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SENDAK NEWSLETTER FOR THE WEEK OF MARCH 10 - 14, 2025
Parent Teacher Conference Week
Thank you to the entire Sendak staff for their effort and support during last week’s Parent-Teacher Conferences. If for any reason, a family was not able to attend their scheduled meeting, teachers are to reach out to them to ensure communication. We want to have 100% parent participation.
Psychomotor: (Grades K - 2) – Getting ready for the SBA
Psychomotor schedule will alternate every week starting with Grades 3-5 this week and K-2 the following week. This is a tentative schedule:
8:30 – 9:20 (3rd Grade / Kindergarten)
11:00 – 11:50 (5th Grade / 1st Grade)
12:30 – 1:20 (4th Grade / 2nd Grade)
Teachers will be spending time to review or plan for Progress Monitoring in both Math and Language Arts, and to plan for small group instruction in both areas. Use this time to plan effectively and collaboratively.
Tuesday Banked-Time PD and Staff Meeting (1:40 – 3:30) with Staff Meeting
This Week: Planning for Math and ELA small group instruction
School Experience Survey
Congratulations to our first 2 grade level winners, Mrs. Orello and Mrs. Beery. They got all their parents to complete the School Experience Survey.
The annual School Experience Survey is open and online. We want all our families to complete this survey. It provides us with feedback on what we are doing well and what we need to work on. This is our school’s report card. The district also looks at the survey as one measure of our parent participation rate. We will have a contest for each classroom to complete the survey. The first class in each grade level to complete 100% of their surveys will receive a Pizza Party. All students whose families complete the survey will be part of the ice cream party.
Let’s use all means of communication (Classdojo, emails, texts, phone calls, notes home) to reach out to your parents to complete the survey….Let’s get 100% of our families to do this.
Spring Pictures on Tuesday.
Remind your students’ parents about this day, and to have them dress their children accordingly. Parents may choose to purchase these portraits for Spring. Forms are available in the main office.
ALL 5th graders will be taking Spring Pictures. These are the portraits that will be on their culmination certificate, so please remind the parents to have them dress accordingly.
iReady MyPath
Please ensure that ALL students are completing their iReady Math and Reading MyPath minutes (45-60) weekly. Students who complete their minutes and score 70% or better have shown strong growth. Nothing beats Best 1st Instruction, but this helps in targeted and individualized intervention for each student.
HAPPY BIRTHDAYS!
3/5 Cecilia Arevalo
3/17 Veronica Jimenez
3/29 Mary Schumacher
Monday, March 10
At Sendak: Laurie Bernhard, Kyung Lee-Kim (Music), Rose Jauregui Santillan (AP-EIS), Nurse Tina
7:55 First Bell
8:00-810 Morning Assembly – Perfect Attendance
8:10-8:30 Breakfast in the Classroom
2:25 Dismissal
3:00-5:00 G. Khatchadourian to NPS Mentor Meeting
Tuesday, March 11 Spring Picture Day
At Sendak: Leticia Panduro, Laurie Bernhard (Alt. Tues.) Rose Jauregui Santillan (Alt. Tues.) Nurse Tina, Margaret Younan
Off Campus: C. Lozano and G. Khatchadourian to Region North Family Engagement Summit Workshops
7:55 First Bell
8:00-8:15 Breakfast in the Classroom
1:25 Dismissal
1:40 PD: Grade Level planning for Math and ELA small groups
Wednesday, March 12
At Sendak: Nurse Tina
7:55 First Bell
8:00-8:15 Breakfast in the Classroom
2:25 Dismissal
Thursday, March 13
At Sendak: Laurie Bernhard, Cintia De Laura (Art), Leticia Panduro (Alt. Thu.) Cindy Lemus (PSA)
Off Campus: G. Khatchadourian to Data Dig Meeting at James Madison MS
7:55 First Bell
8:15 Breakfast in the Classroom
2:25 Dismissal
Friday, March 14
At Sendak: Laurie Bernhard, Nurse Tina, CFG, Rose Jauregui Santillan (AP-EIS)
7:55 First Bell
8:00-8:15 Breakfast in the Classroom
2:25 Dismissal
Upcoming Important Dates:
March 11 Spring Picture Day
March 31 Cesar Chavez Day – School is Closed
April 3 Student Success Awards
April 10 Bring Your Parents to School Day
April 14-18 Spring Break – School is Closed
April 24 Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day
May 5 Smarter Balanced Assessment Starts
May 13 5th Grade Panorama Picture Day
May 22 Students Success Awards
May 26 Memorial Day – School is Closed
June 6 Minimum Day
June 9 5th Grade Culmination – Minimum Day
June 10 Last Day of Instruction
6 Instructional Priorities:
- Literacy – reading, writing, and speaking across all subjects
- Numeracy – real world application of math concepts
- Science – Integrating Next Generation Science Standards
- Assessments informing instruction – DIBELs, DRDP, iReady, and SBA
- Professional and Leadership Development – ILTs
- Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) Cycles
To ensure District-Wide coherence, the following 7 Teaching and Learning Framework elements will be the focus for professional development, PDSA, Instructional Rounds, and classroom observations.
1b1. Awareness of Students’ Skills, Knowledge, and Language Proficiency Uses information about students’ academic strengths and needs, language proficiency and social emotional wellness in planning.
2a3. Academic Climate The academic environment is safe and supportive; risk-taking is encouraged, students freely share their culture, language, and ideas, and student mistakes are treated as learning opportunities, never with ridicule.
3a4. Use of Academic Language Academic language is used to communicate and deepen understanding of the content and is inclusive of the culture and language of students.
3b2. Discussion Techniques and Student Participation Techniques are used to ensure that all students share their thinking around challenging questions including strategies that affirm students’ culture and language.
3c1. Standards-Based Projects, Activities and Assignments Standards-aligned learning activities cognitively engage students in the lesson.
3c2. Purposeful and Productive Instructional Groups Students are grouped in order to promote productive cognitive engagement in the lesson.
3d3. Feedback to Students Students receive specific, culturally sensitive and timely feedback that will move their learning forward.