Week of January 22, 2024

Dear Liberty Team,

We have another great week of teaching and learning ahead! This week we are honored to host guest educators to observe our Dual Immersion program and practices. We also have our Great Kindness Week challenge which connects very well with our Liberty Way. Lastly, we also have our 100th day of school! :-)

Instructional Focus

PLC Focus:

Implement collaborative conversation opportunities during ELA block (guided reading, whole group instruction, independent reading).

District Math Expectations

Walkthrough Focus

During my walkthroughs, using the quality indicators, I will continue to focus on the opportunities for student talk/collaborative conversations.

This Week:

Great Kindness Challenge This Week!

As a great connection to our LIBERTY WAY of "Be Kind," please be sure to participate in the Great Kindness Challenge! Below are digital materials to get started. Hard copies of the Challenge checklist will be available in your boxes on Monday.

Great Kindness Challenge Kickoff Video

GKC Checklist SPANISH Gr. 3-5

GKC Checklist SPANISH Gr. K-2

GKC Checklist Gr. 3-5 English

GKC Checklist Gr. K-2 English

January 25: DLI Conference Site Visit

On Thursday, January 25th, we will be hosting Dual Language Conference participants at Liberty (we have been identified as an exemplary site!) who will be observing our DI classes and our instructional practices.

Tentative Schedule

RECESS SAFETY

For the safety of all students, let's all work together and be sure to:

Walk your students to the recess area
Ensure there is supervision before leaving the recess area if you are not on duty

STAFFING UPDATE

We bid adieu to our LEAD Site Lead, Ms. Monica Gonzalez, who will be assuming another role. In the interim of hiring a new Site Lead, the LEAD and YMCA programs will be supporting with a transition plan beginning Monday, 1/22.

Our YMCA Lead, Amanda Wallace, will be assisting with the transition and serving as the point of contact for LEAD.

Thank you, Ms. Monica, for all of your hard work expanding our LEAD program!

COVID Update

Updated Guidance

The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) and SDCOE have updated the COVID-19 guidance as of this week.

All student and staff positive cases will continue to be logged and tracked and consultants will continue to guide return to all staff and students entered in the tracking log.

Recommendations for people who test positive:

The updated guidance will allow individuals to follow a more symptom-based approach as they usually do for other illnesses.

Individuals who develop symptoms and test positive must stay home for 24 hours from the onset of symptoms.
A child or staff member with COVID-19 can now return to school or a childcare setting if their symptoms are mild and improving and they have had no fever for 24 hours. They are no longer required to stay home for 5 days.
If the student or staff member with COVID-19 never developed symptoms, they may continue to attend school or a childcare setting.

Students and staff must follow the masking guidance below:

Student masking indoors is strongly recommended through day 10 after testing positive.
Staff masking indoors is REQUIRED through day 10 after testing positive per CAL/OSHA.
Symptom onset is day zero. If there are no symptoms, day zero is the test collection date. Individuals who have symptoms and test positive must stay home for at least 24 hours from the onset of symptoms.
The potential infectious period is 2 days before the date of symptoms began or the positive test date (if no symptoms) through Day 10. (Day 0 is the symptom onset date or positive test date).

Digital Citizenship

Please continue to review responsible digital citizenship expectations with your students.

Common Sense Media Curriculum

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Full House Fridays Continues in January

Please promote Full House Friday with your students!

Boosting Attendance: Full House Fridays

Beginning December 1st, and every Friday until the end of January, all schools will be participating the district-wide attendance competition: Full House Fridays.

MONTHLY DRAWING GRAND PRIZE: Winning school each month will be featured on a TV commercial!!! Winning schools will also be recognized at the February Board of Education Meeting.

There are 2 ways to earn an entry into the monthly drawing:

Highest Rate of Attendance Each Friday

Each student that is present on Friday will count as 1 point for your school.
Each Friday, the school with the highest rate of students present (ADA %) will be entered into the monthly drawing.

Social Media Posts

Each Friday that a picture is posted will earn an entry into the monthly drawing.

Please remind your students to be at school on time, everyday!

Upcoming Events

Other Events

1/29: ILT

1/30: Speech Contest

Gr. 6: 9:15-10:00

Gr. 5: 10:45-11:40

Gr. 4: 1:00-1:50

2/1: DI-ILT

2/8: Talent Show (School performance)

2/9: Talent Show 5:30pm (general audience)

2/26: Gr. 3, 5 Math PD @ Jeffers 8am-3pm

UPDATE: Vacuuming Schedule

To help with more frequent and consistent vacuuming, Custodial will be using the alternating A/B schedule.

A Days: Kinder classrooms, 400 and 600 buildings will be vacuumed.

B Days: Kinder classrooms, 300 and 500 buildings will be vacuumed.

Vacuum Schedule	Monday	Tuesday	Wedensday	Thursday	Friday
Week of 1/22	A	B	A	B	A
B: K, 300,500	B	A	B	A	B

This Week & Next

Monday

1/22

Tuesday

1/23

Wednesday

1/24

Thursday

1/25

Friday

1/26

MUSIC WEEK

GREAT KINDNESS CHALLENGE

*DAC/DELAC

12-2pm

Admin off-site

*Principal Coffee Chat/ELAC

8:00am

*Fire Drill 1:00pm

*Special SSC Meeting

AGENDA

3:00pm

*Dual Language Conference Site Visit

*Speech contest finalists due

*Liberty Legends Assembly

*Teacher Prep

Monday

1/29

Tuesday

1/30

Wednesday

1/31

Thursday

2/1

Friday

2/2

COLLAB WEEK

*ILT

Speech Contest

Gr. 6: 9:15-10:00

Gr. 5: 10:45-11:40

Gr. 4: 1:00-1:50

*Tech Committee Meeting

2:30pm

* DI-ILT

For Your Reference (Links)

Featuring the Liberty Hub (still in development), where you can find links to schedules, meeting agendas and other information.

It can also be accessed via Liberty Elementary School Team One Drive or by clicking on the button below.

One Drive Link

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Q4: Professional Development Training Dates

Updated with Q4 Dates/Trainings!

Q1-Q4 Training Dates

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