Community Crew News #39

Greetings Conway Community!

It’s a wrap! Conway Academy’s 2023- 24 Celebration of Learning hosted parents, guardians, friends, and community members that turned-out in record numbers and our students wowed their audience.

They are also a way to meet standards but also support our students in College and Career readiness by bringing the standards to life but it goes beyond that. Students at Conway understand how to articulate their learning. Our classrooms are intentionally designed to support oral communication, listening, and developing interpersonal skills. Extended discourse is at the forefront in teaching and learning. Students learn to be collaborators, they learn together by working together, that alone is a powerful skill for the future.

Students learn from experts inside and outside of the classroom through field work, partnerships and then they integrate that learning into their presentations.

Preparing for a celebration of learning requires that students know their standards- based content, independently use higher-order thinking skills such as synthesis or transfer to interact with audience members about that content, and cite evidence that demonstrates their learning.

Celebrations of Learning are more than a display of student work and more than school gathering at the end of the year. This event compels students to reflect on and articulate what they have learned, how they learned, questions they answered, research they conducted, and areas of strength and struggles. They are powerful opportunities to make learning public.

This event motivates students and creates a purpose for them to care about the quality of their work. Presenting work to an authentic audience also raises the stakes and sets the expectation that all students, not just a select group, will share their high-quality products. It motivates students to push themselves as learners and achieve more than they thought possible.

3rd graders performed their Musical, We Only Have One Earth, to a packed house of proud parents.

Celebrations of learning open the door for meaningful conversations among families, students, and teachers about standards and achievement.

Thank you for coming to Conway Academy’s 2024 Celebration of Learning! Your feedback is important to us for continuous improvement. Also, for every survey completed, your student will be entered into a drawing for Conway swag and the class with the highest survey participation will receive a popsicle party. We kindly ask that you take a few minutes to complete this survey. https://tinyurl.com/2sz6muy7

Together we will continue to create opportunities for our learners to achieve more than they think possible.

Thank you to everyone that made our Classified Employee Recognition Week EPIC. The week included special events and it also included district administrators shadowing our hard-working classified employees. Here is a short video capturing the week.

Communication is extremely important to everyone at our EPIC school. Please make sure to scroll all the way through the weekly message. If you miss a message, you can view all communication on our website under "NEWS".

I am grateful for the opportunity to inspire students to discover their unlimited potential through Excellence, Perseverance, Integrity, and Compassion. Together we are creating an EPIC school.

We are in this together and believe, We Are Crew, not passengers.

Tina Meglich

Principal

*Dates for Collection*:

Tuesday May 28th -- TK-3rd grade

Wednesday, May 29th -- All Grades

Thursday May 30th -- All Grades

Friday, May 31st -- 4th - 6th Grades

Monday, June 3rd -- make-up days for all grades

Tuesday, June 4th -- make-up days for all grades

Please help your student be prepared for material collection this week.

Please help me welcome our new librarian, Miss Annie. She will join us on Tuesday, May 28th. She is wrapping us her school year working as a librarian at a San Diego Unified elementary school and will arrive here just in time to help us wrap up our year. See her message below.

Hi all! My name is Annie Hilderbrand aka Ms. Annie! As you guys wrap up the school year, I am happy to jump in and work with everyone to finalize the 2023-2024 session before working towards a great 2024-2025 year. I am a passionate young professional who loves literature and enjoys bringing warmth, creativity, and growth to library spaces. Working at school sites for the past four years and in aquatics for six years has allowed me to expand my child development skills while also finishing my BA at CSUSM. Now that I have completed my degree, I am excited to grow with the Conway Crew and positively impact the community. Some things I enjoy outside of work include traveling, snowboarding, hiking, and of course shopping. I look forward to meeting everyone and working with the team!

Returning Student Registration and New Student Enrollment opens Tuesday, May 14, for all grades 2024-2025 school year. Visit the Enrollment and Registration webpage to access the appropriate links and review important information for this process – whether you are a current EUSD family or new to the district, for students incoming in Transitional Kindergarten through 8th grade. In addition:

• To find your neighborhood school of residence, use our online school locator tool.

