Special Education Q&A

On this week’s Livestream PD, our Special Education TOSAs, Lisa Larison & Michelle Lynch, will be addressing your Special Education questions. This session is for both Special Education staff and General Education teachers. We will begin by answering any previously sent-in questions, then follow-up with any new questions sent in during the broadcast.

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Assessment Update

During today's Livestream, Dr. Esteban Hernandez will review updates and procedures with teachers related to the following aspects of ELPAC and SBAC: the purpose of each assessment, areas measured, students/grades tested, & procedures for administration for both in-person & remote.

SBE Updates

Remote Administration of ELPAC & SBAC

ELPAC Training Slide Deck

MacOS Overview

Join us to learn more about key features of your NEW iMacs! We will review the customizable desktop & interface, important settings, and powerful native Apple apps you can readily use. This session’s main goal is to help you learn how to optimize your iMac for Remote Instruction.

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Teacher Clarity (Part 1)

This training review modules one and two of the Teacher Clarity Playbook by Fisher, Frey, Amador and Assof. These modules focus on analyzing the standards to determine what students need to know, and sequencing learning such that it is logical for students to master those standards.

Find today's slides here: bit.ly/2M7aeAV

Afternoon follow up session slides found here: bit.ly/2YugWTS

Educational Services Q&A

In this week’s LivestreamPD, The Education Services Division will host a collaborative panel discussion/Q&A of district leadership members (directors, assistant/associate superintendent, etc.) to address all of this new information and address any questions/concerns from staff.

Lightspeed Classroom

In this week’s Livestream PD, join your Alisal EdTech Department to see what will be the newest and one of the most indispensable tools in the Alisal Remote Instruction toolbox. Lightspeed Classroom is the District’s Digital Classroom Management solution. In addition to learning the how-to, you will get a preview of the teacher co-authored teacher guidelines (Must-dos, May-dos, Shouldn’t-Dos, and May-NOT-Dos) which will guide your practical and situational usage of this important new teacher tool.

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Zearn Math

Ashley Birsic and Lexie Nimic will present the new features of our Zearn School Account including, but not limited to, the following:

• Limitations of individual accounts vs. added features of school accounts

• Options for re-assigning students to earlier lessons

• Targeting precise intervention content

• Using general and new student reports

Click here for Zearn's Digital Lesson overview.

Eureka Math Equip™

In this broadcast, we will explore how to get started with Equip, Great Minds’ new diagnostic assessments! Our math TOSA, Kim, will show you what it provides, including the reports and recommendations for addressing students’ learning loss.

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Wonders/Maravillas

Join our TK-2 ELA/ELD TOSA Ana Cordero in an overview of the online resources we can find in our adopted Wonders/Maravillas curriculum. Participants will follow the presenter in a digital exploration of how to create weekly lesson plans, where to find lesson components, and how to assign resources to students.

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Video Recording, Editing, & Publishing
With Screencastify

In today’s LivestreamPD, we delved deeper into one of our main tools, Screencastify. We briefly reviewed how to use Screencastify for recording video. Additionally, we extended our learning to include an introduction to video editing & publishing on Screencastify.

Key Tool Update

In today’s LivestreamPD, we will take a quick look at the updates to our key tools. We will give an overview of some of the changes that have been made over the summer to the following apps: Seesaw, Google Classroom, Google Jamboard, Screencastify, & Flipgrid. In addition to updates to these apps, implementation ideas will also be shared during the broadcast.

Find today's slide deck at bit.ly/KeyToolUpdate.

Avoiding Potential Pitfalls

The EdTech Department shared some potential pitfalls we have already seen since the opening of the school year. Today, we are Reviewing, Refreshing, and Reintroducing some of the common settings, concerns, and questions that have been trending when we are helping teachers get underway in this most unusual of school years.

Find today's slide deck at bit.ly/PreventPitfalls.

SEL in Remote Instruction (Part 2) with Alexandria Dominguez

The first half of our PD will be led by Mrs. Dominguez, who will be discussing Social Emotional Learning strategies to end this school year and start next school year. She will bring to us different breathing techniques, specifics on SEL read alouds, and as always, more resources.
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End of Year Clean Up with Alisal EdTech

The second half of today’s PD will center on a number of considerations to take when closing out this school year. We will review some tips for both Google Classroom and Seesaw for Schools to help you finish the year and prepare for next year.
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Shifting into Remote Math Instruction with Kim Jorgensen

Today's Livestream began with an announcement from our very own George Lopez regarding our upcoming Digital Citizenship Parent Academy bit.ly/DigCitAlisal
English Academy: May 28 at 6-7PM on Facebook Live
Spanish Academy: June 1 at 6-7PM on Facebook Live

After the opening, Kim walked us through a demonstration math lesson she taught in a 1st grade Spanish bilingual classroom. Kim shared key insights after her demo lesson, including what worked, what could have worked better, and what didn’t work. A variety of digital and analog tools were discussed.

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Jamboard: Google's Digital Interactive Whiteboard

Today's Livestream PD began with a few short videos thanking teachers for all the work they do, in honor of Teacher Appreciation Week.

The main portion of today's PD was centered on how to get started with Jamboard, Google's interactive whiteboard. We included a live demonstration with our amazing EdTech Liaisons, an overview of the interface, and some ideas/resource/templates to get you started using Jamboard!

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Flipgrid: Empower Every Voice

In the Main Channel, during the short opening, we reviewed the new features and procedures of Google Meet including the Google Classroom integration. We also gave some sample norms, in both English and Spanish, for students in Google Meet.

The Main portion of our PD, was getting teachers going with Flipgrid. Flipgrid is a simple way for students and teachers to create online discussions. It allows teachers to create "grids" to facilitate video discussions. Students LOVE it, and since it uses video-based discussions it’s accessible to all levels of language and literacy ability.

Here are the Opening Slides and the Flipgrid Slides.

What's Our Goal in Math? (Part 2)

Kim continues with additional details and considerations with our goal in math. Topics covered include uncovered topics from Day 1, answers to questions, goals for each grade level, scheduling suggestions, and short lesson examples.

Kim's Slides for the day
Kim's Math Goals Doc

Alisal Seesaw: Remote Instruction

The indefatigable Ben Cogswell finishes his 3 part series on Seesaw in the Primary grades. This episode continues the deep dive into building and distributing see Activities using Google slides and other web based tools.

Here are Ben's slides for the day.

Digital Citizenship

This day we covered the topic of Digital Citizenship. We took a look a the resource, Common Sense Media. We saw how we could direct parents, here as well as use it as a teaching resource. We explored the lesson and curriculum and how they could work with Google Classroom and Seesaw For Schools.

Here are the slides for this day: DigCit for Remote Instruction

Getting Ready for Remote Instruction

The topic we were trying to develop was based around the Connect factor of remote learning--Maintaining and Creating Classroom Community featuring Google Meet. We featured an interview with 3 of our teachers, Lora Carey (Monte Bella), Maricar Osorio (MLK), and Celeste Ward (Chavez).

Because of some confusion, we also differentiated between Google Hangouts and Google Meet.

We started with a review and deep look at Screencastify.

Remote Instruction With Google Classroom

The topics here were our overview, mindset, and purpose for doing remote instruction.

Then we went into an intermediate level session about building a full ELA lesson using our Wonders curriculum and our Google Tools.

There was also a brief tutorial on Screencastify at the end.

Access today's slide deck at bit.ly/ausdR1