Student Services Bi-Monthly

10/1/2018

Educating the mind without educating the heart, is no education at all
- Aristotle

Student Services Projects

FOCUS ON ACHIEVEMENT

Short term independent student is a positive way to ensure that students do not accumulate unexcused absences, don't miss out on curriculum, and ensure we are collecting ADA. In an effort to tie up lose ends and have a common process and procedure district wide we have updated the forms and process. Please be sure that the new process is followed, we will not be accepting the old forms.
Highlights:

It is electronic
If the short term IS is going to be less than 10 days, the principal can approve it and it does not need to go to student services.
Anything over 10 days needs to be approved by student services.
The process takes a minimum of 1 week to complete- plan ahead.
ALL independent study needs to be approved by the principal or designee.
A student can go on IS for 5-25 days.
All IS contracts need to be attached to the monthly attendance report.

Short term IS process

Short Term IS contract

PROMOTING SAFETY AND INCLUSION

SST PROCESS AND DOCS

We had a successful meeting with the SST coordinators. In the training the following was reviewed:

SST coordinator job description
Purpose of SST's and how they impact student achievement
Coordinating SST's and updates procedures and forms.
Collaborated around pitfalls, concerns, and common practice.

Embrace Diversity

Legal Updates regarding Foster and Homeless

Legal Update Documents

Our homeless and foster kids are one of our most at-risk youth. They have a higher risk of being truant, suspended and drop out of school. As this becomes a bigger issue, and more and more students identified we also need to step up our supports as well.
Highlights

Suspensions for foster youth
Foster Grade Requirements (AB167/216) extended to incarcerated youth and homeless*
Sexual health requirement for Foster youth, in cum.

Upcoming:

SEPTEMBER 27TH- South County Suicide Prevention Collaborative
SEPTEMBER 28th- Full CARE team monthly meeting
OCTOBER 2ND- BOARD MEETING
OCTOBER 3RD- Student Services- County Office- DAAC (SARB)
OCTOBER 4th- Student Services- South County for Health Leadership mtg, TK-5 leadership meeting (ESD office).
OCTOBER 5TH- All staff professional development (make sure your staff is signed up)
OCTOBER 6TH-George Flores conference (8-3:00 PM)
OCTOBER 9th- VAPE community presentation (Board room)
OCTOBER 11TH- 6-adult Leadership meeting (ESD room)
OCTOBER 18TH- CA Great Shakeout drill (10/18 @10:18 AM)

Attendance

Chronic absenteeism (subgroups)

Primary

Secondary

Legal Updates

In the news

Grading vs Assessment

Restorative Justice

Morning meetings

Social Learning

Independent work norms

Literature using science

CARE

Jaclyn Snyder, Alicia Arizmendi, Jose Rodriguez, Aaron Duron, Jenifer Baez, Linda Perez.

CARE REFERRAL

Whats New?

CARE attended Cecilia's Closet & Food Pantry luncheon, where we gained more understanding on how to better service our population. We are always grateful for our community partners, and resources.

The CARE team is finalizing informative brochures about CARE and Student Support Services.
Working with our SLS coordinator, we helped distribute food from Second Harvest food Bank near P.A Walsh on 9/26.
School presence. Our academic mentoring and check ins with students 4th to 8th grade is in motion. You probably have seen us more frequently at the school sites.

CARE NUMBERS

Homeless and Foster

Barrett: 23
El Toro: 32
Jackson: 9
Los Paseos: 63
Nordstrom: 19
Paradise: 12
San Martin/Gwinn: 99
P.A. Walsh: 32
Britton: 169
Murphy: 28
Live Oak: 184
Sobrato: 158

Barrett: 27
El Toro: 42
Jackson: 11
Los Paseos: 70
Nordstrom: 23
Paradise: 15
San Martin/Gwinn: 102
P.A. Walsh: 38
Britton: 32
Murphy: 31
Live Oak: 56
Sobrato: 57

We are wrapping up our collaboration with My New Red Shoes for the year, so if you have any families in need of clothes please have your liaisons contact us ASAP.

PBIS

Michele Bergeron

Reminder: Schools in Tier 2 or Tier 3, please contact me to set up a date for all of your staff (Certificated and Classified) to complete the SAS (Self Assessment Survey). This should take about 15 minutes to complete. This survey is used by the school staff for initial and annual assessment of effective behavior support systems in your school. We need to complete this before your next training date.
Schools that have completed all 3 Tiers of training. I suggest that you also complete this SAS survey to show your fidelity of implementation of all Tiers.
Please either email me at [email protected] or call me at Ext. 51091 to set up a date. I will then send you a link for the survey.

School Linked Services

Julie Duran

Upcoming Events:
SMG Food Distribution: October 9 from 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Walsh Food Distribution: October 24 from 9 am - 10 am
* The Bookmobile will be present at both of these food distributions to provide families with library resources, books, library cards,etc...

Resources:
Brainfuse: Live Homework Help that is provided to us for free through our public library from the hours of 1 pm - 10 pm, 7 days a week.
www.sccl.org/brainfuse