OLL Elementary School Communication

Pasco County Schools would like to take this opportunity to invite you to share your expertise with educators from around the county by presenting at our summer learning events happening this July. 

Our call for proposals is open to all staff who would like to host sessions to be held during Together We Learn which will take place from Monday-Wednesday, July 25 – 27, 2022 with a target audience of teachers, coaches, school support staff, SRP, and school/district leaders. 

View this flyer and submit your proposal to present a session and join your colleagues in exploring integrated MTSS practices happening right here in Pasco County! 

Proposal deadline is Friday, April 8, 2022 

Click here to submit your proposal! 

We have secured a date to aid in the removal of out of date, out of adoption, obsolete and other materials not used or further supported in your schools.  Pick up will occur the week of April 18^th, 2022. 

Please work with you plant manager to complete the “Recycling Request” and to determine the process for removal that best meets the current needs of your school by Thursday, March 31^st, 2022.  

Note: Please feel free to reach out to the Office for Leading and Learning to inquire about any materials in question. They are up to date on current adoption cycles as well as primary and supplementary materials. 

Phone: 813-794-2017

Email: hhilton@pasco.k12.fl.us

Recycle Request: https://ryu.pasco.k12.fl.us/oll-mform/view.php?id=137994

Please, forward this information to your school’s Plant Managers, RMA’s, and Bookkeepers.

Section 1003.4995, Florida Statutes (F.S.), requires the commissioner to develop a fine arts report to be posted on the Florida Department of Education website. The department will use data already reported by districts to provide most of the information presented in the report. However, to fulfill the requirements of section 1003.4995, F.S., the following additional information is needed:

• The manner in which schools are providing the core curricular content for fine arts established in the Next Generation Sunshine State Standards.

In order to address this component of the statutory requirement, the department has created a survey to be completed by each school in your district. Please forward to each principal or principal-designated staff member to complete this brief survey by April 30, 2022. The survey can be found at https://survey.alchemer.com/s3/6691777/2021-2022-Fine-Arts-Report.

Please fill out the 3^rd grade ESY materials count form by April 8^th. This is the form that was discussed at the March 22^nd principal meeting. If you have any questions, please contact Kim Hedgspeth.

OLL, SSPS and the Intervention Services Team have received grant funding to purchase 35 school licenses of the PBIS Rewards App for the upcoming 2022-23 school year!

https://www.pbisrewards.com/

We just received word of this opportunity and due to title 1 budget deadlines, the turnaround time is quick, but the application is simple.

If you are interested in applying for a license for your building:

1. Please complete the following form no later than 3/25/22. https://forms.office.com/r/sNsRzD1jjn (3-5 minutes)
2. Funding for the PBIS Rewards App licenses will be awarded using these  guidelines.

We plan on letting you know if their application has been accepted on 3/28/22.

Please reach out to Larry Porter (Laporter@pasco.k12.fl.us) if you have any questions.

It is not too late for teachers, coaches, and administrators to join one of our Session 3 Florida B.E.S.T Standards for Mathematics evening PD cohorts.  The options are listed below.   Session 3 will focus on two learning goals:  

• How the vertical and horizontal alignment of the B.E.S.T. Standards impacts planning for student-centered learning 
• How to identify various standard algorithms and how they demonstrate students’ mathematical fluency

Instructional participants will receive stipend pay and 2 inservice points for attending one of these sessions. Please be sure to register in myPGS, course and section numbers can also be found below. We look forward to collaborating and learning with all of you as we continue our journey on the B.E.S.T path! 

Cohort 1 

Date: 4/13/2022 

Time: 6:00-8:00 pm 

Location: District Complex, Building 2 Oak 

myPGS: Course #4245, Section #30920 

Cohort 2 

Date: 4/20/2022 

Time: 6:00-8:00 pm 

Location: Virtual 

Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88104937633 

myPGS: Course #4245, Section #30923 

Cohort 3 

Date: 4/27/2022 

Time: 6:00-8:00 pm 

Location: Virtual 

Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83612863828 

myPGS: Course #4245, Section #30926 

Session 1 & 2 Florida B.E.S.T Standards for Mathematics Recordings 

Session 1: Florida B.E.S.T Standards for Mathematics Overview 

Session 1 Recording 

Session 2: Mathematical Thinking and Reasoning Standards (MTRs) & Fluency with Arithmetic Operations and Automaticity with Basic Arithmetic Facts

Session 2 Recording 

This year we had the opportunity to participate in a quasi-experimental study with Collaborative Classroom to determine the impact SIPPS has on students’ reading achievement.  Several of our elementary schools participated as either the treatment or control group in the SIPPS Study with 1^st and 2^nd grade students in need of Tier 3 interventions.  I am pleased to announce that the results were very positive, and evidence shows SIPPS meets ESSA Level 2 Requirements: Program Accelerates Acquisition of Foundational Skills for Striving Readers.

