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Thank you for all you do and enjoy your break! January 3rd Elementary Asynchronous Science PD On the January 3rd District Professional Development Day, elementary teachers will be working through a 2-hour asynchronous science PD with their PLC. This PD will be emailed to all elementary teachers first thing in the morning on 1/3/22. The slide deck will provide all the directions and feedback form. Thank you! Contact: Megan Spears Due Date Reminders Thank you for all of your work on your SPSAs...good thing is the next two items aren’t as in depth. SARC - Updated in DTS by January 6th. Email me when yours is complete. I will be adding the district’s information next week. This doesn’t impact your work. Safety Plan - Updated in DTS by January 21st. Make sure to review and get approval from the Site Safety Team or Site Council. Contact: Rachael Peck Administrator and Classified Technology Refresh Technology Services is pleased to share the Administrator and Classified Staff Refresh has be

LMS Professional Development on January 3rd All Library Media Specialists will be attending district-provided professional development from 9:00 am - 1:00 pm via Zoom on January 3, 2021. Contact: Jennie Ruvalcaba GATE Testing Parents who signed their students up for GATE testing will be receiving an email from Ed. Services on December 10 explaining the specifics of GATE testing. This email will include the location, date, and time of the test. Please revisit your email from Jennie Ruvalcaba (sent on November 30) to view your specific site schedule and other testing information. Contact: Jennie Ruvalcaba LCFF - Requisitions When submitting a requisition for a purchase using LCFF funds, please make sure to note the goal it is connected to in your SPSA. January 3rd Professional Development Day Our upcoming District PD consists of Tier I Behavior Training (delivered by TOSAs/APs), DTMs, and Asynchronous Science Training (elementary only). In order to maximize the learning for the Behavior

Placer Food Bank Linked above is a resource for the Placer Food Bank public food distribution schedule. This is something helpful to keep in hand for families in need not only during the holidays, but all year long. LiveScan Update The Roseville PD is no longer doing live scans for fingerprinting. Please refer parents to other resources. Fire Marshall Inspection Follow-up was completed with the fire inspector to clarify what each school site needs to have posted. Please review the following and make sure your site is ready to go. In the front office/in safety plan binder- easy to access: - Post the telephone number for the fire department. - List of who does what during a fire emergency. In each room by the door: - Post an evacuation map. - Instructions for what to do in an emergency (how do you account for kids, communicate, etc). This would be the evacuation part of your tactical plan. If your site has backpacks with the instructions in them, then there should be something posted

Report Cards Must Go in Site Folder that was Shared with You A reminder that all final report cards must be placed in your site's report card folder that was shared with you last year. Clerical, if you do not have access to your report card Folder please ask your principal for access. All site principals should have sharing rights. Principals if you do not have access please let me know and I will share it. The folders are named school site report card, example Blue Oaks Report Card. In the folder you should see a folder for 2020-21 Report Cards and 2021, Tri 1 Report Cards, please put the Trimester 1 Report Cards in the 2021, Tri 1 Report Card Folder. Many of you have already done this but wanted to send a reminder. I will check your site folder again on Friday and email sites that have not done it since it is important that we can access this information in one place as a District. Contact: Brandon Blom Due Date Reminders SPSA - Updated in DTS and reviewed by your coach by

TOSA- Conference Week Here is a link to the TOSA Institute Agenda during Conference Week. Please remember this week of training is protected time for all TOSAs to attend so we can learn together while building coherence and capacity across all school sites. TOS As will be at Stoneridge from 1:00pm-3:30pm Monday-Thursday.  We are looking forward to a great week! Contact: Erin Peterson or Megan Spears Restorative Practices Onboarding Plan Please fill out the Restorative Practices interest form to let us know your tentative Pre Work onboarding year by November 17th. Contact: Erin Peterson SARB Updates The December SARB date has changed from Thursday, December 16th to Tuesday, December 14th. Please be mindful of this date change in order to ensure all referrals are submitted at least three week in advance. In addition, the SART and DART forms have been updated to fillable pdfs as a resource for your team meetings. Updated (11/8/21) SARB Schedule SART Fillable pdf DART Fillable pdf Cont

Change in substitute assignments through Frontline Due to the increase in unfilled daily substitute positions across the District, we will make a small change in the way our substitute pool is notified of a teacher absence. Starting on Monday, as soon as a teacher enters an absence in Frontline the need will immediately go out to all our subs. If a teacher has a preferred sub list, those folks will have a short window to accept the job before it goes to the entire pool. Our hope is that with an immediate notification, our amazing subs will be able to better plan their schedules, be more available to us and be more comfortable in knowing their assignments in advance. There is nothing for you to do, the change will be made from Personnel Services in an effort to get more jobs filled more quickly throughout the District. However, you can help by entering your absences in Frontline as soon as you know you will be absent. The closer to the actual absence, the less likely you will get a sub

