Week of May 27, 2019
Dear Camino Staff,
After hearing from the district that Karen Ramirez would be returning to lead El Camino, I had a huge sigh of relief. To me, this signified a continuation of the work we have done for the last 5 years that matters most: supporting bilingual student achievement. I know that you and Karen will continue to ask these questions:
How are the kids?
What story does the data tell about ALL students?
What gaps are we working to close for our students?
Are we growing future leaders and educators to continue the work?
Our school has never been about the brand, it has always been about helping each and every kid grow to their potential. I have confidence that Karen will take our students to the next level with all of your help.
• Report Card Resources – If it’s helpful, remember there is the 4J Elementary Report Card website, which has information on comments (smaller space so make comments individual and not generic), the Report Card Bridge Document (matching the math CCSS to each section of the report card), tips on report card completion. Please budget your time to get this done in a timely manner. We have one day combined for grading and clean up this year. The grading window is open and ready for you to enter. It will close on June 19th. Remember, you will need to print two copies of the report card. One goes in the cumulative folder, the other is placed in envelopes. The cumulative folder copies should be separated and labeled by grade. Classified EAs will help file these on June 19th. This will not be MariCarmen or Yasmin’s job. They will be focused on preparing the report cards to mail.
• Care Team Resources – Linked here are a few resources that came out of last week’s Student Care Team Meetings:
• EUGfun 2019 Guide – EUGFun! lists a plethora of fun free activities happening across Eugene over the summer. Copies of this can be found on the EUGfun! website and there are also booklets available in the Staff Room. There are also coupons inside to help children find fun things to do at a very low cost.
• Family Court Assistance Office – The purpose of the Family Court Assistance Office is to help the increasing number of self- represented litigants in domestic relations cases (divorce, custody, or parenting time proceedings). Office staff can inform self-represented litigants of court procedures and available court forms, review documents, and provide information about legal services and other resources available in the community.
• Safe Families – Support for families in crisis get back on their feet. When a crisis strikes, many rely on relatives and friends, but for some families, this is not an option. For families out of options, you can call Safe Families and they will work to arrange care for your child with one of their certified Host Families. How it works:
• Parent(s) maintain full custody
• 100% Voluntary Placement and Hosting (Host Families are not paid)
• Children go home as soon as the parent(s) are ready
• Children ages 0-18 are eligible, including parenting teens • Volunteer families are trained and screened with background checks & home studies
• Stays can be as short as a couple days and as long as a year
• They are committed to reuniting parents and children as soon as possible
For more information or to get help, contact Angela Albin at (541) 349-2870 or AAlbin@safefamilies.net, or visit their website. https://eugene.safe-families.org/
• Friday Early Release PD – This Friday’s Early Release will focus on an article on Restorative Practices. All year, staff have said that they want to understand it better. This Friday we will cover a few basics to help everyone get on the same page with language and practical tips to support your classroom circles.
• 2019-2020 Staffing Updates – We will be conducting interviews for two bilingual EA positions next week. The Bilingual EAs will have two distinct roles, ELL EA and Kindergarten EA. June 5th from 12-4 will be the date of the interviews. We have a good pool to work from and Jennifer, Erin Skoubo, and I screened these candidates last Friday.
Here is the schedule of events for the rest of the school year:
May 27 (M)
No School – Memorial Day
May 28 (Tu)
7:45-8:00, Office Meeting check-in
Newsletter Check-in
Joel at the Elementary Principal Meeting until 12:15
No meeting.
May 29 (W)
4th and 5th Grade Field Trip to OMSI (All Day)
3:15-4:00, PLT- To discuss leadership roles for 2019-20
May 30 (Th)
Regular Day
May 31 (F)
12:00-1:30,Volunteer Appreciation Event at 12:00-1:30. Look for details from Zelene and Alicia.
2:00-4:00, Teacher Double Prep Time
June 3 (M)
Office check-in
2:15, Fire Drill
June 4 (Tu)
3:15-4:00, Staff Meeting- Celebrating success and planning for 2019-20. A210
4-6, Parent Group Planning Meeting for 2019-20, Library
June 5 (W)
12:00-4:00, EA Interviews in the Conference Room
PLT cancelled.
June 6 (Th)
3:15-4:00, Final GOTG
June 7 (F)
Regular AM assembly.
Easy CBM Benchmarking ends
June 10 (M)
All Grade Level Data Team Meeting 1 hour per grade. Subs have been arranged by Jaime Jones.
June 11 (Tu)
8:30-12:30, Field Day and School Wide BBQ- look for details from Dene.
