Post #6 Assessment Choice

Early Literacy Assessment Choice

Good news. Most of our schools will be given their chosen option in reading assessments. I will contact you if your school is one that is being asked to choose the alternate option. If you did not respond to the survey your school will, by default, be enrolled in the MAP assessment system. 
Accounts will be going live on Monday and teachers will receive auto generated “welcome” emails. 

Special Note for EFA Schools in case you missed Mary Driscoll's email from last week: There has been a lot of communication coming from various sources about the plan for reading assessments in the EFA cohort. We apologize that we have not done a good job of getting everyone involved in making this decision on the same page in a timely manner. We are working on having clear guidance about what reading assessments will be used by the EFA cohort this week and will have support in place to get everyone set up quickly following that communication.

Focus Curriculum Updates Available

<Focus on K2 Updates> Are accessible to all. Unit 1 has been updated to be standards-aligned, with shared reading, read aloud and SFL informed writing lessons. The remaining units will be rolled out unit by unit throughout the year. Additional read alouds and writing mentor texts were available to pick up at the K conference. Reach out to Literacy P-2 Assistant Director Brook Childs at bchilds@bostonpublicschools.org for these materials if they were not picked up at the conference.

BPS Data Warehouse Reports

Go to <BPS Data Warehouse> (You will have a school view. Teachers will have class view.)

• Attendance Dashboard for daily, monthly attendance and chronic absenteeism
• MCAS Reports for 2018 MCAS Data, including student writing
• ACCESSSpring Reports for 2018 data

Attendance

Congratulations to the following Network 6 schools with attendance above 90% for the first three days of school!

• Baldwin Early Learning Center (94, 97, 92)
• Eliot K-8 (94, 95, 96)
• Gardner Pilot Academy (92, 93, 96)
• Mary Lyon K-8 (93, 97, 97)

Congratulations to these schools that had 90% or above attendance on Monday of the first full week of school (September 10, 2018):

Alighieri (98), Bradley (94), Guild (94), Hale (97), Harvard Kent (91), Horace Mann (95), Patrick J Kennedy (94), McKay (92), Otis (93), Perry (90), Quincy (96), Russell (90), Warren Prescott (93), Winship (93)