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=Beginning of Year Resources & Tips=

Attendance
At the beginning of the year all attendance is taken on paper attendance sheets and sent to the office to Zandra. Attendance should be taken by 9:00 for AM classes and 12:00 for PM classes. After about 2 weeks when all students have been entered into the computer system, the ITS will give a refresher course on how to use Gradespeed. There is also a video of how to use Gradespeed for attendance in the school server.

Curriculum
The curriculum to be used each day can be found in D2SC (click [|HERE] for link) on the district teacher page. It is password protected and you need your username and password to access the material. There is a short video on the school server to show you how to use this system. Also, you may email the ITS at any time for assistance. Work with your pod to share ideas for how to teach the curriculum. Also, you contact the librarian (click HERE for library page) for additional resources.

Grading
The grading rubrics are online in the [|D2SC] website in the district teacher page. Use your computer log-on to get into the system and then select CURRICULUM from the menu list. Then click on the left hand side click the little book icon for DISTRICT CURRICULUM, followed by the book icon for LANGUAGE ARTS, then PRE-KINDER (it's at the bottom), then PK LANGUAGE ARTS, then PK LANGUAGE ARTS (yes, again) then YEAR, and then you will see a list of Units. You won't be able to see all of the titles of the links, but you can slide the menu-separator over a bit so that you can see the full titles. The grading rubrics are inside the units that include the word OVERVIEW... i.e. Unit 1: Things About Me (Overview). When you click on the overview for a given unit you will see a bulleted list of all the items to be covered during that unit. At the bottom of that list is a section of links called UNIT RESOURCES.