June 12 (W)
3:15-5:15, PLT Rescheduled ESSA Goals Writing Meeting
June 13 (Th)
Regular Day
June 14 (F)
No AM assembly.
12:15-1:00, Racism Free Zone Dedication before Choice Time
Regular Day
June 17 (M)
Check out times available with Joel
Regular Day
June 18 (Tu)
Check out times available.
Pick up brown bag lunches early.
10:00-11:30,Promotion 5th-grade Breakfast
11:30-11:45, The School-wide Clap out
Last Day of School
11:45 Dismissal
June 19 (W)
Teacher Grading and Work Day
That’s all for the week. Get out there and do your very best for kids. They deserve it!
Saludos cordiales,
Joel Lavin
Week of May 20, 2019
Dear Camino Staff,
The Viaje Musical was once again astounding. The students were so proud of their work and Mr. Adee outdid himself again. It truly is like watching an artist painting a masterpiece when students move along to the beat and make music, dance, sing, and believe in the Camino dream. Thank you teachers, volunteers, and Mr. Adee of course for putting on such a beautiful event. This truly fits in with our cross cultural vision for our school.
• 2019-2020 Staffing Updates – Principals were told at our last meeting, pending budget committee and board approvals, that all schools (minus a few smaller schools) next year will get a 6.5 hour, Classified Behavior Coordinator to help with Tier 2 and Tier 3 student behavior support. This will be a new classified position and downtown is still deciding on the job classification, but it will be posted sometime in the near future. Also, we have two 6 hour positions posted under bilingual EA that are up on the district employment page. Be sure to encourage any excellent people you know to apply!
•Field Day+ BBQ is on June 11. We will have a variety of activities that are super fun planned for Tuesday, June 11. Please expect to have less instruction on that day. Teachers that lose prep time will be able to make up days on Friday, June 14. Also, the lunch will be a bbq style with recess.
Lunches will begin at 11:00.
Kindergarten and 1st: 11:00-11:35
1st and 2nd Grades: 11:35-12:10
3rd, 4th, and 5th Grades: 12:10-12:45 lunch
• End of Year Items – Several informational end of year items:
• Report Cards & Permanent Record Cards – Teachers can work on report cards anytime, but for attendance purposes, wait to print the later afternoon on the last student day, Tuesday, June 18th. MariCarmen needs to run an attendance update for the dates to calculate correctly on the report cards. The report card window will begin on Monday, May 20.
For printing report cards and stuffing report card envelopes, as has been done in the past, teachers will print two copies of the report cards, stuffing one in the report card envelope (an addresses report card envelope this year) and stuff one in student CUM files (in the back of CUM files, not the front). Another change is teachers no longer need to fill out the permanent records cards. For this year’s report card envelopes, do not put anything in the envelope other than the one sheet (printed backtoback). All envelopes have to be standard letter weight since this will be a mass mailing. All Title 1, ELL, and Sped reports will be delivered separately. If teachers would like help stuffing envelopes, there will be classified staff working on Grading Day, Wednesday, June 19th, so we should be able to find folks still working in the building this day to help if teachers get report cards printed before noon this day.
PE, Music, and Title 1 reports are to go home on Monday, June 17th the Monday Envelopes. SSD and Instruction are still deciding how to handle SPED end of year reports, which can be multiple pages.
Remember to choose one language to send report cards. Spanish or English report cards will be sent by mail.
• Last Day Dismissal Time – El Camino’s dismissal time for the last day of school, Tuesday, June 18th, will be at 11:45 am.
• 5th Grade Promotion & Clap Out – 5th grade is having their promotion ceremony Tuesday, June 18th at 10:00-11:40 in the lobby area. Their breakfast will begin in the library at 10:00 with some short informal speeches and closure. 5th grade will go to their room around 11:20 to get ready to go to the clap out and staff will help students line the halls at 11:30. We will line the hallways to clap them out and end their clap out in the gym before dismissal.
• Grab-n-Go Lunches – We’ll again provide students with a bagged lunch on the last morning. We will run this as we’ve done in the past. The younger grades will be called for lunches early in the day. Teachers can also send students with a wagon or Rubbermaid bucket to get lunches. Please plan to get this before 10:45 and arrange with B Loftis for the pick-up times.
• Friday Early Release PD – This Friday’s Early Release Math PD is for “Building Goals” so this meeting will be a number of business items including our ESSA Continuous Improvement Plan (CIP), First Day of School Plans (meet in gym or just go to class), Class Lists (how are they looking?), Master Schedule (updates and discussion), and any other business items folks might have, so let me know if you have any items to add to the agenda.
