Windsor Unified School District

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You're invited! The first DELAC (District English Learner Advisory Committee) Meeting of the 2019-20 school year is planned for Oct. 2nd, 6-7pm, at the Windsor High School Library!

How fortunate are we to have a community that supports our students & staff? Sweet T's Restaurant & Bar has generously donated 4 fantastic gift cards to our dedicated MWE and BES teachers that are competing to provide the most engagement strategies in their classroom- THANK YOU!

A message from WHS Athletics: The Season Passes have arrived! Available for 2 weeks! due to the value of having a pass goes down. Purchase at the online webstore link : https://whs-store.myschoolcentral.com VOLLEYBALL and FOOTBALL season passes...get them while they last! Also see the two opportunities for donations to Athletics: 1. On our webstore under player donations click the link and it goes right into our sport accounts to pay for officials and transportation fees etc. 2. Project H.E.R.O. THROUGH THE WE FOUNDATION....GO TO: https://windsorwe.org/project-hero/windsor-high-school/

WUSD School Board Congratulates our newest Permanent Teachers at the September 10, 2019 Board Meeting. Pictured from left to Right: Jillann Humphrey, Amanda Horsburgh, Emily Gholson, Kimberle Hoff, Heather Kristensen, Catherine Miroballi, Shanae munro and Sherri Rodriguez. Unable to attend: Karen Brown, Ryan Cameron Hole, Henry Hasegawa and Kenzie Holcomb.

Each WUSD school site has helpful hints and tips for school attendance that can be provided in both English and Spanish, let your site attendance clerk or bilingual liaison know if you have questions!

Thanks Team WHS for hosting the amazing Sonoma County College and Career Fair! Special thanks to our awesome counseling team and to Jennifer Taddei our College and Career Coordinator.

Parents and Guests are enjoying the new Brooks Library! Great energy! A good kick-off to Back to School Night!

Employment Opportunities

September is Attendance Awareness Month! We hope everyone had a great Labor Day weekend and is ready to start Sept. off right!

Free Immigration Workshop

September is Attendance Awareness Month! WUSD is celebrating the campaign with a renewed push to get all kids to school, on time, every day. Let’s work together as a community – school and business leaders, parents, students, teachers, friends– to get all kids to school!

It's not to late to support WE Foundation and our Schools! Swing Into Vegas takes place this Friday, August 30th, at the Windsor Golf Course and Charlie's. Golf is at 3pm. Dinner is at 6pm. Tickets can be purchased for either golf, dinner, or both and are available online at https://windsorwe.org/events/swing-into-vegas/

Sonoma County College & Career-Ready Fair September 4, 2019 6:30 - 8:30 PM Windsor High School large & small gyms Over 70 educational and vocational institutions will be attending. For more information contact Jennifer Taddei, jtaddei@wusd.org

First Windsor High School Home Game & Festivities September 6, 2019 Windsor High School is inviting all Alumni Cheerleaders and Football Players to join us for the first home game of the year! All cheerleaders and football alumni are invited to walk across the field before the game starts to kick off the season. It would be great to have a crowd for this inaugural walk and first home game at our new stadium. Please spread the word, and come join us!

Please Join Us for the WHS Stadium Grand Opening WHS Leadership Class is inviting all WHS students, staff and community-at-large to join them on Saturday, September 27th between 5:00 & 6:30 for the Stadium Grand Opening. Donations are welcome to benefit WHS Activities and Athletics! This will be followed by the Lady Jag Bowl, we hope you can come and support our Lady Jags!

New Administrators were introduced to the Board at the August 20th meeting. From left to right, Erica Meagan’s, Director of Transportation, Anne Marie Norris, Food Services Director, [Superintendent, Dr. Brandon Krueger], Annette Zucconi, Principal at Brooks, Carol Ballard, Asst. Principal at Windsor Middle School, and Dr. Lamar Collins, Principal at Windsor High School.

Windsor Education (WE) Foundation invites you to Vegas Night! WEF’s Grants to Educators Program’s biggest fundraiser is on August 30 at Charlie’s Grill at the golf course. This event will help fund grants in the 2019-2020 school year. Tickets are $100 General Admission $75 for educators. For information, tickets and to help sell tickets, please contact Karen Alves at 328-9719, or go to www.windsorwe.org Parents and business owners are encouraged to support WE by being a sponsor of the event and/or donating auction items. In the last two years WE granted over $80,000 to WUSD classrooms for STEM, the arts in all forms, culinary programs, PE equipment, and more. Without the support of this event, many programs WE has funded in the past will not be funded.

The Board and Superintendent invite to join in a Tour of our New Facilities & Facility Improvements. The tour will begin on Tuesday, August 20th at 4:15 pm at Brooks in the new Library; from there we will caravan in our own cars to WMS to see the Culinary Classroom, and on to Cali to see the new playground, ending the tour at WHS to see the new stadium with it's turf, bleachers and bathrooms. After the tour, we will recess to Closed Session in Bldg 500 and then Open Session in Bldg 400.

WUSD Board Approves Appointment of New Assistant Principal at Windsor Middle School During a Meeting of the Windsor Unified School District on Tuesday, August 6th, the School Board approved the appointment of Carolina (Carol) Castro Ballard as our new Assistant Principal of Windsor Middle School. Ballard will be stepping into the role served by Erin Elliot who has returned to her former District as a high school AP. Ballard has served for the past seven years, as an Elementary Principal in the Bellevue Union District. She wants to return to her secondary roots and was excited to see the opening at WMS with all of its innovative programs. Ballard has described herself as a transformative leader and has many proud accomplishments including: improved learning and test scores through rigorous instruction, raising almost a half million dollars to provide for arts and technology integration; and starting a dual immersion program, which included collaborative work with the Sonoma State University dual immersion teacher preparation program. Ballard is bilingual and bicultural and brings that strength to our leadership team. She has worked diligently in her career to construct pathways for her Spanish speaking parents and community, bringing in more Hispanic parent leaders and improving diversity recognition across special events and visual representation within the school. She also has extensive experience with Multi-tiered Systems of Support (MTSS), Positive Behavior Intervention Systems (PBIS) and technology intervention. Ballard brings over 25 years of experience in education, holding a Master’s Degree in Special Education, and credentials/certification in Administrative Services, RSP, Education Specialist, Single Subject, and CLAD. Prior to going into administration, she was a Resource Specialist teacher for 15 years working in both public and non-public schools. Please join WUSD in welcoming Carol Ballard to her new role for the 2019-20 school year.