October 30, 2025 RCSD Leadership Digest
Book Study - Chapters 7-9 for the November 19th Leadership Meeting
Custodian Schedules 10/31
Many night custodians are off or may be working day hours on Friday, 10/31. Additionally, day custodians may be off or the position may not be filled (subservices closed Friday). Please communicate with the staff to plan to handle alarms and locking of doors/gates on Friday in case no one is there. Thank you for the teamwork in providing a safe and secure campus for the weekend.
Contact: Vickie Mailey
Elks Lodge Drug Awareness - Reminder
Please bundle and send all submissions to the District Office no later than Friday, November 7th, to Kayla Satchwell in Ed. Services.
Data Update
State and District 2024/25 CAASPP data is now public and available to view. You may share this data with your Site Council at an upcoming Site Council meeting. The California Dashboard is scheduled to be live in November. I will keep you updated as that data is available. We will spend time at our December leadership meeting reviewing the CA Dashboard data. If you would like to wait and share CAASPP and Dashboard data at the same time with your Site Council, that is ok too.
A reminder that iReady Window #1 and CAASPP 24/25 data should be shared with all staff by October 31st.
Contact: Angela Garcia
Update to i-Ready Settings
This message is being shared just with principals at this time. There has been an update to the i-Ready settings. Teachers can now only assign the Standards Mastery Assessments and will no longer be able to assign the Diagnostic or Growth Monitoring Assessments. If teachers would like the Growth Monitoring Assessments assigned, anyone with an admin account can assign them for the teacher and their students. Diagnostics will be assigned for teachers during the designated assessment windows. Additionally, any new students will have the Diagnostic automatically assigned upon enrollment and can take it as needed for instructional placement.
Contact: Kelly Yusim or Angela Garcia
October 31st Professional Development Sign in Sheets
The sign in sheets for K-2 Amira, 3-5 and 6-8 Interim Assessment Professional Development was mailed to you this week. These are for the afternoon sessions at your sites on October 31st. All Professional Development sessions that are off site will have a sign in sheet there for staff. If you need an additional copy, there is one linked here.
Contact: Angela Garcia
Steve Dunn Professional Development: November 3rd-7th
Steve will be here next week. You should have a calendar invite for a half day Professional Development on either Monday or Tuesday at the District Office. Principals and Assistant Principals are at alternate times to ensure everyone receives the training. Steve will then be out at sites the rest of the week at the time and location indicated on the calendar invite you received. We will start each visit in the classroom of the host teacher for 15 minutes, followed by principals observing Steve model the feedback process for 15 minutes, and then a final 15 minute debrief with only Principals/APs and Steve.
BTAM Articulation - Elementary to Middle School
Please remember to articulate information with middle schools as students move from 5th to 6th grade. If you have a student who had a BTAM last year in elementary and is now in middle school, please send over their confidential information. Here are the BTAM slides with the articulation information.
Contact: Rachael Peck
Conference Week Interpreters - Deadlines Approaching
Interpreter requests for other languages (besides Spanish and Russian) and ASL are due soon. Teachers should have already submitted the request for interpreter to site clerical and clerical need to submit the Google form by November 3rd. Details can be found in the email from Kayla Satchwell on October 7th. These are hard deadlines as interpreters need to be scheduled. After this deadline, the language line will need to be used. Please reach out if you have any questions.
Contact: Kayla Satchwell
Probationary/Temporary Evaluations
Please remember that probationary and temporary F2 and F3 evaluations are due by Friday, November 7th.
PowerSchool Scheduled Maintenance: Saturday, November 1st 9:00 PM through Sunday, November 2nd, 4:00AM.
The application will be unavailable for most of the maintenance window
Business Services
Many night custodians are off or may be working day hours on Friday, 10/31. Additionally, day custodians may be off or the position may not be filled (subservices closed Friday). Please communicate with the staff to plan to handle alarms and locking of doors/gates on Friday in case no one is there. Thank you for the teamwork in providing a safe and secure campus for the weekend.
Contact: Vickie Mailey
Communications
Peachjar
Please share this information with your site PTC so they can share their flyers with your families through Peachjar moving forward.
