Ron Clark –  use music with teaching
http://www.songsforteaching.com
YouTube – “You Can Vote However You Like”
-          “Ron Clark Story Music Video”  (Matthew Perry as Ron Clark)
Book – “The Essential 55”
http://Puzzlemaker.discoveryeducation.com
www.wordle.net
www.firstschoolyears.com
http://www.phonicstar.com
http://www.starfall.com
Grid to use to record all of the student’s scores and levels
Google Maps – use to show how/where students are reading about (use street view)
http://www.readinga-z.com – Need to subscribe
http://www.rti4success.org/ - National RtI Center
http://www1.bellevuepublicschools.org/curriculum/k6web/_k-6.htm – Websites updated regularly
http://www.zoophonics.com/
http://activities.macmillanmh.com/reading/treasures/
http://www.nettrekker.com/ - Need to subscribe – safe search engine
http://www.educationcity.com – Need to subscribe
www.softschools.com
“Menu” projects – children chose different projects to do, chose from different scenes from the book they were reading.
Wellness grant – kids are not only trying new foods, but only diet pop and juice are available from machines.  PE is also focusing more on healthy activity – some have a nutritionist that comes into the school.
Parent Involvement – Not only sharing results from DIBELS/AIMS and where the benchmark is, also have begun to share goal.  K-12, parents are asking what they can do to help at home.  Seeing improvement with the “little goals”, where they want to be in 2 weeks/1 month/etc.
Journeys/Voyagers/Passport – scripted reading program for 7-12.  Also using Journeys 1 as Core in 7th Grade, Journeys 2 in 8th grade, and 9-12 in Journeys 3.  Lots of support from the company (conference calls, they look at your data), but very pricey.  (Journeys 1, 40 students, $13,000; Journeys 2 and 3, $15,000 together) Every 6th day is differentiated, computer work is included. 
Sets of books-
                Word Family Tales
                Learn to Read With….. by Sue Graves
Word family “hammers” – the beginning sound changes, slides up and down the handle
Reading Mastery program – very scripted, may be hard for teachers to “buy into” – (i.e. the “a” is written with the hat), but tell kids to use the “Sound Symbol” not the letter.  Mastery test every 10 lessons, as well as a fluency assessment.  Older grades have a writing assessment as well, comprehension assessment too. 
 
 
 

Here are the Helping Children/Students Learn newsletters from April 2010 for Elementary (elem), Middle School (ms), and High School (hs). These newsletters were created to help you help parents take an active role in their child's education.

hcl-elem-apr10.pdf
hsl-ms-apr10.pdf
hsl-hs-apr10.pdf

Here are the Building Readers newsletters for April 2010 in English (en) and Spanish (es). These newsletters were created to help you provide the resources parents need to help their child become outstanding and enthusiastic readers.

br-en-apr10.pdf
br-es-apr10.pdf

First of all, I neglected to put in Sandhills as one of our schools that will be involved in the Peer Review for Schoolwide projects.

The following information is for the Targeted Assistance Schools:
Targeted Assistance schools are required to do an annual review of program effectiveness, NDE has a rubric you are to use for this, it is called the “Targeted Assistance School Program Rubric” and can be found in PDF and Word format at this site.  http://www.nde.state.ne.us/federalprograms/titlei/index.htm
 
Please note this is an annual requirement of Targeted Assistance programs but submitting the rubric to NDE is neither required or desired!  This document will be looked at during the NCLB review.
 

It is time for the annual SW Peer Reviews.  This year Ansley, Litchfield, and SEM are up for the peer review.  They need to register for the review and send in 2 copies of their SW plans to NDE for review.  Your superintendents have received information from NDE but I would be happy to forward any of the information to you if you need it.  I know a couple schools are already registered and are working on their plans.

For those of you not "up" for peer review you still need to send in the Self-Review information by May 1.  Again, your superintendents or Title I directors have this information but I would be glad to forward my information to you. 

I hope to see you all on March 17th for our Spring Meeting.  "SPRING", now that is a novel idea:)

Here are the Helping Children/Students Learn newsletters from March 2010 for Elementary (elem), Middle School (ms), and High School (hs). These newsletters were created to help you help parents take an active role in their child's education.

hcl-elem-mar10.pdf
hsl-ms-mar10.pdf
hsl-hs-mar10.pdf

Here are the Building Readers newsletters for March 2010 in English (en) and Spanish (es). These newsletters were created to help you provide the resources parents need to help their child become
outstanding and enthusiastic readers.

br-en-mar10.pdf
br-es-mar10.pdf

Here are the Helping Children/Students Learn newsletters from February 2010 for Elementary (elem), Middle School (ms), and High School (hs). These newsletters were created to help you help parents take an active role in their child's education.

hcl-elem-feb10.pdf
hsl-ms-feb10.pdf
hsl-hs-feb10.pdf

Here are the Building Readers newsletters for February 2010 in English (en) and Spanish (es). These newsletters were created to help you provide the resources parents need to help their child become outstanding and enthusiastic readers.

br-en-feb10.pdf
br-es-feb10.pdf

Here are the Helping Children/Students Learn newsletters from January 2010 for Elementary (elem), Middle School (ms), and High School (hs). These newsletters were created to help you help parents take an active role in their child's education.

hcl-elem-jan10.pdf
hsl-ms-jan10.pdf
hsl-hs-jan10.pdf