August 14, 2025 RCSD Educator Digest

Communications

StudentSquare - Middle School Launch September 2, 2025
You asked for it and now it’s here! RCSD will be launching the student version of ParentSquare, StudentSquare, on September 2nd. Staff members can now email students through StudentSquare and students can access the emails via their traditional Gmail platform or (outside of school hours) the free app. More information will be shared with middle schools in the coming weeks.
Contact: Jessica Hull

Educational Services

K-1 Lexia Licenses
All Kindergarten and First-Grade students have a Lexia Core5 account. Students and teachers can access Lexia via Clever. Please have all Kindergarten and new student Auto Placement assessments by October 3rd, 2025. Any students that had access to Lexia last year will have their lesson placement continued from the previous year. Please have Kindergarten students working on Lexia for 15-20 minutes a week and First-grade students for 20-25 minutes a week. For more information, please see the Lexia Resources document below.
Lexia Resources
Contact: Kelly Yusim

K-5 Social Studies Planning Guides
Social Studies Planning Guides are now available for Grades K–5 on each grade level's Key Resource Document. These guides are designed to support your planning and implementation of the new Social Studies program. Each guide includes: the unit, lessons within each unit, suggested lesson timing, standards alignment, and correlation to Benchmark units. A huge thank you to our pilot team for their thoughtful work in getting these started! Feedback on the guides is encouraged during this year’s transition to TCI.

Contact: Kelly Yusim

K-8 Science Materials: Ordering Materials from the Media Center
Science materials orders will begin starting August 18. To see a list of what is available for ordering, please use the first tab on the sheet linked below. To place an order, please follow the steps provided at the top of the first tab called “Complete List/Order Form”. Be sure to rename your copy of the spreadsheet with your last name and school site. Once you select the quantities needed for each item you would like to order, please share the list (print or digital) with your Library Media Specialist.
List of Science Materials
Contact: Lisa Wegsteen

RCSD Digital Citizenship Reminder
A reminder that in RCSD, we teach Digital Citizenship to all students K-8. The Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA) requires all students K-12 receive Internet Safety lessons to learn about appropriate online behavior each year. We use Common Sense Media for our safety lessons.
The lesson topics are the same as last year. Below is a link to the lessons for each grade level.
All lessons for your grade level are expected to be taught by the end of the school year.
Common Sense Media Digital Citizenship Lessons
Contact: Angela Garcia

SWIS
Need access to SWIS to be able to enter SWIS behavior referrals? Contact your site administrator(s)/PBIS lead. They have the steps to be able to add staff members and adjust SWIS access.