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Arco Iris Spanish Immersion Charter School, along with the Beaverton School District, recognizes the diversity and worth of all individuals and groups. It is the policy of the Beaverton School District that there will be no discrimination or harassment of individuals or groups based on race,
color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, marital status, age, veterans' status, genetic information or disability in any educational programs, activities or employment.
13600 SW Allen Blvd Beaverton, OR 97005
Board Meeting Agenda
April 16, 2015 Executive Session 5:30 pm ORS 192.660 - (e) To conduct deliberations with persons designated by the governing body to negotiate real property transactions.
Regular Meeting Welcome 6:00 pm Cesar
Opening Comments Public Comment 6:05 pm Cesar Board Business 6:10 pm
Approval of Minutes (March) Velázquez
Treasurer’s Report Schiefelbein
Approval of Goverance Doc, Org Chart Velázquez Principal’s Report 6:30 pm Smith
Monthly Update Parent Report
PTO 6:40 pm Perreira
New Business
Grades 6-8 Math Curriculum 6:50 pm Root/Cesar
2015-2016 Calendar 7:10 pm Smith
Revision of By-Laws 7:20 pm Schiefelbein Board Updates 7:35 pm
Parent Survey Cesar
Principal Search Ticas/Cesar
Site Search Team Watkins
Board Training Report Velázquez
Logo Use Policy Aguilar Upcoming Items Charter Renewal Cesar Closing Comments and Action Items 8:00 pm Velázquez Adjourn
Standard Meetings Schedule Function Date Time Location
Executive Session If Needed / To Be Determined 5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. Arco Iris School
School Board 3rd Thursday of the Month 6:00 p.m.– 8:00 p.m. Arco Iris School
School Finance Committee 2nd Wednesday of the Month 5:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. Arco Iris School
Parent Teacher Organization 2nd Friday of the Month 8.30 a.m. Arco Iris School
Arco Iris Spanish Immersion Charter School, along with the Beaverton School District, recognizes the diversity and worth of all individuals and groups. It is the policy of the Beaverton School District that there will be no discrimination or harassment of individuals or groups based on race,
color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, marital status, age, veterans' status, genetic information or disability in any educational programs, activities or employment.
The meeting times and locations listed above are generally when and where these events are held. If a change in time or venue occurs, notice will
usually be made through the usual channels of communication such as the website, Facebook, the blog, and / or e-mails.
Board Meeting Principal’s Report April 16, 2015
Enrollment: As of
4/13/15 for 2014-‐15 year
Enrolled as of 4/13/15 for 2015-‐2016
Target Enrollment by grade level for 2015 -‐ 2016 year
Notes: Enrollment is on a rolling basis so enrollment numbers are fluid to reflect that
Grade 1 51 54 60 2 packets out, 4 more spots to offer Grade 2 50 52 52 full Grade 3 46 51 52 Waiting for one packet Grade 4 25 46 48 Waiting for packet 4/20; another call
being made Grade 5 41 27 28 1 packet out Grade 6 18 25 28 Can’t use lottery wait list until end of
year Grade 7 2 17 20 for grade
7/8 No students in lottery or wait list
Grade 8 4 2 No students in lottery or wait list Total: 237 274 288 Enrichment Funds: I will be writing a summary of the ways that Enrichment Funds have helped us in providing assemblies, field trips, activities, transportation, and supplies throughout the year in the newsletter that goes out at the end of April. The list so far includes: No Bully assembly, Aurora Village field trip, OMSI field trip, Zoo field trip, Skippy Jones play at Oregon Children's Theatre, Christmas Program supplies, Biz Town program, Rice Museum field trip, Outdoor School, School planners, Day of the Dead parties, PE cart and supplies and Field Day materials. In April and May, we look forward to a field trips to