Monday, April 30, 2012

Training Opportunity for Parents


Training Focus:
  • Learn how schools, families and communities can partner in a Multi-Tiered System of Supports (RtI/PBIS) to support positive academic, social, emotional, and behavioral outcomes for all students 
  • Develop knowledge of family partnering legal mandates and the research base for coordinating learning between home and school
  • Identify challenges and solutions to successful partnering 
  • Obtain adaptable, "takeaway" tools to support various activities
  • Plan for ongoing everyday family-school-community partnering practices
When: Tuesday May 8th, Adams State College, Student Union Building Room 309
Time: 9 a.m. - 3 p.m. Registration starts at 8:30 a.m. Lunch is provided, with coffee/tea in the morning.

Audience: This training is for all education stakeholders, including family and community members. Administrators, teachers, related service providers, higher education faculty, advisory groups, school board members, advocates, and accountability committee members are all invited to participate.

This training is free, if you would like to attend, please arrive at 8:30am in the Adams State College Student Union Building (room 309) for registration.

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Last Day of School Cancelled

On Monday evening the School Board approved the cancellation of the last day of school which was scheduled to be May 24th. The new last day of school is now May 23rd.

Monday, April 23, 2012

April K-5 BAC (4/19/12)

The Alamosa Elementary Building Accountability Committee met on April 19, 2012.
Principal evaluations, school budgets, parent engagement, and end of year field trips were discussed.

Updates:
K-2 Lunch tables - still waiting for them to be delivered
Overflow parking - Mr. Bilderbeck states that this project is a priority for Mr. Alejo and the District for this summer.

New Concerns:
Policy for selecting books to be included in AES libraries - concern about age appropriateness of a book selection (The Hunger Games) for 5th grade classroom curriculum
Policies:
Library Materials Selection and Adoption (IJL & IJLR)
Instructional Resources and Materials (IJ)
Teaching About Controversial/Sensitive Issues (IMB-R)
Citizen's Challenge or Objection to Methods-Activities or Presentations (KEF-E)
Request for Reconsideration of Challenged Materials (KEC)
Exemptions from Required Instruction (IMBB)

Next meeting: Thursday, May 17, 2012 at 5:15pm

Friday, April 13, 2012

School Board Meeting (4/9)

A-PAGE was in attendance at the Alamosa School Board meeting on 4/9. Items of interest from the meeting:

1) A presentation was made by the Community Resources & Housing Development Corporation regarding their letter of intent to purchase Boyd Elementary and repurpose it into 16-20 apartment units. Their goal is for Boyd Elementary to be a community asset that in addition to apartments would have a daycare center, Broadband technology center as well as maintaining the community gardens.

2) Another presentation/discussion was made regarding the Omsbudman program (which is the replacement for the Alamosa Open High) and the possibility of offering a National Ombudsman diploma in addition to the standard Alamosa High School Diploma. The School Board requested additional information on how that might be implemented as the desire is to have students graduate with an Tier 1 Alamosa High School diploma over a Tier 2 Ombudsman diploma.

District Accountability Meeting (4/9)

District Accountability Committee (DAC) meeting was held on Monday, April 9th:

- Parents Needs Assessment drafted by A-PAGE to gather input on parents needs on behalf of the Unified District Leadership Team went before the DAC. Some minor changes were requested. Parents can expect to get this survey in the mail towards the end of the month to be returned before school ends.

- DAC has requested that the district consider implementing a 1-5 rating scale evaluation at the end of each PLC day to gauge the effectiveness of that days PLC activities.

- Sale of Evans resulted in $1,175,000 for the district. This is a one-time thing and the funds have not yet been spent. Capital improvement projects will be looked at along with supplementing cuts that may come from the state level. However, the funds can not be used for anything that would require sustained levels of future funds (such as salary increases).