District Resource Guide - Polk County School District

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24/7 Instructional Applications for Teachers and Students ○ ○ FCAT Explorer ● Math, Science & Reading content have been updated. ● The following content is included by grade levels: ■ Reading grades 3, 4, 6, 8 and 10 ■ Science grades 5, 8 and 11 ■ Math grades 5, 8 and 10 ● A batch upload of student and teacher information will be done the week after Labor Day and information will be sent to schools at that time. ● An FCAT Explorer course will be available in Moodle. Schools may also contact School Technology Services staff to schedule a session for their faculty. ● Login information should be made available for students and parents for home use. CompassLearning Odyssey ● K-8 Use ■ Language Arts and Math Content ■ Pre/post-tests have been developed by content coordinators correlated with NGSSS benchmarks and Polk Curriculum Maps for 2nd, 5th and 6th grades. ● 9-12 Use ■ Implement Algebra I Content ■ Pre/post-tests have been developed by content coordinators correlated with NGSSS benchmarks and Polk Curriculum Maps. ● Directed Implementation Project ■ Guidelines will be emailed to schools the week of Aug. 15th. ■ The implementation includes Math and/or Language Arts Content. ■ The leadership team monitors progress of the Directed Implementation target group. ■ Multiple uses of the software includes individualized and whole class instruction plus home use by teachers and students. Learn360 - Video Streaming ○ All Discovery Streaming materials/references were to be removed by June 30,2011. ○ Budget constraints and increasing costs created the opportunity for staff to compare the latest video streaming systems. Learn360 was selected and Board approved in June. ○ Learn360 materials are correlated to NGSSS, Common Core, and 21st Century standards. ○ 27,000 video clips are provided in Learn360 from 60 different educational content producers. ○ Learn360 is a true on-demand, video streaming system (no buffering). ○ The average copyright date of the video content is 2005. ○ Podcast sharing capability is provided. ○ Learn360 Integrates with Moodle and Follett Destiny. ○ A beginning and intermediate Learn360 online Moodle course will be available. ○ Teacher login information, professional development and implementation plan will be emailed to schools during the week of August 15th. Computer Based Testing (CBT) ○ ○ Full CBT will include 6th grade/10th grade FCAT 2.0 Reading in addition to Spring FCAT Math Retakes and Spring FCAT 2.0 Reading Retakes. EOCs will be conducted for Algebra I, Geometry, and Biology. Field Tests for US History (sampled High Schools) . ● Fall Retakes- FCAT Reading, FCAT Reading 2.0, and FCAT Math will be administered via CBT during the two week window of October 10-21. ● CBT Certification process will begin in late August. This will include a district-wide infrastructure test.
● Specific Testing Dates will be shared when released from DOE. Moodle (Online Learning Management System) Teacher Evaluation System Training ○ The only available option allowing us to complete the state mandated Teacher Evaluation System Training on time is the presentation of the instructional materials in an online format. ○ This training must be accomplished during the week of August 15th through the 19th, so time and available bandwidth are prized. ○ We will be utilizing the Moodle Learning Management System for this training. ● We have added new Moodle and multimedia servers to provide the capacity required. ● Polk County Schools simply cannot afford the massive capital outlay required to provide simultaneous access to the Teacher Evaluation System Training for all our teachers, so we are forced to stagger its access through the week. ○ We will be publishing a training schedule, both online and via email. ○ This schedule will ensure best use of our available capacity, while keeping in mind the full agenda all have during that week. ○ We ask that schools adhere to the published schedule to ensure robust access for all. Software Development ○ ○ ○ ○ We are continuing to roll out additional services to parents, students and staff through the use of our portals. Some schools have been very involved in the Parent Portal registration process, while others have not. The opportunity to engage parents in the educational process through this new medium very much hinges on a school’s well-executed plan to master the concepts related to Parent Portal and get parents attached to their students. We encourage you to collaborate with your staff before orientation to understand (or revise when necessary) your school’s current strategy for getting parents attached to their students. Students will only be able to access their own grades through the Student Portal this year. (In the past they could access them directly through Pinnacle PIV. Some schools have not yet distributed student accounts to students yet, but this change will likely mean that has to be done (at least for secondary schools). This planned change has been previously communicated to your network manager, both in-person and via email. A well-planned strategy for distributing those accounts to students will be a key to success. Our developers have worked hard this summer to rework the IDEAS product to make it more user-friendly, and the new version is ready for use. The first thing you’ll notice is the visual difference. The look and feel has been adjusted to match our District’s current standard look and feel for web-based software. Other functions have been simplified or enhanced to save time (for example, exporting data to Excel is now a one-click process, whereas it was a longer, and sometimes more complicated, process before). We’re working on some other large projects. For instance, we’re working toward turning on a staff portal that will allow employees to access pay stubs, leave balances, and temporary duty leave functions through the Internet. In collaboration with Assessment, Accountability and Evaluation, construction will soon begin on an early warning system to support the strategic plan by delivering proactive notification to instructional staff regarding issues affecting instruction. Finally, we are working with the Professional Learning department to build “Journey,” the system which will handle end-to-end staff evaluations and observations, as well as professional learning logistics and reporting. EERS ○ Kindergarten: The installation for the Digital Device package, Projector,Screen,DVD,Tuner, Lightspeed will begin in September and continue till January.
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