Trona Joint Unified School District

Tonight's Board Meeting starts at 6:00 pm Here is the link for the live stream: https://youtu.be/nFD56p8POEs

This message is from Trona Unified School District. On December 22, Governor Gavin Newsom announced that the California Department of Public Health would be expanding COVID-19 test distribution efforts to all school districts. They will provide 1-2 rapid test kits per K-12 student. Trona Joint Unified School District received the test kits yesterday and will begin distributing them today, January 13, 2022. If parents or guardians would like to receive a test kit for their student, please go to the elementary or high school office. Test kits will only be distributed to parents or guardians of the student. Students will not be given the test kits without a parent or guardian present. The high school office will distribute kits for high school students, and the elementary school office will distribute test kits for elementary students. The District would like to remind students/parents to carefully read the safety precautions/directions. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact your site office. Elementary School 760-372-2868 High School 760-372-2824

A letter from Dr. Arellano to Parents and Guardians of TJUSD Students

The Trona Joint Unified School District Board of Trustees meeting, (scheduled for Thursday, January 13) will be held virtually. Due to the number of local COVID cases locally, we are taking every precaution to help prevent the spread of this outbreak. Although in-person attendance is not possible, we are making every attempt to ensure that those wishing to participate with public comments have the opportunity to do so. As always, our policy states "That Persons desiring to address the Board on any Agenda item may make a request to do so at this time. Three minutes will be allocated such person at the time he/she speaks. In order to comply with this policy, Public Comments may be emailed to pbenadom@tjusd.net or sent (or delivered) to the District, High School, or Elementary School office(s) by 2:00 pm on Thursday, January 13, 2022. All public comments that are received will be read during the meeting by the board president. (For your information, board members generally do not comment on items addressed during public comment but issues raised are typically addressed with administrators to ensure that issues are addressed and /or resolved). Over the past few months, we have been working on ways to get parents and students more involved at the board meetings and we regret that we cannot have the public in attendance this month. We will do everything in our power to resume public meetings as soon as possible and we appreciate your cooperation and participation. Should you have any questions concerning board meetings or public comment, please feel free to reach out to any of the board members or school staff. The following link will allow you to view the board meeting. https://youtu.be/nFD56p8POEs Thank You, Priscilla Benadom, Board President

Trona Joint Unified School District partnered with Care Solace to support the well-being of students and their family members. Care Solace is a complimentary and confidential care coordination service that can help you quickly find mental health or substance use treatment options matched to your needs regardless of circumstance. If you or a family member are looking for help with mental health or substance use and would like to use Care Solace to help you find a provider: Call 888-515-0595. Support is available 24/7/365 in any language. Visit www.caresolace.com/trona and either search on your own OR click “Book Appointment” for assistance by video chat, email, or phone.No matter how you plan to spend your time, we wish you each a safe and restful break!

We are excited to share with you that San Bernardino County Superintendent of Schools “Student Essential/Soft Skills Boot Camp” too place on November 17-18th. This was our Fourth Annual implementation of the Soft Skills Program . The Boot Camp assists high school students from throughout the county develop and enhance essential job or internship skills to effectively move from school to career and higher academic pursuits. Students attending the Boot Camp deepened their skills as a/an: · Effective Communicator · Ethical Decision-Maker · Creative & Critical Thinker · Future-Focused Planner · Team Player · Contributing Citizen

Senior Technology Technician position now open https://5il.co/112di

Homecoming Community Events.

A message from San Bernardino County Superintendent of Schools https://5il.co/107b1

Updated Custodian Position https://5il.co/z8gz

New Job Posting https://5il.co/wt02

New Positions Open Elementary Teacher: https://5il.co/wedq Paraprofessional: https://5il.co/wedr

Dear Parents/Guardians and Students, The passing of AB 104 (Gonzalez), contains a provision that allows high school students to change their letter grades to a Pass or No Pass grade on their transcripts for the 2020-21 school year. Attached to this letter is a “request a grade change” form that the students will fill out and submit to the high school office. This has also been posted to our website. Both the CSU and UC systems have issued guidance on how they will handle admissions and GPA calculations for transcripts with Pass or No Pass grades. The CSU information can be found at the following link https://www2.calstate.edu/apply/Pages/first-time-freshman-faq.aspx UC information can be found at the following link https://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/response-covid-19.html AB 104 requires CSU schools, and encourages UC and private postsecondary schools, to accept without prejudice any transcripts with Pass/No Pass grades. Students will have 15 days from today to submit the “request a grade change” to the high school office. AB 104 states that the high school shall not honor grade change requests after 15 days. The high school will have 15 days from the day the grade change application is received to change the transcript and notify the pupil and the pupil's parent/guardian of the change. Here is a link to the letter and form https://5il.co/w96d. A more accessible version is available in the high school office. If you have any questions, please let us know. Thank you Trona Joint Unified School District

The county donated a number of clothes for our students. These clothes were previously going to be used in uniform schools. clothing. We have skirts, pants, shorts, shirts, sweaters and more. We have a lot of clothing for k-3 and some clothing for 4-12. We will be in the old high school library till 9:30 this morning. If you are interested and cannot make it this morning please reach out to the high school office.

District Letter for Parents https://5il.co/w1so New California Policies for Independent Study https://5il.co/w1sn

Just a quick update on yearbooks. They will not be in until late July or early August. Once they are in we will send out an announcement and set a date for a distribution party.

Just a reminder for those who got the COVID-19 vaccine on May 24th, your second dose will be given on Monday, June 14th from 11:00 am and 3:00 pm in the gym.

Today is the day for the COVID-19 vaccination clinic in the Gym from 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM! Open to all individuals 12+ anyone under the age of 18 must have a guardian present.

TJUSD is hiring 4 student summer workers. Current seniors are preferred. Eligibility may be used for screening applicants. Seven hours a day, four days a week at $14 an hour. Applications can be picked up in the District Office. Deadline is June 4th.

COVID-19 VACCINATION EVENT! Free | No Insurance Needed Trona Joint Unified School District @ GYM May 24th 2021 11:00 AM until 3:00 PM Event will be using Pfizer | All individuals 12+ are welcome to come APPOINTMENTS ENCOURAGED, WALK-INS ACCEPTED IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO PRE-REGISTER FOR AN APPOINTMENT: Scan the QR code (use Chrome or Safari)* OR go to MyTurn.ca.gov and provide the requested information. *Use the camera on your mobile device and hold it over the QR code to register Parent or Guardian MUST be present for anyone under the age of 18