The Mark Highlights - September Issue 1

MARK Highlights

Manteca Unified School Board

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September 2017, Issue 1

Solar Eclipse see page 10

Making a positive difference to each and every student daily. facebook.com/ proudtobemusd

Contents At Our Schools

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MUSD School Board

MHS Community Service Fair

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President Stephen J. Schluer, Area 6

Brock Elliot Garden Grows

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Vice President Bob Wallace, Area 7

SHS “Gets Focused” on Professional Development

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Board Clerk Evelyn Moore, Area 5

New Student Board Members

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MHS Honor the Code Kickoff

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Community Outreach

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MUSD Views the Solar Eclipse

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Department News

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MUSD Offers Two-Week Summer Math Bridge Program

Community Corner GECAC STEM Comes to Veritas

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Eric Duncan, Area 1 Kathy Howe, Area 2 Michael Seelye, Area 3 Nancy Teicheira, Area 4

MUSD Superintendents Superintendent Jason Messer Deputy Superintendents Dr. Clark Burke

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Roger Goatcher

Vision Manteca Unified School District will ensure every school day is relevant, rigorous, and leads students to become productive and engaged members of a global society while residing in the central valley.

Mission Manteca Unified School District is committed to providing a safe environment where all students will thrive with the tools, resources and support needed to achieve their academic and personal potentials.

Superintendent’s Office:

Community Outreach Manteca Unified School District

The Mark Highlights is published twice per month, on average. It is a publication of the MUSD Superintendent’s Office Community Outreach team. Highlights content is contributed on a rotating basis by

every school site in the district. Highlights is intended to be a reflection of the MUSD Vision and Mission, because above all, we value making a positive difference to each and every student daily.

Peter Gale Design, Writing, and Editing pgale@musd.net

The Community Outreach Team are:

Lindsay Stayner Content Coordination, Editing, and Design lstayner@musd.net

Victoria Brunn Executive Editor and MUSD Public Information Officer vbrunn@musd.net

Note to school site contributors: please send photography at the highest resolution possible. When emailing from a cell phone, please use “actual size.”

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MHS Community Service Fair

Submitted by: Nina Norton MHS Teacher and Club Advisor

They have put together a program to teach senior citizens basic computer skills.

The bell rang at 2:30, and the students came in excited to learn about community service opportunities available in Manteca.

Representatives from Assemblyman Heath Flora’s office, Boys and Girls Club, Congressional Leadership Fund, Dr. Hospital, Give Every Child A Chance, Interact Club, Manteca Parks, and Recreation, and Manteca Public Library were there sharing opportunities available to the high school students.

MHS students Josh Vega and Dominq Damaeo unveiled their service project.

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together a program to teach senior citizens basic computer skills, and were looking for additional tutors.

The MHS students were encouraged to find community service programs that meets their interests to help develop job skills and help with their college and scholarship applications.

The fair attracted well over 100 student and was a big success.

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Brock Elliot Garden Grows Submitted by: Debbie Ruger Brock Elliott Principal

This provides students a constant “farm to fork” learning experience.

The Brock Elliott Garden, under the direction of Mrs. Carrie Doyle, continues to be great experience for students from all grade levels.

Students, staff and community members keep the garden busy.

This provides students a constant “farm to fork” learning experience.

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SHS “Gets Focused” on Professional Development Professional Development Supported by Academic Innovations

Workshops

Webinars & Online Training

Registration

9/12/17, 4)01 PM

Get Focused...Stay Focused!®

Support School Culture with Get Focused...Stay Focused!®

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Nov 16 & 17, 2017 March 8 & 9, 2018 Register Now

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Each event has a maximum capacity of 50 people, so register your team early.

About

Sierra High School invites your leadership team for an onsite visit and professional development retreat. Involve your whole campus and community in your efforts to help every student have a plan. Your team will learn how utilizing skills based education plans and my10yearplan.com as tools can increase motivation in ALL classes! You’ll learn more about the ground-breaking Get Focused...Stay Focused!® model that Sierra team has implemented with great success.