“RCSD now uses Peachjar to share all flyers with families. Peachjar emails families directly in their home language and families do not need to sign up. Families can also access all flyers by visiting the Peachjar button on the “Parent Resources” tab on each school site website.
All PTCs are encouraged to create Peachjar accounts by visiting Peachjar.com, sign up, selecting “Community Organization,” entering in the email and the non-profit tax ID for the PTC. Uploading the flyer is as simple as selecting the pdf or image, and adding the date, then submitting it. The system will then send it to the site administrator for review and approval and the flyer(s) will be shared and posted to families.”
Contact: Jessica Hull or Katie Haupt
“RCSD now uses Peachjar to share all flyers with families. Peachjar emails families directly in their home language and families do not need to sign up. Families can also access all flyers by visiting the Peachjar button on the “Parent Resources” tab on each school site website.
All PTCs are encouraged to create Peachjar accounts by visiting Peachjar.com, sign up, selecting “Community Organization,” entering in the email and the non-profit tax ID for the PTC. Uploading the flyer is as simple as selecting the pdf or image, and adding the date, then submitting it. The system will then send it to the site administrator for review and approval and the flyer(s) will be shared and posted to families.”
Contact: Jessica Hull or Katie Haupt
Educational Services
Please bundle and send all submissions to the District Office no later than Friday, November 7th, to Kayla Satchwell in Ed. Services.
Data Update
State and District 2024/25 CAASPP data is now public and available to view. You may share this data with your Site Council at an upcoming Site Council meeting. The California Dashboard is scheduled to be live in November. I will keep you updated as that data is available. We will spend time at our December leadership meeting reviewing the CA Dashboard data. If you would like to wait and share CAASPP and Dashboard data at the same time with your Site Council, that is ok too.
A reminder that iReady Window #1 and CAASPP 24/25 data should be shared with all staff by October 31st.
Contact: Angela Garcia
Update to i-Ready Settings
This message is being shared just with principals at this time. There has been an update to the i-Ready settings. Teachers can now only assign the Standards Mastery Assessments and will no longer be able to assign the Diagnostic or Growth Monitoring Assessments. If teachers would like the Growth Monitoring Assessments assigned, anyone with an admin account can assign them for the teacher and their students. Diagnostics will be assigned for teachers during the designated assessment windows. Additionally, any new students will have the Diagnostic automatically assigned upon enrollment and can take it as needed for instructional placement.
Contact: Kelly Yusim or Angela Garcia
October 31st Professional Development Sign in Sheets
The sign in sheets for K-2 Amira, 3-5 and 6-8 Interim Assessment Professional Development was mailed to you this week. These are for the afternoon sessions at your sites on October 31st. All Professional Development sessions that are off site will have a sign in sheet there for staff. If you need an additional copy, there is one linked here.
Contact: Angela Garcia
Steve Dunn Professional Development: November 3rd-7th
Steve will be here next week. You should have a calendar invite for a half day Professional Development on either Monday or Tuesday at the District Office. Principals and Assistant Principals are at alternate times to ensure everyone receives the training. Steve will then be out at sites the rest of the week at the time and location indicated on the calendar invite you received. We will start each visit in the classroom of the host teacher for 15 minutes, followed by principals observing Steve model the feedback process for 15 minutes, and then a final 15 minute debrief with only Principals/APs and Steve.
Please reach out to your coach if you have any questions.
BTAM Articulation - Elementary to Middle School
Please remember to articulate information with middle schools as students move from 5th to 6th grade. If you have a student who had a BTAM last year in elementary and is now in middle school, please send over their confidential information. Here are the BTAM slides with the articulation information.
Contact: Rachael Peck
Conference Week Interpreters - Deadlines Approaching
Interpreter requests for other languages (besides Spanish and Russian) and ASL are due soon. Teachers should have already submitted the request for interpreter to site clerical and clerical need to submit the Google form by November 3rd. Details can be found in the email from Kayla Satchwell on October 7th. These are hard deadlines as interpreters need to be scheduled. After this deadline, the language line will need to be used. Please reach out if you have any questions.
Contact: Kayla Satchwell
Personnel Services
Please remember that probationary and temporary F2 and F3 evaluations are due by Friday, November 7th.
Technology Services
The application will be unavailable for most of the maintenance window
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