The Week of Week II

Hello all, 
Week two will be a shorter week of course with Independence Day on the horizon.  We will have no school on Friday the 3rd in commemoration.

Supplies:
I have only received one order and a couple requests with a twist from teachers for supplies.  I asked on the last Blog for you to send me and/or Sheri Lynch an email with what you want via the on-line Palace Arts catalog.  It will be a day or two turn-around.

Attendance:
Well, we are closer to the attendance being worked out but there are still a couple bugs in the system...  It looks like some of us have period attendance, but others have only day by day...

So.... Please email me so that I can know who has which format in ABI!    If you only have the day by day, please keep a separate tally of tardies so that we can keep track and then notify students when they are near the absence cutoff.  In order to do this...   please email Sylvia your tardies and periods absent (and who the student is of course...) by the end of Monday... we need last week's running totals.  Thank you!

And to that point.  The first day of school, Friday the 19th I am not going to count as an absence. There were quite a few students/parents who did not receive notification that school started on Friday the 19th via a sign-up note or were given wrong information.

There are three students who were given "special dispensation" either from me or the District to be able to miss more than 2 days and student and teachers are notified of this.  Other than the students with the special dispensation, all other students will be held to the "you only get two absences per semester" rule starting last Monday the 22nd.   Hopefully this makes sense...

Apex and Elevate have a slightly different process and we are keeping tabs on these students.

Events, of sort...
We will be having a fire drill this week, Thursday afternoon at 12:15 pm
... So once we all get back from lunch, and you have taken roll and know who that all are present...  we will let er' rip!   So, 12:15 pm Thursday July 2nd will be a fire drill.  

 

Is the use of the Library Computer Lab going okay? Remember to sign in ahead of time so there aren't any 

    

uncomfortable moments....  

Field Trips
We will have field trips for two programs this summer: Elevate as well as the Migrant Ed --PASS program.   So everyone else, make sure none of your students try to stowaway....

Elevate Math:  (2 classes) July 8th (Wednesday after next)  
UC Santa Cruz
Pick up @ Gilroy HS: 12pm
Tour time @ Monterey Bay: 2pm
Pick up @ Monterey Bay: 4:30pm
Parents pick up @ Gilroy HS: 5:30pm - 6:00pm ETA

Elevate Science (1 class): July 15

Monterey Bay

Pick up @ Gilroy HS: 8am

Check in @ Monterey Bay: 10am

Pick up @ Monterey Bay: 2pm

Parents pick up @ Gilroy HS: 3pm - 3:30pm ETA

The Migrant Ed PASS program 

will be having some Field trips this summer as well.  More particulars later...

And here is your weekly reader... 

an article on the brain and technology and how the "app" does or doesn't help creativity?  

Is the 'App Mentality' Killing Students' Creativity?

The Journal 

Summer School Week ONE

Well, one day down for most of us and a few more to go!

This week we welcome the Silicon Valley Education Foundation's ELEVATE Math and Science Program with the addition of two math classes and one science.

Gabriela Sarrato and Wonderly Peralta will be teaching math in rooms C9 and B1 respectively and Josh Small will be teaching science in BE3.  We welcome them and the foundation into the summer fold.

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I will add a video or thought or pod cast here and there that I bump into that may or may not be of interest to you but if you have time... view, read and listen when you can and if we bump into each other you can let me know what you think.  Or comment on the blog... I like new, somewhat controversial thinking and not just out of the box but sometimes just precariously edgy thinking... say, on the edge of the box. Technology, education, brain science, new world issues, thoughts and problems....  

So, to that point... here is an interesting podcast I listened to this morning on the WNYU's "NOTE TO SELF" podcast...  "The Bi-literate Brain." 
Question(s)... why does digital reading seem so different then paper reading to a lot of us?  And...  should we be concerned or is it just us "old fogies" that have the problem...

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Okay, back to Summer School...  

Technology:  
I have a request for Elmo's (or need to make work)...  Room B-14, B-17, BE-4 and C-9... anyone else?   Computer needs to be hooked up in B-17 as well.  (more?)

Maintenance:  
AC in B-16 is not working (more?)

Supplies:  
There is paper in the library to get you going.  grab a couple reams.  I was instructed to have you look online with Palace Arts,  (I believe this is the site... I'm going to double check on Monday) to see what your needs are to order up to $50.00 per teacher.  If you are close but over, let me know so we can discuss.   Write out a list with item number, quantity and price and send an email to Sheri Lynch at:  sheri.lynch@gilroyunified.org and you should receive your order within a couple days. 

