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OLL Elementary School Communication

Plan-It Learning Events- Action Needed
As we welcome hundreds of teachers to PD and planning over the next few weeks, we appreciate your support in emphasizing the need to be sure that teachers are signed in and registered with attendance marked in myPGS for their Plan-It learning events. This is how we will be automating payroll as opposed to the paper stipend sheets that can often take 6-8 weeks to process. We appreciate you including this important reminder in any communication you have with staff over the next few weeks. We also greatly appreciate all of the retreat schools who are paying close attention to this adjustment.
New Teacher Guide - Action Needed
We are sharing this New Teacher Guide to assist in schools when hiring new teachers.  Topics included consist of:  New Teacher Induction Registration Flyer, Monitoring of new teacher onboarding process, and distribution of technology.  The action required is at each school site when hiring new teachers.
Earning Credit Points in MyPGS for July Priority Professional Development - Action Needed
We know schools are engaging in awesome professional development this summer!  These professional development opportunities may include district support or facilitated by schools.  In either case, we want to provide you important information in supporting your staffs with credit points for their time and engagement in these opportunities.  The following link leads to Training Request Form for Schools.  Please fill this form out with the appropriate information for the PD that you are offering your staff and identify in the title that this is priority PD.  You will need to fill out one form for each day of PD offered.  Once you have filled out the information, please send the request form to Jenny Rinck at jrinck@pasco.k12.fl.us for approval.  Upon approval, OLL will enter the information in MyPGS and let you know the appropriate information for your staff to sign up.
Leadership Celebration- Follow Up
Thank you all for spending time together on Monday celebrating our year together and reflecting on the incredible work that you all have been up to this year as well as over the past years through the lends of Dr. Monica Verra-Tirado. Her presentation was data rich and had some charts that were hard to decipher from a distance, but that do tell a very compelling story and should leave us all feeling proud of the progress that has been made as well as motivated and inspired to seize the opportunities ahead. A huge shout out to the awesome RRMS/HS teams for their grace in serving as our host site and supporting all of our requests, we greatly appreciate you all. Thanks also to our colleagues across levels and departments who are leading CLASS, we appreciate your efforts very much.

OLL Staffing Updates- FYI
  • Jennifer Waselewski will be transitioning into an Assistant Principal position at Wesley Chapel High School effective July 1st. For the time being, please contact Lea Mitchell for any OLL needs related to curriculum and instruction.
  • Odalis Tavares will be transitioning into Sr. Instructional Specialist- Secondary Math position and will be spending her time focused on high school courses, progressions and math instructional practices. Odalis will be partnering with Ben Aguilar and Tracy Miller to create strengthened alignment throughout our K-12 mathematics program.
  • Leah Zufall will be heading out on maternity leave in coming weeks. She has worked diligently to designate leads and contacts for the upcoming summer and early fall work and she will be connecting with you soon for additional details. In her absence, please don’t hesitate to reach out to myself or Samantha DelValle related to school support needs, coaching processes or instructional tech projects.
Instructional Materials Updates-FYI
  • Monies for New Materials (K-8 math, World History, Theater/Acting, HS-Algebra Nation) have been pushed to your cost center and are ready to be moved through the MUNIS workflow. Dollar amounts were based on templates returned to OLL and we were able to fully fund these requests. The only exception is for middle school math where additional material were ordered to account for 6th advanced and 7th advanced courses. The last version of your schools “template” that was submitted to Joel Ortiz was used to with finance to send the money your way. Each shipping invoice will reflect that materials cannot arrive before July 1st (based on budgeting cycles) but we have confirmation from all vendors that new materials will arrive in advance of teacher’s returns.
  • School-Based Text Book/Instructional Materials Allocations- Reminder that school based funds will be pushed to cost centers the last week of June. If you have requests above and beyond what is allocated, please be sure to submit a request so that we are able to review prior to pushing funds to your school. Here is the link for Annual School Based Instructional Materials Allocation Process.docx . We are hoping to make things as easy as possible come ordering time so if you know your needs up front, let us know so that we can assist at the same time as we are pushing out your ADM based dollars.
  • Materials Approval Process- For your convenience and easy access here is the link to the Materials Approval Process (including digital resources). The goal of this document is to make ordering easy by not having to continually seek approval on the most common and vetted tools. If you are interested in adding tools and/or materials on the pre-approved list, the steps are included in this document.
Culturally Relevant Teaching Training – FYI
For those interested, there are seats still available for anyone that would like to attend the Culturally Relevant Teaching training next week at Charles S. Rushe Middle School. This is a two day training and  participants will need to register for day 1 and day 2 for either session A OR session B. Spots are filling up so I would suggest registering asap. Please contact Kristin Ingold with any questions.

Date of Event Training Title Course Number Section Number(s) Contact Person / Instructor
6/10 – 6/11 (Session A)

8:30 AM – 3:30 PM

 

OR

 

6/12 – 6/13 (Session B)

8:30 AM – 3:30 PM

 Culturally Relevant Teaching – Transforming Educators 2551 6/10 14059 -Session A, Day 1

 

6/11 14405 – Session A, Day 2

 

OR

 

6/12 14060 – Session B, Day 1

 

6/13 14404 – Session B, Day 2

 Jennifer Rinck Kristin Ingold

Molly Blair

 

End of the Year Teacher Newsletters- FYI
Below is the link to the End of the Year teacher Newsletter that have been shared with your teachers:

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