MTSS Lead Weekly Updates

Students in Grade 3 who do not take ALT Assessment should complete the Grade 3 Pearson aimswebPlus Spring Benchmark Assessment.

ORF (Oral Reading Fluency)-completed as a Digital Record in approximately 2 minutes where student has a paper copy and teacher records on the computer.

VOC (Vocabulary)-completed via TestNav in 4-7 minutes where student logs into the computer.

RC (Reading Comprehension)-completed via TestNav in 15-25 minutes where student logs into the computer.

The Grade 3 Support Hub Teams Channel will be available again this year to MTSS Leads where they can call in for support via Teams and find helpful reference documents if needed. The channel can be found by going through Teams and searching your channels, but if you need the code to join use all lowercase ptcq8gu. Review these Grade 3 Pearson aimswebPlus Spring Benchmark FAQs prior to beginning testing.

Students flagged at risk in the PowerBi High School Early Warning System should complete the following based on their identified area(s) of risk.

ELA (iReady Reading Diagnostic and Written Expression)

Math (iReady Math Diagnostic)

ELA and Math (iReady Reading Diagnostic and Written Expression and iReady Math Diagnostic)

Additional Screening for Characteristics of Dyslexia as needed or requested by parents or teachers.

Please ensure that high school students who are going to be screened have the iReady lockdown browser installed on their profile on the device that will be used for testing. Consider working as a school team to do this during the second PowerUp Practice date for your school which does begin this week and continues into the window.

• K-8 Spring Universal Screening Schedules are due to be uploaded in school folders by April 6.
• March student intervention plan updates are due to made in TNPulse MTSS by Tuesday, March 31.

Curriculum Associates has challenged our K-8 grade bands across all five regions to participate in the 70-70-70 Personalized Instruction March Madness Competition from March 23-April 10. Winners will be announced the week of April 20th.

Our final Microsoft Teams Pearson aimswebPlus Progress Monitoring Training will held from 3:30-5:00 on Tuesday, March 24. If you have new staff members who need this training, please share the link below with them.

If you participated in the March Professional Learning Communities Evening Sessions focused on Reading Horizons Discovery and Elevate, your feedback is essential to help us refine future sessions and better support your classroom implementation. To encourage maximum participation, Reading Horizons will randomly select three respondents to receive a $50 Amazon gift card.

We invite you to complete a brief survey to share your experience and insights. The survey will take less than 3 minutes to complete.

When entering DYS Coding in PowerSchool, please be mindful that there should only be one DYS 02 and one DYS 03 code at a time, meaning that a student should not have two DYS 02 and two DYS 03 codes at the same time. This can be avoided by not stacking dates. For example, if DYS 02 and DYS 03 codes were entered in August 2025-May 2026, no additional codes and dates should be entered even though the student has been screened in January.