the Portland Timbers U-‐23s Health & Fitness School Days, the Oregon History Museum, Finance Town, Portland Spirit educational river tour, Middle School trip to Conestoga Rec Center, and a Brick4Kidz first grade “in class field trip” in which students learn more about laws of motion with Lego Bricks. BSD Annual Site Visit: We expect our annual site visit and classroom observations to happen the last week of April. Jon Bridges will be setting that up for us. Information gathered during these observations is part of our annual review and is incorporated in Jon’s overall report – which is given to the BSD in September. Teacher Recruitment: This year, we combined our scheduled interviews with an advertised Recruitment Fair. We interviewed several candidates and felt that four of them would be a great fit to our needs. We used an electronic
reference check for our strongest candidates, followed up by a phone reference check. Letters of intent were sent out on April 10th. Candidates have one week to accept this letter of intent and until the end of April to provide TSPC with all of the required paperwork. Contracts are not offered until the candidate successfully completes paperwork to TSPC and awarded an Oregon license. Candidates are given an information sheet on “Steps to Getting an Oregon Teaching License” to guide them along the way. In addition to the interviews, Ana Gonzalez and I visited Universidad Del Turabo and presented the Dean of the School of Education with a gift bag filled with items from Oregon. We stopped by to visit the contact at the placement office, but she was not in that day. We sent her a gift bag and a note when we returned. I suggest that we continue to nurture this relationship as this university. Spanish Assessment – grades 3-‐4-‐5: To support and encourage biliteracy development among English Learners and native English speakers, the Oregon Department of Education (ODE) recently entered into a contract with Riverside Publishing to offer their Spanish assessment, Logramos (Third Edition), to students in grades 3-‐5 in Oregon schools. The testing window for Logramos, which is a paper-‐and-‐pencil based test, is scheduled for May 4-‐15, 2015. ODE selected Logramos to help elementary schools that offer Spanish instruction (especially schools with dual language programs) to monitor their students’ Spanish development and to evaluate and improve their Spanish instruction. ODE is requiring students who are registered for Logramos to take the Reading and Vocabulary subtests. Arco Iris applied to participate with ODE right after Jon Bridges let us know that this opportunity was available. ODE opened it up to all schools and stated that participation would be on “First Come, First Served Basis” so we responded immediately. Our test coordinator is working directly with BSD’s test coordinator to make sure that our participating teachers participate in the web-‐based training on test administration and protocols as well as test data management and reporting According to the Logramos website, the Reading subtest is a two part test, with 30 minutes expected for students to complete each part (so approximately 1 hour total for the Reading subtest.) The estimated time for the Vocabulary subtest is 15 minutes. Classroom teachers will administer Logramos in separate blocks of time. For example, a single sitting for the Vocabulary subtest and potentially two sittings for Reading (one sitting for each part), if needed. The test will not be returned to ODE for scoring. The district will ship the answer folders directly to Riverside. Districts will ship these to Riverside by May 29. Logramos is a Spanish achievement test that has newest national comparisons in a Spanish achievement assessment. More information on Logramos can be found at the following site: http://www.riversidepublishing.com/products/logramos-‐3/ This is in addition to our regularly scheduling testing in Spanish: SOPA and IDELs.
