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I had a productive meeting Thursday. The one item that is time sensitive is that we need from each Kindergarten through third grade teacher is a list of students who would benefit from BELL Services Summer School Program. 4th and 5th grade recommendations will be compiled by WSFCS based on assessment data. It is being run by a private company and will look much different this year as a FIVE week program with morning academics and afternoon enrichment. Students will also take field trips each Friday. Please e-mail Kathy the names and student numbers by Tuesday for the parents to be offered an application. Space is not guaranteed, and will be decided upon yet to be determined eligibility rules, so only send names in of those students who are in need.
Below is some additional info from our state DPI.
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I had a productive meeting Thursday. The one item that is time sensitive is that we need from each Kindergarten through third grade teacher is a list of students who would benefit from BELL Services Summer School Program. 4th and 5th grade recommendations will be compiled by WSFCS based on assessment data. It is being run by a private company and will look much different this year as a FIVE week program with morning academics and afternoon enrichment. Students will also take field trips each Friday. Please e-mail Kathy the names and student numbers by Tuesday for the parents to be offered an application. Space is not guaranteed, and will be decided upon yet to be determined eligibility rules, so only send names in of those students who are in need.
Below is some additional info from our state DPI.
Teacher Working Conditions: School information Packet Delivery
- NCAE representatives will receive information regarding the Teacher
Working Conditions Survey within the next two weeks. Every school will
receive a package and, for schools without an NCAE representative,
packages will be addressed to the principal. Principals,
please give the packets to a teacher leader in your school for dissemination.
Posters, access code information, help desk information and resource
guides are included in the packets. More information may be found online
at
www.ncteachingconditions.org .
Next Generation Assessments: Why online? - North
Carolina
has provided online assessments since 2005 when the administration of
the computer skills test was completely online. The goal is that by
2014-15, all assessments will be administered online; this includes a
new generation of assessments for grades
3-8 and high school subjects, as well as the SMARTER Balanced
Assessments that will be online in 2014-15. Moving to an online delivery
of assessments aligns with efforts already underway to provide online
instructional resources, online formative and benchmark
assessments, and online training and professional development for
teachers. One other important reason that North Carolina plans to
transition to online assessments is to take advantage of computer
adaptive testing. As a governing member in the SMARTER Balanced
Assessment Consortium, North Carolina plans to adopt the common
assessments developed by the consortium, which are being designed in a
computer adaptive format. A brief overview of the latest information on
North Carolina’s online assessments can be found at
www.ncpublicschools.org/docs/acre/assessment/assess1pageroct11.pdf . For more information on the SMARTER Balanced Assessment Consortium, please visit www.smarterbalanced.org/ . Questions on
online assessments may also be directed to Kayla Siler at Kayla.siler@dpi.nc.gov.
Next Generation Assessments: Benefits of Online Assessments
- There are several benefits to
administering assessments online versus paper and pencil. By moving to
online assessments, we can offer assessments that are increasingly
multi-part, media-enhanced, performance-based, and better
representative of the depth intended in the new standards. Another
benefit is the availability of Computer Reads Test Aloud – Student Controlled
accommodation for eligible students. The online
assessments also offer several universal design features such as larger
font sizes, and adjustable background colors. Additional benefits
include: universal design, virtual highlighter and calculator, flexible
scheduling/staffing, storage space, test security,
reporting and cost effectiveness. To learn more about the benefits and
timeline for transitioning to online assessments, please visit
www.ncpublicschools.org/acre/assessment/online or contact Kayla Siler at
Kayla.Siler@dpi.nc.gov.
Cathy Wall for Joel Peddle
Deb Gray for Wendy Binkley
Joey Stone for Allison Phelps
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