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all right it is 5:33 p.m. so we want to start on time I'm so we can get you out of here on time welcome new cow parents to Center for Advanced learning my name is Miss Muhammad I am the principal here at center for advanced learning and we are excited about our new earlier bien bonitos mean asparagus Navas Padres what time is Muhammad hello Carol families welcome to Kauai am Aniya Brown the assistant principal here at center for advanced learning well glad you can make it Indian Benito's lady spell electoral I miss my John on mr. Lopez if you can introduce yourselves as well is your story La Quinta De La Cocina my name is Araceli Medrano I am the office manager here at center for advanced learning Estados Padres Lopez just so you know, I will be seeing about the after-school program a nurse if you have any questions I said Reach Out thank you right all right so just I'll just briefly go over what we're going to discuss in our orientation today already welcomed our sales work welcome to you all and gave our introductions we're going to talk a little bit about the story of how our school mission some important dates to remember our four expectations of items that you can find in our parent handbook a little bit about our instructional program and will take any questions that you have before we close for the evening importante De La Mente expectativa so a little bit about how for our new parents and we are an independent Charter School authorized by Los Angeles Unified School District we were founded in 2007 so we are going into our 15th year hieratic how we have about three hundred twelve students total with an average average class size of 26 students per classroom so we can sit her ourselves to have a small learning community life story of accountant independiente versus condo and Altos Espinoza Chris Brown I'll let you read our school mission and vision is center for advanced learning provides a state Innovative and challenging environment of continuous Improvement for our students and community okay just tell me if you're lucky center for advanced learning so introduce you a little bit to members of our team are wonderful amazing cow team we have a team of about 40 staff members including our security personnel that make up our cows family so you'll get to meet them later in person over resume virtually at our Saturday meet-and-greet but we'll kind of just show you a little bit about our team chocolate caramel Moscato paquito kilometers so our administrative team me and Miss Muhammad and Miss Brown have already introduced ourselves you'll have the opportunity to read our meet our director of operations and directors on Saturday as well Community, where is Brown County we are are happy to say that we have a amazing special education coordinator as well as an e l coordinator and a special education aide. Support students with some of the highest needs on our campus Continental Ave in Bonita and next you will see our wonderful kindergarten team most of you are most likely kindergarten parents so this is our team our teachers Miss her teen and his basket and our Kinder classrooms have dedicated in National AIDs that support the classroom so there are two adults in each kindergarten classroom so miss Mixon and Miss Martinez are our wonderful instructional AIDS Yankees tambien do I like you our first grade team is Miss Melody and Miss Clarke as well as we have dedicated TK's in our first grade classrooms Miss Ramos we know that there are two pictures missing but you'll have the opportunity to see them on Saturday at our meet and greet deactivate the same group even what time is Ramos Amazon music next we have our second grade team we have a dedicated PA on that support our second grade teachers as well animal tell if you are a second parent one great thing to know is our second grade team have been at our school almost I believe since the school was found it and they both together have 30 plus years of teaching experience so there experience amazing team unfortunately next Muhammad we don't have any new students coming I'm going to look at that and we have our third fourth and fifth grade teams here who would who are doing an amazing job with our upper grade students Chucky the first and foremost LOL dolls at their store and here is our main office staff one of them who is here with us today or loveliness Donna was our office manager Miss Bailey who is our student parent and Community liaison and program coordinator and Miss Talia Dodson who is our testing coordinator Yankee, Quando our business office staff to support our school and make sure it's our lunch program is happening and all of the back in business is our business office. I'm at the Anamosa State Nike Pocatello and we have rest of our support staff our campus security cow has a a campus that is secure during school hours and after school hours as well as we have our our lovely lunch today to support our lunch program I mean I can come up on base and security system manual La Comida so next we're going to talk about some important documents that you will receive in the next in the upcoming week 2 prepare you for the first day of school Earth is our school calendar these year and if you have not already received that you will receive that soon it will also be posted on our website so you can have the instructional calendar for the year astellas mr. calendario del ano next is our bell schedule so instructional schedule we start school at 8 a.m. however we open up our campus to students at 7:30 a.m. and dismissal is at 3 p.m. Monday Thursday okay ESO essence calendario and just to give you an idea of what a day looks like for your child the students line up at 7 50 am to go into class on Mondays we generally have in morning assembly to welcome kids in for the week they have an instructional black in the morning prayer to recess students then have morning recess where they give to come outside get some AirPlay and then they have a second instructional block after the second instructional block students have lunch and then lunch recess where they also have another opportunity to play and then after lunch recess there is a third instructional block which is where many of our students get enrichment during that blasted black and physical education and then there's a closing afternoon meeting with with teachers students have dismissal Maleficent La manana eBay Dallas Police Department and one thing that's