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FEB. 12, 2019 ISSUE 6, VOLUME 18
BYRD LEAVES THE NEST Principal David Byrd announced in an email to staff last Thursday that he will depart from his current position to assume the role of the Director of Learning Support Services in the Elk Grove Unified High School District. Byrd attributes his best accomplishments during his five-year tenure at RHS to his work with CTE, VAPA and elective courses. Follow Eye of the Tiger for more as we cover Byrd’s leave and search for his successor.
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Physics replaces Chem in pathway BY LIZZIE PELZMAN & ASHLYN LEDBETTER news@eyeofthetigernews.com
Beginning next year, RJUHSD will begin implementing a restructured science pathway. While students will still start off with biology as per the current pathway, during their sophomore year they will take physics next rather than chemistry. According to NGSS lead teacher Mike Purvines, this change is due to the district switching from CP science courses to new NGSS science courses, as the NGSS pathway starts with biology and is followed up with physics. Physics was previously an elective science course and current physics teacher CJ Addington is the only teacher at RHS who has the credentials to teach the course. Now that NGSS Physics will become a required course for students to graduate, more teachers will need to either attain their credentials or be hired to make the shift successful. “Now it’s going to have to be collaboratively run between several teachers and that’s going to
Vape rates triple from this time last school year BY DANIELLE BENNETT d.bennett@eyeofthetigernews.com
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Effective next school year, the NGSS pathway will shift the science outline to follow a Biology, Physics, then Chemistry path. Science teacher CJ Addington is currently the only teacher at RHS with the credentials to teach Physics.
change some things,” Addington said. “So we are going to have to organize how we share equipment and how we share rooms, make sure we are on the same calendar
that sort of thing, so it’s going to take some work.” Particularly because it is a required course, Addington anticipates that students will experience
a fairly different curriculum for NGSS Physics, which will not be as expansive as its CP coun NGSS | Page 3
District combats driver shortage, security concerns BY JARED HUBER
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According to director of transportation Julie Guererro, RJUHSD is currently in the process of replacing district bus cameras and hiring more bus drivers.
The district is currently replacing 22 new cameras on busses in order to address safety issues caused by having an outdated security system. According to director of transportation, Julie Guererro, along with replacing the bus cameras, there will also be an additional camera installed on the outside of the bus to view the entrance door and surrounding areas. “The cameras were not compatible to the updates in the software program,” Guererro said. “We weren’t really able to keep them up to date. A lot of them were failing on us, so it was time. It was age
pretty much.” These new cameras the district is buying will have a much better picture quality than the current onboard cameras, as well as being up to date with the software’s updates. One main feature these cameras have is the ability to wirelessly upload the day’s footage to the transportation department’s server, meaning no one needs to go out and manually retrieve every SD Card from every camera. In addition, the transportation department has begun the process of training new bus drivers to address the shortage of drivers they had this year. They hope this will alleviate issues caused by the
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As of this school year, RHS’ rates for students caught vaping on campus are up nearly three times, in keeping with a national increase in vaping among teenagers in particular. According to RHS principal David Byrd, in order to address this issue RHS is undertaking an “educational campaign” utilizing multiple intervention services for students caught vaping, as well as preventative measures such as district ecigarette information nights and presentations for students in health classes. Site wellness centers worked to organize an e-cigarette informational presentation put on by program coordinator for the Placer County Prevention Program Alexandra Wrid, after seeing similar presentations done in the Rocklin Unified School District. The presentation at RHS brought in nearly 80 people, both parents and students. Wellness and prevention coordinator Cristina Dobon-Claveau hopes approaching the issue from multiple angles will decrease the amount of students who turn to vaping. “The e-cigarette and vaping phenomenon has hit us by storm where the youth were knowing more about this product than the adults were,” Dobon-Claveua said. “We want to come at it from a prevention lens, but also be a resource for students who maybe haven’t gotten caught but want to find better coping strategies to deal with whatever symptom they have that they are using the ecigarettes to address.” This is part of RJUHSD’s shift towards a restorative model of ad VAPE | Page 2
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