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SANGER HERALD 6A THURSDAY, AUGUST 23, 2018 New jobs
Apaches in Hanford
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Last week Kosi Agina racked up three TDs against Reedley. He'll be carrying the ball against the Bullpups in Hanford on Friday.
Sanger Unified School District
2018 Back to School Nights
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Albert Gallardo, at the podium, will be the new vice principal at Washington Academic Middle School. He was introduced to the school board at its Aug. 14 meeting by principal Leo Castillo, who quickly stepped aside and obviously enjoyed Gallardo's comments to the board. Gallardo will be the WAMS vice principal for science, electives and physical education.
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Hillary Cloud, who has been the district's STEM specialist, help- ing to grow SUSD's Science Technology Engineering and Math, including the high profile robotics programs, will be the new assistant director at Hallmark Charter School, replacing Kath- ryn Ortega-Jones who recently retired. Director Alfred Sanchez made the announcement at the Aug. 14 school board meet- ing.
DATE
SCHOOL
TIME
Aug. 23
WAMS
5 p.m.
Aug. 27
Sanger High School
6:15 p.m.
Aug. 30
Kings River/Taft
5:30 p.m.
Check with the school about any activity taking place prior to the classroom visit.
Sanger Unified School District has a change in its free meal policy
Sanger Unified School District has announced an amendment to its policy for serving meals to students under the National School Lunch/School Breakfast Programs for the 2018– 2019 school year. Sanger Unified School District will continue to implement the option available to schools partici- pating in the National School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs called Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) option for the 2018 – 2019 School Year.
What does this mean for children attending the school(s) identified below?
By Dick Sheppard
Sanger Herald
This is the second part of a conversation with Matt Navo about his favorite and least favorite moments as the former superintendent of schools.
Last week Matt said his least favorite moments were probably getting on stage for the general session to welcome district employees back to school each year and some of
his greatest memories were the defining moments when he began to feel confident he could do the job as superintendent and when he accepted the truth that doing the right thing might not always be the best thing to do politically.
This week he reminisces about the district's vision and what it helped accomplish:
Soon after I became superintendent I asked myself what is my vision for this district and the vision that appeared was, options and opportunities for kids.
Most districts will go through an extensive process to devel-
It's great news for Sanger Unified School District stu- dents!
All enrolled students of Del Rey Elementary, Jackson Elementary, Jefferson El- ementary, Lincoln Elemen- tary, Madison Elementary, Wilson Elementary, Kings River High, Community
Day, Washington Academic Middle School, Centerville Elementary and Sanger High School are eligible to receive a healthy breakfast and lunch at school at no charge each day of the 2018−2019 school year.
Children will be able to participate in these meal
programs without having to pay for the meals or submit an application.
If the students attend schools that are not partici- pating in CEP, the household may still need to fill out a confidential meal application or pay for meals.
Additionally, Sanger Uni- fied School District will con- tinue to offer free breakfast to students’ district wide in the 2018-2019 school year.
For additional informa- tion please contact: Jannette Garcia, Director of Child Nutrition, 1199 Commerce Way, Sanger, CA 93657, 559- 524-7620.
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Persons with disabilities who require alternative means of communication
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This is a Herald file photo of Navo. When we got together for breakfast, right after he got back from vacation, he was wearing an untucked shirt, walking shorts and san- dals and looking very, very relaxed.
Matt Navo reminisces - part 2
op a vision and I wrote that vision on a napkin at an airport. I wanted all students to have options and opportunities. That means if they fail we will reteach them and give them more opportunities to be successful by creating programs to give them different experiences so when they decide what they’re going to do they are fully prepared to do it.
I wrote that on a napkin and brought it back as the district vision, and today you can talk to any principal and I would say 90 percent of the teachers and they can tell you the vision of our district is to create options and opportunities.
That became the premise of every decision.
That’s how I came to accept that I might have a short ten- ure as long as I did the right thing. I wasn’t in the job to try to last until retirement, I wasn’t in the job for whatever prestige or financial freedom it gave me, I did the job because it gave me the opportunity to do the right thing for the kids – either get in the game or stand on the sidelines – and I wanted to
be in the game. I did it because I cared for the district but I wasn’t married to the district and I decided I would do the job as long as I thought I could do what is right.
They were all risks that were worth taking.
That made it easy for the team because the team coalesced around that vision and principals started to feel freedom to be innovative and I look at all the expensive STEM and robotics programs we created because the vision said that’s what we needed to do.
Why should other kids in other districts have options
that our kids don’t? Our kids deserve the opportunities, they deserve the option to be able to try! A parent told me that the elementary wrestling program was one ofthe best things the district had ever done.
If I had listened to the poli- tics of it, I probably wouldn’t have done it.
I’ll never forget, I had one principal who said, "I don’t like wrestling, it’s too violent." I watched her during the first match of our first tournament get sucked into it and by the third match I had to go over and tell her, “You cannot yell that loud. You cannot be yell- ing ‘pin him’ like that.”
I had a great team. I had Eduardo [Martinez] who was willing to support whatever
I wanted to do and Adela [Jones] and all the great prin- cipals who were willing to take the leap – to make sure our kids had options and opportu- nities - it made the job do-able.
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All those things I will re-
member. It's hard to pick any
one moment ... it allowed me
to set some things in motion that when you look back - I hope that when people look back a few years from now they'll say, that was something started in Navo’s time on the job.
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Matt retired at the end of the last school year and Adela Jones took over the helm in the school district and is now experiencing - and creating - her own extraordinary, defining moments.
Matt is now with WestEd Center for Prevention & Early Intervention.
WestEd is a nonprofit organization. Its mission statement says it's a research, development and services agency that works with education and other communities to promote excellence, achieve equity and improve learning for children, youth and adults.
The reporter can be contacted by email at sangerherald@ gmail.com.
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