Here are a few highlights from the study:

• Conducted in Pasco County School District, FL, one of the 50 largest districts nationwide
• Followed the impact of 3 months of intervention on 600 first-and-second-grade students identified to receive reading intervention, as measured by DIBELS
• Students who received SIPPS achieved significantly greater reading growth than their peers who received a different intervention: observed effect size was .25 (Cohen’s d)

Here is a link to the full study, if you would like to read it in its entirety. 

I would like to give a shout out to the teachers, coaches, and administrators at the following schools for their participation in the study:

CHES, CWTES, CRES, DOES, MGES, FHES, HPA, LES, NRES, PES, PVES, QHES, TOES, WGES, WZES, WES

I would also like to thank Mike Campoamor for working with me to pull the data and Danielle Varcardipone for providing ongoing SIPPS professional learning opportunities over the past few years.

As part of our participation, we have been able to expand our professional learning opportunities with Collaborative Classroom coaches and have offered sessions for our secondary support facilitators and ongoing sessions this spring open to all elementary teachers to strengthen implementation.

Collaborative Classroom is offering a complimentary SIPPS professional learning series. Each session will be held from 4:30-5:15PM. Click on the links below for session descriptions and to register. Feel free to join all the sessions or select sessions.

• Thursday, March 31 

Essentials for Getting Started with SIPPS

• Tuesday, April 12 

SIPPS Instructional Routines

• Thursday, April 28 

SIPPS Instructional Decisions:  Mastery Tests/Progress Monitoring Assessments

If your teachers have attended any of the sessions in the fall or spring, they would not need to attend these sessions, as the content will overlap.

Please email Courtney Lough if you have any questions.

The Florida Department of Education is pleased to announce a professional learning opportunity for all identified RAISE schools as part of the RAISE initiative. The upcoming literacy webinar, Leaders Lifting Early Literacy, will focus on the role of the school-based personnel who support literacy (or Literacy Leadership Team, as termed by the State). The objectives for this session are as follows:   

• Establish or refine the Literacy Leadership Team’s K-3 early literacy vision and goal;
• Envision effective instructional environments which facilitate foundational literacy development; and
• Elevate the role the Literacy Leadership Team plays in cultivating this work in classrooms.

It is recommended that each RAISE school sends two school-based literacy leaders (administrators, literacy coaches, interventionists) to register and participate in the webinar. Two sessions will be offered- one in the morning of March 30^th and the other in the afternoon of April 5^th. Only one session is needed. 

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact @Roshonda Renee Royster or @Courtney Paige Lough.

Please use the Zoom links below to register.  

Date: Wednesday, March 30, 2022 

Time: 9:30 – 11:30 a.m.  

A.M. Session Zoom registration link:  

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEqceCrqDgoGd0mhkDx_tYPvZY3dHRm-95g 

OR

Date: Tuesday, April 5, 2022 

Time: 4:30 – 6:30 p.m.  

P.M. Session Zoom registration link: 

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcld-mtrjgpGNbK7DbcRjikYhPK_g-PTnnK

The 2^nd Pasco Pathways Innovative Programs and School Choice window will be open from April 11th through April 18th.   The notification window opens on May 9^th and will close on May 13th @ 4:30pm.  Programs to be advertised in the 2^nd window will be communicated in the week of 04/04/22. Attached you will find English and Spanish flyers with the advertised dates.  Please feel free to copy and distribute if needed. Contact  @Francesca Howard if you have any questions.

PMP Monthly Progress Letters have been posted in the Letter Queue area in myStudent for review and will then be reposted on March 28^th. This will allow for you to send them at the same time as Quarter 3 Report Cards on March 29^th.

You can find the directions for printing or emailing the letters on pages 4-5 of the   Academic Monitoring in myStudent.docx.

Please reach out if you have any questions.

