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As we kick off the 2014-15 school year, we should note that public education in California has arrived at a moment of truth. It’s not only a moment of truth for school districts, it’s a moment of truth for California’s future. You may have read recently that California is awash in what might be termed the “marginally employed.” These are folks, many of them college-educated, who lack the education and training for well-paying jobs in the science, technology, engineering and health sectors that are growing. The marginally employed are working multiple, low-paying jobs, oftentimes working on a temporary basis. Although California’s economy is recovering, it is leaving many behind, post 2008 economic meltdown. So what is the connection to public education? The connection is simple. Schools have to redouble efforts to help students become college/career ready. By readiness we mean the right college education and the right career. In your school district, this means, first and foremost, kindergarten readiness and then grade-level proficiency in reading, writing, mathematics and science moving up to high school. In high school, it means completing the right classes that prepare students to successfully take the next steps toward gainful employment and financial independence. Last year, we rolled out the District’s plan to implement the Common Core State Standards. The CCSS demand greater rigor, greater depth of understanding, greater integration of the disciplines (e.g., math/science/technology) and greater overall “relevance” that enable students to be actively engaged in their learning. In the best situation, students themselves become active stewards of their education. This happens with success in the classroom and with careful, diligent guidance from the adults (teachers, counselors, administrators, parents, caregivers). It will take multiple years to fully implement the CCSS, but we must do so keeping in mind the urgency of our students’ needs in a challenging economy. For parents and community members,
the transition to the CCSS and a new state assessment system, California Assessment of Student Performance Progress, includes ongoing education about the standards our students are expected to master. To that end, look for multiple evening events in 2014-15 that offer straightforward, “plain English” explanations of the CCSS. Information about the CCSS and CAASPP is available on our website. At the end of the 2013-14 school year, we presented the latest Academic Performance Index information. It showed that CUSD students were significantly outperforming neighboring unified school districts and exceeding the state’s API performance target. Those results vaulted two more CUSD schools to California Distinguished School status. More important, the results give us optimism that, as we transition to the new standards, our students will continue performing well. This means ongoing work with staff, parents and community to move our students to success post-graduation. A positive first step toward success would be your attendance at Carpa-Cabana, the Carpinteria Education Foundation’s annual fundraiser that has rapidly become one of the best parties in town. Please mark your calendar for Saturday, Sept. 6 at 3 p.m. at Lions Park. School starts Monday, Aug. 25!
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cute kids to grace the cover of this year’s Back to School issue. Emma Whittenton, center, Ben Terry and Hazel Dugré are the children of staffers Kris Whittenton, Dan Terry and Peter Dugré. And they are more than pretty faces. These three launch their academic careers this fall in the seats of Carpinteria kindergarten classrooms. Emma heads to Canalino School; Ben joins big sister Daniella at The Howard School; and Hazel is off to Carpinteria Family School. Watch for big things from these next generation CVNers, and stay tuned for a reunion photo shoot on the cover of the 2028 graduation issue.
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What is Common Core?
New standards emphasize doing not memorizing BY PETER DUGRÉ
You’ll notice that the standards introduced by the new Common Core curriculum all begin with verbs. A standard for third-graders, which conveys an expectation for what the young students should be capable of, states, “Report on a topic or text. Tell a story or recount an experience with appropriate facts and details.” Action words, “Report” and “Tell,” are meant to spur students to learn through doing, not through multiple choice testing. The new emphasis on activity and student engagement is a reaction to the recent regime of standardized testing that had influenced schools to teach to the test. According to Summerland School third-grade teacher Amanda Furden, teachers will now be facilitators, guiding students as they “grapple with concepts on their own.” Furden, the third-grade chairperson for Carpinteria Unified School District said, “This is why we become teachers, to get in the classroom and teach our students to be creative thinkers like we are.”
