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In the past Ashlock Consulting developed and licensed for use Lesson Maps to go with core program materials in school districts.
Our English Language Arts Priority Plans Course has replaced this product. This Course walks participants through the process of developing grade level ELA Priority Plans. The plans provide all of the support the Lesson Maps did and more, but districts have the opportunity to make decisions about which elements from the course they wish to include in their plans.
The process participants use to create these documents deepens their knowledge of effective implementation and gets buy-in for grade level use. Most school districts use their instructional materials for 7-15 years, so planning this part of the instructional day is critical!
Through our course, participants will be shown how to make grade level plans that:
• Prioritize research-based pieces of instruction from your current instructional materials.
• Provide realistic suggestions with regard to the pacing of instruction.
• Provide a Priority Standards Map for reading and writing.
• Provide Exit Ticket assessments connected to literature and informational standards.
• Provide a plan for Tier 2 comprehension and vocabulary instruction using current instructional materials connected to priority standards.
• Layer on our Templates for Effective Instruction for explicit implementation of phonological awareness and phonics instruction.
• Layer on our Reading Strategy and Skill Resource for explicit implementation of vocabulary and comprehension instruction.
• Provide reminders for teachers to engage all students in instruction and include collaborative discussion in appropriate places through their ELA block.
• Provide prompts for teachers to use the Gradual Release of Responsibility Model (I Do, We Do, Y'all Do, You Do) with literature and informational standards.
• Provide Practice Sets using the Templates for Effective Instruction at the beginning and end for each reading block.
• Direct teachers to provide a 15-20 minute Practice Reading block for differentiated time in text.
For more information see our Catalog description for our English Language Arts Priority Plans.
Our Reading Expert Certification (REC) Courses train individuals to be Reading Experts. This training does allow them to train other people in your school district, but it must be done in accordance with our Master Licensing Agreement (MLA). Your district and every Reading Expert will have a signed copy of our MLA in their email inbox after enrollment.
Ashlock Consulting provides Certificates of Completion for REC A + B Courses only for Reading Experts, and only after they have completed the entire course and passed the final exam.
Reading Experts cannot give out Certificates of Completion to people they train.
You can watch segments in each course as many times as you'd like within the length of time your school district has licensed the course.
Each course license is set to last a certain length of time, typically one year (365 days). The date is set on the day you are Enrolled in the course. You will receive an email when you are Enrolled.
If you desire additional time to the access course, you (or your school district) will need to license the course for another set length of time (typically one year).
Yes, the videos and presentations follow the same rules as the previous question. You can watch as many times as you'd like within the length of time your school district has licensed the course.
If you are having trouble viewing the video within Thinkific, go back a couple of Lessons in the course and go forward again. You may have to wait a few seconds for the Lesson to load.
If you are still having issues, please use our Support channel.
You should review the Master License Agreement (MLA) for details specific to the course for which you are enrolled. Only the enrollee is allowed viewing rights to the course materials.
You will have a copy of the MLA in your email from DocuSign.
You should review the Master License Agreement and footer on all documents connected to the course for which you are enrolled for the distribution rules.
You will have a copy of the MLA in your email from DocuSign.
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If you are still having issues, please contact us.
Ashlock Consulting, Inc. offers many different products and services, and their tax status is dependent on state, county, and city laws.
In general you do need to pay sales tax for any physical product, and for online courses in certain states.
We indicate estimated or real sales tax where appropriate for our products, and will adjust sales tax on invoices when appropriate.
If you are unsure of your sales tax rate when purchasing products, please ask your school agency accounting department.
No. We require you to submit the Group Enrollment Sheet for the participants that are being enrolled, and to sign the DocuSign to License your School District for our educational materials.
You will need a filled out Group Enrollment Sheet (spreadsheet), filled out Purchase Order, and an Authorized Signer to fill out the DocuSign forms.
No. We require each Course to have unique District Form signatures for licensing and legal purposes.
No. We use DocuSign for streamlined, official licensing of our educational materials. Your forms must be submitted through the DocuSign platform.
No. It typically requires 1-2 business days to approve the DocuSign and get your Group enrolled. Once we enroll your Group, it takes Thinkific roughly 15 minutes to send confirmation links to your Participants.
Please follow the directions above. You can submit the Group Enrollment Spreadsheet with just your name, but please still include the School District, School Site, and your email address.
You will also still need a Purchase Order (unless paying by credit card).
Yes. Some of our courses accept online payments, and if you are enrolling in one that does we will provide you with the proper payment links. You can also pay online via ACH for these courses.
Please email enrollmentsupport@ashlockconsulting.com with the Course you want to enroll in, your name, your phone number, and school district.
Please allow 1-2 business days for us to get back to you.
Ashlock Consulting, Inc. offers many different products and services, and their tax status is dependent on state, county, and city laws.
In general you do need to pay sales tax for any physical product, and for online courses in certain states.
We indicate estimated or real sales tax where appropriate for our products, and will adjust sales tax on invoices when appropriate.
If you are unsure of your sales tax rate when purchasing products, please ask your school agency accounting department.
Yes, however you need to enroll in each Course separately.
Please follow the above directions for each Course you want to enroll in, including submitting a specific Group Enrollment Sheet for each Course and District Forms for each Course.
For Tutorial Courses, you also need to enroll separately for each school site within a District.
No. DocuSign will ask for your name and email address to send you documents to sign, but you don't need an account to enroll.
Your District should be able to tell you who is authorized to sign the Master Licensing Agreement. We need this person's signature on our Master Licensing Agreement before we can enroll Participants.
Usually this is a Site or District Administrator; please check with your District.
This means you are a Participant in one of our Courses. If your District has submitted the above forms, along with your email and name, you should have received an automated email from Ashlock Consulting Thinkific. Check the email inbox of your school email address for an email from Thinkific. Sometimes these emails go to Spam, Promotion, or other folders.
If you don't have an email from us, check with your District Administrator to see if they enrolled you in an Ashlock Academy Course, and ask specifically if your name and email were included in the Group Enrollment Sheet.
If they were, and you still can't find your enrollment information, please email us at enrollmentsupport@ashlockconsulting.com.
If you are a Participant in a Course, have received an email from Ashlock Consulting Thinkific, and have created an account already, but can no longer login, please request a password update through Thinkific's sign in page.