This is my 6th year as the Principal of Suisun Valley. I feel very honored that I was chosen among my colleagues and other elementary principals in our region as elementary Principal of the year. I am even more honored that my staff took time during our staff meeting to celebrate as well. I am so lucky to work with a great group of teachers that keep the culture on our campus focused on the positive. Our jobs are very hard and demanding and it makes it much easier to come to work every day when you have a positive culture on campus like we do here at Suisun Valley. I LOVE our school, staff, students and parents and feel lucky every day that I work at Suisun Valley!!
During our SSC we addressed some of the questions teachers had about our current Academic Support position. Mrs. Merodio was in attendance, so she could answer those questions in person. She currently has been providing direct contact to at least 53 students and by the end of the year has supported at least 200 students. She provides Tier 3 intervention to 1st – 8th graders. Tier 3 intervention requires for groups to be small so that it can make the biggest impact. Her contract every year is from the first day of school to the end of April. She holds an open support/drop in time before school starts for students or staff. During this time she supports students in writing/reading or if they need help working on class projects. She also does check ins and check outs with numerous students on campus. She continues to plan with teachers by co-teaching or co-planning in reading or writing. She attends SST meetings. At the beginning of the year she works with the Kinder team to work on CELDT prep and our EL population. She said is willing to help/support with writing in math if the math problem is supplied by the classroom teacher. SSC has approved Academic Support for ELA for 2017-18. I know some would have liked both or only math as our Academic Support teacher. We are still going to work on building a relationship with SCC, so their students can help work with our students during class time.
Our SBAC data does show that we do need support in ELA. Overall our SBAC ELA was 58% and SBAC Math was 42%. However, we had 5 grade levels go decline in ELA and had two grade levels decline in math.
So.... Spring is here. Can you tell yet? Please help us reinforce the rules and remember to teach your character trait lesson for the month. Daily class meetings help with daily tattle telling that happens when students come in from recess. Check out this article HERE
Family Newsletter and Calendar
Observable Fish Moments at SV:
Play: Thank you Sarah for making our HAPPY video last year!! Still love watching it.
Choose your attitude:
To actually choose how you respond to life, not just react, you must be intentional. Ask yourself throughout the day, "What is my attitude right now? Is it helping the people who depend on me? Is it helping me to be most effective?" NO EXCUSES!!
Make Their Day: When was the last time you had lunch with a student? Make their day by eating with a student and finding out much more about them :)
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