Innovation Does Not Happen in Isolation Trending May 1.pdfwith OneNote and OneNote Class Notebooks Fostering Digital Citizenship in the 21st Century Nearpod 3hr: Intermediate/ Advanced

Instructional Leadership

Announcement

Please Note:

You can find more

information on our department website:

www.sisd.net/academicservices

May

2018

Edition

Innovation Does Not Happen in Isolation April 4, 2018 by George Couros

In “The Innovator’s Mindset,” I share the following eight characteristics:

What is important to understand regarding these characteristics is that none of

them make you innovative in isolation. It is their combinations that lead to new

and better solutions. If I a “observant” and understand the world around me, yet “create” nothing, what would be solved? Flip it though; if I am “creating” without understanding the context of where I work and who I serve (observant),

you might be creating solutions to things that is helpful to no one.

This thinking was sparked by a post I recently read that was written

by Mrs. Krolicki, talking about the importance of reflection leading to action:

To read more please click on the link:

https://georgecouros.ca/blog/archives/8175

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Tech News Blackboard Classroom – SISD’s LMS

The Socorro ISD Technology Advisory Committee (TAC) has completed its review of

multiple Learning Management Systems (LMS) over the course of a year and have

concluded that Blackboard Classroom is the best choice to move our district forward

in our goal of producing Future Ready graduates. This Blackboard Classroom will

provide district staff, students, and parents a platform to leverage the many digital

tools and resources in our district by placing them in one location, making them easily

accessible, interoperable, and drives more personalized content to all stakeholders. Being online and with

adaptive capabilities, users will be able to access the Blackboard Classroom LMS any time and on mobile

devices. For the 2018-19 school year, Blackboard Classroom will be implemented at high schools, with middle

school grades in 2019-2020 and district-wide implementation in 2020-2021. High schools will be receiving

additional information during campus visits scheduled with our Instructional Technology team. Thanks goes

out to all of campus TAC members for their involvement in the LMS Review process!

DNA Conference

July 25, 2018

Eastlake High School

We are pleased to announce that the 2018 Digitally Nurturing Academics (DNA)

Conference will also serve as the event at which Dr. Jose Espinoza, Superintendent of

Schools, will welcome back all Team SISD teachers for the 2018-19 school year! There

will be two sessions during which Dr. Espinoza will address our team, propelling them

into a day full of learning, sharing, and growing together in our capacity as educators

to use the district’s digital investments to unleash “A Universe of Possibilities” for our students!

In preparation for the conference:

Please remind staff that arrangements have been made for busses to transport them from your campus

to the conference and back, due to the limited parking available and the anticipated congestion due to

construction on Eastlake Boulevard from I-10 up to and past Peyton Road.

Lunch will also be provided on-site for all attendees.

We encourage everyone to download the Eventleaf Guide app on their smartphone to be able to

access their schedule after they have registered for the event.

The Instructional Technology team will be meeting with campus staff to provide an overview of the

conference and provide guidance for registering for the event to select their sessions for this great day of

professional learning!

@InstrTech_SISD

#SISD_DNA18 ● #TeamSISD ● #FutureReady ● #SISD_OCB

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Tech News (Cont.)

June Professional Development Sessions

June 4th, Monday June 6th, Wednesday June 7th, Thursday

AM Creating

Accessibility

Nearpod 3-hr:

101/Intermediate

Empower Students with

Workforce Ready Skills

8:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. 8:30 – 11:30 a.m. 8:30 – 11:30 a.m.

Pebble Hills High

School

Options HS (Library) Options HS (Library)

PM Nearpod 3-hr:

Intermediate/Advanced

Empower Students with

Workforce Ready Skills

12:30 – 3:30 p.m. 12:30 – 3:30 p.m.

Options HS (Library) Options HS (Library)

June 12th, Tuesday June 13th, Wednesday June 14th, Thursday

AM A Teacher’s Day Made Easier with OneNote and OneNote

Class Notebooks

Fostering Digital

Citizenship in the

21st Century

Nearpod 3hr:

Intermediate/

Advanced

8:30 – 11:30 a.m. 8:30 – 11:30 a.m. 8:30 – 11:30 a.m.