• Barcoding Elementary Curriculum Materials in Schools – Principals were sent an email letting us know that this summer a 4J cataloging specialist will be barcoding all the Journeys, Being A Writer, and Intervention materials in all elementary schools. Since we have three summer school programs using downstairs classrooms and teachers usually like to lock down everything, but teachers should make sure that the above-listed materials are not locked up and are accessible to the catalog specialists. Downtown also asked principals to remind teachers of changing buildings that curriculum materials stay in the current building and that staff does not take materials with them to their new location. Let me know if you have any questions on this.
• An Evening with Dr. Wendy Ellis: Building Community Resilience – A Call to Action – Tuesday, May 21st from 6:00-8:00 at the Ed Center Auditorium will be a free event sponsored by Lanekids and Lane Early Learning Alliance, for preK12 leaders, educators, and community members. Dr. Ellis will share information and lessons learned from the Building Community Resilience (BCR) initiative and the community-based efforts to address adverse childhood experiences and adverse community environments, which Dr. Ellis has coined the “Pair of ACEs.” See the linked flyer for details and if you’d like to attend, follow this Registration Link.
Here is the Calendar of events for the remainder of the year:
May 20 (M)
Library book return week (No new books out after the 17th of May)
EasyCBM testing begins
Newsletter Check-in
May 21 (Tu)
6th Grade MAth tests at 10:05 AM- Joel Proctors them. (Conference Room)
3:15-4:00, Staff Meeting PBIS (A210)
May 22 (W)
2:30- Fire Drill (Hopefully not during testing.)
3:15-4:00, PLT (Conference Room)
May 23 (Th)
3:15-4:00, Equity Meeting (A200)
May 24 (F)
Morning Asemblea- Normal time, please bring Virtudes down early for signing.
2:15-3:00, Math PLC (A210)
3:00-4:00, Teacher Prep
May 27 (M)
No School – Memorial Day
May 28 (Tu)
Newsletter Check-in
Joel at the Elementary Principal Meeting until 12:15
May 29 (W)
4th and 5th Grade Field Trip to OMSI (All Day)
3:15-4:00, PLT
May 30 (Th)
Regular Day
May 31 (F)
Volunteer Appreciation Event in the AM- Look for details from Zelene and Alicia.
2:00-4:00, Teacher Double Prep Time
June 3 (M)
2:15, Fire Drill
June 4 (Tu)
No parent group
June 5 (W)
3:15-4:00, PLT
June 6 (Th)
3:15-4:00, Final GOTG
June 7 (F)
Regular AM assembly.
Easy CBM Benchmarking ends
June 10 (M)
All Grade Level Data Team Meeting 1 hour per grade. Subs have been arranged by Jaime Jones.
June 11 (Tu)
8:30-12:30, Field Day and School Wide BBQ- look for details from Dene.
June 12 (W)
3:15-4:00, PLT
June 13 (Th)
Regular Day
June 14 (F)
No AM assembly.
12:15-1:00, Racism Free Zone Dedication before Choice Time
Regular Day
June 17 (M)
Check out times available with Joel
Regular Day
June 18 (Tu)
Check out times available.
Pick up brown bag lunches early.
10:00-11:30,Promotion 5th-grade Breakfast
Clap out 11:30-11:45, Dismissal.
Last Day of School
June 19 (W)
Teacher Grading and Work Day
That’s all for the week. Get out there and do your very best for kids. They deserve it!
Saludos cordiales,
Joel Lavin
Week of May 13, 2019
Here are some of the main items of the week:
• Stop, Walk, Talk Classroom Review – Classroom teachers, please review the linked 2 minutes 31 second Stop, Walk, Talk Video with students this week. EAs need to hold students more accountable for first trying Stop, Walk, Talk before going to an adult (unless it’s safety-related), by first asking students “Did you tell them to stop?” and “Did you try walking away?” before an adult intervenes. It’s also important for the student when they are telling someone to STOP what it is they want them to stop doing (i.e. “Stop following me” or Stop saying that to my friend”). Another reminder teachers can reinforce with students is to report situations (“tell”) right away and not at the end of recess when recess supervisors need to leave for groups.
• 2019-2020 Consumables Order: DUE FRIDAY! GOT TO DO TASK– Teachers were sent an email regarding consumable order for next year for Being a Writer, Journeys, LearnZillion, and FOSS Science. All orders must be completed by the end of next week. Here is a link to the Google Sheet.
• IEP Meeting Compensation – NonSSD teachers can use the linked NonSSD Licensed IEP Time Log (20182019) found on the HR Forms webpage (there is a separate form for SSD staff) to request payment for up to six hours of additional compensation based on you per diem rate. Submissions will be accepted through June 14, 2019, by 5:00 PM. Payment will be included on the June 29th pay installment. See the above link for details.
