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Administrators in the Success Partners network can stay informed of the latest information, events and support using this monthly Admin Advantage Update email.
Within a week of receiving this email, you and your entire staff will receive their Success Stories newsletter in an email.
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JANUARY WINTER INSTITUTES FOR
SUCCESS PARTNERS COHORT FOUR
In January, the OSL team delivered nine Train-the-Facilitator Institutes across the state from Jacksonville to Miami for our newest cohort. The Institutes had two major goals:
- To ensure that all schools had a comprehensive Parent-School Partnership Plan in place for the 2015-2016 school year. A critical element of the development of the partnership plan is the involvement of the parents in the plan. Facilitators were trained on Modules 8-10 at these institutes, and these modules culminate in the creation and distribution of a strong Parent-School Partnership Plan for each school.
- Implementation of the Teaching and Learning Exchange. Schools received training on all of the newest functions including attendance, lunch count and enhanced administrative functions.
We received overwhelmingly positive feedback from the schools in regards to their confidence level for involving parents and creating a plan that will focus on student achievement through parent-school collaboration.
Our Year 2 and Veteran Success Partners Cohorts will meet in February
for their Winter Institutes!
Locations: February 2 - Lakeland and Miami; February 3 - Orlando and Tampa; February 4 - Jacksonville and Sarasota
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Thanks to our January Winter Institute Host Schools 
Tampa Bay Christian Academy, Tampa
| West Coast Christian Academy, Bradenton
| South Florida Jewish Academy, Coconut Creek
| St. Joseph Catholic School, Stuart
| St. Thomas Aquinas, St. Cloud
| University Christian, Jacksonville
| St. Charles Borromeo, Orlando
| Sonshine Christian Academy, Callahan
| Holy Cross Lutheran School, North Miami
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 REGIONAL MEETING REMINDER - NOMINATE UP TO 3 STUDENTS FOR A STATEWIDE AWARD! We are excited to announce that we will again be holding regional Step Up For Students meetings this spring! This is your chance to hear updates and important information from several Step Up departments and to get together with other Step Up schools in your area. You do not want to miss this! Please watch your email this Thursday for another Regional Meeting reminder, including links to RSVP and to nominate your three students. Can't find your email? Contact your OSL coordinator.
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December GIFT CARD WINNER
Congratulations to Rita Woodard of Lighthouse Center for Creative Learning who won a gift card by clicking on the drawing link in last month's Admin Advantage email. Look below for this month's link for your chance to be a winner!
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| PROFESSIONAL READING CORNER |
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- Does your school need to improve in some area?
- Are you the type of school leader that sees a need for change, but doesn't know where to start?
- Is any form of change difficult for you or your staff?
- Are the members of your school family resistant to making changes to the way things are currently?
If you answered Yes to any of these questions, then you may get something good from this article. Connected Principals gives you 8 characteristics of some of the most innovative school leaders around the country. Simple to understand and easy to read, this article points out the importance of starting change at the top.
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ADDED FEATURES FOR ADMINISTRATORS IN THE NEWEST RELEASES The Office of Student Learning at Step Up for Students is pleased to announce that on Monday, January 19th, several new features in the Teaching and Learning Exchange were released. This release allows administrators to reset passwords when parents or students are locked out. It also shows you how to filter your list of students to only display active students, inactive students or all students. Click here for January release notes, with step-by-step instructions ************************************************************ Click here for December release notes, with step-by-step instructions for administrators. Includes: An attendance tracking tool; A lunch menu selection and lunch count feature; Reports on attendance and/or lunch count; Class creation feature by administrators for their teachers; Class transfer feature, if a teacher leaves mid-year; Additional grading scale letters (A+, A-, etc.) **************************************************************************** YOU ASKED - WE LISTENED! Now you can download the academic and social/emotional/behavioral selections for the PLP - instead of having to scroll through to see what all is available! Save to your desktop, or print out this 3 page document. Click here to download the intervention selections list |
Rehannah Hemmali, principal at Ibn Seena, was able to help her teachers get their student loans forgiven through this program! Ibn Seena was certified not as a Title I school, but rather as a private school that serves a low-income population of 35% or higher. This program allowed them to use the percentage of their K-12 students who were SUFS scholars in order to determine that eligibility.
If you want to do this as well, all you need to do is complete a one-page application and provide a copy of your 501(c)(3) IRS determination letter. They also let you file applications for previous school years. It took a couple of months to process before Ibn Seena was added to the list of eligible schools, so start today!
Click here for the application: Loan Forgiveness Program
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FEEDBACK AND DRAWING LINK......
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click on this link to give feedback to the editor as well as register for a gift card drawing!
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STEP UP'S BRAND NEW
EDUCATIONAL ADVISOR PROGRAM BEGINS!
The Office of Student Learning's Lauren Barlis and Meredith McKay started 2015 by hosting their first set of parent meetings for the brand new Educational Advisor Program with four schools in Orlando: Leaders Preparatory School, Faith Christian Academy, Mt. Sinai Junior Academy, and St. Andrew Catholic School. This new program is in its pilot year and is designed to support Step Up parents and caregivers as they develop partnerships with their schools. This program provides each Step Up parent at these schools with an educational advisor who will give them personalized support to help them meet the academic and social/emotional needs of their children. Over 50% of the parents at Leaders Preparatory School attended the meeting, and the turnout for the other schools was significant as well, with almost 40 parents attending at Faith Christian Academy. The parents who attended were so grateful and excited to learn about the resources available to them through the OSL, such as help understanding their child's academic and behavioral successes and challenges through the Personal Learning Plans in the TLE. Mt. Sinai Junior Academy had their teachers attend the meeting as well, so the teachers were directly encouraged by their parents to work together with them on the Personal Learning Plans in their next conferences! The parents left the meetings empowered and engaged and ready to partner with their schools to reach their goal of increased student achievement.
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