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COLLABORATIVE INQUIRY UPDATE
On Monday, March 26th, teachers met in grade level teams to analyze data from goals set at their
January Collaborative Inquiry meeting. Teachers celebrated their students’ success and brainstormed
strategies to continue working with students not yet proficient on the identified skills.
Congratulations to our students and teachers on fabulous growth!
RESULTS FROM FEBEBRUARY 27 C.I. GOALS
Grade Level C.I. Goal % of Students
Proficient:
Beginning
% of Students Proficient:
Ending
6th Troublesome Verbs 27% 68%
5th Capitalization/Punctuation 31% 94%
4th Metaphors 10% 78%
3rd Contractions 57% 97%
2nd Syllabication 13% 92%
1st Long Vowels/Vowel Digraphs 39% 80%
Kindergarten Word Spacing 8% 74%
Grade level teams then collaborated around data to set new goals for their students, based on areas
of greatest need. Below are the new goals for each grade level.
6th Grade: By May 7, 2012, 100% of 6th graders will score 80% or better on a teacher created
assessment relating to solving addition and subtraction problems with positive and negative
numbers.
DATE
Thursday 29 Spring Play, 6:30pm, Multi-Purpose Room Friday 30 Ukelele Club – Canceled Today Saturday - Monday 31 - 9 SPRING BREAK! Monday 9 GATE testing, 9:00am,Turnstone campus
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Robin Stout, Principal http://turnstone.rocklinacademy.com
David Patterson, Ed. D, Superintendent Wednesday, March 28, 2012
5th Grade: By May 7, 2012, 100% of 5th graders will score 80% or above on the grammar unit
assessment for capitalization and punctuation (sections 5-8).
4th Grade: By May 7, 2012, 86% of 4th grade students will be able to identify four types of
figurative language, i.e. personification, hyperbole, simile, and metaphor within a text passage
created by the fourth grade team.
3rd Grade: By May 7, 2012, 100% of 3rd graders will be proficient in understanding unknown words
using the 5 most common suffixes as clues.
2nd Grade: By May 7, 2012, 90% of all 2nd graders will score proficient when using quotation
marks and identifying their proper use in reading passages.
1st Grade: By May 7, 2012, 100% of 1st graders will score 80% or better on the “r” and “l”
controlled vowel portions of the core phonics assessment.
Kindergarten: By May 7, 2012, 100% of kindergarteners will be able to write uppercase and
lowercase letters of the alphabet independently, attending to form and proper spacing.
AB 1576 WILL HELP CHARTER SCHOOLS COPE WITH THE
STATE’S LATE PAYMENTS
Public schools in California have been hit with billions of dollars of funding cuts for the last four
years. All schools have been hit hard, including charter schools. However, the state is also hurting
schools because they are paying the reduced funding very late. More than one third of this reduced
funding will be paid to schools AFTER the end of the school year. In other words, Rocklin Academy
has to run our outstanding educational programs on reduced funding AND we don’t get one third of
the funding until months after we need it to pay teachers, buy educational supplies, and pay for our
facilities.
Assembly Bill 1576 will help charter schools deal with this late state funding by allowing them to get
short term cash flow loans from the County Treasurer in the same way that other non-charter school
districts do so already. AB 1576 is co-authored by our own Assemblywoman Beth Gaines.
Assemblywoman Gaines has been working with Rocklin Academy and other charter schools in our area
to help us access this funding, and we are appreciative that she is co-authoring this bill.
More information about the bill is available at the California Charter Schools Association’s (CCSA -
our association) website - http://www.calcharters.org/advocacy/statewide/current-legislation.html.
As we have done for other bills as they move through the legislative process, you may get a call to
action about this or other charter school bills from CCSA in the next few weeks. Please look for it.
Your voice makes a difference!
David Patterson, Ed.D
Superintendent
TARDY POLICY Academic success is directly correlated to attendance and tardies. Administrators, teachers,
students, and parents/guardians must work together to make sure students are present and on time
to class each day. There must also be a strong effort by each person in our community to help
students arrive to class on time and be prepared to learn.
