FCPS Early Release Mondays

[Anonymous]

I’ve been in IEP meetings where private schools have provided extensive data and observation notes for students. Whoever is bunching together all private schools as undeserving does students is being ignorant. I work in the public school system so I see kids come from public schools from private. It isn’t hard for me to understand that this is a two way street. There are plenty of sped kids who are better served and happier at a private school and who leave public and go to private.

[Anonymous]

How will the MS and HS teachers fit this training in?

In LcPS, the new teacher workdays were for every school, not just ES.

Is is possible more changes are coming?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The only people in the school that this training applies to is K-6 classroom teachers (and sped teachers who don’t have SOR training). Reading specialists have already completed the training. Gen ed teachers who have taken OG don’t have to do this training. Math specialists don’t need it. All other Specialists don’t need it (music, art, steam, PE, etc). They will all be available to teach during their regularly scheduled school day. Most likely at least 50% of the school will go home early. Plus, most 6th & 5th graders should be able to go home. I would assume there will be a survey for parents on if the child will stay or go. Those kids who are in MTSS can work with the HIT tutors. They’ll likely divide up the other kids and have extension activities in rooms throughout the school. My school doesn’t offer any PTA enrichment like a few schools seem to, so it won’t be put on our PTA. I do wish it wasn’t all Mondays though. I think that’s going to be 15 Mondays through the year and that really messes with planning, meetings, and kids specials.

No. I am a secondary teacher and we have to take it too. It’s k-12.

This is false. K-8 it is required. I do find it weird that middle school teachers are also not getting early release days to do this training. I guess they will get subs.

It’s not false. It may be called something different at the secondary level but we all take this 32 hour literacy training this year.

I literally looked it up. The only teachers required are K-8. https://www.doe.virginia.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/55434/638544800144830000

Nowhere does it say 9-12. Middle school does which I stated above.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How will the MS and HS teachers fit this training in?

In LcPS, the new teacher workdays were for every school, not just ES.

Is is possible more changes are coming?

HS doesn’t need to do this. Only K-8

[Anonymous]

What a sh*t show; this is depressing.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The only people in the school that this training applies to is K-6 classroom teachers (and sped teachers who don’t have SOR training). Reading specialists have already completed the training. Gen ed teachers who have taken OG don’t have to do this training. Math specialists don’t need it. All other Specialists don’t need it (music, art, steam, PE, etc). They will all be available to teach during their regularly scheduled school day. Most likely at least 50% of the school will go home early. Plus, most 6th & 5th graders should be able to go home. I would assume there will be a survey for parents on if the child will stay or go. Those kids who are in MTSS can work with the HIT tutors. They’ll likely divide up the other kids and have extension activities in rooms throughout the school. My school doesn’t offer any PTA enrichment like a few schools seem to, so it won’t be put on our PTA. I do wish it wasn’t all Mondays though. I think that’s going to be 15 Mondays through the year and that really messes with planning, meetings, and kids specials.

No. I am a secondary teacher and we have to take it too. It’s k-12.

This is false. K-8 it is required. I do find it weird that middle school teachers are also not getting early release days to do this training. I guess they will get subs.

Middle school doesn’t have to do it YET. Part of the problem is that the state hasn’t fleshed out all of the details but insist on compliance this year. Like previous OG classes … which ones will count, how recent must that training have been — who knows? The state hasn’t decided a lot of this yet but still expects districts and schools to make it happen in a snap.

I think it’s great that we’re going to be following SOR. But none of this was thought through. In Jan & Feb - when purchases had to be made for massive districts - there was only 1 or 2 approved programs. The rest of the list didn’t come through until early April - far too late for massive districts to review, meet on, vote on & order. So FCPS had to go with an early approval product - Benchmark Advance. Additionally, the state didn’t actually investigate a lot of these programs - they relied upon the now partially discredited Ed Reports data. Why? Because just like this training, everything was rush, rush, rush.

Middle school ELA and content teachers do have to do the modules. ELA teachers have 27 hours of modules, and content teachers have 18 hours of modules.
Check the May 2024 State Superintendent's message for details.

June 2024 - VDOE Virginia Literacy Updates - page 11 under planning - the scope has been narrowed to K-5 for 24-25 to do the training & implement:
https://www.doe.virginia.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/55434/638544800144830000#page5

6-8 will be added next year.

[Anonymous]

June 2024 - VDOE Virginia Literacy Updates - page 11 under planning - the scope has been narrowed to K-5 for 24-25 to do the training & implement:
https://www.doe.virginia.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/55434/638544800144830000#page5

6-8 will be added next year.


Does this mean that 6th grade in elementary schools are off the hook for now? We’re signed up for the summer training. But is the implementation being moved to the following year?

