OLL High School Communication

Thank you so much for attending the Grading from the Inside Out  workshop with your school teams. We hope that the learning helped your teams shift towards a standards-based grading mindset where ever you are on your journey. As we move one step forward on our district journey to standards-based grading, we will utilize the Secondary Grading Practices for 22-23 document that includes required learning, standardized gradebook set up, and gradebook code changes for ‘missing’ and ‘incomplete’. We feel this document supports the implementation of the workshop objectives and all of the great work and learning that is currently happening in schools around our district.

To help support this work, we are:

• Creating a professional learning video for pre-planning week to explain the practices, the why, and guide the work for quarter 1.
• Providing sessions during Together We Learn week to support teachers in shifting their grading mindset and practices.
• Creating a Grading Toolkit with resources, examples, and Frequently Asked Questions (published by 7/25)

To support implementation of these practices, we ask School Leaders to:

• Share this document with your staff.
• Highlight Together We Learn sessions for your staff.
• Acknowledge and share the why behind the standardized gradebook set up that will be pushed out from OTIS.
• Prioritize the provided district gradebook learning video during pre-planning week and provide time for Teacher Teams (PLCs) to determine quarter 1 gradebook benchmarks and required learning for quarter 1.
• Embed professional learning for your staff throughout the year to support and extend standards-based grading mindset and practices.
• Support early release day learning around required learning consensus on Teacher Teams (PLCs).
• Support the work through the School Leadership Team, School Intervention Teams, and PLCs.

Thank you for leading this very important work in your buildings!

In response to your input, this year’s ERD will include a combination of district supported and school driven professional development.  Here is a quick overview of the framework for learning with some additional details that we hope supports your planning. 22-23 Early Release Framework – FOR SCHOOLS.pptx Also, below are some key pieces of information shared by Vanessa Hilton earlier this month. 

• • Teachers and instructional assistants who support any pre-kindergarten learners will have synchronous PD for the entire ERD session, similar to this year.
  • NEW: Instructional support staff (Kindergarten IAs, behavior assistants, Discipline IAs, ESOL IAs, ESE IAs, etc.) will be provided synchronous professional learning focused on supporting academic and social behaviors in your schools. This will be a 60-minute session.
  • Each school will develop a professional learning plan for this time (22-23 School-Based Early Release PD Plan.docx), and submit to your assistant superintendent for approval by 8/12/22.

Please review the information,  Overview BEST ELA Supports.docx regarding the materials you will be receiving in the next couple weeks. Please reach out to @Cassie Rae Marie Hernandez or @Tressa Michele Lima with additional questions.

This summer the state provided training in the BEST standards, including Tiered instruction.  Please visit this link for the presentations and hand outs: LiveBinders: https://www.livebinders.com/b/3000568

For additional questions, please contact Stephanie Vantassel

As you know, the state had reverted back to using the MCR course code for Math for College Algebra.  During our meeting with the state this week, they shared that they are changing the course code back to the original.  The correct course code for Math for College Algebra is 1200710.  Please reach out to Stephanie Vantassel for specific questions or assistance.

We are updating membership for the SDT for the 22-23 school year. We would love to have more representation from instructional staff next year. We are asking that one admin from each school complete this form to recommend a teacher or coach to serve on the team next year. Please complete this by July 12^th. For questions, contact Samantha Del Valle.

We hope that you are filling your vacancies and finding some amazing candidates for your school!

As you hire new to Pasco teachers, please share this flyer with them and have them use the QR code to register for the New Teacher Kickoff on Monday, July 25^th at Land O’ Lakes High School from 8:30am-4:30pm.

Here is a checklist to support you with all of the information for all of your new hires. 

If you have any questions, please contact Charlotte Kralik or Tricia Graham.

Did you know? As required under the Digital Learning Act, s. 1003.4282, a student entering grade 9 in the 2011-2012 school year and thereafter who seeks a high school diploma must take at least one online course. An online course is a formal education program involving student–teacher interaction in which a student learns mostly through online delivery of content and instruction with some element of student control over time, place, path, or pace.

Teachers instructing high-school credit earning courses that are mostly through an online delivery of content and meet the application criteria can have their face-to-face courses tagged as a “blended course” making their course eligible to satisfy the online course requirement. Middle school teachers instructing high-school credit earning courses are also able to apply.

If you would like to apply for this designation for the 22-23 school year, the teacher must complete the blended learning application by July 11, 2022. Courses will be reviewed and schools will be notified of application approvals the week of July 14, 2022. Then, data entry operators would make the necessary revisions to the sections within the school’s master schedule set-up.

Leaders, please encourage teachers that may qualify to submit an application. PCSD will be approved district-wide and tagged as blended. Other courses are also under review for district-wide approval.

If you have any questions, please email Samantha Del Valle or Anthony Tretolo.

The Florida Department of Education is very excited about the Civics Seal of Excellence asynchronous course launching in the Fall, that will provide Florida educators the opportunity to earn the endorsement on their certification and a $3,000 stipend. With that in mind, FDOE now has a way teachers can sign up for updates as the program  prepares to launch. Please encourage all K-12 teachers who are interested in taking the course to use this link https://civics.cpalms.org/ to sign up for updates.

The School Support Management site that is used to upload your deliverables, house principal and AP meeting info and documents as well as provide ongoing updates related to your school support team services will be rolled to the new year on July 1st.  The 21-22 information will be archived and still available, but new folders and information will be loaded by the 1st.