IEM December 2010/11 ES Agenda

Please read the agenda, along with each of its highlighted links, then print out as a guide for this month’s ES job duties. The agenda quiz must be completed in your ES WEBfiles BEFORE attending your ES meeting!

This agenda has been posted 12/3/2010 and the agenda quiz is due 12/13/2010.

 

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). Your AF is listed in ES Webfiles on the ES Welcome page. 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. 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.

 

When you arrive at your meeting:  Please put away/turn off your cell phones and be ready ASAP to start.  Your AF has been instructed to go over the allotted time frame to fit in the entire meeting, taking out the “time” when the group is there, but not ready to focus on the meeting material. Please be respectful of your fellow ESs time and leave distractions behind.

1) Dates to Remember and Dated Duties

a) December 3, 2010: Was the Deadline to submit the completed grad packet to your ES Advisor in one package and enter graduate updates as needed into ES Webfiles student Detail page.  Hopefully no one is  late on this deadline date!  Did you enter your 1st semester "planned grads" in ES Webfiles now so that your empty student spaces may be filled asap with 2nd semester students?  Unmark those who will NOT make it?  Did you send your 1st semester portfolio to your advisor?

 

b) December 3, 2010: Phase 1 of the Materials import cleanup was to be completed.  See the Oct agenda for details.

 

c) December 13, 2010: Deadline to take and pass your December ES Agenda 2010/11 Quiz in ES Webfiles!

 

d) December 15, 2010 at noon: The Payroll Snapshot will be run.  Any forms not entered by the office by this date will not be paid in the December 31 paycheck (but will be reconciled in later pay periods—no pay for active student days is ever lost to the ES). The office needs 3 days to get paperwork entered after they receive it.

 

e) December 21, 2010: Deadline to have all of your School-Wide writing assignments; collected this month at your LR meetings.

 

f) December 21, 2010: Complete entries in Student Surveys. (ES Webfiles View/Students Active/Notices—red buttons are not completed surveys.)

 

g) December 21, 2010: Sign up all your students in their SME courses for 2nd semester/approve those rolled over/check to see that your students are in their CORRECT course/section (a or b)/delete those rolled over that are not taking that section  (see 4c below) prior to this date. Enroll new students ASAP as they are assigned to you.

 

h) December 21, 2010: First Semester Ends.  Plan now to not hold paperwork over Winter Break, but mail everything you have to go to the office this day!  The office will be staffed during the break to process your paperwork.

 

i) January 7, 2011: For all ESs with students enrolled in SME courses, last day to send to your SME All the Supporting documentation requested for 1st semester courses.

 

j) January 14, 2011: For all May 21, 2011 graduates, send/email to your ES Advisor information needed for a 2nd semester graduates preliminary assessment (See Grad Procedure in ES Handbook).

 

k) January 14, 2011: Phase 2 of the Materials import cleanup is to be completed.  See Nov agenda for details.

 

l) January 21, 2011:  1st semester Report Cards due. All HS and requested GS report cards are due to be submitted in ES Webfiles.  Mark Ready and Send for the HS report cards. The office does not mail these out, we rely on our ESs to print and provide to your parents ASAP after completion. (See recorded Webex "HS Courses/Credits/Grades" in ES Video section for reference as needed).

m) January 21, 2011: K-8th LR Assessment Statements for 1st semester are due.

 

n) February 1 & 2, 2011: CAHSEE for all 10th graders and those 11th/12th graders who qualify to take the assessment again. Remind your families now!

 

2) Things to Do

a) Scantron/WRAT: Effective immediately for every student who has not yet Scantron/WRAT tested during the testing window for continuing students or within their 30 day window for new enrollees:

1. No more POs (product or service) may be placed for these students until their tests are complete.

2. If any orders are already placed but not yet delivered, you must hold the materials and not deliver until the tests are complete.

3.  For a service PO/CP course not yet started, hold their enrollment form/approval until they have tested.

Email assessmentclerk@ieminc.org; bcote@ieminc.org; and your advisor if you need help with this.

