Teacher Update March

Important Links Curriculum, Instruction, Assessment

Teacher Resources

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Content Resource Site

Grading Resources ● Grading Guidelines

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HCISD Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment Expectations

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Grading Timeline - Elementary

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HCISD Lesson Planning Guidelines

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Grading Timeline - Secondary

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District Assessment Calendar

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TEAMS Guide for Teachers

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Academic Calendar

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TEAMS Update 2023-2024

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TEAMS Skillbook for PreK

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TEAMS Guide for Monitoring Grades

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Exchange Day Info and PD Options

Technology

Schoology

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Technology Help Desk

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Schoology District PLC Codes

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Parent Resource Site

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Schoology Parent Resources

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Student Resource Site

SEND A HAYS HIGH FIVE HERE! The Hays High Five program is a way for you to salute any Hays CISD employee who goes above and beyond what is expected.

Whether you're a parent impressed with that special touch your child's teacher added to a moment, or you're a coworker who thinks the campus PEIMS clerk doesn't hear often enough about the great job she is doing - you can send a Hays High Five! Anyone can award any Hays CISD employee.

Table of Contents Department Pages Digital Learning Professional Development ● INSPIRE New Teacher Academy Guidance and Counseling ● College, Career and Life Readiness ● Social Emotional Learning Human Resources Intervention Multilingual Department Pre-K Student Services Content Pages Advanced Academics ● Gifted and Talented Athletics Career and Technical Education (CTE) Fine Arts Literacy ● Elementary ● Secondary Mathematics ● Elementary ● Secondary Science ● Elementary ● Secondary Social Studies K-12 Special Education

Student Health Services

Assessment & Accountability March District and State Testing Updates Hays CISD Math Benchmark Exam March 19th-21st (Campus chooses) Campus will shut down like STAAR. All students should be given a paper copy of the reference materials and plenty of blank scratch paper.

It’s OK to talk to students during a benchmark! Encourage students to use strategies and designated supports! Review the doc below for more tips: Other Benchmark Reminders Science and Social Studies State Interim March 25th-28th (Campus chooses) Should be given in class (no shut down).

More info coming soon.

RLA Benchmark Scoring Reminders If needed, please review our document for how to score constructed response items in Eduphoria. If any student needs an updated or corrected score, the teacher must click the Rescore button on the bottom-right FOR EACH student. #DoTheWriteThing

Campus Data Walls STAAR-tested RLA and Math teachers, have you seen your campus data walls? These are updated with CBA 2 data (Benchmarks coming soon!!).

These make it easy for campuses and teachers to find groups of students that may need additional supports and help your campus Domain IIA (and your personal Teacher Incentive Allotment goals!!). #GrowthForAll

Student Support Tools for Online Testing Want to learn more about how online testing student supports look in the classroom, Eduphoria, and on STAAR? Check out this document.

Digital Learning

We are hosting the Battle of the Books in May for our elementary students! Talk with your librarian if you have students are interested in participating in your campus battle of the books!

Click on the microphone below to listen below to our podcast that gives more information on how this program started!

Professional Development

Consider submitting a proposal for HaysCon! Share your professional knowledge and expertise with your colleagues!

Submission details: This is a great opportunity to share your work, learn, and network with other teachers. Submit your proposal on or before Friday, March 22 by 5 pm. If selected, presenters will offer the one, two, or three hour sessions on either July 30 or 31 and receive compensation for prepping and facilitating the session equal to the length of the session. This event will be held at one of our Hays CISD campuses.

To submit a session proposal: Click Here IMPORTANT DATES March 22 – Proposal submissions due by 5 p.m.

April 15– Proposal acceptance notification May 3 – Conference schedule finalized and Registration opens July 15– Presentations submitted July 30 and 31 -HaysCon Thank you for considering a submission and your desire to be part of this event.

"Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow."—Anthony J. D'Angelo

Professional Development

In two three-hour sessions, participants will review the requirements and objectives that are covered on the TExES ESL Supplemental #154 Exam. Participants will learn the test framework, testing strategies, key vocabulary and concepts, and practice test questions.

Sessions will be held in-person.

Location TBD

Upcoming Dates: June 4 June 5

July 15 July 16

Sept. 10 Sept. 12

Register in Eduphoria: June July September

Dept. of Counseling Need Counseling Resources?

Training Opportunities for Trauma Informed Care

Human Resources

Intervention Amplify Texas Tutoring: Our campuses that are using this resource are seeing student gains. Students are moving through the lesson sets.

Thank you for your commitment!

Amplify mCLASS: Did you know?

