July 31, 2025 RCSD Leadership Digest

Communications

ParentSquare

• Please ensure you share the training slides with teachers before the start of school.
• Review these ParentSquare changes at your earliest convenience. A major change is the unmerging of personal and professional accounts - learn more here.
• All permission slips/forms should be accessible in ParentSquare forms. Have a form you don’t see in ParentSquare? Please contact Jessica Hull.
• We’ll be once again hosting two family nights for ParentSquare. See flyer for details.
• All new users have been sent invitations to join ParentSquare. Invitations will be sent out by the District each Monday for all new users.
• Language you can include in your site communications, including links to download the app, can be found here.

Contact: Jessica Hull

Communications 101
This updated Communications 101 Guide will be shared with all staff in today’s Educator Digest.

Visitor Photos/Videos
In accordance with state and federal privacy regulations and our RCSD opt-out, please ensure this information is posted at your school site and shared with families throughout the year.

Every Day Matters Attendance Campaign
Here is a blurb to include in back-to-school newsletters/messaging.
Here are slides you can use in your back-to-school presentations/messaging in PDF and PNG formats.

New Administrators
If you are new to RCSD, this overview will assist you in understanding RCSD communication procedures and protocols.
Contact: Jessica Hull

Temperature Guidelines
With high temperatures, it is important that we encourage students that are outside to drink water and get breaks in the shade. When temperatures are 95 degrees and above, activities should be adjusted to reduce strenuous exercises. When the temperature is 100 degrees at the time of the activity, bring the students inside. Any time it is 100 degrees or above, students must be brought inside. For example, if the forecast is a high of 102, but at lunchtime, it is 92, students can go outside and play.
With all warm days, staff should be encouraged to remind students to reduce running/exertion activities and allow any student who complains of overheating to go to the office for rest and observation. With direct sun, certain areas of a school site may increase heat exposure, such as blacktop or concrete areas. Caution should be taken to observe all students for signs of overexposure.
Students who are abnormally affected by high temperatures should be given special consideration, and require follow-up by staff.

American Heart Association Kids Heart Challenge
The American Heart Association is hoping to engage more schools and community members in RCSD. For more information, please view these flyers and reach out to Ashley Carpenter at ashley.carpenter@heart.org or by phone at (209) 454-7726. When you book a call with her, you’ll receive five new playground balls for your school.

Educational Services

i-Ready/IXL Window 1
i-Ready Window 1 is from August 11th-September 5th. The first Diagnostic is automatically set in i-Ready and IXL. Please work with your PLCs to know when the Diagnostics will be administered. Please ensure the assessments are completed within the window.
Contact: Kelly Yusim

K-5 PD Cycle Sign Up
Below is the document for K-5 PD Cycle sign ups. Please choose a date, if you haven’t already.
Admin: K-5 PD Cycle Sign Ups
Contact: Lisa Wegsteen and Kelly Yusim

Raptor
Please make sure your Raptor app is updated and you can log in. These reminders will also be shared in the Educator Digest next week: Beginning of the Year Reminders.
All staff with the app have the ability to initiate an emergency. Please be careful not to initiate one during a drill. An emergency is initiated by using the icons on the main screen. It then asks you to slide to initiate. Again, please do not do this for a drill.
If you need a refresher on Raptor, check out the information on the Site Safety Information.
Contact: Rachael Peck

PBIS Tier I and Tier II
Please review the leadership slides regarding the IPBIS training for the TFI 3.0. Submit your site interest form if you haven’t done so already by August 13th.
Contact: Lauren Ellison

CA PBIS Conference
The 2025 California PBIS Conference is October 9-10, 2025 at the Safe Credit Union Convention Center in Sacramento. If you want to send staff, please fill out the google form by August 29th so registration can be made with the district credit card and then billed back to your school ($450 per attendee). Conference sells out!
Admin: Conference Registration Google Form
Contact: Lauren Ellison

Personnel Services

Staff Training Reports in Public School Works
All RCSD staff are required to complete their mandated Public School Works training by September 16th, 2025. Administrators and managers can pull a report for staff with incomplete training. To access instructions for pulling late training reports, click here or watch this video. If you have additional questions please click here.
Contact: Katherine Goldman

Dates to Know
CLICK HERE for important Dates to Remember