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Teachers fill out student of concern forms for students who are struggling, and the student support team follows up with students and families.

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Zearn for Math (free, direct correlation to EngageNY / Eureka)

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Zearn for Math (free, direct correlation to EngageNY / Eureka)

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Graded Quizzes on Google Forms for quick informal assessment

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Graded Quizzes on Google Forms for quick informal assessment

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Google Classroom, Seesaw, FlipGrid in place.  Google Meet & Zoom for interactions.

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Students use Home Learning Codes on Seesaw to post examples and explanations of complete work

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Students use Home Learning Codes on Seesaw to post examples and explanations of complete work

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We will be adding a Blended Learning TOSA starting next year to support the districts. We definitely want input on how this person can be best utilized.

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We will be adding a Blended Learning TOSA starting next year to support the districts. We definitely want input on how this person can be best utilized.

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Schoology LMS and Zoom for MS and HS.  HS also used GoGuardian.
Elementary used Google Classroom and will be adding in SeeSaw next year with Zoom. Upper grades used GoGuardian also.

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Math Ready & iReady for digital middle school math curriculum in lieu of CPM for just this year (not free)

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Math Ready & iReady for digital middle school math curriculum in lieu of CPM for just this year (not free)

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A small group of EL specialist met three times this spring to begin formulating planning tools for teachers for different contexts. Recommendations for how to use face-to-face time, synchronous digital, asynchronous.

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Focusing on the Crosscutting Concepts.

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Grading taskforce will be convening again starting in the fall for MS and HS.

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Grading taskforce will be convening again starting in the fall for MS and HS.

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EL Education Curriculum has compiled a ton of Distance Learning Resources for their free ELA curriculum which utilizes integrated thematic PBL units

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EL Education Curriculum has compiled a ton of Distance Learning Resources for their free ELA curriculum which utilizes integrated thematic PBL units

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Guidance for Educators

Remote Learning Support: Preparing to Teach: Guidance for educators using our K-8 Language Arts curriculum as students take their learning home during these unprecedented times.

Remote Learning Support: Trade Book Guidance: Access to the required trade book texts in our curriculum is one of the most urgent needs for teachers, schools, and districts during the COVID-19 pandemic. We have put together information on the digital availability of texts and online reading resources to support student learning at home. Please note that this is not a list of free resources and you may need an account or user license to access content from publishers.

Guidance for Families

Remote Learning Support: For Families: An outline of ways that EL Education can support families and caregivers in assisting students to remain engaged in meaningful learning outside of the classroom. Check out our latest blog post for tips on how to use the Remote Learning Resources for Grades K-8!

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Remote Learning Support: Preparing to Teach: Guidance for educators using our K-8 Language Arts curriculum as students take their learning home during these unprecedented times. Remote Learning Support: Trade Book Guidance: Access to the required trade book texts in our curriculum is one of the most urgent needs for teachers, schools, and districts during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Probable Structure

Elementary Planning Team - 2 teachers and 2 classified from each site, 1 SPED teacher, and three, Admin

Option 1: 4 day a week, Group A K-5 mornings, Group B K-5 afternoons

Option 2: Two-Day Rotation, Group A goes two days a week, Group B goes the other two days

NBMS Planning Team-  Leadership team members

Two- Day Rotation

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Edgenuity for Independent Studies program grade 6-12 - we think we will have more families choosing independent studies due to COVID.

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Edgenuity for Independent Studies program grade 6-12 - we think we will have more families choosing independent studies due to COVID.

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Reading: MAP, F&P,

Math: MAP, Possibly a fact fluency

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Early intervention meetings--all teachers, all students

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Revised student report during spring DL

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Move to Simplified Grading System - 4 Point System

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Move to Simplified Grading System - 4 Point System

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4 = A
3 = B
2 = C
1 = D
0 = F (not turned in)

Recommending grades are based on assessments and practice work/homework/etc. not graded, just feedback.

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Trying to use board adopted curriculum as a base for all teachers' google classrooms, and building in more PBL

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Nearpod EL Lessons may be more appropriate for emerging students. Haven't reviewed content support lessons yet.