Once students complete the universal screener, groups are automatically generated based on need. Once you provide intervention support to a student and/or the student is consistently using Amplify Boost, the original placement need may have changed. Periodically you are encouraged to log in to Amplify and scroll over to the Instruction tab on the plum ribbon and select Update Recommendations(see below). This will generate updated information based up latest data/more current data.

Emergent Tree: A Strong Root System: Alignment for all Tiers

Register Here

Intervention Amplify Webinars: These are 1 hour recorded videos emphasizing best practices in utilizing your data to achieve optimal results for all students.

What Does Data Tell Us? Building Buy-in and Determining Areas of Need with Data Starting Your Science of Reading Shift with Screening: How to Use Assessment Data as a Building Block of MTSS Differentiating with the Science of Reading: Moving Away from Leveled Readers Beyond K-2: Assessment for the Upper Elementary and Middle School Grades

Collaboration

Interventionists working together

Communication

Things to think about: Interventions are in addition to, not in place of (core plus more) Assessment is only as good as our response.

What are the essential standards students need to know by the EOY in your grade level content?

How will we get every student there?

Multilingual Department Bilingual Campuses: Our next Bilingual English Learner Advisory Committee meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, 2/27 from 3:45-5:15pm. Our meeting is scheduled to be in the computer lab in the 2nd grade hallway at Tom Green Elementary. A light dinner will be provided. Sign up through Eduphoria.

K-2 Bilingual Teachers Using Amplify Boost Lectura:

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Amplify Boost Lectura has an exciting opportunity for educators to share their experiences with Boost Lectura, Amplify’s personalized Spanish Literacy program, in a 1:1 interview!

If you are interested in sharing your feedback with us in a 30-minute interview, please sign up for a time here. As a thank you for your time and feedback, you’ll receive a $25 Amazon gift card after the interview.

Our Bilingual/DL teachers continue their Biliteracy learning after school

SMS NAC Small group instruction & stations

UES Meets & Masters Club WORLD LANGUAGES DEPARTMENT: Logan Stroud, District Lead CIMA Conference 2024 went AMAZING!! Here are some of the highlights from the conference!

Thank you for sacrificing a Saturday to geek out with me on all things World Languages education!

Congratulations to Logan Stroud, District World Languages Lead for the Coin of Excellence Recognition! 🎉🎉🎉

Know someone who is a Language Learner Rock Star? Nominate them today for the Language Learner Rock Star Award.

Language Learner Rock Star Award Nomination

Pre-K

Shout out to our Pre-K Instructional Aides for engaging with students on their level and reinforcing learning.

Upcoming Dates ●

District PLC ~ April 1st ~ 10:00 - 12:00 ~ Location: TES ~ Register

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Pre-K Assessment Calendar ~ Pre-K Annual Calendar

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Spring CEC Window - February 6th - March 22nd

Student Services Attending school every day increases a student’s chances of success in school and in life. Find out how to identify the causes of chronic absenteeism and how to combat its negative effects. (click the picture) Research confirms that quality mentoring relationships have powerful positive effects on young people in a variety of personal, academic, and professional situations. Learn about how to incorporate mentoring at your school. Reach out to your principal or counselor to see what mentoring opportunities are available on your campus! (Click the picture)

PBIS stands for Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports. The concept has been around for decades, but the actual phrase/acronym comes from the 1997 amendments to the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). Learn more about the history of PBIS here. (Click the picture below for more information)

Equity: The best educational systems provide a good experience for every student.

Systems: Implementing PBIS in a school or district requires a commitment to creating and maintaining systems that support the program.

Data: One of the real strengths of PBIS is its focus on meaningful data.

Practices: PBIS practices are those that teachers and administrators undertake to administer the program.

Gifted and Talented (G/T) ●

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Notification of G/T assessment results will be emailed to parents on March 1.

Your campus G/T Liaison will notify you regarding students in your class who were assessed. Questions from parents should be referred to the counselor.

1st - 5th grade teachers - The G/T Instructional Coach assigned to your campus will work with newly identified 1st - 5th grade students one hour per month from March through May. Sessions will be scheduled through the campus Instructional Coach. We appreciate your flexibility in regards to scheduling as each G/T Instructional Coach is serving multiple campuses.

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS!!

Know someone who is doing an awesome job supporting the needs of gifted and advanced students? One person from each campus will be recognized. Nominate someone for the G/T Spotlight Award by clicking on the link below.

G/T Spotlight Award Nomination

Spring Gifted and Talented courses are now open and will close on April 30. A list of available courses can be found at THIS LINK. Please contact Tish Cawley at tish.cawley@hayscisd.net or x45035 if you have any questions.