Topics will include: Introduction: Get Focused...Stay Focused!® Initiative The impact of a Skills-based Education plan The School Culture Career Choices Series Curriculum Overview Classroom in Action Student Panel The 10-year Plan Online

In addition to all workshop sessions, each participant will receive: Get Focused...Stay Focused! ® Student Workbook for Follow-up Modules 1, 2, and 3 Career Choices and Changes textbook Instructor’s and Administrator’s Guide for Career Choices and My10yearPlan.com® Access to helpful resources for implementing and supporting Get Focused...Stay Focused!® Lunch and refreshments each day

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$249 registration All fees must be paid two weeks prior to the first day of the workshop. For other payment arrangements, please call Academic Innovations at 800-9678016.

Registration support is provided through Academic Innovations.

Call (800) 967-8016 to learn more about the event or to register.

Location

Sierra High School 1700 Thomas Street

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New Student Board Members

From Left to Right: Student Board President Victorio Romo (EUHS), Student Board Vice President Taylor Reed (MHS), and student board members Jessie Moebius (LHS), Jenna Rosendin (SHS), and Judit Zamora (WRHS). Student board members serve for the entire school year. See their full biographies online at: http://www.mantecausd.net/board-superintendent/board-of-trustees/ student-board-members

Submitted by: Peter Gale Community Outreach Team

This ensures students have a direct voice on the school board and that concerns important to them are heard.

In addition to our elected MUSD board members, this is our second year of high school leadership students serving as student board members.

This ensures students have a direct voice on the school board and that concerns important to them are heard. Below are glimpses from their biographies available online: Student Board President Victorio (Victor) Romo: Victor is serving his fourth in the leadership class as the East Union ASB Vice President. Victor will also be cheering for his third year for the Lancers, his second year on the varsity cheer team. For the cheer season, he will be serving as one of two Co-Captains for his team.

Student Board Vice President Taylor Reed: Taylor Reed is a senior at Manteca High School and is currently serving as ASB Secretary. She has been involved in Manteca’s leadership class since her freshman year; contributing to Manteca High as the freshman and sophomore class secretary and Junior class Vice President. Taylor has organized multiple events, and advocated for the highly respected Honor the Code program at MHS. Student Board Member Jessie Moebius: This past year, he emceed his first major high school rally, played on the junior varsity football team, struggled

through four AP classes, earned the Lathrop High School Athletic Award as well as the Leadership ‘Above and Beyond’ Award, and was elected the LHS ASB Vice President. Jesse looks forward to making a difference at LHS as well as impacting MUSD as a Student Board Member.

Student Board Member Jenna Rosendin: Jenna Rosendin has been a student leader at Sierra High School since her freshman year, when she held the role of Freshman Class Secretary. During her second year, Jenna was elected Sophomore Class Vice President.

Then, her junior year, Jenna took on the office of ASB Secretary. Now, as a senior, Jenna leads the leadership class and the student body as the ASB President of Sierra High School.

Student Board Member Judit Zamora: Judit Zamora serves as the ASB Vice President of Weston Ranch High School. She has proudly served in leadership throughout high school and even during her junior high years.

Being in leadership has given her many responsibilities.

During her junior year, she was in charge of putting the blood drive together. She also organized prom.

Shape the Future!

HELP US

Register for Our Community Roundtable!

Learn MUSD Plans for Health and Safety, LongTerm Maintenance, and Modernization.

Learn about our Master Facilities Plan and help us prioritize what is most important to you.

Work with a small group to help shape the next evolution of EUHS.

Tuesday, Sept 26 @ 6 PM or Thursday, Sept 28 @ 3:15 PM Get Your Tickets Here

http://bit.ly/euhsroundtable

Roundtable held in the EUHS Cafeteria.

Register at: http://bit.ly/euhsroundtable

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MHS Honor the Code Kickoff

Submitted by: Carol Creighton MHS Photography Teacher

Manteca High kicks off year 5 of the Honor the Code Program. This year the Kickoff was bigger and better than ever. Honor the Code is a list of words that reflect our vision of Manteca High School.

The words are the heart of who we are and what we value. The words were chosen by MHS students in 2013; words they felt were the most important to represent the Buffalo code.

Mrs. Esenwein’s art classes provided beautiful chalk art for the entire campus to enjoy.