• Student Care Team Referrals Due FRIDAY – The Student Care Team will meet next week, which means student/family referrals to the team are due this Friday. DHS has been great about helping quite a few of our families, pointing them towards resources for a variety of different situations (homelessness, assistance with bills, incarcerated parents, counseling resources, and many others), so please consider referring a student or family in need. Try to get a signature on the 4J Release Form (English or Spanish) so DHS can research the family situation to see what services they would qualify for. And if it is of use in talking with families, linked here is an English/Spanish Care Team Flyer. If there’s a situation where you can’t get a signature for whatever reason, you can refer “hypothetical” student or family situations. Let me know if you have any questions about potential referrals, but if it’s a situation that’s on your mind, it’s probably a worth referring to the team.
• Friday Early Release PD – This Friday’s Early Release Spanish Literacy PD an assessment session for grade level teams to work together, so plan to bring your “Spanish tier 2 stuff” to A210. And remember, if you haven’t already, you can log your PLC hours for collecting PDUs by registered for Staff Meetings and Friday Early Release PDs by going to 4jpd.net
• Child Protection Unit Info – Erin’s Law lessons are now expected to be taught in by classroom teachers using a 6lesson Second Step curriculum that’s been purchased for schools. However, Matt has stepped up and offered to finish meeting this year’s required lessons, so teachers are off the hook until next fall.
In the meantime, if teachers want to look over the curriculum, it’s all online and I can give you the access codes for your grade level, as well as your grade level’s notebook and posters if you’d like them now. The plan for next year will be that in the fall teachers will go over the first five Second Step Safety Lessons (probably during Safety Week) and will teach the sixth lesson as a review/refresher before winter break and before spring break. State law expects all students kindergarten through 12th grade to be instructed in the child protection. Let me know if you have questions or if you’d like the access codes, grade level notebook, and posters for your grade level.
Here is the calendar of some of the main events:
Noche Cultural- Marimba del Rio
May 13 (M)
Newsletter Check-in
May 14 (Tu)
8:30-12:00, Joel to All Admin & Elem Principals’ Meeting (Ed Center)
4:45-5:45, Site Council
6:00-7:15, Parent Group
May 15 (W)
3:15-5:14, PLT ESSA Goals Planning- Goal #2
Viaje Musicale Setup
May 16 (Th)
10:05-11:15, Joel proctoring 6th Grade Math Tests (Conference Room)
The gym is not available after school.
Viaje musical setup
May 17 (F)
2:00-3:00, Data Team Meeting on Spanish Core
6:00-8:00, Viaje Musical (Gym)
May 20 (M)
Library book return week (No new books out after the 17th)
EasyCBM testing begins
Newsletter Check-in
May 21 (Tu)
3:15-4:00, Staff Meeting PBIS (A210)
May 22 (W)
2:30- Fire Drill (Hopefully not during testing.)
3:15-4:00, PLT (Conference Room)
May 23 (Th)
3:15-4:00, Equity Meeting (A200)
May 24 (F)
2:15-3:00, Math PLC (A210)
3:00-4:00, Teacher Prep
May 27 (M)
No School – Memorial Day
May 28 (Tu)
Newsletter Check-in
Joel at the Elementary Principal Meeting until 12:15
May 29 (W)
4th and 5th Grade Field Trip to OMSI (All Day)
3:15-4:00, PLT
May 30 (Th)
Regular Day
May 31 (F)
2:00-4:00, Teacher Double Prep Time
June 3 (M)
2:15, Fire Drill
June 4 (Tu)
Site Council (Meet new principal?)
No parent group
June 5 (W)
3:15-4:00, PLT
June 6 (Th)
3:15-4:00, Final GOTG
June 7 (F)
Easy CBM Benchmarking ends
June 10 (M)
All Data Data Team Meeting
June 11 (Tu)
8:30-12:30, Field Day and School Wide BBQ
June 12 (W)
3:15-4:00, PLT
June 13 (Th)
Regular Day
June 14 (F)
Regular Day
June 17 (M)
Regular Day
June 18 (Tu)
Promotion 5th-grade Breakfast (Tentative)
Last Day of School
That’s all for the week. Get out there and do your very best for kids. They deserve it!
