Student Services Semi-Weekly 11/26/18

It is the mark of an educated mind, to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. -Aristotle

MHUSD Pillars

Promote Safety and Inclusion

Think Critically

Be Present

Embrace Diversity

Focus on Achievement

Nurture Community 

Student Services Projects

Discipline Discussions at the TK-12 leadership meeting.
Admin came together to look at site discipline data and focus on consistency, interventions, and process.
Highlights:

• Document, document, document- If it isn't in Aeries it doesn't exist. 
• Interventions need to be documented. 
• Be sure to double check the Ed. Codes you are using. 

Suicide Prevention Toolkit

Kognito Admin Updates at the leadership meetings. Thank you to those who attended! 
Highlights-

• review of the tool kit and how to use it. 
• reviewed input from Kognito training. 
• reviewed scenarios and steps to address 5150s. 

Upcoming

November 27th- Directors and Coordinators meeting, and New Admin training.
November 28th: Expulsion Hearing
November 29th: Suicide prevention work group (SS only), Tk-Adult leadership meeting.
November 30th- Full CARE team meeting. 

Legal Updates

Updates in CalPads and Discipline

CalPads and Discipline Updates (summary)

• LEAs must now report all incidents in which a statutory offense is committed, regardless if it results in a disciplinary action of suspension or expulsion
• If a student was first suspended prior to a final disciplinary action of expulsion, the number of instructional days that the student missed instruction due to the suspension that preceded the expulsion; and
• The number of instructional days the student missed due to the expulsion, which would be the number of instructional days from when the student is exited due to the expulsion to when the student is enrolled in a subsequent school, or the end of the school year, whichever comes first.
• Previously, LEAs were instructed to report incidents resulting in half-day suspensions for students with disabilities, and to only report incidents resulting in full-day suspensions for all other students. To align with Office of Civil Right rules, LEAs should now report all suspensions, regardless of the length of suspension.

Attendance

Hello everyone,
This is Jordon Godinez one of the new members of the Student Support Services Department. I have been focusing on attending meetings regarding attendance and truancy measures across the county. I have been able to get a lot of information that I hope to bring to our district and help improve attendance at all of our schools. I would like to thank all of the schools and attendance teams that I have met to begin the process of figuring out how we can improve what we are already doing when it comes to follow-up procedures for absenteeism. I also just attended the State SARB meeting on the 15th which was a meeting of any district in California wanting to get more information about the programs available to us to improve attendance and how districts can become SARB certified.

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Know you know...

The Lecture Bottleneck

Community based leadership

Art as an event

School Intergration

Dev. Exce. functioning

Maker-space

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CARE TEAM

Alicia Arizmendi, Jenifer Baez, Aaron Duron, Jordon Godinez, Linda Perez, Jaclyn Snyder & Danielle Warren
What is new?
We have great news to share! CARE team keeps growing! we have two new CARE members, Jordon Godinez and Danielle Warren.

• Jordon will be working very close with registrars and secretaries at school sites to monitor and assist with attendance.  
• Danielle will be a mobile team member. She will be working with several sites in our district.
• This coming week she will be shadowing us at the school sites. She is eager to meet every one of you and work with our students.
• Last week Mobile Team Members Jaclyn Snyder, Alicia Arizmendi and our School Links Coordinator, Julie Duran, attended a 40 hrs training/certification to be facilitators to the Parent Project.
• We are very excited that soon will be able to offer this program to our families in our district. We'll keep you posted. 

CARE Numbers
Barrett: 27
El Toro: 32
​Jackson: 7
Los Paseos: 63
Nordstrom: 20
Paradise: 9
San Martin/Gwinn: 97
P.A. Walsh: 31
Britton: 172
Murphy: 30
Live Oak: 173
​Sobrato: ​159
Central: 14

Foster/Homeless numbers
Barrett: 38
El Toro: 45
​Jackson: 12
Los Paseos: 75
Nordstrom: 27
​Paradise Valley: 15
San Martin Gwinn: 111
P.A. Walsh: 48
Britton: 41
Murphy: 42
Live Oak: 58
​Sobrato: 70
Central: 14

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SLS
(School Linked Services)

Crisis Line: 408-683-4118
Mental Health Call Center:408-885-5673
Emergency Shelter: 1-800-774-3583
Brain Fuse- www.sccl.org/brainfuse
Live Homework help 7 days a week from 1pm - 10pm

​Upcoming Food Distributions:
P.A. Walsh- November 28th from 9am-10am
P.A. Walsh-December 6th from 9am - 10am
San Martin Gwinn- January 8th from 1:30 pm - 2:30pm