October Curriculum and Instruction Newsletter

We have many lots of curriculum and instruction events this week:

October 5: Staff Development Day. Here is the link to see the agenda for the day and the list of workshops being offeredhttps://drive.google.com/a/konoctiusd.org/folderview?id=0BzdXrp4-sVj9LWE1R0Q5RmFEWTA&usp=sharing


October 7: K -3 Homework Workshop at Wednesday's School Board Meeting

October 8: Engaged Teaching and Learning Committee at 3:30 in the McClung Room

October 8: PAC/DELAC at 5:30 in the Burns Valley Elementary Library.

Instructional Highlights:
- the number of staff presenting their knowledge and expertise around such innovative and effective instructional practices.
- watching staff and administration, take the report card data to guide and inform the next and necessary instructional step within the school.
- have an all day staff development day together.
- seeing the positive impact of PBIS and student academic learning.


Professional Development:
- Literacy professional training across K - 12 as a Konocti instructional focus.
- The integration of technology into the classrooms to support engagement and student learning.

Walk-thru Update:
- Site administration and instructional coaches continue to walk through and visit classrooms to then provide timely and specific feedback around the site instructional goals and around individual teacher goals.
- Donna and Teresa continue to visit classrooms and provide timely, specific feedback around our district wide instructional goals of engagement, types of questioning and formative assessment in the classrooms.
- WestEd and the district team have a walk thru scheduled for October 22. Stay tuned for more detail.

Interim Assessments:
- grades K -1 may use the current common metrics to monitor student progress and achievement around the grade level ELA and Math common core strands.
- grades 2nd - 7th will use the Aeries.net common ELA and common Math summative/formative/unit and PT assessment results to monitor student progress and achievement around the grade level ELA and Math common core strands. 2nd - 7th grade may also use a SBAC interim assessment this January.
grades 8th - 12th will continue to use their department finals as the district wide common interim assessment. These finals may look to be revised to match the key shifts of the common core, including the literacy, the performance tasks, the increased rigor.

"Only a teacher" Thank God, I have a calling to the greatest profession of all. I must be vigilant every day lest I lose one fragile opportunity to improve tomorrow." Ivan Welton Fitzwater.


"The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus charter - that is the goal of education." Martin Luther King, Jr.