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We will be generating a phone list and a "rules" list as I related to the students on Friday.  Please do as much in-class discipline before you send a student to the office.   I may give them the "one-on-one" talk once, depending on the egregiousness of the offence before I suspend.  And the student may just sit out for a time to get their priorities straight!  

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That is all for now...    I'm sure I forgot something, so if you know this or have a question anyway, let me know!  Thanks, Greg 

Pre-summer school #2

UPDATE! UPDATE! UPDATE!


We have had to make some adjustments to the classroom assignments and we welcome Steve Jackson as our Environmental Science Teacher!  Changes in Red. 

ELEVATE	ENGLISH	SPED	MATH I	Other
BE3 – ELEVATE Science Josh Small	B12 – English I – Denega/Barone	B-9 – SPED Comp Lab	B8 –Math I – Azudeh Malek	B-6 – US Hist Guido Zvigzne
B1 – ELEVATE Math Wonderly Peralta	B19 – English II - OPEN	B10 – SPED –Weiser B11 – SPED ED Leroy Dozal	B14—Math I – Stephanie Hamik	B-4 –Environmental Science Steve Jackson
B7 – ELEVATE MATH Gabriela Serrato	B20 – English III – Zane Boehlke	B13 – SPED -Gary Nelson	B-16 MATH 1--Eric Alvaro	D-5 Lab  PASS Program Laura Costantino Rigoberto Rios Brenda Garibay-Fuentes
	B4 – General English 9-12 - Tai Bambusa	M-11 10 SH SPED -  Luke, Trevino		Library Labs – Alternate-sign ups

Pre Summer School Information #1

Hello! 
Welcome to the GUSD High School Summer School Blog

For information dissemination I will be using the Blog format through my GUSD Chrome account. (hence the Bruin authorship logo on the page) 
If it is something that demands a hard copy, it will be provided, but otherwise any information, notifications, alerts to deadlines, etc. etc. I will utilize this format...  

I will publish at least once per week and probably more.  

I am principal-ing both the GHS site and the Brownell site. The first couple of days I will be present at GHS for the most part and then as things go along I will split in two and be at both sites at the same time.  Or if that doesn't prove to be practical, I will generally start at Brownell (they start at 8:00-8:30) and swing over to GHS by 9:00 and back to Brownell to end the day or stay at GHS for the rest of the day.  And that of course is if everything is running smooth... and it should!
  

Calendar:  

First day of work:   June 18th  8:30 to 12:30 
Orientation first hour to include:  Book pickup, supplies, room keys, SS rules and regulations (that sounds ominous), safety and security procedures and drills. 

First day with students and thereafter: June 19th

Program	Dates	Student Start Time	Student End Time	Bus Drop Off at School	Bus Pick Up at School	Lunch Time
GHS
ESY- SPED HS (6 wks)	6/19– 7/31	9:00 am	1:30 pm	7:55/8:05	1:30	11:30-12:00
High School Core	6/19– 7/31	9:00 am	1:30 pm	7:55/8:05	1:30	11:30-12:00
APEX	6/19– 7/31	9:00 am	1:30 pm	7:55/8:05	1:30	11:30-12:00
ES HS (6 wk)- PE TBD	6/19– 7/31	1:40 pm	3:40 pm
Migrant  Ed/PASS AM	6/19-  7/31	9:00 am	1:30 pm	7:55/8:05	1:30	11:30-12:00
Elevate Math/Sci (4wks)	6/22– 7/17	8:00  am	12:00 pm			N/A

Room Assignments:  (MAP)

ELEVATE	ENGLISH	SPED	MATH I	Other
BE4 – ELEVATE Science Josh Small	B12 – English I – Denega/Barone	B11 – SPED ED Leroy Dozal	B8 –Math I – Azudeh Malek	B-6 – US Hist  Guido Zvigzne
BE3 – ELEVATE Math Wonderly Peralta	B19 – English II - OPEN	B10 – SPED - ?	B9—Math I – Stephanie Hamik	B-4 –Environmental Science OPEN
B7 – ELEVATE MATH Gabriela Serrato	B20 – English III – Zane Boehlke	B13 – SPED -Gary Nelson	B--Math i -- Eric Alfaro	D-5 Lab  PASS Program   Laura Costantino Rigoberto Rios Brenda Garibay-Fuentes
	B4 – General English 9-12 - Tai Bambusa	H9 SH SPED -		Library Labs – Alternate-sign ups Apex: Franchi

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That is all for now!  ~Greg