Alpine Achievement Systems - Professional Development Opportunities Designed for Charter Schools

New User Training Designed for Principals, Teachers and Literacy Specialists:

Date: August 25, 2008

Time: 9 AM - 5 PM

Location: CIVA Charter High School (4635 Northpark Dr, Colorado Springs, CO 80918) 

Cost: $100 (Registration includes materials and lunch)

Registration: Please click here to complete the registration form.
Please register by August 18, 2008. 

Summary of training: 
General overview, finding what you need, accessing and interpreting reports, basic functions in Excel and basic connections to instruction. Topics may include:

• General system functions: Basic navigation, creating simple groups, N-settings.
• CSAP System: Locating and interpreting student reports and summary reports.  Basic connections to instruction and interpretation resources. Basic Excel functions.
• NWEA System: NWEA summary reports for students and groups.  Understanding the spreadsheets (including CSAP-aligned cut points)
• Literacy System: Building a basic foundation of literacy knowledge.  How to build an ILP and use the Pikes Peak Literacy resources.

*If you are using Alpine Achievement through the League, please contact your authorizer to ensure you get access to your CSAP scores shortly after they are released. This is also a great time to update your school users to ensure participants can access the system the day of the training and upload a current student file to ensure that students move into their new grade level for school year 2008-09.  If you have any questions about this, please contact Tisha Bouwmeester at 303-989-5356/ tbouwmeester@coloradoleague.org or Diane Taylor at 720-963-9200, x3/ diane@alpineachievement.com.

Welcome to Data Warehouse and Plan Builder! Training Designed for Principals, Assessment Coordinators, Teachers, Data Leaders, and Literacy Specialists

Date: August 28, 2008

Time: 9 AM - 5 PM

Location: James Irwin Charter School (5525 Astrozon Blvd., Colorado Springs, CO 80916)

Cost: $100 (Registration includes materials and lunch)

Registration: Please click here to complete the registration form.
Please register by August 21, 2007.

Summary of training: 
Come learn and play with the two new latest and greatest systems in alpine! This session will focus specifically on the Plan Builder and Data Warehouse systems. Topics include: 

• Plan Builder:  Overview of preformatted plans. Creating and managing plans. Implementing  plans. 
• Data Warehouse:  Overview of assessment compatibility. Undertstanding the system and functionality.

*If you are using Alpine Achievement through the League, please contact your authorizer to ensure you get access to your CSAP scores shortly after they are released. This is also a great time to update your school users to ensure participants can access the system the day of the training and upload a current student file to ensure that students move into their new grade level for school year 2008-09.  If you have any questions about this, please contact Tisha Bouwmeester at 303-989-5356/ tbouwmeester@coloradoleague.org or Diane Taylor at 720-963-9200, x3/ diane@alpineachievement.com

Alpine Training Designed for Principals, Teachers and Literacy Specialists (Refresher Course):

Date:  September 26, 2008

Time: 9 AM - 5 PM

Location:  Frontier Academy (2500 West 29th Street, Greeley, CO 80631)

Cost: $100 (Registration includes materials and lunch)

Registration: Please click here to complete the registration form. 
Please register by September 19, 2008. 

Summary of training: 
 General overview, finding what you need, accessing and interpreting reports.  Basic connections to instruction.  Topics may include:

• General system functions: Basic navigation, creating simple groups, N-settings. Student groups and demographic groups.  File Exchange.  Creating your Current Students file.
• CSAP System: Locating and interpreting student reports and summary reports.  Basic connections to instruction and interpretation resources.  Basic & advanced Excel functions. Raising the bar with proficiency descriptors. Goal setting with CSAP data.  Moving graphs to PPT.
• NWEA System: NWEA summary reports for students and groups.  Understanding the spreadsheets (including CSAP-aligned cut points).  Understanding the relationship between CSAP and NWEA scores.  Interpretive resources on the NWEA website.
• Literacy System: Building a basic foundation of literacy knowledge.  How to build an ILP and use the Pikes Peak Literacy resources. Defining tests in the body of evidence.  Using the body of evidence to diagnose literacy problems.  Combining data in the body of evidence to make the ILP decision
• Data Leadership: How does a school leader facilitate deeper learning about data for teachers?

* If you are using Alpine Achievement through the League, please contact your authorizer to ensure you get access to your CSAP scores shortly after they are released. This is also a great time to update your school users to ensure participants can access the system the day of the training and upload a current student file to ensure that students move into their new grade level for school year 2008-09.  If you have any questions about this, please contact Tisha Bouwmeester at 303-989-5356/ tbouwmeester@coloradoleague.org or Diane Taylor at 720-963-9200, x3/ diane@alpineachievement.com.