Author: Guillermo

“It’s not happy people who are thankful; it’s thankful people who are happy.” --Unknown-- / Approved by: Rosario Galvan, Principal November 30, 2015

Approved by: Rosario Galvan September 21, 2015

Leadership Team Meeting: 12/2
Schoolwide Accreditation Meetings: 12/9
Winter Break: 12/21/15—1/11/16
WASC Visit: April 18-20, 2016

PRINCIPAL’S
CORNER
Rosario Galvan
The week before Thanksgiving break was so eventful with so many activities taking place. First, I want to thank all students, teachers and staff, for making our food drive so successful. I am sure that the families who received our donations were extremely grateful. Student Council members from our sites did a great job!
Our Community Advisory meeting was a total success as well. It was attended by a number of key community partners who graciously donate time and resources to our school. We rely greatly on their support year, after year. Many thanks to the administrators, and staff who assisted with the planning and to those who attended the meeting.
The “Coffee with the Principal” at Rinaldi Campus was also very exciting. There were some great questions and I received important input from our students. North Hollywood event will take place on Tuesday.
Reading Classes were visited by our Central Office instructional leaders. I will be meeting with all reading teachers to review results of the visit. This week begins with a meeting at Mission College. President, Dr. Perez, will be sharing possible outreach strategies for our High School Graduates.
Many other activities will be taking place in the remaining days before winter break. Please be on the lookout for deadlines, meeting notices and of course, WASC information that may be requested for our Self-Study book.

ACCREDITATION
Mr. Galvan met with our WASC accreditation visiting team chair, Teresa Johnson. She is looking forward to the visiting our school with the rest of her team and seeing our programs.
We will have a Leadership Team Meeting to work on formulating our Action Plan Items.
Leadership Team Meeting
Wed., Dec. 2
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
NVOC—Room 102
We will have an all school Focus Group meeting at Rinaldi on December 9 to review and give feedback on the Action Plan Items developed by the Leadership Team.

CASAS/EL CIVICS
ESL: CASAS second post test will take place the first and second week of December immediately after the Thanksgiving holiday. All teachers should have their testing packets. Only students who have not earned two payment points will have to be tested. Update forms (green) will have to be completed for each student with 12 + hours of attendance whether or not they are currently enrolled.
II Labs: CASAS post testing will take place the second week of December. Only students who have not earned two payment points will have to be tested. Update forms (green) will have to be completed for each student with 12 + hours of attendance whether or not they are currently enrolled.
CASAS Supplemental materials can be found at http://bitly.com/wiaresources.
Please direct your concerns and questions to the WIOA/CASAS team.
NVOC Room 104
818-365-9645 Extension 381
Sean Abajian- Sean.coppedge@lausd.net
Gustavo Cubias- gac84281@lausd.net
Janis Chow- jcc39701@lausd.net (Evening at NVOC)

East Valley Student
Council Meetings
December Student Council meetings will be held at the EVSC campus on 12/1/15 at 10:00 a.m. in room 218 and 12/2/15 at 7:30 p.m. in room 206. Student Council will be planning their spring 2016 term calendar of events.
Coffee with the Principal will also be held at EVSC on 12/7/15 at 9:45 a.m. in room 127 and at 7:15 p.m. in room 115. Due to limited space and time constraints, this first coffee with the principal event will be for the EVSC Student Council representatives only. Please encourage your class Student Council representatives to come prepared with their questions for Mr. Galvan so the experience can be meaningful and productive for them.

NEW FEE STRUCTURE FOR
CTE CLASSES
CTE instructors please remind your students that starting next semester students will have to pay for every course individually. If the students are enrolled in a forum class and do not complete the course competencies within a term, the students will have to re-enroll for the next term and pay again as well. It is important that you start taking to your students about this change so that they can plan their finances accordingly for next semester.

MEND TOY AND GIFT DRIVE
Please help MEND extend the holiday cheer to their needy families by donating new, unwrapped toys at your campus. For many children this will be the only toy/gift they receive. Especially needed are gifts for infants and 11-14 year old.
MEND FOOD DRIVE
Thanks to everyone who donated to help those less fortunate during the holidays. Your generous spirit and desire to help others is very much appreciated by all who benefit from your kindness. The food drive was a big success!

Mission Statement
North Valley Service Area offers educational and training opportunities that provide a diverse population of
students with skills to participate more effectively in the family, at work and in the community.