Scantron/WRAT is a requirement of our charter for enrollment in our charter school!

 

b) IF for 2nd semester:  Do not spend any of the 11/17 deposit of 2nd semester IF on any student who will be graduating/dropping or for any student for which you do not have a signed 2nd semester SA.  The money is deposited ahead in anticipation that they will return, and be enrolled for all of 2nd semester.  Until the end of the school year, that money is not “real”….and we rely on you to manage that for us out in the field and not spend money the school will not collect (To do so would put us in the red for the next year and require us to make cuts somewhere.)

 

c) Expository Writing Assignment

·         COLLECT: Collect the last of your students’ Expository writing assignment samples and the writing assignment prompt they wrote from.

·         COPY: Make your student writing sample copies before you do the below “ATTACH” step.  The original writing sample will go to the IEM office.  You will want 1 copy to return to the parent for discussion purposes; you might need a copy to send to your SME; you may want to use a copy as a portfolio sample. 

·         ATTACH:  Print out the corresponding grade level rubric http://www.sscs.cc/Handbook/writing_2011/exp_rubrics/exp_ru_index.dwt, completing the info at the top and bottom (if applicable) of the rubric form.  
STAPLE THE PACKET IN THIS ORDER:  Rubric, school-wide writing assignment prompt, student writing sample.  DO NOT SCORE! 

·         BRING:  Remember to bring these prepared assignment packets to your January ES Group Meetings where you will check the appropriate Rubric category boxes and complete the Rubric scoring. Do not attempt to score any of the writing assignments prior to your meeting!

·         AFTER SCORING:  While at home after scoring, you will prepare two packets:

1.)  Parent Packet: staple going from top to bottom, a copy of the scored Rubric, a copy of the writing prompt, a copy of the student’s writing sample. Give this packet to the parent for feedback and discussion purposes. If two ESs scores were used to arrive at the student’s final score, two rubrics needed to have been used, then staple both scored rubrics to the top of the Parent Packet.  

2.)  School Packet:  staple going from top to bottom, the original scored Rubric, a copy of the writing prompt, the original student writing samples.  You will also enter the score in WEbfiles.
If two ESs scores were used to arrive at the student’s final score, two rubrics needed to have been used, then staple both scored rubrics to the top of the School Packet.  

 

d) ES Checklist Parent Info Form: Just a reminder that this form should be in your copy of every student’s file: http://www.sscs.cc/genericforms/eschklistogss.pdf . Please print it out for each of your student files if you haven’t, and track when forms or info are completed on the form and in the ES Webfile Checklists (parent and student).  This form needs to be passed on with the student’s file to the next ES for a student when a student transfers. (See transfer information at: http://www.sscs.cc/Handbook/transferdrops/index.htm) .

 

e) The Holiday Break:

·         Please DO NOT hold onto paperwork over the Holiday break, but mail all attendance rollsheets, student agreements (all 2nd semester should already have been mailed, this is a note for new students), etc to the office prior to taking your much deserved break.

·         The office staff will still be working (except for a couple holidays and some vacation days), and in fact, it is an important school reporting period. They need you to mail in those auditable documents ASAP as you collect them in December so that the reports can be as accurate as possible. Thank you for your help with this!

·         Your Advisors and the school credentialed admin staff will all be on vacation various parts of Winter Break. Your regular advisor will send you an email prior to the Winter Break as to who you should email on each day if needed. All will be back to work on January 5.

 

f) Transcripts for 2nd semester:

Check now for Webfiles transcripts for your 2nd semester graduates. If they are not yet entered, please provide this letter, that is posted in the Graduation section of the ES Handbook, to your parent/adult student ASAP (http://www.sscs.cc/Handbook/graduation/Misstranlte.htm) .  We do not want to wait until the last minute to know if a student is taking the correct courses needed for graduation! Keep a copy of the letter in your file to remind you to check before the next LR meeting to see if the transcript has been received and entered.  If not, follow-up with the parent/student until we have an official transcript entered. Keep your Advisor informed of any problems you are having with transcripts.

