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This year, SFUSD created a series of centralized PDs, however next year we'd like to develop our own professional development experiences.   

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This year, SFUSD created a series of centralized PDs, however next year we'd like to develop our own professional development experiences.   

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Please describe some of the ideas you have regarding site-based professional development.  Examples include specific professional development to support instruction in specific curricular areas or training in tools/resources to support instruction.

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This year we've enhanced our SPSA (School Plan for Student Achievement) goals.  You can review the three sub goals by clicking the image below.   

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This year we've enhanced our SPSA (School Plan for Student Achievement) goals.  You can review the three sub goals by clicking the image below.   

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Please share ideas or planning suggestions you have that can help support our site in achieving our SPSA goals.

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Sunnyside Elementary SPSA Goals 2022-2023

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Thinking about the professional development week in August (before students return) - name two areas of focus for this week - examples include specific professional development to support instruction in specific curricular areas or training in tools/resources to support instruction.

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Thinking about resources - materials and tools that support student achievement what ideas do you have for significant resources beyond standard classroom supplies.  

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Thinking about resources - materials and tools that support student achievement what ideas do you have for significant resources beyond standard classroom supplies.  

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Please list resources you believe would support our SPSA goals, which can be reviewed in the first column. These resources can also support our instructional focus or other areas of focus for your grade level.

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Please list any other planning ideas you have about the 2022-2023 school year.

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Please list any planning ideas you have regarding operational logistics for the site - keeping in mind the operational logistics should attempt to support our SPSA goals.  Examples include scheduling such as recess periods or academic schedules.

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In the vein of not just returning to pre-COVID instruction, I think that we need to be strategic about what technology/websites/apps we want our students to use. What SFUSD approved educational tools are we using? Why? For what outcome?

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I think that the science program needs to be modified and enriched. I know that I try to do this, but I assume that others are also doing this as well. What tools/resources are other people pulling from? What do we want students to know in each grade level so that they are prepared for the 5th grade State assessment (it is not just 5th grade content)?

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How are people supplementing the math curriculum? What resources? What is the objective?

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I think that we should return to a start time of 8:40. Students start the school day one hour earlier, but they generally don't sleep in one hour later. I think that the return to 8:40 would listen to a lot of caregiver complaints about starting so late and alleviate a lot of conflict that students have with activities starting after school.

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When people ask me about Sunnyside I always say, "it's a nice school", but then I don't know what else to say. It's hard to say what Sunnyside is all about or what we stand for or even what we're working towards every day. Yes, the report card standards, but there's more to school than just scores on a test or report card. I think we need to spend our first week deciding what we stand for or at least what we're working towards this year.

One place to start could be our SPSA goals. I think we need to look at our SPSA goals and choose measurable goals and action we can take to achieve them.  If the goal is that our focal groups (or a percentage of our focal groups) are reading at grade level, then each grade level and teacher needs a plan of action to get them there. We keep doing the same thing every year and it's not working. If we're truly a school focused on anti-racist education, then we need to make sure we're doing all we can to get kids reading at grade level before they move on to the next grade. If teachers don't know how to do that, then we need to create an environment of collaboration where educators can ask questions, plan together, observe one another, etc.

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I've heard dissatisfaction with the Math, Reading, and Science curriculum. I think we should have working groups comprised of upper and lower grade level educators, who investigate alternative curriculum for these subjects and bring their findings back to the whole group for consideration.

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Second Step is a wonderful SEL program, but I don't think we use it to its fullest potential. The language in SS needs to be used school-wide, even at recess and specials. Signage for STEP (problem solving steps), Rules for Learning, and other teaching points should seen everywhere around the school and students should hear them repeated as often as they hear about the 3 Bs.

Our school community feels very disconnected. People seem to do a great job building tight knit communities within their classroom, but it doesn't translate to the whole school. I think carrying Second Step throughout the school will help, but we're missing something really dynamic that I've felt at other schools.

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I use technology in my centers every day and really need quality headphones.

I also use Dreambox Brainpop and Starfall on a daily basis in my literacy and math centers and would like to see those subscriptions continue.

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I would like two round tables for my classroom for students to work more collaboratively.

