Mid Year Report Tech Mentor Data

Mid Year DEAI Coaching Data

End of Year 2 Total Hours Tech Mentoring and DEAI Coaching

Year 2 Tech Mentor Artifacts

Google Workspace Tutorials Compiled from a variety of resources

Google Quick Tips Library (this a compilation of short videos that are about doing a very specific task on a Google Platform)

Google Classroom Extension Choice Boards (this has a ton of short videos about all the different applications of Google Forms, Google Slides, Google Drawings, Jamboard, Google Docs, Google Sheets, and Keep)

Google Calendar Information (this has some videos to show you how to do certain things on Google Calendar)

Google Classroom Tips (this goes over setting up Google Classroom and different things to do in Google Classroom)

Google Sites Tutorial (examples of what you can use Google Sites for and how to create them)

Google Tools for In-Person Learning (these are a bunch of tutorials that go over practical strategies using technology that supports in-person learning and classroom management)

Level 1 Google Certification Training (these are slides that go through all the level 1 tasks for Google Certification)

Using Tab Groups (how to sort and label your tabs so you don’t have 80 open at a time)

Shake Up Learning Google Quick Tip Videos (this has many, many videos about how to do everything in the Google platforms)

Google Calendar Tips (Slides on how to do various things in Google Calendar)

Winter Activities for Students (Slides with a bunch of different winter activities to do with your students)

Getting Started with Google Sites (a presentation that takes you through how to set up a Google Site and provides videos to help)

Chromebooks for Educators (goes through tips, tools, and tricks for using Chromebooks in education)

Product Guide for Chromebooks (videos showing how to do things on the Chromebook)

Gmail Layouts (video explaining how to use the new Gmail layouts feature in Gmail)

Google Sheets (a video that goes over the benefits of using Google Sheets and highlights certain features)

Computer Science Week Lessons Kindergarten to Fifth Grade

3D Printing Project Fourth and Fifth Grade. 

• 3D Printing Introduction

• 3D Printer Parts

• 3D Printing Snowflake Projec

SHARED RESOURCES & DATA COLLECTION

No Red Ink

• No Red Ink Planning Diagnostic

  • This is a great diagnostic to start in September with your classes! You can modify which topics it covers, as well as the length of time they take.

• No Red Ink Premium

  • Hooray! The Premium accounts are finally active in No Red Ink. Please take advantage of this great program that makes grammar and mechanics practice super easy! 

You'll also find great new ways to prepare for the state tests with short response and extended response practice, all aligned to our standards by grade level (5 - 8 and Regents).

• No Red Ink Resources: December 9 Post

• No Red Ink has posted some new sample curriculum alignments that can bridge the use of No Red Ink alongside ELA curricular, specifically HMH! This is perfect for Middle School teachers and ELA/Literacy programs that are already incorporating HMH.

• I know a lot of you use a cross-curricular approach with Science and Social Studies, especially those of you who have the luxury of team time and planning! Check out the new sets of Science and Social Studies Quick Writes on No Red Ink.

• For those of you teaching literature/novels this season, check out how No Red Ink can support Literary Analysis assignments. They have resources from targeted skill-building exercises to writing prompts about lots of popular texts.

• Happy Friday!

CommonLit

• How to Set Up CommonLit Pre-Assessment Slideshow

The attached slideshow (also posted in Classwork) offers a step-by-step guide to setting up September's Pre-Assessment Series in CommonLit. I can also go through this tomorrow at the department meeting.Please let me know if you have questions! See you tomorrow for our virtual meeting!

• Training with Emily from CommonLit re: Assessment Series & Baseline Data Collection (October 12)

Many thanks to those of you who attended the CommonLit training this morning with Emily! Here are some resources/links:

• FAQ support page

• Today's recording password: UOb3G?^L 

• Today's slide deck

• Tech Support: Help icon or email help@commonlit.org

At our next meeting, we'll be taking a look at areas/standards of strength and in need of improvement, based on the grade level Baseline Assessments. Emily walked us through how to access that, but let me know if you need help. We'll discuss strengths and weaknesses at each grade level and develop a plan for improvement using Target Lessons.

Looking ahead: Please have the Mid-Unit Assessment on your radar for January.

Reminder: Please let me know if you're interested in bringing your English classes to the auditorium for the guest poet opportunity I posted about last week. Once I know who's interested, we can solidify a date.

• How-To: CommonLit Baseline Assessment (shared with dept.)

• CommonLit Pre-Assessment Data by Standard (presented to dept.)

• ELA Baseline Assessment Data

• CommonLit Target Lessons

• CommonLit Target Lessons

Which Target Lessons have you incorporated into your teaching this month? How did it go?

To access Target Lessons, click on the link below, check the box for your grade level (on the left), and scroll down to Standards. Select a standard that needs improvement for your class(es), based on the baseline data collected in September (attached). We want to be able to show growth in January.

[I noticed that my standards in need of improvement are not available as Target Lessons yet; I wanted to work on RL standards, but only RI are available for now at my grade level. I assigned the RI standards in those low areas, since this still helps target the standards in need of improvement.]

