The Lighthouse Monthly Newsletter
June 2024
Focus Beyond Transition Services
Welcome to Principal Micaela Smith!
Principal Smith joined the Focus Beyond team in 2016 as the travel instructor. From 2020-2022, she served SPPS as a special education instructional coach. In 2022, she became Assistant Principal.
A little from Principal Smith:
- I have a spouse, two boys, and a whole lot of animals
- My core values are: respect, community, and communication
- My goal as Principal is to maximize the talents of our students through community engagement opportunities
Metro Transit Summer Passes
Metro Transit has a special summer offer for students at high schools. For $30, your student can get a special Summer Student Pass that gives them unlimited rides on buses and light rail all summer long! It’s perfect for summer jobs, sports leagues and all the other fun that summer brings.
The Summer Student Pass is valid from June 1 through Sept. 3rd. Students can use it on any bus or train in the metro with a fare up to $3.25 (for fares high than that amount, like some Northstar commuter rail trips, students will need to add value to their passes).
Eligibility
The pass is available to all students enrolled at a participating school (one per student). To purchase a pass, the student must provide your school's name and their student ID number. Metro Transit will deny purchases without this information. Seniors may purchase a Summer Student Pass if they were enrolled in a participating school in 2024.
Replacement
Students MUST register their pass (registration is free) with Metro Transit to receive a replacement pass. A $5 processing fee will be charged.
Get Yours
Students can go to metrotransit.org/summer-student-pass to get more details about the pass and order one online with a credit card or purchase a pass with cash or a credit card at Metro Transit Service Centers.
Title I Goal Feedback Needed
We want to hear from you!
Focus Beyond Transition Services set four Title I goals this year. We have made great progress and want to learn more about your ideas for next year.
Please complete this survey to provide us with feedback.
Focus Beyond SCIP Goals 2023-24:
At least 90% of all students at Focus Beyond will participate in the Student Climate Survey in the Fall 2023 and in the Spring of 2024. Achievement: 47%.
At least 90% of Focus Beyond students will engage in work experience as measured by internal job/coach data by July 2024 (from 84%). Achievement: 95%
At least 30% of Focus Beyond students will engage in work at a community worksite as measured by internal job/coach data by July 2024 (from 22%). Achievement: 39%
At least 30% of students will demonstrate self-determination skills through the use a portfolio process aligning with pre-employment transition services: job exploration, work-based learning experiences, post-secondary education, workplace readiness training, self-advocacy to practice self-agency and track transition readiness. Achievement: 44%
Work Based Learning - Student Summer Job Opportunities
Focus Beyond Students:
Peter and Toe, work coordinators, have put together a Google Site to share work based learning opportunities with our community of learners.
Please visit this site to check out these opportunities: https://tinyurl.com/focusbeyondwbl
Student Files Backup Instructions
Communication Tips from Speech & Language
Let's continue supporting all of these ways of communicating over the summer!
Focus Beyond is Hiring
Our school is on the grow!
We are excited to add a members to our Focus Beyond team for next school year!
Our open positions for fall 2024-25 include:
-Paraprofessionals (Teaching Assistants & Educational Assistants)
-STEPS Job Coaches
-Special Education Teachers
-Cultural Specialist
To apply for open positions please email resumes and cover letters to Micaela Smith, Assistant Principal, at micaela.smith@spps.org Micaela is also able to answer questions you may have about our open positions.
Please share the flyer below with people you know who would be a great addition to our paraprofessional team!
School Document Translations
All school documents can be translated or interpreters made available upon request. Please contact Dr. Kelly Dietrich at kelly.dietrich@spps.org.
SPANISH
Todos los documentos pueden ser traducidos o interpretados oralmente si usted lo solicita
HMONG
Tej ntaub ntawv tom tsev kawm ntawv uas xa los rau nej, peb yuav pab txhais thiab nrhiav neeg txhais lus rau nej yog nej hais qhia peb
SOMALI
"Dhammaan dukumiintiyada iskuulka waa la turjumi karaa ama waxaa la heli karaa turjumaan haddii la codsado"
KAREN
Newsletter Translation
Prefer a language other than English? You can open the newsletter link and click a button on the right (on a computer) or at the bottom (on a mobile device) to have it translated into many different languages. Please know that the translation function may be inaccurate or incomplete. If you have any questions, please call us at 651-293-5997.
SPANISH
¿Prefiere un idioma que no sea inglés? Puede abrir el enlace del boletín y hacer clic en el botón a la derecha (en una computadora) o en la parte inferior (en un dispositivo móvil) para traducirlo a muchos idiomas diferentes. Tenga en cuenta que la función de traducción puede ser inexacta o incompleta. Si tiene alguna pregunta, llámenos al 651-293-5997.
SOMALI
Ma waxaad doorbideysaa luuqad aan aheyn af-Ingiriis? Waxaad furi kartaa lifaaqa wargeysyada oo guji batoonka midigta (ee kumbiyuutarkaaga) ama xagga hoose (ee taleefankaaga gacanta) si aad wargeyska ugu tarjuntid luuqado badan oo kala duwan. Fadlan ogow in natiijada turjumaaddu ay noqon karto mid aan sax ahayn ama aan dhammaystirnayn. Haddii aad wax su'aalo ah qabtid, fadlan naga soo wac 651-293-5997.
HMONG
Puas xav tau ua lwm hom lus? Nej qhib txoj kab mus rau hauv daim ntawv xov xwm thiab nias lub pob ntawm sab xis hauv lub koos pis tawj, los sis yog lwm hom twj no ces nyob hauv qab, ces yuav muaj txhais ua ntau hom lus. Nco ntsoov tias cov lus txhais no yuav tsis raug txhua lo los sis txhais tiav tiav. Yog nej muaj lus nug, thov hu rau peb ntawm 651-293-5997.
KAREN
ကျိာ်ဂုၤဂၤတခါလၢနအဲၣ်ဒိးအီၤ လၢအတမ့ၢ် အဲကလံးကျိာ်န့ၣ်အိၣ်ဧါ. နအိးထီၣ်ကွၢ်လံာ်တၢ်ကစီၣ်ပှာ်ဘျးစဲ ဒီးစံၢ်လီၤဖဲ ပှာ်ဘျးစဲအဖီခိၣ်ဖဲစုထွဲတကပၤ(လၢခီၣ်ဖၠူထၢၣ်ဖီခိၣ်) မ့တမ့ၢ် စံၢ်လီၤဖဲတၢ်ဖီလာ် (လၢနလီတဲစိ ဖီခိၣ်) ဒ်သိး တၢ်ကကွဲးကျိာ်ထံအီၤလၢကျိာ်အဂုၤအဂၤအဂီၢ်သ့ဝဲဒၣ်န့ၣ်လီၤ. ဝံသးစူၤသ့ၣ်ညါလၢ လံာ်လၢ တၢ်ကွဲးကျိာ်ထံအီၤန့ၣ် ကအိၣ်ဝဲဒီး တၢ်အကမၣ် မ့တမ့ၢ် တၢ်တလၢတပှဲၤသ့ဝဲဒၣ်န့ၣ်လီၤ. နမ့ၢ်အိၣ်ဒီး တၢ်သံကွၢ်တဖၣ်န့ၣ်, ဝံသးစူၤကိးပှၤဖဲ 651-293-5997 န့ၣ်တက့ၢ်.