March 24, 2022 RCSD Leadership Blog

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  • Leadership Dates the Rest of the Year
    • April 5th- In-person, start 9:15am
    • April 26 is on Zoom, start 9:15am
    • May 10th- In-person, start 9:15am
    • June 1st- In-person 9am-3pm
  • CA Healthy Kids Survey (CHKS)
    The CHKS survey is required to be administered every other year. Since it was administered last year, it will not be given this year.
    Contact: Rachael Peck
  • GATE Identification Update
    Ed. Services has received the student scores from the GATE identification testing. These scores are being reviewed and will be mailed home to families next week. All families will receive the scores and a letter from Ed. Services indicating if their student has been GATE identified or if their student does not qualify for GATE identification at this time. Administrators will be receiving an email with copies of these letters and an updated list of students who are currently GATE identified. This list will include students who have been identified in previous years as well as students who are newly identified. In addition, Ed. Services will be creating purple GATE folders that will need to be placed in student cumulative files. These folders will be sent to sites as soon as they are complete.
    Contact: Jennie Ruvalcaba
  • New Reading App in Clever: Sora
    As discussed in Leadership, Sora is a new reading app that is now available to students in Clever. Please review the announcement in the Educator Blog if you would like more information. The blog post includes directions on how students can add titles from the NorthNet/Roseville Public Library System to their Sora account. By adding the NorthNet Library System, students will have access to additional titles that fall within a wider range of categories. While the titles are still filtered and age-appropriate, some parents may have questions about certain book titles or the categories in which they fall. We will be discussing this topic at Leadership on April 5 in more detail. Should you have questions before that time, please do not hesitate to reach out. In addition, please let me know if you would like to further explore what Sora looks like from a student's view. As adults, we see different titles than our students will see on their end.
    Contact: Jennie Ruvalcaba
  • RCSD Administrator/Management - New Hires
    The district is pleased to announce the hiring of the following employees.  Please join us in welcoming and congratulating them on their new positions!
    • Director of Educational Services - Angela Garcia: Angela has been the Principal at Diamond Creek Elementary since August 2016 and will be taking the place of Amy Banks who recently took on the role of Associate Superintendent of Business Services in November. Angela will join the Education Services team at the end of the school year.
    • Principal of Gates - Kristin Ledesma: Kristin has been Principal at Summit Intermediate School in the Etiwanda School District (located in San Bernardino county) since July 2017. Kristin will be joining RCSD for the 2022-23 school year. 
    • Principal of Cirby - Farah Friend: Farah joins us having most recently served as an Assistant Principal in Yuba City Unified and Grass Valley School District. Prior to that, she was a teacher in Twin Rivers Unified for 18 years. She will take on the role of Principal starting with the 2022-23 school year.
    • Assistant Principal of Cooley - Kaitlin D’Arienzo: Kaitlin has been Activities Director/English Teacher for Antelope High School since July 2018. She will take on the role of Assistant Principal starting with the 2022-23 school year.
    • Assistant Principal of Buljan - Rachael Conway: Rachael has been serving as the interim Assistant Principal at Buljan since August 2021 and previously served as a teacher at Cooley Middle School since August 2011. She will take on the role of Assistant Principal starting with the 2022-23 school year.
    • Director of Fiscal Services - Dawn Mercer: Dawn is returning to RCSD after working at Placer County Office of Education as an Accounting Analyst III. While at RCSD she served as an Accounting Specialist. Dawn has taken the role recently vacated by Lynne Ashcraft who returned to take a position back with UC Davis. Dawn started with RCSD this week.

 

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