Photo by Catherine Stachowiak
Tuesday, August 13 was the first Kernville Union School District board of trustees meeting for the school year, with a balloon festooned Back to School Night held at Wallace Elementary during the same evening. This was following the lead of the back to school night Kernville Elementary held just before.
During school site council reports at the meeting, assistant superintendent Marie Sampson told the board of trustees, “There has been an excitement and, I dare say, joy of our staff coming back to school this year that I haven’t seen to this level in quite some time.”
Sampson said staff members attended summer trainings, and the district had a great turnaround for new teachers with teachers comfortable coming in this fall semester having learned classroom management, teaching strategies for alt learners, and lesson planning.
Melissa Vittoria gave a report on the Family Resource Center, which received a very generous disaster relief donation from Jim Burke Ford. Vittoria said some students were able to access items because of the donation, after the students were displaced. And they received blankets, sheets, and hygiene items. Burke went shopping and dropped donation items off up at the FRC.
Superintendent Dr. Steve Martinez said that the prior week the district opened the school year with a few days for teacher training about school procedures and routines. The previous Friday the district had an all staff day with speakers, including a motivational speaker on personal health fitness, which would be a theme, this school year according to Martinez. “We’re looking forward to the school year. We’re excited,” Martinez said.