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I think it would be great if there was a on site PD for new teachers to have the oppurtunity to work together and discuss the strengths and needs they are encounting as first year teachers. There could be a designated lead of this group who supports them. This could be as an alternate to ILT because first year teachers are not on a committee.

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Would love to see social skills / emotional management groups as part of multi-tiered SEL approach

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Would love to see pull-out math support for students who are missing earlier grade skills

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Our grade level team has worked closely all year and we'd love more time at the START of the year to plan the Big Picture as well as the details.

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I feel like we need a stronger orientation for new-to-teaching teachers as well as new staff in general.

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Our grade level creates our own Social Studies curriculum, massively edits ELA and science, and is frustrated with lack of flow/routine in the math curriculum. It would be nice if we felt like our SFUSD provided curriculum was a better fit for our students. Not sure the solution other than getting more teacher-friendly, student-friendly curriculum.

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I'd appreciate new classroom desks; mine are in a sad state of disrepair, sometimes even having loose nails inside.

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Our team would greatly appreciate a trimester-based enrichment schedule for predictability.

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It'd be great to have the bell kept in the same place every day, and have it left out until the last 2-3 recess.

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Thank you for all the hard work cleaning out the front recess room! I hear the kids love the lunch activity variation but those extra materials take up a lot of space in that front recess room. Is there a way we can continue to clean out that area so that we can access the lunch activity materials, recess cart/equipment and icepacks/bandaids/walkie-talkie, etc. more easily?

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I'd love to learn more about how lower grades use/manage centers, and how we could use them in upper grades to increase small group opportunities.

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Responding to post "What is Sunnyside All About?" 

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Responding to post "What is Sunnyside All About?" 

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Coherence is foundational to both systems change and social emotional well being. In its absence, educators lack a sense of direction and struggle to develop agency. There are simply too many things coming at them at once-all with the stated urgency–and it becomes overwhelming and, in terms paralyzing. The same holds true for students who receive competing messages about what matters. What does it mean to do well in math? What does it mean to write well, to be a good citizen, to “participate in class?....If those messages vary from classroom to classroom- and I would argue they do in most schools- students experience fragmentation, diminished well being, and loss of agency.    Street Data Shane Shafir and Jamila Dugan

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Our desks, tables, shelves, and chairs are so old and falling apart! It really isn't safe.

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I think it's important very everyone to connect to the SPSA goals and define their professional plans for supporting the SPSA goals. In the pre-service column someone mentioned the Sunnyside "identity" which still doesn't appear to be defined. Until we do that and until we each connect to the SPSA goals, it will be as that individual said business as usual.

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New Furniture and Lack of Supplies at the start of the school year

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New Furniture and Lack of Supplies at the start of the school year

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Furniture (student tables and chairs) are in bad state.  Many, if not all, the classroom furniture (shelves, bookcases) are supplemented by the classroom teachers.

Basic supplies such as pencils, paper, crayons where not supplemented at the start of the school year. Why ask for teacher input about supplies needed at the end of the previous school year when it is not readily available at the start of a new school year?

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Students at the younger grade level would have much more enthusiasm and energy if the school day began at 8:40am, ending at 2:40p, with the previous daily schedule in place.  Students are dragging their feet after the lunch period, and barely have the joy/interest left in them.

Lack of Enrichments for all teacher- rather inequitable. Enrichments are used to lesson plan, assess, and conduct meetings- something teacher no longer have time to do in the given school day.

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Can we have pictures up of aftercare as well? I still don't know all the aftercare staff by name. Can we also make sure we have the same behavioral expectations so that school day and after school behaviors are more aligned?

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Maybe have recess balls assigned to each class? Maybe they will take better care of them if they feel more ownership? Not a fan of more stuff to manage in the classroom but frustrated by kids not taking care of equipment/putting away properly after the bell. May help resolve storage room issue too?

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Anyone else miss the concentric circles in the am? Easier dismissal to class in lines, but feels more like a community when we circle up...

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+1 on the pull out math support & intervention

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+1 on the pull out math support & intervention

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Looking for a flow chart of behavior and consequences. I'm still not exactly sure what to do when children misbehave.

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Looking for a flow chart of behavior and consequences. I'm still not exactly sure what to do when children misbehave.