important to note if you are Kinder and first grade parent is that our students have recess separately based on their their grade level and their email so are Tenders in our first graders have recess together they are except they do not have recess at the same time as our second to fifth graders their lunch and recess is separated in all of our classes have separate area on the yard where they play you know my Spotify Friday's on for us at center for advanced learning is our early release day so students are dismissed at 12:45 p.m. that is where our teachers in our staff Harbor staff development in the afternoon however as Mr Lopez will explain to you later we do have after-school program on Fridays as well no school tomorrow Venus the hottest planet and a little bit about her after-school program schedule so every day we do have after-school program we had it continued during a distance and we're happy that we will have it back on campus in person when we resume for in-person instruction on August 16th after school program starts immediately after dismissal at 3 p.m. on Monday through Thursday time to 6 p.m. and on Friday starts I believe at 1 p.m. after dismissal till 6 p.m. on Fridays as well okay ESA Lotto winners in Persona and if correct me if I'm wrong mr. Lopez but after school program will start the first day of school and on the first day of school which is August 16th Monday 2 Thursday is going to be from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. and then on Friday specifically I'm not sure correct me if I'm wrong is going to be there from 12:35 or 12:35 whatever that dismissal is so 6 p.m. set up iris is correct okay and just a brief information about our morning drop off so our morning drop off where we open our gates is from 7:30 to 7:55 7:30 is when our dates open so whether you are walking your student up to or you are driving your student into campus we open our gates at 7:30 a.m. and given the new health and safety protocols we will be requiring students to be screened every morning to participate tell screenie we will have further information coming to all parents this week about health screening as as well as on Saturday Okay Eco mall and 5th Avenue I mean like they handle inside is Savannah a banana. as similar to morning drop off dismissal as we stated starts at 3 p.m. Monday through Thursday and on Fridays from 12:45 b e y battery proceso Para como estas you will all receive a dismissal map so you can kind of understand how our dismissal works for parents who are driving in and picking up student you will be directed to drive into campus where your students will valet to your car so someone will put students inside of the car and walk them over to the gate when dismissal happens I thought this episode mapa massimino's is the liver on hello hello hello Alabama Coronavirus in addition to the map you will refer a name placard with your student's name for your car that helps us make sure that our dismissal is has a smooth transition so we know who your student is so we can prepare them and I'm to get into the car and we can prepare to walk them to The Pedestrian gate ecornell map of Panama this is an example of what a student named Packer will look like we asked you to just display it in your car window even if you're a parent who walks up if you can bring your name placard it also is the safety practice so we know that you are the parent and you are so we are giving you your child to you and not anyone that can just walk on our campus so it's part of our safety procedures as well our main office is at the moment we have we consider our campus be a closed campus for open safety reasons so parents we ask that you call the campus first or send an email or make an appointment if you need to be coming to the school campus will be required to check in at The Pedestrian gate before entering campus and be screened before entering campus as well here is the information for our office hours as well as our phone number in email to go to our main office in addition we ask that any person that enters our campus wear a face covering at 4 as well parent communication so just to let you know a little bit about how we communicate with parents we use our school website to post information important dates are we sin home a Weekly Newsletter called The Cow explorer that comes home on Friday with students we send it electronically as well through distance learning we sent it electronically will still continue to do that a weekly our school overall as well as all of our school our classroom teachers utilize Class Dojo so it's very important that our parents are enrolled on ClassDojo with your teachers because that is away they heavily communicate information and I'm we have a parent communication system that sends you text messages and emails which many of you got today called one call now where we communicate to our parents as well Champion store John de la Proxima semana interlocking eventos idea for Steve Austin lucky Soccer Center I'm doing that thank you and I'm our school website is well on most of the information that we present and we send home in our Weekly Newsletter you can find everything on the school website by working on family info our website can also be translated in multiple languages so if you wanted to change the language to get it to translate you can just select language under family info and it will translate anyting the website hookah bookah Hello Kitty say aqui in English espanol en espanol so our our parent coordinator I'm could not be here today but she is also the head of our new committee called the parents Activities Committee so if you are a parent that would like to be a volunteer at our school or support with our fundraising efforts or any other programs at the school if you want to be involved Miss Bailey is our parent coordinator and she will be the person to communicate with if you want to participate and be engaged as a parent on our campus if you do want to participate she will be the that will be calling you reminding you about apparently these are things that are coming up at our school annotated fibrocystic Really Leave It All. Bonita Bonita I miss Medrano I'll let you take this lie okay yes thank you so much and this is very important here at the house so we would like for you to make sure that you make a pop priority now you will get a phone call or you will get a message we will be calling and see why your child is not here on that fake okay so