Traditional Schools

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Traditional Schools Principals
Professional Development
Local District 2 Thursday, August 13, 2009
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Welcome to School Year 2009-2010
Welcome to the new Local District 2 members
Yolanda Guerra, Elementary Director, School
Service Irma Good, Staff Relations, Field
Director Ronald Delahoussaye, Labor Relations
Representative Cindy Welden, Special Education
Administrator
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Welcome to School Year2009-2010
Welcome to the New Principals

• Josefina Navarro - Vaughn/Maclay EEC
• Martha Borquez - Arminta/Telfaire EEC
• Tonya Foster Crawford - Haddon ES
• Lea Moche - Dixie Canyon ES
• Joseph Martinez - Carpenter ES
• Antoinette Smith - Brainard ES
• Clara Pena - Burbank ES

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Welcome New Administrators
Franne Goldstein - Kinder Learning
Academy Kevin McClay - Rio Vista ES Laura
Fuentes - Harding ES Rosalinda Elmore - Herrick
ES Eduardo Solorzano - San Fernando MS Sally
Burford,Interim Principal - Millikan MS
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Principal Absence Procedures

• 1. SAA calls Alec Caballero to notify of absence
  and
• gives name of person in charge
• 2. SAA sends completed principal Absence form to
  Alec
• Directors need to sign the Absence Forms
• Alec informs the Director of the absence
• or SAA may also let the Director know
• Principals need to consult with Director about
• absences from school e.g. not about organization
• meetings but about participating in WASC, ACSA,
  etc.
• Emergency Cards- submit to your Director

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Stull Evaluations

• Principal Stull Packet Priorities
• Meeting of Superintendents High Academic
  Achievement Goals
• Implementation of District Instructional
  Initiatives
• Integration of Instructional Practices that
  support coherent systems of change
• Improvement of EL/SEL Student Achievement
• Improvement of Modified Consent Decree
  Benchmarks
• Building of Administrative Leadership in schools
• Use of Formative Assessments

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Stull Accountabilities

• Superintendent Cortines
• Administrators involved with
• Instruction not Operations
• Too many Assistant Principals
• attend too many meetings
• Work is the Action Plan Goals

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Parent CommunicationCustomer Service
School Welcoming Environment Office treat as
priority, greet in friendly and prompt
manner Employee Interact professional and
respectful manner Person need help/request
addressed, professional, respectful manner Phone
conversations respectful, efficient, and
professional Translations provided when needed
and available Oral/Written Communications
informative, easily understood, timely, and
accurate School Environment professional,
inviting, customer-friendly, organized
Volunteers and student assistants able to
implement quality customer service
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E- Mails

• Remember that E-mails are public records
• E-mails may be accessed or requested by
• anyone
• Public Freedom Act
• Keep them work related and professional
• Be conscientious about length of e-mail

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First Staff Meeting Agenda

• Anti-Bullying Policy
• Child Abuse Reporting
• Code of Conduct with Students
• Crisis Team Policies
• Ethics Policies
• Hate-Motivated Incidents/Hate Crimes
• Injury/Illness Prevention Program
• Nondiscrimination Information

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First Staff Meeting Agenda

• Parent/Student Handbook
• Safe School Plan Volume 1,2,3
• Section 504 /Students with Disabilities
• Sexual Harassment Policy (Employees Students)
  
• Student and Employee Security
• Threat Assessment Policies
• Title IX Policy/ Complaint Procedures
• Uniform Complaint Procedure
• Williams/Valenzuela Complaint Procedures

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Contracts

• Must address Goals or Single Plan
• Services that cannot be delivered by school
  staff
• All need Approval by Board
• No After the Fact Contracts
• Do not let anyone work until final approval
• Vendors alerted
• District will not pay - then principal is
  liable

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Conferences

• Related to data and School Single Plan
• Attend the conference at closest site
• Schools complete Conference
• Attendance Justification Form
• Need Local District Approval

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Local District 2 2009-10 Focus

• Superintendent Cortines Action Plan
• Focused on Five Specific Areas
• High Academic Achievement
• Graduation Rate
• Counseling
• Parent Community Involvement
• Safe and Orderly Schools

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Local District 2 2009-10 Focus

• Area 1 - High Academic Achievement Goals
• Increase Graduation Rate by 3
• Reduce percentage of students Gr. 2-11
• scoring Far Below and Below Basic in CST-
• ELA and Math by 4
• Increase percentage of students Gr. 2-11 scoring
  Proficient and Advanced in CST - ELA and Math by
  4

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Local District 2 2009-10 Focus

• Increase the 10th Gr. CAHSEE Pass Rate
• for both ELA and Math
• Increase percentage of ELs scoring Early
• Advanced and Advanced on CELDT by 4
• Increase percentage of ELs Reclassified as
• fluent English speakers by 3 annually
• Increase Attendance Rate to 96
• (monitor students with 5 or more absences
• incurrent year or 9 or more in previous year)

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Monica Garcia Board President
As the budget crisis grew and grew, it was
sometimes difficult to keep our eyes on the
prize 100 percent proficiency and 100 percent
high school graduation. As we move forward, this
is still the goal. Despite our reduction in
personnel and resources, we must strive to honor
our commitment to our students, parents and
community members with LAUSD.