Maya and Dylan started their first day of sixth and eighth grade! I can't believe how fast time is going by. I am starting my 9th year here at Suisun Valley and Chris is starting his 6th year at Vaca High.
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Expectations vs. Standards (Good Enough to Repeat)
Expectations should not be confused with standards. Standards are levels of achievement. Teachers who practice positive expectations will help their students reach high standards. It takes just as much energy to achieve positive results as it does to achieve negative results. So why waste your energy to fail when the same amount of energy can help you and your students achieve.
Key idea: Expectations of students will greatly influence their achievement in school and in life.
There is absolutely no research correlation between success and family background, race, national origin, financial status, or even educational accomplishments. There is but one correlation with success, and that it ATTITUDE!
Humans have a success instinct. They want success. They strive for success.
Knowing what you can or cannot achieve is called expectation. An expectation is what you believe will or will not happen.
Classic Research on Expectations
Robert Rosenthal in the 1960’s fed erroneous information to a group of South San Francisco elementary teachers. In the spring of the preceding year, the students at a school were pretested. The researches and administrators told the teachers they were special teachers who were to be part of a special experiment. They were told, “Based on a pretest, we have identified 20 percent of your students who are special. They will be ‘spurters’ or ‘bloomers’ and are a designated group of students of whom greater intellectual growth is expected. The names were really selected at random. The teachers were told to not tell the students or the parents. “Thus we expect and know that you will do extremely well with these special students.” Eight months later all students were tests again. The results showed a significant gain in intellectual growth for the 20 percent who were designated as special. The teachers were quite surprised to learn that neither the teachers nor the students were “special.” The expectations, however, made all the difference.
Students tend to learn as little or as much as their teachers expect. Teachers who set and communicate high expectations to all their students obtain greater academic performance from those students than teachers who set low expectations. This is important when talking about our students from one grade level to another. Be positive!!
(Taken from The First Days of School: How to Be an Effective Teacher by Harry and Rosemary Wong
Here’s to high expectations for all students and ourselves!As a No Excuses School we have committed to teaching our expectations for the first 10 days of school.
Please welcome:
Karen Rodriguez occupational therapist (OT) to Suisun Valley for the upcoming year. Olena Shuprudko, COTA, is the OT assistant who will be helping me provide the treatment at your school.
Just a little bit about me, I was the OT at Suisun Valley in either 2012/13 or 2013/14. I'm excited to be returning to SV with Olena. I think Olena will be providing much of the direct services with students but I will be attending all of the IEPs for those students with OT services.
Hello. My name is Amor Flores. I have 3 daughters that attend Suisun Elementary. I was born and raised in Los Angeles. Big Dodger fan! 
I am very excited to join Suisun Valley. And look forward to meeting you all.
Hi everyone! I’m Donna Gomez and my husband and I have 4 kids and we are from Montana. I look forward to this new opportunity and working with all of you!
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