 

g) Yearly Parent Survey:  We will soon/have mailed out or emailed out (for those with an email address in our system) a survey to each of your parents to be returned to us anonymously.  We use the yearly survey info for many school purposes.  Check each of your parents email addresses listed in ES Webfiles and send updated email addresses as needed ASAP to: stuchange@ieminc.org. Please ask your parents at your first January meeting if they received a survey, and encourage them to complete it ASAP.  Please do not ask them about their responses, as they need to be confidential!  This is still last year’s info at this time, but will be similar; for your info:

·         OGCS: http://www.ogcs.org/handbook/survey/OGparsur.pdf

·         SSCS: http://www.sscs.cc/Handbook/Surveys/SSParsur.pdf

 

h) Adult students and 25 credits: If you have a student who has turned 19, and they did not complete 25 credits last semester, consult with your advisor immediately!  They may not be eligible for continued enrollment with our school! If that is the situation, you will need to drop them effective the last day of 1st semester. http://www.sscs.cc/Handbook/highschool/adultpol.htm contains additional information. Note:  This is not a truant drop, but a non-eligibility drop.  Do not mark the truant space or send out a truant letter.

 

3) Training Items

a) Who does various forms and mail-outs for parents/students:

 

b) 2nd Semester POs for Continuing Services:

·         Review the document at: http://www.sscs.cc/Handbook/cprograms/schrestcrs.htm .  Note the courses that are restricted to 30% of a student’s IF for the year.  If a student took gymnastics last semester, you will need to determine the % of the IF to see if any monies can be spent 2nd semester on the same subject area.  We rely on our ESs to keep us in legal compliance around this issue.  If in doubt, contact your advisor before placing a PO!

 

c) How to assign High School grades and credits:

·         First, watch the recorded Webex called High School Grades & Credits at home.

·         As you prepare to complete your first semester high school grades and credits which are required for all students earning any high school credits, remember that in California, the credentialed teacher of record (ES or the HQT SME if the ES is not qualified to be the teacher of record) is the only one authorized to assign grades and credits (not your parent, CP instructor, your ES Advisor, etc).

·          For a regular student, we expect you will consult with anyone involved in the student’s education before assigning final grades (CP instructors, tutors, parents, etc), and if a HQT SME is assigned, be sure to forward everyone’s input as well as your own to them .

·         For AESS students, the ES and HQT SME if applicable assigns the grades themselves, and does not need to consult with the parents/students unless you have agreed to do so.

·          For a full review of how to assign grades and credits, please see the ES Handbook, High School/Carnegie Units section. Please read this page (http://www.sscs.cc/Handbook/carnegie/assigncu.htm ) which is of particular importance, and any of the other documents that you may need to review.

·          Review this link "So, what does my grade mean?" (http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~ncoverst/What%20does%20my%20grade%20mean.htm) for a suggested grading scale.  The teacher of record is free to create their own grading scale, but you do need to have one that you go over with the student/parent prior to starting the next semester's classes.  You will find the SME's grading scale on their syllabus--be sure your students using SMEs have that information at the beginning of each semester!

·         A good link to reference for grading English compositions is available here: http://www.jsu.edu/depart/oira/Resource%20Center/english%20comp%20rubric.pdf .

 Example of items to note:

 

d) Algebra 1: Algebra 1 has several CA ed code regulation sections attached to it that Charter schools must comply with.  Therefore, it is good to periodically review our Algebra 1 document to be sure you understand the ins and outs of Algebra 1:

·         Review the policy document: http://www.sscs.cc/Handbook/highschool/Courseinfo/algebra1.htm .

