Greeting families,

This week's newsletter is full of exciting information. After meeting with SBDM and PTO boards, we planned our campus tours and first PTO event.

I want to encourage you to become part of PTO to get involved with your children's school activities. The PTO fees will help the committee focus on its three pillars. The pillars are:

• Building a strong sense of community
• Supporting staff recognition and wellbeing
• Supporting student recognition and wellbeing

Our target is to have 100% membership.

Please read the PTO section for details about upcoming events and becoming school volunteers.

Also, I would like to announce our parent Facebook group. I encourage you to become part of this group to receive important updates from our parent organizations.

Next week, we will add a newsletter section highlighting our Biomedical/STEM curriculum and future projects.

As part of our UTSW partnership, the school will receive a visit from UTSW faculty in October. One of the visitors will be Dr. Michael Brown, who won a Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology. I will highlight them in the following weeks.

If you have questions or comments, please do not hesitate and ask.

Thanks for choosing us!

Kind Regards,

Roberto Gonzalez

#Sciencestartshere

We are excited to announce that our PTO is up and running.

If you are still interested in running for any of the board positions, this week is the last week to nominate someone or yourself. If I do not receive any more nominations, I will send a form for you to accept the current members. If we get more, we will meet for elections.

Follow the link to join:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/796795018251155/

We are excited to welcome you to tour our campus. We will offer tours for you to see our classrooms and building. We will add more dates for the following weeks.

Follow the link to schedule your tour:

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/30E0F4CAFAC22ABFC1-biomedical2

I have been working with the bond office and the general contractor to finalize this project. As per your feedback, I have requested the following:

• Work orders to correct the Safety inspection findings have been submitted.

Please, email me if you need more details or want to share other suggestions.

Thanks for your patience as I ensure the students can safely play outside.

We will take students to the back of the building during recess for nature walks and games as suggested by SBDM.

September is Attendance Awareness Month, a time for individuals and organizations to learn about attendance issues, absenteeism, and the effects attendance can have on academic performance and success.

School attendance is essential to academic success, but too often students, parents, and schools don’t realize how quickly absences, excused or unexcused, can add up to academic trouble. Chronic absence— missing just 18 days per school year— can lead to third graders being unable to master reading, sixth graders failing courses, and ninth-graders dropping out of high school.

Follow this link: https://bit.ly/Bioparentswebpage

Please follow this link to read the Texas Compulsory Attendance Law.

https://sites.google.com/dallasisd.org/biomedicalpreparatoryatutsw/attendance

Please, fill out the attached attendance agreement pledge by September 5th, 2022, and send it to biomedical@dallasisd.org or send it with your child to school.

For more information about attendance and attendance policies rationale, follow this link: https://www.dallasisd.org/Page/57331

We will continue with beginning of year assessments in all grade levels this week. This provides our teachers and staff an opportunity to understand your child's strengths and areas of growth better which will assist in differentiation of learning. The following assessments will be administered-

Pre-K- CIRCLE

Kindergarten- TX-KEA

1st Grade- MAP Growth and MAP Fluency

• Week of September 19- MAP Reading Fluency

We appreciate your assistance with making sure your child is well rested each day so they are prepared to do their best on their assessments. We will share how your child did when we receive results on order to work together to help your child grow. Please let us know if you have any questions.

Check it Out!

The below video explains more about the MAP Assessment that will be administered in 1st grade. The dates are not current on the video, but all the other information is helpful!

The Parent Portal account allows you to view student grades and attendance information. The below flyers provide the steps to set up your account. Please contact our CRC Ms. Hernandez if you have any questions about your child's ID number or on how to get connected.

Office hours of operations: Monday- Friday from 7:30 AM to 4:00 PM.

Monday, September 19th, 2022

• Arrival: 7:35 AM- 7:55 AM.
• Dismissal: 3:15 PM
• Pick up students by 3:30 PM unless they stay for Mad Science
• Grade level newsletters to parents
• Kids to the rescue meeting- UTSW medical students meet with Dr. Gonzalez to set up activity for children.
• MAP Fluency begins

Tuesday, September 20th, 2022

• Arrival: 7:35 AM- 7:55 AM.
• Dismissal: 3:15 PM
• Pick up students by 3:30 PM unless they stay for Mad Science
• MAP Fluency
  
• Campus tours- See the news you can use section

Wednesday, September 21th, 2022

• Arrival: 7:35 AM- 7:55 AM.
• Dismissal: 3:15 PM
• Pick up students by 3:30 PM unless they stay for Mad Science
• Attendance- Show Up! Dress Up! Represent Your Culture Show up dressed in clothing from your culture! We are proud to be one of the most diverse Dallas ISD schools and we want to brag about it.
• Leading and Learning- Principal's meeting from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM- Gonzalez. Please, contact Ms. Maffucci at gmaffucci@dallasisd.org if you need immediate assistance..
• Campus tours- See the news you can use section
• MAP Fluency

Thursday, September 22nd, 2022

• Arrival: 7:35 AM- 7:55 AM.
• Dismissal: 3:15 PM
• Pick up students by 3:30 PM unless they stay for Mad Science
• Campus tours- See the news you can use section
• MAP Fluency

Friday, September 23rd, 2022

• Arrival: 7:35 AM- 7:55 AM.
• Dismissal: 3:15 PM
• Pick up students by 3:30 PM unless they stay for Mad Science
• Bio College Day- Students may wear a college shirt.

September 1st-30th

• Healthy Eating Month

September 15th-October 15th

• Hispanic Heritage Month

October 7th, 2022

Elementary Fair Day- No school

October 14th, 2022

Secondary Fair Day. No school for students. Staff professional Development

October 24th, 2022.

Parent conferences

October 24-28th, 2022

Red Ribbon Week