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