Mark Highlights September, Issue 2

MARK Highlights

Manteca Unified School Board

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September 2017, Issue 2

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Contents At Our Schools

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MUSD School Board

Construction Trades Career Fair

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President Stephen J. Schluer, Area 6

French Camp Anchors Learning

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Vice President Bob Wallace, Area 7

GW and the Longest Chain

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Board Clerk Evelyn Moore, Area 5

Second Step: Skills for Success

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George Komure Offers Parent Resources

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Golden West Science Room

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Nancy Teicheira, Area 4

ELD in Action at Lathrop El.

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Connecting with Community

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MUSD Superintendents

Mossdale’s Power of the Paw

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Lincoln’s Artists and Athletes

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Region 4 PIQE Held at SHS

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Farm to School

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SHS Peer Resource at NAMI

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Community Outreach

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CPR Skills Learned in LHS Health Class Save Boy’s Life

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EUHS Community Gathers for Round Table

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Eric Duncan, Area 1 Kathy Howe, Area 2 Michael Seelye, Area 3

Superintendent Jason Messer Deputy Superintendents Dr. Clark Burke 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 Director of Community Outreach 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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Construction Trades Career Fair

Submitted by: Kathy Ruble Director of Career and Technical Ed and STEM

This hands-on career fair for high school Juniors and Seniors promotes construction apprenticeship programs.

Students from LHS, EUHS, be.tech and SHS came together at the 13th Annual Construction Trades Career Fair-Apprenticeship Pathway event.

This hands-on career fair for high school Juniors and Seniors promotes construction apprenticeship programs.

Brick layers, carpenters, cement mason, drywall/lathing, electrical workers, Caterpillar dealer equipment technicians, insulators, iron workers, plumbers and many others came together to give students a chance to see the variety of career opportunities in construction.

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French Camp Anchors Learning Submitted by: Suzanne McCreath French Camp Principal

Scavenger hunt teams found evidence of specific learning.

Teachers at French Camp formed teams for a competitive scavenger hunt, where they hunted for evidence of specific learning and examples of anchor charts.

These 4th grade students mixed salt, flour, and water to create pliable salt dough to construct elevated and flat regions that make up the state of California.

The fourth grade Eagles created Salt Maps of California and learned to identify important geographic features of California such as mountain ranges, rivers, and cities.

Meanwhile, the eighth grade students of French Camp studied motion, acceleration, force, and gravity as they experimented with Newton’s Law of Motion.

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GW and the Longest Chain Submitted by: Sherie Gates Golden West Principal All second grade students worked in small groups to make the longest paper chain using only 1 piece of paper, scissors and glue.

After all chains were made, students measured them. Teachers awarded small trophies to the students who best utilized the paper to make the longest chain.

Mystery Science brings learning to life!

Second Step: Skills for Success Submitted by: Sherie Gates Golden West Principal

Reminding students to listen, focus their attention, and use self-talk to stay on task.

Second Step is designed to teach skills for social and academic success. This month, Golden West’s schoolwide theme is Skills for Learning.

In our morning announcements and school assembly, we are reminding students to listen, focus their attention, use self-talk to stay on task, and to be assertive when asking for help with learning.

These skills will help every student be a successful learner. Our families were introduced to Second Step at Back to School Night along with MUSD Board

Goals and Golden West focus goals.

At Back to School Night, families enjoyed meeting staff and members of the community as well as seeing the final outcome of the Modernization Project.

Our Golden West family and community learned the four rules: •

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Be Respecful

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Be Responible

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Be a Learner!

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George Komure Offers Parent Resources Submitted by: Jeff Podesto George Komure

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It is hard to believe that it has almost been a month since Komure’s Back to School Night where the community joined us to learn about the school year ahead.

In addition to the great attendance we had from our families at our back to school night, we are also proud

to say that many of our bilingual parents in the Weston Ranch area are participating in the Parent institute for Quality Education classes.

Our staff has great spirit as we promote learning activities that connect our community.

Golden West Science Room

Submitted by: Sherie Gates Golden West

The new science room is ready for students to engage, explore and explain science everyday.