Upcoming Job Fair - Information & Leadership Sign Up As mentioned on our Leadership call this week, here is some further information about our upcoming District Classified Job Fair on Tuesday, November 16, from 1 pm - 7 pm. Leadership Sign Ups We have created a Sign Up Genius with one-hour time slots for any leaders that would like to assist at the fair. We understand this is a hectic time and if you cannot make it, not to worry! And please know that if you can't make it, we will still be recruiting for all open positions, so you won't miss out on filling your site positions. However, if you have an hour or two and can come down and lend some support and be an interviewer, we would greatly appreciate it. RCSD Job Fair Leader Sign Up Sheet Job Fair Details/Marketing We have created a webpage that you may reference for further details. In addition, we will be putting information in Friday's Weekly about the event and putting in some verbiage in this week's Leadership

Elks Lodge Drug Awareness Poster and Essay Reminder - Please collect all submissions from your students by October 27. All submissions will need to be sent via district mail to Kristen Desimone in Ed Services by Thursday, October 28. Spelling Bee If you haven’t already, please complete the Google Form below if your site is interested in participating in the Spelling Bee by October 29. Information on the next steps will be emailed out the first week of November. Spelling Bee Interest Participation Form 2021-2022 Spelling Bee Timeline Contact: Kelly Paese Yusim EL & ELD Information - ELLevation Presentations Please work with your EL Site Leaders to schedule a time for them to present the Introduction to ELLevation Site Presentation Slides . The presentation will take approximately 30 minutes and can be completed at an upcoming staff meeting or on November 1, as part of your Site Staff Development Day. Thank you. Contact: Jennie Ruvalcaba EL & ELD Information - Designated ELD

SPSA As you work on your SPSA, please refer to this document for frequently asked questions. The document will be updated as needed. Reach out if you have any questions or want to set up a time to meet. Contact: Rachael Peck Student Teacher Placement William Jessup is looking to place six to eight student teachers for the spring semester. Let Laurie Milton know if you are interested in having a student teacher at your school for the spring. Start Date: January 4, 2022 WJU Student Teaching Program Details: WJU has eight (8) and 16-week placement options (CMT's receive a $400 honorarium for every 8 weeks supporting our candidates. $800 for a 16-week placement). WJU provides a university supervisor to support the candidate and master teacher.  CMT's must have at least three years of teaching experience and be recommended by their principal. Classrooms that support our student teachers need at least one English Language Learner and one Special Needs student in them. (WJU has o

Extra Backpacks If you need any backpacks with supplies to keep on hand for students, we have a limited supply left (plan grey and green). They can be used for all ages. Please reach out and they will be delivered to your site. Contact: Rachael Peck Safety Information This year maps are being created for school sites that show the location of rooms as well as gates from a Google satellite view. In order to make this happen, there will be site visits to identify the locations of all gates. Maps will be available to emergency personnel if ever needed. I will be reaching out to principals to set a date and time to walk the campus. Contact: Rachael Peck GATE Testing Please communicate the information that is linked below to families on Friday, October 1. All GATE testing information and the parent permission Google forms are included in the communication. Thank you! English: GATE Testing Information & Permission Form for Families Spanish: Formulario de Información y Permiso para

LMS Professional Development on October 1, 2021 As a reminder, Library Media Specialists will be attending district-provided professional development via Zoom on October 1, 2021. All LMS will be unavailable from 9:00-1:00 on that day. Contact: Jennie Ruvalcaba 2021-2022 GATE Testing GATE Testing will be taking place this year. Testing will be held in January and will be available for 3rd-7th graders. More information will be shared with principals at the September 28 Leadership meeting. Contact: Jennie Ruvalcaba Progress Report Reminder A reminder that progress reports go home this Friday. Middle Schools it is your responsibility to send out a message, here is a sample message you can use. Contact: Brandon Blom Tri 1 Report Card Date Change Report cards were originally going to be sent home by November 5. That date has now changed to November 12 to give teachers additional time for the 1st Trimester. We will go over more details at Leadership on Tuesday regarding optional training

Professional Development Days Reminder to Administrators that September 30 is a district professional development day and October 1 is a site professional development day. As mentioned in a previous leadership meeting, September 30 is dedicated to Data Team Meetings (DTM) at both elementary and middle schools. Teachers are to be given planning time on September 30 after they have met in a DTM structure. Remember that it would be helpful to give your teachers time to complete/revise their PLC Learning Targets-Essential Standards templates among other site/district initiatives. Essential Standard Math Learning Targets Documents Below you will find all the grade-level math essential standard learning targets documents. These were built to match the ELA format and can be utilized by your PLCs and in conjunction with DTMs. Teachers have access to these on the math tables of contents found on the learning site. PLC Math Essential Standard Learning Targets Documents Contact: Megan Spears iR

