TOPS Elementary Weekly Update

Week of August 27, 2018

Empower to Learn. Equip to Succeed.

Our awesome elementary team!

August 22: Connection Calls Begin for 8.29 starters (cohort 2)

August 27-31: Boot Camp for Math and Reading continues

August 29: Readiness Data Analysis

August 31: Email students with the day/time of their weekly CC sessions, beg. Sept. 4

September 3: Labor Day, No School

September 4: Full Master Schedule Begins

September 10: Grades Pulled at 9am for Quarter 1 Progress Report

5 Days until Instructional Level CC Sessions Begin

5 Days until the Fall TTESS Announced Formal Appraisal Window Opens

7 Days until Cohort 2 Begins

9 Days until Grades Pulled for the first Progress Report

11 Days until Cohort 3 Begins
14 Days until Constitution Day and Freedom Week Begins
24 Days until Compliancy Trainings (Region 10) are Due
29 Days until Benchmark 1 Opens

34 Days until First Quarter Ends

1. Continue to work on the TO DO List

https://k12inc-my.sharepoint.com/:x:/g/personal/bwatt_k12_com/EapCXiPrMwBAgA6SHHisDqIBAFz5VTJ9tLwAp3ZHPkEhaA?e=7PGk6Y

2. THE NEXT COHORT WILL BEGIN ON WEDNESDAY!

Create the Course Prep Work for these new students to be prepped to join your CC sessions on September 10. List the the tasks that the student will need to do in your curriculum maps, as well as adjusting the Daily Plan.

Remember that students are receiving Course Prep Work for all of their courses and it is crucial to their success that we do not give them an overwhelming amount of prep work to complete.

3. COMMUNICATION PLAN

Administration Newsletters

1st Wednesday: Head of School Newsletter

2nd Wednesday: Principal Newsletter

3rd Wednesday: Family Academic Support Team Newsletter

4th Wednesday: Principal Newsletter

Teachers

Tuesdays/Fridays: Mass Emails

Any day: responses to student/family emails within 24 hours

Recent Info Sent to Families

Principal Newsletter 8.22.18

Memo on Instruction from HOS

How to Have a Strong Start

TOPS Elementary Learning Coaches

4. BLACKOUT DATES FOR TIME-OFF REQUESTS

Outing days

STAAR testing weeks

PD days in January

final day of semesters as blackout days

5. Do you have WALK ME?

Whether you are new or returning to a K12 Managed Public school, WalkMe does not need to be installed on a school provided computer. For new staff, the WalkMe extension is imaged on the school provided computer. For returning staff, the WalkMe extension was remotely installed in June onto three browsers (Firefox, Chrome and Microsoft Edge). Staff members may have missed the initial installation if the school provided computer was offline during the initial install. The script to install continues to run daily.

The manual installation of the WalkMe extension is only required for instances when staff are using a personal computer.

Having trouble accessing WalkMe?

Restart the computer and relaunch the browser to insure successful one time installation of the browser extension. The WalkMe widget should now be available from within the OLS.
If WalkMe is still not available in the OLS in a teacher account after restart, please submit a ticket to the Regional IT Help Desk at: K12RIT.COM