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Thank you in advance for sharing this information with your ESY hires, as this is the only way they will receive the information.

Secondary ESY Teachers will meet viz Zoom on Tuesday, May 31, 2022 from 8:30-3:30 pm.

Participants must also register on myPGS for course #4354, section 31376.

Lead Teachers must attend the ESY Training in person at the District Office, Building 2, in the Magnolia conference room.

Lead Teachers will meet on Tuesday, May 31, 2022 from 8:30 am – 3:30 pm.

Participants must also register on myPGS for course #4354, section 31377.

Please reach out to Melissa Caruso with any questions regarding this event.

Our summer program needs ESE-certified staff to provide services to students who do not attend full-time ESY programs but do receive a few hours of support each week. These students typically come to ESY for an hour or two at a time and would need services aligned to their IEPs. If you know of an SLP or ESE certified teacher that is interested in receiving more information, please complete have them complete this form.  The host sites listed in the ESY guidelines will be hosting these students.

Thank you for your work to provide instruction to students in mental health and wellness. Part of the state reporting requirement is for us to capture the courses where the content was delivered.  Please access this SUPER QUICK survey and let us know which courses you utilized to provide this instruction. It is a quick and easy form, we promise. 😉  If you can please complete by Friday, June 3rd it would be greatly appreciated. Please contact Angel Hernandez with any questions.

https://forms.office.com/r/vMYQL9jNtN

This summer we will be hosting a PLC Institute from Solution Tree from Wednesday, July 13th-Friday, July 15th. Please select your school team. This team can include six instructional staff as well as two administrators. Please share this save the date and registration with them. More details and information about this event below!

Location: 

Title 1 School Teams: Sunlake High School

Non-Title 1 School Teams: Charles S Rushe Middle School

Dates and Times:

July 13^th 11:00am-5:00pm

July 14^th 11:00am-5:00pm

July 15^th 9:30am-2:45pm

School Teams: 

Up to 2 Administrators

Up to 6 Instructional Staff

Registration Link

More information to come about this event to all that register! 

We are just a few weeks away from our Together We Lead/FASA Discover conference.  The Pasco and FASA teams have an awesome learning conference planned for you.  As mentioned before, the conference begins at 2:20 pm on Tuesday, June 7, 2022 and closes midday on Thursday, June 9, 2022.  If you haven’t already done so, please work with your bookkeeper and/or secretary to fill out necessary out-of-county paperwork.  As a reminder, OLL is covering the cost of participant registration but schools will need to pay for all additional travel expenses.

Soon you will receive communication from FASA about the conference and the Event Owl platform and will contain your log in credentials.  The conference schedule and session resources will be housed on Event Owl which will allow you to have mobile (computer or other device) access to all things Together We Lead/FASA Discover.  Many of you are familiar with the Event Owl platform, as it is the same one we used during last summer’s Together We Lead and Together We Learn events.

As you think about planning out your 2 days, you will have two options on how you map out your learning. 

Option #1

Attached  you will find a copy of FASA’s Agenda and Pasco’s Detailed Agenda.  This will provide you an opportunity to plan out your schedule outside of the event platform.  If you choose this option, you will need to log on to the Event Owl platform (https://fasa.eventowl.net/) to access session recordings and session materials and resources.

Option #2

Access the session schedule and session descriptions on the Event Owl platform.  Click the “add to favorites” while on the Event Owl site (https://fasa.eventowl.net/) to select your sessions. You can continue to view your schedule on this site or you can download the FASA app.  This app is directly connected to the Event Owl site. The username and password for the FASA app is the same username/password you used to access the Event Owl platform.  You received an email from support@eventowl.net with your username and password.

On the day of the event, log on to the Event Owl platform (https://fasa.eventowl.net/) on the day/time of the sessions you select, search the session title in the search box, open the selected session and to access important session information, materials and resources.

We are looking forward to seeing you all at Together We Lead/Discover 2022!  As always, if you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to reach out to Vaughnette Chandler.

We are getting close to the Standards-Based Grading Institute. Here is some general information about the location, dates and times.

Where: Pasco Hernando State College- Room 151 A-B

When : 8am -4pm Lunch will be on your own from 11:30-1:00

              Secondary- June 13^th and June 14^th

              Elementary June 15^th and June 16^th

Many of you will be participating in summer learning events. We want you to “Save the Date” for Together We Learn on Monday, July 25th-Wednesday, July 27th. All sessions will be virtual!

These sessions are for teachers, coaches, administrators as well as support staff. Be sure to save the date on your calendar and look for registration information during the week of July 11th! View this flyer for details of this event. We hope to see all of you!

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 Melissa Caruso or Anthony Tretolo.

Now that EOY PMP Determinations have been made, you can further anticipate scheduling needs.  Here is a link to the Secondary Literacy Course Planning folder where you will find resources to support scheduling Intensive Reading courses based on students’ Tier 2 and Tier 3 needs.  If you are planning to change your scheduling structure to include the co-teach model, you will want to consider offering PD to support your ELA and Intensive Reading Teachers in making this transition.  You can find specific consideration and structures on the  Secondary Reading Placement Guide.

Please reach out to Cassie Hernandez or Courtney Lough if you have any questions.

In order to support scheduling and placement decisions for 22-23, we have pulled 5^th grade data for you to access to ease the articulation process.  You can access student data sheet and PMP EOY Consideration Watchlist Excel spreadsheets here:  Middle School Articulation.

We have current Pasco County data that proves students doing 3 Zearn lessons per week have a significant increase in their NWEA and FSA data. Wouldn’t it be great if we could continue that for the summer? Well, it is here!

Zearn presents their summer 2022 Intensive Math Series which offers a coherent, focused 4–6-week sequence that will build strong foundations for all rising 1st through 9th graders to help them succeed in their 22-23 academic year.

Note:  Middle School Students (currently 6^th – 8th)will only have this available until June 30^th .

Please note that these lessons would have to be assigned to your students before leaving for the summer and I also encourage you to notify parents about this incredible summer opportunity. Click here to find out more.

Feel free to contact Jan Anderton, should you have any questions.

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.

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

Summer Coaching Academy

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.

Updates to our Instructional Coaching Pool

As you may know, we have completed the latest round of interviews for the  Instructional Coaching Pool.  We have added a record number of new candidates.  If you have an open coaching position, we have likely been in touch.  Not only will we advertise your open coaching positions to this pool, but we would like to provide you access to preview or review the status of any applicant. 

If you would like to chat about the pool, process information around a specific applicant or talk through any logistics, please email Jeremy Blair jdblair@pasco.k12.fl.us.