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Strengthen your teaching with a comprehensive collection of self-paced, professional development lessons on EL research and evidence-based strategies.

Each lesson contains a brief rationale on an EL strategy, teacher directions, and an explanation on how to employ the strategy using an activity in Nearpod.

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English Language Learners K-12 Solution | Nearpod EL

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Strengthen your teaching with a comprehensive collection of self-paced, professional development lessons on EL research and evidence-based strategies. Each lesson contains a brief rationale on an EL strategy, teacher directions, and an explanation on how to employ the strategy using an activity in Nearpod.

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First Few Weeks: Concentrate on health and emotional well-being of students. Hold off on assessing students the first few weeks of schools.

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Kern COE Lessons on Canvas: math, ELA, science, art, SEL, TK-12.  Also D-ELD 9-12 built from ERWC units. 9 weeks of digital, asynchronous distance learning lessons.

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Kern COE Lessons on Canvas: math, ELA, science, art, SEL, TK-12.  Also D-ELD 9-12 built from ERWC units. 9 weeks of digital, asynchronous distance learning lessons.

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Kern.Instructure.Com

Username: kcsoscanvas@gmail.com

Password: Ready4Canvas!

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How do we assess students' skill level?

How do we determine WHAT essential skills are needed for the next grade level and how do we KNOW what skills they have?

Do we want to look at different assessments that would assess the skill level of students?

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Zoom grade-level meetings. Teachers asked to provide comments for students they are concerned about or want to share positive news about. By number of comments, we discuss the students one at a time during the meeting so we can share behavior and academic progress with one another. They also share strategies for what works so that teachers can see multiple facets of the students.

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Zoom grade-level meetings. Teachers asked to provide comments for students they are concerned about or want to share positive news about. By number of comments, we discuss the students one at a time during the meeting so we can share behavior and academic progress with one another. They also share strategies for what works so that teachers can see multiple facets of the students.

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We ask students to fill out a questionnaire (Google Form) at the beginning so that our instructors have an idea about student attitudes and aptitudes regarding math.
Some questions include:
1. Being good at math is all about: a) getting right answers, b) solving hard problems, c) paying attention to detail, d) explaining how things work, e) visualizing shapes, f) and g) and so on .
2. The best things about math class are: a) knowing when I get the  right answer, b) doing arithmetic, c) solving equations, d) graphing and drawing, etc. etc.
3. The hardest parts of math class are: a)doing arithmetic, b) understanding the math book, c) showing my work, d) explaining to others how I got my answer, e) doing arithmetic, etc. etc.

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Online real-time white board

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You can edit YouTube videos and insert checks for understanding at various moments of the videos. It also tells the teacher which students did the exercises and what their answers were.

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ELD curriculum designed for blended learning: Middlebury Interactive/Fuel Ed

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ELD curriculum designed for blended learning: Middlebury Interactive/Fuel Ed

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For grades 4-8, designed as a blended learning program.

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High-quality, affordable and flexible program for school districts also available through partner Fuel Education
Middlebury, Vermont, March 17, 2015 - Middlebury Interactive Languages, the academic leader in language instruction for K-12 learners, along with partner Fuel Education™ (FuelEd™), today launched a suite of high-quality digital instructional materials designed to boost language acquisition and achievement for English Language Learners (ELL), which with nearly five million students is the largest and fastest growing demographic in U.S. schools.

The new programs, which include digital curriculum frameworks for elementary and middle school students and teacher professional development, were developed by Middlebury Interactive's in-house academic team of language professors, ELL experts and education technologists. The ELL programs are modeled after Middlebury Interactive's world language courses and, like those programs, integrate research-based learning techniques, cultural awareness and project-based activities into blended learning classrooms.

"All students deserve the opportunity to succeed in school and careers but the explosion in the ELL population has created significant challenges for school districts across the country," said Middlebury Interactive Languages CEO Jane Swift. "Our programs provide a new, more flexible approach to helping non-native English speakers learn and will empower schools and districts to customize cost-effective ELL programs. Teachers will appreciate the professional development and academically rigorous materials, while students will connect to the interactive activities, engaging projects and focus on culture."

