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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. |  |
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This is my final but not the last edition of Friday Notes. This weekly update, which will be continued in the weeks ahead, has proven to be a valuable communications tool not only for San Diego Unified employees but also for the thousands of other subscribers that include parents, students, volunteers and other community members.
Thank you once again for your commitment to the students of San Diego. I am proud of the accomplishments of Team San Diego and know that the positive momentum will continue. Click here  to see a chart of the progress made during the 2008-09 school year.
I have enjoyed serving the students and citizens of San Diego. I wish you all the best in the future.
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Prop. S to Replace Portables with Permanent Classrooms at Pt. Loma High |
 Construction of a new state-of-the art classroom building will begin soon at Point Loma High School. It is the school’s first project funded by Proposition S. Seven portable classrooms will be replaced with a 15,358-square-foot two-story classroom building. The new building will consist of eight classrooms, student and staff restrooms, elevator, stairs, storage room, electrical room, bridge to athletic field, reconstruction of existing ramp to gym, new retaining wall, landscape and irrigation. Construction is expected to be complete by end of fall 2010. For information, please call the Proposition S Communications Office at (619) 725-7252.
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 Concern over H1N1 flu and seasonal flu can make children and parents anxious. To assist parents and other adults with talking to children about flu, the PTA, National Association of School Nurses and the National Association of School Psychologists have developed a list of helpful guidelines. Click here to read the guidelines. For more information, please visit the district’s H1N1 website or e-mail H1N1@sandi.net.
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AP Incentive Program Partners with Borders |
 On September 4, the Advanced Placement Incentive Program (APIP) hosted its first Advanced Placement/International Baccalaureate Resource Fair at the Mission Valley Borders store. Appreciative AP teachers gave the event rave reviews. “The AP resources supplied will go a long way to improving student success in my classes,” “my students will be thrilled,” “you have made the transition so flawless,” and “thank you for the amazing resources” were just a few of the comments made by those in attendance. For more information, please contact Don Mitchell, director, APIP, at (858) 505-9724.
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New Ways to Conserve Water |
 Spreckels Elementary parent LeeAnn Bates is conscientious about water use. As the school’s Garden Club Coordinator, she is working hard to incorporate drought tolerant and native plants into the school garden – an important lesson for students in these water-challenged times. To take the lesson further, when the school’s emergency supply of water packets expired and were about to be replaced with new packets, Bates decided to use the expired pouches to irrigate the school’s garden. The empty water packets, similar to foil Capri Sun pouches, were then recycled through Terracycle. First grade students (see photo) were the first to use expired water packets on their herb garden. Other schools can take a lesson from Spreckels by using expiring emergency water packets for their school gardens or by working with their site landscape staff to water other campus areas. For more information, please contact J. William Naish, supervisor, energy/utility management, at (858) 627-7217 or jnaish@sandi.net.
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Clairemont High Auto Shop Gassed Up on Donated Car, New Facility
Johns Hopkins University has donated a natural gas-powered car to the auto shop program at Clairemont High School. Students, under the direction of instructor Larry Engelbrecht, will conduct research and emission testing to learn about alternative-fuel vehicles on the reworked, late model Dodge Stratus. The ROP National Automotive Technical Education Foundation program is also awaiting start of construction on a project funded through the state Prop. 1D and San Diego Unified’s Prop. S, which will include six service bays, automotive specialty tools and diagnostic equipment. Check out construction progress on all Prop. 1D projects at www.sdccte.org and click on the Prop 1D Projects link. For more information, please contact Greg Quirin, program specialist, Office of College, Career and Technical Education, at gquirin@sandi.net or (858) 503-1736.
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Kearny’s JROTC Presents US Colors at Mexico Consulate Ceremony
The color guard from JROTC program at Kearny High School participated in a bit of international diplomacy on September 16 as it joined a color guard from Tijuana’s Lazaro Cardenas Preparatory School in a ceremony honoring the 199th birthday of Mexico. More than 200 people attended the ceremony, hosted by the Consulate of Mexico at La Jolla’s Museum of Contemporary Art. In attendance were the Consul General of Mexico, Remedios Gómez Arnau, and Lori Holt Pfeiler, mayor of Escondido. The Kearny students presented the US colors, while the Cardenas school students presented Mexico’s colors. For more information, please contact Col. Harry Ridge Jr. at (858) 496-8203 or hridgejr@sandi.net, or 1SG Theodore Jenkins at (858) 496-8204 or tjenkins@sandi.net.
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