September Student of the Month Awards:

Congratulations to the following students for earning the ROAR or Academic student of the month for September.  The ROAR award represents students that were Respectful & Responsible.  Each student received a certificate with a free Baskin Robins Ice Cream AND points to purchase something of their choice through the Wildcat Store.  Way to go!

Kindergarten:

Mrs. Barragan – Ibtihaj S. (Academic) & Lucy S. (ROAR)

Mr. McCracken – Azalia S.  & Izzabel M.

Mrs. Ortiz – Janie F. & Josiah R.

1^st Grade:

Mrs. Freeborn – James B. (Academic) & Carly S. (ROAR)

Mrs. Avalos – Jaxson P. & Neymar L.

Mrs. Cuevas – Giovoni L. & Aleyah A.

2^nd Grade:

Mrs. Soria – Efren L. (Academic) & Amelia L. (ROAR)

Mrs. Fuentes – Daniel H. & Joseph B.

Ms. Crutchfield – Samson M. & Gracelyn W.

3^rd Grade:

Mrs. Pitt – Christian D. (Academic) & Valeria B. (ROAR)

Mrs. Voelker – Leala M. & Landon D.

Mrs. Harris – Marko P. & Jamilah J.

4^th Grade:

Mr. Armstrong – Samuel W. (Academic) & Ixchel C. (ROAR)

Mr. Fuentes – Gavin W. & Izabella T.

Mrs. Wetch -  Jaliha & Marisabel

5^th Grade:

Ms. Wood – Crystal J (Academic) & Damarcus M. (ROAR)

Mrs. Mahonoy – Emma B. & Elexus Z.

Mrs. McGregor – Nicole S. & Marcus S.

Mrs. Brizendine – Sebashton (ROAR)

Mrs. Hull – Giselle (ROAR)

Whitney Families,

Our School is using PBIS Rewards to help us with our PBIS program. PBIS Rewards is a technology-based PBIS Management System that helps us with our behavior incentive program. You can learn about PBIS Rewards at their website (www.pbisrewards.com). 

Our students can earn rewards throughout the day by meeting our behavior expectations. These rewards are in the form of electronic points. They can redeem these points for privileges, tangible items, access to events, and other similar things. Our expectation is that we will see overall behavior improve throughout the school.

To help your child set up their account, please watch the following video:

https://youtu.be/aMi6Re5nRTU

Mrs. Newell & Mr. Hunt

Welcome to Whitney Elementary - Virtual Open House 2020

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Whitney Families –

Attached is a You Tube video link that will help explain remote learning and what remote learning “Best Practices” look like for your children.  Jeff Utecht is the speaker and trainer in the video who has trained not only YSD teachers, but many teachers in the state this last spring and summer.  He spoke to families in a neighboring district and shared it with all of us on You Tube.  In our schedule we have time for both synchronous and asynchronous learning as well as time for small group instruction via synchronous meetings.  Mr. Utecht explains the importance of asynchronous learning in this model for core or new instruction.  Live google meets or synchronous learning are also important, but they should be used for interactions, feedback, to see teachers and friends, part of discussions and conversations around the learning.  Thank you for taking the time to watch and thank you for teaming with us.

 Mrs. Newell & Mr. Hunt

Whitney Administration

LINK:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGnqbbzA4NU

Familias Whitney -

Se adjunta un enlace de video de YouTube que ayudará a explicar el aprendizaje remoto y cómo son las “Mejores prácticas” de aprendizaje remoto para sus hijos. Jeff Utecht es el orador y capacitador en el video que ha capacitado no solo a los maestros de YSD, sino a muchos maestros en el estado durante la última primavera y verano. Habló con familias en un distrito vecino y lo compartió con todos nosotros en You Tube. En nuestro horario tenemos tiempo para el aprendizaje sincrónico y asincrónico, así como para la instrucción en grupos pequeños a través de reuniones sincrónicas. El Sr. Utecht explica la importancia del aprendizaje asincrónico en este modelo para la instrucción básica o nueva. Las reuniones de Google uno a uno o el aprendizaje sincrónico también son importantes, pero deben usarse para interacciones, comentarios, para ver a profesores y amigos, como parte de discusiones y conversaciones sobre el aprendizaje. Gracias por tomarse el tiempo de mirar y gracias por trabajar con nosotros.

Sra. Newell y Sr. Hunt

Administración de Whitney