WawonaNews.com - April 2018
Hooting Owl Cancelled Today
Hi Wawonans,
Unfortunately, we have to cancel the Hooting Owl lecture tonight. Our speaker is unable to get here because of road closures and the storm of the century!
We are thankful for the rain though, so snuggle in and enjoy it. We'll let you know when it is rescheduled.
The Hooting Owl Committee
Copyright © 2018 Wawona Community Events, All rights reserved.
Our mailing address is:
PO Box 2164, Wawona CA 95389
Unfortunately, we have to cancel the Hooting Owl lecture tonight. Our speaker is unable to get here because of road closures and the storm of the century!
We are thankful for the rain though, so snuggle in and enjoy it. We'll let you know when it is rescheduled.
The Hooting Owl Committee
Copyright © 2018 Wawona Community Events, All rights reserved.
Our mailing address is:
PO Box 2164, Wawona CA 95389
Your Assistance is Needed!
The Board of Directors and staff of the Yosemite Wawona Elementary Charter is in the process of updating its Local Control Accountability Plan (LCAP). We are also in the process of submitting a petition to the Bass Lake Elementary District in order to reauthorize the Charter for the next 5 years. In order to complete these requirements - and continue the good work being done at the Charter – we need your help. Please plan on attending a community meeting on Saturday, March 24 at the Wawona School from 9:00 AM until noon.
Specifically, we will be asking you to give input on the following questions:
The Charter has established a Mission and Vision statements that will be used to guide our discussions and the creation of these plans.
YWECS Mission Statement
To produce self-motivated, competent, life-long learners in a local community school who have a sound academic foundation, create quality work, are group workers and problem solvers, show respect and consideration for others and choose the academic path to an enjoyable career as an adult.
YWECs Vision
To provide a local school within Yosemite National Park that ensures the health, safety and welfare of our children. To offer a unique education that utilizes the incredible natural and human resources within the Park in order to foster a deep sense of environmental stewardship. To offer an educational experience in the setting that will emphasize reading, writing, mathematics, science and the social sciences, communications skills, and a broad-based exposure to other academic disciplines through projects, hands-on activities and real world experiences whenever possible. This learning will be achieved in a respectful and supportive environment that enhances integrity, respect, responsibility and compassion for others.
Our first petition, submitted 5 years ago, outlined the aims of the Charter. They are listed below. These aims should also help us to frame our discussions.
Over-Riding Aims of YWECS
The Yosemite Wawona Elementary Charter School seeks to help students grow and develop in the following ways:
YWECS Board of Directors
The Board of Directors and staff of the Yosemite Wawona Elementary Charter is in the process of updating its Local Control Accountability Plan (LCAP). We are also in the process of submitting a petition to the Bass Lake Elementary District in order to reauthorize the Charter for the next 5 years. In order to complete these requirements - and continue the good work being done at the Charter – we need your help. Please plan on attending a community meeting on Saturday, March 24 at the Wawona School from 9:00 AM until noon.
Specifically, we will be asking you to give input on the following questions:
- What do we stand for – what is our focus?
- What actions and activities summarize the Charter?
- What will our students realistically be expected to accomplish while they are enrolled here?
- What will our reauthorization petition have to say about the focus of the Charter?
- What should the Charter look like in 5 years?
The Charter has established a Mission and Vision statements that will be used to guide our discussions and the creation of these plans.
YWECS Mission Statement
To produce self-motivated, competent, life-long learners in a local community school who have a sound academic foundation, create quality work, are group workers and problem solvers, show respect and consideration for others and choose the academic path to an enjoyable career as an adult.
YWECs Vision
To provide a local school within Yosemite National Park that ensures the health, safety and welfare of our children. To offer a unique education that utilizes the incredible natural and human resources within the Park in order to foster a deep sense of environmental stewardship. To offer an educational experience in the setting that will emphasize reading, writing, mathematics, science and the social sciences, communications skills, and a broad-based exposure to other academic disciplines through projects, hands-on activities and real world experiences whenever possible. This learning will be achieved in a respectful and supportive environment that enhances integrity, respect, responsibility and compassion for others.