The ELL programs, which align with Common Core and WIDA standards, will be available for the 2015-2016 academic year for students in grades 4-8. The programs will be available to school districts through Middlebury Interactive and FuelEd, which also offers Middlebury Interactive's K-12 world language programs in Chinese, French, German and Spanish.

"By making Middlebury Interactive's innovative programs available through our PEAK™ Personalized Learning Platform, we can provide our more than 2,000 school and district partners an integrated, high-quality solution to address the growing need for effective ELL instruction," said Gregg Levin, general manager for FuelEd. "Educators can take advantage of seamless access to the ELL programs-as well as tracking and reporting capabilities-through PEAK, which provides a single platform for administration and course customization for all of their online and blended learning programs."

Middlebury Interactive has been piloting its ELL program in the Hartford (CT) Public Schools over the current school year. The Hartford pilot reaches approximately 300 ELL middle and high school students at eight schools and is scheduled to expand next year. The pilot program has been met with praise from administrators and teachers, and overall students have shown increased engagement in the classrooms. Middlebury Interactive has also tapped Johns Hopkins University to conduct a third-party assessment of the Hartford program that will be released this spring.

"The Hartford experience shows that proven world language learning principles can also be very effective in helping non-native speakers learn English," said Middlebury Interactive's Chief Learning Officer Dr. Aline Germain-Rutherford. "It was very important that our ELL offerings are held to the same high academic standards as our world language courses, so the new program integrates research-based learning, cultural understanding and digital tools."

Dr. Germain-Rutherford, who is also the Surdna Professor of Linguistics at Middlebury College, noted that the curriculum frameworks are designed at the specific grade level of the learner and can be used to teach students with all native language backgrounds, including Spanish, French/Haitian Creole, Chinese, Arabic and Vietnamese. In support of the academic team's design of the curriculum modules, Middlebury Interactive worked with Dr. Jim Cummins, one of North America's foremost experts on ELL instruction and the author of some of the most influential academic studies on the topic.

The professional development program is customizable and provides extensive support and training for ELL teachers. Districts can choose from a menu of upfront and ongoing professional development themes to meet specific needs of their teachers. In addition, teachers have access to a variety of digital support, including webinars, online communities of practice and other digital resources.

In addition to the digital curriculum frameworks and professional development in the Hartford pilot program, Middlebury Interactive has been working over the past several years with districts in Massachusetts to offer ELL summer academies, which have proven to help students improve English speaking, writing, reading and listening skills.

About Middlebury Interactive Languages

Middlebury Interactive is the academic leader in world language instruction for K-12 students. A joint venture between Middlebury College and K12 Inc., Middlebury Interactive provides access to superior language programs and prepares students with the skills and cultural understanding to compete in the 21st Century global marketplace. Middlebury Interactive has taken Middlebury College's renowned world language curriculum, developed and refined over the past 100 years, and translated it to the digital and K-12 settings. Middlebury Interactive also offers in-person language immersion summer academies for middle and high school students.

About Fuel Education

Fuel Education™ partners with school districts to fuel personalized learning and transform the education experience inside and outside the classroom. The company provides innovative solutions for pre-K through 12th grade that empower districts to implement successful online and blended learning programs. Its open, easy-to-use Personalized Learning Platform, PEAK™, enables teachers to customize courses using their own content, FuelEd courses and titles, third-party content, and open educational resources. Fuel Education offers the industry's largest catalog of digital curriculum, certified instruction, professional development, and educational services. FuelEd has helped 2,000 school districts to improve student outcomes and better serve diverse student populations. To learn more, visit getfueled.com, Twitter and FuelEd's blog, Learn Outside the Lines.
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Middlebury Interactive Languages Curriculum | Fuel Education

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High-quality, affordable and flexible program for school districts also available through partner Fuel Education Middlebury, Vermont, March 17, 2015 - Middlebury Interactive Languages, the academic leader in language instruction for K-12 learners, along with partner Fuel Education™ (FuelEd™), today launched a suite of high-quality digital instructional materials designed to boost language acquisition and achievement for English Language Learners (ELL), which with nearly five million students is the largest and fastest growing demographic in U.S.

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Instructional Design for Special Populations

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Instructional Design for Special Populations