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August 5 - District Office Resumes Normal Hours (7:30-4:00)

August 6 - First Day School Offices are Open for 2024-2025

August 9 - New Teacher Orientation

August 15 - FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL

Email: kcallahan@wpusd.org

Website: wpusd.org

Phone: 916-645-6350

Board Meeting Highlights

• June 18 Highlights
• President Jason Price went through an extensive list of achievements and initiatives from the 2023-2024 school year
• The Board received update on the district's community outreach efforts
• Reno Penders presented the recent adoption process of high school World Language curriculum.
• Audrey Kilpatrick presented on the 2024-2025 adopted budget

Upcoming Meetings

• August 6, 2024 - WPUSD District Office, 3rd Floor

Miss a meeting? Click HERE to view them on our YouTube Channel

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🚨Annual Registration Update NEW!

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🎒Back to School Basics NEW!

💻Chromebook Service Plan NEW!

🥗Enhancing School Food NEW!

📱Social Media Buzz NEW!

🚌We're Hiring NEW!

Be on the lookout for information from your child's school site on upcoming dates to pick up schedules, find out who their teacher is, and more. This type of information will come from your child's school! If you did not receive communication from your child's school with this information, reach out to the school site beginning August 6th.

Click HERE to for a full list of bell schedules for each site.

All things transportation happen through the District Office. Click HERE for bus pass applications and information on bussing. Not all schools offer transportation, please see the application to see if you qualify (if your child's school is not listed on the application, you do not qualify). We offer transportation to all families who live outside of our city limits.

NOTE: Bus routes and times are still being finalized and will be posted on the transportation page under 'Information'.

Universal meals continues this school year (and every school year moving forward!) - meaning, all students are offered a free breakfast and lunch daily. Although meals are free for all students, it helps our department if you still fill out a meal application. You can do that by clicking HERE. Food service is making some major improvements this year. Be sure to read more about what's happening in Food Service in this newsletter. Menus are available now - you can find those HERE.

Click HERE for the full district calendar. This will tell you when breaks are, early release days and more!

This will vary depending on your child's school site. Typically, elementary families receive a weekly newsletter-style communication from the principal. Our middle and high schools typically communicate via email in a bi-weekly or monthly fashion - among the additional teacher and site notifications. All of our sites utilize our district communication platform called ParentSquare. You can find out more about how to download the ParentSquare app and use ParentSquare HERE. The District uses ParentSquare to communicate with families and staff in the event of an emergency.

Our middle and high schools utilize Schoology as a learning management system for all around academic and school information. For more information on Schoology, visit your child's school website or contact your child's school directly.

The safety of our students and staff is a top priority, always. We are consistently working to improve our safety protocols, enhance our safety drill effectiveness, and regularly collaborate with our local law enforcement to ensure we are prepared should an emergency occur. This summer, with Lincoln Police Department and Lincoln Fire Department, we held active threat training sessions which allowed for collaboration between agencies and enhanced our overall preparedness. We are thankful that our first responders share our commitment to maintaining safe campuses in WPUSD. You can find out more about our safety protocols on our website HERE.

NEW THIS YEAR! We are offering a Student Chromebook Service Plan for families to purchase to cover basic repair or replacement of the student’s Chromebook for the school year.

Families can find more information and enroll on our website HERE.

Last school year, we surveyed students, families and staff to better gage our ability to provide quality meals to all students at no cost. We've analyzed the data and put together a report showcasing areas of success and areas of improvement. Click the link below to review the report and see where we plan to make improvements this year.

2023-2024 Feedback Report (English)

2023-2024 Feedback Report (Spanish)

Scratch Cooking
Increase our scratch cooking capacity by focusing on:

• Student approved menus that are culinary driven
  
• Awesome professional development for our team
  
• Improving our kitchen infrastructure
  
• New equipment at LHS and GEMS, also adding dishwashers at TBE, TBMS, LCE, COES, LHS
  

Increase our Average Daily Participation (ADP)

• Increase revenues & daily ADP across all grades, emphasis on high schools. Our plan is to focus on outreach and place a big emphasis on Food & Service!

Adding Supper Program

• We will swap our current snack program for a CACFP Supper program. We will call this super snack, allowing us to increase the amount of food and variety of options we offer students

Waste Reduction

• We will be focusing on proper forecasting, ordering and inventory management to help our department reduce waste.

Become Eat Real Certified

• We will work to go above and beyond our program requirements to become Eat Real Certified

• To serve a menu that is at least 50% freshly prepared selections
  
• To safely and consistently produce meals that meet the needs of our students and program
  
• We aim to offer high quality, minimally processed items
  
• We will meet or exceed the nutrition standards set at federal and state agencies
  
• We strive to offer as many locally procured items as possible
  
• We aim to expose our students to new and exciting fruits and vegetables through nutrition education programs like Harvest of the Month and cafeteria tastings
  
• Our goal is to hire individuals that are passionate about food and serving our students amazing food
  
• Sustain a team of food service professionals by offering a livable wage, sufficient hours and professional development opportunities in an effort to support their ability to maintain school foods service as a career
  
• Reduce our food waste through focusing on proper forecasting and following inventory best practices
  
• We will invest in our kitchens by improving facilities and equipment strategically

If your student requires any medication at school, whether that's to be kept in the Health Office or carried on their person, that medication must be signed in at the front office with the doctor's orders.

Remember, all medications (even non-prescription) need to be accompanied by the proper paperwork/doctor's orders, completed and signed by your student’s physician. All prescribed medications (including inhalers that need to be administered by the nurse) must have a prescription label on the box or container. A new form must be completed at the beginning of each school year and when there is a change in medication or dosage. Medication administration forms can be found on the WPUSD website.

If your student has been trained to administer their medication by a physician, paperwork is still required. Please have their physician indicate that your student is allowed to self-carry the medication on the paperwork.

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact your child’s school.

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WPUSD is hiring! Check out our current job openings at https://www.edjoin.org/wpusd. Be sure to share the Edjoin link with those who may be looking for employment!

Some of our current available positions:

• Color Guard Technician
• Middle School PE Teacher
• Food Service Assistant - Multiple Sites
• Paraprofessional - Multiple Sites
• Instructional Aide - Multiple Sites
• Bus Driver
• Campus Supervisor
• Substitutes
• Many More!

Here's where you can find quick links to frequently searched items.

Website: www.wpusd.org
Location: 600 6th Street, Suite 400, Lincoln, CA, USA
Phone: 916-645-6350
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