Newsletter
SENDAK NEWSLETTER FOR THE WEEK OF APRIL 28 – MAY 2, 2025
Tuesday Banked-Time PD and Staff Meeting (1:40 – 2:40) Staff Meeting (2:40-3:30)
This Week: Whole Child 2.0 – What’s New for Beginning Users – Presented by Azniv Tatoyan
National Denim Day – Wednesday 4/30/2025
National Denim Day is an annual event to raise awareness about sexual assault, combat victim-blaming, and support survivors of sexual violence. The day encourages people to wear denim as a symbol of solidarity and to stand against the idea that sexual violence is the victim's fault
SBA will start on Wednesday
A schedule of the SBA was distributed last week. Our 5th graders will start their testing on Wednesday and resume with grades 3 and 5 next week on Tuesday. Testing will be scheduled from 8:30 to 11:45 daily for the next three weeks, except for Mondays. Paraprofessionals will be supporting those classes testing.
Please ensure that students are quiet while they are walking through the hallways throughout the day (as make-up testing will occur after lunch). The Main Office will avoid making calls on the intercom or to classrooms on those days. So, please check your mailboxes daily to pick up any forms that are going home.
Enrollment Day – Saturday – May 3
This Saturday the Main Office will be open for student enrollment. If you haven’t done so already, please send home the flyers announcing this day.
HAPPY BIRTHDAYS!
5/2 Jasmine Aldaco
5/3 Jill Horowitz
5/12 Ana Diaz
5/13 Blanca Mendez
5/18 Jenniffer McLaughlin
5/23 Jenny Miller
Monday, April 28
At Sendak: Laurie Bernhard, Kyung Lee-Kim (Music), Rose Jauregui Santillan (AP-EIS), Nurse Tina
Off Campus: G.Khatchadourian to Principal Advisory Committee meeting (1:30-4:30) @ Beaudry
7:55 First Bell
8:00-810 Morning Assembly
8:10-8:30 Breakfast in the Classroom
2:25 Dismissal
Tuesday, April 29
At Sendak: Leticia Panduro, Laurie Bernhard (Alt. Tues.) Rose Jauregui Santillan (Alt. Tues.) Nurse Tina, Margaret Younan
7:55 First Bell
8:00-8:15 Breakfast in the Classroom
1:25 Dismissal
1:40 PD: Whole Child 2.0 (Azniv Tatoyan)
2:40 Staff Meeting
Wednesday, April 30 National Denim Day
At Sendak: Nurse Tina, PSW Rocio Kang
7:55 First Bell
8:00-8:15 Breakfast in the Classroom
8:30 SBA Starts for 5th Grade
2:25 Dismissal
Thursday, May 1
At Sendak: Laurie Bernhard, Cintia De Laura (Art), Leticia Panduro (Alt. Thu.) Cindy Lemus (PSA)
Off Campus: G.Khatchadourian to Principals’ Meeting
7:55 First Bell
8:15 Breakfast in the Classroom
2:25 Dismissal
Friday, May 2
At Sendak: Laurie Bernhard, Nurse Tina, CFG, Rose Jauregui Santillan (AP-EIS)
7:55 First Bell
8:00-8:15 Breakfast in the Classroom
8:30 Coffee with the Principal – PTA Info Mtg
11:00 Mr. John Rome visits Sendak
2:25 Dismissal
Upcoming Important Dates:
April 30 Smarter Balances Assessment starts for 5th grade
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.