San Jos� Unified employees working for students
SJUSD staff takes advantage of the summer to tackle large projects and polish their skills, all to better serve students.
Three thousand employees serve San Jos� Unified Students during the school year and many of them were hard at work during the summer making sure the district is ready to welcome students on August 12 for another year of teaching and learning.
San Jos� Unified custodians dedicated a week to polish their skills. The professionals, who keep San Jos� Unified schools safe and welcoming, participating in the week-long professional learning session learning best practices for the work they do behind the scenes to make sure students have a safe learning environment. 125 San Jos� Unified custodians maintain 3.3 million square feet of space across 42 schools and other district facilities.
Teachers also dedicated time during the summer to learn best practices on how to keep helping students learn. The teachers and administrators from six school sites featured in the video below participated in a rigorous week of professional development around early literacy led by Dr. Sunday Cummins. Teams of K-2 teachers, instructional coaches, intervention specialists, and principals worked tirelessly to build their expertise in early literacy for the upcoming school year. In addition to theory and new strategies, the teachers also had the opportunity to practice their new learning with extended school year students at Lowell Elementary.
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SJUSD Early Literacy Institute 2015
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