OSPI Math Update!

The mathematics team at OSPI is in the process of updating our webpages and plan to have more streamlined content and information available the first part of January. Part of this update includes a new email delivery tool called GovDelivery. GovDelivery, which is available now, allows you to sign up to receive information on a variety of topics that suit your interests: assessment updates, new mathematics resources and information based on grade band, opportunities for professional development, news releases, bulletins, program news, job announcements, and much more. This tool will provide more flexibility in communicating information to you.

With this change, Movers & Shakers emails will no longer come from “Mathematics Assessment<mathematics@k12.wa.us>”; messages will come from “OSPI Mathematics<waospi@public.govdelivery.com>” instead. Please ensure these emails are not tagged as “junk” mail.

To continue to receive mathematics information please go to the Subscribe page for GovDelivery. Enter your email address. On the Subscriptions page, select Content Areas > Mathematics, then select the grade band(s) for which you would like to receive information. If you are interested in receiving updates from other OSPI departments, you can select those areas as well.  Follow the directions until you have completed registration. We will also be sending a message from GovDelivery with this same invitation, however you only need to register once.

Thank you for taking a moment to set your preferences and please encourage other educators and administrators to sign up for GovDelivery.  We look forward to delivering timely and important mathematics information to you.

Anton Jackson

Mathematics Assessment Specialist

Anton.jackson@k12.wa.us

(360) 725-6437

 

Loss of Personal Property (Clarification)

Update from the discussion on Theft on School Grounds:
So I was misinformed about the loss of personal property in your classroom. I received this information when I inquired:

Nick, I checked with Keith and we do not have a district form for tracking personal items staff bring in to their rooms.

He mentioned, though, that personal items are NOT covered by district insurance at all. If employees bring personal items in, it is as their own risk.

 

I will continue to inquire to see what this entails for teachers who have their personal materials in their classrooms to use with kids. Nick

SBAC Digital Library

Overview

The Smarter Balanced Digital Library is an online collection of instructional and professional learning resources contributed by educators for educators. Currently there are about 2,500 resources aligned with the intent of the Common Core State Standards that will help educators implement the formative assessment process to improve teaching and learning.

 

Highlighted Resource in the Digital Library this week

Assessment Literacy Module (Introduction to the Individual Student Assessment Accessibility Profile): https://www.smarterbalancedlibrary.org/content/introduction-individual-student-assessment-accessibility-profile

 

Log in to the Digital Library to view a module that offers an overview of the Smarter Balanced Usability, Accessibility, and Accommodations Guidelines.  It then focuses on using the ISAAP tool, or Individual Student Assessment Accessibility Profile Process. Educators can use this tool to match appropriate Universal Tools, Designated Supports, and/or Accommodations for an individual student for the interim and summative Smarter Balanced assessments. To learn more about supports for under-represented students http://www.smarterbalanced.org/parents-students/support-for-under-represented-students/, visit the Smarter Balanced Web site.

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