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Before school is crazy, there are too many students on the yard and not enough supervision for a full before school "recess". Can we rethink our AM plan?

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Before school is crazy, there are too many students on the yard and not enough supervision for a full before school "recess". Can we rethink our AM plan?

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+1 to the behavior expectations in aftercare.

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+1 to the behavior expectations in aftercare.

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The storage dungeon has too much stuff to easily store recess equipment and keep it organized.

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The storage dungeon has too much stuff to easily store recess equipment and keep it organized.

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+1 Return to old start and end times (8:40-2:40) for better student focus and learning.

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+1 Return to old start and end times (8:40-2:40) for better student focus and learning.

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Furniture for teachers. Ergonomic teacher chair and a small group table that's not too low for the teacher. My back aches!

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Furniture for teachers. Ergonomic teacher chair and a small group table that's not too low for the teacher. My back aches!

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The double desks for 3rd grade are in poor condition. Also students in this grade grow extremely fast from the start to the end of the year and it is difficult for them to share such a small space with another partner. what if single desks are introduced at this grade?

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can enrichments like art take place in the classroom. Lots of distractions in the cafeteria

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Trimester based and 3 per grade-level. We've barely had any this year.

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Yard is a mess with all the trash and belongings left out every day. We also need a solution to the weekend vandalism.

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-Recess/Yard Coordinator
-Garden/Science Teacher
-Full time PE teacher

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4/5 would love the opportunity to develop a history curriculum because currently one doesn't exist. In a time of social justice issues where history continues to repeat itself, this is so important. It can also be used as crosscurricular way with math, writing, reading etc.

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Is there a way for the 4/5 to begin lunch earlier, possibly by overlapping the lunches, or combining so there are only 2 separate lunches instead of 3?

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Any way this can happen to free up space in our classrooms? Many grades have 5-6 boxes....

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We need a way for non-English speaking families to communicate with the school. Google translate needs to be utilized by for school-wide for all communication. Parents should be able to use the Language line and given the information to access it in advance. teachers need should be able to use it all year for making phone calls. Non-English parents shouldn't feel left out because of the language they speak

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Would like to have time to meet with art and music teacher to collaborate so that content they are teaching connects or aligns with classroom teaching

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Time for 3rd grade teachers to meet with 2nd and 4th...time for 4th to meet with 3rd and 5th....

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Cultural Equity Celebrations (Year Around)

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Cultural Equity Celebrations (Year Around)

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How do we include a representation of the diversity of Sunnyside year round. It has been said that certain cultures receive longer celebrations, events, projects. How can we show that everyone is valued not just certain groups

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It would be great to bring back singing! Without call and response Coach Jam songs and more curriculum pressures, singing gets cut. Having a music teacher that teaches kids traditional songs, silly camp songs, call and response, rounds,... could be a lot of fun! Great for literacy too!

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Paras have the Para Institute pre-service week in tandem. Can they have a time for school site orientation with teachers regarding the oncoming students, roles and classroom expectations. Thank you.

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I would like our staff to receive PD on inclusion and how to apply it school wide to build student community.

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We need another changing station including a changing table please.

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Create a regular Storytime schedule where upper grades read to lower grades, and SDC classes.

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Create clubs based on subject where Upper grade students mentor lower grade students by subject (math, reading, writing).

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Are parents allowed to volunteer in the classrooms next year?

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I suggest Art, Music, and Dance be scheduled as standardized inclusion time with SDC students.

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Safety Care for all paraeducators.

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Paraeducators need to have a way to keep abreast on PD. Their current working time does not allow for this yearlong. If paras can not schedule Safety Care during Pre-Service Week, then sometime in the year. Very critical skills to learn.

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Not all red fire backpacks contain the same items. Need a standarized contents list and supplies please.

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Since Nurse Kathy is here on certain days, All classrooms and the storage room should have first aid supplies stocked regularly so that students can be treated in the classroom instead of sending them to the office to decrease student office congestion.

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Please create a Sunnyside New Teacher Orientation so that new teachers understand the yearly events, assessment timeframes, and all the intricacies specific to Sunnyside Elementary School so they can understand how to organize and prioritize their daily, monthly, trimester and yearly need to do's.

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Please order enough radios for every yard duty staff, teacher and para please.