAHSEE Prep Mathematics and CAHSEE
Prep English-Language Arts
--Online intuitive computer generates individualized diagnostic that prescribes
the face-to-face instruction by parent-teacher, or tutor-teacher, followed by
student workbook practice. Course
consists of three sessions with unlimited time for completion.
--Student license is $29.99. FREE online Teacher Guide, or $39.99 if
purchased.
Ordering and Pricing Info, http://www.ieminc.org/handbook/curriculum/vendor/revprep2010.html
*Study Island*, http://www.studyisland.com
--Online California Content Standards Mastery for all California subjects,
Grades 2-8, and
CAHSEE Prep
--Study Island Demo Video, http://www.studyisland.com/demoAsk.cfm?mystate=CA
--School scheduled, contracted 12 month license only $20 for all subjects.
--Call for prorated (lower) pricing for partial year license.
--All licenses expire at the end of each school’s contracted year license
period…different for each school.
OG’s school contract goes from March to March.
A new OG PO needs to be placed in March for students wanting to continue
through May. SS school contract goes
from June to June.
*Test Tools* – NEW! http://www.testtools.com
--CAHSEE Prep Math or ELA Online
--12 month license for CAHSEE Math $40; 12 month license for CAHSEE ELA $40
--Three-Step CAHSEE Program:
1. Diagnostic Pre-test: take
a practice Mathematics or
English-Language Arts exam using actual CAHSEE released questions from
previous year's exams.
2. Take a Practice Exam: Take a practice exam that is limited to a
specific California content standard, review standard specific hints to assist
students in answering each question, and get immediate answer selection
feedback that includes a detailed explanation for every question.
3. Take a Diagnostic Post-Test: take another practice exam using actual CAHSEE
released questions and compare results to the Pre-Test.
--For free trial for California, go
to: http://www.cahseeonline.com/trial
·
Vendor Name Changes
Companies are buying out each other at an unprecedented rate.
Here is a list of some recent changes with the new IEM vendor number:
Rigby
New Vendor Name: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Supplemental,
IEM7716
Great Source
New
Vendor Name: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Supplemental, IEM7716
Steck-Vaughn New Vendor Name: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Supplemental,
IEM7716
Riverdeep New Vendor Name: Houghton Mifflin Learning Technology, #8911
Saxon School
Publishers New
Vendor Name: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Supplemental, IEM7716
Saxon Homeschool New Vendor Name:
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Supplemental, IEM7716
Harcourt
School Publishers New
Vendor Name: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
K-6, #16160
Harcourt
Achieve New
Vendor Name: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Supplemental, IEM7716
Holt,
Rinehart, and Winston New Vendor Name:
Houghton Mifflin Holt McDougal 6-12, #396
Houghton Mifflin Company, Grades K-6 New
Vendor Name: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
K-6, #16160
Houghton
Mifflin Company, Grades 6-12 New Vendor Name:
Houghton Mifflin Holt McDougal 6-12, #396
Glencoe/McGraw-Hill, Grades 6-12 New
Vendor Name: Glencoe, #2917
McDougal Littell and Company New Vendor Name:
Houghton Mifflin Holt McDougal 6-12, #396
Prentice
Hall, Grades 6-12
New Vendor Name: Pearson Curriculum Group,
#9856
Scott Foresman,
Grades K-6 New Vendor Name: Pearson
Curriculum Group, #9856
·
Standards Review Materials
--It is
recommended that students be given a standards review product at the beginning
of the school year to maximize their benefit and use. Particularly for the 8th grade
history CST, as it covers the 6th, 7th, and 8th
grade history standards and students will not be able to review three years all
at the last minute.
--All subjects/grades, http://www.ieminc.org/handbook/curriculum/cresource/curricresourcefiles/standardsrevieworderinginfo.pdf
--History - Grades 6-12,
http://www.ieminc.org/handbook/curriculum/gencurres/curric/HI_6-11/hi_stds_rev.dwt
--Math - Grades 6-12,
http://www.sscs.cc/es/Departments/Mathematics/fe_ma_6_12/mastdrev6-12.pdf
--Science - Grades 8-12,
http://www.ieminc.org/handbook/curriculum/gencurres/curric/SC_6-12/sc_stds_rev6-12.dwt
--STAR Released Test Questions - Grades 2-11 can be used to review the
standards, http://www.sscs.cc/es/Departments/freestdrevweb.pdf
·
Standards Review Vendors
--List of
popular standards review vendors,
http://www.ieminc.org/handbook/curriculum/csuggest/standrevvend.htm
·
Parent Curriculum
Workshops – REMIND THEM!
The list of monthly workshops for the year can be printed out or viewed from
this link,
http://www.ieminc.org/handbook/curriculum/gencurres/curric/2010parentwkshp.html
The form includes the information needed to sign up.