Gifted and Talented (G/T)

After students researched types of bridges and structures in Mr. White’s class, they designed a weight-bearing bridge using craft sticks. Using depth and complexity icons to guide their process, the bridge had to be at least 40 cm in length and able to support two 5 lb. concrete bricks using no more than 80 craft sticks.

Second grade students in Ms. Stautz and Ms. Stone’s classes wrapped up their fairy tale unit by creating themed board games for their classmates to play. Students worked independently or in groups to develop a game board around a specific fairy tale complete with instructions and game pieces.

In Ms. Finley’s fifth grade class, students were introduced to divergent thinking through a vocabulary activity where they classified new words into categories. Students were challenged to think beyond straightforward definitions, explored various connections, and collaborated with others.

Third grade students from across the grade-level collaborated in Ms. Brauchle’s room during WIN time to work on becoming experts on pharaohs in Egypt. Students researched Ancient Egypt, built a pyramid, constructed a pharaoh and wrote an autobiography from the pharaoh’s point of view.

Advanced Academics Whale Watching While CTE may be finding PUGs everywhere, Advanced Academics got to see ORCAs (OnRamps College Algebra) in action at HHS, LHS, and JHS on January 31. Thanks to Chelsea Hoke, HHS, Michelle Garcia, LHS, and Stuart Adamson, JHS, for opening their classrooms to us. Students were doing the work and the thinking as they worked in groups to solve problems and to present their solutions in front of the class. Both content and pedagogy were spot-on.

Cen-Tex History Fair (a.k.a. the day Ms. Philpott and Mr. Solis spent Saturday in I.S.S.) Congratulations to the Hays CISD students (and their teachers!) who advanced to the Cen-Tex Regional History Fair. (More on that in Social Studies Section below). Thanks to John Solis of SMS who spent a Saturday in the ISS room of Del Valle High School with Ms. Philpott judging in the middle school paper division.

Advanced Academics

Middle School UIL ‘Tis the season for ALL the academic competitions.Congratulations to winners–both individual and school-wide–at the Hays CISD Middle School UIL Meet on Saturday, January 31, 2024. Special thanks to SMS and especially, Jenn McClelland for hosting.

Thanks to the UIL Coordinators from each campus (Cara Lantrip, BMS, Francisco Garcia-Almenar, CMS, Ashley Scruggs, DMS, Kelli Shelly, MMS, Jenn McClelland, SMS, and Laura Porras, WMS). Thanks to all the UIL Coaches and volunteers who made the day possible.

Hays CISD Athletics

Congratulations to Alyssa Escareno from Johnson High

School for earning a bronze medal at State Wrestling!

Alyssa becomes the first athlete in Hays CISD history to medal at the state wrestling tournament. What a tremendous accomplishment!

Good luck to Hays swimmer Coleman Brown as he competes at state this week!

Congratulations to the other participants in state wrestling.

Taryn Beacom of JHS and Ayden Miller of Hays!

Hays CISD Athletics

Johnson Cheer pictured above at Disney World as they competed at UCA Nationals in Orlando! Also pictured are the Johnson Boys Basketball Team winning the Bi-District Championship versus Vandergrift at Austin Eastside on Tuesday Night. The JHS boys advance to the Area Championship versus San Antonio East Central on Friday. Come out and support! Tip at 6pm in NB Canyon!

Track, Softball, Baseball, Soccer, Swim, Tennis, and Golf are full steam ahead as we move through the Spring!

Come check out our middle and high school athletes!

CTE (COOLEST TEACHERS EVER!) February was CTE Month!

We have been posting on our Hays CISD CTE Facebook Page a Program of Study a Day in February. Check these posts out and feel free to share them! We are so thankful for ALL of our CTE Teachers and the support we get from our district and campus administration! THANK YOU!

LHS Teachers Mr. Yargeau and Mr. Thurman were "pugged!"

PugDay is our favorite day of the week! We Pugged not one but two rock stars in our CTE department! Michael Yargeau and David Thurman both teach auto tech classes at Lehman High School. Mr. Yargeau has 34 students in his dual credit classes this year and his students have passed 19 ASE certification exams this year. Mr. Thurman's students have passed 52 ASE exams so far this year. Absolutely fantastic work!

LHS Teacher, Mr. Hux was "pugged!"

In early February we pugged, Mr. Wayne Hux from Lehman High School. Mr. Hux teaches courses in Construction and Agricultural Technology and Mechanical Systems. He is “pretty unbelievably great!” Mr. Hux has helped lead discussions around the new industry based certification we will be offering from the National Center for Construction Education and Research (NCCER Core). He has been great at sharing resources with our new teachers! We are so glad to have Mr. Hux in CTE in Hays CISD!

