• Returning Student Registration: MSCS March Madness Registration Challenge will begin Monday, March 21. Let’s see who makes it to the Final Four. Schools’ registration percentages will be posted weekly, beginning March 21. Stay tuned for more information. 
• Parent Ambassador Virtual Meeting: Invite your parents to tune in to the F.A.C.E. Parent Ambassadors’ Virtual meeting, April 14 beginning at 5:30 p.m.  A member of the Registration/Enrollment Team will provide important information about registration, enrollment, and school choice options.

We wanted to provide you with helpful information that will be useful to you and your school teams.  Please familiarize yourself with the Allergy and Asthma Emergency Protocol.

As the Progress Monitoring and Intervention Plan Updates data reports were being pulled, it was found that the EdPlan Reactivation Script that ran during Spring Break had skewed the data. To allow our RTI2 Team adequate time to ensure accurate reporting for mid-cycle reporting purposes, the Mid-Cycle Report will now be available to ILDs on March 30 and to Leads and Principals on April 1.

In addition, the corrected bi-weekly Progress Monitoring Report for February 28 - March 11 will be resent with the Mid-Cycle Report.

The following indicators will be included in the Mid-Cycle Progress Report:

• Progress Monitoring 
• Data Team: February Documentation and DLD Attendance 
• EdPlan Intervention Plan Updates

The attached announcement was sent to all RTI2 Leads on Wednesday, March 23. 

Please reach out to your RTI2 Advisor, rti2@scsk12.org, or Dr. Amy Maples with any additional questions.

Lead Update SOAR 3 Mid-Cycle Announcement.pdf

See attached PPT, again sharing February winners! (Be on the lookout soon for March campaign results in a couple of weeks) Implementation Support 

Be sure to revisit the i-Ready/SCS RTI2 Best Practices attached as you settle in for the final push of the year.

• Ready Central for math support: https://math.readycentral.com/ 
• Math and Reading Program Implementation tips within the Toolbox: Log into i-Ready > Click Assess & Teach > Click into Teacher Toolbox > Click Program Implementation toward the upper left corner

The final AP Student Saturday Review for 2021-22 will be held on Saturday, April 9, from 8 a.m. until 3 p.m. Lunch will be provided. Please share the following registration link with your AP students and encourage them to register: https://tinyurl.com/yhmkpywh.

Contact James Smith, AP Manager, if you have questions.

Mark your calendars for the return of AP Daily: Live Review this April 18–28! These review sessions will premiere on YouTube and be available for your AP teachers and AP students to watch on-demand at any time.

Students can also access the videos in AP Classroom on their own, or teachers can choose to assign them to their classes to watch. All review videos can be found on the Review tab, under Course Resources. Assigning the review videos is just like assigning AP Daily videos.

We hope your students will join expert AP teachers as they provide review and practice for the upcoming AP Exams!

The Optional Schools and Advanced Academics team is currently meeting with all middle school administrative teams to review important information regarding honors program updates for the 2022-23 school year. As mentioned in those meetings, you will receive an email from the Honors team with a link to all of the documents that were discussed. Please be on the lookout for this information and please let us know if additional team members need to be added to the communication. 

If you have questions, please feel free to contact Terriny Lloyd via email or at (901) 416-9867 or Travis Lockhart via email or at (901) 416-5839 and we will be glad to assist. 

Please continue processing new and renewal optional applications. Any purchases that need to be made to facilitate programmatic activities (marketing, recruitment, etc.) for your optional program should be made immediately. The deadline for optional schools to spend their optional budget allotments is Friday, April 8.

Please contact Linda Sklar if you have questions or need funds moved to a different spending category to facilitate your purchasing. Thanks for your continued partnership.

On-Going– Assistant Superintendents, ILD, and Central Office Staff conduct walkthroughs.

March 21 - April 15 - Principals complete and share Cycle 2 Observation Self-Score in PLZ (include supporting statements and uploading evidence/artifacts into this component).

