Jennifer PriserParent and Family Engagement CoordinatorOctober 2017 Online Presentation

Build the parents’ and families’ capacity on the following topics: Challenging state academic standards

▪ PowerSchool, Georgia LDS, IXL

How to monitor a child’s progress▪ PowerSchool, Georgia LDS, IXL, Accelerated Reader

Other activities that encourage and support parents and families in more fully participating in the education of their children▪ PowerSchool, IXL, Accelerated Reader, Flocabulary, BrainPop

Materials and training to help parents to work with their children to improve their children’s achievement, such as literacy training and using technology (including education about the harms of copyright piracy)▪ PowerSchool, IXL, Accelerated Reader, Flocabulary, BrainPop for using technology and CommonSenseMedia

video on copyright piracy

Use PowerSchool and Georgia LDS technology to access my student’s attendance, grades, and assessment data to monitor my child’s progress.

Explore online resources I can use at home with my child to improve his or her achievement.

Explore a Google Classroom, like the one my child uses.

Learn what copyright piracy is, the harms of piracy and how to educate my child about both the legal and ethical reasons for respecting other people's creative work.

PowerSchool the application that Odyssey uses to allow teachers, parents and administrators to track and share information about students.

You must sign up on a computer to start account.

You can use the PowerSchool App from the itunes or GooglePlay stores after the account is set-up.

http://odysseytigers.powerschool.com/public

Let’s get everyone logged in!

Enter your Username

and Password

Click on the buttons in the navigation tab to move from section to section.

These are some of the classes that this student is enrolled in.

These are some of the grades for the Sample Student student.

Q1 and Q2 are the two quarters that make S1 (Semester 1)

Q3 and Q4 are the two quarters that make up S2 (Semester 2)

Y16 is the average between both semesters, which is also the overall grade for the year.

The student’s absences and tardies are located on this side.

This student has 0 absences and 1 tardy.

It is very important to keep track of and limit absences and tardies.

Frequent absences and tardies can negatively impact student achievement.

Here you can look back at report card and progress report grades for your student for all prior years at Odyssey.

If your child has attended other elementary or middle schools before coming to

Odyssey, you can view grades from those schools by using the Georgia LDS tab.

This page shows the specific date and class in which an (A) absence or (T) tardyhappened. This can help everyone keep track. Scroll down to see earlier weeks.

Georgia Longitudinal Data System (LDS) is a tool which looks at many years of a student’s history to help make informed, data-driven decisions to improve student learning.

Why use an LDS? The LDS provides districts, schools, teachers,

and now parents with access to historical data, including Assessments, Attendance, Enrollment, Courses, and Grades beginning with the 2006-2007 school year.

Parent’s gained the ability to see parts of the Georgia LDS through PowerSchool in 2016.

https://www.gadoe.org/Technology-Services/SLDS/Pages/SLDS-Parent-Portal.aspx

What does that mean to me? You can monitor your child’s attendance

history (see the totals by year).

You can see your child’s Lexile Reading Score and whether they are growing along from previous years and at the rate expected.

https://www.gadoe.org/Technology-Services/SLDS/Pages/SLDS-Parent-Portal.aspx

What does that mean to me? You can monitor your child’s achievement on

statewide assessments

You can identify your child’s strengths and weaknesses in the domains (different topics) in each subject area (Math, Science, Reading, Social Studies)

https://www.gadoe.org/Technology-Services/SLDS/Pages/SLDS-Parent-Portal.aspx

Use the link at the bottom of the Navigation column to access the Georgia Longitudinal Data System (LDS) from PowerSchool.

A second window will open outside of PowerSchool.

Sample, Student

The Performance Link will open the Performance Screen whose topics are featured on the next 3 slides.

The Resource Link will feature the student’s current schedule and the standards for each course. You will also be able to link to resources on topics your student needs to practice at home. These links are not yet fully active and are not featured later in this presentation.

Student Attendance

Data

Lexile Reading Level Student Growthas tested from

Georgia Milestones

Click to learn more about

Lexile Reading Levels.

Assessment Data

Click on any of the subject boxes for detailed scoring

information on the each domain tested for the subject area.

Part of the new law indicates that we should provide you with information regarding the harms of copyright piracy. Please watch the video for more information.

Teaching Kids about Copyright & Piracy. Common Sense Media, 2014. Web. 17 Oct. 2017. <https://www.commonsensemedia.org/videos/teaching-kids-about-copyright-piracy>.

IXL Learning is an American educational technology company that offers an educational website for K-12 students to practice educational material in an interactive way. The company also provides analytical tools to track student and classroom performance and identify areas for academic improvement with each student. IXL "Learning" offers content for math, English language arts, science, and social studies.

Monitoring You can identify your child’s strengths and

weaknesses in the domains (different topics) in each subject area (Math, Science, Reading, Social Studies)

Teachers can assign practice on skills through the curriculum or based on student need.

