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FAILURE PREVENTION PROGRAM FLOW-CHART

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FETC

ESL Collaboration Connection

Session Designation: Poster

Focus Area: Communication and Collaboration

Session Schedule: 
Date: Wednesday, January 13, 2016
Time: 5:30-6:30 p.m.
Location: Poster Area 3 - Exhibit Hall Booth 2500 Session

Description: ELLs should not stand alone; revolutionize collaboration in your district for all learners! Utilize collaboration tools to lead the technology integration charge at your campuses and forge the path to digital transformation. This session will spark your collaborative drive as you rev up your instructional landscape.

Classroom Crashers: An Instructional Overhaul 

Session Designation: Poster

Focus Area: Instructional Design

Session Schedule:
Date: Thursday, January 14, 2016
Time: 2:30-3:30 p.m.
Location: Poster Area 3 - Exhibit Hall Booth 2500

Session Description: Are your lessons boring? Do you need help integrating technology into your classroom? We will show you how they incorporated this energetic and highly engaging program into their K-12 classrooms. Learn how to take an ordinary lesson into an extraordinary lesson using technology, focusing on collaboration and modeling to enhance student engagement.

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HEALTH & PE

The health and P.E courses have additional activities that must be completed by all students taking the original or credit recovery version of these courses.  The lab teacher should maintain record of these completed assignments at least for the duration of the school year in which the assignments are completed. We will be using  GEO to fulfill these requirements.

Fitness Exercise Log (Weight of 40%)

The state requires that 50% of a physical education course must include a Moderate to Vigorous Physical Activity.  For this online course, this requirement will be accomplished using a Fitness Exercise Log.  For at least 3 weeks (at least 5 days per week), the student must complete daily exercise which builds aerobic capacity, strength, or flexibility documented by the duration in minutes on the log.  The daily exercise must continue for at least 3 weeks and total at least 720 minutes.

For 2015-16, this Fitness Log will be located within the first lesson of the Edgenuity course under “Online Content” for students to save or print.  The completion score for this component must be entered by the lab teacher using the “Additional Activities” directions.

FitnessGram Assessment (No weight- required for credit)

Each student will be required to complete a FitnessGram for the school year in which Fitness credit is granted.  No weight will be awarded in their average, but it is REQUIRED for credit to be received.  

SASP Teachers:  As of August 17th, 2015, we are working with the CIA and Technology Departments on the streamlined instructions for how the FitnessGram will be recorded.  All HPE Department Heads have the rights to look up Fitness Gram results for your campus.  Please have a campus coach perform the Fitness Gram test, and we will be sending instructions on who will be able to enter those results.

Online Health – Additional Activities

Health Permission Letter

Health has an additional permission letter that must be signed by a parent/guardian before the student is to start the course.

Permission Letter English

Permission Letter Spanish

CPR Requirement:

Hands-on CPR is a requirement for most of our current students for graduation.  Many of these students have already received this training.  To check to see if a student has already completed this requirement, please e-mail his or her counselor.  If a student has NOT received the CPR Requirement course in GEO has been created to fulfill this requirement, but credit will not be given until a demonstration to a CPR certified person is complete.  Credit cannot be given to a student until this requirement is complete.

Parenting and Paternity Awareness (p.a.p.a.) - (Combined weight of 10%)

The Attorney General of Texas requires that students taking Health also complete the p.a.p.a requirements.  Where the grade weighting of these combined assignments is only 10%, all p.a.p.a. components MUST be completed before credit is awarded.

In addition to finish the Edgenuity course, every student enrolled in the Health Course has to complete the P.A.P.A requirements in order to gain the credit.

When the GEO courses is completed, follow the instructions about adding an additional activity in Edgenuity.

School	Course LINK
GHS	http://geoclass.garlandisd.net/classrooms_2015/course/view.php?id=168
SGHS	http://geoclass.garlandisd.net/classrooms_2015/course/view.php?id=174
NGHS	http://geoclass.garlandisd.net/classrooms_2015/course/view.php?id=171
LCHS	http://geoclass.garlandisd.net/classrooms_2015/course/view.php?id=169
NFHS	http://geoclass.garlandisd.net/classrooms_2015/course/view.php?id=170
RHS	http://geoclass.garlandisd.net/classrooms_2015/course/view.php?id=172
SHS	http://geoclass.garlandisd.net/classrooms_2015/course/view.php?id=173
MEM	http://geoclass.garlandisd.net/classrooms_2015/course/view.php?id=175

GISD 2015 High school Fall Mini-Mester

GISD 2015 High school Fall Mini-Mester

Fall Mini-Mester: Program Description

Fall Mini-Mester  

Principal Checklist:

Before:

