Board Highlights September 30, 2016
*Board Meeting / October 4, 2016 7:00pm / District Office* Table of Contents Check It Out! ...... 2 School Events with attachments ...... 3 Presidential Proclamation -- Death of Shimon Peres ...... 11 A GIANT GESTURE (Manteca Bulletin) ...... 12 Bryan Stow talks to Weston Ranch Students on How He has Regained Physical Abilities (The Record) ...... 15 Be.tech Seeking Volunteers to Provide Student Feedback (Manteca Bulletin) ...... 16 ACORN LEAGUE SPROUTS (Manteca Bulletin) ...... 17 SJ Supervisor Tours Manteca School Campuses (Manteca Bulletin) ...... 19 Sierra Powder Puff Football (Manteca Bulletin) ...... 20 East Union 50th Anniversary Parade (Manteca Bulletin) ...... 22 East Union Home Coming (Manteca Bulletin) ...... 25
Page 1 of 26 Superintendent’s Office, Community Outreach Check It Out!
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Page 2 of 26 Superintendent’s Office, Community Outreach Community Outreach Dept.
School Events with attachments
Field Trip to Bryan Stow
August Knodt 8th grade students were invited to Weston Ranch High School to the Bryan Stow anti- bullying assembly. Bryan shared his struggle to regain his life after being beaten at a Dodgers/Giants baseball game in Southern California. August Knodt students were so moved by the presentation, it was the topic of discussion on the walk back to school. Students reflected on the senseless act of beating someone, solely due to the team they cheer for. One student shared that what she’ll remember most from the assembly, is that people who are bullies in school will grow up to be adult bullies.
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Classroom Interventions at Golden West
Teachers and students are enjoying the array of resources that our new Wonders Program has provided to promote success in Language Arts.
Progress data is closely monitored to assess both the learning rate and level of performance of individual students. The GW goal is to ensure students are receiving the appropriate level of support that they need to achieve academic success.
A variety of interventions have been put in place such as Read Well, Read 180, Rosetta Stone, System 44 and more. Teachers will continue to review data to make informed decisions regarding interventions and classroom instruction to promote academic success.
Page 4 of 26 Superintendent’s Office, Community Outreach ELAC at East Union
East Union hosted their 1st ELAC (English Learner Advisory Committee) Meeting of the year on Wednesday September 28th with over 35 parents and students in attendance, which is a welcome increase from 3 parents in attendance at the initial meeting only two years ago! Mrs. Aracely Sandoval (VP) and Ms. Jessica Munoz (Counselor) along with Bilingual Para's Jessica Camacho and Edith Torres, work collaboratively to present information and gather parent and student input in order to ensure support of English Language Learners at East Union high school.
Page 5 of 26 Superintendent’s Office, Community Outreach Joshua Cowell celebrated our 6th annual Patriot’s Day!
Students wrote letters and generously donated items to send in care packages to military. This year, the Joshua Cowell community packed up 75 care packages!
Cougar Crafts
Inspired from a weekly reading titled "Kids in Business." Mrs. Brown's 4th graders have started their own business, making their own products to sell. Just like the students in the story, the 4th graders have chosen to donate all profits to the "Make a Wish Foundation."
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Weston Ranch Football feeds the homeless in downtown Stockton
The Weston Ranch Football team and coaches traveled to downtown Stockton and passed out 150 waters and meals for the homeless in their community. The athletes had the opportunity to interact and engage in conversation. Overall, this was a great volunteer event for the student- athletes to be a part of and, in addition, an experience to encourage students to always make the right decisions for the future they desire.
Page 7 of 26 Superintendent’s Office, Community Outreach Weston Ranch High School Key Club
Key Club International is a student-led organization which provides its club members with opportunities to serve in their communities. Not only do they build positive relationships with their peers and community members they also develop their leadership skills. Weston Ranch High School Key Club is the only high school to have this international club in our district. This club has been an active club since 2007 and currently has more than 60 members. With the help of our local Stockton Kiwanis representative Shamila Chand, School Advisor Emilia Alanis and student officer team this club is very popular on campus. They have participated in many volunteering event that include; feeding the homeless, created health packets for the homeless, helped at the Bread of Life food bank, hosted a book and can drive for St. Mary’s Dining Room and many more. Go Cougars!!