DSC Project Room Options HS (Library) DSC Project Room

PM A Teacher’s Day Made Easier with OneNote and OneNote

Class Notebooks

Fostering Digital

Citizenship in the 21st

Century

Nearpod 3hr:

101/Intermediate

12:30 – 3:30 p.m. 12:30 – 3:30 p.m. 12:30 – 3:30 p.m.

DSC Project Room DSC Project Room DSC Project Room

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Early Childhood News

This Month in Early Childhood

The end of year is almost here.

A time you shouldn’t fear.

Stay strong and don’t forget

That you really shouldn’t fret

About what your students know.

You’ve done a great job and it shows!

Your little ones will soon be gone

And they know that you’re the one

That taught them how to read and write

and treat each other right.

Elizabeth Marquez

Don’t forget: Istation K-2: May 1st – May 11th

EOY Math K-2: May 14th – May 18th

ELAR News

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Elementary ELAR

Scholastic Summer Reading Challenge

(May 7-September 7, 2018)

Description from Scholastic: The Scholastic Summer Reading Challenge is a free, online

reading program designed to help students turn the “summer slide”—the learning loss

which can occur over the summer months—into a “summer leap” by discovering the joy and magic of reading for fun.

The theme of the Challenge changes every year. The 2018 theme is “A Magical Summer of Reading,” which comes to life on the website with the beautiful Harry Potter illustrations by Jim Kay. We think it’s the perfect message to encourage students across the country to share in the magic of summer reading in celebration of the 20th anniversary of Harry

Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.

Please consult with your campus librarian for additional guidance.

Secondary ELAR

Literary Anthology Author’s Luncheon

Literary Anthology first place winners will be recognized during the annual author’s luncheon. All coordinators will be assisting during the anthology luncheon.

Date: May 12, 2018

Time: 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Location: Pebble Hills Cafeteria

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Math News

Elementary and Secondary Math

Upcoming dates:

3rd Grade Advisory Committee - May 1st, 4:00 - 6:00 p.m. @ DSC Room B

4th Grade Advisory Committee - May 2nd, 4:00 - 6:00 p.m. @ DSC Room A

5th Grade Advisory Committee - May 3rd, 4:00 - 6:00 p.m. @ DSC Room B

TI Calculator training will be available May 19th, @ DSC, from 8:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.

This training is available to all 7th - Algebra 2 teachers.

Good Luck to all of our 3rd, 4th, 6th, 7th, and

Algebra 1 students on your STAAR/EOC

exams!

YOU GOT THIS!

Science News

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SISD Science (K-12th)

Academic

Vocabulary

Academic vocabulary refers to the words associated with content

knowledge. Within science, there is a specific set of words that

represent concepts and processes. These words are conceptually

more complex than everyday language; therefore, they are more

difficult to learn. Lead4ward has a list of academic science

vocabulary words per grade level. This list includes new words,

previously introduced words and related words per TEK.

Academic Vocabulary - click on the grade level and “science” under the academic vocab column.

Streamlined

TEKs

The State Board of Education gave final approval in April to

streamlined science standards for kindergarten through high

school. Streamlining eliminates, clarifies or combines some

standards without adding additional content. Click on the links

below to view the side by side documents by grade level that

we will be analyzing at our content meetings.

Elementary Middle School High School

Stemscopes

Re-TEKs

Don’t forget that all 5th, 8th and Biology Teachers have access to the

Stemscopes RE-TEKs. This is a great resource to prepare our students

for the upcoming STAAR/EOC exams.

Log in: https://n11089d41294.acceleratelearning.com/login

Username: SISD username

Password: First name initial, Last name initial (both capitalized) and

last 4 digits of your Employee number.

