Members from the NH Department of Education are coming to the district to provide professional development for teachers on Interims & Modulars. They will be working with teachers at Indian River School on December 10th. CES & EVS teachers will be working with them on December 13th. Principals will share meeting times with teachers. Teachers will need to bring a laptop to the meeting. Prior to the meeting date, teachers must complete the Test Administration Certification process (see below).

Each year we need to get recertified for NH SAS Testing. Click the link to bring you home page. Then select Test Administration Certification. Remember you have to reset your password every year!

Still interested in joining one of the MCIA committees? You're in luck...there is still time to join! Sign Up HERE

ELA - Second Monday of the Month

12/9/24, 1/13/25, 2/10/25, 3/10/25, 4/7/25*, 5/12/25, 6/9/25

Sara Dunkerton and Alix Lyman, our Title I Family Liaisons, put on some incredibly fun STEAM Nights for families. Here is a recap of their Fall STEAM Nights.

Title I has provided an incredible range of STEAM opportunities for students at Indian River School and Canaan Elementary School. From creating musical instruments and unique “create-ures” or monsters to engaging in art projects and engineering challenges, students have enjoyed hands-on, creative experiences.

In partnership with Scholastic Book, Title I hosted a successful Engineering STEAM Night, offering families a chance to explore the exciting world of engineering together.

A highlight was the Super Moon Party and STEAM Night! Students crafted telescopes and binoculars while learning about constellations and the wonders of the Northern Hemisphere night sky.

We’re not sure who’s having more fun—the kids or the adults!

Don’t miss our upcoming robot events! Stay tuned for more engaging STEAM experiences.

Brief overview of the process:

1. Teachers submit a request for App Vetting via Google Form

2. Principals review the request; approve or do not approve the request

3. CIA and IT Directors review the request; approve or do not approve the request

4. If the app requested has not been approved by the Student Data Privacy Consortium (SDPC), then a request is made to them. This part of the process can take months and I mean months to get approved or not get approved.

5. If the app requested gets denied by the SDPC, the app cannot be used!

Please remember this process takes time for everyone to do their due diligence. We appreciate your patience while we work through this process.

Want to know more about App Vetting? Check out the video from our mandatory trainings.

Did you know? Each building hosts after school help sessions to help you with Frontline! See your PD building reps for more information. Remember, your PD reps are happy to help you when they are not teaching or working with students. Please be respectful of their time and attend after school help sessions.

Check out our Mascoma Curriculum, Instruction & Assessment Google Classroom for professional development materials, Grit materials & new videos, K-8 math pacing guides, scope and sequence documents, and more. 📚 📏 📖

Course Code: cshmptt

Math Running Record videos - There is an introduction video and then one for each operation where I interview students and explain how I coded the running record. Teachers can download the recording sheets from the site www.mathrunningrecords.com for free and practice while watching the videos.

Daily Routine Videos - There are separate videos for Kinder through 4th grade. All links to the daily routines shared are on my padlet: https://tinyurl.com/RecordElementaryMath

Teachable Courses - Teachers will go to the link and click in the upper right hand side of the site where it says "All products". They will then see all the courses I currently offer on the Teachable site- Cuisenaire Rods, Problem Solving K2, Fraction Essentials, and Place Value.

Please see the Mascoma Curriculum Google Classroom for the code.

• 🖍️ Kindergarten
• 📏 First Grade
• 🎲 Second Grade
• ⏲️ Third Grade
• 🧮 Fourth Grade
• ✏️ Fifth Grade
• 📐Sixth Grade
• 📊 Seventh Grade
• 📉 Eighth Grade

IM Professional Development slides by Jess Jacques

Working with Jess Jacques, the Merrimack Valley School District Math Coach, we have developed pacing guides based on Mascoma I Can Statements laying out the quarter by quarter plan for teaching the IM curriculum. Each document includes helpful suggestions and links.

IM has created many videos that give you a K-5 Overview and delve into different aspects of the curriculum. There are a number of features of IM K - 5 that were highlighted as especially helpful:

• Math Routines are embedded: act it out, choral count, estimation exploration, how many do you see (subitizing), notice and wonder, number talk, true/false, which one doesn't belong, etc.

• Center suggestions - actual new ideas that are clearly connected and engaging

• Worksheets can be customized to better align to your instruction

• Multiple strategies and ways to solve problems are utilized throughout the program

I recommend that you start the Registration Process to access the open source curriculum so that you can see the curriculum yourself when you're ready and have time. This won't happen all at once and everyone will need to start learning about the resources at their own pace. Here is a video from Jess Jacques on how to navigate IM Teacher Materials and one as an example of how to customize IM presentations & materials.