Testing Schedule:
April 13 -‐ 17 3 SBAC ELA In ELA ELA April 13 -‐ 17 4 SBAC ELA In ELA ELA April 20 -‐ 23 3 SBAC ELA make up April 20 -‐ 23 4 SBAC ELA make up April 27 -‐ May 1 5 SBAC ELA In ELA ELA April 27 – May 1 6-‐8 SBAC ELA In ELA ELA April 27 – May 1 4 SBAC Math In Homeroom Math May 4-‐8 1 and 2 DRA In ELA ELA May 4 -‐ 8 3 SBAC Math In Homeroom Math May 4– 8 6-‐8 SBAC Math In Homeroom Math
May 4– 8 5 SBAC ELA make up May 4-‐15 Grades 3-‐4-‐5 Logramos In Homeroom Spanish –
pencil/paper May 11 -‐ 15 5 SBAC Math In Homeroom Math May 11-‐15 6-‐8 SBAC ELA make up May 11-‐15 All grades EDL assessments
(teacher monitoring) In classrooms Spanish
May 18-‐ 20 May 26-‐29 June 1-‐5
Make up test for all grades
Spanish assessments (SOPA)
In classrooms Spanish
Arco Iris Spanish Immersion School 2015-‐ 2016 Calendar
August 2015
Su M Tu W Th F S
1
2 3 4 5 6 7 8
9 10 11 12 13 14 15
16 17 18 19 20 21 22
23 24 SD SD SD SD 29
30 SD
September 2015
Su M Tu W Th F S
SD SD SD SD 5
6 7 ◊ 9 10 11 12
13 14 15 16 17 18 19
20 21 22 23 24 25 26
27 28 29 30
(17)
October 2015
Su M Tu W Th F S
1 2 3
4 5 6 7 8 NS 10
11 12 13 14 15 16 17
18 19 20 21 22 23 24
25 26 27 28 C C 31
(21)
November 2015
Su M Tu W Th F S
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
8 9 10 NS 12 13 14
15 16 17 18 19 20 21
22 SD G NS NS NS 28
29 30 (14)
December 2015
Su M Tu W Th F S
1 2 3 4 5
6 7 8 9 10 11 12
13 14 15 16 17 ½ 19
20 NS NS NS NS NS 26
27 NS NS NS NS (14)
January 2016
Su M Tu W Th F S
NS 2
3 4 5 6 7 8 9
10 11 12 13 14 15 16
17 NS 19 20 21 22 23
24 25 26 27 28 NS (18)
February 2016
Su M Tu W Th F S
1 2 3 4 5 6
7 8 9 10 11 12 13
14 NS 16 17 18 19 20
21 22 23 24 25 26 27
28 29 (20)
March 2016
Su M Tu W Th F S
1 2 3 4 5
6 7 8 9 10 G 12
13 14 15 16 C C 19
20 NS NS NS NS NS 26
27 28 29 30 31 (17)
April 2016
Su M Tu W Th F S
1 2
3 4 5 6 7 8 9
10 11 12 13 14 15 16
17 18 19 20 21 22 23
24 25 26 27 28 NS (20)
May 2016
Su M Tu W Th F S
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
8 9 10 11 12 13 14
15 16 17 18 19 20 21
22 23 24 25 26 G 28
29 NS 31 (20)
June 2016
Su M Tu W Th F S
1 2 3 4
5 6 7 8 9 10 11
12 13 14 15 16 18
19 20 21 22 23 24 25
26 27 28 29 30 (13)
SYMBOL LEGEND
SD Staff Development / No School ◊ First Day of School Last Day of School (Half Day 11:30am dismissal)
C Parent Conferences / No School October 29th And 30th, March 17th And 18th
NS No School ½ Half Day 11:30am dismissal G Grading Day / No School ( ) Total student contact days per month
Trimester dates: Fall: September 8 to November 24 Winter: November 30 to March 10
Spring: March 14 to June 17th
Student Days in grading period: Fall – 54 days,
Winter – 62 days Spring – 63 daya
Staff Development/No School Holidays/Grading Days/No School Days
October 9th November 23rd January 29th April 29th
November 11th – Veteran’s Day November 24th – Grading Day
November 25 to 27 – Thanksgiving December 19th – Half day
Dec. 21st to Jan. 1st – Winter Break
January 18th – MLK Jr. February 15th – President’s Day
March 11th – Grading Day March 21st to 25th – Spring Break
May 27th – Grading Day May 30th – Memorial Day
M T W T F M T W T F M T W T F1 2 3 PS SD SD PS
6 7 8 9 10 3 4 5 6 7 SC F/L 9 10 1113 14 15 16 17 10 11 12 13 14 14 15 16 17 1820 21 22 23 24 17 18 19 20 21 21 22 23 24 2527 28 29 30 31 24 25 26 27 28 28 29 30
PS (17)
M T W T F M T W T F M T W T F1 2 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 4
5 6 7 8 SD 9 10 SC 12 13 7 8 9 10 1112 13 14 15 16 16 17 18 19 20 14 15 16 17 1819 20 21 22 23 23 24 SC SC SC SC SC SC SC SC26 27 28 29 30 G SC SC SC SC
(21) (16) (14)
M T W T F M T W T F M T W T FSC 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4
4 5 6 7 8 8 9 10 11 12 7 8 9 10 TG/SSD11 12 13 14 15 SC 16 17 18 19 14 15 16 17 18SC 19 20 21 22 22 23 24 25 26 SC SC SC SC SC25 26 27 28 SG/TSD 29 SD 29 30 31
(18) (20) (16)