The Golden West Making Sense of Science PLC is off to a sweet start with construction of a candy Stonehenge model and planning their PLC’s for the year.

District Science Coordinator Lisa Snyder organized the school science materials into a central location.

Ms. Anna assisted with moving and setting up furniture.

Mr. Hipkins, Mrs. Sisneros, and Ms. Wood, will officially meet five more times throughout the year to build their science knowledge, plan lessons, and analyze student work.

Mr. Hipkins added the amazing decorative touches, and turned an old portable into an exciting learning space for students.

The new science room is ready for students to engage, explore, and explain science everyday.

Students are having a blast with their Mystery Science investigations.

Science Rocks at Golden West!

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ELD in Action at Lathrop El. Submitted by: David Silveira Lathrop Elementary One of Lathrop’s focuses each year is on English Language Development as Lathrop has one of the highest number of English Learners in MUSD. Lathrop’s staff are committed to Integrated and Designated ELD. ELD30 is done daily at all grade levels through classroom collaboration, or platooning. This is where each level of proficiency is addressed in small group instruction while the remainder of the class is doing independent or group work.

Lathrop’s PLC’s are continuing to evaluate instructional practices for continuous improvement.

Connecting with Community Submitted by: David Silveira Lathrop Elementary

Students support Fire, Police, and Ambulance by creating cards and letters.

It was great to welcome back parents to our “Modernized” campus where we got to show off our focus on SchoolWide Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports, Wellness, STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math), Academic Team Time Interventions, enrichment, and so much more for 2017-2018. Thank you for joining us and supporting our school!

Lathrop Elementary also appreciates

our First Responders! Lathrop staff and students showed their support for our Lathrop Fire, Police, and Ambulance by creating cards and letters. They will then be placed in gift bags prepared for the City of Lathrop’s Community Barbecue this week.

Lathrop still supports the 5th Grade DARE program, SRO program, and the annual October fire Prevention Assemblies, field trips, and visits.

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Mossdale’s Power of the Paw Submitted by: Susan Sanders Mossdale Principal

We use the slogan “Power of the Paw” to embody the behavioral expectations for the school.

Region #2 hosted a site visit for Superintendent, Board Trustees, and Regional Principals.

The Preventative Behavioral Intervention Supports (PBIS) programs were showcased at each of the three elementary sites.

Mossdale, home of the Jaguars, is in Year One of implementation and use the slogan “Power of the Paw” to embody the behavioral expectations for the school.

They are empowering students to be

Preventative, Positive, Peaceful, and Problem Solvers.

Classrooms were visited by the regional admin team to see the PBIS activities occurring in the classrooms.

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Submitted by: Julie Kraus

Lincoln Program Coordinator Lincoln Elementary is the recipient of the Artists-in-Schools Grant.

Charles Berolzheimer, president and founder of the Blackwing Foundation, has provided a grant for third grade students to study different mediums with visiting artists.

The students are enjoying learning about color wheels, drawing, sketching, and more!

Lincoln students and staff are excited to be back at school and are ready to see what the new school year brings.

The Lincoln boys volleyball team is also hard at work practicing, ready to show their skills on the court!

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Region 4 PIQE Held at SHS Submitted by: Debbie Ruger Brock Elliott Principal

Region 4, under the leadership of Anthony Chapman, is offering the Parent Institute for Quality Education (PIQE) for Sierra and it’s feeder schools.

All five schools worked together to invite EL families to participate. PIQE offers parents a variety of weekly classes that emphasize teaching parents the educational system, testing, school

involvement, K-12 requirements, college entrance and funding, question/answer sessions and more.

Parents who attend the institute graduate with a certificate of completion.

The first class was on September 19th and over 50 parents attended from the various schools.

Farm to School Submitted by: Patti Page

Director of Nutrition Education Nutrition Education has harvested 246 pounds of orange honeydew the last two weeks from the MUSD farm.

The melons are grown and harvested by the student employees under the direction of Cole Dutter, Farm to School Supervisor.

The melons are offered as a choice on the National School Lunch Program. The students have really enjoyed the different varieties of melons.

In addition, over 5,500 pounds of various produce has been harvested for this school year.