Page 8 of 26 Superintendent’s Office, Community Outreach Weston Ranch High Advanced Placement Success Course (Pilot Spring 2016)
AP Success is offered as a supplemental course to students that are enrolled in 1st Term AP courses. This course is offered during 2nd term and allows students to work their own pace preparing for their AP exams in May. A variety of techniques are used to allow students to maximum retention of course material and thus resulting in better performance on the exams. Specifically, the instructor uses flashcards, writing seminars, released AP exams, The Khan Academy website, and the Varsity Tutors website, along with course materials provided by the AP teachers. The class is productive, but relaxed in atmosphere to alleviate the stress aligned with the AP exams themselves. As a result of this course during the 2015-2016 school year, the twenty-two students enrolled in the course had a significant pass rate on their respective exams. Of the twenty-two students, forty-four exams were taken, and there was a 50% pass rate overall. Most significantly, the improvement came in AP Biology with all of the students enrolled in AP Success passed the exam with a 3 or higher.
“The AP assessment study class definitely helped to pass my exams. It not only allowed me to go over, review and learn previous, missed or forgotten material but also allowed me to gain more confidence in taking the exam.”
–Tyler Compo, WRHS student
“The AP Success class was a huge help, because it gave me the time to study that I might not have been able to find on my own, since I played baseball. Another great part about it was that it was set at our own pace, so I was able to decide how much time to spend on each subject based on my own strengths and weaknesses in those subjects. I took three AP Exams last year (AP Language and Composition, AP Biology, and AP U.S. History) and passed two out of three. My score on the AP Language and Composition was a four, and my score on AP Biology was a three.”
- Aaron Aguilar, WRHS student
“The AP Success class benefited the outcome of my AP scores significantly by providing me with the extra time, support, and guidance. I succeeded in the AP exams of AP Biology and AP Psychology with a 3 and 4, but never imagined to have passed AP Biology. Being surrounded with other AP students who have the same goals was the perfect environment for studying for the AP Exams.”
-- Maria Vang, WRHS student
“I felt that AP Success was an overall success because not only did a high percentage of the class pass an exam, but a lot of people who took multiple exams passed more than just one. By setting goals at the beginning of the term, it felt like there was less pressure for the exams and allowed for a calm, well thought out approach that just wasn’t in any of the AP classes going on at the same time.”
– Jesse Negrete, WRHS Student
Page 9 of 26 Superintendent’s Office, Community Outreach Sierra HS Brings the Star Lab to MUSD
It is a rare opportunity for a planetarium to come to you. With five SHS students to accompany and assist him at Stella Brockman, Brock Elliott and Veritas, Dr. Larry Grimes brought out the stars in the daytime.
Most students have experienced climbing into an inflatable jumper before, but not like this.
After students’ eyes became accustomed to the dark, the presentation began as the projector inside the inflatable star lab placed the sky above the students on the dark fabric.
Dr. Grimes—or one of his students—would then lead them through the process of understanding how our planet moves in relationship to the stars, some of the stories behind the constellations, and how to always find the north star in relation to the big dipper.
Their engaging teaching methods interacted with the students as various displays of information, including drawings of characters of the zodiac, were over-laid on the stars. The Star Lab let Dr. Grimes and his team zoom in on planets, and even on far away galaxies.
“When possible, we took SHS students back to their own elementary school campuses,” said Dr. Grimes. “It was important for them to feel like they were giving back to the schools which gave them such a great academic start.
“Our presentations began at about 11:30 and went through the afternoon and into the evening. Over the course of those three days we gave 34 astronomy lessons to 725 students and parents.
“Students attending the day sessions were given homework to take a parent outside that night and show them in the sky what they had learned that day,” explained Grimes. “I'm already getting responses from parents describing how meaningful it was for their child to be so excited about science.”
