April 25 Rep Council Meeting Minutes – FINAL

This year’s theme is based on CTA’s Advocacy Agenda. As educators, teachers are deeply committed to the success of every student. Students are the center of everything they do, which is why they advocate for the opportunities and resources students need to succeed.

In addition, a teacher’s role in school improvement is changing. Educator-driven school improvement works because what teachers do is an art as much as it is a science, and it is a lot more than a test score. The best teachers understand their students’ strengths and weaknesses, and adapt their practices to both.

Real education improvement capitalizes on the fantastic pool of talent California has in classrooms today, and the diverse approaches we offer our students. That’s one reason why this year’s theme is “California Teachers: Advocates for the Public Education ALL Students Deserve.”

California’s Day of the Teacher has its roots in the community and is patterned after the celebration of the traditional “El Dia del Maestro,” which is observed in Mexico and Latin America countries. Our California’s Day of the Teacher arose out of legislation co-sponsored by CTA and the Association of Mexican American Educators in 1982. Since then, this event honors the instructional excellences in our public schools, community colleges and universities.

California communities share our goals for quality public schools and recognize public education is the cornerstone for strong communities. Students are at the center of everything we do and as committed, caring education professionals, we look forward to building relationships with parents, community organizations, local businesses, other unions, the faith community and senior citizens. We are all part of a community and we will best succeed when we work together.

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May 7^th River Cats vs. Reno Aces

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Exec Board Agenda May 9

Congratulations to several world language students from Buckingham Charter Magnet High School in Vacaville who attained national recognition for excellent performance on the 2017 National Spanish Examinations, a standardized assessment and motivational contest sponsored by the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese.

Forty-one BCMHS students from every level of Spanish offered earned national awards making their teachers, Anjee Deards and Jouli Jara, incredibly proud!  Seven students received a gold medal (top 95% in the nation), fourteen received silver medals (85%-94% in the nation), and twenty received bronze medals (75%-84% in the nation).  In addition, fifty-two students received honorable mention certificates (50%-74% in the nation). “Attaining a medal or honorable mention for any student on the National Spanish Examination is very prestigious,” said Kevin Cessna-Buscemi, National Director of the Exams, “because the exams are the largest of their kind in the United States with over 157,000 students nationwide participating in 2017.”

BCMHS has a long history of high student achievement on the NSE and is the only high school in the area that offers it to students.

Way to go, Knights!

Congratulations to Isaac Flower, Trinity Garrido, Brooke Parker, and Savannah Wylie for their “Power of One” video from Mrs. Ireland’s 2^nd Period IDM class.  The team won the grand prize last night for the Solano County Kindness Campaign Video Contest and walked the red carpet at Brenden Theatre!  They and their teacher were awarded a night tour at Alcatraz Island and a GoPro for the classroom.  Our Knights never cease to amaze us!  Click Here to watch the award winning video.

The following students were also finalists at the event, Congratulations and thank you all for representing Buckingham (BCMHS had six of the 10 finalist videos)!

Christopher Cameron, Melanie Fletcher, Jacob Boesel , CJ Klingman, and Thiago Morales, Tricia Ackerman, Lena Brumfield, and Maria Cervantes Mejia and Nicole Paulson , Adriana Ticer, and Miriah Camacho.