CWCS February 2007 ES Agenda

Please read the agenda, along with each of its links (all links available in ES Manual for future reference).

The agenda quiz must be completed in your ES WEBfiles BEFORE 3:00 pm the day before your ES meeting.

 

1) Dates to Remember and Dated Duties

a) Feb. 22, 2007- All ES meeting and ES/Parent Workshops: (ESs will meet from 8:30- 3:00, tentative ES meeting schedule). We will have a light Continental Breakfast available (no coffee), but lunch will not be provided. Here is a list of restaurants in the area to choose from, or you may bring your own lunch. Remember to bring Student Agreement Addendums for signatures.

Directions to Modesto Centre Plaza

Please tell and invite your parents to the Free Parent Workshops that will held at the Modesto Centre Plaza in Modesto from 10 am-3 pm. Here is a room chart of times and locations for each workshop. Please be sure that each of your 3-12th grade students have taken the PLS prior to attending the workshop. Continuing students should have taken it last year (provided by ES), and new students took it at Centralized Intake.

 

b) Scantron Post Test: Our second window for Scantron testing began January 16th. If your student finished their initial tests October 22nd or earlier, you should have completed their post test by Feb 21 at the latest. For students testing between October 22nd and December 20th, please see the attached Scantron Testing Window chart to determine when the testing begins for any test taken after Oct. 22. Please plan to finish testing each of your students within a month of their testing window. New Scantron Proctor Schedule for Spring 2007

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c) Benchmark Exams- February 26h- March 2rd: The 4th quarter for benchmark exams is February 26h- March 2rd. Provide and explain to parents during this week or at the learning record closest to these dates, and collect the optional exams and required writing prompts at the following learning record meeting. Remember that this is a good test prep option that will not cost additional expenditures from the instructional funds!

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d) March 2, 2007- ES Self Evaluation: Due no later than March 2nd, to your ES Advisor, the ES Self Evaluation. Please review the ES Evaluation Procedure before completing the self-evaluation. Please date your goals when you enter them into WEBfiles. Those ESs who received a 2005/2006 Evaluation, please include a final report on these goals and attach it as page three of your self evaluation. Sample Goals have been posted to help with ideas and formatting.

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e) CWCS Open House : Please encourage as many of your families as possible to attend. Here is a flyer for ESs and one for parents.

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f) March 6th and 7th: STAR Writing Exam. When parents sign the assessment confirmation form, this Exam was also initialed, so please remind your parents that their 4th and 7th grade students must attend this exam as well as the multiple choice STAR exam. If you have any concerns regarding the STAR Exam, please make a note in the database assessment page under "I have a concern". (If you have indicated "I have a concern", make sure you mark the appropriate concern box or write in the text box below what the specific concern is. There are a large number of students indicated with concerns but no indication what the concern is.)

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g) March 9, 2007: March 9, 2007 is the last date that students can enroll for the 2006/2007 school year. No enrollment paperwork can be signed after this date.

Enrollment Applications for 2008 are now being accepted. There is a box at the top right hand corner of the enrollment application to mark an option for school year and semester. If the student will turn 5 on or before December 2, 2007, then they may enroll for the 2008 school year.

The enrollment application is new and has an additional Dental exam requirement. Any application that is incomplete will be returned to the parent and not processed.

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2) Things to Do

a) Advisor Survey: Please complete this advisor survey by March 1st and mail it to the Waterford Office 12420 Bentley Street, Waterford CA 95386. Thank you!

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b) January Compilation

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c) February Newsletter

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d) High School Transcripts: Check your students’ transcripts for Summer School to be sure that the grades were accurately transferred from the report card to the transcript. Some ESs have found that the grades are missing, and it appears that there may have been a glitch in the process. Please email your advisor if you have grades that need to be added to the transcript.

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e) HQT Student Agreement Addendum: Please bring copies of the HQT Student Agreement Addendum for signing at the all ES meeting on February 22nd.

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f) K12- Please submit 2nd semester POs for K12 ($108 per course) if you haven't already submitted for the entire year. Contact Lisa Compton with any questions. An addition has been made to the K12 material that includes Recorded Workshops.

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g) KCRA 3 will air half-hour special on kids and social networking, "The Internet Generation", on Sunday, February 18 @ 6:30 p.m.

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3) Training Items

a) Portfolios due at April meeting, not at March meeting as stated in Paperwork Timetables. Read Portfolio Information and Portfolio Review for review.

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b) Summer School: Summer school will begin Tuesday, May 29, 2007 and end Tuesday, July 10, 2007, for a total of six (6) weeks (30 school days). Note that the regular school year ends Friday, May 18th. More information will be forthcoming via ES listserve and in the March Agenda… but for those ESs that are planning coursework for their high school potential summer grads, here are the allowed options. ESs who may be interested in serving as a summer school ES should wait until more information is available.

