April 5, 2019 RCSD Educator Blog

April 22, 2019 PD Schedule and Locations
Please see the attached schedule below for the April 22nd PD Day.
April 22, 2019 PD Schedule

Learning about surface area and volume by creating town centers at Chilton.

Progress Report Reminder
A reminder that progress reports need to go home by next Friday, April 12th.  Brandon sent an email with more details, reminders, and how-to guides.

Oregon Trail takeover day at Sargeant.

Career Day at Eich

PD Opportunity: Alice Keeler Presents-Leveraging G-Suite to Empower Mathematical Thinking 
Alice Keeler is coming to Sacramento, April 25th.  Teaching math in the 21st century is different, it asks students to be critical thinkers, model their math, critique the reasoning of others, and to analyze. Many of the math problems we have traditionally been using have literally become obsolete as a result of modern technology. This is a gift! This session is an introduction to ways we can use G-Suite to make this shift.
 Leveraging G-Suite to Empower Mathematical Thinking

UC CalFresh Nutrition Education Program Family Fun Health Fair for Cirby

Kaseberg students listening to the Sacramento Philharmonic

Tommy Apostolos Fund Dinner
Thank you to all of those that purchased tickets to the Tommy Apostolos Dinner event on April 6th.  The event is sold out.  We look forward to seeing a lot of RCSD staff there!

Book March Madness at Orchard Ranch

Eich students "shaking" for good luck before they challenge each other to a Coordinate Plane CAASPP Review Battleship game.

Poem HyperDoc
April is National Poetry Month. Expose your students to different styles of poetry writing with Poetry Gameboard HyperDoc.
Poem HyperDoc

Rotating test review at Buljan

Score Reports in PowerSchool
The message below was sent to all parents in grades 3-8.
California Department of Education (CDE) is transitioning to a paperless system for 2019 CAASPP (California Assessments of Student Performance and Progress) tests. We are pleased to announce that our district is making specific score reports from Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) available for parents for testing years 2017 and 2018.
Here are a few key details:

• If your child took the 2017 and/or 2018 Math and ELA (English Language Arts) SBAC tests, you will be able to view, download, and print the score results.
• Moving forward, all score reports will be available using PowerSchool’s parent portal.
• The district will no longer receive paper copies from CDE.  Consequently, we will no longer mail score reports starting with the 2019 administration.

Please find attached a ‘how-to’ guide on how to access these results.

RCSD Staff can access the score reports this way:

PowerSchool Administrators: Once logged in, search for any student and click on their name to bring up the student screens. From the left navigation menu, click State/Province - CA, then select Score Reports from the list.

PowerSchool Teacher: Once logged in, from the Current Classes page, click on the backpack icon to the right of any section. Select any student from the list, and using the Student Screen drop-down menu to the right, select Score Reports from the list. 

Volleyball at Cooley

Interesting Articles We Read
Building a Math Culture
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