RCSD Leadership Blog

COMMUNICATIONS Red Ribbon Week Photos If you have any site Red Ribbon Week photos to share, please email or text them to Jessica Hull at jhull@rcsdk8.org or 209-679-4858. RCSD will be posting these on social and sharing with the PCOE Comms Team to share as well. Thank you in advance! EDUCATIONAL SERVICES Elks Lodge Poster & Essay Contest Don't forget to bundle and send all submissions to the District Office no later than Friday, November 3rd, to the attention of Rachel McCoy. See the email sent on October 10th for more information.  Raptor Update For Staff Members with rosters, Raptor Alert will now display a direct link to the My Profile & Roster page from the Incident Details of an emergency response. Staff can navigate more quickly to their roster information, account for themselves, and then account for students.  Lexia Family Night On Tuesday we hosted a Lexia Family Night for families to learn more about Lexia Core5, how it is used in the classroom, and how families c

EDUCATIONAL SERVICES Elementary Report Cards Please see the blog for additional information that was shared with teachers about report cards. We spoke at Leadership about Spanish report cards. The expectation is that Spanish report cards are printed for students and handed out to them. Spanish report cards do not have to be emailed home. To run a report to find students whose primary home language is Spanish, you can use the drop down menu in PowerSchool: Once you click on the grade level, then you would run report. Additional information can be found utilizing the guide below on how clerical run report cards. Running Report Card Guide (includes video) Sites have two options for Spanish report cards. The first is clerical run the report cards and put in the teachers box. The pro of this is it is easier to run them all at once for clerical. The only downside in this is then you have to give teachers a date that the report cards are due. Teachers do have the ability to run their own Span

EDUCATIONAL SERVICES Spelling Bee Can you BEE-lieve it’s time for the Placer County 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 27, 2023 . For more information and to view the Spelling Bee Timeline, please see the attached document.  Spelling Bee Participation Google Form 2023-2024 Spelling Bee Timeline   Contact: Kelly Yusim  October DELAC Meeting All DELAC representatives, who were entered on the DELAC Site Representative Form , have been welcomed to the 23/24 DELAC 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 their information to the link above and I will reach out. If you would like to join our October meeting, please click HERE on October 17th at 5:00. Many thanks.  Contact: Jennie Ruvalcaba 2024 GATE Test

EDUCATIONAL SERVICES District English Learner Advisory Committee (DELAC) If you have not done so already, please complete the 2023-2024 DELAC Site Representative Form   by 10/6 to share the name of your site DELAC representative for this school year. DELAC meetings are held from 5:00-6:00, via Zoom, and 4 -5 times per year. Jennie will reach out to all representatives to invite them to the first DELAC meeting that will be held on 10/17. Thank you. Contact: Jennie Ruvalcaba EL & RFEP Progress Monitoring  It is time to complete our fall EL and RFEP Progress Monitoring forms in Ellevation. This means that EL Site Leaders will be asking principals for 10-15 minutes of an October staff meeting so they can present this topic to teachers. EL Site Leaders will discuss the forms and support teachers with completing these forms by 11/3.  Contact: Jennie Ruvalcaba SPSA Thank you for getting your Comprehensive Needs Assessment done in your SPSA.  By the end of this month, please make sure to r