The staff voted on the student selections. The words that we believe are essential in Honoring the Code at MHS are: •

believe

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unite

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focus

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attitude

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loyal

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opportunity

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succeed

Each month teachers have the opportunity to

award 4 students with a ticket that earns them a word of the month bracelet. Tickets are drawn for t-shirts and other prizes once a week.

Students can also earn bracelets for academics, honor roll, perfect attendance, athletics, visual and performing arts, and FFA. The Kickoff started on Monday, August 28th with an assembly for all freshman and stduents new to Manteca High.

Friday, September 1st was the official Kickoff day with the first word of the month, believe.

Mrs. Esenwein’s art classes provided beautiful chalk art for the entire campus to enjoy.

There was also an episode of Buff TV (that you can see on youtube here) featuring Buffalo Feud, teachers vs. students with the Honor the Code theme.

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Several school sites contributed photos to capture the excitement of the event and the Community Outreach team put together a slide show of some of those photos. If you cannot see the slide show above, please visit https://youtu.be/TM-UFS87K6M to see it.

MUSD Views the Solar Eclipse Submitted by: Peter Gale

Community Outreach Team

“We launched an unmanned weather balloon, with 150 cubic feet of helium, that will go up to 100,000 feet,” said Snyder.

Children learn at an early age that staring at the sun hurts their eyes. On August 21, MUSD gave Eclipse Shades to all 24,000 Manteca Unified students and asked them to intentionally stare at the sun.

“We are transitioning to the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), which are all about phenomenonbased instruction,” said NGSS Coordinator Lisa Snyder. “We introduce kids to naturally occurring events that peak their interest and cause them to ask questions and want to know more. The solar eclipse was a truly phenomenal way to roll out the NGSS on a district level.”

Every MUSD school site had eclipse activities. Some sites tracked the moon until the day of the eclipse to study patterns. Others used telescopes with special filters on the end to also look at

the sun. To help facilitate this, Snyder held safety and hands-on eclipse project trainings throughout the district.

“This is what the NGSS and true science is all about,” said Snyder.

“Science is not reading information out of a book and filling out a worksheet.

Scientists ask questions that they don’t have answers to yet and collect data to try and answer those questions.”

At the MUSD District Office, Snyder partnered with be.tech (dependent charter school) science teacher Kristen Messer and her students to set up twelve eclipse information stations for other be.tech students and district office personnel. This included a scale model of the Sun, Earth, and Moon to demonstrate the mechanics of the eclipse. Other stations measured changes in luminosity and temperature

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during the eclipse.

“We launched an unmanned weather balloon, with 150 cubic feet of helium, that will go up to 100,000 feet,” said Snyder. “It had a four-pound payload and carried three cameras: one that captured the eclipse, a second focused on the ground, and a third one monitoring an on-board scientific experiment about liquids and freezing points.”

Sierra High School science teacher Stephan Unterholzner, who also played a key role on the balloon project, commented, “We only captured 20 minutes of video, but we’ve learned some things about temperature and batteries. My suspicion is that the hand warmers we used to warm the batteries were too hot caused the battery’s thermal triggers to shut off.”

Two other MUSD science teachers took a little trip to see the eclipse under totality. Dr. Larry Grimes, SHS, and Jeff Baldwin, LHS, travelled to Oregon and Wyoming and live streamed video of their experience under totality back to MUSD via our facebook page at http://facebook.com/ proudtobemusd to see the videos they recorded.

A be.tech student holds up a plate, representing the sun, while another student holds up a penny, representing the moon. This eclipse station demonstrated how the eclipse works and the much smaller penny can visually occlude the plate from view.

focused on experiential science.

M.E.L.S. Garage purchased the 20,000 additional pairs of glasses so that each

and every MUSD student can safely view the eclipse.

Snyder got the ball rolling last spring while talking about the upcoming eclipse with the NASA SOFIA team.

She learned that NASA was willing to purchase Eclipse Shades for schools.

Snyder immediately applied and was given 4,000 pairs of the special safety glasses.

When Snyder mentioned this to Kathy Ruble, MUSD Director of Career and Technical Education and STEM, Ruble exclaimed, “Let’s get them for everybody. What a great opportunity to get everybody involved!”

Ruble also oversees M.E.L.S Garage, and the MUSD STEM initiative

be.tech students wear latex gloves as they assist with inflating the experimental weather balloon to launch from the district office.

