MAP and January 25th

Staff,

As you are wrapping up your MAP testing, I wanted to give you some reminders. Our building SMARTgoal and your SLOs have an increased emphasis on using MAP data as some of our targets. The rationale for this shift is it's more predictive of students being college and career ready. Below is our overall SMARTgoal and the two targets using the MAP.

District SMARTgoal:  By the end of 2020-2021, 70% of elementary students will score proficient/advanced on the Forward Exam in ELA (92%ile of WI schools based on 2016-17 Forward Exam Data).  

MAP Growth Target for spring 2019:  65% of 1st-5th grade students will meet their spring to spring growth target.

MAP Achievement Target spring 2019:  65% of K-2nd grade students will meet the college and career benchmark (scored at the 61st percentile or above on the Reading MAP).

After the mental health training on January 25th, you'll have time to continue your work connecting the priority standards within the ELA curriculum maps with the concepts and skills in NWEA MAP continuum to plan whole group mini lessons or guided reading. Your focus will be on the months of February and March. Feel free to also bring a device to access reports you may want to take a look at from NWEA. We will be providing K-5 teachers a hard copy of their winter class breakdown by goal and 2nd-5th grade teachers the winter class breakdown by projected proficiency. Each teacher will also get a hard copy of the learning continuum document we've worked from this year, as well as a copy of their ELA curriculum map. This time is meant to support teachers' mid year SLO, aligned with our SMARTgoal and also anchored to the standards, within our core ELA curriculum, that we've prioritized. The link below is the full day schedule for January 25th.

Jan 25th Schedule for Staff

Finally here are the two video tutorials Amanda and I have created to support other teachers in the alignment process. These will be shown on the 25th. Please give feedback to our building SMART Team, before Tuesday, if you have suggestions on how Amanda and I can make them better for your district grade level colleagues. Thanks!

• Primary Example

• Intermediate Example

Love and Logic and ELA Staff Meeting

Staff,

At our Tuesday staff meeting we will begin with our next Love and Logic classroom strategy around helping students solve their own problems. Jim Fay, one of the Love and Logic founders, had this to say about the problem solving strategy, "Doing things for children is just fine, up to a point. But teaching them how to do things for themselves-that's where it's at."

Chris developed a good summary around the purpose of the strategies we've been learning, and I thought it was a good reminder for us all.

• Love and logic teaches a variety of skills so teachers can teach and students can learn.

           * Encourages positive relationships with students
           * Focuses on empathy (use of an empathic statement), so students spend
               more time in the in the thinking mode. It prevents the fight-or-flight
               response.

• Helps students own and solve their problems. 

The second half of the staff meeting will be your time to continue to align the learning targets tied to the ELA curriculum guide priority standards to skills and concepts from the NWEA MAP continuum referencing the same priority standards. Your teams may also choose to use this time for guided reading planning. Please bring the materials you need to the staff meeting. 

Also when Shannon is here on Wednesday morning, there will be breakfast treats available while meeting and greeting her. 

Illuminate Staff Meeting

Staff,

A reminder that the January 8th staff meeting is focusd on getting you introduced to Illuminate by entering math data for either Unit 3 or 4. Please bring your laptops because Lisa Skoyen will be walking you through logging into Illuminate for the first time using ClassLink. Your Day 5 collaboration time on Wednesday will be eartagged to finish your data entry started on Tuesday, and examine some of the math reports available through Illuminate.  Below are the directions Lisa sent out prior to winter break for the staff meeting on Tuesday.

Grades 1-5 will have the opportunity to enter EM4 Progress Check data in Illuminate. Use the attached spreadsheets to record Unit 3 or Unit 4 Progress Check scores and bring the data to the January staff meeting.  

Please complete the following prior to the meeting:

1. Print (or make a copy of) the spreadsheet.
2. Enter a score of 3, 2, or 1 for each question in Unit 3 or Unit 4  
   3 = answer is completely correct
   2 = answer is partially correct
   1 = answer is incorrect
3. Contact your building principal if you are unable to collect data prior to the scheduled staff meeting.