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EDUCATIONAL SERVICES Lexia AutoPlacement Assessments Please have all Lexia AutoPlacement assessments completed by 10/06/23. Please remember that students should be spending a minimum of 15-25 minutes on Lexia instruction. depending on grade level. Please adjust according to your students and their instructional goals.  Kindergarten: 15-20 minutes a week 1st Grade: 20-25 minutes a week Placer Nature Center Field Trips Placer Nature Center is the field trip destination for 4,000 students annually! They offer age-appropriate programming in natural and social sciences. Program themes include habitats, watersheds, ecology, wildlife biology, and cultural history of the Sierra Nevada foothills. Their programs also meet the California Science State Standards to enrich school curricula. Please access the School Program Brochure below to register for a program. School Field Trips | Placer Nature Center PCOE Community of Practice Cohort PCOE is beginning its first Community of Practice cohort thi

EDUCATIONAL SERVICES K/1 Optional Lexia Training Save the date! October 16th, 2023 from 2:45-3:45pm on Zoom. Please join us for an optional Lexia training to learn more about to how to access and utilize reports and resources in myLexia. More information will be shared closer to the date. Elementary Report Card Feedback Thank you for your feedback on the report cards. Thanks to your feedback we will adjust the order the math standards to more closely follow when each domain is taught, as well as add additional descriptions for math. Once these updates are complete, as well as the Spanish version of each, we will update them in PowerSchool and include instructions to teachers on how they can run those reports when it is time. Contact: Brandon Blom Elementary Progress Report Reminders A reminder, Elementary Progress Reports need to go home by Friday, September 29th.  Please see the documents below for additional information: Progress Report Communication   - This document includes inform

EDUCATIONAL SERVICES Elementary Progress Report Reminders A reminder, Elementary Progress Reports need to go home by Friday, September 29th. Progress Report PLC prep day is September 20th. 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.  TK/K/1 Progress Reports Information Please print and send home the ESGI Parent Letter for each student along with your Learning Behaviors Progress Reports. For information on which assessments to include, please see the calendars below.  2023-24 TK Assessment Calendar 2023-2024 Kindergarten Assessment Calendar 2023-2024 1st Grade Assessment Calendar  How to Print a Parent Letter -Video Contact: Brandon Blom Middle School Mid-Trimester Progress Check Progress Report PLC prep day

EDUCATIONAL SERVICES   i-Ready Window 1 As a reminder, i-Ready Diagnostic Window 1 ends September 15th, 2023. Please make sure students have completed the diagnostic before the window ends.  TK-1 Foundational Skills Assessment Guides Please have beginning of the year assessments in ESGI by September 22. See the benchmark guides below. TK: ELA / Math Kindergarten: ELA / Math 1st-Grade: ELA / Math Contact: Lisa Wegsteen Kinder and 1st Grade Fluency Tracker Template We will be using ESGI to track student proficiency as a District. We did create a sheet that can help you track student fluency levels while automatically showing if they are Proficient, Approaching, or Beginning.    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 Elementary Report Card Drafts Elementary teachers, we wanted to give one more reminder to please review the