Board–A-Gram May 2012 1290 Ridder Park Drive, MC 202, San Jose, CA 95131-2304 Phone: (408) 453-6515 Web: www.sccoe.org/sccsba E-mail: [email protected]FAX: (831) 621-4010 Outgoing President’s Corner The end of the 2011-12 year is rapidly approaching and I wanted to take this opportunity to look back over the year and to thank a number of people who have helped to make this another successful year for the Santa Clara County School Boards Association. Our focus this year was student achievement and we kicked off the year at our meeting in September with a moving presentation by Karen Whipple, (Moreland), on the impressive action taken by Moreland to completely turnaround Anderson School. It really demonstrated that with determination, anything is possible. We had our first Tri-County Fall Dinner with San Mateo and Santa Cruz County School Boards Associations in October. Our special guest speaker, John Fensterwald, did a wonderful job of focusing on the key issues we should be, and are addressing, in our schools. The topic for our November meeting was the Effective Formative Feedback Empowering Teachers and Students (EFFECTS), an assessment program currently being used in the Campbell Union High School District to ensure that all students actually learn, and can apply, the subject matter they are studying. Continued page 4 Annual Reorganization and Installation of Officers Dinner Meeting Weds., May 23 from 6:30 – 9:00 p.m. (Note time) The May 23 Executive Board Meeting is the Annual Reorganization and Installation of Newly Elected Officers. The hosted Mexican buffet dinner meeting will be held at 6:30 p.m., at Alicia's Banquet Room (to the right of the Bank of America) at 14408 Union Ave, San Jose. President-elect Kathleen Sullivan of Morgan Hill Unified will be contacting members about appointments and committees for next year. Following the business meeting and installation, there will be a discussion about the budget and other hot topics. All school board members are welcome to attend by email reservation, only, by Friday, May18 to [email protected]Candidates' Workshop For prospective school board members Our 2012 Candidates Information Workshop will be held on Saturday, June 2 from 9:30 a.m. to 12:00 noon, in the boardroom of Mountain View Los Altos Union High School District, 1299 Bryant Ave., Mountain View. Current school board members will talk about roles and responsibilities of school board service. A representative from the Registrar of Voters will speak about campaign filing. The event is free, and open to all prospective candidates or those who may have an interest in board service. An RSVP is appreciated for head count to Rose Filicetti at [email protected]Thanks to Judy Hannemann (Mtn. View/Los Altos UHSD), Camille Townsend (Palo Alto Unified) and Ellen Wheeler (Mountain View Whisman) for co-chairing this event.
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1290 Ridder Park Drive, MC 202, San Jose, CA 95131-2304 Phone: (408) 453-6515 Web: www.sccoe.org/sccsba E-mail: [email protected] FAX: (831) 621-4010
Outgoing President’s Corner
The end of the 2011-12 year is rapidly approaching and I wanted to take this opportunity to look back over the year and to thank a number of people who have helped to make this another successful year for the Santa Clara County School Boards Association. Our focus this year was student achievement and we kicked off the year at our meeting in September with a moving presentation by Karen Whipple, (Moreland), on the impressive action taken by Moreland to completely turnaround Anderson School. It really demonstrated that with determination, anything is possible. We had our first Tri-County Fall Dinner with San Mateo and Santa Cruz County School Boards Associations in October. Our special guest speaker, John Fensterwald, did a wonderful job of focusing on the key issues we should be, and are addressing, in our schools. The topic for our November meeting was the Effective Formative Feedback Empowering Teachers and Students (EFFECTS), an assessment program currently being used in the Campbell Union High School District to ensure that all students actually learn, and can apply, the subject matter they are studying.
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Annual Reorganization and
Installation of Officers Dinner Meeting Weds., May 23 from 6:30 – 9:00 p.m. (Note time)
The May 23 Executive Board Meeting is the Annual Reorganization and Installation of Newly Elected Officers. The hosted Mexican buffet dinner meeting will be held at 6:30 p.m., at Alicia's Banquet Room (to the right of the Bank of America) at 14408 Union Ave, San Jose.
President-elect Kathleen Sullivan of Morgan Hill Unified will be contacting members about appointments and committees for next year.
Following the business meeting and installation, there will be a discussion about the budget and other hot topics.
All school board members are welcome to attend by email reservation, only, by Friday, May18 to [email protected]
Candidates' Workshop For prospective school board members
Our 2012 Candidates Information Workshop will be held on Saturday, June 2 from 9:30 a.m. to 12:00 noon, in the boardroom of Mountain View Los Altos Union High School District, 1299 Bryant Ave., Mountain View. Current school board members will talk about roles and responsibilities of school board service. A representative from the Registrar of Voters will speak about campaign filing. The event is free, and open to all prospective candidates or those who may have an interest in board service. An RSVP is appreciated for head count to Rose Filicetti at [email protected] Thanks to Judy Hannemann (Mtn. View/Los Altos UHSD), Camille Townsend (Palo Alto Unified) and Ellen Wheeler (Mountain View Whisman) for co-chairing this event.