As the presentations came to a close, students did not want it to stop. Grimes also encouraged the students to attend a MEL’S Garage Star Party and is very grateful to the SJCOE STEM office for giving MUSD the opportunity to host the Star Lab at Manteca Unified.
“We all had a great time, and it was a great success,” concluded Grimes.
Page 10 of 26 Superintendent’s Office, Community Outreach Presidential Proclamation -- Death of Shimon Peres
DEATH OF SHIMON PERES ------
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
A PROCLAMATION
As a mark of respect for the memory of Shimon Peres, former President and Prime Minister of Israel, I hereby order, by the authority vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the United States of America, that the flag of the United States shall be flown at half-staff at the White House and on all public buildings and grounds, at all military posts and naval stations, and on all naval vessels of the Federal Government in the District of Columbia and throughout the United States and its Territories and possessions until sunset, on September 30, 2016. I also direct that the flag shall be flown at half-staff for the same period at all United States embassies, legations, consular offices, and other facilities abroad, including all military facilities and naval vessels and stations.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this twenty-eighth day of September, in the year of our Lord two thousand sixteen, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and forty- first.
BARACK OBAMA
Page 11 of 26 Superintendent’s Office, Community Outreach A GIANT GESTURE (Manteca Bulletin) Beating victim urges WRHS students to not bully
Bryan Stow, second from left, gets ready to throw the opening season pitch in April 2015 for the San Jose Giants minor league team four years after being attacked by adult bullies that left him in the
Photo contributed
Vince Rembulat [email protected] 209-249-3537 September 24, 2016
Bryan Stow has little memory of that fateful day of March 31, 2011.
A lifelong fan of the San Francisco Giants, he was all but beaten to death after he and two of his buddies had a clash with “adult bullies,” as Stow refers to his attackers, in the parking lot of Dodgers Stadium.
He spent nine months in a coma, needing assistance from a ventilator and feeding tube while fighting for his life.
Stow has the ‘Eye of the Tiger,’ an appropriate ’80s tune by the band Survivors to tell of his long journey just to his present day condition.
“I had to learn to live again,” he said to the group made up mostly of freshmen and sophomores that filled the Weston Ranch High Performing Arts building on Friday. “I had to learn how to speak again – I had to learn how to walk again.”
Stow, 47, is able to walk with use of a cane and other supportive devices in case of a fall. At Weston Ranch, however, he made his entrance onto the stage using a pair of crutches while wearing his Jeremy Affeldt No. 41 jersey.
Affeldt along with former third base coach Tim Flannery and all-time great Barry Bonds are the many from the Giants organization who have reached out to Stow and his family.
Page 12 of 26 Superintendent’s Office, Community Outreach Many others have also helped by donating to the Bryan Stow Foundation, which was founded out of survival, courage and triumph over tragedy with hope of helping communities put an end to bullying and fan violence.
‘I’m on a mission to tell my story,” he said.
Jennifer Oreiro, who is also a Giants fan, was moved.
“He was inspiring,” said the Weston Ranch senior. “His message was also about never giving up.”
She and the many students in the jam-packed auditorium took the Stow anti-bullying pledge – Don’t be a bystander; be an up-stander; speak up; reach out and help others; and lead by example.
Stow is one of the most sought-after school speakers, according to Weston Ranch Principal Francine Baird.
For the past year, he’s talked to students – elementary school, high school, and even a juvenile hall – at the various sites on most Fridays, from as far north as Chico to Orange County in Southern California.
At Weston Ranch, Stow was joined by his mother, Ann Stow, and his speech language pathologist Brandy Dickinson.
Ann and her husband Dave Stow are Bryan’s main caregivers. He has others on hand to help him get ready for the day. “I’m told I’ll need them for the rest of my life,” said Bryan Stow, who is a father of two.
Tyler, 17, is a senior and starting quarterback of the Scotts Valley High Falcons football team. Tabatha Stow, 14, also attends Scotts Valley High.
