From: Marino, Jay
Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2002
10:29 AM
To: Administrators
Cc: Charvat, Cheryl
Subject: 8-13-02 Updates...
Updates
and Reminders for 8-13-02 from the Office of Instruction and School
Improvement...
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Sex. Education Training Scheduled For 8/28/02 from 8:30 - 3:00pm
(Room 18 Denkmann Elementary)
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Many of
you expressed the need for sexual education training for your new teachers in
grade 2 and 5. Here is a list of
participants for this training:
Julie
Barnes (2nd grade Audubon)
Tony
Lampasona (5th grade Hanson)
Elisha
Bowers (2nd grade T. Jefferson)
Dean
VanVooren (5th grade T. Jefferson)
Vera
Griffith (2nd grade Grant)
Training
will be held on August 28th from 8:30 - 3:00 pm in room 18 at Denkmann
Elementary. Please complete a
"leave of absence" form using the following code: 1-5-080-066-2210-1200-8
and send to my office. Please have your
staff call code-a-phone. Let me know if
there are any others in your school that need the training. This will be the only training session
offered this year on this topic.
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ISAT Corrections Due Today!
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Please
send me your correction to your school's ISAT results. Please refer to my previous email for details
on the process to follow.
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Plus/Delta From August 5th Institute Day Needed By Friday 8-16-02
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Please
send me a simple plus/delta evaluating the August 5th activities.
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Upcoming Meetings!
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**Academic
Intervention Meeting- Thursday 8/15/02 @ 3:45pm in room 23.
Principals interested in accessing funding for 02-03 academic
intervention funding need to attend this information meeting. Please plan on attending with your building's
literacy facilitator or other teacher representative. The meeting will be
limited to a 1/2 hour. To learn more
about this year's program and the upcoming meeting, visit
http://curriculum.risd41.org/admin/intersession/2002_ai.htm .
**Project Achieve
Grant Opportunity Meeting- Thursday 8/15/02 @ 4:15pm in room 23.
Stay after the Academic Intervention meeting to learn about how your
school could possibly participate in a wonderful opportunity to integrate
Illinois Learning Standards into the curriculum. Rock Island has been one of 4 districts in
the State selected to participate in this grant/pilot project with ISBE. There are many benefits to this project
including an estimated $25,000 in standards aligned curriculum and assessment
software for each participating school.
In addition, professional development and technical support will be
provided. Only 6 or 7 schools will be selected to participate. THIS IS AN OPPORTUNITY NOT TO MISS! Learn more about the project at
http://www.projectachieve.com/index.cfm before attending the
informational/demonstration meeting .
The online demonstration will provide an overview of the project and
answer many questions you may have. Make
sure to check out the high resolution demonstration by clicking on the orange
circle in the lower right hand corner of the screen.
**Leadership
Meeting- Friday 8/16/02 @ 9:15am in room 23 . Agenda will soon follow.
**K-12
Principal Meeting- Thursday 8/22/02 @ 9:15am in room 23.
Agenda will soon follow.
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Open House Data Needed (no later than 1 week after the open
house)
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Open
House season is upon us. We will again
be collecting data. Please use the attached
form and submit to me no later than one week after the open house. To view last year's open house data, go to
http://curriculum.risd41.org/documents/Open_House_Report.htm . It is advised that each building reviews the
plus/delta from last year to improve and implement positive changes to this
year's open house. Please make sure you
have some type of data collection instrument to collect accurate data needed in
the form. Contact me if you have any
questions. The 02-03 data collection
instrument is available at
http://curriculum.risd41.org/admin/02-03_open_house.doc . Please return the information electronically.
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Professional Development 1/2 Day Information Needed
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Learn
more about effective professional development, the NSDC standards and view professional
development self-assessment and planning tools at
http://curriculum.risd41.org/admin/pd/profes_dev.htm . As you are working on
this year's school improvement plan, consider using some of these planning
tools and the NSDC standards as the basis for professional learning activities.
Information
needed by Friday, August 23rd for this year's 1/2 day school improvement
activities- Please send me a description of the activities
you are scheduling for September 16th, November 8th, January 27th, February
24th & March 14th. Simply list the
date, topic, presenter and objective/goal of the activity and send to me via
email.
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Principal Expertise Wanted!
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Expertise
Wanted!- A Call For Presenters- I
haven't heard from any of you yet! During our principal and leadership
meetings this year, we will be seeking out principals who would be willing to
share an area of expertise or successful programs being implemented in your
school. There will be a portion of our
meetings devoted to "best practices & professional development"
of our administrative group on a regular basis.
Please begin thinking about expertise that you could share. Examples of topics that could be presented…
"Effective Title I Programs", "Student Led Conferences",
"Leading the School Improvement Team/SIP Planning", "Data Driven
Decision Making", ect. Give it some
thought… if interested in sharing, please send me an email listing the
potential topics you could present.
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View
past "Updates and Reminders" at... http://curriculum.risd41.org/admin/updates/updates_and_reminders.htm
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Jay
Excellence Every Day!
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Jay Marino
Assistant
Superintendent for Instruction & School Improvement
Rock
Island-Milan Public Schools
2101 Sixth
Avenue- Admin Center - Rock Island, IL
61201
Voice:
309-793-5900 ext. 253 - Fax: 309-793-5905
jay.marino@risd41.org
- http://www.risd41.org
Instruction/
School Improvement Site: http://curriculum.risd41.org/
Personal Web
Site: http://www.jmarino.ws
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