good
morning. Family's is mr. Varney I'm here to
share with you this morning a presentation
that some of you might have seen at our back to school night
concerning Title One and
our Title 1 funds that we received
as an elementary school so that I'm going to share
my screen see if I can
pull up our presentation and
we'll go through this together okay
already I've mentioned this
presentation was the same one.
we went through and had on our back to school night and
I understand that some families weren't able to attend
so I wanted to make sure we had this available
to take a look at and if at anytime
feel free to ask any questions you
may have by contacting me here in the
office and we'll go from there I
don't want parent
meeting first off for
those you that are new to Dent we have lots of new
students in kindergarten
and also a lot of students
joining us from other districts is Greer.
Welcome to do an extra money and Anthony
Barney this is my eighth year as principal
at ditto Elementary School in serving this
community that Squat and I just
want to express my
my appreciation and would
have to get for three things
that we go through in navigating this challenging
school year and that is your patience and
your kindness and we are
very excited to be here in
learning with your kids at
our school and with
with patience and kindness will be able to navigate all
the challenges that we go through as we did
successfully last year is the welcome
to den let's carry on
what
it what is it that we're so excited about when there's
so many different things as I mentioned we are in person
I will welcome them back or shoot pool
day before 6 our
school last year we were naughty
do a full 6 hour day but this
year we are will be able to play
with sports equipment that have we
we missed out on last year students
are no longer sectioned off into cohorts outside
and inside and so they're able to
and have some moments together on
the yard and they get jealous of
cherry that on not just on the yard but in their classroom
as well so we're students are able to do
some pair sharing and even in some cases
student groups.
distance between each other and they're even
able to come down to the carpet for portions
of their day our
teachers are doing a great job to making sure that we have our seating
charts and all areas so that if there was a case
where we needed to contact face
and that is something
that we've done really well for starters clear and
there's so many other things that you
can't put the paper that is why we're so excited to
be back here in on campus
that we can feed to be safe with all that being said would you need to
make sure that we are safe we do continue to
follow the Mandate that has been
put forth West by our Public Health officials meeting
that students that are indoors will be wearing
that as well as a staff
at all times endorse in while
we're outside inside the options that have
the option to remove their Mass to get some of that fresh air
indoors unless we have a doctor's
note stating that a student needs a shield
we're asking.
Fallout mask mandate again for
our safety and again that's been
pushed down from the state's Public Health officials
alright I'll see combat the
the issues that we have class we
have two air purifiers preach
and when we have common areas like a cafeteria
or Library we have more than two
to get that purification of the air is
a helpful thing we are in the process
of replacing are filters in a
AC and Heating units
we have been up to date on those
are our systems are due in
a couple months and so each classroom
has their own system which means that the Air does not cross
from one class from the other which is a very helpful
and beneficial thing
up to date on that we can provide tpe
for students and staff can you sanitizing
we're
here for you and then we also brought
on a lot more
outside table to wear
teachers and classes can go outside one's
nice day and do some of their learning outside Outdoors
to get some of that fresh air and then lastly
for any students desks and
families that would like to remain on just learning as
a message we are 100%
good morning however we have partnered with so
much in County Office of Education to offer
assembly Bill 134 students to
have a distance learning option going
through the county operator but
let's get down to
what is the title one program is
a program that provides us with funds
to help our students support our students
that are at risk of not obtaining
or meeting Common Core State Standards what's
that mean
allows us to these funds that we received from the government
allows us to support students in
lots of different ways whether be within the
classroom or with personnel
this year then Elementary
is receiving a large portion
Title 1 funds of $159,268
and because of these funds
like I mentioned before they're off we're able
to offer our teachers and are instructional aides and
our staff trainings in a variety of areas
to help that learning of
he's kind of course dinner and some of those areas
are on this life
not
only do we offer training for staff we also use
those funds to offer programs to gather
data and assessment data for us
he came through five on the slide
you'll see that we have star Renaissance
Learning which is early literacy
star reading star Maps course we
also used Title 1 funds for PLC
collaboration days
you come and gather and analyze that data to
help form our groups of intervention Title
1 funds helps support
these initiatives on our campus
and I'll see you in that picture. If
we do also utilize some of these funds to help
are Miley blades are paraprofessionals in
any of the instructional materials they may need
when pulling their small groups for rad140