Content

Advisory

Meetings

May 1st – 3rd Grade Math and Science, 4:00 – 6:00 p.m. DSC Room B

May 2nd – 4th Grade Math and Science, 4:00 – 6:00 p.m. DSC Room A

May 3rd – 5th Grade Math and Science, 4:00 – 6:00 p.m. DSC Room B

May 22nd– Chemistry/Physics, 8:30 a.m.– 3:30 p.m. DSC Tech Lab 1st

Floor

May 23rd— Biology, 8:30 a.m.– 3:30 p.m. DSC Tech Lab 1st Floor

Contact Us

Dr. Danielle Navariz (Elementary 2nd – 5th) [email protected]

Frank McDonald (Middle and High School 6th – 12th) [email protected]

Social Studies News

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SISD Social Studies (K-12th) Curriculum/

Current

Events

Corner

Keep our SISD Students connected to real world social issues:

https://www.studentnewsdaily.com/

NEW FREE

RESOURCE https://newseumed.org/

This is a new resource with free lesson plans for

Social Studies teachers.

8th Grade

Social

Studies

STAAR

The STAAR assessment is May 17th, we have created a folder in TEAMS with

interactive STAAR Review Resources. Please be sure your teachers are

utilizing these free and awesome resources!

Summer

Professional

Development

Opportunities

2nd/3rd Social Studies Vocabulary Strategies: June 5th 12:30-3:30 p.m.

DSC Room C

4th Social Studies Vocabulary Strategies: June 7th 12:30-3:30 p.m. DSC

Project Room

5th Social Studies Vocabulary Strategies: June 12th 12:30-3:30 p.m. DSC

Room A

High School/Online Textbook: June 13th 1:00-4:00 p.m. DSC Tech Lab 1st

Floor

High School/Online Textbook: June 20th 1:00-4:00 p.m. DSC Tech Lab 1st

Floor

Contact Us Dr. Kim Baxter (Middle & High School) [email protected]

Michelle Trujillo (Middle School & Elementary) [email protected]

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Advanced Academics

Advanced Academics May/June Events

Gifted and Talented

May 2: District Gifted and Talented Showcase at PHHS

May 5: Identification and Assessment Professional Development

May 19: Nature and Needs Professional Development

June 5: Project Based Learning for the 21st Century

June 11-15: GT summer camp @ Americas High School

June 18-19: Schoolwide Cluster Grouping Model for SCGM

campuses

DC/ECHS

May 16: Dual Credit Advisory Meeting

Pre-AP/AP

SpringBoard Math and ELA Training:

July 18-19: Eastlake High School

July 20-21: Americas High School

July 25-26: Pebble Hills High School

Destination Imagination May 21: Deadline to complete online form/survey

UIL May 21: Elementary & MS UIL Meeting

Use the following URL for ELAR:

https://socorroindependenttx.springboardonline.org/

SpringBoard Teacher Access

The access code is: AXKKAS

Be sure to use your district email address when registering.

Use the following URL for Math

(This is trial access only!):

https://texasmath.springboardonline.org/ebook/login

Username: socorromath

Password: socorromath

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Bilingual Buzz

Upco i g PD’s:

Date

Starting Time

Ending Time

Title Audience Location

5/7/2018 5:00 p.m. 7:00 p.m. Family Latino Literacy

Project EOY

Family Latino Literacy

Project Parents

DSC Board

Room

5/22/2018 8:00 a.m. 4:30 p.m. Title III Instructional Aide/

LPAC Aide Training

Title III Instructional

Aide/LPAC Aide DSC Room AB

5/23/2018 4:00 p.m. 6:00 p.m. Secondary ESL

Academy Training

Secondary ESL

Academy Teachers DSC Room CD

5/24/2018 4:00 p.m. 6:00 p.m. PreK- K ESL Academy

Training

PreK - K ESL Academy

Teachers DSC Room AB

Continued support for Pre-K registration Plan

Elementary Title III Clerks will be going to their respective Pre-K Hubs

to support in the finalizing of the Pre-LAS testing from

April 7th registration during May 1st- 15th.

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Bilingual Buzz (Cont.)

LPAC News

There will be NO monthly meeting for

LPAC Administrators for the month of May.

Our next monthly meeting for Title III Instructional/

LPAC Aides will be May 22, 2018.

