OLL Elementary School Communication

In late September, early October a second district wide order of HMH ELA K5 Material was placed.  Those orders are enroute and should be delivered by the end of next week.  We do not have tracking information.  Daily calls are placed to FSBD for updates.  Your bookkeeper can find the purchase order in Munis.  Orders to meet the needs of student enrollment/allocations that occured after that order was placed by OLL will need to be done at the school level.  If the cost exceeds the amount available in your 21505 textbook account, please utilize the machform. Please reach out if you have any questions.

Thanks to everyone for the amazing work you are all doing to Uplift Literacy in Pasco County Schools. We have greatly appreciated all your feedback, thoughts, and efforts in helping to shape the best way forward for all our learners and teachers as we implement new resources and new standards. To reduce the stress that may be present with the required module assessments, we are moving forward with a shift in the number and scope of required module assessments.  The REQUIRED module assessments to be administered/recorded via myProgress are listed below and additional details on recording the performance task within each of these modules will be included in the administration guide. 

With every adjustment we know there will be more questions and we welcome them and are here to support you.  Please don’t hesitate to reach out to our Sr. Instructional Specialist for K-5 ELA, Roshonda Royster and/or your school’s assigned ELA curriculum specialist (Emily White, Daniela Bruno, Kara Owen, Patrice Bradarich) who love supporting your schools, your staff and ultimately your students. The remaining module assessments are still available and could and should be used as needed within the PLC cycles as common formative assessments or to support teachers in measuring proficiency and mastery of standards of their learners. 

Required Assessments

Kinder= Modules 3, 5, 7

Grades 1-5th= Modules 5, 7 and 9

PMP Guidance Document

For continued support with the PMP process, we have linked the full PMP Guidance 2021_22 document for your reference.  Based upon request, we have created a PMP Screencast that walks through the step by step process for making a PMP designation and developing the intervention plan in the myStudent SSS.

Monitoring Tier 3 (PMP) Intervention Plans

Many of you have asked for a way to access an Excel spreadsheet of the intervention plans developed in the SSS, including all of the components.  You can follow these steps to access the Academic Monitoring List Report:

1. Open myStudent
2. Click on Reports (left menu bar)
3. Click on District Reports, then District Reports again
4. Select the Academic Monitoring List Report to run for your school
   1. Under Select your criteria– you have options to choose from-select PMP Standards Not Met to view a report which shows every student with a PMP that should have an intervention plan.
   2. Active Academic Monitoring Plan during time period (shows all students with an intervention plan in ELA and/or Math).
   3. Last column shows errors (something missing)- Review for errors prior to printing monthly progress letters

PMP Monthly Progress Letters

The PMP Progress Letters have been sent to the Letter Queue area in myStudent located in the Student Menu. You will want to send these letters home on 10/26, the same date that report cards are posted. You will find directions for printing the letters (preferred method) on pages 4 of the  Academic Monitoring in myStudent.docx and directions for emailing or printing/emailing on demand letters on pages 4-5. Remember, only administrators and office staff with DEO or School Update profiles will have access.

We will repost the Progress Monitoring Letters in the Letter Queue at 7:00AM Monday morning on 10/25, to provide time for any edits that may need to be made.  If you print and letter log prior to Monday, that is fine, this process will not override what you have done.  You would simply select all and delete the duplicate letters that are posted on 10/25.

Please contact Courtney Lough, Jan Anderton, or Larry Porter if you have any questions.

The New Worlds Reading Initiative is open only to Florida public and charter school students who have a substantial deficiency in reading. This is defined in Florida statute for K-3 students as those achieving the lowest score on assessments (Tier 3) and for 4-5 students as achieving a 1 or 2 on the previous year’s FSA. 

Flyers shipped out in the first batch should have been received last week. If a school has not received, please reach out (new.worlds@coe.ufl.edu)and they can provide you with an update and tracking number. If any schools was missed they will work to add them to the enrollment form list and get flyers out to them as soon as possible. If you have any questions, contact Danielle Varcardipone.

We are looking forward to celebrating Red Ribbon Week next week and seeing all the ways schools celebrate with their students. The 2021 National Red Ribbon Week Theme, Drug Free Looks Like Me™ is a reminder that everyday Americans across the country make significant daily contributions to their communities by being the best they can be because they live Drug-Free! Through the amazing work your schools do each day in providing wrap around services for our students and through the district approved health curriculum, we can ensure our students have the knowledge and tools to make healthy life choices. Be on the lookout for social media posts throughout the week from OLL to celebrate National Red Ribbon Week.

https://www.redribbon.org/

Here is a one-stop shop for all of Pasco County’s Coaching Events and Support Structures.  

Event Highlight:  Elementary ELA Monthly Coaching Meeting & Early Release Day Train-the-Trainer

We are looking forward to seeing you all on Thursday, October 21^st at 10:00. During this time we will dive into all things “Foundations”. Our agenda is as follows: 

• Data Driven Decisions to Inform Core 
• Foundational Skills Observation Tool
  • Foundational Skills Lesson Study 
• Open Q&A 
• ERD Train-the-Trainer: Instruction in Foundational Skills, Language, and Morphology ***We will begin this portion of the learning at 12:00.***

Join Zoom Meeting

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87379504715?pwd=SmFPSXk1a25VVWNKdy9IMm1uUGlGdz09

Meeting ID: 873 7950 4715

Passcode: Literacy

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Coaching Pool Interviews

We currently have a number of open instructional coaching positions and are looking to systematically add highly qualified coaching candidates to our pools for Learning Design Coaches and Instructional Trainer Coaches.  If you have teacher leaders or folks who are looking to apply for coaching positions, please communicate our Coaching Pool Interview plan and dates.  Thank you.

Aspiring Coaching and Aspiring Leader Courses are opening for registration.  Here is our flyer!

This summer we had another successful TWLearn event! We had 220 offerings and over 3,000 administrators, coaches, teachers, and district staff join in the fun. Wow! We are a district that is dedicated to learning and has proven to set high expectations to ultimately increase student achievement as well as enhance our skill set to promote rigorous instruction. Thank you so much for engaging in professional learning to prepare for the year. 

Now that quarter one is complete, we wanted to announce that all participants that actively attended and participated in these training sessions (meaning you logged on, identified yourself by changing your name in zoom and engaged for over 60% of the session) have been awarded points. All high-quality professional learning comes with an opportunity to implement the skills and strategies learned during each of your sessions. We hope that this has impacted your school and/or classroom in a positive way.

You are welcome to view your points on the credentials page in myPGS. Please scroll down to review your transcript of sessions you attended and earned points for. If you see an error, please send an email to togetherwelearn@pasco.k12.fl.us.

If you were unable to attend all the sessions, please check out our PD Hub. Many of the recordings are available for you to access. Check it out!

Ready for more learning! Well, it is coming!!! Please be on the lookout for a needs assessment survey for semester two and summer learning opportunities to come!