• For the 2024-2025 school year, children are eligible for full-day Transitional Kindergarten if their date of birth is between September 2, 2019, and September 1, 2020. For full-day Kindergarten, eligible students must be age 5 on or before September 1, 2024.

• Returning families will receive a letter by U.S. Mail with instructions for accessing the parent portal. It is essential that all returning students register through the online process in order to update essential information.

Returning Registration Letter (No Parent Portal) Includes Access ID & Password

Returning Registration Letter (Yes Parent Portal) Includes User Name & Email

As you know, ensuring that all of our families update their student's information each year is critical to school operations. By expanding the window during which families can receive support, we hope to greatly increase their participation.

It should also be noted that New Student Enrollment is currently open for grades TK - 8

Please have your learner check our lost and found. It's overflowing again. All items left behind after the last day of school will be donated

Every month it is important for us to recognize achievements in all areas.

These students were recognized by Coach E for their EPIC work as in P.E. this month!

Every month we recognize our top classes for completing the most i-ready lessons at a pass rate of 80% or higher. These are the top winners this month.

To further lift up students that are persevering, we recognize the top students in every class. Here they are!

Conway ELAC invites families for a very valuable presentation about the importance of managing social media and information about activities that will incorporate some learning activities for the summer.

Join us

Friday, May 31st at 1 pm in room 5.

For more information please contact Xochitl Maldonado at (760) 432-2435 EXT 12005 or email at xmaldonado@gmail.com

As you may already, we are experiencing budget cuts that will affect funding of services and resources currently available throughout our community. The city of Escondido is conducting a survey for residents and the results will help us understand your thoughts on different topics in the community.

To take the survey please click on the link provided below

http://www.escondidosurvey.com/

PRESCHOOL APPLICATIONS: EUSD State Preschool is accepting online applications for the 2024-2025 school year. Visit the preschool website to access the application beginning Wednesday. Applications will be accepted for children who will be age 3 by August 20, 2024. If your child will turn 3 during the 2024-2025 school year, you can apply on or after their birthday. Preschool classes are available at seven EUSD elementary schools: Central, Juniper, Glen View, Lincoln, Oak Hill, Pioneer, and Rose. EUSD Preschool is offered through the California State Preschool Program and licensed through the California Department of Social Services. Eligibility for the program is based on household income. In addition, students with IEPs also qualify for the State Preschool program. To learn more, visit the EUSD Preschool website or email preschoolenrollment@eusd.org. For Special Education Preschool options, including our responsive interventions and inclusive programs, contact the team at spedsupport@eusd.org.

The Before & After School webpage will be updated then with the link to the updated Google form. Information went out in Sunday’s Family Communication and families with students who are or will be enrolled and attend in-person EUSD schools may complete the form. This includes incoming TK and new students to the district. While the interest form will be open throughout the 2024-25 school year, the deadline for the FIRST ROUND of potential placement is Wednesday, May 22 at 6:00 p.m. The Expanded Learning team will process the forms received by this deadline and conduct lotteries as needed. We will notify families of their status (enrolled or waitlist) in mid-June.

Thank you for your support fielding questions and helping families find the online form on our website. Please let us know if there are any questions.

Tuesday, May 28 - Friday May 31 Materials Return this week

Wednesday, May 29th - EPIC Awards 3rd, 4th, and 5th grades times TBD

Thursday, May 30th - Den Day & Conway Community Field Day

Thursday, May 30th - 5th & 6th grade Hollywood Dance

Friday, May 31st - EPIC Awards k - 2nd grades times TBD

Friday, May 31st - Leadership Crew appreciation fieldwork

Tuesday, June 4th - 9:00 am 6th Grade Promotion

Wednesday, June 5th - 8:00 am Last Crew Celebration Assembly

Wednesday, June 5th - Last Day of School - minimum day