The goal was to capture footage of the eclipse from the air. The be.tech weather balloon launch can also be viewed on the district youtube channel at: https://youtu.be/9mf261NxwTQ

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MUSD Offers Two-Week Summer Math Bridge Program

Submitted by: Jeff Caliguiri MUSD Math Coordinator

Students who successfully completed the program earned 2.5 high school credits.

MUSD’s Secondary Education Department implemented a two-week long summer bridge math program for selected students who will be entering the 9th grade and will be enrolled in Algebra A.

Technology also helped coordinate support for the program along with site administration and office staff.

The training was funded by Secondary Education with additional funding support from Professional Learning.

The program was conceived and developed by Secondary Education and the CCSS Math Coordinator with input from the program’s administrator and teaching staff.

The program offered extra Algebra A support to a total of 78 students who attended classes 4 hour per day at each of the five comprehensive high schools.

Nurtition Services and Information

Pairs of teachers, assisted by student interns, provided students a preview

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of the curriculum they will experience in the fall. Additionally students had a chance to learn about the school they will be attending and make

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connections with teachers and other students.

Students were identified for the program using MUSD’s Algebra A

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placement criteria with the students most in need being invited to attend.

Students who successfully completed the program earned 2.5 high school credits.

The program was very well received by students, parents, teachers and administration.

We are currently evaluating the program in anticipation of expanding next year to include a Bridge to Geometry as well as the Bridge to Algebra.

Saturday October 28th 7am

Race-Day registration/Packet Pick up

8am

5k Run

9am

Awards

Race starts & finishes @ SHS

$20.00 Registration by October 6th (shirt guaranteed) $25.00 after Oct 6th (Shirt NOT guaranteed) Registration includes: T-shirt, post-race food and water

For more info, email: Anne Marie Shaw at ashaw@musd.net

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MUSD Wellness

Healthy Snack Examples to Share in the Classroom:

Midnight to 30 Minutes after the

• 0.75 oz Whole Grain Baked Goldfish crackers.

Wellness Policy:

• 4 oz Fruit cups packed in juice or gel

From Midnight to 30 minutes after the bell, we make the healthy choice the easiest choice in school!

• When providing food to a group, new wellness standards mean more fruit and vegetables. Also, food must contain less fat, calories, and sodium.

• This does NOT impact individual, personal food choices!

• Healthy policies help establish schools as role models for healthy living.

• What kids eat affects how they learn. Nutrition supports student achievement.

• 3.2 oz Fruit Pouches • 0.87 oz Baked Lays Potato Chips (Barbecue, Original, Sour Cream and Onion).

• Students who learn to eat well and be physically fit gain skills that will last them a lifetime.

• 0.87 oz Tostitos Scoops • 4 oz Yogurt Cups • 0.84 oz Whole Grain Granola Bars

• Children who move more, learn better. Integrate physical activity into the day!

• Dippin’ Stix (Apple or Carrots)

• Studies show that money raised from concessions, fund raising, and vending remains the same.

• 1 oz Scooby Doo Cinnamon Graham Sticks

• 0.85 oz Jack Links Beef Jerky

• And more! See the smart snacks calculator at musdnutrition.net

Learn more about student wellness and nutrition at: http://www.mantecausd.net/departments/nutrition-education

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GECAC STEM Comes to Veritas By: Tracie Crawford Veritas School

Students will have a chance to build and program a robot.

Fourth and fifth Grade students are participating in STEAM/STEM sessions with Give Every Child a Chance.

The program is designed to introduce students to different fields of science, technology, art, and mathematics.

Students will have a chance to build and program a robot, see how a 3D printer works, and will be able to create their very own video game with Bloxels.

In these photos, students are working with Lego Robotics kits.

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Young women from our high schools participated in the University of the Pacific Advancing Women’s Leadership Forum with: Opening Speaker Jade Simmons (Concert Pianist and Author), Speaker Janet Lamkin (President Bank of America), and California Keynote Speaker Sheryl Sandberg, who is the Chief Operating Officer of Facebook.

“This forum brings together renowned diverse leaders to inspire young women to make a lasting, positive, powerful impact in the communities where they live and work.” - Sheryl Sandberg See a Video glimpse of Sandberg’s Speech at CNN.com