Hello Knox Families!

We are off to a great start this school year. This month our ASB student leaders attended the CADA conference in Del Mar with our ASB friends from Millennial Tech Middle. We also launched our new Positive School Culture and Climate brag tag program. All Knox students have a Knox Middle lanyard. Students can earn brag tags for academic accomplishments as well as for exhibiting the Bulldog Way. This month we celebrated our students for Respect. Our October theme is: Integrity.

Knox is the proud recipient of a QSIEN (Quality School In Every Neighborhood) award for our collaboration with parents. Each month we host a parent circle as well as a parent workshop. Our Knox families had their first circle this month, as well as the opportunity to attend a Middle School Matters workshop with our Gear Up partners at CEP.

Thank you to everyone that also came out for our Computers 2 Kids event last week, as well as Back to School Night.

We are very excited for the many new partnerships we have established for this school year. In order to support our students as leaders as well as to support social-emotional learning at school, our partners will be working with our students during the week on campus.

For this school year, we have established partnerships with:

FANCY-Tuesday

Boys to Men-Wednesday

Mending Matters-Monday

Paving Great Futures-Lunch

Star Pal-After School

US Navy-Lunch

Movement Be-Monday

You can learn more about these partnerships in the links below.

We have also begun our school-wide Advisory reading program Achieve 3000, in order to promote our school-wide literacy focus. We are excited for our students to begin to monitor their own reading growth on a daily basis. Please ask your student about this program and their current Lexile level.

We encourage all students to read for 20 minutes a night independently. Students will be checking out independent reading books during library visits with their English class.

All Knox students will have nightly math homework. Homework is assigned from a math packet that is given to the students at the start of each chapter.

Thank you for your partnership!

Sincerely,

Principal Potter

GO BULLDOGS!!

Meet our Science team!

Ms. Peretto-Science 6/Science7
Mr. Rubira-Science 6/Science 8
Ms. White-Science 7
Ms. Barr-Science 8

During the month of October, our students will engage with grade-level text as they dive into their first novel of the year.

Our Knox focus for the year will continue to be engaging all of our students as readers and writers in all classes.

Current Units (October):

6th Grade Unit 1-The Lightning Thief

7th Grade Unit 1-A Long Walk to Water

8th Grade Unit 1- Inside Out and Back Again

Knox ELA teachers implement the Engage NY Common Core Curriculum in their classes. Please click the links above to learn more about what your student is learning in class.

Students may log into Achieve 3000 articles at home as part of their nightly homework or may read an independent reading book from the Knox library.

On time daily attendance is an extremely important factor in promoting student success. School starts at 8:15 every morning. We highly encourage all students to make up missed days (for any reason) on a Saturday. When students are absent, they miss 6 different class lessons. Saturday School can help provide students the time to make up missing assignments. Please ensure if your child misses a day of school, you call the main office. We will be partnering with Mending Matters to support students with excessive absences or tardies. Mending Matters group sessions will be held on Mondays for 3 hours on campus called STAY.

The STAY curriculum focuses on truancy and attendance. The school-based instruction explores factors which contribute to truancy, and the resulting consequences of missing school. Topics range from goal-setting, coping skills, support system, self-evaluation, and both personal and environmental factors that contribute to truancy.

We will continue to provide incentives to students that clear all of their missed days, showing responsible attendance!

Saturday School has started!

We are open this month on:

10/5

10/12

10/19

10/20

10/26

Each session will clear 1 full day absence and 3 tardies.

10/1, 10/8, 10/15, 10/22, 10/29-After school tutoring, late bus (every Tuesday)

10/3-Minimum day

10/4-Vision screenings

10/11-P1 grading period ends

10/17-Report cards mailed home- LOP list p1 published

10/18-Great Shake Out

10/22- Chargers Outdoor Fitness Center Grand Opening-invitation only

10/24-TKF Assemblies

10/25-Pep Rally

10/28-Red Ribbon Week

Principal-Heather Potter- hpotter@sandi.net

Vice Principal- Angelica Hueso-Garcia- ahueso@sandi.net

Head Counselor-M-Z- Lori Watkins- lcruz@sandi.net

Counselor- A-L- Sherri Penaloza- sbaildon@sandi.net

Restorative Practices Coordinator-Jeff Ponsford- jponsford@sandi.net

Registration/Attendance-Leticia Alva Sanchez- lalvasanchez@sandi.net

Site Tech- Power School Parent Portal- Kristen Ojetti- kojetti@sandi.net

Admin Assist-Linda Dozier- ldozier@sandi.net

Parent Liason- Marthita Huezo- mhuezo@sandi.net