11.3.23 Staff Blog

 Thank you for a successful conference week. I hope you found this time with students and families valuable, and that you were able to share all the amazing work you and the students have been doing.  Please pay special attention to the eVal action items.  We spent some time at our staff meeting yesterday working on details, but I am always available to answer questions if you have missed anything.  I also want to thank each of you for your kindness and care over this past week. I am TRULY lucky to work in such an amazing community of educators and just plain wonderful human beings.  Your kind words and actions have gotten me through the week. I appreciate you.

Quick Look:

**As always, please check the IEP/SST Calendar for updates.

Tuesday November 7	Shorewood Play
Wednesday November 8	Veterans Day Assembly 2:30
Wednesday November 8	No Early Release
Thursday November 9	All- Shoreline Foundation Grants Due on 11/9 Shoreline Public Schools Foundation website.
Friday November 10	No School (Veterans Day)
Wednesday November 15	Early Release Individual Day
Friday November 17	TSA LeaderTech Event (Museum of Flight)- Journey
Wednesday November 22	Half Day Release (11:55 Dismisal)
Thursday November 23-Friday November 24	No School
Wednesday November 29	Early Release Principal Time- MLL Training

EVAL: ACTION

STEP 1:

Share your focus area using this form.  Please make sure to submit your area of focus if you are on a focused evaluation cycle.  Once you have submitted your focus area, I will set your evaluation dashboard to your chosen focus and then you can begin working on your student growth goal.  I will be setting up dates and times for our goal conference in the next few weeks.  Here is a video to help guide you in uploading your student growth goals. Here are some 3.1 (small group), 6.1(whole class) sentence frames for completing your growth goals and sentence frames for completing your 8.1 (team goal for comprehensive only) growth goals. PLEASE NOTE THESE ARE NOT REQUIRED TO BE TURNED IN.  THEY ARE ONLY A RESOURCE IN CASE YOU NEED HELP!!  PGP Template and Information

Step 2:

If you have completed the above step, please sign up for a conference time.  At this initial conference, we will discuss your student growth goals, and set a time for an observation.

K-5 HIGHLY CAPABLE UPDATE: HELPFUL

Updates re: students identified for services to start ASAP from Fall new student evaluation cycle and services for grades 1-5.

• ● You can find students who are now eligible to receive services via this link. These students have also been added to the HiCap Master Spreadsheet. There are a few students who have yet to turn in consent forms and/or filed an appeal; we will let you know via email re any changes for those students.

•  Grade Level Screening and Student Learning Plan Presentation

• Student Learning Plans have been saved with pre-filled student and teacher information in individual school folders via this link.

○ PEP SLPS have pre-filled math goals only

○ Math SLPS Grades 1-4 have pre-filled goals selected

○ ELA SLPS Grades 1-5 teachers need to select goals

○ There are also saved templates if a student was recently added to services and was

not provided an SLP.

○ Students with Provisional Status- the 9 week review is shortly after conferences. Will

this student continue with services? If so, please share the student’s SLP with families.

UPDATED K-5 REPORT CARD:HELPFUL

2023-24 revised K-5 report card templates in English, Spanish, and for our Dual Language and Highly Capable

Programs are now available in this folder. They can also be found in the online Staff Handbook.

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REMINDERS: HELPFUL

SAFE SCHOOLS: ACTION

The mandatory annual SafeSchools training sessions for the 23-24 School Year are active.

The completion deadline is November 30, 2023.

You may log-in here to get started.  You can also find this link on the Human Resources-Links page of the District website.

Please log-in using your firstname.lastname (Ex: mary.smith), as it appears on Employee Access.

Let Marie McCluskey know if you have questions.

LUNCH PERIOD SCHEDULE: HELPFUL

This document is linked in our systems and procedures document, but I am including it here in case.  

CK-8 SYSTEMS/STAFF HANDBOOK DOCUMENT (DRAFT): HELPFUL

This document is in progress, and will be updated as we all learn/refresh our memories on the systems and structures in place at CK-8.  If you see an area that could use an addition,  or if something is not correct, please email me the correction ( rebbecah.emanuel@ssd412.org)

STAFF SHOUT OUTS: HELPFUL

Thank you so much for filling out a staff shout out! If you would like to recognize a colleague, please use the link at the top of the blog.  

DISTRICT INFORMATION: HELPFUL

FROM INSTRUCTION: 

As we shared in the spring, due to our budget reductions, we were unable to purchase student licenses for our digital social studies curriculum this year. In addition, at the elementary level, we did not purchase teacher licenses. Mike VanOrden is working with teachers to review options to support our students, including the potential purchase of a limited number of student licenses for students served by our MLL, Special Education, and 504 programs, and refinements to curriculum materials we do have. We are also working with the publisher of the curriculum to determine if there may be options for elementary teachers. We will share updates with teachers and administrators as we have more information.\

DIMC:

This year, we have a number of openings on our District Instructional Materials Committee.Certificated staff members serving on the committee are paid for their time.  If you are interested in serving on DIMC, please complete this short application. 

Shoreline's District Instructional Materials Committee, consisting of  classroom teachers, teacher-librarians, administrators, and community members, reviews proposed basic and supplemental instructional materials requested for use by teachers, curriculum teams, and administrators at monthly meetings. More information about the committee can be found here.

FROM EQUITY AND FAMILY ENGAGEMENT:

Anti Racist Book Kits are now available! Each kit comes with 6-8 books and a discussion guide. Perfect for school teams, committees or departments.  Please reach out to equity@ssd412.org for more information.

Ethnic Studies cohort 4 has been re-opened for applications!  Deadline for application is October 6th at noon.  To apply, please complete this form. More information about the Fellows can be found here.

FROM STUDENT SERVICES:

Schools are required to document whether an interpreter is requested and provided for 1) IEP meetings and 2) reengagement meetings following an exclusionary plan. For every IEP meeting or reengagement meeting with a multilingual family, OFFICE MANAGERS will complete each field on your buildings tab on this spreadsheet. See District Policy 4218 for details about this requirement.

NEW FOR 2023-24: Language Line DOES qualify as use of an interpreter for this purpose.

TECH TIPS:

Here is an archive of all tech tips provided by the district technology team.

WEBSITE CHANGEOVER:

As you know, our district is using a new website and platform.  As part of that change, some of our district resources that used to be accessed using a department page have been moved into Canvas Courses. I am sure we will find more of these as we use the new platform, but please know that mandated reporting forms can be accessed by enrolling in the Canvas course linked below. This course will contain many resources that used to be accessed under Student Services. CPS forms are also linked in our systems and procedures document.

Here are two shortcuts to help people find the course and self enroll:

• self-enroll link is https://shorelineschools.instructure.com/enroll/FHE7LM. 

• or use the code FHE7LM at https://shorelineschools.instructure.com/register.