2012 Kristi Porter Award Winner: Yerba Buena HS,
East Side UHSD
Officers Pam Parker, President Kathleen Sullivan, Vice President Michael Gipe, Treasurer Danielle Cohen – Awards Co-Chair Dolores Marquez – Awards Co-Chair Chris Miller – Awards Co-Chair Albert Gonzalez – Legislative Brunch Chair Dana Tom, Region 20 Director and Past President
District Representatives, Alternates, and Delegates Alum Rock USD Dolores Marquez Berryessa USD Linda Chen Cambrian SD Randy Scofield Campbell UHSD Pam Parker Campbell USD Danielle Cohen Campbell USD Leah Read Cupertino USD Anjali Kausar East Side UHSD Frank Biehl East Side UHSD Van T. Le Evergreen SD Balaji Venkatraman Franklin-McKinley SD George Sanchez Fremont UHSD Nancy Newton Gilroy USD Tom Bundros Lakeside Joint SD Theresa Bond Loma Prieta JT.Union Rachelle Lopp Los Altos SD Tamara Logan Los Gatos USD Chris Miller Los Gatos/Saratoga Cynthia Chang Los Gatos/Saratoga Michele van Zuiden Luther Burbank SD Lorraine Garza Metro ED/CCOC TBD in January Milpitas Unified SD Danny Lau Moreland SD Karen Whipple Morgan Hill Unified SD Robert Benevento Morgan Hill Unified SD Kathleen Sullivan Mount Pleasant SD Darrell Koide Mtn. View/Los Altos Judy Hannemann Mtn. View/Los Altos Susan Sweeley Mountain View Whisman SD Ellen Wheeler Oak Grove SD Jacquelyn Adams Oak Grove SD Mary Noel Orchard SD Alan Fong (new) Palo Alto Unified SD Camille Townsend San Jose Unified SD Leslie Reynolds SCC BOE Leon Beauchman SCC BOE Anna Song Santa Clara Unified SD Albert Gonzalez Saratoga USD Michael Gipe Sunnyvale SD Nancy Newkirk Sunnyvale SD Reid Myers Union SD Vickie Brown
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Executive Director’s Report
28TH ANNIVERSARY HOFFMANN AWARDS DINNER
One hundred and thirty school board members, administrators and guests attended the 28th Anniversary Hoffmann Awards Celebration, including representatives from our sponsors. The dinner began with music by a Middle School Jazz Band and Chorus from Alum Rock.
Our Co-Hosts, NBC’s Damian Trujillo and Sobrato High School (Morgan Hill) Junior Jennifer Gonzalez began their remarks with a remembrance of former County Superintendent Glenn Hoffmann (1967-84), for whom the awards are named. They exemplify Dr. Hoffmann’s strong belief in educational leadership as the key factor in educational reform. They provide recognition for successful school programs that have a significant impact on student success in our county.
The evening’s focus was the celebration of four exemplary district programs, the recipients of the 2012 Hoffmann Awards. Each award winner presented a video, produced by the SCCOE, highlighting their program.
Gilroy Unified’s “Elementary Engagement and Achievement Initiative” is a district wide initiative aimed at providing a common instructional model, including an infusion of technology, at all of their elementary schools. Milpitas School District’s “Literacy Support Specialist (LSS) Program” provides direct reading intervention services to targeted, at-risk students within the regular classroom context; and job-embedded professional development in literacy for classroom teachers. Mountain View/Los Altos High School District’s “LUCHA and El Cafecito” programs seek to train, provide information and empower families to be strong effective advocates for their students. East Side Union High School District’s “Teacher Instructed Programs on Saturday (TIPS)” – a program founded at Yerba Buena High School, provides at-risk and needy students with an opportunity for additional support, intervention and enrichment services. As a special tribute, TIPS was awarded the 2012 Kristi Porter Award for receiving the highest score on the award rubric.
LEGISLATIVE ACTION – B-MAD!
