Teacher Update March

Important Links

Curriculum, Instruction, Assessment

● Content Resource Site

● HCISD Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment Expectations

● HCISD Lesson Planning Guidelines

● District Assessment Calendar

● Academic Calendar

Teacher Resources

Grading Resources

● Grading Guidelines

● Grading Timeline - Elementary

● Grading Timeline - Secondary

● TEAMS Guide for Teachers

● TEAMS Update 2023-2024

● TEAMS Skillbook for PreK

● TEAMS Guide for Monitoring Grades

● Exchange Day Info and PD Options

Technology Schoology

● Technology Help Desk

● Parent Resource Site

● Student Resource Site

● Schoology District PLC Codes

● Schoology Parent Resources

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 TeacherAcademy

Guidance and Counseling

● College, Career and Life Readiness

● Social Emotional Learning

Human Resources

Intervention

Multilingual Department

Pre-K

Student Services

AdvancedAcademics

● Gifted and Talented

Athletics

Career and Technical Education (CTE)

FineArts

Literacy

● Elementary

● Secondary

Mathematics

● Elementary

● Secondary

Science

● Elementary

● Secondary

Social Studies K-12

Special Education

Content Pages

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.

"Developapassionforlearning.Ifyoudo,youwillneverceasetogrow."—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

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 usingAmplify Boost, the original placement need may have changed. Periodically you are encouraged to log in toAmplify 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.

EmergentTree: AStrong Root System:Alignment for allTiers

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 DataTell Us? Building Buy-in and DeterminingAreas of Need with Data

StartingYour Science of Reading Shift with Screening: How to UseAssessment Data as a Building Block of MTSS

Differentiating with the Science of Reading: MovingAway from Leveled Readers

Beyond K-2:Assessment for the Upper Elementary and Middle School Grades

Interventionists working together

Things to think about:

Collaboration

Communication

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 EOYin your grade level content?

How will we get every student there?

Multilingual Department

Mr.Rivera,WMSNACteacher, isfacilitatingastructured conversationwithstudents.

Thankyouforholdinghigh expectationsforallofyour students!

Bilingual Campuses:

Our next Bilingual English LearnerAdvisory Committee meeting is scheduled forTuesday, 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.Alight dinner will be provided. Sign up through Eduphoria.

K-2 Bilingual Teachers UsingAmplify Boost Lectura:

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

WORLD LANGUAGES DEPARTMENT: Logan Stroud, District Lead CIMAConference 2024 wentAMAZING!! 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!

SMS NAC Small group instruction & stations

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 StarAward.

Language Learner Rock Star Award Nomination

UES Meets & Masters Club

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

Student Services

Attendingschooleveryday increasesastudent’schances ofsuccessinschoolandin life.Findouthowtoidentify thecausesofchronic absenteeismandhowto combatitsnegativeeffects. (clickthepicture)

Researchconfirmsthatquality mentoringrelationshipshave powerfulpositiveeffectsonyoung peopleinavarietyofpersonal, academic,andprofessional situations.Learnabouthowto incorporatementoringatyour school.Reachouttoyour principalorcounselortoseewhat mentoringopportunitiesare availableonyourcampus!(Click thepicture)

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 EducationAct (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)

● Notification of G/Tassessment results will be emailed to parents on March 1. Your campus G/TLiaison 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/TInstructional 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/TInstructional Coach is serving multiple campuses.

CALLFOR 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 SpotlightAward by clicking on the link below.

G/TSpotlightAward Nomination

Spring Gifted andTalented courses are now open and will close onApril 30. Alist 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 researchedAncient 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 forALLthe academic competitions.Congratulations to winners–both individual and school-wide–at the Hays CISD Middle School UILMeet on Saturday, January 31, 2024. Special thanks to SMS and especially, Jenn McClelland for hosting. Thanks to the UILCoordinators 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 UILCoaches 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 andAyden Miller of Hays!

Hays CISD Athletics

Johnson Cheer pictured above at Disney World as they competed at UCANationals in Orlando! Also pictured are the Johnson Boys BasketballTeam winning the Bi-District Championship versus Vandergrift atAustin Eastside onTuesday Night. The JHS boys advance to theArea Championship versus SanAntonio 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 DayAssembly to teaching DigitalArts andAnimation (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.

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

FineArts 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.

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

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

Elementary Literacy

Hays CISD ReadingAcademies

Our next ReadingAcademy session is March 6th. Remember to fill out your reflections on your coaching visits in Canvas.

23-24 Upcoming ReadingAcademy 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 ReadingAcademy Content?

● Request forAlumni 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.

Secondary Literacy

Shoutout to Havens at MMS for facilitating Growth-Focused

Writing in her 7th grade class!

Spotlight on Writing!

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?”

Benchmark Resources:

● Student Goal Setting

● Student Reflection

● Teacher Data Analysis & Reflection

Benchmark Resources

3rd Grade 4th Grade 5th Grade

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

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 toTEKS 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 DATE-

February 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

Secondary Science

New Middle School Science TEKS Trainings

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

PLC Support Resources

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)

April 8th

Solar Eclipse

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

● NASA 2024 Total Solar Eclipse

● Secondary Engage Eclipse Lesson (Connect to Prior Learning)

● **Social Studies Cross-Curricular Eclipse Lesson

● **Eclipse Safety Lesson

**Additional Eclipse Lessons Coming Soon!

Elementary Social Studies

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!

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!

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

2/26 PM

District PLC & Resource Plan for CBA 1 and DBQ

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.