Voyage Ministries: What passes for good policy in Duval County.

Oy Vey, we are in trouble. Dropped on teachers at the last second, though the super might say they asked for it.

 Good morning, 

Below you will find the instructions for accessing student essays for grades 4-5 for those schools that chose utilize the WritetoLearn program. 

The window for the writing portion of the FSA scrimmage closed on January 8th, 2016. Students will have until Friday, January 15th, 2016 to access their essays to assist teachers with addressing instructional implications and guiding students through the writing process to improve student writing. Please have students follow the steps below to access and print their essays. 

Students will: 

1) log in to Write to Learn and select their FSA scrimmage essay. 

2) highlight their entire essay within the essay text box and press Ctrl C to copy the essay. 

3) open a Microsoft Word document and press Ctrl V to paste the essay into the word document. 

In order to capture the student feedback, students must take a screen shot of the page by pressing Ctrl PrtSc and then pressing Ctrl V to paste the feedback into the Word document. As taking a screen shot of the student essay page will not show the entire student essay, it is essential that students follow steps one through three to capture their entire essay. Once all necessary components have been added to the word document, it is suggested that students print their essays. After January 15th, students will not be able to access their essays and feedback. 

Please note

* Students that did not receive a score have all been scored by the District 3-5 ELA team. 

**For students in grade 4, overall scores will follow a conversion based on the writing rubric comparison below.  The conversion chart can be used to determine the final score for students scoring between a one and a five.  Please note that the conversion was determined by randomly selecting students from each grade level and applying Florida’s Informative/Explanatory text-based writing rubric. 

Florida Rubric and WriteToLearn

College and Career Readiness Rubric Comparison

Language Arts Florida Standards Scoring	Purpose, Focus and Organization	Evidence and Elaboration	Conventions of Standard English
4	x	x
3	x	x
2	x	x	x
1	x	x	x
0			x

WriteToLearn Scoring	Task and Focus	Organization	Development of Ideas	Language and Style	Conventions
4	x	x	x	x	x
3	x	x	x	x	x
2	x	x	x	x	x
1	x	x	x	x	x
0

  

Dr. Holli N. Fears

Director, Reading Language Arts

Educational Excellence! Every school. Every classroom. Every student. Every day!

From a  frustrated teacher

Did you get all that? She wanted us to have our students log back on, copy and paste their entire essays, and take multiple screenshots of the feedback. She also wanted us to print all of them out when only my laptop has the ability to print. Should I pass my laptop around to my ten year olds and let them do it? Is that what she wants? She gave us a week to do it in, but we actually only got two days since our useless reading specialist didn't bother to forward the message. We have between 40-50 kids assigned to each reading teacher and they gave us two days? Then she wanted the fourth grade teachers to convert their scores to the correct rubric because the district didn't bother to use the correct scale? The whole point of using the computer program was to save teachers from having to do extra work. Holli Fears is an embarrassment to an already embarrassing district. The circus continues.