Our first petition, submitted 5 years ago, outlined the aims of the Charter. They are listed below. These aims should also help us to frame our discussions.
Over-Riding Aims of YWECS
The Yosemite Wawona Elementary Charter School seeks to help students grow and develop in the following ways:
- Enable students to become self-motivated, competent and life-long learners.
- Respect the different learning styles/multiple intelligences and teach accordingly.
- Help students to realize that learning is a life-long process that not only comes from school, but the community and constantly changing world around us.
- Help students to develop the necessary skills and academic paths so that they can choose fulfilling and enjoyable professions.
- Realizing that problems are a part of life, teach students healthy and constructive ways to develop problem-solving skills, and help them realize that mistakes are wonderful opportunities to learn.
- Provide a warm, supportive, safe, and loving atmosphere for students.
- Encourage respect by modeling respect, and teach that all ethnic groups are important.
- Provide students with diverse experiences outside of our rural, homogeneous community through field trips.
- Teach thinking skills and the "how-to" in all instructional areas, including:
- How to get information and use resources to find their own answers
- How to socialize and get along with others
- How to deal with conflict
- How to gain independence
- Help each student to develop an accurate and challenging Individual Learning Plan to be carried out in a non-competitive, non-judgmental environment.
- Adequately provide for the children who have special needs.
- Provide opportunities throughout the day to teach the children to work cooperatively in whole class, small, and multi-age groups that develop leadership capabilities.
- Provide an enriched learning experience for all children, emphasizing "real life" challenges whenever possible.
- Provide a well-rounded education in the arts for every child.
- Maximize each child's academic abilities by creating a greater awareness of personal strengths and limitations so that each child can reach his or her potential.
- Teach self-discipline and responsibility; students are responsible for their own actions and a large part of their own education.
- Continuously facilitate the development of a healthy self-concept in each child.
- View the teacher as a facilitator, counselor and team player - not as an information giver or dictator.
- Provide opportunities for the staff members to improve their professional skills.
- Continuously evaluate the programs at the Y-WECS and make necessary changes.
- Strengthen students' skills in self-assessment.
- Align the majority of our curriculum and teaching methods with the most current state and/or national curriculum standards.
YWECS Board of Directors
YOSEMITE-WAWONA ELEMENTARY CHARTER SCHOOL
Board of Directors Meeting
Wawona Elementary School
Wednesday, March 14, 2018, 5:30 PM
7925 Chilnualna Falls Road
Wawona, California
AGENDA
- CALL TO ORDER
- ROLL CALL
- CONSENT AGENDA
- Approval of minutes of the regular meeting, February 14 and February 24, 2018
- Financial reports
- Monthly approval of warrants (Action needed)
- Financial Report
- Payroll Report
- HEARING OF PERSONS WISHING TO ADDRESS THE BOARD
ACTION ITEMS
- Discuss and approve 2nd Interim Budget Report
- LCAP Progress report
- Discuss and approve where to spend the Impact Aid monies
- Discuss and approve a bus stop policy
- Student/parent/staff/community survey report
- Discuss and approve spending freeze for any items not previously-approved for the 2017-2018 budget in order for budget committee to more accurately assess current financial situation
- Discuss fundraising procedures, use of bus and establish a committee chaired by a board member
- Discuss and possibly amend volunteer policy and procedures
- Discuss and approve ways to improve communications
- Discuss and approve need for two additional computers for teachers and additional visual presenters for classroom
- Discuss and approve disposing and removing from the school inventory, unused items
- Discuss last Board workshop, Board commitment and next workshop on March 24.
- BOARD MEMBER COMMENTS
- STAFF REPORTS
- L CAP Update
- NEXT MEETING DATE
- CLOSED SESSION Personnel/Negotiations/Litigation
- Employee Negotiations (Gov. Code 54957.6)
- Personnel (Gov. Code 54957)
- RECOVENE IN OPEN SESSION: ANNOUNCE CLOSED SESSION ACTIONS
- ADJOURNMENT
