Amplify ELAT Newsletter, September 4, 2020

September Newsletter

 

ELAT Program Contacts and Administrators

 

THANK YOU! Your ELAT Team recognizes that this back to school is harder than other school years. We appreciate your continued dedication to the students of Colorado. We continue to be in your corner and support you.

 

September Office Hours

The ELAT Team will be hosting a September Office Hours, “Helpful Tips for Remote Instruction” on September 15th at 3 MST. Please come prepared to share “tricks” that have worked well for you when teaching and coaching in a virtual session. Please register HERE. It will be recorded so if you are unable to attend, please register and you will receive the recording after the session.

 

New Free Resource:

Amplify is excited to announce the availability of Foundational Skills Boost.  Spring was tough on all students, perhaps toughest of all on early readers. We are here to help you make sure all students can catch up.

 

The Foundational Skills Boost for grades 1–3 will fill those gaps from the previous year and meet their needs—wherever kids are learning.

Resources include:

• Phonemic awareness and phonics video lessons
• Decodable readers for practice
• Optional teacher-led small group activities
• Family resources for additional practice

The Foundational Skills Boost lessons cover the last nine weeks of the previous school year to give students the boost they need, at school or home.

 

Colorado Skills Map Update

Please update your Colorado Skills Map to our new URL:  

mCLASS® Interactive Skill Maps.

 

Back to School Guidance

 

You can find the most up-to-date guidance on how to complete remote assessments on our ELAT Microsite - Important Updates.

 

DAZE Online - for instructions on how to assess the DAZE measure online, please see mCLASS:DIBELS Next Help - DAZE

 

Once Benchmark is completed, plan to set your Pathways of Progress Goals. For more information on how to do this, please visit the ELAT Microsite - Pathways of Progress.

 

2020-21 ELAT Professional Development 

 

Acadience Reading Diagnostic (formally named Deep) Training  - If you are needing support around using the Acadience Reading Diagnostic, please watch this hour-long webinar that will walk you through how to use this great tool.

How to Administer the Acadience Reading Diagnostic with mCLASS

 

Also through ELAT, we will be offering a variety of professional development sessions throughout the year. Through October 2nd, we will host all professional development remotely. We are excited to be able to connect with educators to provide the sessions needed to use your data to plan for instruction.

 

Please visit and bookmark our professional development site.

 

Starting September 14, we are offering the following sessions for use with beginning of year (BOY) data:

• BOY Data Analysis for Leaders
  
   
• BOY Instructional Planning Across the Tiers for Leaders
  
   
• BOY Data Analysis for Teachers
  
   
• BOY Instructional Planning Across the Tiers for Teachers

 

Register here for any sessions you would like to attend. You will need to complete one registration for each session per registrant.

 

Please share the information below with your staff - THANK you for your assistance!

ELAT Updates for Coaches and Teachers

 

THANK YOU! Your ELAT Team recognizes that this back to school is harder than other school years. We appreciate your continued dedication to the students of Colorado. We continue to be in your corner and support you.

 

September Office Hours

The ELAT Team will be hosting a September Office Hours, “Helpful Tips for Remote Instruction” on September 15th at 3 MST. Please come prepared to share “tricks” that have worked well for you when teaching and coaching in a virtual session. Please register HERE. It will be recorded so if you are unable to attend, please register and you will receive the recording after the session.

 

New Free Resource:

Amplify is excited to announce the availability of Foundational Skills Boost.  Spring was tough on all students, perhaps toughest of all on early readers. We are here to help you make sure all students can catch up.

 

The Foundational Skills Boost for grades 1–3 will fill those gaps from the previous year and meet their needs—wherever kids are learning.

Resources include:

• Phonemic awareness and phonics video lessons
• Decodable readers for practice
• Optional teacher-led small group activities
• Family resources for additional practice

The Foundational Skills Boost lessons cover the last nine weeks of the previous school year to give students the boost they need, at school or home.

 

Colorado Skills Map Update

Please update your Colorado Skills Map to our new URL:  

mCLASS® Interactive Skill Maps.

 

REMINDERS: 

Visit our ELAT Microsite for other Instructional resources available to you.

 

DAZE Online - for instructions on how to assess the DAZE measure online please see mCLASS:DIBELS Next Help - DAZE

 

Once Benchmark is completed, plan to set your Pathways of Progress Goals. For more information on how to do this, please visit the ELAT Microsite - Pathways of Progress.

 

2020-21 ELAT Professional Development 

 

Acadience Reading Diagnostic (formally named Deep) Training  - If you are needing support around using the Acadience Reading Diagnostic, please watch this hour-long webinar that will walk you through how to use this great tool.

How to Administer the Acadience Reading Diagnostic with mCLASS

 

Also, through ELAT, we will be offering a variety of professional development sessions throughout the year. Through at least September 30th, we will be hosting all professional development remotely. We are excited to be able to connect with educators to provide the sessions needed to use your data to plan for instruction.

 

Please visit and bookmark our professional development site.

 

Starting September 14, we are offering the following sessions for use with beginning of year (BOY) data:

• BOY Data Analysis for Leaders
  
   
• BOY Instructional Planning Across the Tiers for Leaders
  
   
• BOY Data Analysis for Teachers
  
   
• BOY Instructional Planning Across the Tiers for Teachers

 

Register here for any sessions you would like to attend. You will need to complete one registration for each session per registrant.

 

 

 

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