Kindness Cocoon

Just as Walgrove honors parents who donate anywhere from $1 to $1,000,000 with butterflies on the wall, we honor students who are caught committing acts of kindness, empathy, peer-advocacy, altruism and more with caterpillars on the wall. 

Teachers and staff add names to our growing schoolwide list of caterpillar earners. 

Then, our Caterpillar Team comprised of rotating altruists helps me cut out the caterpillars, write names and dates on them, and post them on the wall!

Because it is important to honor folks for their generosity!

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Volunteer Dos and Don'ts

Walgrove currently boasts over 50 registered volunteers. (If you are not yet registered to volunteer, you may register here). 

To spend time on campus during the school day (other than for a meeting, scheduled and approved class observation, short special event or longer single event with advance permission) you must become a registered volunteer. 

To volunteer outdoors on the weekends, there is no need to become a registered volunteer.

If you are a registered volunteer, please know and follow these basic Dos and Don'ts:

DO be willing to help wherever help is needed.

DO sign up ahead of time for a task. 

DO sign in when you arrive (or beforehand).

DO treat all children equally (for example, don't focus on your own child, and do not reprimand other people's children or adults for perceived slights against your child/ren. Instead, if there is an issue that involves your own child, please involve the teacher, and if no resolution, the principal). 

DO seek permission to be on campus (do not invite yourself to your own child's class. You must have an appointment and permission from the principal who will coordinate with the teacher ahead of time). While we LOVE it when parents are on campus, we don't want to interfere with the teacher-student dynamic or encroach upon the educational experience of others. We need to be mindful and global in our approach. 

Here is the Volunteer Commitment Form. 

For more information and a Q and A about volunteering at Walgrove, join our Volunteer Zoom Wednesday, October 26 at 6:30pm in Dr. K's Zoom room.

Thank you, IMMENSELY, for your support. We wouldn't be Walgrove without your INCREDIBLY generous efforts!

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CURRENT COVID PROTOCOLS

What are the current COVID rules?

• Don't come to school when sick!
• If sick, test daily over the first few days because COVID takes time to show up on a test. 
• If positive, upload the results to the Parent Portal AND tell the teacher and Dr. K who will ask about your closest indoor contacts. 
• Positive cases isolate at home and test again on Day 5 (the first day of symptoms or a positive test are Day 0), So, really, Day 6 and/or beyond. Basically, test to return to work or school. 
• Close contacts monitor, mask while indoors for 10 days, and test on Day 5 (and beyond, as necessary).

Approximately 70% of last year's Walgrove students were vaccinated. 100% of Walgrove staff and registered volunteers are vaccinated. Studies show that vaccination is the greatest defense against severe illness. 

Here are the current recommendations from the CDE. 

Thank you for your collective vigilance!

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Updated School Calendar!

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Tentative Agreement between Superintendent Carvalho and UTLA Includes NO Wednesday Acceleration Days

Dear Families, 

Superintendent Carvalho and UTLA came to a tentative agreement (the union ratified it, and the LAUSD Board will likely formalize it tomorrow evening). 

What this means is that there will be school per usual on all the Wednesdays previously deemed "Acceleration Days." 

All teachers and staff are required to report to work on those days. 

There will instead be new "Acceleration Days" during the first few days of Winter vacation and Spring Break. 

Those days are optional for all staff (and hence I will notify you closer to the time what the staffing will likely look like). 

As soon as I have more information, I will share it. 

In the meantime, feel free to visit the UTLA website and LAUSD.NET

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LAUSD Attendance Achievement Calendar

 

Attendance Info and AttenDANCE

 Here are a few factoids about school attendance in LAUSD:

• Education is compulsory for children ages 6 and up (until graduation).
• While full-day attendance is the law, any student who is present for at least 30 minutes of an hour is marked present. (Ideally before 9am, which is when attendance submittal is due.)
• The State of CA funds schools based on their Average Daily Attendance (ADA). So every absence costs the District $. Every student at school brings the District $. Each student absence costs the District approximately $70. 
• The State of CA and the District evaluate a school's effectiveness, in part, based on the number of students deemed Chronically Absent, which means absent 10% (or more) of the # of school year (see the CA Dashboard). In 2022, we were again deemed in ATSI Program Improvement due to our high rate of Chronic Absenteeism. Hence, we have a School Site Council (SSC) and create goals and strategies to address Chronic Absenteeism.
• Parents may excuse absences for illness or other reasons within 10 days of the absence (see Ed Code 48205); however, excusing an absence doesn't make it disappear. It still counts as an absence for the purpose of state funding. However, since teachers only have access to attendance for four days, parents should provide a signed note as soon as possible upon return to school. 
• Why do we "excuse" absences, if this does not make the absences disappear? This is to distinguish absences due to illness (or another acceptable reason) from those due to truancy. Because school is compulsory, the state and the District keep track of student attendance. This distinction is relevant in law enforcement, custody, and child welfare matters.
• Attendance is important not just for funding, of course, or to stay off the radar of government overlords, but for bonding, automaticity and momentum. The more students are in school, the more they bond with teachers and peers, the more automatic and routine their skills become, and the more momentum they build, propelling them with increasing force toward successful futures. 

For more detailed information, visit the Parent-Student Handbook. 

Enjoy this shortened version of the Walgrove AttenDANCE:

Attendance Calendar

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E-Choices Enrollment Oct 3 Through Nov 18 & Walgrove GATE Info Session Tues @ 6pm

 To enroll your kiddo in a magnet, SAS or other middle school next year, please click here:

To find out more about Walgrove's role in Unified Enrollment and/or to learn about Walgrove's Gifted and Talented Education (GATE) offerings, come to an informational Zoom Tuesday, October 11 at 6:00 in Dr. K's Zoom room.  

For those who cannot make next Tuesday's Zoom, we will also discuss GATE and E-Choices enrollment at any/all upcoming Coffee and Diet Coke with the Principal meetings, which are every Friday right after the assembly.

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How to Access Curriculum in Schoology

STEP 1

Register for a Parent Portal account.

STEP 2

Log into the Parent Portal.

STEP 3

Add your children, one at a time, to your account using your unique PIN for each child. If you did not receive this unique PIN via email (the email comes from Tracy), then contact the office and Tracy or Nery will share the PIN(s) with you. Each parent has a unique PIN for each child. 

STEP 4

Log into the Parent Portal and see all the classes assigned to each of your children. 

HOW DO STUDENTS LOG INTO SCHOOLOGY?

Students go to lms.lausd.net, enter their LAUSD email address and password (also called Single Sign-On), and voila!

If they forgot their password, they either reset it here at https://mylogin.lausd.net/ or contact their teacher who has their email address and PIN (and in most cases their password). 

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