regular attendance is the most important parents can't support the title success in school yes it is very important because your child will be a good day and everything that they have to join class they will make sure that they turned in everything on time because they were here please not a good child adoption are going to be after please call the school or send a note with a child when they return to school with the reason he's so yes please make sure that either you call me out office ahead of time if you have a trip if there's kind of emergency or something happen and that you have will you please call the office let us know so we can document that and make sure that we know that you are gone for certain days and the reason if you had a doctor's appointment how to make it after school if possible not you know if I understand that appointment is hard to to to make but if you do go do it during the school just make sure that you bring the doctor's excuse note and we will not use the Apple because still don't work here but we we don't know why they weren't here weather forecast Alice koala don't I see you. I can get the contact this weather is going to be today what's up okay and Miss Medrano the next slide I'm leaving up to you as well okay uniform this is our uniform we are a hundred polo shirt and khaki pants shorts or skirts so this is this is the color of our uniform green and khaki so you are able to wear black shoes or white shoes can I wear a black sweater white or green let's try to make it solid colors just because uniform solid colors look very nice. you know sometimes kids like to say something about the clothes maybe let's make it all even for everybody so everybody can look the same and what you see right here is what our students are able to wear daily to our school we do use you and upon their students to wear our uniform so it's just our uniform you can purchase it anywhere Walmart Target and files but it is right now how about color they vary in a prices but these are the common stores that sell are school uniforms or you can't even go to the carnival I believe store they have them there too if you would like to purchase polo shirt with our logo I will give you guys more information on Saturday on where to go. You can purchase a polo shirt with our a logo please do so here it is my home is the cocky Denny's negative is this what I'm negative Lanka over there yesterday my Target in a firefighter and his family and Oso School of Austin. just getting to La camisa con a lot of people there no sore throat or covid Havana banana all right everyone I just want to go over our our expectations and these are these are the expectations that we expect our students to follow at all times whether they are in school or out of school this is building their character and also showing them modeling exactly how to show the cow weigh OK do the first one we actually use the acronym blast because as we are explorers we are taking we going to blast into the future and we going to do it wrong and we're going to make sure that we do it right so the first letter is B and it stands for be safe I we want our explorers safe at all times in practice safety also the L stands for listening carefully listened carefully our students we want our students to obtain and attain the information that's given install listening carefully is one of our expectation asking questions that a stands for ask questions we want our students to always be involved in their learning and asking questions when they need clarification in our needs some information is how we want our explorers to to continue to grow the S stands for show respect we know that we want our explorers be risky and the last one the last letter is T fry hard we won our we want our students to do their absolute best because our model is X is our motto is Excellence is the only option thank you I don't know but we want to make sure that they are exude Excellence at all times okay and an English sounds so much better than Spanish I only charge a black a Black Sabbath we lost it and tell them one meant okay. I said, skip weather forecast is a Honda chf50 on the Excellence what is Los Alamos located okay hour parent handbook you will receive a copy of the parent handbook which explains it gives all the policies that are that we follow here at Cal and we want you to be familiar with it when when you receive it please review the parent handbook for all the detail information in any important info that cow provides and also there's a there's the last page we actually want you to be able to as you look through it we want you to sign it and return it to the store so please make sure you look through it thoroughly because it is a lot of good information contact information just uniform information anything that you want to know and if you don't see it in the parent handbook been feel free to contact us a video. Uncle Paulie's Escambia Renton Escuela on our school website MD Anderson Hospital nn left it at that what's on our website right now is for the last year 21 2020-21 school year will be adding additional updates so you will get the updated I'm handbook all right well instructional program we are very proud to say that our our instructional program is very thorough and we also are proud to say that we have provided our students with access during distance learning last year and we are also doing the same thing with with in-person instruction I'm just going to go over briefly what our instructional program Intel and first hour we have an interdisciplinary and active learning what that means is we provide enrichment we also provide physical education and an art art integrated program which we are excited to see happen this year we also provide our students with Phil trips each grade level get to our field trips per year also we've focused on standards-based instruction especially for our students that are we know that the California state Sanders are mandatory and we want to ensure that our students are have access to an entire instructional program that standard base we have we're excited about physical education our students are fifth graders they take a physical fitness test at the end of the year and we want them ensure that we are preparing them for that we also provide cultural celebrations such as Multicultural Festival in the beginning of the year on mid-year and then we have another one in February which is our Black History Month celebration so we want to provide make