October 13, 2022 Leadership Blog

Generating Report Cards

Principals, a reminder to please get your staff the timeline for their preview and when you will run their report cards. Report Card prep is November 2nd.  We know this information is early but wanted to let you know we also have information in the Educator blog regarding report cards this week.

Clerical, please see the guides below.  At the clerical meeting on October 19th we will have optional training at the end for anyone that wants to review how to generate report cards.  

• Generating Report Card Guide

• SwiftReach | Using PDF Builder to email Report Cards | Updated 2021

• For elementary: The District will run all TK report cards, the site does not need to run TK report cards.

• For both MS and Elementary:
  Attendance records will be through November 4th, and will start showing by by the end of Monday 11/7. Please make sure to add this comment in the comment section;

• Attendance records for dropped classes are not included on this report card.

• Select Grading Period 1 when running report cards.
  
  

• Middle School Clerical Only: Sites will run the final report cards by morning of 11/10, the District will combine the files and email it out. Put in your site folder, and email Joe Clark and Brandon Blom. We will combine the files and email them out.

Report Card Folders

Principals, you should have access to your site report card folder.  Please make sure you give editing access to the site clerical that runs report cards, especially if you have someone new to their role. If you do not have access please email Brandon and he will send you the folder.

Contact: Brandon Blom

10/31 and 11/1 PD
Please remember to share your PD plan for both PD days with all staff. For elementary this includes reaching out to your PE and Music teachers. The expectation for those two groups is that they are part of the PD in the morning of 10/31, they have the afternoon of 10/31 to meet in their groups. For 11/1 please let them know if there is part of the day you would like for them to attend (for example if you are doing Restorative Practices training they should attend).

Spelling Bee

Can you BEE-lieve it’s time for the Placer Country Spelling Bee? The Spelling Bee is for students in grades 4-8. If your site is interested in participating in the Spelling Bee, please complete the Google Form below by October 28th, 2022. For more information and to view the Spelling Bee Timeline, please see the attached document. 

Spelling Bee Interest Form

2022-2023 Spelling Bee Timeline

Contact: Kelly Yusim

Upcoming DELAC Meeting

All DELAC representatives, who were entered on the 2022-2023 DELAC Site Representative Form, have been welcomed to the team and invited to our first DELAC meeting. That being said, it is not too late to add a representative to the team. If you find a representative at any point throughout the year, please add them to the link above and I will reach out.  If you would like to join our first Zoom meeting, please click HERE on October 18th at 5:00. Many thanks. 

Contact: Jennie Ruvalcaba

 

National School Bus Safety Week- Evacuation Drill 10/19/22

The week of October 17 through October 21 is National School Bus Safety Week.  

As a part of this week, we are taking the opportunity to do bus evacuation drills.  We are required by law in both the CA Code of Regulations and The California Ed Code to do this on an annual basis.  The codes are listed below for your reference.  We will be doing our evacuation drills on Wednesday, October 19 in the afternoon prior to taking the student home.  We request that school administration be on hand to assist with the drills.  We have a short speech to review the bus rules as well as talk through the evacuation process and then perform the drill.  This will take anywhere between 10 to 15 minutes based on the number of students and the cooperation received.  I understand that this is the first time that we are performing these drills in the afternoon, however, this will ensure that the students are not late getting to class in the morning.  

Below is a schedule so that each school will know when to expect the bus evacuation drill.

RCSD Bus Evacuations 10/19/22

Contact: Kari Felkins  

Cal. Code Regs. Tit. 5, § 14102

Section 14102 - Bus Evacuation Instruction  Each school year, the governing board shall provide, and require each pupil who is transported from home to school in a school bus to receive, appropriate instruction in safe riding practices and emergency bus evacuation drills.

EC 39831.5.  

(a) All pupils in prekindergarten, kindergarten, and grades 1 to 12, inclusive, in public or private school who are transported in a schoolbus or school pupil activity bus shall receive instruction in schoolbus emergency procedures and passenger safety. The county superintendent of schools, superintendent of the school district, or owner/operator of a private school, as applicable, shall ensure that the instruction is provided as follows: (3), proper passenger conduct, bus evacuation, and location of emergency equipment. Instruction also may include responsibilities of passengers seated next to an emergency exit. As part of the instruction, pupils shall evacuate the schoolbus through emergency exit doors.