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there
are other ways go to
involved because that's what this is when you
come to school you have a partnership between staff and
and and parents and
because of that Bond we were able to
navigate last year with communication make
sure we continue that on and there's several ways
I don't want friends help us and
get parents involved with our school
one of them is a beetle
is a session of a School site Council that's
one of the ways that parents can get involved with
helping us make these decisions
on how we utilize These funds that
we received from Title One insult backpack
school night and even before so we asked
families that might have been interested in participating in School
site Council to fill out your name and
your your in your
and so we've been collecting these this
afternoon will be sending out Google
for families to vote
on or representative to
be elected on two are coming School
site Council and so that's really exciting
discount like I said house that's kosher
School figure out different initiatives
to get parent involvement and help
support our students in
all that we do and one of the biggest things you
need to review our site plan and
that will be happening in the coming months
if you're not able to to
take part in the school site Council that there
are things that you can do everyday with
your child as involved Partners
in education
you already doing it by being a positive role model for
your kiddos reading a story every
evening with your students arriving
them read the story for you actually
I'm not about to ask
questions about what
did at recess what was their favorite part of the day did
they have a good
day with their friends what did they learn from their
teachers I could did you study habits
there's lots of different ways that you're already doing it
a reminder
just to feel free to ask questions your
kiddos and if you do that that's
a fantastic gift that you're giving
your shoes because you're being interested in
your child's education units but
having these positive
y'all come down as we figured out the
last two years is to communication and even though
we are in person this year last year
we learned as a staff importance to be in constant
communication with our families
are teachers even said in a in a reflectively
that last year might
have been the most communication that we've ever had
with our families and in doing so we
connected with our family built those relationships
together because of that
if you don't know or
if you have question pants it's really important that you
feel comfortable and confident to reach out to your
child's teacher or the school at any
time we're in this together and if you have
any questions please let us know another
coming up in the next few months is parent-teacher
conference our teachers you want to meet
with you we don't want there to be any surprises and
so if you are interested or have any questions
at anytime please feel free to reach out to your house
cuz there's a lot of different ways to defend
the teacher they may use the remind app they
may use ClassDojo or they may use just
the simple email or even phone
call whenever your teacher preference is is is
the way to get older than nfn
if you're having a difficult time
cost in the office so we can point you in the right direction just
being on the same page
for the success of our kids
send a WeChat there's lots
of different ways to get involved in school I went
over how to be a part of our School site Council
there's an English Learners advisory committee this
trip is vitally important and
it is targeted to our Spanish-speaking families
of English Learners if you know an
English Learners in English learning
families please have them reach out to you
to form this committee we
have a committee returning
committee but we also need to vote
some more members on your act as well and
so if you're interested in being a part of do you like mini please
call the office and let us know because those
will be happening in the coming weeks parents
night Parents Club
rpto is a phenomenal resource to
our classes are teachers in our student last
year was very difficult having a parent-teacher
organization because of how we roll
once you are not able to have
meetings in person so if you're interested in being a
part of parents Club please communicate that to the
teacher's computer to our office and will
get you in the right,
we'll set up. Communication
Spokane Teachers organization and
finally you know hopefully one day
soon we'll be able to bring back there and we'll share them forcibly
at this point we're not as you know we are close
to campus because of the safety restriction
that we currently are following
and thank you for taking part in our El
Cap survey last year every year we
we we put out a local control accountabilities
plant and based on parent feedback
that feedback Rabil to take that information
and formulate our sky
you're so thank you for participating those and
you better believe there will be another one coming out
this year
lastly thank you for your
support these are challenging times and
we've been working through this together
not only this year but the following year as well I
do my time here in Escalon I've always felt
very connected to this community very open
and communication with these families
that we serve it's an honor to do so at any time
if you have any questions or if you ever
any clarification on anything that we're
doing in school please pick
up the phone give me a call here in the office
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and if not feel free to email
me as well
best 1usd. Org thank you
for your time and I hope you guys have a great day and
as always do dragons