·         Read the fact sheet: http://www.sscs.cc/Handbook/factsheet/78alg1fs.pdf

·         Come ready to watch this Webex during your meeting: http://www.sscs.cc/video/Algebra%201%20For%20the%207th%20or%208th%20grader.wrf (Sorry, we are finding that not all posted process Webexs are being watched at home, so this month it will be watched in your meeting)

·         Bring questions to your meeting to discuss after you watch the Webex.

 

e) PE Reminders for all grade levels:

·         PE is not "mandatory", but "expected".  We as a charter school are to be meeting the PE standards, which are at every grade level K-10th, plus preparing our students for the PFT (which is scheduled to become another test for graduation--every student must pass a minimum PFT standard in 9th grade, or they have to take an additional year of PE in high school until they do pass...Not sure when this is scheduled for implementation, but it keeps coming up for discussion.)

·         What K-10th grade student does no PE activity any day of a week?  A month?  A semester?  It is the ESs job to track down from the parent/student what activity they have done, and record that.  Remember, one of the PE standards is to participate in physical activity, and this one can be chosen every month on the LR.  I believe that standard is met by all but our most handicapped students--then there are alternatives (physical or occupational therapy, etc) that meet this requirement.

·         ESs do not "choose" what educational pursuits their students are doing to "record" on the LR, but they "document every" educational pursuit their assigned student does during that learning period.  Therefore, if the ES is doing their job, they will all, everyone for every month for K-10th grade (after that becoming a couch potato is OK), have PE activities to document.

 

f) AESS for 2nd semester:

AESS has the following deadline dates to begin a new AESS contract for the 2011 school year:

·         AESS A:  OG and SS: The final start date is Feb 1, 2011. 

·         AESS B:

9th to 12th graders only:

OGCS: Feb 1, 2011 is the final date to begin a contract. 

SSCS: Jan 21, 2011 is the final date to begin a contract. 

7th to 8th graders only:

OGCS: Jan 21, 2011 is the final date to begin a contract. 

SSCS: Jan 21, 2011 is the final date to begin a contract. 

·          AESS C: There will be no AESS C for the 2011 school year.

Remember that you must be able to provide your student with the curriculum they will need for their courses before you commit the remainder of their funding to AESS!

 

4) Messages from School Departments

a) ASSESSMENT:

·                     The CAHSEE & STAR test sites have been updated with the latest information on the assessment website.  http://www.ieminc.org/Assessment/index.htm

·                     STAR reward: The STAR rewards will be the same this year as last.  All students in 2-11 grades who score PROFICIENT or ADVANCED in both ELA and Math portions of the test and are active students with us when awards are handed out will receive the reward.

·                     STAR: please make sure that any of your students who tested basic or below in ELA or Math are working on the standards with which they’re not proficient throughout the year by interventions such as scantron worksheets, study island etc.

·                     High School students who have not yet passed the CAHSEE must continue to be enrolled in a math class (or the life choices CAHSEE prep course).

·                     Scantron:  (Note, NEW INFO for 2011 for Post-tests!)

ü  Once students pass the CAHSEE and have completed all their math courses, you should administer their final Scantron post-test (at the end of their course). This is a change from our previous policy of post-testing the student in math at the end of their 12th grade year. Once a student has completed their math course requirements and will not be taking anymore math classes, they will not need to be scantroned in math again unless they decide to take a higher level math course later in HS. We are doing this to improve our scores. 

ü  Ex 1, student Smith takes algebra 1 freshman year and Geometry sophomore year and chooses not to take any more math classes. He passes the CAHSEE on his first attempt. He would take the Scantron post-test at the end of sophomore year and then be finished with his math portion of scantron for the rest of high school.

ü  Ex 2 student Jones takes math freshman and sophomore year but does not pass the CAHSEE. He must be enrolled in another math class until he passes the CAHSEE. Once he passes the CAHSEE his math classes can end and he should be post-tested in scantron. Bottom line: Students must 1) pass the CAHSEE 2) be finished with math classes 3) be administered the Scantron post-test.

