Upcoming Meetings

We hope you all have a wonderful holiday break! 

It's already that time of year again.... time for our Spring Forum Meeting!

North Forum Meeting 

Weber Innovations Center

1007 W. 12th Street, Ogden

Thursday, February 19th 3:00 pm

Central Forum Meeting

Granite School District

Date TBA

3:00 pm

South Forum Meeting

Mountain View HS Media Center

Tuesday, February 10th 3:00 pm

If you need to come to a meeting other than the one you are assigned to please let us know ASAP so we have materials to the correct location. 

As a reminder, the regions are split by the following school districts.

North:

- Box Elder

- Cache

- Davis

- Ogden

- Weber

Central: 

- Canyons

- Granite

- Jordan

- Murray

- Salt Lake

- Tooele

South:

- Alpine

- Juab

- Nebo

- Provo

Fall Forum Meeting Update

We would like to thank those of you who attended our Fall Forum Meetings for the questions and wonderful feedback you provided. 

Please remember it's NOT TOO LATE! We are more than happy to help your school set up & get going using the Road to Success WebTool. Also, if there's anything that really works at your school please share so other schools can benefit as well!

The PowerPoint presentation from the meeting with instructions and helpful hints can be found at: 

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/3r4zsidlp18eprj/AAArMG4-OBdT5ntlkmHgsuiTa?dl=0

Faculty and Staff Certificate Lists are NEEDED!  All faculty and staff at your school who work 24* hours+ are eligible to receive these.  They are a booklet of offers given as a token of Success in Education’s appreciation for all they do!  *If a person that works less than 24 hours deserves one, please include them.  Use your judgment.  Please send the list in Excel in the following format.  Please email the list to intern@sieutah.org no later than Friday, December 5^th.  All schools who get their lists in on time will be put in a drawing to receive a special prize!

First Name	Last Name	School	District
Megan	Ware	Success	Salt Lake
Hanna	Thorne	Success	Salt Lake

Also remember that we are having a CONTEST! 

All schools will be starting at ground zero NOW. If your school already qualifies, just keep going. If you're not quite there -- you have time! Start now and your school can still qualify by the next Forum Meeting.

Who Qualifies? Schools with 80% of your students using the WebTool 80% of the time!

What do you win? A fabulous Blendtec blender!

When? All schools qualifying will be entered in the drawing to be held at the next Forum Meetings. 

* You MUST be present to win.

Many of you had questions about printing reading slips. Please see instructions below.

1. Log in as each teacher (e-mail Megan or Hanna if you'd like a spreadsheet of teachers' usernames & passwords)

2. Click "Reading Slips"

3. Make sure the correct classroom is selected if the teacher has multiple (you can select this in the drop-down box below the teacher's name)

4. Select the week

5. Click "Select Eligible" (This will automatically print 1 ticket if a student has read 5-6 days or 2 tickets if a student has read 7 days. If there is a student you feel is deserving you can click the circle next to their name to print a ticket for that student.)

6. Click "Print Selected Slips"

7. On the page that pops up, either right-click & hit "Print" or hold down Ctrl+P on your keyboard to print the page

Repeat steps 4-7 for each week, then move on to the next teacher.

Badges!

Welcome to the Road to Success Blog!

I want to share a little more about the Badges students can earn for logging their reading time.

The thought behind the Badges was that children will spend HOURS on different websites and video games trying to reach certain levels and accomplishments.  Why not use this for something constructive?!  To be perfectly honest, I wasn't super sure about how much motivation they would really provide.  BOY WAS I WRONG!  Kids are going crazy for the badges.  Here is an example of part of an email I received from an RTS School Admin.

I have a 5th grader who wants to know why he has finished 5 books but hasn't received the "finisher" badge? He says it is supposed to be awarded after he's finished 2 books. He is also asking about an "American" badge that apparently one of his friends received but he didn't and wanted to know how he can earn it. 

I suppose I should be grateful that the digital badges are such motivators for these kids but instead I'm thinking: "Really, little 5th grader?? That's the biggest problem you have in your entire world right now?" 

I was curious as to how teachers would actually use the Badges and the points associated with them.  In speaking with a 6th grade teacher, she gave me a simple way.  She simply had the students pull up their badge page (they are a 1 to 1 school), however this could also be done by having student print the Badge page, and add up their points.  She then tossed out simple Halloween candy to those who had reached a certain number of points.  

This teacher also made a comment that has resonated with me over the past week.  She said, "My best readers aren't necessarily my best loggers, many of my lowest readers are my most consistent loggers.  This is so awesome as they, more than my highest readers, need the incentive and motivation.  The Badges seem to do it for them."

Print View of the Badges:

November Surprise Badges with suggested books for that day:

*Badge will pop up when time is logged for that day - if you were to log time today for November 5th you would receive the Badge.

November 5: Donut Day

                Bowling Alley Bandit by Laurie Keller

November 12: Chicken Soup for the Soul Day

                Chicken Soup for the Soul: Think Positive for Kids by Kevin Sorbo & Amy Newmark

November 14: Pickle Day

                Pickles to Pittsburgh The Sequel to Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs by Judi Barrett

November 28: Hanukkah

                Hanukkah Lights by David Martin