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Edison Language Academy – Together Through Two Languages (310) 828-0335 www.edison.smmusd.org
ANNOUNCEMENTS School Smarts Academy – There are still a few spots left if you’d like to participate in this seven-week academy to help you better understand the importance of parent involvement, how schools work, how to be an advocate for quality education, and how to take action. Meetings are Thursday mornings from 8:15-9:45 am at Edison on: September 10, 17, 24 October 1, 8, 22, and 29. Contact Yoly Gutierrez at ext. 61-312 or email her at ygutierrez@smmusd.org if you would like to grab one of the last spots. Volunteers Needed – Would you be interested in helping improve our campus recycling programs? Or would you like to help increase safety at pick up or drop off? Then we need you asap! Please contact either Principal Lori Orum (61-302) or Community Liaison Yoly Gutierrez (61-312). Volunteer Training –If you are a new volunteer or if your volunteer status has expired, you must submit an application, come to a training, submit a negative TB test or chest x-ray, and consent to a Meghan’s List check in order to volunteer with students at Edison. This year’s Volunteer Trainings will be held: Friday, September 4 at 8:30 am or Thursday, September 10 at 6:30 pm. If you don’t know if it’s time to re-apply, check with Yoly. Reflective Parenting Workshop – This 10-week workshop in English on Tuesday mornings 9:00-10:30 am at Family Services of Santa Monica. This workshop aims to help parents learn about temperament, discipline, and emotional regulation, and develop an understanding of the thoughts and feelings that underlie your interactions with your child. The workshop is available without charge to Edison families but spaces are limited. See the flyer in this Wednesday’s packet. The workshops will be offered in Spanish at Edison in January. PTA Executive Board Meeting – Wednesday 9/2, 6:00 p.m. - Community Room.
FROM THE PRINCIPAL’S DESK: LOTS TO CELEBRATE! It was wonderful to see so many parents at our six grade level meetings and at Edison’s Back to School Nights. If you missed either the grade level meetings or the parent meeting at Back to School Night, we’ll have the slides up on the Edison website next week (www.edison.smmusd.org). As I shared at Back to School Night, Edison has lots to celebrate this year. This is our 29th year as a dual immersion school. We again have resources (through SMMUSD, SMMEF, our Title I grant, and our Edison PTA) for instructional assistants, coaches and intervention teachers, great education technology and on-line programs to differentiate and extend learning. We have a robust arts (theater, music, visual arts and dance) program for our students, some new equipment and teaching materials, and a beautiful space in which our students learn. We are nearing the end of an ambitious construction project that gave Edison the only completely new school in SMMUSD. While we loved our little escuelita, the buildings were old and all the systems were in need of major repairs. Although it has been a challenge to occupy a construction site while the new school was built, today we are nearly at the end of the journey and have an amazing facility! We have the space we need to offer important programs, an abundance of modern technology tools, heating and cooling systems that now meet our needs, and a smaller carbon footprint. And each week more of the play fields are finished and turned over to us, with all construction projected to be finished by the end of October. We also celebrate the strong academic progress our students made again last year, including our 4th consecutive year as a California Business for Education Excellence Honor Roll School. Preliminary data from State achievement tests indicate that Edison students also did very well on the State exams. We’ll be sharing this data and school improvement plans and soliciting parent input for areas for growth at a Schoolwide Title I parent meeting on September 30. Come be part of the conversation as we set our sights ever higher!
Holidays in September – Mon. 9/7, Mon. 9/14 and Wednesday 9/23 No School
Wednesday 9/9 ELAC Meeting 8:30 am Community Room
Wednesday, 9/9 Site Council 4:00 pm Community Room