ü  High School students may now take their ELA scantron post-test at the end of their 11th grade year if they 1) have passed the ELA CAHSEE and 2) are not going to do a 4th year of English.

ü  The Reading Scantron post-test must still be administered at the end of 12th grade.

ü  When their final ELA or math Scantron has been taken, email your Scantron coordinator (Burke or Sara) with the name of the student and the test taken that will be their last one.

 

b) GUIDANCE:

·         11th grade STAR Test – Encourage your students to take the EAP (Early Assessment Program) when they take the STAR test this year.  Some benefits of taking this test include:

-          Provides an early signal:  It tells students, families, and high schools whether the students are prepared for college-level work in English and mathematics.

-          Alerts students about needed actions:  It informs them about what they can do to achieve readiness in English and mathematics before leaving high school.

-          Encourages interventions: It motivates students to take needed steps in 12th grade to achieve college readiness and helps schools provide opportunities for college readiness.

-          Enables exemptions:  It allows students to earn an exemption from CSU English and/or mathematics placement tests.

** If an 11th grader wants to take the EAP test, you must make that request in FRED. 
-  Click the “View” dropdown menu and select “Testing”. 
-  Click the blue ID# of the student who will be taking the EAP. 
-  Locate the EAP box in the bottom left hand corner and select “2011”  

·         Do You Have Any Graduating Students Who Need Money for College?
If so, they must start the process today!!!  Here are the steps:

1.      Go to http://www.fafsa.ed.gov/before012.htm  and click the FAFSA web worksheet.  Download and print this file.  Have the parent pull out their tax records from last year and work though answering all of the questions on the worksheet.  It is an 8-page application and will likely take several hours to complete.  FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid) is a somewhat of an involved application that is designed to evaluate the family’s financial status and relative need for college financial assistance.

2.    All FAFSA applications must be submitted online (no paper applications will be accepted) http://www.fafsa.ed.gov/FOTWWebApp/complete013.jsp 
Starting January 1st, the student can complete their application online.  This step should be easy if the student has completed the FAFSA worksheet.  This must be completed before the March 2nd deadline. 

3.      Apply for a Cal Grant www.calgrants.org. This is California’s largest and most generous source of grant money for California college students.  Students can get up to $9,700/yr of “free money” for college.  This grant program is designed to help students, from low and moderate-income families, pay for college.  Starting January 1st, the application process requires two steps:  1) complete the FAFSA application online (www.fafsa.ed.gov) and  2) fill out the GPA verification form, located at the Cal Grant website (http://www.calgrants.org/index.cfm?navId=22&), and mail it to the Guidance Counselor at the school’s Placerville office for a signature.  The FAFSA application and GPA verification must be completed between Jan 1st and March 2nd.  The application will be given greater preference if it is submitted shortly after the Jan 1st start of the application window. 

·         BYU FINALS - All course final exams must be administered by a “certified proctor”. ESs can become certified by going to elearn.byu.edu, click on the tab for “Counselors and Educators”, then

click “Proctor Certification Form”. After completing the form, allow 2 business days for a reply.  Do NOT submit a test with Teri Alves as the proctor without checking with her first to make sure she is available, as these tests have deadline dates.  You, the ES should be the first choice to proctor a final for your student!

·          A-G midterms and finals – The office has had many calls and concerns regarding finals and midterms for a-g courses.  If the a-g course is followed by an SME, then the SME will have the mid-term and final for that student.  If you are the teacher of record, then you must come up with a mid-term or final for your student.  This final does not necessarily have to come from the test generator that corresponds with the book, because the HQT could assign a research project, term paper, create a test using online resources or the text used.  Many publishers now have finals/assessments online.  The assessment has to be of the same rigor as the mid-term and final that would be generated by the publisher or the SME.  If you have any questions, please email or call guidance, guidance@ieminc.org.