Saludos cordiales,
Joel Lavin
Week of May 6, 2019
Happy Teacher Appreciation Week,
This week is Teacher Appreciation Week, which is a week to give explicit thanks to teachers. Yes, all our staff support our kids each and every day. And, teachers, this is YOUR WEEK! You have a special gift to recognize each and every child and help them grow. Our teachers are extraordinary in their dedication to students and their abilities to reach students. Your approach to the whole child is noticed by all of us. We can see your actions making such a huge difference in our students’ lives. You all are the best, and I’m so happy and proud to be part of our fantastic team that supports our teachers each and every day!
The Parent Group is working to recognize ALL El Camino teachers, this week, so look for goodies in the Staff Room! Also, please check your mailboxes for kind things each day to celebrate your work as teachers.
Here are a few items of note for the week:
• 2019-2020 Consumables Order: Please Complete by May 17 – Teachers were sent an email regarding consumable order for next year for Being a Writer, Journeys, LearnZillion, and FOSS Science. All orders must be completed by the end of next week. Here’s a direct link to the Google Spreadsheet.
• Grade Book Training & Report Card Marks – Brooke emailed principals and asked us to share the following information:
Dear Teachers,
For those interested, the district will have some additional Elementary GradeBook training for the second semester grading period, please be on the lookout for an email from Tammy Christensen with specifics about dates and times.
Besides, we have some clarification of the report card marks, we want to make sure staff are clear about the percentages and marks 1-4. The 1-4 marks are not rubricked scores.
This image shows the percent ranges the Elementary Report Card Sub-Committee assigned to each mark. Note the percent range necessary to earn each mark on the report card.
Please direct your questions tosis@4j.lane.edu.
Thanks
Brooke
• Courage Kids Summer Camp Sign Up – Courageous Kids offers a free 4 day/3 night camp for youth grades 1st-12th who have experienced the death of a loved one. Space is limited so register quickly. See the linked flyer for details about this year’s camp and please share with any students or families who you think would benefit.
•Transitions Intent to enroll: This week you will receive a letter to send home to parents about intending to stay at El Camino next year. We will use this as a guide to help balance classes in all grades. It may also give is strong evidence to shift FTE to lower grades if we find that there is significant attrition in upper grades. I will have the letter ready on Monday afternoon.
Calendar of events for May and early June:
May 6 (M)
Teacher Appreciation Week
PLC time with Reid
May 7 (Tu)
Office Meeting
PLC Time with Reid
3:15-4:00, Staff Meeting (A210)
Agenda:
- Celebrations of success
- Peer Leadership
- Planning 19-20 and End of Year Activities for 19′
May 8 (W)
OEA Teacher Walkout- No School
May 9 (Th)
Regular Day
May 10 (F)
2:00-3:00, Technology Learning Led by Teachers including Apple Classroom and Dreambox
3:00-4:00, Teacher Prep Time
May 13 (M)
Newsletter Check-in
May 14 (Tu)
4:45-5:45, Site Council
6:00-7:15, Parent Group
May 15 (W)
3:15-5:00, PLT ESSA Goals Planning
Viaje Musicale Setup
May 16 (Th)
The gym is not available after school.
Viaje musical setup
May 17 (F)
2:00-3:00, Data Team Meeting on Spanish Core
6:00-8:00, Viaje Musical (Gym)
May 20 (M)
EasyCBM testing begins
Newsletter Check-in
May 21 (Tu)
3:15-4:00, Staff Meeting PBIS (A210)
May 22 (W)
3:15-4:00, PLT (Conference Room)
May 23 (Th)
3:15-4:00, Equity Meeting (A200)
May 24 (F)
2:15-3:00, Math PLC (A210)
3:00-4:00, Teacher Prep
May 27 (M)
No School – Memorial Day
May 28 (Tu)
Newsletter Check-in
Joel at the Elementary Principal Meeting until 12:15
May 29 (W)
4th and 5th Grade Field Trip to OMSI (All Day)
3:15-4:00, PLT
May 30 (Th)
Regular Day
May 31 (F)
2:00-4:00, Teacher Double Prep Time
June 3 (M)
2:15, Fire Drill
June 4 (Tu)
Site Council (Meet new principal?)
No parent group
June 5 (W)
3:15-4:00, PLT
June 6 (Th)
3:15-4:00, Final GOTG
June 7 (F)
Easy CBM Benchmarking ends
June 10 (M)
All Data Data Team Meeting
June 11 (Tu)
8:30-12:30, Field Day and School Wide BBQ
June 12 (W)
3:15-4:00, PLT
June 13 (Th)
Regular Day
June 14 (F)
Regular Day
June 17 (M)
Regular Day
June 18 (Tu)
Promotion 5th-grade Breakfast (Tentative)
Last Day of School
Have a good week everyone! You’ve got this! Have a fantastic week with your students! Make every moment count.
Joel
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