November 3, 2022 RCSD Educator Blog
Report Card Reminders
Please see previous blogs for additional details regarding report cards. Click on the document below that has additional details and reminders for both elementary and middle school:
If you have questions, please reach out to the following people:
Angela Garcia- TK Jennie Ruvalcaba- Kaseberg, Woodbridge, Blue Oaks, Riego Creek, Junction, Brown Kelly Yusim- Cirby, Fiddy, Gates, Stoneridge, Thomas Jefferson, Spanger Joe Clark- RVA, Middle School, Sargeant, Diamond Creek, Crestmont, Orchard Ranch
Students Removed from Classes and Wheel Classes in Otus
Students will stay on your roster for 10 days after they are removed. That gives teachers access to their classes and students in order to enter grades. This will not impact PowerSchool or taking attendance.
New classes will show 2 days before the Trimester starts.
Contact: Brandon Blom
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Ed Services
Children’s Book Week-November 7th-11th
Discovery Education is back with another ready-to-go deck for Children's Book Week! The deck features a resource from our Vooks Channel each day - stories with brought to life through animation and voice narration. Click here to access the slide deck.
Contact: Megan Spears
K-5 Tundra Connections: Polar Bear Virtual Field Trip
Are you registered for our Polar Bear Virtual Field Trip on 11/9 at 12 PM ET? Don't miss this one, as it is coming to your students LIVE from Manitoba, Canada, with the Polar Bears International team! Discovery Education also updated the landing page with some exciting ready-to-use activities to pair with the VFT; click here for all the information and resources.
Contact: Megan Spears
Virtual Professional Development Opportunity: Data Science
Bootstrap: Data Science workshop at the Autumn of CS. On November 7th and 8th, from 3:30 to 5:30 PM, you will have the opportunity to explore ways to integrate computer science concepts and computer programming into your math courses.
Contact: Megan Spears
K-8 Math Resources
PD Resources: You will continue to see new resources in your PD folder found on your grade-level Key Resources Document. We are currently working on adding resources in the Quick Practice folder.
Math Conversations: On Would You Rather Math, you will find tasks that will engage students in math-based conversations, and provide students opportunities to use math to justify their ideas.
Number Sense: On Estimation180 you can do tasks that make mathematical reasoning accessible to students and enjoyable.
Contact: Megan Spears
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Technology
Zoom Student Accounts
With our successful transition to full-time in-person instruction, Technology Services is seeing a spike in student-created Zoom meetings after-hours. To prevent students from creating Zoom meetings after-hours, we will be deactivating all student Zoom accounts on Friday, November 4th.
RVA Students will continue to have access.
Please feel free to submit a Zendesk support request if you have any questions. Thank you.
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K/1 Information
K/1 Rubrics in Otus
As a reminder, you will no longer need to enter foundational skills data into the “K/1 Foundational Skills” rubrics in Otus. These rubrics are now “retired” in Otus. All of the foundational skills data will be entered in ESGI. Please continue to use the report card rubrics in Otus to enter in an overall score for Reading Foundational Skills on the ELA report card rubric.
Contact: Kelly Yusim
K/1 ESGI Student Detail Report
Please make sure to provide the ESGI Student Detail Report to families at conferences. The Student Detail Report will also be sent home with trimester 2 and 3 report cards so this is a great opportunity to review the reports with families. To see which assessments to include in the report, please refer to the week of November 14th-18th on the assessment calendars linked below. We understand that the fluency assessment may not provide clear data (we are working on solutions); therefore, please feel free to not include fluency in the ESGI report as long as you can share fluency data in a different way.
Video: How to Print Student Detail Reports
Kindergarten Assessment Calendar
Contact: Kelly Yusim
1st-Grade Fluency Tracker Template
The Fluency Tracker template that we created for 1st grade had an error in the way it was color coding scores. We have updated the tracker in the templates (please see below). To get the new updated template, you would download a new template and then copy and paste student names and scores from the old template into the new one. The Kindergarten template has not changed.
We will be using ESGI to track student proficiency as a District. In ESGI, to score, you can only enter numbers or Yes/No. Therefore teachers will report data in ESGI but can continue to track Fluency levels (specific reading levels) as they have done previously.
This sheet is not required in any way, just a resource for PLCs or a teacher if they would find it helpful.
Where to Find the Fluency Tracker Template- 1.5 min video
Using the Fluency Sheets- 3 min video
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