RCSD Leadership Blog

  CAASPP Testing Reminders: 1) Please make sure you send in your testing schedule to Carrie by Feb 26 March 5 2) Please put the overview training and a second training on your site schedules to make sure teachers are prepared for testing 3) Please plan on conducting practice tests for both onsite and remote testing scenarios, as we know that students may be tested in both situations. 4) Update- Champions Students will be testing remotely.  The only Champions students testing on site are taking the California Alternative Assessment. - This will be scheduled in collaboration with the case managers. Starting on March 1, from  7:30 AM - 8:30 AM, Carrie will have open office hours Monday - Friday, for questions and problem-solving around CAASPP.   - Zoom Link for Morning hours: Join Zoom Meeting , it is also on the Ed Services Calendar. Resources for preparing your site for testing: Slide Deck for Training Staff   2021: Site Leaders CAASPP Preparation Timeline  Spring Testing Support Site

Report Card Reminders and Updates Update to Training You must “uncheck” any teachers that are not in-person when you run the report that will be emailed out. We recommend checking over the PDF before emailing out. If you see blank report cards there might be a teacher selected that should not be and you would want to uncheck that teacher and re-run the report. Here are the documents on how to run the reports and send by email. Here is a video showing how to email them out using PDF Builder in Swift. Generating Report Cards Emailing Report Cards Reviewing Trimester 1 Grades (applies to both Elementary and Middle School) Please note, if a student was not in your Trimester 1 class, you will not be able to review any report card information within the “Information” tab in Otus.  You can find previous report card information in the following two places.  1) You can look in the school report card folder shared with you in Trimester 1. 2) You can look in the Parent Portal through PowerS

COVID Testing Schedule Please click this link for the Surveillance COVID-19 Testing schedule . Testing is available at each school site twice a month. Staff may only attend testing at their work site unless specific permission is given by the COVID Response Team. Please see the site administrator or supervisor for permission to attend a different site for testing. The QR code for registration is included at the bottom of the schedule for staff to register for testing. Quarantine information for teachers When/if teachers become quarantined over a weekend or on a holiday they can return back to school sites after hours to gather curriculum and other needed supplies. If packets of materials are needed for students, teachers have the ability to send the packet(s) to the principal/secretary to be copied and distributed. Reminder about visitors on campus Please do not approve any third-party vendors on campus during this time; this includes photographers. i Ready Scores in Otus We will be u