As you saw in a recent CSBA email from CSBA Director Dana Tom (Palo Alto Unified), the replacement for CSBA’s Legislative Action Conference is the new Board Member Action Day, also known as B-MAD. Board Member Action Day will take place on Friday, June 1, 2012. A complimentary webcast of important information is scheduled for Wednesday, May 30, 2012, 10:00 am 12:30 pm in the Saratoga Room at the SCCOE. B-MAD about the crises facing California’s school children, BMOTIVATED to advocate with us on their behalf and GO LOCAL! The current and future fiscal solvency of our schools depends on highly motivated partnerships and we are both motivated and passionate about increasing funding and improving the school experience and educational quality for California's public schoolchildren. CSBA is unveiling its new Board Member Action Day, or B-MAD, on June 1. This newly revamped legislative action effort will focus on going local, and is your opportunity to work with CSBA to make a difference. CSBA will provide the resources while you give the issues a face and voice via direct meetings with your legislative members at their district offices in your neighborhood. Join fellow board members across the state on Friday, June 1, for meetings with state Senators and Assembly Members in their local district offices. CSBA will schedule your district meetings with legislators and we need your commitment now. Register today to ensure your meeting with your state representatives and sign-up for the accompanying webcast that will provide you with all the information and tools you need to successfully advocate for public education. If you can participate, please join us on May 30 at the Santa Clara County Office of Education to view the webcast together and then meet in teams to prepare for the visits to legislators on June 1. Be sure to register with the link above and let me ([email protected]) know if you'll join us at the SCCOE on May 30.
Calendar Dates to Remember
Friday, May 11, 4:00 p.m. Community screening of the documentary “Miss Representation” Hosted by Santa Clara High School Co-sponsored by SCCSBA and ACSA Santa Clara High School, Santa Clara Friday, May 18 2012 California Council of School Attorneys Workshop What Every School District Should Know
About the Dissolution of Redevelopment Federal Voting Rights Act and California
Voting Rights Act Overview Hot Retirement Issues for Classified
Employees Special Education Mental Health Issues AB 1344 and Contract Administrator
Issues Substance Abuse Holiday Inn, San Francisco Intl. Airport Saturday – Sunday, May 19 – 20 Delegate Assembly Hyatt Regency, Sacramento Wednesday, May 23, 6:30 p.m. Annual Reorganization Dinner Meeting and Installation of Officers Location TBA Wednesday, May 30, 10:00 a.m. B-MAD Webcast and Training Saratoga Room, SCCOE Sat., June 2, 9:30 – 12:00 Prospective Board Candidates’ Workshop Board Room of Mountain View/Los Altos UHSD, Mountain View June TBD Officers’ Planning Meeting
Cont.’d from first page): President’s Column In January, our special guest speaker, Preston Smith, CAO of Rocketship Education, gave us an insight into the way Rocketship schools are stepping out of the traditional “box” and using innovative means to help their students achieve the results needed to succeed. A forum, “The Revolution of Electron-based instruction” co-hosted by the San Mateo and Santa Clara County School Boards Associations in February, turned out to be a very useful and enlightening morning. Thanks to Dana Tom (Palo Alto Unified) for helping to put together a panel that was very well informed on the current and future impact of technology in our schools.
Santa Clara County Superintendent, Dr. Charles Weis, reported on the state of the schools in Santa Clara County at our meeting in March, where a great deal of the focus is on closing the achievement gap by the year 2020. Also in March, our Legislative Brunch returned to Mission College where we were able to spend some quality time with our legislators. A big thanks goes to Albert Gonzalez (Santa Clara Unified) for chairing another successful brunch. The Hoffmann Awards Dinner, where we honored four programs with slide shows and cash awards, was a success again this year thanks to Danielle Cohen (Campbell), Dolores Marquez (Alum Rock), Chris Miller (Los Gatos), and VP Kathleen Sullivan (Morgan Hill Unified). Our Candidates’ Workshop is coming up on June 2nd. With Judy Hannemann (MVLA UHSD), Camille Townsend (Palo Alto Unified) and Ellen Wheeler (MVWSD) at the helm I have no doubt this will be an informative workshop for all future school board candidates. A special thanks goes to Vice-President Kathy Sullivan for procuring restaurants for the fall and Hoffmann dinners and to Treasurer Michael Gipe (Saratoga) for getting us closer to reaching our 501C3 status. I also have to thank our By-Laws Committee chaired by Camille Townsend (PAUSD) for doing a thorough job of going over our by-laws to bring them up-to-date. And of course, we wouldn’t be able to accomplish all that we do without our awesome Executive Director Rose Filicetti! If I forgot to thank anyone, please know that your efforts were very much appreciated. Have a wonderful summer! _____________________________________________________________________________
Good luck to Santa Clara Unified and Saratoga Union, which have special mail-in ballot elections in May for new or increased parcel taxes. These measures require a 67% approval from the local voters. Good luck also to Cupertino, Milpitas Unified,
Mountain View Whisman, and West Valley - Mission Community College District which have bond measures on the June ballot. SCCSBA supported these districts with the approval of resolutions at our February meeting.
Letters have been sent to Superintendents and SCCSBA Representatives for renewal of your district’s membership in SCCSBA by July 31. We offer board development services, communication, and other activities to promote public education in Santa Clara County. The Executive Board sets annual dues so that membership will remain within the reach of all districts. In keeping with this year’s budget cuts, we have voted to continue a reduction in dues by 10% for the coming year. Please continue to support SCCSBA with your dues!
