Educational Services Weekly Update
3/8/20
Relevant Research & Resources
iReady Update
- Math committee meets on 3/18 to give feedback for our final decision. Your site reps were asked to bring feedback from their own site about how teachers are feeling. The options at this time, as we've shared with you, are:
- Keep everything from iReady/ Ready Classroom (forever and/or for next year)
- Keep digital components, but not book/workbook
- Keep nothing from iReady/ Ready Classroom
- FYI, Charidie is available to schedule an incentive assembly at your school if you have any interest. There is a character, Snagg, in the primary iReady resources, that students are familiar with. His picture is below. Charidie can work with you to have the character come to do a fun assembly to celebrate students' math work and/or to pump them up for the third Diagnostic. Please email Charidie if you would like to discuss this possibility.
- As you heard at ILC last month, Craig is available to work with you on a site-specific PD opportunity this spring. He can work with a grade level during a GLPD, or with a cross grade level team (if you can arrange subs to support). If your teachers were frustrated about their mid-year diagnostic and you wold like him to walk them through their data, that is an option. If you have teachers who still don't know what resources are available, he could work with them on that.
CELEBRATIONS & GRATITUDE!
KUDOS
* Jodi- Thank you for hosting the District First Friday at ECC! We appreciate you and your staff partnering with us for the big event!
* All of the First Friday presenters - What a great afternoon of learning! Thank you for your support!
* Rachel B. - Thank you for all of your help to get First Friday organized! Everyone loved the delicious snack choices, the clear room signs, and everything you did to support us!
*Heather - Thank you for the beautifully designed flyer for First Friday and the easy-to-use QR code!
* Glen - Last week Glen supported a Digital Life assembly at OPE. Joe was there observing and said, "Wow, can he work a room. Bravo Glen!". Thank you, Glen, for all your support with Digital Literacy and student safety in a digital wot
* LCH - Congratulations to Christie and the entire team on the recent award of Excellence for Civics Learning!
PDL - Congratulations to Erin and the entire team on the recent award of distinction for Civics Learning!
* Robyn - Thank you for all your work to support LCH, PDL, and Civics Learning across the district! Thank you for supporting two teachers, Mary Mambert from FL and Katie Andan from LCH, to co-present at last week's History/ Social Science Conference.
* Maria - Thank you for all your leadership and information as we navigate the ever-changing world of Coronavirus.
Updates & Calendar items of interest
Please see below
Key dates for you:
- 3/10 - NO ILC this week - enjoy your time in classrooms!
- 3/17- TRIADs
- 3/24 - ILC - please bring your testing coordinator for CAASPP information
TEAM TOSA this week:
James - ECC, OPE, ELD
Robyn - ME, LCH, ELD
Ashley - TRI, PEC, ELD, Capri
Sanjana - OK
Know My Story/ Know Our Story -- 5 Facts about Us
Maria Waskin, Director of Pupil Personel Services
1. I grew up in a small college town in central Illinois (where the University of Illinois is), but spent a lot of time in Spain as a kid and Spanish was my first language. My father was a Spanish literature professor and our family spent long summers vacations along the Mediterranean with loads of my Spanish relatives. Then, we bopped around Europe (mostly places in Spain) as my dad took professorial exchanges in one university or another over many years. About 8 years ago I finalized my Spanish citizenship, so I now have dual citizenship. Alan and I talk about maybe retiring in Spain.
2. My husband and I have been married almost 27 years. We met once in college. I was rooming with his cousin, and he stopped by to visit on his way to LA for law school. He claims he remembers that meeting, but I’m pretty sure I’m the only one who does. We reconnected years later when he was visiting Chicago for his 30th birthday. At the time he was working in LA and I was in Chicago. We fell in love over long phone conversations and got engaged on a hike in Point Reyes about a month or so after we met. I quit my job (in Insurance, which I hated!) and moved to California. At the time I was planning to go to law school in LA, but then Alan was offered a great job in central California. I deferred my law school acceptance for a year to see how that panned out for him, and took some graduate classes in psychology for fun that year. I ended up pursuing a Master’s in School Psychology and foregoing law school altogether, a choice I have never regretted. Funny, how I ended up in a very legalistic position after all!
3. When our first daughter was born, we decided to move back to Chicago to raise her around family, but when she was in high school, the pull toward California was too strong to resist. The way I ended up at EUSD is fun. I applied online and back then the process was to start with 15 minute screening interviews. I asked if I could do the screening interview by phone, but they said no! So, after some deliberation, I decided to do it. I hopped on a plane for my 15 minute screening interview, and it literally was 15 minutes. Three questions, that’s it. Afterward, I returned to the airport and got a call. They wanted me to come back for a full day of interviews two days later. I flew home, booked another flight for two days later, got the job, and have never looked back.
4. We are a hiking family. In the early 90’s when we lived in central California, we hiked Yosemite, Mineral King, Sequoia national park, all over the Sierra’s all the time. Ever since, most of our vacations have been hiking vacations. We hope to go to Scotland in April to hike in the Highlands and on the Isle of Skye (we’ve had to postpone this trip twice already, so hopefully it will actually materialize this time!).
5. We have two daughters and two female dogs. Alan always points out that he is the only male in a family of 5, and I tell him he is lucky! Our oldest, Tali, is 25 and living in Chicago. We’ve tried so many ways to get her to move out here, but to no avail. She is a Chicagoan through and through. Our youngest, Amanda, is 20 and a junior at the University of Texas. Fortunately for us, she loves San Diego and can’t see living anywhere else!
Educational Services
Email: amy.illingworth@eusd.net
Website: www.eusd.net
Phone: 760-944-4300
Twitter: @AmyLIllingworth