- We will hold a beginning of year information meeting for your 17-hour Literacy Assistants. Please remind them they may attend whichever meeting best fits their schedule.
July 28 - 9:00 a.m. - PDC 102
September 1 - 9:00 a.m. - PDC 102
- JSAS will no longer be used to record Guided Reading Levels. Beginning in August, we will ask teachers to record GRLs in Skyward. We will hold several trainings over the next couple of months to demonstrate the process and provide detailed instructions. The process is very simple and will allow teachers and Administrators easier access and more report options than JSAS. Please watch for more information coming soon.
- As a reminder, the ELA Pre/Post and Benchmark assessments are optional. Please remember if the Reading and/or Writing Pre/Post tests are not administered, teachers must use the Math Pre/Post assessment for their SLO.
- If you choose to use them, the 2016 – 2017 ELA Pretest (SLO) and Benchmarks are posted on the CBL website, along with several resource items. Teachers may use these materials to prepare before school starts. The tests will be posted to Mastery Connect on July 26 and pushed out again for traditional teachers later in August. In order for teachers to see the assessments (applies to Math, too) in MC, they must create a Language Arts tracker (and a Math tracker). If their tracker is created after the test is pushed out, please have them contact one of the Literacy Specialists, or myself, to manually add the test to their tracker.
- Grade level specific literacy professional development will be held again this year. There will be three dates per grade level (October, February, and April). The Curriculum Department will pay for substitutes (or time sheet off-track teachers) for 1 teacher per grade per school. Once locations have been finalized and meetings entered into JPLS, you will receive a notice with all the pertinent details to share with teachers. Please watch for more information coming soon.
- Thank you for encouraging teachers to attend our Summer Literacy Conference! The first day was a great success and teachers seemed to be very appreciative of the information shared in each class. We will be repeating the Conference in its entirety on August 8 and again on August 9. The program schedule is posted on the CBL website and registration through JPLS is still open. Please feel free to send all who might be interested.