MMS Teacher, Annissa Clewell was “pugged!”

We got to “pug” McCormick Middle School teacher, Annissa Clewell with some special guests. Ms. Clewell is such a “pretty unbelievably great” teacher! From organizing the school Veterans Day Assembly to teaching Digital Arts and Animation (a course that counts for a fine arts credit) and Digital Design and taking on the yearbook—Ms. Clewell does it all! Thanks for being in CTE! We appreciate you!

Fine Arts We wish everyone in the midst of competitive seasons the best of luck at the numerous events taking place!

Please remember to monitor student eligibility carefully. Here is the eligibility calendar.

Visual Art Teachers: Make sure you are planning ahead for the district art show. Here is the art show information folder.

Fine Arts Calendar: Public event dates should be entered very clearly. Here are the instructions.

Elementary Literacy We are excited to see our 3rd-5th grade teachers at our Just in Time District PD. Remember to bring copies of your Benchmark Extended Constructed Responses to the training. We will score them there.

K-5- Remember to hit the “Update Recommendations” button in mCLASS after you progress monitor.

Ms. Gonzalez at TGES working with a small group focused on writing.

Ms. Diez at TGES worked with her students in small group to help color code their essays and self-reflect on what they need to do next.

A student in Ms. Miller’s 3rd grade class at CHES uses his myBook to locate text evidence for a short constructed response.

Students in Ms. Reeves’s 2nd grade class at UES use Inside/Outside Circle to share their published compositions.

CRES 2nd graders video themselves reading a decodable to practice fluency.

Negley students use a graphic organizer to explain the use of graphic features.

A kinder student in Ms. Peter’s class at KES publishes a procedural text.

Elementary Literacy Hays CISD Reading Academies Our next Reading Academy session is March 6th. Remember to fill out your reflections on your coaching visits in Canvas.

23-24 Upcoming Reading Academy Training Dates: ● 3/6, 4/24, 5/8 ● Time: 8:00-3:30 ● Location: Old Upper Buda Elementary Cafeteria- (300 N. San Marcos St. Buda, TX 78610) ● Teachers should sign up in Eduphoria

Secretaries can use this code to enter when creating the absences: ● 199-11-6112-RA-911-11-2-0

Do you still want access to the Reading Academy Content? ● Request for Alumni Course Link

Secondary Literacy Upcoming Just-in-Time Days I look forward to seeing all of you at our next Just-in-Time day! We will calibrate, score, and discuss feedback for benchmark ECRs. Here is the sheet with time, location, and registration links.

- 6th & 7th: 2/28/24 - 8th: 3/7/24 - Eng I: 2/29/24 - Eng II: 3/1/24

Speaking of the Benchmark…

THANK YOU for all of your work to ensure a smooth and successful benchmark! A couple of reminders: - The Student Summary Report opens on Monday. Please DO NOT reopen the test for any students while it is open.

- We will review this at our Just-in-Time, but here is the how-to for grading a constructed response.

- Reminder that editing passages and answer choices may not be read to students.

STAAR/EOC Review STAAR review recommendations have been updated. All materials are in this folder. The folder is also linked on the Content Resources Site and within "District Curriculum" in each Schoology group for easy access.

Linked on e ELAR CRS ach page!

Secondary Literacy Spotlight on Writing!

Shoutout to Havens at MMS for facilitating Growth-Focused Writing in her 7th grade class!

Larrinaga at LHS working 1-1 with an Eng II student during the drafting phase of the writing process!

A 6th grader in Burgesses class at MMS drew an I chart to plan his essay on the benchmark!

ELEMENTARY MATHEMATICS “Just in Time” Sessions - STAAR Review

at Historic Buda Upper Campus Cafe Discuss with your principal before registering!

3rd grade - March 26th or March 27th at 7:45 am 4th grade - March 26th or March 27th at 12:30 pm 5th grade - April 2nd or April 3rd (w. Science)

We will be using the 2023 STAAR Released Assessment for Benchmark.

Please make sure you are not using these questions with your students.

CRES 5th graders use a graphic organizer to classify 2D shapes.

CRES 2nd graders use number lines to count money.

Ms. Fenton (STEM) at GES encourages students to think critically with “What do you notice?”

TES 4th graders used a STEMScopes lesson to design a zoo. They calculated area and perimeter of the exhibits.

