Greetings NYS-MEP!
In this newsletter, you will find links that take you to activities, apps, videos, and handouts to use with your students (P3-K-12-OSY) and parents.
Reminder about December’s Virtual Professional Development - Wednesday, December 18
- Building Relationships with Families while Working with Interpreters
- Required for new employees; veteran staff welcome!
- 9:00 a.m. and repeated at 1:00 p.m.
Snow Days
Check with your Director to see if you can use a snow day to spend time checking out the resources below and other Professional Development and Instructional Resources on the NYS-MEP website.
OSY
Success Stories from the Field
GOSOSY has a section on their page that highlights the success of OSY around the country. Check out the link to read and listen to featured stories.
Whether it is a recent graduation, or seeing a student overcome a barrier, New York MEP is looking to hear some of your student’s success stories. If you would like to submit one, please email Travis at twilliamsonidr@gmail. If you wish to include any photos or video, please make sure you include a photo release form from the student.
Cyberbullying
HIGH SCHOOL
The resource library on NYS-MEP’s website hosts workshop materials to use with teens about cyberbullying. “DASA for Students (2) Cyberbullying,” includes information about how students can report cyberbullying at school, through the NYS Dignity for All Students Act (DASA). Click here to read more. Handouts and PowerPoint are available in English, Burmese, Karen, and Spanish.
PARENT AND FAMILY ENGAGEMENT
The resource library on NYS-MEP’s website hosts workshop materials for parents about cyberbullying. DASA - Protecting Your Children (Part 2) Cyberbullying,” includes how parents and students in New York State can utilize the reporting process required of all schools under the NYS Dignity for All Students Act (DASA). Click here to read more. Handouts and PowerPoint are available in English, Burmese, Karen, and Spanish.
K-8 ELA
Reading for Fluency - Highlight of the Month
Activities to Teach Letter Names and Letter Sounds - The ELA Resource Library identifies activities from the Florida Center for Reading Research that work in one-on-one instruction, and link to a great ABC game on the Starfall website. Click here to read more.
Free App Version - Search for “Starfall ABCs” in your app store. Select “skip” when the setup asks for a credit card.
ENL Emphasis – The Starfall ABC game matches the letters with sounds, words, and pictures, supporting English learners.
Reading for Comprehension - Highlight of the Month
Did you know that Part 3 of the ELA regents exam is text analysis? You can introduce your elementary and middle school students to using text structures with the "on-demand" professional development module described below.
Click here for a simple way to introduce your students to text structures. In the nine-minute video, “Reading Comprehension of Informational Text: Text Structure,” Kathleen M. Lord, Ph.D., explains how to teach text structures so students understand them. You can download the accompanying graphic organizers and instruction that simplify these text structures: cause and effect; compare and contrast; problem and solution; description; sequence; and question and answer.
K-8 Math
The EngageNY curriculum schedules 7th grade students for Expressions and Equations at this time of year. The NYS-MEP website hosts two math PD modules about teaching expressions and equations.
Go to Expressions and Equations Part 1, a 40-minute video, to see how to use algebra tiles and T-charts to help middle school students gain conceptual understanding of addition and subtraction of negatives and positives.
Go to Expressions and Equations Part 2, a 25-minute video, to see how to use algebra tiles so students will understand how variables behave in the same relationships with each other, as do numbers.
Early Childhood
Pilot: Child Development Framework
METS programs are piloting child development information with the parents of preschoolers receiving instruction. Some METS are using the Milestones created by the Center for Disease Control (CDC), and other METS are using the MEP-Modified child development handouts. Click here to read more about the Child Development Framework resources.
SEL/Trauma Responsive/ Identity
Partnering with Families to Support Children’s Development
This workshop is for anyone who makes home visits. The self-serve video addresses issues related to entering a home, beginning relationships, establishing routines, and sharing progress and goals. Take this link to the workshop, or log in to the website with your user name and password and use the search function that is available when you log in. This workshop is required for new employees, and veteran staff are welcome!
Note: Download the “Think-Pair-Share Reflection Guide” before watching the fifty-three minute video. Plan additional time to complete the activities on the reflection guide.
Directors
New Feature on the Website!
The Resource Library has a filter. Instead of scrolling through three pages of instructional resources, you can use the filter to select a category by focus area.
Thank you!
You can find the previous newsletters on the website at: https://www.nysmigrant.org/news
Thank you for reading. As always, we invite you to share your thoughts and feedback!
Mary Anne Diaz - mdiaz@brockport.edu
Jenny Verdugo - jverdugo@brockport.edu
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