September 15, 2022 RCSD Educator Blog

Ed Services

Elementary Progress Reports
A reminder, Elementary Progress Reports need to go home by Friday, September 30th. Progress Report PLC prep day is September 21st.

Please see the documents below for additional information:

Progress Report Communication- This document includes information regarding what is required regarding Progress Reports and an explanation on how to use the updated Progress Reports.

RCSD Elementary Progress Reports- This document has linked to all progress reports. We are working on the Spanish translation for the more detailed progress reports and will have those updated by next week.

Contact: Brandon Blom

Middle School Mid-Trimester Progress Check

Middle School Teachers: An email from the school site will go home on Friday, September 30 to remind parents they can check grades in Otus. Here is a sample of the message that will be sent home by the school site. A reminder all students should have a grade for both Engagement and Work Completion.

Contact: Brandon Blom

English Learners (EL) and English Language Development (ELD)

If you are looking for additional ways to support the Newcomer English Learners in your class, please review this Supporting Newcomers in RCSD Document. This document includes information on translation tools and a new Zendesk article on Using Google Translate on an iPad. 

Contact: Jennie Ruvalcaba

Wellness and Safety

Wellness Update - The current partnership with WW (formerly known as Weight Watchers) and RCSD will end on 12/6/22.  Employees with current WW memberships that were created with an RCSD employee discount will revert to the regular WW membership fee after that date.

Safety Corner

Accounting for Kids in Raptor 

Did you know that you can account for multiple kids at the same time in Raptor?  If you teach your kids to line up in ABC order when at your evacuation spot, you can quickly go down your roster (after accounting for yourself), and check all the kids that are with you and update their status and location at the same time.  Then you just need to account separately for those that are absent or missing/not with you. 

Elementary Information

K/1 Lexia Training

Our next Lexia Training is next Wednesday, 9/21, from 1:45pm-2:30pm. This training will be in person in Kaseberg's MPR. Kaseberg is located next to the district office at 1040 Main Street. Please fill out this quick form if you plan on attending the in-person training! 

Contact: Kelly Yusim

i-Ready Parent Night

We will be having a virtual i-Ready Parent Education Night on September 19, 2022, from 6:30-7:30pm. This will be for families with students in 2nd-5th grade as it will cover both the assessment and instruction piece of i-Ready. We will be emailing more information to families on Monday!

RCSD i-Ready Parent Education Night

Contact: Kelly Yusim

i-Ready Parent Communication

Just a reminder that Diagnostic window 1 closes on September 16th. As students complete their assessments, please consider sharing the i-Ready For Families Report with your students' parents/guardians. These reports provide families with information on student performance, including overall performance, additional suggestions, and domain explanations. 

To access the reports, please go to i-Ready and click Reports→ Batch→ For Families. 

Screencastify: Printing For Families Reports

Understanding Your Student’s i-Ready Diagnostic Results- Language Options