Bryan Stow, who lives with his folks in the Santa Cruz area community of Capitola, said his life was changed forever by Louie Sanchez and Marvin Norwood, who are both serving time in prison after coping plea deals for the attack.
Stow, who enjoyed working out, going to concerts and movies, was a paramedic at the time. He and his two friends, both paramedics, flew down to support their beloved Giants against the Los Angeles Dodgers in this longtime rivalry game.
He has vague memories, if any, of that time, according to his mother. “We were there to send our love to the Giants,” Bryan Stow said.
Love turned into hate as the three made their way through the parking lot while trying to hunt down a taxi. The attackers repeatedly kicked Stow in the head and ribs – he had already suffered a fractured skull after taking a fall.
Stow suffered severe brain damage and nearly died.
He fought back and lived to tell his stories.
He suffers from sleep apnea, waking up every morning at around 4 o’clock. He starts his days with coffee, juice and a variety of medications.
Before he arises, Stow takes eight pills – some of the meds help in preventing seizures and blood clots, Ann Stow said.
Page 13 of 26 Superintendent’s Office, Community Outreach He takes another 4½ by noon and 12 more by the evening. “I take 24½ (pills) a day,” Stow said.
He’s thankful for the many people who have helped along way, including Dickinson, who encouraged him to spread his message.
She began working with him in 2013. Stow, in trying to re-learn basic communication skills, went to a preschool during this early stage of his recovery.
From young children to adults, he began to find his purpose in life in spreading his anti-bullying message.
Stow, who hopes to put an end to fan violence, speaks with compassion and humor. He’s still waving the black and orange flag of the SF Giants.
“This is our year – it’s that every even year (2010, 2012, and 2014) in which the Giants win the World Series,” said Stow, who appeared a bit concerned over the 2016 team and its bullpen woes.
Earlier in the day, he talked to eighth-grade students from WRHS feeder schools of August Knodt, Great Valley and George Komure.
As for the high school, Stow, who had a slide show displaying various stages of his recovery on the projection screen, featured faces of youngsters who committed suicide as result of being bullied.
The statistics were alarming – 14 percent of high school students nationwide have considered suicide, 7 percent have attempted suicide and 30 percent were bullies who were victims of bullies.
“This has got to stop,” he said.
Since he began delivering his anti-bullying campaign, Stow has visited 41 different places. This year, including WRHS, he’s made about half dozen visits to the various school sites.
Stow’s next stop will be Laguna Nigel in San Diego. In the spring, he has a two-week speaking engagement in Hawaii.
The State Legislature in Sacramento recently recognized him with a Humanitarian Award.
“Bullies destroyed my life,” he said. “If left unchecked, they could destroy you and your loved ones.”
For more information on the Bryan Stow Foundation, log on to www.bryanstowfoundation.org.
http://www.mantecabulletin.com/section/38/article/137962/
Page 14 of 26 Superintendent’s Office, Community Outreach Bryan Stow talks to Weston Ranch Students on How He has
Regained Physical Abilities (The Record)
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Page 15 of 26 Superintendent’s Office, Community Outreach Be.tech Seeking Volunteers to Provide Student Feedback (Manteca Bulletin)
A be.tech student works on a project.
September 23, 2016
Community volunteers are needed to help provide feedback students in the Manteca Unified be.tech program.
Principal Diane Medeiros noted each be.tech student is enrolled in an Academy Professional Development class. During the 9-week quarter, students are learning both technical skills and soft skills that will prepare them for the workforce. They study character traits, set personal goals, volunteer in the community and complete projects that lend themselves to problem solving and the use of critical skills. Presentation skills are an essential component of their professional development.
Mederios said they are in need of community panel members who can give our students honest feedback following their Exposition presentation. She said staff believes that the experience of presenting to the community, their parents and peers will enhance their learning experience. The task of panel members is to assess student presentations, give students feedback and who can ask the students thought-provoking questions.