sure that we are incorporating All Ark pictures in our families in to those celebrations in September we are September or September now we have we do a lot of activities and celebrations for Hispanic Heritage Month in September and I sober and I we do Red Ribbon Week in October we have Black History Month celebrations in February so we we like to celebrate the diversity of our cultures on our couch and we do ask my parents to vote Sierra do you know to help us out because this these celebrations are definitely Grand you know we want to definitely put forth the effort so we definitely would need your help with assistance so please available also we provide intervention and enrichment our Intervention Program is going to start early in September October and we go throughout the year especially up until the cast in end-of-the-year summative assessment and we also provide enrichment throughout the year so get ready we have a very rigorous instructional program but it's is very is is if it's a it's an extraordinary program that our students Love and Enjoy ESPN interdisciplinary meaning of honest Americano I'll open you. all right so there are certain parts of our instructional program that we want to highlight and one is our technology integration from we have integrated our technology within our instructional program we provide Chromebook for every student one of our assessment tools or programs that we use as Renaissance Learning our students are familiar with the accelerated reading program also Freckle which is a is a adaptive program that focuses on and skills based on their star sassman so we assess students and then we provide them with practice to help them grow and progress along throughout the year and we also on our teachers are very familiar and they used a program called BrainPOP which is another instructional program that our students enjoy Also I would we are very big on using ClassDojo ClassDojo is a communication tool that we will just like the one called messages that you received to come here today to be present today we also send Class Dojo messages teachers respond text messaging through the class dojo messages and we also send school I post so please keep your eye on that if you haven't connected or use ClassDojo that is one of our biggest communication tool that we use here at cow I also other programs that we use is flipgrid Google Classroom kahoot nearpod and we provide a digital curriculum for all students so we're not only do we have the print material classroom but we also provide digital access to to these programs as well in all subject areas math Ela science and social studies it doesn't matter. play contento is the Kimmel Center Garage Escuela ESPN Muscle Man Grand Theft Auto flipgrid that I must have forgot my classroom Google Classroom that I must be honest English Todo esta bien a materia one of the one of the the additional things that is special about us that cow is that we do our best to meet the needs of all of our students so that we make sure every student that attends our school is being supported and we do that by providing additional support through a special education coordinator as well as Arielle coordinator who support our English learner students through their development as well as 4th and accommodations for students with special education capital of New York correctamente and so again we an amazing team she was supposed to special education students who you will get to meet later on Saturday as well as our English language development coordinator Miss yenda who supports our English learners also is the head of the committee so if you are a parent of an English learner misgender will be the person that is communicating with you and hopefully you will be a part of our our English advisory a parent advisory committee as well ESPN all right now we're going to pass it over to Mr Lopez to talk about our after-school program good afternoon parents how are you happy Tuesday I am Maria Lopez I am to be the manager of the program so our program schedule is for Monday through Friday Monday to Thursday from 3 to 6 p.m. and then Friday from 12:35 to 6 p.m. so we do start right after dismissal we got it as soon as we sign the man and that's what we then start our replacement glass throughout the school year will be around the world are depreciation Club stamp love yoga Club the Doctor Seuss up under the sea Club the soccer and then stuff and we try to stay aligned with the regular base as you can see we have around the world will be trying to also and and just sharing with the students of different cultures that we have it within the school and then we just try to go ahead and you also include food in Boise so we do allow the students to go ahead and ormus what kind of clubs would like to see in the program's then that way they also have that opportunity to say hey my after-school program listen to me now we have X and Y Club so you have the opportunity to go to Mason and then you as a parent can also let us know hey is there a club that we would like to senior program that we can make it happen so I'm always be welcome and yes every single time but for you to be part of the program of your child to be part of the program you do need an ark and go through the program is free so sweet to all students at Cowboys you just need an argument by which I will be staying with everybody this Saturday just because I we are back in person so we are taking keep your application once again and then I just one more thing if you are picking 50 minutes before program and you do have to fill out an early release form so if if you are pick everything is just minutes before just just be aware that you will be asked about an early release form before sign I'm so well-established regional manager what is grandma in Korean who is the best place to stay or not they improve the stem and prove the yoga Google dr. Seuss Lone Eagle Gazette salario de art so she's going to go Casino missing any glass you know we're missing instant parents one thing I did forget to share we do have a calf in the enrollment so we do have a capacity of only hosting program for 84 students please know that once we have reached our chaplain in orbit average daily attendance of 84 students a day then started waiting list so just wanted to inform you we do accept all student but we do have a capacity of a video of servicing 84 students at the school site thank you mr. Lopez parents as you can see Mr Lopez has some of the best