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MISSION STATEMENT
All San Diego students will Graduate with the Skills, Motivation, Curiosity and Resilience to Succeed in their choice of College and Career in order to Lead and Participate in the society of Tomorrow. |  |
Human Resources Working to Place Teachers |
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Our Human Resources Department is playing a key role in many of our budget-induced changes. Hedieh Khajavi is joining the department from Los Angeles Unified, and will be working with Beth Gallagher to support staff at our elementary schools. Beth and Hedieh have a big job, making sure that all our elementary teachers that were “bumped” or “excessed” due to budget cutbacks have a new classroom come the first day of school on September 8.
Some of these teachers will be moving to the 25 Title I elementary schools that will have their K-2 class sizes reduced to 17:1 or less. The schools are: Adams, Audubon, Baker, Balboa, Burbank, Carson, Carver, Central, Chavez, Cherokee Point, Edison, Emerson/Bandini, Encanto, Fulton, Garfield, Golden Hill, Horton, Kimbrough, Knox, Linda Vista, Logan, Marshall Elementary, Rosa Parks, Perkins, and Porter. Human Resources is working to first bring back the teachers who were “excessed” from these sites, then to place teachers from other schools. If you’re an elementary principal or teacher and need to talk about staffing, call Hedieh at (619) 725-8143 or Beth at (619) 725-8015. Principals should continue to contact Pat Raymond at (619) 725-8102 for classified staffing issues and Eileen Sandifer at (619) 725-8015 for certificated staffing.
As you know, we had to raise class size across the district (with the exception of the above-mentioned schools), and our Board of Education made the commitment that we would not lay off any teachers. This means that some teachers may have been “bumped” or “excessed,” and will be moving on to a new school. Be assured that our Human Resources Department staff will have all teachers in a classroom as soon as possible. For more information on the K-2 class size reduction, please call Grenita Lathan at (619) 725-7303.
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New Principal Assignments for the 2009-10 School Year |
The Board of Education approved the following principal assignments at the July 28 and August 4 board meetings:
- Julia Bridi, Principal, Chollas-Mead Elementary School
- Mary Taylor, Principal, Hamilton Elementary School
- Kathy Wolfe, Principal, Hardy Elementary School
- Patrick Holland, Principal, Crawford High Educational Complex, Law And Business
- William Laine, Principal, Crawford High Educational Complex, Community Health & Medical Practices (CHAMPS)
- Consuelo Manriquez De Beltran, Principal, San Diego High Educational Complex, Media, Visual And Performing Arts (MVPA)
- Richard Nash, Principal, Madison High School
- Harry Shelton, Principal, Morse High School
- Scott Thomason, Principal, Creative Performing Media Arts, (CPMA) Middle School
- Nicole Wahab, Principal, Mt. Everest Academy
For more information, please contact Dr. Chuck Morris, deputy superintendent, at (619) 725-8193.
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The first day of the 2009-2010 school year is Tuesday, September 8. The district is co-sponsoring two Back-to-School events to help students and families get ready for the new school year:
- Back-2-School Resource Fair & Enrollment Event
 will be held on Thursday, August 20, from 3:30-6:30 p.m., at Farb Middle School. The event, co-sponsored by San Diego Unified and the Navy School Liaison Program, is intended as a “one stop shop” for families new to the area. For more information, please contact Kirsten Webb at (619) 532-4251 or Kirsten.Webb@navy.mil
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- 6th Annual New Everybody Recommitting to Academic Achievement (ERAA) Conference will be held on Saturday, August 22, from 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., at Lincoln High School. For more information, contact Zoneice Jones, conference chair, at (619) 264-6870.
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More from the Star-Spangled Hire-A-Youth Sendoff |
 We all continue to reflect on last Friday’s Hire-A-Youth sendoff at the USS Midway, where more than 700 of our students came together to celebrate a summer of hard work, paychecks and the involvement of our great San Diego community. While students worked with more than 100 San Diego employers, many were part of our San Diego Unified team for the summer, ranging from custodial staff to finance to communications.
For example, 13 students worked at the Physical Plant Operations (PPO) division, where their jobs included construction work alongside our highly-skilled professional craftspersons and updating and linking documents in our new TMA computer maintenance-tracking system. PPO staff reports that the students’ energy helped lift the entire division. For more information, please contact Virginia Eves, director, Office of College, Career and Technical Education, at (858) 503-1754 or veves@sandi.net .
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Community Barbecues Highlight Kids Summer Fun Café |
Our Food Services division’s highly successful Kids Summer Fun Café enters its final month with a few more special barbecues for adults. While the kids eat free every day, the barbecues are a community celebration at lunchtime, with adults invited for only $3. The events include games for the kids, food-stamp prescreening and fresh food and vegetable giveaways from the Food Bank. Upcoming dates include August 13 at Paradise Hills Park and Recreation Center, 6610 Potomic St.; August 21 at Mountain View Park and Recreation Center, 647 S. Boundary St.; and August 28 at Azalea Park and Recreation Center, 2596 Violet St.
The Kids Summer Fun Café will provide free lunches to more than 100,000 children ages 18 and under this year and summer jobs to more than 300 members of our Food Services team. This excellent program could not exist without our partner, the City of San Diego’s Park and Recreation Department, and generous funding from the state and federal governments. Other participants include SDG&E, San Diego Food Bank and the Network for Healthy California. For more information, contact Gary Petill, food services director, at (858) 627-7301 or gpetill@sandi.net .
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Left to right: Melissa Woods, Rafael Quiroz, Hong Trung, Ray Mello, and Arthur Sisomsouk
The “ObamaCan” created by students from Crawford High’s IDEA (Innovation and Design Educational Academy) won three awards last month at the Canstruction San Diego Design-Build Competition. Engineering students designed and built the ObamaCan, which contained more than 2,700 (full) cans of diced tomatoes and other products. The President’s campaign logo and colors were used to represent IDEA students’ challenge to fight hunger. The sixth annual competition is among San Diego’s top architects and engineers who create works of sculptural art entirely from canned foods. They’re as tall as eight feet and as wide as ten feet; no interior structural support is allowed. Once judging is complete, all the food is donated to food banks in the San Diego area.
Congratulations to all the students from IDEA, along with teacher Ray Mello, and Melissa Woods, IDEA’s employment outreach specialist. For more information, contact Dr. Arturo Cabello, IDEA principal, at (619) 583-2500, ext. 2880.
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Author and School Improvement Expert Douglas Reeves published a thought provoking article, “Effective Grading Practices”, in the February 2008 edition of Kappan. Reeves discusses the impact of giving a ‘zero’ on a test, not turning in work, etc. on a student’s final grade. Click here to read the article. Please call me at (619) 725-5506, should you have questions.
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