Cordelia Hills Elementary

Just a quick reminder on Short Term Independent Study: Short Term independent study is for students who are going to be out of school for a minimum of 5 days. The maximum number of days out depends on the grade level (check with main office). In order to qualify for Short term independent study, you must email Mrs. Lissick (helenl@fsusd.org) and your child's teacher. You must give two weeks notice in order to qualify for for short term I.S. When you email, please include student name, dates they are going to be out, specific reason for the request, and the first day returning to school. Please write "Independent study for _________(student name) in the subject line. Please know that all students/parents approved for short term I.S. must sign a contract and under the law, they must follow the guidelines in the contract with no exceptions. Please note, while most teacher do approve requests, they are under no obligation to approve the request. Often, requests are not approve...

I hope all is well this terrific, sunny Friday! Things are going well here at Cordelia Hills and we only have 4 students absent school wide! Wow! Today wraps up the last day of the book fair and it has been a tremendous success. PTA still has one after school session left and we hope you can make it. The students and staff have been excited about raising money for Holiday Hope. The final decision (Trotter pirate vs. Trotter merman) will be announced Monday! Late last week our school held our fall IPR (in progress review). During the IPR, District office staff join site staff to review school site data (test scores, discipline data, walk-thru data, etc.) and work with staff to come up with a site goal and action plan centered on achieving that goal. Our IPR goal centers on increasing the amount of academic conversation happening in our classrooms everyday.  Academic conversations  are "back-and-forth dialogues in which students focus on a topic and explore it by building, cha...

This last Friday I attended a CUE Rockstar Admin "conference"  in Marin. CUE (computer using teachers) promotes a mission of "inspiring   innovative learners by fostering community, personalizing learning, infusing technology, developing leadership, and advocating educational opportunities for all". I focused my efforts at the conference on learning about improving teacher professional development, on high quality math instructional practices, and on workflow techniques for staying out of the office. The final presenter had basically turned over her office to the PTA and ran her campus from out on campus. One presenter presented on math. I am sharing one of his resources here ( Advice for Parents on Promoting Math ). Now for some important announcements for the week: 1. CHE Book Fair starts today :  Our book fair starts today and lasts thru Friday, September 30th. The fair is hosted by our WONDERFUL PTA and is located in the Music Room (backside of the  cafete...

Hi everyone, Tomorrow is the final day of our attendance competition with local Cordelia/GV schools. Today we reached 98.26%. Let's make tomorrow a top day for the last two weeks. Can we reach 100%?!

Hi everyone, The attendance competition is winding down. Only 2 days left. Today, 9/21 saw school wide attendance at 98.11%. Thanks much and let us keep working up towards 100%.

Boy Scouts will hold an informational meeting on Wednesday, 9/21 @ 6:00 p.m. in the MPR. Girl Scouts will join the presentation and all families are welcome.

Wow! 98.89 of our students here today! Amazing stuff everyone. 100% of Tk/K, 1st, and 3rd grade here. Keep up the great work everyone!