energy I think at kalhu are all tired by the end of the day he's always pumped up we love that about him thank you so much for sale of bat and now it's time if parents if you have any questions that you would like to ask the team please feel free Pablo City to Laguna pregunta. feel free to unmute yourself if you have any questions or you can click on the reaction at the bottom and click raise hand if you have any question let me have a soul Gonzalez Sanchez una pregunta El Salvador Saturday what time will it be so our parents I believe we started if I'm correct Miss Brown 9:15 a.m. so it is Saturday morning we start with a presentation from the leadership team that will go over overall school-wide information and then you will have your teacher presentation so your child's grade level teacher for the year would you accept her presentation about the expectations rules for their classroom directly after a Saba what are you guys going to see results on last day on Earth but I keep on I think we have the we have it from 9 to 10 30 parents login night 9:15 to 9:15 okay thank you any other questions Sanchez road on the chat apparel after school but I don't know what she's trying to say Fabiola Sanchez okay, we're started in sourdough percentage AMS Colosso and mostest and Esther SU is it like Google Carlos okay I see a question in the chat about Kobe testing before going back to school we we encourage you to get your students tested before coming back so that you can be aware if if your students are filling L however we are not require I mean it from parents we will be screaming students each morning asking parents are their students ill will be taking temperatures each morning but at this current time we are not requiring covid testing but it's always best to know if you if your student is feeling ill we suggest get them tested but if they are not feeling ill and they are there in normal Health we will be screening every morning GS pay scale I love New York episode we have another question is Saturday online or in person it is we will be online we will send out the link for families to join and also it will be being posted on the website as well yes you will parents will see receive that information pretty soon this week you will receive the zoom normally our meet and greet as in person but due to current health and safety concerns we've decided to make our meet and greet virtual until you know we feel that it is it is safe to have large Gatherings on campus the meet-and-greet will be virtual on so that we can make sure that we can sure that our kids can come to school in person we're going to take all this safety protocols possible another question go ahead starting La Semana Pasada yeah I finished is Muhammad Ali a nest. I said I wasn't gonna resume and I think maybe this is what you were going to say Miss Brown there's a question in the chat will masks be required to be worn the whole class time for students students will be required as well as staff will be required to wear masks we had summer school session that just ended a couple of weeks ago where we required our students to wear masks on campus for 4 weeks or students amazing job with following the protocol if there is ever a situation where a student needs to take their Mass down for any reason we they will communicate with the teacher and the teacher will be responsive to Studio needs but students will be required to wear masks but if anything if there is ever a situation where student is feeling uncomfortable or students are teachers and our staff will be responsive to student epitome most aesthetic glasses need the remote Lara Spencer any other questions mrs. Alberta Gonzalez feel free to unmute yourself Panera Alabama CS the last application Escobar. diesel is not a toy no we are going to be virtual on Saturday we are not going to be at the school site they are going to get the application with you on Saturday call Mario Vela on the application the enrollment form is online we still have it online is that the same one we have it online but because we are going to be a hard copy so mommy had to leave now so give me a quick second I can do it right now the parent I was asking that she should go to the school side to pick up the hard copy and if is mister because if you can provide us the application we can keep some in the office so if a parent wanted to come by even this week and stop by and grab an application we can have it for them okay yeah I can do it I can take some application sometime this and then ESPN department has requested a linear pair okay well if there are no other questions parents we thank you so much for joining us and participating in our new parent orientation we are this is still open this week for summer office hours so if you have any questions or concerns please feel free to call the main office if you would need to stop by and drop any paperwork off or pick up any paperwork you you are more welcome to do that just know you will have to check in at The Pedestrian gate for health and safety reasons but our campus office is open if you need any further information and we will have it after school site I thank you for those kind words that they come today and I had to drop off paperwork at and unto those that was waiting on the gate to be but yeah thank you so much to the I came by today and Jonas Brothers for sale office in Astoria easiest I can do Santa Fe Cena Una pregunta see one parent hand misses you. Got it go program paper and take it yeah. Okay Mr Lopez job and let me include the actual PDF file give me pixels this is just so this is just the online and woman form of so let me give me a quick second I can go ahead and make a right now how do you not either have some if yes or no okay so that is shared in the chat Mister Lopez Lopez has added that information and chat if you fill it out you can definitely drop it off at the school campus so I added the English to Spanish application viruses that p**** from Aladdin and Jasmine Jano I'll be reminder drop off applications at Bubba's. all right once again thank you parents we appreciate your time and your support and we will see you all on Saturday I have a question yes sorry I what time do does mr. Dolphus will drop off the application so we can go sorry what time will you be over tomorrow I'll be here 8 I'll be there 8 a.m. thank you so much. Okay say her. with only 84 spaces good night everyone good night everyone

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