Due to an excessive amount of tardies in past years, Rocklin Academy researched surrounding policies
and created the existing tardy policy.
From experience, we have learned that the first moments of the day are critical to the way the whole school day goes. Having everyone present at this time is essential. Please be on time every day. Students who disrupt class by arriving after 8:10 must check in at the office. The third time this happens, the student will lose a portion of their morning recess. Please take this seriously and organize your mornings so your child is on time every day. (Page 17 of the Student Handbook) We are excited and pleased to report that the implementation and enforcement of the tardy policy
has been a great success. As can be seen from the charts below, late arrivals have decreased by
nearly half for each trimester at both campuses when comparing tardy rates for the 2010-2011 year
with the rates for 2011-2012.
Turnstone Campus Trimester 1 Trimester 2
2010-2011 2011-2012 2010-2011 2011-2012 408 373 653 393
Meyers Campus Trimester 1 Trimester 2
2010-2011 2011-2012 2010-2011 2011-2012 421 223 505 218
The support of parents and stakeholders has been instrumental in making this policy a success. And
while we are trending in a positive direction, we cannot stress enough the importance of getting your
child(ren) to school on time. A quality education can only be provided if attendance is a high priority
to both families and the student.
SCHOOL PLAY, COZY CORNER, TOMORROW, 6:30 PM Rocklin Academy presents Cozy Corner, an original play specially adapted for school aged
children. Written by high school students, the musical is a story about being open-minded,
with themes of acceptance and friendship. Through the use of music, dance, wit, and
humor the characters in the play address the age-old topics of stereotyping and
segregation, choosing instead open-mindedness. It tells how differences between people can enrich
their own lives and lead to friendships.
Come watch our young performers tomorrow, Thursday evening, 3/29, at 6:30pm at the multi-
purpose room.
SPRING BREAK NEXT WEEK! Please mark your calendar! Next week, April 2-9 is Spring
Break. School will resume on Tuesday, April 10th. We hope you enjoy
the week off with your family!
GATE TESTING - APRIL 9TH Rocklin Academy will be offering GATE testing for students in grades 2nd – 6th on Monday,
April 9, 2012 at 9:00 AM at the Turnstone Campus. (April 9th is the last day of Spring
Break.) If you are interested in having your child take the test, please fill out the
attached form and return to Mrs. O’Brien or Mrs. Bomgardner in the office by 8:00
am tomorrow, March 29, 2012. Your child must be signed up by tomorrow, March 29th
in order to take the test. The test will take about one hour. Please have your child bring two
sharpened #2 pencils, and a book with them on the day of testing. Testing is expected to last one
hour.
WSCA RECRUITMENT We are having a recruitment meeting for Western Sierra on Tuesday, April 10th, at 6:30 PM,
in the Administration area (just outside Principal Kling's office). We could sure use your help
and we hope you can make it! We believe the best way to recruit great families to WSCA is
to join forces with our own great families that are already in the Rocklin Academy Family of
Schools! Please bring a friend; the more volunteers, the better!
PERFECT ATTENDANCE, TRIMESTER-2 Congratulations to all of our students with perfect attendance for the second
trimester!