Face Mask Compliance Please remind ALL staff that they are required to wear face masks, covering their nose and mouth, and secured under the chin, unless they have gone through an interactive process after supplying a medical exemption from their doctor. Face shields with drapes are not allowed without having specific permission for an individual with a medical exemption. Please refer to CDPH guidelines , RCSD Welcome Back to School letter, and RCSD Health and Safety guidelines for further clarification. LineWize and SysCloud Principals and Assistant Principals should be receiving notifications from both LineWize and SysCloud. These two systems are used to monitor the internet activity of our students. LineWise monitors student internet searches and SysCloud monitors the students’ activities within the Google environment (email, Google docs, etc.). If you receive either of these notifications please follow up with the students to ensure they are being safe. Updated Music Guidance In

Tutor.com- Tutoring Help for Students in Grades 6-8 All RCSD students in grades 6-8 have access to tutor.com. Below is a message that will be sent to all middle school parents on Friday, September 3. Subject: Additional Academic Support for our RCSD Middle School Students Hello RCSD Middle School Families, The Roseville City School District has partnered with tutor.com to help provide students with additional support if needed. Tutor.com is a fully online tutoring service. You can get a tutor 24/7 in Math, Science, Social Studies, English, and Foreign Languages. Tutoring sessions take place in their easy-to-use online classroom, which runs in your web browser. Students can navigate to  tutor.com/rcsd  and login using their student ID and birth date (in the form of mm/dd/yyyy). The slide deck below includes details regarding tutor.com, videos showing how to connect to a live tutor, and more. If you have any questions please reach out to your school site. Tutor.com Information 2021-2022

Leadership on Monday - 8/30 A reminder we have PLC Leadership on Zoom on Monday, August 30 from 2pm-4pm. The Zoom link is in the calendar invite. SWIS Invoices SWIS Invoices have started coming in. When you receive your invoice, please email it to Katie Haupt and Erin Peterson as Educational Services will be covering the cost. Linewize and Classwize Admin Access If you would like an admin account for Linewize and Classwize, please watch the videos below showing how to use the admin side of Linewize. This account allows you to use Classwize to see what students are doing on a Chromebook. It also allows you to get more details about student search history. We are asking you watch the videos first because there are other controls that you would have access to that could change access for teachers and we want to make sure you are using the parts of the account that apply to you. After watching the videos please email Bryan Lemas and he will setup your account. You will then get an e

Critical Classified Roster Review Needed for August Payroll Your classified employee rosters are up to date with anticipated payroll changes for the new school year. Please check your roster on your Google drive titled “CL (School Name) 21-22” and review your current classified staffing list  by the end of the day today.  If you notice anything that needs to be updated or changed, please contact Lori Orr immediately at  lorr@rcsdk8.org . Quarantine Attendance Clarification There is a difference between a student quarantine from exposure at school and exposure at home. The attendance coding slides have also been updated: Exposure at School: Students are placed on Modified Quarantine (meaning they may still attend school but should not be attending extracurricular events). Students may CHOOSE to stay home, which then allows them to participate in Independent Study and a contract may be offered. If they do not want to come to school and do not want Independent Study, then they are coded “

We made it through the first week and hope your year continues to go well! As always, let us know if you need anything! Face Mask Exemption Form Just a reminder to please complete the Face Mask Exemption form that was sent out today from Meghan Baichtal. We are just trying to understand how many exemptions and/or requests sites are receiving. Please take a few moments to fill this form out today . 2021-2022 Stipends Your stipend sheet has been shared with you. Please have it filled out by August 16. If you have any questions, please contact your coach. LineWize Notifications Principals will be receiving notifications again of when their students are looking up adult or inappropriate content. Please follow your previous procedures for these notifications (i.e., following up with students, looping in counselors/APs, etc.). IA and LMS Professional Development Hours Principals, please review your site tab on  this spreadsheet.  Please remove any duplicate entries for your IAs and LMS th

We h ope you all had a great day yesterday with your staff! A couple of things came up that we wanted to make sure we shared with everyone. Face Covering Exemption Scenarios - If you have a face covering exemption meeting with a parent and after talking with them, they want to talk to someone at the district office, let them know they can contact a Director of Educational Services.  Then email/contact your coach to let them know about the phone call and meeting information.  Middle School - email Amy.   - If you have a parent that you have met with and they are actively working on getting a letter from their doctor stating their child doesn’t need to wear a face covering, the student can be in the room the first two days without a mask (48 hours). Be sure to begin the form for tracking purposes. - When filling out the Exemption Determination Form, if the student qualifies, you will be choosing temporary with an end date on July 1, 2022 in case it is a special ed student who will be in