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Honoring Our Volunteers
Joel & Shavonne Powell of Charles Mack Elementary School
Joel and Shavonne Powell were recognized as Education Partners at the September 3, 2013 meeting of the Elk Grove Unified School District Board of Education.
Both Joel and Shavonne have been active in the local community and activities at Charles Mack Elementary School for the past five years. Joel has been a football coach for the local AYF football league and the family is actively involved in their church, the South Sacramento Christian Center. Shavonne currently serves on Mack's School Site Council and Parent Teacher Organization. She also is a parent representative on Mack's newly formed Positive Behavior Intervention Support Team. Shavonne has also worked with Mack administration to provide positive adult mentors for Mack's most at-risk youth through their school-based Big Brothers Big Sisters program.
Both Powell's are active participants on field trips and are key volunteers for Mack's family nights and other events, such as the Back to School BBQ and Harvest Festival. Joel and Shavonne were instrumental in helping to develop Mack's Black Parent Union, which provides a conduit for connection and improved communication between the home and school for African-American families at Mack.
The Powell's have two sons: Jordan, an 8th grade student at Edward Harris, Jr. Middle School and Joel, a 4th grade student at Mack.
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Elk Grove Regional Scholarship Foundation to hold annual Spotlight Elk Grove event
The Elk Grove Regional Scholarship Foundation will hold their annual Spotlight Elk Grove fundraising event from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Thursday, September 12, 2013 at the S.E.S. Hall (10428 East Stockton Blvd., Elk Grove).
Spotlight Elk Grove is the premier fundraising event for the Elk Grove Community Foundation, a non-profit that provides scholarships for EGUSD seniors.
Spotlight Elk Grove blends a "Taste of...." type event with a service industry tradeshow. More than 60 vendors will be featured at the event. Guests receive a hors d'oeuvres plate, a bag for promotional items and a program for the evening with a map of the business locations in the event. This year's theme is "Opening Night Premiere."
For more information about Spotlight Elk Grove, click here. To purchase tickets for this event, click here. Be sure to stop by EGUSD's table!
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Facts about the EGUSD Portal
What is the EGUSD Portal?
The EGUSD Portal is a gateway for parents and guardians to securely access online information related to their students. The EGUSD Portal allows parents and guardians the choice to go paperless with progress reports and report cards. Through the EGUSD Portal parents and guardians can download these documents and save for them for future reference.
Parents can also make the following opt-out selections online:
- Multimedia Withhold Form
- Posting of Student Images and Names on EGUSD Digital Communication Tools
- Release of Directory Information
- Movies and Videos
- Family Life Education
The following features will be added soon: transcripts, attendance information and other useful features.
How do I gain access to EGUSD Portal?
Parents and guardians of students currently enrolled will be receiving a letter from the District through the U.S. mail that contains registration information, including a Guardian ID number and Verification Code.
With a valid email address, new parents and guardians registering their students in the District will be invited to join the EGUSD Portal via email. This email will include a Guardian ID number and Verification Code.
The notification will direct parents and guardians to a website where they can complete the registration process by creating a unique Username and Password. The Username and Password may match those used for School Loop.
Please note, EGUSD Portal is not affiliated with School Loop. Features within the EGUSD Portal may not be available in School Loop.
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Help us revamp the Attendance Campaign Poster Contest!
The 2013-2014 school year marks the 8th year of the No Excuses - Go to School Attendance Campaign. This year, we are looking to change the poster contest a bit by looking for examples of what students love about coming to school (i.e. "I love coming to school to learn from my teachers" or "My favorite part about school was participating in after-school sports") We'd love to hear what makes/made you excited about going to school. Click here to take the survey. |
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Welcome to eguNews, an EGUSD email newsletter published every two weeks. To subscribe to eguNews, click here. If you have questions about eguNews, you can email communication@egusd.net or call (916) 686-7732.
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EGUSD's Board of Education to hold Community Budget Meetings
The Elk Grove Unified School District will hold seven Community Budget Meetings with EGUSD Board members at seven locations throughout the district from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. on Tuesday, September 17, 2013.
To ensure that all students have the opportunity to reach their greatest potential, the Board of Education's Community Budget Meetings are intended to engage the public in a transparent and collaborative process.
The objectives of this meeting are to:
- Seek input for the Board's funding priorities;
- Engage the public in the budget development process; and
- Introduce California's new Local Control Funding Formula and Accountability Plan.
Each board member will simultaneously host a meeting at a separate school site. The meeting will include a presentation about the District's budget as well as time for questions and answers. The public is invited to attend any one of the meetings.