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SHS Peer Resource at NAMI Submitted by: Steve Clark

Sierrs High School Principal

They worked to develop awareness and skills to assist our students.

Wanting to learn how to help their peers cope with some of life’s most difficult challenges, Sierra High School Peer Resource students and teachers—Janet Sanders and Danielle Hatch—attended a full-day National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) training.

They worked to develop awareness and skills to assist our students who are facing emotional, abusive, and/or stressful situations.

“The kids were so awesome

at the training,” Sanders commented.

“They were engaged and volunteering.

They stood out in a great way!”

Principal Steve Clark said, “We will tie some of this valuable knowledge into our Peer Resource and Yellow Ribbon program as well.”

According to a book on the subject, called “Teaching To Strengths,” the key to helping students in difficult situations is to “look beyond ‘what is lacking’ to find ‘what is already there’ to effect change and sustain progress.”

SHS continues to work hard to improve how they help all students.

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CPR Skills Learned in LHS Health Class Save Boy’s Life

Submitted by: Peter Gale Community Outreach Team

She told the stunned adults around her, “Get out of the way! I know CPR.”

Manteca Unified offers several Health Career Classes throughout the district.

A key part of that class is to teach CPR and other life-saving skills. On Saturday September 16, Lathrop High School junior Valerie Villanueva used those skills to save the life of an 11-year-old boy.

The boy and his brother were playing near the pool when they slipped and fell into the pool. They were in the pool for approximately 15-20 seconds before an adult pulled them out. The 9-year-old boy started to cough and

was placed on his side in the rescue position, but his 11-year-old brother was not responsive. His lips were turning blue and his skin was an ashy color.

That’s when Villanueva immediately took action. She told the stunned adults around her, “Get out of the way!

I know CPR.” Relying on the CPR training she had received in her ROP Health Careers class, she performed CPR on the boy.

After the first set of 30 compressions, Villanueva was a little worried

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because he was still unresponsive.

So she completed a second set of 30 compressions, keeping his blood flowing to the brain and giving his lungs a change to recover. Only after the third set of compressions, did the boy cough up the fluid he had swallowed and regain consciousness.

If not for her quick response, and confident knowledge of CPR, this child may not have made it.

“I never thought that I would have to perform it,” said Villanueva. “I was so nervous that I was shaking, but I’m glad that I was able to help him.”

Mr. James Ward, her Health Careers teacher, commented, “She just finished her CPR certification at the beginning of September. We are so proud that she

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saved a life. On Monday, we gave her a standing ovation in class.”

When asked about her future goals, Villanueva said, “This made me realize that I truly want to go into the medical field and help children. The satisfaction of seeing that I was able to help him, to see that he was OK, is what I want to see for the rest of my life.”

Commenting further on her shortterm life goals for the Health Careers class, Villanueva said, “I am going to volunteer separately at the county hospital. I would actually like to go to the emergency room setting to prepare myself for the worst.

“I’m not afraid of it anymore. I put other people’s safety before my feelings.”

I was so nervous that I was shaking, but I’m glad I was able to help him.

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EUHS Community Gathers for Round Table Submitted by: Peter Gale

Community Outreach Team

Students, parents, community members, EUHS staff and district staff gathered Tuesday 9-26 and Thursday 9-28 for community roundtables to discuss the future of East Union High School facilities.

Attendees discussed what they believe the priorities should be for the $13 million that has been allocated to EUHS from Measure G funds.

Superintendent Jason Messer introduced the district team before turning the presentation over to Aaron Bowers, Director II of Facilities and Operations.

With the assistance of Deputy Superintendent Dr. Clark Burke, Bowers explained to the packed audience the basics behind the MUSD Master Facilities Plan, identified facility needs, and how the MUSD

board has chosen to move EUHS from Phase 3 to Phase 2 in the Master Facilities Plan.

Attendees discussed what they believe the priorities should be for the $13 million that has been allocated to EUHS from Measure G funds.

These community forums are the first step in generating community input. Just as district leadership sought community input through an advanced survey platform called Thought Exchange for MHS, they will be using the same platform for the EUHS community.

Sign up to participate at: http://bit.ly/EUthink

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Register for Thought Exchange at: http://bit.ly/EUthink

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