Due to the administration of the TCAP, we suggest the following pacing for principals to upload evidence and provide written supporting statements in PLZ:

• Upload evidence/artifacts and written supporting statements for Standard D and B by April 1
• Upload evidence/artifacts and written supporting statements for Standard A and C by April 15

All supporting statements and evidence/facts must be entered and uploaded in PLZ and shared with the assigned assistant superintendent by COB on April 15.  

March 28 - May 6 - Cycle 2 Observation Principal and Assistant Conference 

May 9 - May 31 – Assistant Superintendent and Principals Finalize Cycle 2 Observation Conference

Thank you for submitting your initial 2022-23 Ready Graduate plans. We are in the process of comparing your preliminary 2022-23 master schedule to your current 2021-22 schedule of courses to determine opportunities for additional expansion. 

As a reminder, all MSCS-managed schools are required to offer a minimum of five AP/Virtual AP/Pre-AP courses for 2022-23, with at least two of those courses being AP courses. Follow-up conversations and/or meetings will be scheduled with schools that may need to consider additional advanced course offerings. 

Please contact Linda Sklar if you have questions or concerns.  

Our annual Symposium is scheduled for June 14-16. The Sheraton Memphis Downtown is offering MSCS a discount starting June 13. Room rates are $139.00 plus taxes and valet parking at a nightly rate of $26.00 plus tax. 

To book this rate please email Alexandria Thomas, in-house reservationist at athomas@sheratonmemphisdowntown.com, and please cc: Deidra Speight at dspeight@sheratonmemphisdownton.com and Tari Harris at harristc1@scsk12.org. 

Thank you for being so supportive in allowing your teacher team to attend the Implementing Blended Learning Station Rotation session after Spring Break. As a result of the PD, we hope your teachers returned with a clearer understanding of station rotation and how they can support teachers with implementation. As agreed, your teacher team will redeliver the content to your teachers during the week of March 28 - April 1. We are aware due to upcoming testing that teachers are engaged with supporting their students in these final weeks. To that end, teachers are encouraged to engage in station rotation as safe practice beginning April 4. Central Office will not conduct observations of implementation during that time. We will start the monitoring after all testing has been completed. Your teacher team has been prepped with the session's presentation, facilitation guide, and materials. Someone from the District office will join your school's redelivery to provide support assisting with responding to questions and capturing teacher questions. The purpose is to capture data to inform, in real-time, follow-up supports.

We appreciate all you do. If you have any questions or concerns, please reach out to Executive Director Tracie Scott. 

Again this year, we have partnered with the I am a Voter (IAAV) strategic collaborative on voter education, registration, mobilization, and reform to bring opportunities for voter registration and information to our students and their families this year. The IAAV collaborative has offered to host voter registration drives for our students at school at your request. 

We are excited to invite you to review this sign-up link to select a date and time for a voter registration drive at your school after Spring Break. This opportunity is being offered for any student who will be 18 years old by May 3. 

If you have any questions or need assistance obtaining the list for your school, please contact us at scsface@scsk12.org.

We will be hosting our next ACT Family Night on April 7, at 5:30 p.m. on TEAMS. This session will be targeted toward our underclassmen and their families. Register here. 

Our students and families must know that the ACT is about more than just getting into college. The state of Tennessee awards the status of Ready Graduate to any student who completes the ACT with a composite score of 21. This means our state believes that a student scoring a 21 is prepared to tackle the challenges of the world after high school, whether they choose to enter college, technical school, or the workplace. This work is so important to our state that students with the Ready Graduate status are part of our district report card, reflecting our success in helping students bridge the gap from the classroom to the post-secondary world. 

As a continued effort to support students and families in learning more about the college readiness standards and benchmarks set forth by ACT, Inc., the District continues to offer ACT Family Nights in partnership with ACT, Inc. During this session, families will learn about the structure of the test, resources available to prepare for the test, test dates, and information about how to register for the test. We will also share information about how test scores are used in college admission and obtaining scholarships. These sessions are generally targeted at families of students in grades 7-12, but this session will focus on underclassmen who may begin their experience with ACT this Spring or during the Summer. Families who participate receive preparation materials and can participate to win gifts cards for ACT Registration or ACT Score Analysis Reports.