ENCINA BULLDOG FAMILY BULLETIN
Week of December 7, 2020
BULLDOG NEWS FROM YOUR ADMIN TEAM
Dear Encina Families,
Welcome to December! We would like to let you know that there has been a change in site leadership. As you know, Ms. Roxanne Mitchell was named interim principal along with continuing her role as a Director in the district office. Effective December 1, 2020, Ms. Mitchell will return to Director and Dr. Shana Henry will step in as acting principal for Encina High School for the remainder of the school year. Dr. Henry was hired in spring 2020 as the planning principal for the future middle school and, in addition to serving as acting principal for Encina, will continue to work with staff and community on the development of the new middle school scheduled to open for the 2021-22 school year.
The end of the semester is just around the corner. There are two weeks left. Progress report grades were available online last Friday. A copy is on its way in the mail. If your student has missing assignments, they should connect with their teachers as soon as possible. Teachers are available via email or sending a message on Google Classroom. They can check their missing assignments on their Student Connect on the student portal and you’re able to check this as well on the Parent Portal. It is critical to make sure that students continue to attend both their synchronous and asynchronous lessons.
Please join our Parent and Family Ambassador, Anthony Brooks and us at our monthly Bulldog Basics on Wednesday evening at 6pm on Zoom. There will be drawings for those who attend. If you have concerns and not sure who to connect with, please fill out the Distance Learning Support Ticket below so we can assist you.
Sincerely,
Dr. Henry, Mrs. Speed, Mrs. Sato, and Ms. Poirier
MEET OUR ENCINA OFFICE STAFF
Ms. Akbari, Principal's Secretary
(916) 971-5839
Ms. Hernandez, Vice Principal's Secretary
(916) 971-7546
Mrs. Bohannon, Counseling Secretary
(916) 971-7585
Mrs. Alonzo, Registrar
(916) 971-7551
Mrs. Gonzales, Attendance Clerk
(916) 971-5803
Ms. Polk, Textbook ICT
UPCOMING EVENTS AT ENCINA
12/9: Bulldog Basics Parent Information Night
12/10: Middle School & High School Feedback Session
12/11: Friday Lunchtime Activities
12/16: WEB 6th Grade Social
12/17 & 12/18: Finals
12/18: End of 1st Semester & 2nd Quarter
BULLDOG BASICS PARENT INFORMATION NIGHT
Click here to join the event.
Wednesday, Dec 9, 2020, 06:00 PM
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ENCINA MIDDLE SCHOOL & HIGH SCHOOL FEEDBACK SESSION
Encina's Middle School and High School are splitting! Past, present and future students are needed to help shape what you want the schools to look like and feel like. Join us for our first feedback session on Middle school and share your ideas!
December 10th 4:00 - 6:00 PM - Sign up using the following Eventbrite link
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/envision-encina-middle-school-design-meeting-tickets-128037845643Thursday, Dec 10, 2020, 04:00 PM
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GO GUARDIAN FOR PARENTS - TECH SUPPORT TO SEE WHAT YOUR STUDENT IS DOING ON THEIR COMPUTER
1. Download and open the application
After receiving the go-ahead from the school or district's IT Administrator, download the GoGuardian Parent available on the Apple App Store HERE or Google Play HERE.
NOTE: GoGuardian Parent is currently compatible with iOS versions equal to or newer than iOS 8 and Android version equal to or newer than Android Jelly Bean, v16, 4.1.x.
Once the app has been installed, find the application within the apps list and tap the icon to open it.
2. Enter email address for authentication
Once the application has loaded, follow the on-screen prompts to authenticate the application with your email address on file with the school's administration.
NOTE: If the message "Sorry, the email you provided can't be verified. Please try again or contact your school's administrator" appears, double-check the spelling of the full email address.
If it is correct, please contact the school or district's administration to verify the email is on file.
3. Email verification
After successfully entering the email address, a prompt will appear "Please check your email - Click the link in your email to log in."
Proceed to check your email on your mobile device and press the link within the email to complete verification. If the link does not work, use the PIN provided within the email within GoGuardian Parent to complete verification.
4. Review terms and conditions
After successfully entering the email address, proceed to read the terms and conditions for GoGuardian Parent by navigating to the bottom of the text box. After reading the terms and conditions, press the checkbox to confirm review of the text and press the "I Agree" button.
NOTE: If the "I Agree" button is not present and shows as "Read to the bottom" be ensure that the text has been reviewed by reading to the bottom of the text within the text box and press the checkbox to confirm the text has been reviewed.
If this does not work, please close the application, confirm the device has an active internet connection, re-open the application, and try again. If the issue persists, please contact the school or district's IT administration.
5. Explore GoGuardian Parent
After successfully signing in, choose a student account to review activity from the "Your Students" page. Depending on administrative configuration, you may have access to the following information depending on your school or district's configuration:
1. A list of the student's top 5 Top visited domains and GSuite files.
2. A count of how many times Teachers using GoGuardian Teacher have guided the student's browsing behavior by closing tabs, locking browsing, opening specified tabs, or blocking access to websites.
NOTE: This feature depends on the account's subscription status to GoGuardian Teacher and may be unavailable.
