Curriculum<\/strong> Educator Network Day <\/strong> Admin\/ICCL Teams will meet on October 3rd from 3:00-5:00 at Jewell Elementary<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Exciting News from the Language Arts Curriculum Review Team<\/strong> Why EL Education?<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Language Arts Curriculum Review Team will move forward with field testing a module for the purpose of identifying professional learning needs and beginning to plan for implementation. During the field test the team will be collecting video, survey and interview data from classroom educators and students. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Background Information: In the Spring the team was field testing two curriculums: EL Education and Collaborative Classroom. The team reached strong consensus regarding the strength of EL Education as a knowledge building language arts curriculum and decided to not move forward with Collaborative Classroom. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Next steps: Extended Date- Dreambox Launchpad for Kindergarten <\/strong> Forefront has a help document that shows how teachers can use the new reporting suite to help inform instruction once they’ve got data from an assessment (linked here)<\/a> and a short Getting Started for Teachers webinar that highlights features that might be newer to them (linked here)<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Forefront Rosters – Please check your Forefront roster and make sure it looks correct. Alert your instructional coach, mentor, or Kerry Morton if there are still errors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Greeting: <\/strong> Talking Points:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Partner Up:<\/strong> Wayfinder’s Transformative SEL Retreat is November 9th from 10:00 – 4:00. If you are interested, you can find more information here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Instructional Technology team has some great resources available for you to use in your classroom, including Sphero Bolts, Ozobots, Bee-Bots, and the newest addition – Sphero Indi. To learn more about each of these codeable robots, check out this blog post.<\/a> You can visit the Instructional Technology blog<\/a> for the request forms – just look in the right hand column under the “Bring Innovation to Your Classroom” heading.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Apple Classroom is an amazing management tool. Reach out to your instructional technology<\/a> coaches if you would like help getting started!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Important Information CurriculumWe want to make sure you have the curriculum materials you need to get started.\u00a0 At this point we have ordered all curriculum and need to know if Continue reading September 27th Update<\/span>
We want to make sure you have the curriculum materials you need to get started.\u00a0 At this point we have ordered all curriculum and need to know if you are missing items.\u00a0 Please share here\u00a0if you are missing items.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
When: October 11th from 1:45-3:15
Where: School Sites
Topic: Reflecting and Refining Foundational Skills and Continuing to Refine and Plan for Life and Career Readiness using Wayfinder as our Tool
Facilitators: ICCL Teams<\/p>\n\n\n\nOther Information<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
Literacy Happenings<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
The Language Arts Curriculum Team met September 14th and reached strong consensus on moving forward with EL Education from Imagine Learning as our finalist for K-5 Language Arts Curriculum. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
10\/2-12\/11 Curriculum Review Team Field Test of EL
10\/25-10\/27-Each school will have an information table with resources to explore the curricular materials and provide feedback during conferences (community and staff feedback)<\/p>\n\n\n\nMath Happenings<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
The date to have Dreambox Launchpad assessments complete has been extended due to iPad roll out. The new date for Kindergarten is 11\/3. Grades 1-5-should complete Launchpad assessment by 9\/29.<\/p>\n\n\n\nLife and Career Readiness<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
In this basic greeting, two students face each other, give a smile, and say \u201cGood Morning, (classmate\u2019s name).\u201d As time progresses, have students pass a high five, or a high five and ankle shake, you could have a quick class handshake to pass around the circle.
Share Out:<\/strong> What is something you like to do in your free time?
Group Activity – <\/strong>Wayfinder:
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K – 1 Have partner A tell partner B one thing they like to do after school. See if partner B can retell partner A what they said. After that partner B will get to share. As the year progresses, have partner B ask a question about what partner A said rather than just retelling what partner A said.
2 – 5: Two truths and a lie – have partner A tell partner B two truths and one lie and then partner B must guess the lie. <\/p>\n\n\n\nTechnology in the Classroom<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n