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Admissions Season Underway 2016-17
Elementary School Visits Begin Nov. 17

Berkeley High School Information Night for Families New to BUSD: Nov. 18, 7-8pm

BUSD Information Fair for Incoming  Kindergarten & New Families: Sat., Dec. 5
10am-1pm, LeConte Elementary

K-8 Parent Teacher Conference Week: 
Nov. 2-6
If you have not done so already, please contact your child's teacher as soon as possible to make an appointment.  
Local Control & Accountability Plan 
Berkeley's Local Control & Accountability Plan (LCAP) guides district efforts to expand and improve service and programs to high need students. 

LCAP Goal #1:
Provide high quality classroom instruction and curriculum that promotes  college and career readiness with  academic intervention in place to eliminate barriers  to success.

LCAP Goal #2:
End the racial predictability of academic achievement by ensuring that all
systems are culturally and linguistically responsive to the needs of our students.

LCAP Goal #3:
Ensure all school sites have safe, welcoming and inclusive climates for  all students and their families, so that all students are ready to learn.

District Meetings & Events
School Board Members Hold Monthly "Office Hours"
Join them in a local cafe and bring your ideas, suggestions, and questions.

Find the Schedule

Note: No School for Students 
Fri., Nov. 6 & Wed., Nov. 11
Google Calendar

Brown Act Committees Open to the Public:

School Board
Wed., Nov. 4 & 18
(School Board Meetings are held in the Board Room at 1231 Addison St.)

BSEP Planning & Oversight (P&O) Committee Meeting
Tuesday, November 10, 
7-9:30pm
More on the P&O here.
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Educational Research Symposium - Friday, November 6

Berkeley Research, Evaluation and Assessment (BREA) is hosting the return of the Berkeley Unified School District Research Symposium. 

The Symposium brings leading thinkers in current innovative educational research together with Berkeley community members, BUSD educators and parents. 

Presentations cover a range of topics: from social-emotional learning and adolescent neurology to equity issues in music education, new approaches to assessing student needs, topics in special education, and much more.

Check-in begins at 5:15 pm at Longfellow Middle School. Welcome begins at 5:45 pm and last presentation ends at 8:30 pm.  Please tell your family, friends, and neighbors about what is sure to be a thought-provoking event worth attending! Click below to see the full presentation scheduled and register for the free event.
 
Willard Teacher & Students
Learn Math While Making Music
Robert MacCarthy, known to his students as "Mr. Mac", is a 6th grade teacher at Willard Middle School whose creative ways are leading innovation in math instruction and drawing attention beyond Berkeley. Mr. Mac was selected as one of four teachers in the state to be featured in a Soulpancake video story. Don't miss the chance to see how making music and being creative is making math cool at Willard. Just click below and watch!
BSEP Measure Planning Begins
Participants engage with each other around funding priorities in BSEP budget "thermometer" exercise.
Our first big public event for BSEP measure planning took place on Thursday, October 22. About 180 participants representing many school and district committees took part in both the annual School and District Committee Orientation and a BSEP Budget Planning Workshop. 


Save the date: The next BSEP measure planning workshop is scheduled for February 25.
Improvement in School Attendance Recognized
Berkeley school teachers, staff, and administrators have sustained a multi-year effort in working with families and the school community to increase awareness about the importance of school attendance. Our work to reduce chronic absenteeism rates, improve overall attendance, and reduce the dropout rate led to BUSD's recognition as one of eleven districts in the state of California for its Model Attendance Improvement Program. E very day counts!
Berkeley High's Colorful Unity Week
With a new take on school spirit, Berkeley High students, staff, faculty, and parents joined together in celebration of Unity Week. Lunch time competitions were a big hit with faculty, staff, and students battling it out in table tennis, dodge ball, tricycle races, and more. Themed dress days brought out individual creativity and made for good fun for students, staff and teachers alike.

Berkeley Unified School District

http://www.berkeleyschools.net