EUSD Community Newsletter Winter Edition Eat a RAINBOW: January 22-25th Eat a Rainbow Week and Wellness Week are just around the corner, January 22-25, 2019. Our Child Nutrition Services will be featuring a colorful salad bar of fruits and vegetables that week as well as providing samples to the PTA for purchase (order forms coming soon). Attached are the yers with additional information in English or in Spanish. Enrichment Showcase: January 28th - February 1st We invite you to come “WALK THROUGH THE WHEEL” with your child and experience the unique weekly learning opportunities that provide quality instruction for our students while allowing classroom teachers time to collaborate. Stay for the whole grade level wheel rotation or come see just a snapshot of the day! Feel free to come during a time period that works with your schedule … even if it is not during your child’s rotation. We look forward to seeing you there! Click HERE to see individual school wheel rotation schedules. Update from the Board
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EUSD CommunityNewsletterWinter Edition
Eat a RAINBOW: January 22-25th
Eat a Rainbow Week and Wellness Week are just around the corner, January 22-25, 2019. OurChild Nutrition Services will be featuring a colorful salad bar of fruits and vegetables thatweek as well as providing samples to the PTA for purchase (order forms coming soon).Attached are the �yers with additional information in English or in Spanish.
Enrichment Showcase: January 28th - February 1st
We invite you to come “WALK THROUGH THE WHEEL” with your child and experience theunique weekly learning opportunities that provide quality instruction for our students whileallowing classroom teachers time to collaborate. Stay for the whole grade level wheelrotation or come see just a snapshot of the day! Feel free to come during a time period thatworks with your schedule … even if it is not during your child’s rotation. We look forward toseeing you there! Click HERE to see individual school wheel rotation schedules.
In late November 2018, the EUSD Board of Trustees attended the California School BoardAssociation (CSBA) Annual Education Conference in San Francisco. This annual conference,led by CSBA, is held every November / December in either San Diego (odd years) or SanFrancisco (even years). This conference provides a professional development opportunity thatoffers the governance perspective. Leaders in education collaborate with peers to discuss andproblem solve issues faced across school districts. At the regular meeting on December 11, the EUSD Board of Trustees shared how theirattendance at presentations during the conference could inform practice and policy across thedistrict. Topics of several sessions attended related to social-emotional skills/learning,English language learners, the recent Janus ruling, and Brown Act updates. For moreinformation about the CSBA AEC, please view: https://aec.csba.org
REMINDER: Helpful Parent Videos are Online!
Just a reminder that helpful "...in a SNAP!" videos are viewable all year long on the front pageof the eusd.net website. Topics such as "Logging in at Home", "Screen Time", "CAASPP","iBoss", and much, much, more. All videos are created by students and are posted for parent'saccess anytime.
Park Dale Lane Students Increase Creativity With CoTA
In 2014, Park Dale Lane was one of three schools in San Diego County to be selected for theBeacon School Project with CoTA (Collaborations: Teachers and Artists). Through thispartnership, teachers work alongside highly-trained CoTA teaching artists to discoverinnovative ways of incorporating the arts into the existing curriculum. During the �rst threeyears of the partnership, CoTA engaged the services of the Center for Research on Creativity(CRoC), an internationally recognized research �rm with a specialty in collecting data oncreativity in educational environments. The �nal results of that three-year study are about tobe published, but early data is rather encouraging. The study is showing that there has been anoticeable growth in empathy and a willingness to collaborate amongst students whoparticipated in CoTA programming at the Beacon School sites. Closer to home, the results areindicating that Park Dale Lane students who participated in the study exhibited a 34% increasein demonstrated creativity and an 85% increase in demonstrated critical thinking skills overthe course of three years in the program. Look for further and more detailed informationregarding this study to be shared soon. The staff of CoTA looks forward to an ongoingpartnership with Park Dale Lane and exploring how the Beacon School Project can continue tohave a profound effect on student engagement at their site in the future. You may read moreabout CoTA here: https://cotaprogram.org/
Our teachers are doing amazing work with supporting students’ thinking and problem-solvingin Science! Teachers across the district have begun implementing new Next GenerationScience units in their classrooms. These units emphasize students learning science by doingscience. As we focus on engaging students with phenomena to build student interest, we areseeing student inquiry and thinking increase. Science notebooks are helping students recordobservations and thinking to develop a deep understanding of how science works. For moreinformation, click here.
