“Don’t just

plan lessons.

Plan

Experiences.

Lessons may

inform but

experiences

inspire!”

-David Geurin

Upcoming Dates:

8/29 -9/30:

Gr1-3 STAR

8/30- 11/1: KRA

9/2: Labor Day

Holiday; No School

9/11: First DLT

Meeting; CHS Media Center

9/24: MTSS

Committee

Meeting

District Leadership Team Meeting September 11th

The first meeting of the 2019-2020 school year for the District Leadership Team will take place on Wednesday, September 11th. The meeting will take place in the high school media center at 8:00am. This group will take on the collaborative task of the Ohio Improvement Process and review district goals, plans, initiatives, and progress. This is an important and required initiative in the Clearview Local Schools. DLT members are listed below - thanks to these educators for your extra efforts to take on a leadership role in Clearview! I will be sure to share the meeting power points with all district staff members; it will be attached to the Curriculum Connection on the Friday following the meetings. Therefore, all district staff are informed of the discussion points and crucial initiatives that are reviewed by the DLT with each meeting. All need to be stewards to district and building goals and the specific crucial initiatives identified by each BLT!! Those were shared in the August 16th Connection; check it out!! Much progress was made last year; however, more efforts toward effectively using our assessment tools, monitoring progress, identifying instructional best practice, and providing intervention will be key elements to improvement for our district. We cannot solely review state testing data; we must also review other assessment data to inform instruction as well.

**As a reminder to our DLT members; you must register for an additional State Support Team Leadership Series program …

Search for Leadership Series B at the ESC in Elyria. Look for the 9/11 meeting that starts at 12:30pm - 3:00pm at the ESC in Elyria. The link is provided below. In addition, please secure a sub for your classes on this date. Our future DLT dates are listed to the right. If you have any questions? Just ask - I will be happy to assist.

https://safe.ode.state.oh.us/portal/

DLT Members: Jerome Davis

Doreen Morell

Noeleen Rothacker

Robin Dahman

Alicia Howard

Deb Molnar

Jason Steadman

Marie Ternes

Laura Manning

Kari Cooley

Denise Lesh

Chrissy Foster

Molly Streator

Kelly McMillion

Lynne Stark

Andrew Holland

Denise Bevins

Wendy Lachman

Jessica Mazelis

Sydney Flask

Veronica Feicks

Stephanie Leonhardt

Where To Find IEP and 504 Info

Just as a reminder, teachers can gain access to student 504 and IEP information through your building administration or Director of Special Education, Doreen Morell. There is also an icon of a "tablet" in PowerSchool that identifies if the child is identified with a disability or eligible for 504 Plan accommodations. Be sure to review plans for your identified students and follow the plans and accommodations from the very start. New students mean new accommodations to learn and follow! Questions? Please contact the students' case managers or Doreen at x1013.

DLT Dates: September 11th December 5th January 15th March 5th May 6th

Digital Tools - Patience Please We have many digital instructional resources at each building; this is great!! Thank you for your patience as these tools get set up and students get uploaded accordingly. My Math, Scholastic Digital, Go Math, Easy CBM, STAR Reading and STAR Math, etc…. Special thanks to Kari Cooley and Penny Reinhart who are assisting in this regard. Student rosters are settled in and these uploads should be finalized in full capacity soon. Questions?? Just ask me!!

Instructional Strategies Review: Writing Motivation

Each issue of the Connection will contain a section devoted to instructional strategies. Motivation for student writing can be difficult. Such a skill is key and with our emphasis on improved literacy in the district improved writing is essential. This is not an English Language Arts issue; as stated in our Clearview Literacy Plan, writing should be occurring across the curriculum!! We are all in the literacy department!! Getting the writing process introduced and started takes creative practice by the teacher; it cannot be simply assigned as “work.” Check out the link below that discusses effective ways to motivate writing in the classroom kindergarten through grade 12. A second link below is to WriteReader; a scientifically-based learning platform that teaches children to read by writing their own digital books. This is powerful!! Kids create digital texts that can be displayed and shared with parents, peers.. even with “pen pals” across the country. Using one of these strategies?? Let me know and I would love to visit and see it in action!!

https://www.teachhub.com/10-teaching-strategies-improve-writing

https://www.writereader.com/en/

Increased Clearview Presence on Twitter Noticed!!

