April 2-13, 2018

School Bus Transportation Feeder Patterns

Will Transportation be Provided for Students?
School Bus Transportation Feeder Pattern documents for
3rd Grade Recovery and ESOL Summer Maintenance Summer Program Yes or No
Programs for both elementary and secondary sites are now
available to building administrators through this week’s 3rd Grade Recovery Yes
Weekly Briefing. In addition, these documents will also be How? School Bus
uploaded into the Principals’ Toolbox folder. Please note 8th and 12th Grade Retake Yes
that school bus transportation will not be provided to How? JTA Bus Passes
students enrolled in the 8th Grade and 12th Grade Extended School Year (ESY) Yes
Retake Program; JTA Bus Passes will be provided to How? School Bus
students in this program as needed. ESOL Summer Maintenance Yes
Information regarding the request and dispersal of bus (Elementary & Secondary) How? School Bus
passes will be made available in future newsletters. 6th Grade STEM Literacy No
Enrichment Program
Summer Voluntary Pre-Kindergarten No
(SVPK)
Driver’s Education / Community No
Education Courses
SAIL Summer Learning Camps/Kids No
Hope Alliance Summer Learning
Camps
Fee-Based Summer Camps No

6th Grade STEM Literacy Program

In an effort to maximize instructional time with as
many students as possible this summer, the 6th Grade
STEM Enrichment Program and the 6th Grade Summer
Bridge ELA Program will be combined to form the 6th
Grade STEM Literacy Program. The four
summer host sites will remain the same as when the two
programs were separate. The 2018 Summer 6th
Grade STEM Literacy Program are listed
below:
*Highlands Middle School*
*Joseph Stilwell Military Academy of Leadership*
*Southside Middle School*
*Young Men’s/Young Women’s Leadership Academy*
(Eugene Butler Middle School)
Did you know...
*in recent years, technology has become essential to our daily
lives;
*a strong literacy foundation is vital when learning about and
understanding STEM concepts;
*STEM requires the comprehension and interpretation of
technical texts such as manuals, text containing directions,
brochures, recipes, floorplans, etc.;
*exposure to STEM concepts vastly increases students to
content-specific vocabulary;
*STEM concepts require students to think critically and
communicate concepts through speaking and writing; and
*the ELA standards require a high and increasing proportion of
informational text as students advance through the grades?
4th Grade: 50% 8th Grade: 55% 12th Grade: 70%
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3rd Grade Reading Recovery Program

The documents on this page are all
available through this week’s Weekly Briefing
Portfolio Assessment Copy
as well as in the Principals’ Toolbox folder. Request Form
They were created to assist classroom
*Check boxes of assessments
teachers as they continue the student
needed, indicate number of
portfolio process for the remainder of the
copies for each assessment, and
school year as well as during the summer print to submit!
Reading Recovery Program. Thank You
*Information can also be entered
to the administrators at Greenland Pines for
electronically onto the form by
sharing the idea of the Copy Request Form! “checking” the boxes and typing
The previous newsletter contained the number of assessments
information sharing how to access portfolio needed, and submitting via
assessments via SharePoint. For additional email—great for summer use
when printers are not as easily
information regarding the 3rd Grade Student
available for use.
Portfolio, please reach out to your school’s
assigned K-5 ELA Specialist.

Student Portfolio Assessment Tracker

The Assessment Tracker document can be used by teachers to
keep track of which portfolio assessments have been administered to
students. Dates can be entered into each cell indicating the date(s)
the assessment was given or the passing score (4/5 or 5/5) to
indicate that the student passed the assessment. This information
can be transferred onto the Student Data Tracking Sheet in the
student portfolio folders.
3rd Grade Student Portfolio Timeline
Please review the Student Portfolio Timeline to ensure that portfolios
arrive to summer sites in a timely manner. All portfolios should be
delivered to summer sites on or before Tuesday, June 12, 2018.
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On Friday, March 16, 2018, the EE/SS Department

presented a 1 1/2 hour update for all ESE Liaisons, Related
2017-18 ESY Timeline
Service Providers, and Teachers presenting the 2017-2018 March 26– Send home the Parent
Extended School Year (ESY) procedures for this summer’s April 27, 2018 Notification Letter
program. The presentations were recorded and are
available for review using the links provided below: April 30, 2018 Parent Notification Letters
returned to schools
CLICK THIS LINK TO VIEW THE SELF-CONTAINED PRESENTATION
April 30-May 4, Contact your EE/SS Support Staff
CLICK THIS LINK TO VIEW THE V.E. PRESENTATION 2018 to schedule an appointment for
packet review
2017-18 ESY Summer Sites May 4, 2018 ESY registration packets due to the
Alden Road ESC Neptune Beach Elementary ESE Liaison

Holiday Hill Elementary Oak Hill Academy

May 7-11, 2018 Attend scheduled appointment for
Mandarin Oaks Elementary Terry Parker High packet review
Mount Herman ESC Westview K-8 May 11, 2018 Last day for ESY registration
Ed White High (alternate site for Palm Avenue) packets to be received by the

ESY Program Dates June 1, 2018 Last day to complete/give

Tuesday, July 2, 2018-Friday, July 27, 2018 Equipment Transfer Form(s) to
DCPS school mail route driver for
**No School on Wednesday, July 4, 2018 in observance of
Independence Day**
your school

Be on the lookout for ESOL Summer Maintenance Program applications to arrive via school mail
soon! The deadline for faxing applications to the district office is Friday, April 27, 2018. Please
fax all applications as they are received to (904) 390-2800, ATTENTION: ESOL Department. Please
do not wait until the deadline to fax all applications at once. Blank copies of the application will be
uploaded into the Principal’s Toolbox folder; however, applications should only go home to “Active LY”
students as indicated in the FOCUS portal. Blank copies of the application have been provided should
eligible ESOL students enroll at your school during the fourth quarter. Prior to sending applications
home with students, please make a copy of each student’s application and file it in his/her red ESOL
folder. Eligibility (Active LY Status) will be verified by the district ESOL office.