MARCH 9^th - 3^rd GRADE BATTLE

MARCH 23^rd - 4^th/5^thGRADE BATTLE

Click HERE to watch a video (partly ion stop motion of course!) about our Family Art Night event.

Click HERE to register to attend.

Thank you to Tijen Loubert for organizing the Walk Through California event held last Tuesday and Wednesday for the 4^th graders!  

Thank you to Stacey Sullivan, Masumi Patel and Jennifer Westerland for organizing last Wednesday’s Eat 4 Tulita at Rock & Brews, and thank you for all who came out to support it!

The Tulita PTA is 517 members strong! 

How to join?  Click here to join the PTA!

Why join? Your $12 membership not only helps pay for programs at Tulita, it strengthens the PTA’s ability to advocate for our children at the local, state and national levels.

Do I have to volunteer? No, you only have to volunteer if you want.  There’s strength in numbers so sign up yourself, your student, grandparents, aunts, uncles – everyone who wants to make a positive impact on our children.

Why should parents care about RBUSD’s adoption of a TK-5^th Grade English Language Arts (ELA) Curriculum? Getting our students access to standards-aligned, rigorous learning opportunities, such as a high quality ELA curriculum, are more important than ever as our students readjust to classroom learning. Our kids are faced with significant learning loss after the personal and academic disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The good news is teachers utilizing high-quality ELA curriculum can create 4-7 months of additional academic progress for their students, significantly reducing learning loss and closing opportunity gaps. 

How do we, as the K-5 ELA Adoption Committee, achieve that goal? The Committee consists of stakeholders from every aspect of RBUSD: parents, teachers in the classroom, special education, and on special assignment, administrators and school board members, focused on a needs-based assessment of the qualities an excellent and rigorous ELA curriculum must have. We’re learning about the science of reading and best practices in literacy instruction, as well as how to evaluate curriculums in the coming months. For a deeper dive into the work of the Committee, click here. Our parent representatives, Jessica and Stacie, look forward to bringing you more information as the adoption process progresses.

Black History Month.  Black History Month is an annual celebration of achievements by African Americans and a time for recognizing their central role in U.S. history. Since 1976, every U.S. president has officially designated the month of February as Black History Month. Other countries around the world, including Canada and the United Kingdom, also devote a month to celebrating Black history.

February 25^th through March 1^st— Festival of Ayyam-I-Ha (Baha'i). The Baháʼí Faith is a religion teaching the essential worth of all religions and the unity of all people. Established by Baháʼu'lláh in the 19th century, it initially developed in Iran and parts of the Middle East. Members of the Baha’i tradition celebrate Ayyám-i-Há, or “Days of Ha." These days are devoted to spiritual preparation for the month-longfast, Alá, that follows. These days are festive times in the community, characterized by hospitality, charity, service and gift-giving. 

Click here to access the DEI Book Nook to find a list of elementary-age books that celebrate diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Click here to visit the Redondo Beach Council DEI home page.

Village Runner St. Patrick’s Day Race. Registration is now open for the Village Runner St. Patrick’s Day Race on March 13, 2022! Sign up now as prices will increase in February.

For more info and registration, please visit:  https://villagerunner.com/st-patricks-day-5k-in-redondo-beach/

Let's pack the stands with Sea Hawks fans to cheer the RUHS Boys Soccer team in the CIF Semi Finals on 2/22/22 @5pm AND the Girls Soccer Team in their CIF Semi Final on 2/23 @5pm. Go Sea Hawks!!

Tulita PTA is compiling a list of local, small businesses owned by Tulita families. We will share it with Tulita parents so people can seek out, and support, those businesses that are so crucial to our community.

Simply click here to fill out the FORM to be included.

References are to the CA Budget Discussion with Kevin Gordon, West Coast fiscal experts in school funding. Watch the recording by clicking here.                

Nutrition: The proposed budget provides all public school students with two free meals each day regardless of income eligibility, starting in the 2022-23 school year.

School Funding: A cost of living adjustment (COLA) of 5.33% for the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) which is an investment of $3.3 billion, and many other education programs that are funded outside of the LCFF.

Early Learning and Child Care: Increase in funding for younger students: $823.7 million for 36,000 additional subsidized child care slots, and an investment of more than one billion dollars and the multi-year commitment to expand Universal Transitional Kindergarten.

Expanded learning opportunities: Investment in both additional funds and infrastructure to support school districts in this work. This includes after school and summer school programs for the goal to have children in school up to 9 hours a day.

Health and Safety: Funding to fight the COVID-19 pandemic $2.7 billion COVID-19 relief package to bolster testing, accelerate vaccination and booster efforts, support frontline workers and the health care system and battle misinformation. The funding includes the distribution of tests to schools and county offices of education already underway, as well as ongoing testing site enhancement and availability for the general public.

CAPTA POSITION: While this proposed budget significantly increases investments in California education, it does not address the inadequate base funding of our schools. The LCFF base funding is based on 2007-08 funding levels that are not adequate for the students of 2022. While acknowledging a modest investment, we would also like to see an increased investment and focus on special education funding and policies.

Amazon Smile is a program through Amazon where they donate 0.5% of the purchase price of all items to the charity of your choice: Tulita Elementary PTA. 

To shop, go to https://smile.amazon.com/ch/23-7063162 and select Tulita Elementary PTA as your chosen charity. After that, remember to visit smile.amazon.com to shop instead of amazon.com

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