Zoom Office Hours, August 6, 2020, 1pm-3pm
We will have Zach from Otus answering questions. This is an optional training opportunity. Please use the login information below if you would like to join:
Professional Development Plan- Week of 8/3/20
We are excited to spend a week together learning and preparing for the new school year in our Distance Learning Model.
Here you will find the professional development plan for the week of 8/3. We will be adding links to this document throughout the week. This is the one place to go to get all links from Ed Services. Your site principal will be emailing out links for Meet or Zoom.
Educational Support Services Professional Development Schedule
For more information about the professional development plans for ESS staff during the week of August 3-7, please view this SCHEDULE.
Zoom
The District will be purchasing Zoom Premium for all certificated staff. The premium account will start on Monday. When logged in your account should say Licensed instead of Basic.
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This will be available to all staff starting Monday.
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This will allow teachers to easily record lessons and the lessons be saved on Zoom's Cloud storage. On Tuesday of next week, there will be a module teaching our teachers best practices around using Zoom and recording.
A good extension to add for Zoom is the Zoom scheduler, which allows you to easily schedule Zoom meetings right from your calendar.
Student Passwords
We will be resetting student password for all students. We will email all parents once this update has occurred. As of now we are looking at sending the letter on 8/5. Below will be the student passwords:
Preschool = p
Transitional Kindergarten = t
Kindergarten = k (used to be 0 but too much confusion with the letter O)
1st = 1
2nd = 2
3rd - 8th = MM/DD/YY, will be prompted to change the password upon initial login. Password Criteria: 8-characters in length, and contain both numbers and letters.
Students will either need a new Clever badge to log on, or they can use their Username and Password that will be shared with them on 8/5. Please speak with your principal about the plan to get students their Clever Badges for this school year.
RCSD Learning Site
We will continue to update the RCSD Learning Site (formerly known as the Continuous Learning Site) throughout the year. The site is linked at the top of the blog or can be found here. Please know we are still in the process of moving over other information but we will continue to update.
Otus Information
You will be receiving Otus training with your site on Monday and Wednesday of next week.
A reminder that Otus is an online learning management system (LMS) that focuses heavily on using student data to inform instruction. Otus is not a curriculum, but rather a platform to house, deliver, and communicate content from the curriculum that teachers have already been using.
This message will go out to families on Tuesday afternoon letting them know their child's unique Otus ID. We will share that letter with staff as well. Once that email goes out, parents will have access to their child's schedule or teacher. Please see additional helpful resources:
In Otus you cannot share something with students from a Shared Drive, it must be from your Drive. This video shows how to change share settings for items in your personal Drive.
Some teachers asked to see the training our RCSD trainers went through. The recordings are linked below. A reminder though that you will get training on 8/3 and 8/5 of next week.
7/27/20 Otus Training Recording 2 hours
Password: RCSD95678! for both recordings
RCSD Parent Technology Support - Google Form
This year if parents need additional tech support they can submit a form and someone from the RCSD Tech Team will get back to them. We will be emailing this out to parents next week but please feel free to share with your families as well.
Elementary Math Essential Standards
The EMESIT is excited to share the math essential standard resources. Please watch the attached video and reference the slidedeck for the links within the presentation to support your planning as we begin the 20-21 school year.
Mystery Science
Interested in still using Mystery Science as a supplemental curriculum this year? You can sign up here, by putting your email in the green box, for a free membership. As of Thursday, July 30th they still had 4,856 free memberships to give away!
Kindergarten - Second Grade Teachers
Even though we are beginning the year in a Distance Learning model, K-2 teachers will still be provided a bundle of white computer paper to support the Lucy Calkins, Units of Study writing program. Principals will be notified when the paper has arrived.
Kindergarten - First Grade Teachers
The Ed. Services Department is working on resources and supports to help you administer the Beginning-of-Year Foundational Skills Assessments virtually. Please be looking for an email from Jennie Ruvalcaba with specifics on how and when you will be administering the Foundational Skills Assessments to your students.
Optional Training for Staff
We wanted to let you know that starting this year we will be providing optional trainings for staff every Monday from 3:45pm-4:30pm. The training will be live but will also be recorded for anyone that can't make it. We will email out the schedule ahead of time. The first training starts on 8/17. Examples include Math teaching practices, small group, Otus, iReady, Forms, Sheets, Benchmark, and more. We will get out more details next week.
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