It is the start of the 2024-25 school year.
Teachers and students will once again meet in classrooms to learn and study.
Schools will be filled with the sound of students passing through the halls.
Friends will meet and greet each other while they share summer stories.
It is a new beginning in the next stage of the educational journey.
It is the start of the 2024-25 school year.
Manuel R. CortezRodas - Educator
Copyright 2024. MRCR Educational Consulting Firm. All Rights Reserved.
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It is that time again.
Backpacks and Tablets,
Notebooks and Pencils,
Crayons and Markers,
Chargers and Headphones,
It's Time To Go Back To School!!!
To Our Schools, To Our Classrooms,
To Our Teachers and Classmates,
Our Educational Journey for '23-'24.
Manuel R. CortezRodas - Educator
Copyright 2023. MRCR Educational Consulting Firm. All Rights Reserved.
Welcome Back To School!!!
School Is Now Open,
The Educational Journey Continues.
Take A Deep Breath,
A Sigh Of Relief.
Take On The Challenges Ahead.
Manuel R. CortezRodas - Educator.
Copyright 2022. MRCR Educational Consulting Firm. All Rights Reserved.
As August comes to a close let us reflect on the events that took place.
Beginning with the end of Summer School and Summer educational activities, through the lesson planning for the new school year, new beginnings as staff transitions into other phases and new educators begin in new sites, preparing to welcome students as they come Back To School, and learning of new and updated guidelines with regards to COVID and various interactions.
Educators get ready to start the new school year and students come back, keep in mind that education is still adapting to new norms while addressing damages done to learning over the last two years.
As August comes to a close we look forward to a new school year full of possibilities, growth, and hope.
Manuel R. CortezRodas - Educator
Copyright 2022. MRCR Educational Consulting Firm. All Rights Reserved.
June concludes our journey through this school year.
Students came back. Classrooms were filled. Schools remained open. It was good to be back where we belong.
There was joy and excitement with caution and safety. A "Welcome Back to School" unlike any other. Now wishing the best to the Class of 2022.
Education resumed full time and continued throughout the school year.
Students and staff were tested consistently, enduring new challenges.
They passed through weekends and holidays successfully, and knew what to do in case of a positive result.
They received the expected results of learning loss through CAASPP. Yet, students and staff met the challenges and passed the tests.
It is now a time for all to rest and recreate for the summer.
To be ready to return for next school year with cheer. To learn and study on our own, at our own pace, with the subjects we like. To be one with ourselves, and be amongst other.
It is now time to take a break and enjoy the summer.
Manuel R. CortezRodas - Educator
Copyright 2022. MRCR Educational Consulting Firm. All Rights Reserved.
School is Back!!!
Welcome Back to School.
Schools are now open and ready to kick-off the 2021-22 school year.
After being shut-down for almost a year and a half, schools are ready to welcome back students into their classrooms. It has been a long time since students have sat next to their classmates, had lunch at the cafeteria, played a pick-up game on the court, or just sat down on the field to talk and hang out.
The dark clouds of smoke that COVID brought in 2020 are beginning to clear up with the help of facemasks, vaccines, and regular testing. However hot-spots remain, ignited by new variants. It is our responsibility to remain vigilant of our symptoms and be aware of those around us.
While the possibility of another statewide school shut-down is minimal, it could be possible that at the district and school level it could happen based on exposure. It is imperative that there be an alternative plan in place for schools and classrooms to execute should the need arise. It will also be needed for students and staff who test positive and have to quarantine as guided by health and medical recommendations.
Another challenge that education will face is the ever increasing achievement gap expanded by COVID into what may be an abyss of struggling and underperforming students. Schools will have to make accommodations to address this by implementing various innovating programs that are accessible to students and their families while at the same time ensuring success through accountability.
It will be a long year ahead with challenges along the way that must be identified and solved one step at a time. But the first step, returning to school, has already been taken. Just have to keep going.
Welcome Back To School Students. You were missed.
Manuel R. CortezRodas - Educator
Copyright 2021. MRCR Educational Consulting Firm. All Rights Reserved.
Another reminder that remains in place is the danger of the various strands of COVID and the effect they will have as schools reopen to welcome back students.
The heat is on education to make a recovery after a near 2-year shutdown that forced it to be placed at a distance.
Educators must do their best to keep cool as students return to familiar surroundings with adequate safety implementations in place.
Have a nice 2021-22 School Year!
Manuel R. CortezRodas - Educator
Copyright 2021. MRCR Educational Consulting Firm. All Rights Reserved.
2020 has forever changed the way society goes about their daily lives including how to administer education to students who are unable to attend school due to COVID-19. In the Spring of 2020, as Business Shutdowns and Stay-at-Home orders were being implemented, teachers began to face the new reality of Distance Learning, and how to redesign those amazing lesson plans that were meant to be completed in class, as a group, under the supervision and guidance of the teacher.
As the school year came to a close, there was a sense of hope that things could get better over the Summer, and school would start as it normally would, but that hope began to fade and the realization eventually came that schools would not be able to begin the new school year with the rush of students sharing summer stories, figuring out schedules, and meeting new and old friends in familiar surroundings. 2020 has forced all educators to reassess and reevaluate how instruction can be delivered to all students while maintaining a safe distance and meeting academic standards.
As the new school year began to approach, students, parents, teachers, administrators, and all support staff and personnel waited in uncertainty as the State, Counties, Health Departments, and School Districts debated if schools were to be fully reopened, gradually or partially opened to some students at a time, or to implement complete distance learning. Each school began to make preparations for all the possible scenarios that they could face to start the school year, and the staff began to make preparations accordingly.
Now that the school year has begun there will no doubt be new challenges that will have to be addressed as they arise in this education reset of 2020. Issues like: access to technology, cyber-bulling, managing a classroom through a computer screen, privacy in the form of remote video recording and capturing screenshots, live parent involvement during instruction. and many more that have yet to manifest themselves.
This will be one of the most challenging years in education but there is no doubt that if we rely on our dedication to education and our passion of advocating for students and their learning as a strength, while relying on each other for moral and emotional support, we will succeed.
Manuel R. CortezRodas - Educator
Copyright 2020. MRCR Educational Consulting Firm. All Rights Reserved.
The decline in student performance can range from at-risk, to minimum, to non-existent, depending on how steep the decline is. Summer Slide can make it very difficult and/or challenging, to make a successful transition from Summer break to back to school.
This results in students under-performing to start the school year and puts them at risk of remaining behind academically while their classmates grow and advance.
To minimize, or prevent, negative effects from Summer Slide students should remain engaged in summer activities such as: Summer school, Ed-camps, Reading clubs, and Recreational programs. It is necessary that students remain academically active through the Summer break as they prepare to commence the next school year.
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| The 2016-17 School Year.Welcome Back!!! |
Soon. The class of 2016 will complete its educational journey, and become prepared to be promoted towards a higher level of achieveable education.