In Furden’s classroom, a combination second/third grade class at Summerland School, a school day will flow much differently than it had prior to Common Core. In the past, the elementary school teacher would chunk the day into different subjects. “Instead of saying, ‘okay, now close your writing books and open your science books,’ it’ll be more fluid,” Furden said. Whether the subject is science or social studies or language arts, student activities and lessons will invariably include writing. The standard, “Report on a topic or text,” can be taught across subjects. The individual writing or reading book need not apply. In middle school language arts, according to Carpinteria Middle School teacher Robin McCulley, Common Core will make reading less about memorizing plot and characters and more about exposure to a range of texts and comprehending them in a meaningful way. “We want our students to be able to
Common Core State Standards
Instead of using uniform materials geared toward standardized testing, teachers will have greater latitude in their classrooms starting in the 2014-2015 school year as long as they adhere to broad standards. Here are a couple of examples: Third-grade language arts “Report on a topic or text. Tell a story or recount an experience with appropriate facts and details.” Middle school language arts “Write arguments to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence.” Third-grade math “Generate measurement data using rulers marked with halves and fourths of an inch.”
read any level, to be able to gain a deep understanding from it and then use that understanding to create a thoughtfulyet-focused response to any prompt,” McCulley stated. A standard for middle schoolers will be, “Write arguments to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence.” McCulley stated, “We really want to get our students to be able to think, read and write well. This is, of course, nothing new, but these new Common Core Standards will allow us to focus on these tasks across the curriculum. That will be our focus for this year.” Furden said teaching strategies across subjects will emphasize discussion and hands-on activities. Teachers will do less talking at students. The students will be encouraged to engage in academic dis-
course to share ideas and be independent thinkers, “for the next big step,” she said, meaning college or a career after their K through 12 experience. In the math classroom, a third-grade standard is “Generate measurement data using rulers marked with halves and fourths of an inch.” Another directive geared toward activities and application of skills. Across subjects, Common Core is designed to force students to be masters of the material taught in classrooms through usage. The pendulum swing in educational paradigms diminishes the importance of memorization while increasing the importance of critical thinking, which educators believe will better prepare students for whatever their futures will bring.
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#1 Best loved movie: a. b. c. d. e. f.
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Carpinteria High School’s registration process has been divided into two phases. Phase one started Aug. 11 and will close on Friday, Aug. 15. purchase P.E. clothes, purchase a locker and get cleared for fall sports. During phase one, the office will be open from 7:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. for students and/or parents to pick up the Annual Notification to The business office and library will be open from 7:30 a.m. to 3:30 Parents Booklet. The completed and signed forms in the booklet must p.m. It will be closed for lunch from 1 to 2 p.m. be returned during this same week. Students showing up on the first day of school, Monday, Aug. 25, who All required forms must be completed, signed and returned to the office have not returned the forms will not be given their class schedule and by Friday, Aug. 15. a parent/guardian will need to come to the high school to complete the forms. Students will only receive their temporary ID card and class schedule when all of the forms are returned. Picture day is Tuesday, Sept. 2. All students will be photographed in the cafeteria for ID cards, school records, yearbook (only grades Phase two will be from Monday, Aug. 18 to Friday, Aug. 22. The nine to 11) and picture package (if purchased). A flyer with detailed temporary ID card will be needed for phase two. During this week information about the cost of the packages will be included in the the student and/or parent may do the following; check out textbooks, Annual Notification to Parents Booklet.
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Johnny’s Mother had three children. The first child was named April. The second child was named May. What was the third child’s name?
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What do the numbers 11, 69, and 88 all have in common?
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A clerk at a butcher shop stands 5 feet 10 inches tall and wears size 13 sneakers. What does he weigh?
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Which weighs more, a pound of feathers or a pound of bricks?
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What call for help, when written in capital letters, is the same forwards, backwards and upside down?
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What gets wetter and wetter the more that it dries?
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Pronounced as one letter but written with three, only two different letters are used to make me. I’m double, I’m single I’m black, blue and gray. I’m read from both ends and the same either way.
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I’m tall when I’m young. I’m short when I die. What am I?
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The rungs of a 10-foot ladder attached to a ship are one foot apart. If the water is rising at one foot an hour, how long will it take until the water covers the ladder.
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It will never cover the ladder because as the water rises so will the ship.
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