The public meetings will be held at the following locations:
- EGUSD Board President Chet Madison, Sr.: Valley High School (Multipurpose Room)
- EGUSD Board Clerk Jeanette Amavisca: Edward Harris, Jr. Middle School (Multipurpose Room)
- EGUSD Board Member Priscilla Cox: Pleasant Grove High School (Multipurpose Room)
- EGUSD Board Member Carmine Forcina: Sheldon High School (Small Theater)
- EGUSD Board Member Steve Ly: Carroll Elementary School (Multipurpose Room)
- EGUSD Board Member Anthony "Tony" Perez: Florin High School (Black Box Theater)
- EGUSD Board Member Bobbie Singh-Allen: Elliott Ranch Elementary School (Multipurpose Room)
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Students helping students at Harriet Eddy Middle School - with math
Students looking for a little more help with mathematics will soon have an additional resource to learn from at Harriet G. Eddy Middle School thanks to a new peer tutoring program just for math students.
The idea for having student math tutors at Harriet G. Eddy Middle School grew from the memories teachers Casey Behney and Matthew Halseth recalled from being math tutors themselves in college.
"We both remembered our experiences as tutors fondly and thought it would be a good idea to train our strong math students as math tutors," Halseth said. "I recruited students who were in my two 7th grade Algebra classes and asked Honors Pre-Algebra teachers for recommendations from their classes."
From their recruitment efforts, Halseth and Behney found 22 students willing to attend school during zero period - an hour before most students start school - and tutor other students having difficulties in math. The math tutors have undergone three weeks of extensive training to learn how to be effective tutors. The tutoring training included questioning strategies - such as the Socratic method, active listening skills, role playing, error analysis, the structure of a tutoring session, cultural awareness and tutor/tutee behavior expectations.
Once tutoring begins, the math tutors will provide one-on-one tutoring for their peers in math only. Peer tutors will receive full credits for the semester (2.5 per quarter), are graded credit/no credit and will receive community service hours for their tutoring work.
For students at Eddy looking for math tutoring help, they can sign up to meet with a peer tutor either twice a week - on Mondays and Thursdays or Tuesdays and Fridays - or during drop-in tutoring on Wednesdays. Tutees will also earn credits (1 credit per quarter) for attending tutoring sessions.
"We're definitely excited about the peer tutoring program at Eddy," Halseth said. "We think it is going to be a valuable resource for our Eddy math students."
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Newsletters get the video treatment at David Reese Elementary School
School newsletters. They provide vital information about a school for parents, students and the community. They are commonly produced in two popular formats - printed on paper or posted online. That is...until now.
David Reese Elementary School has taken their school newsletter to a different level by introducing their video newsletter, spearheaded by 5th grade teacher Rudy Alfonso and Principal Jenifer Avey. The video newsletters were created as an alternate option for a monthly newsletter that might be better received and more viewed than a traditional newsletter.
"The main purpose of the video announcements is to let the parents and community know what's happening at our school," Alfonso said. "A secondary purpose is to allow our students to participate in communicating that information."
The video newsletters always include an introduction from Avey and Vice Principal Jack Ferreira. The newsletters also include important upcoming dates of events at Reese. On occasion, a special segment is included that focuses on a character trait being highlighted at school through Reese's character education program.
Reese students definitely enjoy participating in creating the video announcements.
"I like seeing the growth of the students as they get used to being on camera," Alfonso said. "They're nervous at first but as they grow in confidence, they learn to enjoy the experience and look forward to producing the video newsletters. Being able to share their work with their families across the country - and sometimes across the world - is also very exciting for them. You can definitely see them become more confident as the year progresses."
In the future, Alfonso would like to include video segments filmed by students in a news report format to capture special events happening at Reese.
Reese's latest video newsletter can be found at www.davidreeseschool.org.
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"Foster" grandparents find a place at EGUSD elementary schools
Retired educator Hilda Curry doesn't have students at Joseph Sims Elementary but she can often be found on campus. She is one of many "foster" grandparents volunteering throughout the Sacramento community participating in the Foster Grandparent Program, sponsored by the Sacramento County Department of Human Assistance.
Foster grandparents can choose to volunteer in a variety of different areas, including tutoring and mentoring children, holding and nurturing babies born prematurely with health problems, helping children with long-term illnesses and who are at risk from dropping out of school, just to name a few of the areas.
"We love having Hilda around," said Shelly Hughes, principal at Sims. "She's an invaluable part of our Sims family. The staff loves her, our students love her - we definitely appreciate the time she spend volunteering at our school."
The Foster Grandparent program is currently looking for more volunteers. Click here for more information about the Foster Grandparent Program or contact program coordinators Sondra Mattingly or Dennis Brodsky at (916) 875-3569.
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