Parents can practice things they’ve forgotten!

Why use IXL? According to statistics, IXL is used by 1 in 9

students in the United States and by over 200,000 teachers worldwide.

IXL uses an immersive and adaptive curriculum which accelerates growth and provides continuous insight into student progress and targeted recommendations for next steps.

At this time, IXL is only available through web browsers.

To get to IXL, go to https://www.ixl.com/signin/odysseycharter

Students log in with their individual user ID and password.

To browse without making any changes to your student’s assignments, you can use the parent log-in below:

Login: Jennifer9999Password: ody12345

Username:Jennifer9999

Password: ody12345

Choose your desired grade level, and click the link to view all practice skills

Choose a skill, and click the skill name to start practicing it.

Read the question and indicate your answer.

An incorrect answer gets a “Sorry, incorrect” along with the correct answer and a complete explanation.

Practicing until the student gets a SmartScore of 100 will result in a mastery award.

Accelerated Reader, or AR, is a computerized program that tests reading comprehension. AR doubles as a reading incentive program because students can earn points from their comprehension test which they can use toward rewards. The program tracks student progress over the course of the school year.

Accelerated Reader uses Renaissance Home Connect to connect students, parents and teachers to share progress and look up AR books.

Go to https://tiny.cc/OdysseyAR

You will find your User Name and Password on the welcome sheet in your folder. If you did not get a welcome sheet, please contact Rosemary McCoy at rmccoy@odysseycharterschool.net

Enter your User ID

Password

Student

Recent Quizzes

Click here to find more AR books!

View books that the student read

and taken quizzes.

también en español

Student

All books

Click the book for more information

Book Information

Summary

Student

Quiz information

Click here when done

Students will receive weekly rewards from the librarian if they reach their schoolwide goal. 2nd-5th grades is 1 point and 80% average Middle School is 2 points and an 80% average

Classroom teachers may set up additional goals and rewards.

Student

Click here to find more AR books!

There are 2 ways to get to AR BookFinder:(1) Go to www.arbookfind.com

(2) Click the link from the Renaissance Home Connect Page

In addition to these slides, you can view the Parent’s Guide to AR BookFinder.

Tabs and box for searching

View the parent guide

también en español

Type a book title and click GO to search.

Search results

Click to add to AR BookBag

BrainPOP is an award-winning educational website which offers engaging animated videos and more covering the subjects of science, social studies, English, mathematics, engineering and technology, health, and arts and music for students in grades K-12 (ages 6 to 17).

Designed for grades K-3 science, health, reading & writing, social studies,

math, arts & technology

Designed for grades 4-12 science, social studies, English, math, arts &

music, health, engineers & tech

Designed for grades 4-12 science, social studies, math, health, technology,

arts & music, spanish

BrainPOP has many different ways to access their content. You can use the web or apps.

We are going to start on the main BrainPOPsite and explore the other sites from there. Go to https://www.brainpop.com/

Log-in: parents16 Password: odyssey1

1. Click the LOG IN button

2. Log InUser ID: parents16 Password: odyssey1

Click on a subject to view units or topics.

Click Moby to move between the BrainPOP, BrainPOPJr., BrainPOP Spanish and French websites

Click on a subject to view units or topics.

Click here for the movie of

the week

Click to go back to

BrainPOP

Teachers can create individual student accounts and create assignments for students to submit through BrainPOP.

Your student’s log-in is in your folder.

Until the student account is created, you can use the parent log-in below:

Log-in: parents16Password: odyssey1

Flocabulary is an award-winning educational website which uses hip-hop videos to improve vocabulary acquisition, reading and writing skills, and mastery of core content. Flocabulary covers social studies, language arts, vocabulary, math and science for students in grades K-12 (ages 6 to 17).

At this time, Flocabulary is only available through web browsers.

To get to Flocabulary, go to https://www.flocabulary.com/

Log-in: parents16 Password: odyssey1

1. Click the SIGN IN button

2. Log InUser ID: parents16

Password: odyssey1

Click on a subject to view units or topics.

Teachers can create individual student accounts and create assignments for students to submit through Flocabulary.

If the teacher creates an account for your student, you will receive a letter home with log-in information.

Until the student account is created, you can use the parent log-in below:

Login: parents16Password: odyssey1

Any questions or comments?

Please complete the survey provided.

Get ready to MARK YOUR CALENDARS with future Navigating Odyssey dates.

CCRPI & Career Education

Tuesday, 2/6/17 at 6:30pm Childcare provided for evening meeting

Wednesday, 2/7/17 at 7:00am

Georgia Milestones Assessment

Tuesday, 3/27/17 at 6:30pm

Thursday, 3/29/17 at 6:30pm Childcare provided for evening meetings

Jennifer PriserParent and Family Engagement CoordinatorPIC@odysseycharterschool.net