Adam Welcome said it; getting connected on Twitter serves as a teaching resource, professional development tool, and helps to build a Professional Learning Network. I have noticed a lot more teachers on Twitter and more connections have been made!! Nice Work Clearview!! Let’s get more!! Some key strategies: The hashtag and @mentions are the key to getting others to see your tweet. The hashtag

used allows all those hashtags to be connected and shared. Therefore, that is why I have asked that we all use #ClearviewClippers on our tweets so that when we touch that hashtag all of our Clearview posts come up together!! For example, search #OhioEd and you will see ODE updates and reports from Ohio classrooms (Eve Alberti knows this!! Ha)

Mentions can be connected to your tweets also. If you add a person’s twitter address then the person will be notified and the audience will increase. Adding @MrAdamWelcome as he suggested to Kari Cooley at our keynote then links all of Adam’s followers to her tweet. And he has 53,000 followers! Link only as a relevant connection to your tweet or question.

Use the search bar. Just type in a subject and you will likely find tons of related tweets that are talking about your topic of interest. Ex: I searched Essay Rubrics and I got enough examples and ideas then I could ever imagine. Then if interested you can also send a direct message to that individual to get more information ...

Use the direct message feature and expand your Personal Learning Network!! See a tweet of interest but want more info? Use the Direct Message feature (far right under a tweet) and send a question or comment directly to the person!!

Contest: The building with the most added Twitter users by September 6th will get a supply of cookies from Kiedrowski’s Bakery to share as a staff! Get added! But you must follow me at @PaulKishEdu and I’ll keep track. Directions: https://twitter.com/

Writing Motivation!

1. Photographs

2. Graphic

Organizers

3. Audio Record

4. Audio Transcribe

5. Peer Talks

6. Story Starters

7. Create a Name

8. Spin a Wheel

9. Create a Contest

10.Integrate Art

Another SWIS Update; Going Live Tuesday??

All staff and students are entered into the system. Next I will need to clean up the system to include advanced user status to our administrators. Then … we are live!! I am hoping this can take place Tuesday, September 2nd. We will inform staff where to click to gain access to the referrals for student behavioral management. No more paper referrals. The system is quite easy and your AP’s will work with you on getting started and acclimated to the SWIS system. Moving to such a system will help with communication and data collection for all three schools and assist with all of our PBIS efforts as well. (see above) I will continue to communicate progress.

Clearview MTSS Committee 2019-2020

Clearview will soon take part in creating a Multi Tiered System of Support Plan - This is the new RTI, Response to Intervention. The difference is that in the new plan

behavior is also detailed for intervention as well. We will team up with State Support

Team 2 and other local districts to create the plan in collaboration. The Clearview

DLT last spring identified that creating a MTSS plan was a priority in the district.

Our goal will be to identify, outline, and document a system for student intervention

in the district for all to refer to for implementation. Dates of the committee are listed to the right. The committee participating and joining me will include:

Doreen Morell, Penny Reinhart, Jennifer Fazio, Stephanie Leonhardt, Jenny

McMahon, and Jennifer Farley. Thank you for your assistance to serve on this com-

mittee for the district. Intervention will be a key factor to assist our students!!!

