Friday Flyer - January 7, 2022

 

From Grace and Jodi

Thank you all for keeping your focus on teaching and learning in spite of staffing, transportation, and health-related challenges. There have been some changes in our buckets for January/February. Major changes highlighted:

• February 15: Formative Assessments for provisional teachers - keep January 15 date for those with whom you have concerns
• Budget/Staffing for 2022-23
• ACCESS - See change in timeline below (extended to March 4)
• February 18: Latest Completion of MAP Administration 
• Keep the original date, if at all possible. This data is important.
• February 1:   Date by which teachers self-excess
• Original plan (Make every attempt to keep if possible)
• February 1-18 (3 weeks) - Analyze MAP, celebrate growth, plan for seven weeks of strong standards/grade aligned targeted instruction from
• February 28-April 15 (7 weeks)- Provide strong, targeted standards-aligned and grade-level instruction that is targeted to student needs based on data analysis
• March 1: Early Hiring Season begins

Region 6 Meeting Arc of Learning, adjusted

February 1: After observing & analyzing, write feedback tagged to DESE Focus Indicators, Plan/Role-play coaching conversations (note - we may extend this meeting to 90 minutes.

March 1: MAP Data Dive, turn-key for ILT

March 22: Bring ILT Agenda/Notes from Data Dive

May 3: Set up priorities for 22-23

June 7: Simulate root cause analysis with EOY data

Just in...

Extended ACCESS for ELLs Schedule

In recognition of the ongoing impact of COVID-19 on schools and families, the Commissioner has extended the ACCESS for ELLs testing window through March 4, 2022, with return of test materials by March 8. This will delay the reporting of electronic ACCESS results by a total of six days until May 19. Print results will be available as previously announced on May 24. This extension will ensure that as many English learners as possible take these important English proficiency tests. Information about ACCESS testing activities and the dates on which they will occur will be available shortly on the Massachusetts WIDA State Page and in the January 10 edition of the EL Assessment Update newsletter.

Updates from Corey from 1/07/21 Email

Daily Staff Absence Tracker: If you anticipate significant staffing shortages next week, please complete the Google form HERE daily by 12p. A team will be meeting on Jan.7 and Jan. 9 to determine where to equitably deploy district staff to provide coverage support.

Vaccination Mandate, January 15th deadline: If an employee has been advised by a medical professional to delay receipt of the vaccine due to a recent COVID infection, they should seek a reasonable accommodation from the BPS Office of Equity by submitting their supporting medical documentation and/or completed form to the accommodations@bostonpublicschools.org inbox.

Resources - Positive School Climate and Culture

This week DESE had a webinar on creating a positive school climate and culture. (Timing is everything!) There was not a lot of "new" information presented however it served as an affirmation of what many of us are doing. 

If you have a few minutes click through the slide deck and the readiness survey/ resource bank. Two personal favorites are the Relationship Mapping Tool and  Panorama's 2 X10 Relationship Building Strategy.

• Create a Positive School Climate and Culture Slide Deck
• Readiness Survey/Resource Bank
• Sample Student Check-in Google Form (Older students)

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