We'll be discussing Target Lessons and planning for Mid-Year Assessments in our December meeting. Let me know if I can help support you!

Have a wonderful Thanksgiving break!!

• ELA Mid-Year Assessment Data

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STAR Reading Assessment

• Renaissance STAR 360 Tools for September Baseline

• These materials will help you get started with the Star Reading assessment that needs to be done this month for each grade level.

There are two manuals attached (Implementation Guide and Test Administration Manual), as well as a doc that will help walk us through adding accommodations for students with extended time (please be sure to set this up ahead of time!), as well as an intro slideshow you can use before starting the assessment with your classes.

The testing experience:

1. Students log in with their school Google accounts via ClassLink (Renaissance app). They test on their Chromebooks.

2. As students test, the software adjusts the difficulty of each item. Students answer 34 items for Star Reading.

3. After the students test, you have access to the results. Star tests take about 15-20 minutes on average. View data through a variety of dashboards and reports.

• Presentation developed to introduce STAR Reading to students (shared with dept.)

• STAR Reading Data Points by Grade Level

Paper

• Launch Guide for Grades 9 - 12

• Launch Guide for Grades 6 - 8

EdPuzzle

• What Is EdPuzzle?

  • EdPuzzle is an awesome tool that can be found through ClassLink. You can search resources by grade level and subject, and you'll find a lot of great content teachers have already created, ready to use at your disposal. You can easily link it to your Google Classroom(s) and assign work through the platform.

Especially if you have an upcoming novel, play, poem, or short story, I recommend checking it out! It's a great way to have kids watch videos or listen to the audio version of a text at home or in lab, without taking up all of your valuable class time.

• EdPuzzle for ELA Teachers

  • This 21-minute webinar goes over the best practices of creating Edpuzzle video lessons for ELA classes. 

This will walk you through how to personalize videos that are already on the site to make them geared toward your teaching and learning targets, by adding your own open-ended questions, multiple choice questions, questions and/or notes. It also shows how to make and upload your own content. 

An example provided shows us how to find a short video about how to write a summary, describing the video and what you want your students to do with it, then asking students to identify good traits of a summary through open-ended and multiple choice questions. 

This is a great tool for mini lessons, and I can also see it being super valuable for sub plans!

IXL

• Setting Up IXL for Your Classes

  • This infographic walks you through setting up your class roster(s).

  • Your username should be your first initial, last name, @newfieldcentral. Example: lkozlowski@newfieldcentral

  • You can reset your password easily using your school email address.

  • Your classes/rosters should already be set up for you! Let me know if they're not.

  • Before getting started, I recommend going into your profile and settings and changing your display name, etc. (see step 6 in the infographic).

• IXL Diagnostic Guide

  • Similar to what we did in CommonLit, IXL provides a diagnostic to assess students' grade-level proficiency. 

The IXL Real-Time Diagnostic can help us:

1. Get data we normally receive from state assessments

2. Help determine student placement in programs

3. Keep students on track with individual learning plans

The diagnostic should take two sessions, each 20-25 minutes. This is a nice way to gauge learning at the beginning of the year, end of each unit, midterm, final, etc. 

It also creates an action plan for you to plan the next step for each student, based on the analytics.

• IXL Language Arts by Grade Level

  • Here, you’ll find skill practice broken down by grade level. This provides practice in phonics, reading comprehension, writing strategies, grammar/mechanics, etc.

• Implementation Guide for Daily Instruction

  • This infographic shows you how to plan a lesson, deliver a lesson, and check for understanding.

1. Find an IXL to support your objective

2. Cement understanding by having students practice the skill to a SmartScore of 80

3. Get instant ideas for next steps with IXL Analytics

• Implementation Guide for Live Assessment

  • This infographic shows you how to plan a lesson, deliver a lesson, and dig into data in regard to student understanding. 

    • Find an IXL skill to support your lesson

    • Introduce the concept and use IXL to assess students

    • Use IXL Analytics for in-depth insights on student understanding

• Skill Planning for ELA Regents in IXL

  • This is a nice way to help your kids prepare for the English regents. Each skill is broken down, so you narrow your focus and identify learning strengths and deficits. This is also a nice way to practice skills based on the diagnostic data we have from CommonLit.

Click HERE to view our Computer Science Digital Technologies Course

Click this link to view the School Tool Guide that was created by Dawn Crouse: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQ6chge2diuupvfy4xa46hI_GW9Wzk1cEC0-UNblnkP0wsiTtzar0iSkpnks8S5afQQSgi5-HelURmr/pub

Year 2 DEAI Artifacts

Click this link to watch a video created by Bryan Mix: : https://drive.google.com/file/d/171ZRA-c7ymzy2xn8drzyxTqYJiBwW8ob/view?usp=sharing

Click HERE to watch a bullying video created by Bryan Mix: https://drive.google.com/file/d/171ZRA-c7ymzy2xn8drzyxTqYJiBwW8ob/view?usp=sharing

Robert Wall created a digital running record: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfnJrkCEn8fbkPxaTzacZBmGNRkYvv_G5S5E2ysbBcV1tGJQg/viewform