The Expositions are scheduled for Tuesday, Oct. 4, from 8 to 11:15 a.m. and 12:10 to 2:35 p.m. as well as on Thursday, Oct. 6, from 8 to 12:15 p.m. Each expo is 35 or 45 minutes long. Mederios is hoping community members will consider serving as a panel member for one, two or more expos. Students will be presenting in 11 different rooms simultaneously. They are in need of members from industry, the business community, and from the general community for each panel so many volunteers are needed.
Please email Kelley Wilson [email protected] or call 858-7460.
http://www.mantecabulletin.com/section/42/article/137945/ Page 16 of 26 Superintendent’s Office, Community Outreach ACORN LEAGUE SPROUTS (Manteca Bulletin) Fall sports draw 804 participants
The Manteca Unified Student Trust volleyball program (a game of which is shown from last year) has been replaced by the district’s revived Acorn League. Bulletin file photo
Dennis Wyatt [email protected] 209-249-3519 September 29, 2016
Big things are growing from the new Acorn League.
The inaugural fall season of the non-fee based Manteca Unified after school elementary sports program has 804 fourth through eighth grade participants in cross country and volleyball split almost evenly between genders with 403 girls and 401 boys.
The fall programs as well as basketball for grades sixth through eighth grades in the winter and track for fourth through eighth grades in the spring are all following rules, drafted by the district’s high school athletic directors. That allows for a smooth transition into the high school level as students know what to expect.
Cross country is a new Acorn sport that involves 350 fourth through eighth graders. There are 19 coaches for 17 elementary schools, Neil Hafley and Woodward have two coaches due to teams larger than 30. French Camp, Mossdale, and New Haven didn’t have enough interest when the recruiting stage was underway.
A coaches meeting conducted by Sierra coaches Mike Rosendin and Jeff Greene along with Lathrop High coach William Lee went over running form, how to train a runner and running drill ideas. Coaches and runners from the Sierra, Lathrop and East Union high school cross country programs conducted a runners’ clinic with 125 elementary runners attending. It was designed as a way to connect elementary students with the high school program.
Three meets are planned followed by a championship race Oct. 21 at Woodward Park.
Page 17 of 26 Superintendent’s Office, Community Outreach Acorn League Director Tevani Liotard conducted a volleyball clinic for all coaches to learn or be refreshed on skill progression, drill ideas, and how to plan a practice. All teams were invited to participate in a high school clinic at East Union, Lathrop, Manteca, and Sierra high schools. Each high school had between 40 and 70 participants at their respective clinics.
Lathrop High invited their feeder schools to a high school game while Manteca High conducted a Saturday tournament that 10 teams paid to attend.
Some of the boys playing in the Acorn League may eventually be part of the boys’ volleyball teams when it is added at the high school level as an interscholastic sport in the coming years.
Volleyball preseason games used a 40-minute clock with no score displayed on the scoreboard allowing the games to be an instructional portion of the season. League play consists of four games, the score is displayed and win/loss records kept.
The Acorn League has 20 girl teams and 21 coaches with Lathrop having two coaches sharing the stipend. Boys’ volleyball has 17 teams and 18 coaches with Widmer School having two coaches sharing the stipend. Lathrop, Brock Elliott, and French Camp schools did not have enough interest to form boys’ teams.
The coaching stipend is a percentage of a teacher’s base salary of $50,806. Basketball and volleyball coaches earn 4 percent of $2,032. Cross country and track coaches earn 2 percent or $1,016. Both cross country and track are able to have two coaches depending upon the team size.
The overall coaching cost is $243,866. Basketball and volleyball officiating will cost $28,200. Awards and supplies are costing $8,000 bringing the overall cost to the district to $289,066.
The Acorn League was established to serve as a developmental sports program. Students learn the fundamentals of the sport, rules, and sportsmanship among Manteca Unified elementary schools.
The Manteca Unified board voted to bring back the Acorn league as a district program in March.
The non-profit Manteca United Student Trust (MUST) stepped up in 2006 to save the program when it was going to be given the ax due to budget cutbacks. Unlike the previous and current Acorn Leagues, the MUST program was fee based.
To contact Dennis Wyatt, email [email protected]
http://www.mantecabulletin.com/section/1/article/138107/
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