M T W T F M T W T F M T W T F1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 SLD
4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 6 7 8 9 1011 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 13 14 15 16 F/L18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 SSD/TA G 21 22 23 2425 26 27 28 SG/TSD SC 31 27 28 29 30
(20) (20) (13)
G Grading all schools/no students (2)SC Schools closed (23)F/L First/last day for students. Note: First day dates may be modified for some grade levels (2)SLD Seniors' last day (1)TG/SSDTrimester grading/semester staff dev/workday/no students (1)SG/TSDSemester grading/trimester staff dev/no students (2)SSD/TA Semester staff dev/trimester assessment/no students (1)SD Staff dev/workday/no students (4)PS Pre-service/no students (3)( ) Total student contact days per monthStudent days in grading periods: Semester 1 = 86; Semester 2 = 89 / Trim. 1 = 54; Trim. 2 = 60; Trim. 3 = 61
2015-2016 BEAVERTON SCHOOL DISTRICT CALENDARCalendar is subject to change based on resource availability.
After the first 2 days of Inclement weather/emergency closure, each subsequent day thereafter will be restored in June.
JULY 2015 AUGUST 2015 SEPTEMBER 2015
APRIL 2016 MAY 2016 JUNE 2016
OCTOBER 2015 NOVEMBER 2015 DECEMBER 2015
JANUARY 2016 FEBRUARY 2016 MARCH 2016
Arco Iris Spanish Immersion Charter School, along with the Beaverton School District, recognizes the diversity and worth of all individuals and groups. It is the policy of Arco Iris that there will be no discrimination or harassment of individuals or groups based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, marital status, age, veterans' status, genetic information or disability in any educational programs, activities, or employment.
The principal search working group included 2 Arco Iris school board members, 2 Arco Iris parents, 3 current staff members and 1 board member emeritus. We reviewed candidate applications and conducted interviews as an entire group. Interviews were conducted using the same set of pre-‐determined questions, established by the work group, for each candidate. After careful consideration of each of the applicants, the principal search working group unanimously recommended a candidate to meet with two additional board members and the two board members overseeing the search process for a second interview. The group now unanimously recommends to the full school board that an offer for the principal position be extended to Candidate A. Please read a summary of the candidate’s qualifications. Candidate A has extensive experience teaching in her own classroom at multiple grade levels, in both lower primary and upper primary grades. The candidate has demonstrated the ability to support individual teacher growth in and out of the classroom. Candidate A also has experience with curriculum development and facilitating programs for teachers at the school level (PBIS, acting administrator, staff meetings) and at the district level (teacher professional development in Common Core Staff Development, SIOP, ESL, Reading, Writing, Math). Candidate A has organized Parent Nights and Family Nights for the school community. The candidate speaks Spanish and spoke to her multi-‐cultural professional experiences during the interview, and demonstrated knowledge of best practices in second language acquisition. The group feels that Candidate A understands the different layers of communication involved with the different stakeholders of a school such as ours. Candidate A is currently completing her administrator licensure. The references for Candidate A include the following comments: “outstanding ’hands-‐on‘ teaching style… strong leadership skills… use of data for decision-‐making… high expectations for all students… connects well with parents… demonstrates strong cultural competency as a teacher, an advocate and a teacher leader. “