·          CAHSEE Intervention: Guidance has had an opportunity to go through most of the CAHSEE plans this year and they are significantly better than they were last year – awesome job!  Please remember to memorialize what the plan is rather than just list the book used. In December, I will be looking at the learning records to make sure there is documentation of work completed.  Our goal is to have students pass the CAHSEE on their first try.  Please start to dialog with your families regarding attending the CAHSEE Bootcamps and some new classes we will be starting at the first of the year.  Details for the Bootcamps and classes will be forthcoming.

·         NCAA APPROVED!! South Sutter now has a full core course list approved through the NCAA. All our athletes can now be eligible if they take the recommended courses. (OG is coming soon!)

 

c) CURRICULUM:

HQT SME CP Courses

1.  Please remember to correct the enrollment date BEFORE you click ES Approved.  If you have approved your student, and then need to correct the enrollment date, you must email Shelley Ross, curriculum@ieminc.org.  DO NOT email CP for HQT SME Enrollment date corrections, but email Shelley Ross.  DO email CP for regular CP course drops and corrections.
2.  Look for the spring semester HQT SME CP courses that say “Semeseter 2” with a start date of 1/5/2010.  All students enrolled in fall semester “A” courses were “rolled-over” to spring semester “B” courses.  Before you leave for winter break, either click your rolled-over student “approved”, or “delete” your student.  Failure to do so will result in an email from Shelley Ross.  If you need to drop a student from an HQT SME CP course, email Shelley Ross, curriculum@ieminc.org, even though the system may tell you to email CP.  Conversely, email CP for regular CP course drops/corrections, cp@ieminc.org

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d) VENDOR RELATIONS

·         New Vendors by School:  SSCS   OGCS

·         Remember that VR cannot follow up on magazine subscription orders.  See information at http://www.sscs.cc/Handbook/curriculum/csuggest/magazine.htm .

·         Remember to ask your ES Advisor process questions yourself, not Vendor Relations, as they then have to forward them on to your Advisor, which takes time away from their job.

 

e) ED Liaisons

1) OGCS only:

GEA’s

·         Thank you for making sure parents are bringing permission slips!  At the train GEA, we had about 95% of the parents have them ready for me!

·         If you are an ES AND a parent and would like to help with check in at GEA’s, please let me know as I could use extra hands to help things run smoother

·         January is Ice Skating at Shark Ice and March is the Symphony

·         Still working on February and May

Fundraising

·         Keep sending in box tops!

·         Continue to sign your families up for eScrip.

Speaking

·         I am available to speak to groups about our school! 

·         If your families have friends with questions, send them my way!  ogliaison@ieminc.org.

Graduation news

·         The location of the graduation ceremony will be changed due to vandalism at the Resource Center that has left the amphitheater stage unusable. If you have any suggestions for locations which can be rented cheap, or the location would be willing to donate the use of their space for one day, please contact Mary Ann Shapiro at ogliaison@ieminc.org.

·         Remember to find out if your December grads wish to participate in the graduation ceremony in May. The details on the purchase of caps and gowns will be coming later this month.

2) SSCS only:

GEA’s

·         Thank you for making sure parents are bringing permission slips!  At the train GEA, we had about 95% of the parents have them ready for me!

·         If you are an ES AND a parent and would like to help with check in at GEA’s, please let me know as I could use extra hands to help things run smoother

·         January-Hubble 3D at the IMAX and March- Raley Field Home Run Tour.

·         Still working on March and May

Fundraising

·         Keep sending in boxtops!

·         Continue to sign your families up for escrip.

Speaking

·         I am available to speak to groups about our school! 

·         If your families have friends with questions, send them my way!  ssliaison@iemin.org.

 

f) EL Instructors:  (SSCS ONLY)

·         As a result of all the CELDT testing this fall, EL SME instructors have been assessing and placing students into the Keystone Longman curriculum in November.  For this 1st semester we will need to collaborate with ESs to grade the High School SME students in their coursework. We have posted notes, which can be seen in the SME CP course to the right under NOTES.

