Attendance Incentive, and Plan for Improving Attendance Next Year

Attendance is a primary concern at Sem Yeto satellite. In an effort to encourage students to attend on a more frequent basis; any student attaining over a 90% attendance rate for a quarter is rewarded with a quarterly award party.

For the 2016/2017 school year, we will endeavor to improve on our attendance rates at both campuses by allotting a portion of our beginning of the school year orientation to talking with parents and students about the importance of attending school.  Any student identified by our staff as having attendance issues from the prior year (whether a returning  or incoming student), will receive a letter in the mail about the importance of attendance. We are in the process of designing an orientation checklist that must be completely filled out in order for students to receive their schedules.

During our orientation, identified students will meet with our attendance liaison, counselor, college and career technician, and mental health clinician to develop a plan for attending school everyday and charting a course for success in school and in life before receiving their schedule.

Customer Service at Sem Yeto

During a staff meeting, Sem Yeto administration discussed the results/findings of our customer service survey given out to parents who came in to our campus offices.  Overall, we had an 85% positive rating on the surveys taken at both campuses.  After reviewing the information, the staff shared the fact that they do not always see or hear about the positives interactions taking place on our campuses with families. 

Below are some of the comments parents and visitors stated on their survey's:

"Everyone from staff to students were polite and friendly. I didn't know what to expect but I was delighted."

"The staff has made every attempt to get my student on track. You can't help someone who doesn't want it! Thank you for all your efforts."

"Yes I am so happy. They help my son it mean the world to me. Thank you to everyone."

"Always get the info I need from staff!"

"I really appreciate how friendly the staff was and happy to sit down with me right away to work with my son."

Technology Vision

At Sem Yeto, we are striving to provide a learning environment where all students have access to some of the latest technological tools and resources in all of their classes.

We recognize that technology is just a tool; therefore, we are continuing to explore professional development opportunities that will enable our teachers to be more effective in facilitating the use of this new technology in their classrooms( e.g. SAMR Model).

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Continuing to Foster Community Partnerships

At Sem Yeto, we are continually looking for ways to partner with our community to find ways to support our students in being successful in school and life. John Lamell a local business owner in our community visited with our administration to tour our newly opened College and Career Center at Sem Yeto Satellite. 

Mr. Lamell is excited for the opportunity to educate students on the possibility and benefits of attaining a barbers licence, and eventually owning their own business in the barbering career field.

T4S at Sem Yeto/Satellite

Completed sharing of Fall T4S data on February 2, 2016 at our monthly staff meeting

PBIS at Sem Yeto/Satellite

J.P. presented PBIS at Sem Yeto/Satellite staff meeting on January 5th.  At the department meetings, teachers collaborated and developed common classroom expectations and procedures for their classes. These expectations will be posted in classroom by February 5th.

Take away from meeting:
J.P. asked the staff to think about when a student miss behaves "is the action or behavior performance or skilled based?" He explained we assume that students chose to perform or act poorly when in fact often times they haven't acquired the necessary skills.

Update: On February 18th J.P. came and walked the Sem Yeto/Satellite campus and completed his SET walk through.  J.P. stated that he was impressed with the amount of progress made in the short amount of time with new members added to the team this school year.

Attendance at Sem Yeto/Satellite

At Sem Yeto/Satellite we have a quarterly pizza/ice cream party for students who have 90% and above attendance. This past quarter we had 89 students between the two sites qualify to participate in the attendance celebration.  Along with the celebration we post the names of the students for the entire quarter on the office windows.

Introducing Sherry McCormick

I am the Principal at Sem Yeto and Sem Yeto Satellite. I'm excited to share all of the great things happening at Sem Yeto and Sem Yeto Satellite.  Please follow us on twitter ,

Sherry McCormick
Principal Sem Yeto and Sem Yeto Satellite
Email: SherryM@fsusd.org
Phone: 707-438-3170

Hightower on Scene

Hello my fellow colleagues! My name is James Hightower and I am delighted to be participating in this collaborative effort with all of you.