Employment Opportunities for Parents
The Encinitas Union School District has a range of employment opportunities available forparents who want to work part-time and/or want to be on the same schedule as their children.Many of our current employees started as volunteers and then applied for paid positions in thedistrict. Please visit the Administrative Services website to view the job descriptions andsalary schedules. You can view current vacancies on www.edjoin.org and complete yourapplication online. If you would like further information, please contact Jane McGuigan bycalling 760-944-4300 ext. 1182 or by email at [email protected] for further information.Please pass along this information if you know someone that would be a great �t for ourdistrict! Current Classi�ed employment opportunities available range from 1.75 hours a day to 6 hoursa day and include:· Noon Supervisors - Range 4.5 starting at $13.49· Instructional Assistants Specialized Care (Special Education) - Range 8 starting at $16.14· ASPIRE (Before and After School Child Care)- Range 6 starting at $14.58· Health Technicians (LVN certi�cation required)-Range 12 starting at $19.78· Classi�ed Substitute - Please contact Lori Alguire by calling 760-944-4300 ext. 0 or by emailat [email protected] for further information.
1. Since spring, 11,000+ pounds of organic produce has been harvested from our certi�edorganic farm. We rocked Farm to School month in October!2. The Great Design Challenge is underway! The interior of the new Design and Researchrooms (‘Dill’ and ‘Rosemary’) and the shared deck area are being designed by fourth and �fthgraders from Flora Vista. Stay tuned for the winning design!3. The DREAMS Campus most recently hosted kindergarteners from around the district for aone-day learning experience. Observing, analyzing, measuring, recording, picking, planting, andplay made for a purposeful and engaging day of learning and discovery! To view more photosand this news in full format click here. Highlight! Fourth Grade Farm LabEUSD 4th and 5th grade students at Flora Vista experienced transdisciplinary learning with anemphasis on real-world problem solving during this new week-long EUSD DREAMS project.Students were tasked with becoming experts in designing the "Design and Research" studiorooms at Farm Lab, by creating multi-use environments. This included the walls, furniture,design & research tools, storage, and the surrounding exterior space for outdoor learningopportunities. Day one, Superintendent Tim Baird presented the district's overview of whatcould be in contrast to what should be. Students spent two days in inquiry reviewinginformation and listening to a design expert, two maker space experts, and district experts inconstruction, purchasing, and budgets. Stay tuned for an update...
Newcomer Intersession
Huge smiles and laughter punctuated the week at the �rst ever English learner Newcomerinter-session held by EUSD during the �rst week of fall break. Thirty-one students from fourdifferent school sites and from grades K-6 participated in a variety of high-interest language-rich activities. Each day, students worked in small groups of 8-12 engaging in dialogue,discussing literature, practicing new categories of words (e.g. food, school supplies…), andwriting about themselves in journals. Of course, the development of the newcomer students’language skills was the main goal for the week; however, the growth in self-con�dence wassimply remarkable. The gratitude and pride felt by the students were perhaps best summarizedby a sixth-grade student who said, “I am so happy to be here, and wish I could see all of you
every day!” This was a true labor of love by all the staff involved, and a great source of supportto the recent increase in new immigrants in the Encinitas Union School District.
Robotics WIN for ECC
The El Camino Creek Elementary Robotics team, The Musical Planets, won a chance tocompete for the world-championship Global Innovation Award when the team won �rst placefor their project design in the First Lego League Robotics Regional Tournament this Decemberat Legoland. They competed against over 50 teams of 4th-9th grade students from acrossSouthern California and now will go up against the best students from across the world to tryto get their project launched on a future space mission! We are proud of how theirperseverance and hard work have paid off! Pictured L to R: Jackson, 5th, Aiden, 5th; Alana, 4th; Mike, 6th; Sei, 4th; Aiden, 6th; Alan, 6thLink to article in the Coast NewsDo you want to hyperlink to the Global Innovation award home page? Click here.