3. All browsing activity by domain logged within the Chrome browser for the student's managed Google account.
6. Configure Filtering Settings for your Children
GoGuardian Parent can also allow you to enforce which sites your children cannot access while considered "out of school," allows for on demand pausing of internet access for your children, as well as scheduling specified periods of no internet access. (Please consult your school's IT department or administration to determine when your child is considered "out of school")
If you are interested in or having trouble using these features as a Parent/Guardian, please contact your child's school's IT department or administration.
Website Filtering
1. From the homepage of the parent application displaying a summary of your child's browsing activity, press the middle icon at the bottom of the interface to open the Filters menu.
2. After pressing Filters, tap the blue button at the bottom right corner of the interface to add a website to block access to for your child's managed device. You can add subdomains such as mail.google.com or entire domains such as youtube.com.
Wildcard expressions are currently NOT supported by GoGuardian Parent. After typing the domain or subdomain, press the blue button Create to save the filter. It may take around 2 minutes or so for the filtering to take effect on a child's managed browser.
Note: It may take up to 2 minutes for student browsing to be affected by GoGuardian Parent filtering once a change is made. Filtering may not appear to be effective if a child stays on a webpage for an extended period without navigating to a different page of the site. The site will be blocked upon subsequent navigation.
3. Delete a filter by pressing the area to the right of the site and dragging it to the left. The row will be highlighted in red and will be deleted after being flicked to the left.
Pause the internet for your child
While your child is considered "out of school" (please consult your school's IT department or administration to determine when your child is considered "out of school"), you can pause the internet for a specified timeframe manually, or pause internet access on a specified recurring schedule.
Manually Pause Internet Access
1. From the homepage of the parent application displaying a summary of your child's browsing activity, press the fourth icon at the bottom of the interface to open the time limits menu.
2. Press the pause internet button to view and select the desired timeframe from the preset increments to pause the internet for your child. It may take around 2 minutes or so for the filtering to take effect on a child's managed browser.
Note: filtering may not appear to be effective if a child stays on a webpage for an extended period without navigating to a different page of the site. Activity will be blocked upon subsequent navigation.
3. Once the internet has been disabled, the app will show a countdown to indicate when access will resume for your child along with an indication that the internet is turned off. Press the Resume Internet button to allow your child to continue using the internet as needed.
Scheduled Internet Usage
While your child is considered "out of school" (please consult your school's IT department or administration to determine when your child is considered "out of school"), you can pause internet access on a specified recurring schedule.
1. From the homepage of the parent application displaying a summary of your child's browsing activity, press the fourth icon at the bottom of the interface to open the time limits menu.
2. Press the blue Add Schedule button at the bottom right corner.
3. Create a recurring schedule by specifying start time and end time of when the internet is to be disabled as well as the day(s) of the week you'd like the start and end times to apply to. Then click Create
Pro Tip: For overnight scheduling to pause internet during the late evening/early morning, create two schedules for each day - for example 8:30 PM to 12AM and 12AM to 7:30AM each day. You may want to consult your student's IT department or administration to determine when your scheduling will be effective based on when your child is "out of school."
RECOGNIZE A STAFF CHAMPION
HOMEWORK HELP - NEW HOURS
Do you need help getting caught up with your assignments, getting organized, or help with technology? Come to Homework Help every afternoon from 3:00pm-3:45pm and Wednesday's from 1:00pm-3:30pm. Click here to get the Zoom link. Students must be logged into their San Juan account to gain access.
ENCINA VIRTUAL LIBRARY RESOURCES FROM MS. STORIES!
Virtual Library Homepage: https://tinyurl.com/y48w43hk
Reading Room for free Ebooks: https://tinyurl.com/yxsh6ade
Library Lunch Space: https://tinyurl.com/y5fy8t4q
Contact Ms. Stories: https://tinyurl.com/y64m64pl
POSITIVE BEHAVIOR SUPPORT FOR FAMILIES DURING DISTANCE & HYBRID LEARNING
REPORT STUDENT ABSENCES
Please make sure to report your student’s absence to the Attendance Office at (916) 971-7550 or email encinaabsence@sanjuan.edu if your student did not attend their synchronous (live) class for the day and did not complete asynchronous (Google Classroom) assignments. Absences must be reported if the student did not attend class for medical appointments, illness, or personal reasons (excused or unexcused). Technology problems must be reported to the teacher and attendance office on that day to be excused. Parents can also report absences in the Parent Portal. For more information click here. If you have questions, please contact your student’s Vice Principal.
DISTANCE LEARNING SUPPORT
We have added a Distance Learning Support Ticket. Parents, students, and staff can use this ticket to receive assistance with technology, logging onto platform questions, attendance issues, counseling questions, and any other questions. Please click here to submit a ticket.
CONTACT US
Please feel free to reach out to any staff member. Below is our contact information including our Secretary, Ms. Akbari, that can redirect any messages. You can also contact staff with the Distance Learning Support Ticket. Click here to be redirected to the staff directory.
Email: ivy.akbari@sanjuan.edu
Location: 1400 Bell Street, Sacramento, CA, USA
Phone: (916) 971-7538