Summer Camp, 2015

March, 2014

Unified Approach

• Summer Camp will be one school that addresses the needs of:– Title I students identified

as needing summer school support

– ESL students – Read to Achieve

students– Early Start students

Summer School Info.

• Dates: – July 13-July 31.• 5 days a week• 3 weeks• Hours for students:

– 9:00-3:00 (July 31: 9:00-12:00)

– Training dates July 7-9• Teachers PD- July 7th

• School set-up- July 8th

• School Open House- July 9th

Who is our Leader?

Leadership

• Summer School Lead– Opportunity for Assistant Principals– Must have an MSA, administrative credentials, or

coursework toward administrative credentials.– Sufficient score on Leadership rubric– Ability to attend all Leadership training dates– Commitment to entire summer school time period– Commitment to focus on quality instruction for all

students

Summer Program Lead

Leadership

• Site leaders will be chosen by the host and partner principals

• Site Leaders will hire all summer school staff including (teachers, teacher assistants, and clerical assistants)

• 1 part time clerical assistant will be hired to assist with duties to allow lead to focus on instructional practice.

• Leaders will debrief with host and partner principals after summer school to communicate summer camp experience for students, Date: TBD

Summer Program Leads

• Please submit the Summer program Lead names and completed rubric to Michele Woodson on or before March 30, 2015.

• Leadership rubric signed by both the Summer Program Lead and host and partner principals.

Summer Program Lead Training

• HR has indicated there is a required training for Summer Program Leads on March 31st.– Our summer program leads do NOT need to

attend this training.• HR training will come during their meeting on April 6th.• Time sheet training will be embedded• HR is aware

ESL Summer School Host Site Partner with

ESL EARLY START

McKinney Vento

CREECH ROAD 450 Creech Road, Garner, NC 27529 EAST GARNER x

DILLARD DRIVE 5018 Dillard Dr., Raleigh, NC 27606 COMBS x

FOX ROAD 7101 Fox Road, Raleigh, NC 27616

WILDWOOD FOREST x

KNIGHTDALE 109 Ridge St., Knightdale, NC 27545 FORESTVILLE x

MILLBROOK 1520 E. Millbrook Rd., Raleigh NC 27609 BRENTWOOD x

SWIFT CREEK 5601 Tryon Rd., Raleigh, NC 27606 YATES MILL x

Early Start

What?

• Early Start is a part of the Title I Summer Camp. • It offers rich learning experiences centered

around early instructional behaviors, social skills, and early literacy and math.

Early Start

Why?

• In just a few weeks, Early Start students make significant progress on measures that align with the KIA.

• Children also gain experience with:• learning the rules and routines of the classroom• adjusting to work with larger groups of children• a wide array of instructional strategies that are utilized in

the kindergarten setting.• transitioning to the larger school setting

Contact Teacher

• Each school will need 2 contact teachers.– Each contact teacher will be developing a final roster for

your school in the following areas:• Early Start• Title I

• If you are an ESL site you will also need to hire a contact teacher for ESL

• Contact teachers will develop rosters in each of the 3 areas. – Training will be provided the contact teachers to ensure

they are knowledgeable about this process.

Contact Teachers- Due March 19

Each traditional calendar Title I school Principal submits name of Title I Contact Teacher to Patty Carter (pcarter@wcpss.net)

Each Principal planning to host an Early Start program submits name of Early Start Contact Teacher to Beckie McGee (rmcgee@wcpss.net)

Each Principal identified to participate in the ESL program submits name of ESL Contact Teacher to Glenda Harrell (gharrell2@wcpss.net)

Read to Achieve

• Who gets invited• Teacher/student ratio• Important deadlines– Invitations– OASIS completion

Special Education Support for the Read to Achieve Camps

● Special education support for RtA Camp is not a required service, but instead a supportive measure offered by Special Education Services

● SES RtA support is initiated via the following link: o http://tinyurl.com/2014-2015-SES-RtA-SpedSupport

● Proposed SES support hours: 2 hrs per day for 9 or more SWD (minus S/L primary)

1 hr per SWD/week for 8 or less SWD (minus S/L primary)

● Sped support teachers must follow the specific directions emailed with the service agreement

Other Programs

• Who gets invited• Teacher/student ratio• Important deadlines– Invitations– OASIS completion

Data to Consider on Learning Loss

Strategic Thinking

• What teachers?• Who?• What Grade levels?

• I need to know how you will use your teaching staff by April 2, 2015.

Summer Program Timeline

Summer Camp Google Site

Information for Summer Camp• https://sites.google.com/a/wcpss.net/wcpss-s

ummer-camp/home– Site has information about Early Start, ESL, Title I

and Read to Achieve– All Stakeholders will have access

Questions

• Michele Woodson- Title I– (919) 431-7679

• Annemarie Devlin- RTA

• Denise Daniels- ESL

• Becky McGee- Early Start

– Please share any questions or concerns so we can improve the experience