Trabuco Hills High School Honored with Golden Bell Award
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School News ® Covering the Saddleback Valley Unified School District Volume 3, Issue 10 www.SchoolNewsRollCall.com February / March 2020 Trabuco Hills High School Honored with Golden Bell Award Education + Communication = A Better Nation HEALTH AND WELLNESS REIMAGINED HOAG HEALTH CENTER FOOTHILL RANCH NOW OPEN Services Offered at the Facility Include: Hoag Health Center Foothill Ranch reimagines the way health and wellness is designed and delivered to the • Imaging community. The facility features: • Lab • The Hoag Lifestyle Program, a first-of-its-kind, highly • Pediatric Care personalized wellness program prescribed by physicians • Physical Therapy • The first, state-of-the-art BIOCIRCUIT™ on the West • Primary Care Coast • Specialty Care • A light, bright, and spacious layout integrating traditional health care with wellness services • Sports Medicine • Urgent Care • Women’s Health Learn more at hoagfoothillranch.com HHC - FR School News Ad - 2.indd 1 1/23/20 12:18 PM Superintendent Happy New Year! As we enter 2020 and March 2020 ballot. Measure M would cost the typical SVUSD the halfway point of the 2019-2020 school homeowner about $130 per year to repair and improve local year, I hope that everyone had a relaxing schools. The District’s Facilities Master Plan would be used winter break and that our students, staff as a guide for upgrades and improvements, and may be and families have had a strong start to the accessed through the district website at www.svusd.org. second semester. The fall semester saw quite Lastly, we continually strive to improve communication a few highlights, as well as many examples of among all stakeholders. To this end, we have an array of innovation throughout SVUSD. I am proud of methods which help our community stay informed and up Dr. Crystal Turner the many accomplishments of our students to date with what is occurring throughout SVUSD. Over and staff! the last 2 ½ years, this wonderful publication, School One of the major highlights of the fall was the News Roll Call, has been provided to all school sites selection of Trabuco Mesa Elementary teacher, Mandy and businesses throughout the community. Around the Kelly, as a 2020 California Teacher of the Year. Mandy same time, we also began publishing the SVUSD eNews, is one of five teachers, statewide, to receive this a bi-monthly electronic newsletter that is delivered prestigious honor from the California Department of directly to your inbox via email. We have also made a Education, and we are fortunate that she calls SVUSD concerted effort among various SVUSD divisions and home. In December, Trabuco Hills High School and school sites to be a constant presence on all major social SVUSD were awarded the California School Boards media platforms. In the spirit of innovation, this fall, we Association (CSBA) Golden Bell Award for the great began utilizing two new communication tools: the SVUSD work the Mustangs are doing to promote equity and 90 Second Round Up and Saddleback Valley Shares. access through their Unified Champion Schools Program. The Round Up is an approximately 90 second video clip “The CSBA Golden Bell Awards promotes excellence that shares important and timely news and happenings in education by recognizing outstanding programs throughout the district, shared via the district website, throughout California and reflect the depth and breadth social media and eNews. Saddleback Valley Shares is a of education programs and governance decisions podcast that gives listeners the ability to hear in-depth supporting these programs that are necessary to address conversations among district staff that discuss pertinent students’ changing needs.” Additionally, THHS was SVUSD educational topics. Released episode topics named to ESPN’s Top 34 Honor Roll as part of its Special include the SVUSD Facilities Master Plan, The SVUSD Olympics Unified Champion Schools National Recognition Virtual Academy, and the School Choice Intra-District Program, making it the first school in Orange County, transfer process. You may find links to all of the above and only the 2nd in California to make the list (including communication, as well as archived editions/episodes on ALL elementary, middle and high schools in the country). the “Communications” webpage of the SVUSD website, In November, the Saddleback Valley Unified School accessible via the “Resources” tab. District Board of Education voted to place Measure M, 2020 is looking like it will be another amazing year in a school facilities improvement bond measure, on the Saddleback Valley Unified School District! Board of Education Dr. Edward Amanda Suzie R. Greg Barbara Sam Wong Morrell Swartz Kunath Schulman Tullis President Vice President Clerk Member Member Student Member Saddleback Valley Unified School District 25631 Peter A. 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