This will be our End of Year Celebration for all their

hard work.

Campestre Elementary

Montwood High School

EOY Pre-K Pre-LAS Testing Window: May 1st-25th

Pass out permission slips to Year 1 & 2

students

Collect permission slips by May 11th

Send SESLA rosters electronically by May 18th

If recommending specific ESL teacher for

your campus please notify Bil/ESL Depart-

ment

Ensure classrooms are reserved for SESLA at

participating campuses

5th grade students will be attending their

assigned middle school’s SESLA

8th grade students will be attending their

assigned high school’s SESLA

We are proud to recognize 21 campuses

participating and about 200 parents. Thank you very

much to our teachers that were part of implementing

this parental program this school year at their

campus. Also a big thank you to our Eastlake High

School Mariachis for being part of our entertainment

for this event.

Exiting 11th and 12th grade students-

Testing Window: May 1st-25th

Special Education Department

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What Teachers Should Know and Do:

Meet with your General Education Teachers in

order to: - Interpret the IEP.

- Review accommodations/modifications/PLAAFPS/

goals and/or objectives/BIPs and any assistive

technology.

- Create student/learner profile.

- Make sure that ARD dates, for the year, are

scheduled and communicated to the

appropriate personnel.

- Draft goals/objectives, which should be provided

to parents 10 days before the scheduled ARD.

TEA 2016 Performance Report

Just as a reminder, every campus must have a

TBSI campus core team

All training dates are currently posted on the

Staff Development website. Each training date is

restricted to ONLY 40 PARTICIPANTS, therefore it is

best to register early. It is also recommended

that if a campus plans to train a large number of

people, they stagger their staff to attend

different training dates throughout the year.

Date Time Title Audience Location

May 2, 2018 12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. Agency and

Employer Luncheon

Community

Employers

DSC

Room C/D

May 4, 2018 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Celebration Day Students with limited

Motor Ability And

Medically Fragile

Sun Ridge

Middle

School Gym

May 10, 2018 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. PAS Academy PAS

Teachers

DSC

Room B

May 22-23, 2018 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. CPI Training TBSI Campus

Core Teams

TBD

In honor of Teacher Appreciation Week and Better Hearing and Speech Month

I would like to acknowledge the critical role, that you all play, within the Special Education Department.

Thank you all, for your passion, commitment and most of all, your undying work ethic, to all of our students with

special needs.

Without a doubt, you are all vital members of the Socorro ISD Special Education Department.

Thank you.

Richard Ortega M. ED.

State and Federal Programs

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2018-2019 DISTRICT/CAMPUS IMPROVEMENT PLANS: COMPREHENSIVE NEEDS ASSESSMENT

What drives a district improvement plan or campus improvement plan? How is a vision developed by district

and school leadership to make the district and our campuses better than they were before?

* It all starts with the Comprehensive Needs Assessment! (CNA)

* We are in full swing with the development of our 2018-2019 DIP and CIPs.

* What are our needs? How do we determine them?

* How do our needs then become defined as our plan objectives and strategies?

* How do our objectives and strategies become funded with our budget allocations?

* CNA Multiple Measures of Data

* Four Areas: Demographics, Student Academic Achievement,

District Processes and Programs, and Perceptions.

* What are the strengths of each of the four multiple measures of data>

* What are the areas needing improvement in each measure? How are the problem statements

and root causes analyzed and applied for each?

* ”A Plan Will Not Work Unless We Do.”

*A CNA and a subsequent improvement plan is not merely a compliance piece.

*A DIP and a CIP is a full illustration of the vision an entity has to “raise the bar” with respect to

student achievement.

*First things First: We will never be able to determine any other plan steps without a solid CNA

in place! That is why this first step is so important and ample time is given for completion.

*The CNA portion of the DIP and CIPs must be completed by May 25. As always, if you have

any questions, call:

*Dr. Adam Starke at 937-1601

*Oscar Leza at 937-1603

ACADEMIC SERVICES Address:

Phone: - -

Rojas Drive

PO Box

El Paso, Texas

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