MTSS Committee Dates:

9/24/19 10/21/19

12/4/19 1/28/20 5/13/20

Clearview PBIS Compliance 2019-2020

Clearview will take part in three state sponsored training sessions for Positive Behav-ioral Interventions and Supports, PBIS. The district and building principals will soon

identify two teachers per building that will accompany them at these training ses-

sions that will take place at the ESC of Lorain County. These meetings will serve as a

compliance step for our required PBIS initiatives and move us closer toward Bronze

Medal status in the state of Ohio. Bronze is the first step of recognition that can be

received and Clearview schools are shooting toward all of the effective characteristics and steps that are required to attain this status at the end of the 2019-2020 school

year. The first of the three meetings will take place on Tuesday, September 17th.

Look for updates from your principals and from your BLT once these are attended. I

will do my best to support this group in their efforts to improve and incorporate PBIS

initiatives in each of our school buildings. Stay tuned for more!!

PBIS

State

Requirement

Meetings

To be

Held in

2019-2020

School Year!

Just Words Workshop THANKS!!

As a reminder, Just Words® is a highly explicit, multisensory decoding and spelling program for students in grades 4–12 who have mild to moderate gaps in their decoding and spelling proficiency but do not require intensive intervention. The program is designed for students with below-average decoding and spelling scores and should be combined with other literature rich programs. This past week on August 29th and August 30th, Ellen Brick from Wilson was in Clearview for a two day training session for this program. Very Special Thanks to the teachers participating on those dates!! They are listed below. The next step will be the very difficult task of identifying our Tier 2 students for this program and more importantly...How can we create time to expose them to the Just Words program. No easy task and the attending members will need to work in cooperation to identify such a answer.

THANK YOU: Julia Feicks; Ryan Lewis; Molly Klonk; Kelly McMillion; Dustie Cooper; Chrissy Foster; Chad Szalay; Alex Ritter; Hillary Rios; Robert Painter; Lurlene West; Hollie Sloboda; and Laura Golak.

Active, Engaged, and Innovative Lesson Activity

Each issue of Curriculum Connection will include reports from our classrooms around our district. We want to do our best to promote active, engaged, and innovative lesson plan activity. What are your colleagues doing to engage Clearview students? The idea is to show appreciation for the hard work it takes to plan and develop such lessons.

The scientific method is a procedure that has characterized natural science since the 17th century, consisting in systematic observation, measurement, and experiment, and the formulation, testing, and modification of hypotheses. Paula Phillips and Jason Steadman at CHS incorporated the game of Cornhole into a lesson about this method. Kids reviewed the concept then experimented with tossing bags playing cornhole. Kids measured and adjusted their throws based on the data collected. Key terms associated and learned with the activity included mean, median, accuracy, precision, trajectory, and several others. Kids measured accuracy and documented data to test and modify the hypotheses of their toss ha!!

At Durling Middle School this past week Jennifer Parker incorporated creative strategies to engage her 5th grade ELA students. Jennifer created templates for cutouts of grammar rules for the kids. No Teacher Pay Teacher used; Jennifer made this!! The one I witnessed was for capitaliza-tion. Kids then had to paste the rule/examples in their interactive notebook. Content will be added throughout the school year. The notebook serves as a resource for the kids. They made it and they can get creative with the look, design, structure, and content.

Clearview MTSS Committee 2019-2020

Clearview will soon take part in creating a Multi Tiered System of Support Plan - This is the new RTI, Response to Intervention. The difference is that in the new plan behavior is also detailed for intervention as well. We will team up with State Support Team 2 and other local districts to create the plan in collaboration. The Clearview DLT last spring identified that creating a MTSS plan was a priority in the district. Our goal will be to identify, outline, and document a system for student intervention in the district for all to refer to for implementation. Dates of the committee are listed to the right. The committee participating and joining me will include: Doreen Morell, Penny Reinhart, Jennifer Fazio, Stephanie Leonhardt, Jenny McMahon, and Jennifer Farley. Thank you for your assistance to serve on this com-mittee for the district. Intervention will be a key factor to assist our students!!!

MTSS Committee Dates:

9/24/19 10/21/19 12/4/19 1/28/20 5/13/20