Great Things We Noticed:
- Mr. Lopez sacrificing himself to the Bee Queen on Monday morning! Thank you for protecting our families!
- Playworks games during PE at all grade levels!
- Bully Awareness books and read alongs!
- Hard work, deep thinking and collaboration during our Shared Leadership grade level norming sessions!
- Yoga in Ms. Cardenas' class.
- Sign on Mrs. Nichols' door as a reminder for students.
Nuts and Bolts:
- Vendors will begin set up for Fall Festival between 2:00-2:30
- All grade levels should administer their Trimester 1 District Math Assessment during the month of October. The specific dates and assessments can be found on this document. For more information about Elementary Math, such as the Scope & Sequence, Report Card Guidelines, and directions for entering scores into Illuminate, please visit the Elementary Math Google Site.
- Check out all the updates, opportunities, and resources available for RUSD Science teachers by clicking this LINK to the Science Newsletter. For more information, please contact Ashley Fulmer (afulmer@rusd.k12.ca.us)
- RUSD School Calendars
- The 2020-21, 2021-22 & 2022-23 School Calendars are on the RUSD Website Calendars
- The Department of Innovation and Learner Engagement will be hosting a Digital Citizenship Family Night which will address some of these parent concerns. This family night will be at Central Middle School on October 17th from 5:30-7:00 pm. Dinner will be served from 5:30-6:00 pm. The family activity and speaker will be from 6-7 pm. Space is limited to 50 families and they can sign up at bit.ly/FamilyDC2019. Here is the flyer with information regarding this event.
- Take your STRENGTHS ASSESSMENT! You don't have to read the book to learn your strengths! Find the link to the results survey here.
- 2020 Lois B. Krieger Water Project Grants for Educators Western Municipal Water District is offering educators in western Riverside County the opportunity to apply for grants for water-related projects. This program helps fund creative classroom projects that further a better understanding of water and the role it plays in the community. All teachers in Western’s District, both private and public schools in grades K-12 are eligible to apply for the grants. The deadline to apply is Friday, November 8, 2019. If you are interested, click the following LINK.
- News from ILE! RUSD is moving to Gmail!
- We are excited to announce that Riverside Unified School District (RUSD) will be moving its email and calendar platforms from Microsoft Outlook to Gmail and Google Calendar. This change will give all staff and students a uniform email experience with robust features offered by Google.
- The District will go live with Gmail for all staff during Winter Break. Through this process we are unifying the District’s email addresses into one name. This means after the transition, RUSD staff will no longer need to check @rusd.k12.ca.us email or your @rusdlearns.net emails. When staff returns from Winter Break, @riversideunified.org will be used District-wide for all student and staff accounts.
- As we approach Winter Break, the District will provide many resources and training opportunities to ensure all staff have the support needed for a successful tran sition.
- At this point, you do not need to take any action regarding your email or calendar. Please know that through this process, all of your Outlook email and calendar data housed on our internal servers will be transferred to Gmail and Google Calendar.
- For more information, please visit the Gmail Transition site.
- Girls Who Code Club Mini-Grants - LOOKING FOR VOLUNTEERS TO START A CLUB AT HAWTHORNE!!
- Girls Who Code Clubs are FREE programs for girls to join a sisterhood of supportive peers and role models and use computer science to change the world. When you start a Club, Girls Who Code provides free and flexible curriculum, resources, and a mini-grant of $300 if you have 3+ students enrolled in your Club. All you need is space to host the Club, computers and internet, and an adult who is 18+ to help facilitate the Club. Many Facilitators have NO technical experience and learn to code alongside their Club members.
- When you are ready to start your Club, create an account on Girls Who Code HQ to fill out your Clubs application and indicate your affiliation with Riverside Unified School District to get access to partnership benefits, like additional support and funding opportunities. APPLY TO START A CLUB HERE
- *Please Note: It is important that you indicate our partnership affiliation on the Clubs Application in order to receive partnership benefits!