[Anonymous]

Instead of doing this Monday garbage, why not just move through start of school later? No on wants to start school on Aug 19 anyway. Leave it to FCPS to ruin a good thing (more planning for teachers) by picking the most inconvenient and painful implementation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Instead of doing this Monday garbage, why not just move through start of school later? No on wants to start school on Aug 19 anyway. Leave it to FCPS to ruin a good thing (more planning for teachers) by picking the most inconvenient and painful implementation.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
June 2024 - VDOE Virginia Literacy Updates - page 11 under planning - the scope has been narrowed to K-5 for 24-25 to do the training & implement:
https://www.doe.virginia.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/55434/638544800144830000#page5

6-8 will be added next year.

Does this mean that 6th grade in elementary schools are off the hook for now? We’re signed up for the summer training. But is the implementation being moved to the following year?

Fairfax may be going with grade 6 doing it now since you’re in elementary, but I don’t know. The LAW says next year, but they might be getting a jump on that. A lot of the state has elementary as K-5, rather than 6.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Instead of doing this Monday garbage, why not just move through start of school later? No on wants to start school on Aug 19 anyway. Leave it to FCPS to ruin a good thing (more planning for teachers) by picking the most inconvenient and painful implementation.

+1

Based on the few documents I’ve seen from the state, the trainings aren’t all going to be released at the beginning of the year. They will be released throughout the year. I wonder if that’s because all of this is being put together in the fly? All of this is so last minute from the state.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Instead of doing this Monday garbage, why not just move through start of school later? No on wants to start school on Aug 19 anyway. Leave it to FCPS to ruin a good thing (more planning for teachers) by picking the most inconvenient and painful implementation.

Oops - answered on wrong post —

Based on the few documents I’ve seen from the state, the trainings aren’t all going to be released at the beginning of the year. They will be released throughout the year. I wonder if that’s because all of this is being put together in the fly? All of this is so last minute from the state.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The only people in the school that this training applies to is K-6 classroom teachers (and sped teachers who don’t have SOR training). Reading specialists have already completed the training. Gen ed teachers who have taken OG don’t have to do this training. Math specialists don’t need it. All other Specialists don’t need it (music, art, steam, PE, etc). They will all be available to teach during their regularly scheduled school day. Most likely at least 50% of the school will go home early. Plus, most 6th & 5th graders should be able to go home. I would assume there will be a survey for parents on if the child will stay or go. Those kids who are in MTSS can work with the HIT tutors. They’ll likely divide up the other kids and have extension activities in rooms throughout the school. My school doesn’t offer any PTA enrichment like a few schools seem to, so it won’t be put on our PTA. I do wish it wasn’t all Mondays though. I think that’s going to be 15 Mondays through the year and that really messes with planning, meetings, and kids specials.

No. I am a secondary teacher and we have to take it too. It’s k-12.

This is false. K-8 it is required. I do find it weird that middle school teachers are also not getting early release days to do this training. I guess they will get subs.

Middle school doesn’t have to do it YET. Part of the problem is that the state hasn’t fleshed out all of the details but insist on compliance this year. Like previous OG classes … which ones will count, how recent must that training have been — who knows? The state hasn’t decided a lot of this yet but still expects districts and schools to make it happen in a snap.

I think it’s great that we’re going to be following SOR. But none of this was thought through. In Jan & Feb - when purchases had to be made for massive districts - there was only 1 or 2 approved programs. The rest of the list didn’t come through until early April - far too late for massive districts to review, meet on, vote on & order. So FCPS had to go with an early approval product - Benchmark Advance. Additionally, the state didn’t actually investigate a lot of these programs - they relied upon the now partially discredited Ed Reports data. Why? Because just like this training, everything was rush, rush, rush.

Middle school ELA and content teachers do have to do the modules. ELA teachers have 27 hours of modules, and content teachers have 18 hours of modules.
Check the May 2024 State Superintendent's message for details.

June 2024 - VDOE Virginia Literacy Updates - page 11 under planning - the scope has been narrowed to K-5 for 24-25 to do the training & implement:
https://www.doe.virginia.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/55434/638544800144830000#page5

6-8 will be added next year.

No 6-8 will be available in September 2024. You are thinking VALS and reading plans.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
June 2024 - VDOE Virginia Literacy Updates - page 11 under planning - the scope has been narrowed to K-5 for 24-25 to do the training & implement:
https://www.doe.virginia.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/55434/638544800144830000#page5

6-8 will be added next year.

Does this mean that 6th grade in elementary schools are off the hook for now? We’re signed up for the summer training. But is the implementation being moved to the following year?


Summer training is for basal. Modules will be released 6-8 in fall.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
June 2024 - VDOE Virginia Literacy Updates - page 11 under planning - the scope has been narrowed to K-5 for 24-25 to do the training & implement:
https://www.doe.virginia.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/55434/638544800144830000#page5

6-8 will be added next year.

Does this mean that 6th grade in elementary schools are off the hook for now? We’re signed up for the summer training. But is the implementation being moved to the following year?

Summer training is for basal. Modules will be released 6-8 in fall.

+1, 6th grade is included in the ES plan for Mondays.