Student Services bi-weekly

10/15/2018

He who opens a school door, closes a prison. -Victor Hugo

Student Services Projects

Promote Safety and Inclusion
Vaping Presentation at the District on October 9th. In efforts to educate parents, staff and students the ESD/Student Services department in conjunction with SRO presented on Vaping to the community. The presentation covered the what, how and what we are doing about it.

KRON 4 News

CBS News

Nurturing Community
The George Flores Conference was held this last weekend (Oct. 5th) at Live Oak High School. Although the turn out was not as high as we had hoped the sessions that were presented were useful!

Thanks to the counselors and admin who helped promote this conference!

Safety and Inclusion
Bully, bullying, being bullied, oh my! Student Services has been working with Special Education on developing a "safety plan" for kiddos who are being bullied. It is a work in progress, so please use it and give us your feedback.

Bullying Safety Plan

Short Term Independent Study Process
We are piloting a completely digital short term IS process (for more than 10 days). Please let your teachers and staff know that if they get a request via Doc Signing to fill it out so we can get it through to all the required signatures! Thanks!
Big Shout out to Vickie Brummel who has been a trooper in working out the kinks in this process!

Upcoming:

October 16th- Board Meeting
October 17th @ 3:00 LEA Committee Meeting
October 19th in SJ: Educator Forum
October 22nd: Safe and Healthy Schools (SCCOE for Stu.Ser.)
October 22nd: Community Liaisons meeting
October 26th: Full CARE team meeting

Attendance

This chart shows the primary chronic absenteeism as of 10.12.18. Areas of most need:

Homeless (13.0%)
Low Social Economically disadvantaged (7.0%)
Hispanic (6.9%)
Foster (6.7 %)

Leadership team conversations:

What are some of the specifics we are doing for each group (that are different from the rest of the populations)?
Do your teachers even know these kiddos are? What can we do to have a further reach?

Legal Updates

September

October

In the news...

Curiosity solving world problems

CARE

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

What is new?
Our Academic Mentoring is moving, we are working in small groups with students 4th to 8th grade. At the high schools we are doing individuals check ins.
We participated in the George Flores Conference, workshops were very informative, parents and student were pleased and motivated.
We have some new students that were in need of backpacks we provide them with backpacks and school supplies.
We also attended the San Martin Gwinn Distribution Event last week where the bookmobile from the Santa Clara County Library department was present with great success. We were informed that they will keep attending to this food distribution and the Food Distribution at P. A. Walsh.

CARE REFERRAL

CARE NUMBERS

Homeless/ Foster
Barrett: 36
El Toro: 44
Jackson: 9
Los Paseos: 71
Nordstrom: 25
Paradise: 12
San Martin/Gwinn: 102
P.A. Walsh: 42
Britton: 172
Murphy: 27
Live Oak: 181
Sobrato: 157
Central: 12

CARE
Barrett: 25
El Toro: 32
Jackson: 9
Los Paseos: 62
Nordstrom: 21
Paradise: 12
San Martin/Gwinn: 98
P.A. Walsh: 32
Britton: 172
Murphy: 27
Live Oak: 181
Sobrato: 156
Central: 14

Quick note from Transportation department: All students must have a bus pass in order to be admitted in the bus, starting this Monday October 15th. If you have students that qualify for free transportation and have not receive their pass yet, please notify parents that they need to submit their transportation application ASAP.

PBIS

Michele Bergeron

Just a few reminders about upcoming training days.

October 16th- Year 3, Day 2 training will be held at Gilroy Unified School District Annex building. 8:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

All training materials are available online in a google folder. If possible, please bring your laptop with you. Please, click HERE to access the google folder with these materials. Team members who prefer to have paper copies of the presentation and/or materials are welcome to print materials ahead of time. Each team will be given a copy of the Team Activity Notes.

The goals for the training include:

Gain Tier 3 Problem-solving and Intervention Strategies for students with complex behavioral and social-emotional needs.
Refine and update Intervention Inventory and Reference Guides to include individualized supports.
Develop a Map of School/Community Resources to apply to a case study.
Overview of Function-based Support (Prevention-Teaching-Reinforcement)
Next steps----identify student, gather student-specific information, identify possibilities for resources

October 17th- Year 2, Day 2 Elementary school PBIS training will be held at MHUSD office in the boardroom. 8:30 a.m. -3:00 p.m.

Here is a reminder list of tasks to be completed (or ongoing):

Schedule/Confirm future meeting dates
Use the TIPS Meeting format and agenda
Schedule Meeting to complete TIPS fidelity Checklist at your next meeting
Review before meeting tasks
Check in with your coach for assistance
Conduct the Self Assessment Survey with all staff before our next workshop
Plan for student and staff “booster sessions” based on data

All training materials are available online in a google folder. If possible, please bring your laptop with you. Please, click HERE to access the google folder with these materials. Team members who prefer to have paper copies of the presentation and/or materials are welcome to print materials ahead of time. Each team will be given a copy of the Team Activity Notes.

During Year 2 Day 2 Training your team will:

Review data to inform decision making in regards to creating a system to support our classrooms
Consider the current use of positive classroom behavior supports at your school and determine the priority areas for growth and development
Begin planning to create a system of support for the use of best practices in the classroom

As always, please contact me if you need any assistance.
~Michele

School Linked Services

Julie Duran
SLS Coordinator
(408)201-6065
duranj@mhusd.org

Upcoming Events/ Resources:
Food Distribution/Bookmobile: P.A. Walsh on 10/24/18 from 9am - 10am
Please invite your families to attend this food distribution if they are in need of food and also if they would like access to our Santa Clara county library bookmobile. Families do not have to show any proof of qualifications, all they need to do is sign in with us when they arrive and they are able to take home fresh produce, milk, eggs, bread, chicken, rice, beans, and other foods that will vary each month.
Free Santa Clara Library online accounts: I have been working with the Santa Clara library staff on implementing online access for all of our students and staff to utilize at school or at home. Please click on the link below for more information and materials to send out to your families. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me.
Library Online Account Information

Please click on links below for additional library events/ Tutoring Resources

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