MIMI SALMON

Benchmark Resources: ● Student Goal Setting ●

Student Reflection

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Teacher Data Analysis & Reflection

Benchmark Resources

3rd Grade

4th Grade

5th Grade

6-12 MATHEMATICS Region 13 STAAR Studded January - the link to the links Committee Reminder!

Module 4 should be completed before we meet on Monday 4/1 at 12:30

TEA STAAR 2.0 Scoring Clarifications Check out slides 8-13 for details on math related new item scoring.

Not in these slides, but confirmed at an in-person meeting: If a question asks for an answer in dollars and cents, 4.5 (without the last 0) will be incorrect.

Benchmark Data Tools - this folder has grades 6-Alg1 data protocols for both teachers and students. Teachers can analyze data and plan for review/intervention prior to STAAR and students can analyze their own benchmark and set goals for STAAR.

“Transferable Skills” for STAAR - this folder contains slides with screenshots of problems released from 21-23 that rely on similar skills without regard to TEKS standard.

Nix the Tricks book pdf link

Natalee Peterson - Secondary Mathematics

Elementary Science Upcoming Just In Time Trainings for 5th Grade Science: Agenda - CBA 2 review/data dig, intervention plans & STAAR plans NEW DATEFebruary 29, 2024 (full day at Kimbro) https://hays.schoolobjects.com//wshop/default.aspx?cid=13197

April 2 & 3, 2024 (half days, shared with math) We will go over the STAAR plan on this day and prep for it

Contact- Marina Tupikov

Secondary Science New Middle School Science TEKS Trainings

April 8th Solar Eclipse

A LOT has changed for the 24-25 school year in the science middle school TEKS! ALL campuses currently have trainings scheduled before May. Don’t Panic!

Reach out to Raegan if you have any questions, would like to meet one-on-one, or need additional support.

If you have recommendations for support opportunities, please complete this Google form.

English-Spanish Flyer Eclipse Timeline Begins - 12:17pm

Peak - 1:36PM

Ends - 2:58 PM

Hays CISD will provide eclipse glasses to every Hays CISD learner & employee to view this event during school hours.

Resources

PLC Support Resources

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NASA 2024 Total Solar Eclipse

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Secondary Engage Eclipse Lesson (Connect to Prior Learning)

Teacher Background Knowledge Resources 6th

TIG: 6.10D Plate Tectonics

7th

TIG: 7.5B Flow of Energy

8th

TIG: 8.11A Limiting Factors & Competition

Biology

B.10B Interactions in Plants (STEMscopes → Essentials)

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**Social Studies Cross-Curricular Eclipse Lesson

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**Eclipse Safety Lesson

**Additional Eclipse Lessons Coming Soon!

Elementary Social Studies We want to hear from you!

We are looking for feedback on how lessons are going!! Please submit this form with how we can make them better for the Spring!

Congratulations to our students who participated in the Central Texas Regional History Day competition! We have five students moving on to the state competition in April from FES and KES!

Elementary Social Studies Curriculum Writing We are starting to plan for our curriculum writing that will take place in the first few weeks of summer. If you are interested in being a part of our team please submit this form!

Need Help?

Could you use some Active Classroom training? Interested in doing a large Social Studies project? Not sure how to teach certain district lessons? Reach out! Kim is here to help!

Elementary Request Form for More Social Studies Support

Are you receiving the HaysCISD Social Studies monthly newsletter? If not sign up here!

Secondary Social Studies District PLC 8th Grade Social Studies Sessions Talk with your Principal and register in Eduphoria via Classlink. Location MMS 10/3 PM

District PLC & Resource Plan for CBA 1 and DBQ

2/26 PM

CBA reflection, lateral PLC, and Plan for Interim & STAAR

Congratulations to our students who participated in the Central Texas Regional History Day competition!

Congrats to MMS for their 3rd place website!

PD Opportunity Social Studies Curriculum Writing We are starting to plan for our curriculum writing that will take place in the first few weeks of summer. If you are interested in being a part of our team please submit this form!

Are you seeing great things on your campus? Nominate a teacher for a monthly recognition and gift card!

National History Day® is excited to announce a new summer teacher institute for summer 2024.

In partnership with the Mississippi Department of Archives and History and the National Endowment for the Humanities, we are opening applications for a Landmarks of American History teacher workshop, Freedom Summer: 60 Years Later.

This program will allow 70 K-12 teachers and museum educators to walk in the steps of the Freedom Summer volunteers and visit many locations in Mississippi that were pivotal to the Civil Rights Movement. Learn more and apply at https://freedomsummer60.mdah.ms.gov/.

Applications are accepted from December 15, 2023 to 11:59 p.m. PT on Tuesday, March 5, 2024.