·         Please send us an email with your students’ names so that we can reply to it.

·         Second  semester should run smoothly and we will collect and grade the work as we meet.  You as the ES will still need to do intake at each AESS meeting where the students will be able to show you what they are currently working on. The front of the inside cover of the workbooks will give you a good idea of what they have been doing as they are aligned to each chapter in the Longman textbooks. This is an English support at their level of English as determined by the CELDT and the Longman Placement Assessment, this is not a grade level situation.  Incomplete work and no shows will affect their grades and units completed. 

·         For the K-8 students, we are tutoring them using the curriculum they have, with a few 7/8 graders eligible to use the HS SME curriculum.

·         All students, both the HS SME and the K-8 students should be listed in the SME CP course for auditing purposes. Please be sure your students' names are listed with the correct EL Instructor. 

·         Finally, if a student does not show up or return phone calls, then they will be dropped and the next student on our master list will be contacted. We will notify you of this change via email.

·         If there are ever any questions please feel free to send an email to your students' EL instructor: nthomas@ieminc.org or agarcia@ieminc.org

 

5) Networking:  

a) Each ES bring a gift to share with your group: The gift is your best idea you have had in any area of the job that has helped you the most this year.  It could be the way you interview the parent/students at your meeting that easily gives you the info you need for a LR; or a curriculum that has really helped your struggling EL students; or a educational activity that your families has found to be wonderfully educational; a website we listed in an agenda that a family/student has particularly enjoyed; the best tutor in your area for a particular subject; etc. Don’t assume everyone else has discovered what you have, but everyone share a great idea!

 

b) Group Portfolio Review: This section will begin with a short portfolio training from the advisor at your meeting this month. After this training, you will switch portfolios and conduct a review.  Bring all of your  completed 1st semester portfolios for all students AND your final completed portfolio for any student who has dropped during 1st semester and any 1st semester grads (note: this meeting does not have time to assemble your portfolios, please have 1st semesters’ done prior to your December meeting). It is helpful to bring the following extra supplies to your ES Group meeting in December:

·         Sticky notes

·         Extra portfolio envelopes (manila, 10” x 13” with clasp)

·         Extra portfolio labels

·         Extra sample labels

·         Paper clips

·         Extra copies of each student’s portfolio checklist.

·         Portfolio Review forms (2 per page, bring 10 forms—5 pages)

1st semester portfolios should be placed in their envelope left open for review with the following:

·         Envelope label completed and placed correctly

·         Portfolio checklist (printed from Webfiles)for each student by semester along with the samples paper-clipped behind it

·         Each portfolio sample properly labeled

If you are unsure of the problem identified in a portfolio sample, ask you advisor after your meeting.

 

6) Peer Tips:

*For young students who do not write, the website currclick.com has copy-work passages that can be printed.

*The book Boys Adrift is an excellent book about the development of boys and girls and that boys typically are 1 ½ years behind girls in literacy.

*One ES finds Quick Reads to be an easier to use fluency program than Read Naturally.

*One ES bought Starline PE packets for her high school students to complete for PE.

*For struggling readers one student benefited greatly by enlarging the print on the Scantron reading portion and then read the text by moving the mouse from word to word.  His score improved greatly.

*One ES has family using My Access Writing (online) by Vantage Learning and really liking it!

*Write Guide (vendor) is a great resource for teaching writing. They provide an online writing teacher for the student and it is paid for on a monthly basis with regular (even daily, if desired) feedback and guidance.

*Health and PE assignments/tests may be printed free from Florida Pass Curriculum online.

*One ES is taking the Science VPSS with San Diego. They gave a great free website with online science experiment simulations. http://phet.colorado.edu/

*Edhelper, ABC Teach, Test Designer.com are recommended as places to find individual worksheets and tests to support the learning that is more difficult to document.

*An ES highly recommended 'Splash' which is put on by Stanford University and is offered to Jr. High and High School students. It is 2 days of free classes with the regular professors and alumni.