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March 20, 2025 RCSD Educator Digest

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Business Services New Payroll Alpha Split  Effective March 1, 2025 the new Payroll alpha split is as follows: A-F: Kristen Levy G-O: Kari Felkins P-Z: Erin Eason Educational Services ESGI Historical Data Historical data will not be available in ESGI until March 26th, 2025. Teachers will have access to see student historical data again beginning on March 27th. Contact: Kelly Yusim 6-8 Math: IXL Snapshot Diagnostic Has a New Name IXL is constantly adding new features and updating their platform. One of their latest updates is changing the name of the Real Time Diagnostic in Snapshot mode to Flex Diagnostic in Benchmark mode. Their reason for the change is that Flex Diagnostic better reflects the purpose and impact of the assessment. Nothing is changing with how we assess students or what data we capture, just the name is different. Contact: Lisa Wegsteen 3-8 Math: SBAC Performance Task Examples Listed below are compiled lists of examples of SBAC Math Performance Tasks released by ...

March 13, 2025 RCSD Educator Digest

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Business Services Payroll Alpha Split Effective March 1, 2025 the new Payroll alpha split is as follows: A-F: Kristen Desimone G-O: Kari Felkins P-Z: Erin Eason Communications Share Your School’s Good News You can now use the News Submission Form to easily request assistance from the Communication Team with sharing your school’s good news! If you have a unique event coming up, an interesting story to share, or if there’s a member of your community who you think deserves to be highlighted, submit a request to be considered for the following: Multimedia coverage (photo/video) Publication on district social media Assistance with news media outreach Contact: Sydney Roll Educational Services K-8 Math: Building Thinking Classrooms (BTC) Collaboration Opportunity *Save the Date! Building Thinking Classrooms is a book written by researcher and professor, Dr. Peter Liljedahl. In this book Liljedahl presents 14 teaching practices that are meant to enhance learning by increasing student engag...

March 6, 2025 RCSD Educator Digest

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Business Services New Payroll Split  Effective March 1, 2025 the new Payroll alpha split is as follows: A-F: Kristen Desimone G-O: Kari Felkins P-Z: Erin Eason Contact: Dawn Mercer Educational Services K-8 Math: Building Thinking Classrooms (BTC) Collaboration Opportunity *Save the date! Building Thinking Classrooms is a book written by researcher and professor, Dr. Peter Liljedahl. In this book Liljedahl presents 14 teaching practices that are meant to enhance learning by increasing student engagement, collaboration, and discourse. If you are interested in hearing more about these teaching strategies being used by some RCSD teachers and what the start of their implementation looks like, please join us for a BTC Collaboration on Tuesday, April 1 from 3:00-4:00 in the District Office Board Room. Contact: Lisa Wegsteen Ed Tech Tips from our LITE Team The RCSD LITE team put together some of our favorite tech tips. Please see the document below for helpful technology tips and tricks...

February 27, 2025 RCSD Educator Digest

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Business Services New Payroll Split Effective March 1, 2025 the new Payroll alpha split is as follows: A-F: Kristen Desimone G-O: Kari Felkins P-Z: Erin Eason Educational Services Elementary Report Card Information Report cards must be sent home by Friday, March 7th. Please work with your principal on if report cards will be emailed or printed and by when. Teachers will have the ability to print their own report card in PTP. Resources: Elementary PTP- Entering Report Card Grades and Comments Running PowerSchool Report Cards- Teachers: This page includes steps on how to run a report card, as well as an instructional video. If you are having any issues with entering grades or questions regarding PowerTeacher Pro, please submit a Zendesk ticket. Middle School Report Card Information Final grades are due by Thursday, March 6th at 11:59pm. Report cards will be emailed home on March 7th. A reminder to please make sure you are running your own preview to check final grades. If you need a...

February 20, 2025 RCSD Educator Digest

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Business Services New Payroll Alpha Split Effective March 1, 2025 the new Payroll alpha split is as follows: A-F: Kristen Desimone G-O: Kari Felkins P-Z: Erin Eason Contact: Dawn Mercer Educational Services Elementary Report Card Information Report Card Prep is February 26, 2025. Report cards must be sent home by Friday, March 7th. Please work with your principal on if report cards will be emailed or printed and by when. Teachers will have the ability to print their own report card in PTP. Resources: Elementary PTP- Entering Report Card Grades and Comments Running PowerSchool Report Cards- Teachers: This page includes steps on how to run a report card, as well as an instructional video. If you have any questions about who is running report cards, including Spanish report cards, your site admin will give you additional information. If you are having any issues with entering grades or questions regarding PowerTeacher Pro, please submit a Zendesk ticket. Contact: Angela Garcia  M...

February 13, 2025 RCSD Educator Digest

Communications Share Your School’s Good News You can now use the News Submission Form to easily request assistance from the Communication Team with sharing your school’s good news! If you have a unique event coming up, an interesting story to share, or if there’s a member of your community who you think deserves to be highlighted, submit a request to be considered for the following: Multimedia coverage (photo/video) Publication on district social media Assistance with news media outreach Contact: Sydney Roll Educational Service s Scholarships for Teachers The Roseville Beta Eta chapter of Alpha Delta Kappa--international professional woman educator's organization--is offering $1000 scholarships to teachers! If you are new to your current school, or made grade level or subject changes within the last three years, you are eligible to apply. Please refer to the application form for further information. Questions may be directed to their current scholarship chair, Linda Warfield, at ...

February 6, 2025 RCSD Educator Digest

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Educational Services Teacher Scholarships The Roseville Beta Eta chapter of Alpha Delta Kappa--international professional woman educator's organization--is offering $1000 scholarships to teachers! If you are new to your current school, or made grade level or subject changes within the last three years, you are eligible to apply. Please refer to the application form for further information. Questions may be directed to their current scholarship chair, Linda Warfield, at celticlinda@comcast.net . K-2 Professional Development Cycle The 2nd, 1st, and Kindergarten Cycle of Professional Development will begin at the end of this month. Please review this PD Cycle Schedule to see which date your PLC will be attending and email Kelly Yusim if you notice any discrepancies in grade level placements or PLC members listed. More information will be shared as your PD date approaches. Contact: Kelly Yusim 3-8 Math: SBAC Performance Task Examples Listed below are compiled lists of examples of S...