• Advertise Fall Mini-Mester (Marquis, Call Out, School Website, Student Flyer, Report Card Pickup, Faculty Meeting, Announcements, etc.)
• Review Teacher Expectations (see below)
• Set-up Registration (Registration Form, Policy Agreement Form, AUP if needed)
• Ensure that computer labs have toner, ink, and paper
• Check with CTS for missing AUPs (needed for student login and must be in place before October 26)
• Establish procedure to post credits

   During:

• Verify Kronos codes (must use campus funds from Title I and/or SCE)
• Ensure that all grades are posted as students complete course(s)

Counselor Checklist:

• Collect Registration Forms
• Register Students
• Ensure Fall Mini lab teacher(s) receives a list of all students registered, with course information.  It is recommended that a copy of the registration form is provided to the lab teacher.
• Ensure that credits are posted to AAR

Lab Teacher Expectations:

Document created by: Robyn Webb

• Collect Policy Agreement Form
• Confirm AUP on file
• Maintain Student Sign-In Sheets and keep in folder/binder
• Maintain computer lab and equipment
• Monitor student progress and ensure students in computer lab are on task
• Contact parents on progress/or lack of and course completion 
• Maintain Parent Contact Log and keep in folder/binder
• Complete and submit Course (keep copy in folder/binder)
• Clock in and out in Kronos

Cycle Recovery Training 2015-16

Cycle Recovery 

GISD Failure Prevention Plan

Full document
Highlights:

1. Required actions prior to the end of each grading cycle:

• Grades in the grade book weekly
• Monitor student average weekly and contact parents if necessary 
• PLC meets after three weeks to develop a plan
• Reteach should be done with the no mastered objectives and the grade should not be greater than 70. (Skyward click sheet on “Documenting Reteach / Retest)

2. Required actions at the completion of each grading cycle:

• Failure prevention report and documentation to administrator 
• Develop a Cycle recovery Plan (Edgenuity or Teacher-lead) 
• Cycle Recovery Students form can be use to keep track of the students in each model.

3. Required actions prior to retention or loss of credit for any student:

• Face to face teacher/parent conference  

Failure Prevention Program Flow-Chart

Teacher-Led Model

In this model teachers will determine the TEKS students have not mastered and will develop a plan for recovering.
Teachers will keep documentation of cycle recovery efforts, such as tutorial log, assignments, quizzes, etc.

What to do when the cycle is recovered in the Teacher-lead model

1. Teacher ask for admin approval
2. Teacher keeps documentation
3. Teacher summit the grade request in Skyward

Edgenuity Model

1. Teachers need to send communication home
2. Teacher need to talk with the students about the Student Consent Form

Edgenuity Essentials

Login in and Searching for Students
Creating Groups
Assign, Disable/Enable and Complete courses
Progress report
Dashboard


What to do when the course is complete in Edgenuity

1. Verify completion in the student's Edgenuity  Grade book.
2. Print the Progress Report
3. Fill out the completion form 
4. Complete the course in Edgenuity

FORMS

Middle School		High School
4 Week Communication		4 Week Communication
4 Week Communication in Spanish		4 Week Communication in Spanish
Failure Prevention Report Accommodations for General. ED Cycle Recovery Student Form		Failure Prevention Report Accommodations for General. ED Cycle Recovery Student Form
Cycle Failure Letter		Cycle Failure Letter
Cycle Failure Letter in Spanish		Cycle Failure Letter in Spanish
Student Consent Form		Student Consent Form
Completion Form		Completion Form
Grade Request Change (Skyward)		Grade Request Change (Skyward)

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Twitter!!!

Click here for the challenge  

Digital Learning Day March 13, 2015

Show what you know!

Learninghand.com 

News-O-Matic

GISD Design your Own Learning - 3rd-5th Grade

GISD Design your Own Learning - 3rd-5th Grade 

Technology T-ELLS it All

This session will focus on integrating technology and ESL strategies to differentiate reading comprehension for ELLs. Participants will leave with a range of tools to create engaging activities through which ELLs at different proficiency levels will demonstrate content comprehension.

Agenda

1. Building background (ELL Proficiency Levels)
2. Teachers describe each level of language proficiency English Language Proficiency StandardsFive Stages of Second Language Acquisition
3. Putting it all together
4. News-O-Matic
5. Beginning
1. Kids Doodle and Doodle Buddy
2. Animoto
6. Intermediate
1. Story Lines
2. Quotely
7. Advanced and Advanced High
1. Sparkle Fish
2. Chatter Pix/ ChatterKid
8. Show and share

Animoto

Resources:

Aurasma

ChaterPix

Doodle Buddy

Kids Doodle

News-O-Matic

Socrative

Sparklefish

StoryLines