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c) HQT

-Learning Record for K-8: ESs do not need to list HQT for K-8 on their learning records if they have submitted their NCLB certificate and met the requirements by either Multiple Subject Exam or HOUSSE for K-8 students. (Algebra I and other high school courses need HQT). For those ESs that are interested in the HOUSSE 2 option, remember that it will not be available after June 30, 2007.

-Anonymous and missed/unprepared sessions: HQT Department ESs will purge all who are listed as “Anonymous” on the Nicenet class list. All students should have been previously told not to sign in anonymously. Also, students who miss three Elluminate sessions will be dropped. So if your student has missed both Jan. and Feb. sessions and also misses the session in March they will be dropped. A student also may be dropped if they continuously come to the session unprepared.

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d) Lost Rollsheets: The following has been added to the Rollsheet Corrections Policy in the ES manual.

If a roll sheet appears to have been lost (i.e. in the mail or in processing) and needs to be replaced:

The ES will obtain a newly signed rollsheet with the same date as the new signature is obtained (marking it as a revised rollsheet), and will attach it to the copy of the original.

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e) Grade Placement Policy: Students may be placed in grade levels below their age, but never at a level above their appropriate age. Please refer to the Grade Level Assignments for 2007 chart (found under student enrollment/K-8 grade placement).

-If you have a 12th grade student (able to be assigned as 12th grade by birthdate) that is completing High School in three years, they must be sure to have taken the STAR at least three times, even if they have enough credits to be in 12th grade.

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f) PO Done Button: Remember to check your POs regularly to make sure that you mark the “done” button for them to be processed in a timely manner. This is especially critical with the service POs as they must be processed before a student begins attending a class.

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g) Orders for 2007: The PO cut-off for purchase orders that will be processed with this year's funds will be April 20, 2007.

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h) Science Camp: The GEA for the students who are attending Science Camp will not be encumbered to their accounts until two weeks prior to camp (camp is the week of March 12-16.). Please be sure to remember this PO when calculating the remaining budget for these families.

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4) Messages from School Departments

a) ASSESSMENT: Assessment Training Outline for all ES meeting.

** Please stress with your families that attendance for STAR testing should be on the regularly scheduled days for their assigned site. Most sites have NO make-up days. If a student misses a testing date for a medical problem or some other unforseeable emergency, they will be directed to attend the next scheduled testing opportunity at another site, as the MLC can hold only a limited number of students and should be used only when other options have been exhausted.

**For Newly enrolled students:
Please make certain that newly enrolled, second semester student's grade levels are adjusted in the database by midnight March 15th. The STAR rosters will be printed on March 16th and whatever grade level that is listed will be the grade level test given to the student.

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b) CURRICULUM- Curriculum News from Lori Freeman

New Online California Content Standards Mastery Program, Study Island.

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c) GUIDANCE- Guidance News from Mary Halter

Career Expo March 1st 4-7pm at the Modesto Learning Center!  We have several commitments from many organizations including vocational schools, colleges and businesses!  We NEED YOUR HELP TO MAKE THIS EVENT A SUCCESS AND TO ENSURE THAT THESE ORGANIZATIONS WILL COME BACK NEXT YEAR!  Please contact all of your high school students to invite them to attend with their parents!  If your students need incentive, we can offer ˝ Carnegie Unit if they attend and write a paper on the event!  Please email your list of students/parents who will be attending (indicating whether or not they would like to work for the 1/2 Carnegie Unit) to Melissa Cripe at mcripe@connectingwaters.org.

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d) IT-

-Technology Plan Stipend Position Job Description - Develop and write a technology plan for CWCS that meets the criteria for a CDE approved education technology plan (http://www.cde.ca.gov/ls/et/rs/techplan.asp). Work under the direction IT Coordinator, Gary Clark, with CWCS staff, the local California Technology Assistance Project (CTAP) representative, and others to create a technology plan in by March 23, 2007. Estimated hours – 30-40. Please send Gary Clark gclark@connectingwaters.org an email and describe briefly why you are qualified for this position. Deadline to apply is Feb. 16th.

-There is a tabbed layout in the assessment section of the student detail for ES viewing. It works the same way most tabbed viewing in a program works. This is a feature of the new version of Filemaker that makes it easier to make tabbed layouts like this.

-The student list for CPs now prints in alphabetical order by student.

-Citrix will be down for maintenance on February 19th.

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e) VENDOR RELATIONS:

-Personal Professor can be found listed as the vendor: Renaissance Education Group, Inc.

-If you have created a PO for a contract programs class for first semester, or created a CP course in the database, and it still shows up as an open balance for CP or does not have a date signed off for Service PO's, please let wgaschler@ieminc.org know if the class has ended so that the first semester can be closed out and any additional funding can be made available for your student's budget.

-Dodge Ridge Ski Resort NO longer permits individual POs.