Kindergarten Registration is on April 18^th. Your school has received the following items: K registration posters  (English/Spanish), KG curriculum guides (English/Spanish), and Florida Prepaid Flyers (2 sided in English/Spanish).

Your school will also be receiving 3 books per kindergartener along with a letter for parents from scholastic.  The order will be arriving on or before April 15^th.

If you have questions regarding adding registration information to your school’s website, please reach out to Susan Thomas in communications for the correct information.

We have over 250 responses to the Mach form.  Your data entry operator or whomever you designated in the spreadsheet should be receiving the information as parents complete the form. If you have any questions regarding the Mach form, the materials noted above, or general kindergarten registration information, please reach out to Kim Hedgspeth.

If you would like to dig into your Lexia Core5 Data and set goals for the remainder of the year, please feel free to reach out to Kate O’Keefe, our Lexia District Success Manager, to request your custom MOY data report or request direct support. Kate is available to provide a variety of professional learning opportunities based on your school’s needs or you can check out this menu of available Core5 Professional Learning Opportunities.

If you have any questions, please reach out to Courtney Lough or your ELA Curriculum Specialist for additional information and ongoing support.

We wanted to thank you for your stakeholder input around the coaching contract extension.  At this time, the Superintendent Staff has determined that there will not be a coaching contract change for the 2022-23 school year.  Considerations included the inability to identify recurring funds for the extension from the general fund.  It is possible that the plan will be considered in the future when those funds can be secured.  In the upcoming school year, instructional coaches will work a 196-day contract.

We are sharing a link to our Coaching SMORE.  This is one of the key structures we use to communicate with our stakeholders.  In the SMORE, folks can find links to our  Instructional Coaching Dates 2021-2022.docx, meeting information and links for upcoming events, highlights on best practices around equity, data usage & display, and other key coaching skills.  We also offer nice-to-know information around professional development opportunities and state updates.

Our last monthly content coaching meetings are coming up at the end of this month.  We are offering live sessions at the district office in many cases in hopes of besting Zoom fatigue and to inspire connection and engagement.  Moving forward, we are working on plans to limit the number of times a coach is pulled from your building.  We will stack the ELA and Math content days onto the same day so that folks that wish to attend both will only be out of the building one time.

Summer Coaching Academy:

The Summer Coaching Academy is designed for both coaches and administrators to work together around coaching in your building.

June 21st or 22nd (PHCC Porter Campus) 8:30-3:30pm

Sharon Thomas from Jim Knight’s Instructional Coaching Group provides professional learning where admin teams and coaches work together. Each school will join the event for one full day of learning.

Here are sign-ups for teams to choose the date that will best fit their Summer Plans.  Thanks in advance for booking your day and letting us know how many folks from your team will join.  Stipends are provided for School-Based Coaches for this Summer event.

It is that time of year that you will be actively hiring for next year. The new teacher team wants to ensure that all new hires are invited to some welcoming and learning opportunities this summer. Please share this flyer with them and help them register for the New Teacher kickoff on Monday, July 25^th from 8:30-4:00pm. The kickoff will be at Land O’ Lakes High School. Yes, in person! This event is required for all new hires to attend.

All new hires whether they are coming to us with experience or not are invited to each of these events. Our goal is to be able to connect with them at the district level as quickly as possible. Along with your help we can make this happen! Please see below for details and if you have any questions reach out to Charlotte Kralik.

New hires packages will be sent to each school. In this package are postcards with information about the new teacher year-long induction and PDCP. Colored copies of the summer events flyer as well as a poster to be hung in your front office. Please be on the lookout for this package and hand out to these to all new hires!

The Office for Leading and Learning is excited to welcome newly hired teachers into the alternative certification program in the 22/23 school year.  The program has been revised to better meet the needs of teachers with no classroom experience.   If you are hiring teachers without an education degree, please give them the attached flyer and refer them to Tricia Graham at pgraham@pasco.k12.fl.us for additional information on enrollment and coursework.

Pasco County Schools is once again able to offer a unique opportunity for those aspiring to become Assistant Principals.  If you hold an Educational Leadership Degree or are currently enrolled in an Educational Leadership Program and are interested in engaging in a high quality administrative internship at a participating school, this may be the program for you.  Click here for more information.

Saint Leo University is offering Customized cohort based program in partnership with the District School Board of Pasco County starting in May 2022!

Check this flyer for details.

Here is information flyer for Florida Gulf Coast University Masters programs