Turnstone: Brayden Baker, Dylan Black, Brooke Byrd, Max Frantti, Sienna Hsu, Christos Kotsiopulos,
Ayden Little, Noah Lopez, Anika Maragathavel, Joel Tajiri, Aubrey Costello, William Davis, Emma Dye,
Brenden Freethy, Stephen Huang, Nicolas Nijmeh, Prachi Padiyar, Colin Parenti, Dylan Ream, Diego
Sandoval, Jack Segers, Tatum Tillery, Alexandra Watts, Jenai Bryant, Chloe Budd, Allison Carroll,
Athanasia Delis, Nicholas Frantti, Traeger Harrison, Rayan Holmes, Kinsey Hsu, Mason Lew, Kern
Shah, Rachel Tajiri, Aiden Tebbs, MacGregor TeSelle, Keiji Watanabe, Karina Andersen, Sawyer
Baker, Shiloh Bruckler, Gino Buencamino, Riley Carroll, Gabrielle Daniel, Ethan Dye, John Freethy,
Isabelle Hanson, Brandon Parenti, Anjali Suthahar, Layne Swenson, Kathryn Chappell, Luke Dowden,
Shawn Everson, Jack Goodman, Colton Harrison, Marcus Higashi, Kiriakos Kotsiopulos, Ava Maeyama,
Kareena Patel, Patrick Rebollo, Derek Segers, Vraj Shah, Joshua Tajiri, Nikitha Vancheeswaran,
Matthew Verbeke, Alex Verhaag, Tareq Allan, Julia Bryant, Nathaniel Daniel, Sophia Delis, Margaret
Dye, Apsen Garrido, Charles Holmes, Rebecca Jenkins, Kyland Parenti, Morgan Schaefer, Jayden
Siler, Kristen Smyth, Anabelle Tombo, Catherina Torneros, Kenichi Watanabe, Aaron Wilson, Yu Xia,
Patrick Young, Mia Agbayani, William Dowden, Matthew Ford, Caleb Hanson, Mason Hardy, Kyla
Harrison, Miles Higashi, Emily Manzer, Marie Navarro, Morgan Pfennig, Matthew Pilawa, Sydney
Pooler, Emily Riebeek, Jacob Tipper, Allison Uyeki, Hannah Verbeke, Joshua Verhaag, Matthew
Yoshida.
Meyers: Anooshka Hedge, Jaisleen Kang, John Lachappell, Amitra Balakrishnan, Jovan Bartlett,
Keith Bartlett, Arun Beckhorn, Cassidy Lee, Trevor Scheuerman, Abigail Galmeister, Drew Krawiec,
Arjun Sapru, Tyler Walsh, Adrian Campbell, Javraj Kang, Arvind Srinivasan, Nayana Venukanthan,
Kylie Kubota, Madelyn Lourerio, Daniel Osuna Hoy, Aidan Rich, Zachary Schreiner, Samantha Schwarz,
Deanna Trieu, Jillian Yeh, Emma Accacian, Aidan Baur, Jaikaran Kang, Benjamin Krawiec, Carina Lim,
Raegan Scheer, Bethany Schmidt, Michaela Bodie, Janelle Cruz, Madison Forst, Conner Galmeister,
Gagan Hegde, Julia Mamayev, Cambria Weaver.
THIRD GRADE COLONIAL FAIRE DONATIONS NEEDED Our Third Grade Class is in need of some items for our Colonial Faire which is on May 24th.
Baby Food Glass Jars
We need 80 cleaned and empty glass baby food jars for our butter churning activity. A box
will be in the office to collect these jars.
Colonial Faire Costumes
If you have an older son or daughter who has participated in the Colonial Faire and has a
costume you are willing to donate or loan, we will gladly make good use of it! If it's just
sitting in a box or in the closet, we are happy to take it off of your hands!
If you would like to loan a costume, please safety pin a note to the costume with your contact
information so we may return it to you after the Colonial Faire.
A box will be in the office to collect the clothing. We will be collecting these items until the end of
April, so please keep us in mind!
Your generosity and support is much appreciated! If you have any questions, please contact me at
[email protected]. Thank you!
Jasmin Dillon
Colonial Faire Coordinator
MOTHER/SON DINNER Friday, April 15th will be a Mother/Son dinner at Rocklin Academy. Please look for the
flyer at the end of this newsletter for more information.
PSP OFFICERS NEEDED FOR 2012-2013 We are seeking parents interested in serving on the PSP next year. All
positions are open:
President
Vice President
Secretary
Treasurer
Fundraising
Please contact Lisa Dye at [email protected] if you are interested. Thank you!!
SPIRIT WEAR FRIDAY!, This Friday wear your Rocklin Academy spirit wear!