- If you have any follow up questions please contact Ariana Flewelling, aflewelling@rusdlearns.net, Staff Development Specialist. If you’d like to learn more before starting a club at your campus, please join us October 24th at the district office at 3:45pm for our first Girls Who Code Facilitator meeting of the year.
- GATE Tune Up CoursesWe are excited to be able to offer GATE certified teachers refresher classes on GATE strategies. They are as follow:
- October 14th: GATE Tune Ups Session 1: Depth and Complexity
- January 27th: GATE Tune Ups Session 2: Think Like a Disciplinarian
- February 24th: GATE Tune Ups Session 3: Advanced Thinking Skills
- All classes are held at Alcott in Room K3 from 4-5 PM and teachers can enroll on Sched. For dditional information please contact Deborah Newton at dnewton@rsd.k12.ca.us.
- Writing and K-2 Reading Assessment Data Entry Deadline is 10/25.
- Illuminate Directions/Information
- We are currently working on “anchor papers” to help teachers in scoring the BOY writing assessment. In order to support those teachers that will be scoring before we have all anchor papers ready (We will be collecting more samples in SLT on 10/11) we will be uploading what we have, to the “writing assessment” tab on our site: bit.ly/RUSDELAElem Please let staff know that this task is not yet complete and will be a live document.
- In order to cut down on the amount of emails teachers are receiving in regards to the Writing Assessments, we will be creating a FAQ tab (under Writing Assessments) on the site to address common concerns. This will be a “living” document that will be updated as needed..
- If you need training in Advanced Phonics please see this form and we will contact them in regards to the training.
- Writing/ELD PD Dates
Focus: Innovation
What is the challenge: Solve a problem in the community.
Why should you participate? These problems plague Riverside, as well as other communities around the world. Let's work together to solve them and create a better life for all humans, plants, and animals.
https://sites.google.com/rusdlearns.net/hourofinnovation/elementary-tk-6
Hawks PL
"Innovation is the process of creating value by applying novel solutions to meaningful problems."
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HALLOWEEN PARADE UPDATE:
We will NOT be having the Halloween Parade this year....
We will be having a day of fall centered science, art, ELA, Math, etc.
Please plan with your grade level team how to make Halloween an inclusive, fun and enriching day. We will follow our regular schedule (how can you incorporate our theme into WIN time) have a Fall/Pumpkin STEAM Day... Let us know if you have any questions!
Shout out to Ms. Cardenas and her AWESOME idea of making each classroom a station and rotating students through. By the end of the STEAM time each SDC students will do 5 activities! How can you use your grade level team to design a fun and enriching time for our students? Be prepared to share at our staff meeting!We will be having a day of fall centered science, art, ELA, Math, etc.
Please plan with your grade level team how to make Halloween an inclusive, fun and enriching day. We will follow our regular schedule (how can you incorporate our theme into WIN time) have a Fall/Pumpkin STEAM Day... Let us know if you have any questions!
Upcoming Events:
- 10/14 - Calibration Walk Through with Mariana Robles (#2)
- 10/15 - High Impact Teaming - Coaching Session #2 - 3rd and 6th Grade
- 10/15 - Co Admin Mtg - Longi out 8:30-11:30
- 10/15 - Staff Meeting (Instructional Guide Presentation #1) - E103 - 3:05
- 10/16 - Coffee w/the Principal and ELAC - 8:15-9:15 - MPR
- 10/17 - Great California Shake Out
- 10/17 - 6th Grade Field Trip
- 10/17 - Virtual Principals Meeting - Carrie Out 2:30
- 10/18 - Fall Festival - 4:00-7:30
- 10/14-11/15 - Gallup Surveys - 5th and 6th Grade
- 10/21 - 10/22 - Carrie out UDL/MTSS Trip
- 10/22 - Team Meeting - 3:05
- 10/24 - School Site Council Meeting
Birthdays:
10/13 - Longi Summers - Assistant Principal
10/16 - Katie Tavaglione - 2nd Grade Teacher
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