The next two workshops are:
September
Topic: Persuasive
Writing and the School-Wide Writing Assignment
Thursday, September
24th
1:00pm - 2:00pm
In this workshop, we will discuss the characteristics of
persuasive writing using comprehensive school website information and
resources. The workshop will include an orientation to the support materials
specific to the school-wide persuasive writing assignment.
Age/Grade Focus: All
age/grades, with an emphasis on 2nd - 12th grades.
October
Topic:
California Holt Mathematics; California Fast Forward Math
Friday, October 9th
10:00am - 11:00am
--Product workshop. Holt California Mathematics is a recommended, California
standards-aligned, concise math program with built in lower skills and
on-grade-level intervention, and lesson-by-lesson teacher-tutor on CD-ROM. Holt
California Mathematics breaks down the math concepts and presents them
incrementally, allowing students to build slowly, but thoroughly towards
mastery.
--California Fast
Forward Math is a math intervention program for students in 4th - 7th grade,
and high school students lacking lower math skills. Parents will be shown how
this product can be used along side other math
programs to diagnose and identify skills weaknesses. Worksheets can be
purchased to re-teach and provide skills practice.
Age/Grade Focus: Holt
California Mathematics, grades 6-12; California Fast Forward Math, grades 4-12.
·
Odysseyware
– Change to Course Units (and thus to eCASH pricing)
--Some Odysseyware courses are now 13 units for a
year course instead of 10.
This means that the year course price will be higher if it is being
purchased by units through an eCASH license. The number of units for some semester courses
may have increased also.
--Please
check the list of courses and the number of course units prior to ordering.
To view the list, go to http://www.ieminc.org/handbook/curriculum/vendor/vendor_info_index.dwt,
scroll to Odysseyware, and click on the “Units per
Course” link. If there are 13 units, the first semester would be 6 units and
the 2nd semester would be 7 units. The second semester
includes a semester final and a grand final that
includes the 1st and 2nd semester coursework. If
the course shows only 5 or 6 units, then it is a semester class.
--The pricing is still $15 every time a student purchases or opens a
unit. The seat licenses remain at the $600.00 per year pricing.
·
Online Vendors: Pacing
& Back-End Teachers
--ESs need to
communicate our school schedule (semester start/end dates & holiday dates)
to their student’s online course, back-end teacher. Most online
courses that have vendor start and end dates can be adjusted to our
school schedule through the back-end teacher, IF that teacher is made aware of
our school schedule.
Please inform
your students of this and help facilitate it for them.
--Some vendors that come to mind are: (and there may be more)
National University Virtual High School (always has a back-end teacher)
Powerspeak (if back-end teacher was purchased)
Odysseyware does not have a back-end teacher, but is
pre-programmed each year electronically (by me) with our school schedule. ESs must still monitor the pacing of their
student’s program and help the parents with the pacing of their courses.
d) VENDOR ReLATIONS
·
Conflict of Interest: Please review the Conflict
of Interest policy before requesting a new vendor/employee (http://www.ieminc.org/handbook/esjob/conflictint.htm ).
·
PO EDUCATIONAL NOTES BOX: Please read
carefully the information in the PO Notes.
We have more than one charter school with school-specific information in the PO
Notes.
SM = Sky Mountain Charter School
CWCS = Connecting Waters Charter School
SS = South Sutter Charter School
OG = Ocean Grove Charter School
Use the information that is for ALL
SCHOOLS, AND the information that follows
OG or SS.
For example, The Learning Springs is
a new vendor with lots of PO Notes, please pay close attention.
e) GEA Information:
OGCS
SSCS:
9/25-IMAX-Whales and Dolphins 3-D
10/1-Bishop's Pumpkin Farm
10/20-Exploratorium
11/10-Sacramento zoo
12/17-RR museum and Polar Express (Canteen time) 1/12-King Tut-deYoung Museum 2/11-King Tut-deYoung Museum
March-TBA
April-None-Testing
May (date tba)-B Street Theatre-Beauty and the Beast.
For students enrolled in
GEA’s
· Please give parents the permission slip to fill out. Keep a copy and let them know to bring their copy to the activity. Many parents at the last GEA stated that their ES did not give them this.
· Click “ES Approval” when you have confirmed that the family will attend and you have given them the permission slip. Families will be deleted from the GEA if this is not clicked when the deadline passes.
· Pay close attention to deadlines, parent ticket costs, and arrival times so that families are aware ahead of time and can prepare accordingly.
f) Student Records:
· Whenever there is a change to page one of the student agreements, which requires a reprint, please email a pdf of the new page one copy as an attachment, instead of printing out and mailing in.
g) IT: New
technical support guidelines have been posted at: www.iemsupport.com Click on the section at the top entitled: SSCS, OGCS, and SMCS .
5)
Networking: