Teacher being added to more than one school.

Currently, a teacher-level user can only be added to one school at a time.  Mylexia.com looks at teacher email (which is the default username) to find duplicates.

There are a couple work-arounds.  

1.  The teacher could be given District Administrator Access and can be added as Staff in classes at multiple schools.  Of course, for privacy reasons, you may not wish this teacher to have access to all student data.

2.  You could use a different email address for the second teacher account so myLexia.com does not recognize this user and allows her to be added to a second school.  The wrinkle involved there is that the teacher email address is used for automatic notification to teacher of students who need off-line instruction and students who have achieved certificates.  If you use a phony email address or a personal email address for the second teacher account, he/she will not (in the case of a phony email address) get the notification emails.

Lexia’s Email Notificationsfor Teachers and Staff

Fifth Grade Implementation Ideas

I posed this client question to my Lexia colleagues

I was asked if I would share some ways other 5th grades implement Lexia. I think the principal would like to see them use Lexia with all of the 5th graders of which there are four classes. Currently they are identifying one intervention class and then divide the students among the four teachers. Do you have some other models being used in the upper elementary?

1. With the 5th graders, they should be able to more easily work independently including grabbing appropriate skill builders that have been printed and organized and doing the activities from the Lexia Instructional Connections. The tricky part comes in when the 5th graders complete the content. They will want to encourage students to use the Skill Builders, read independently, use other programs focusing on comprehension such as Newsela, or other activities that allow them to continue to apply, enrich, and extend their vocabulary and comprehension skills.
   
2. They could also consider implementing peer tutoring, but that takes training and prepping the students to do it correctly. Others may have more suggestions, so you may want to reach out to Nancy or the IM.
   
3. What I will mention in addition is that use of Lexia Core 5 with all students in appropriate unless they completed the program in a previous grade level. 
   
4. Encourage 5th grade teachers to look at the Vocabulary activities in Levels 17 and 18 and other content like Shades of Meaning Activity in Level 17.  This usually exposes them to content they are not teaching to students, proving that even proficient readers (from teacher's prospective and from outside measures) can benefit from Lexia.
   
5. I would also point out the new Supplemental Lessons for Comprehension
   
   which can be used with individuals, small groups or the whole class.  Same with Lexia Instructional Connections.

1:1 Device Program

A client in Barbuda is looking for a way for students to access Lexia at home.  They have tablets but no Internet.

Lexia is currently working on what is called a 1:1 device program. It may not be available until next summer (2016). The intent of this program is to allow personal tablet devices for use at home. A student will then be able to continue to use Core5 without Internet connection for up to 10 days. When a connection is detected, the device will connect  automatically online and upload performance data.

Lexia Certificates

A principal from an elementary school sent this email message.

I have a question from several of my teachers.  The certificates are confusing to print out for the students.  When the teacher gets an email signaling that these certificates need to be printed, this information is not stored.  The teacher will get duplicating emails asking her to print certificates for students.  Then the students complain that they have already received that certificate.  It is a management issue.  My teachers feel they need to keep a spreadsheet and check off certificates that are printed and distributed.  I feel that is a poor use of their time.  Can this glitch in the software be improved?  Please let me know your thoughts and I will get back to my staff.

This is something Lexia will be addressing in a new release.  In the meantime the Product Development Team provided several ideas on tracking from from the field.

1. Print two copies of the certificate, one to be sent with the child and one to be hung on a bulletin board or kept somewhere for a student portfolio. This could help the teachers in knowing which they have printed without having to use an excel spreadsheet.
2. print one copy of each of the levels, hang them, and put the kids names on sticky notes. Once a certificate is handed out, the sticky note with the student's name is moved to the next level to indicate their progress as well as the distribution of the certificate.
3. Another way teachers could track is to print off the Class Skills Report and mark each level off for each student with a "c" in the appropriate box as the certificates are printed and given to students.

Here is another cool way teachers are keeping track and sharing Lexia Core5 certificate information with parents.  A 3rd grade teacher at CLK Elementary school uses the digital portfolio, Seesaw, to capture a snapshot of the certificate for each child.  It is how he keeps track of the certificates given.  Parents are notified when anything new is added to the portfolio; Way cool!

This ides came via Suzy Evans, 9/9/2016
A teacher taught me a trick.  She told her kids she will be having an “awards ceremony’ once per week for Lexia certificates. She could never remember either, so she cleaned up everything on the list, then started a new plan. She committed to every Monday or Tuesday.  All she had to do was sort the certificate column in the last column and just print out the ones from last week.  She was a stickler on the ones that might have arrived  Monday or Tuesday  - they would have to wait for their 15 seconds of fame!