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Western Sierra Charter School - Board of Directors Meeting
Tuesday, May 16, 2023 - Open Session Board Meeting – 2:00 PM Meeting Held At: 777 West Shaw Ave. Fresno, CA 93704 Members of the public may view and/or participate in the meeting at the Fresno address or virtually at our Oakhurst location at 41267 Highway 41, Oakhurst, CA 93644. Additionally, the meeting may be viewed virtually at: https://www.wscsfamily.org/live-broadcast.html Members of the public who wish to make written comment to the Board for this meeting should make their written request at least 24 hours prior to the meeting at: http://www.wscsfamily.org/board-request.html Members of the public who wish to make live, spoken comment during this meeting should make their written request at least 24 hours prior to the meeting at: http://www.wscsfamily.org/board-request.html. Public will remain muted until appropriate time. Individual comments will be limited to three (3) minutes. If an interpreter is needed for comments, they will be translated to English and the time limit shall be six (6) minutes. The Board of Directors may limit the total time for public comment to a reasonable time. The Board reserves the right to mute or remove a member of the public if comments or actions disrupts the Board meeting. Access to Board Materials: A copy of the written materials which will be submitted to the WSCS Board may be reviewed by any interested persons on http://www.wscsfamily.org/board-agenda-and-minutes.html website along with this agenda following the posting of the agenda at least 72 hours in advance of this meeting. Disability Access: Requests for disability-related modifications or accommodations to participate in this public meeting should be made 24 hours prior to the meeting at http://www.wscsfamily.org/board-request.html. All efforts will be made for reasonable accommodations. The agenda and public documents can be modified upon request as required by Section 202 of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
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Hello WSCS families, Please spread the word that we are looking for great teachers for the 2023-24 school year. We find some of our best teachers through our families and staff since you know our heart and our mission. We have potential openings in both Elementary and High School. Please direct candidates to our Edjoin page at: https://www.edjoin.org/wscsfamily or we now have a page on our website for anyone who might be interested in the future at: https://www.wscsfamily.org/jobs.html. Thank you again!  The results of the lottery are in for Endeavor Charter School for the 2022-23 school year. Click here to view. Please note the following:
 WSCS Board will hold a Virtual Board Meeting 9/8/22 at 2:00pm.
The Western Sierra Charter Schools (WSCS) Board of Directors (Board) and employees of WSCS shall meet via the Zoom meeting platform. Members of the public who wish to access (view) this Board meeting may do so at: https://www.facebook.com/wscsfamily/live or go to https://www.wscsfamily.org/live-broadcast.html Members of the public who wish to make written comment to the Board for this meeting should make their written request at least 24 hours prior to the meeting at: http://www.wscsfamily.org/board-request.html Members of the public who wish to make live, spoken comments during this meeting should make their written request at least 24 hours prior to the meeting at: http://www.wscsfamily.org/board-request.html. Public will remain muted until an appropriate time. Individual comments will be limited to three (3) minutes. If an interpreter is needed for comments, they will be translated to English and the time limit shall be six (6) minutes. The Board of Directors may limit the total time for public comment to a reasonable time. The Board reserves the right to mute or remove a member of the public if comments or actions disrupt the Board meeting. Access to Board Materials: A copy of the written materials which will be submitted to the WSCS Board may be reviewed by any interested persons on http://www.wscsfamily.org/board-agenda-and-minutes.html website along with this agenda following the posting of the agenda at least 72 hours in advance of this meeting. Disability Access: Requests for disability-related modifications or accommodations to participate in this public meeting should be made 24 hours prior to the meeting at http://www.wscsfamily.org/board-request.html. All efforts will be made for reasonable accommodations. All efforts will be made for reasonable accommodations. The agenda and public documents can be modified upon request as required by Section 202 of the Americans with Disabilities Act.  The Endeavor Charter School staff is excited to welcome all of our new and returning families to the 2022-2023 School Year!
As always, thank you for the trust you have all placed in Endeavor Charter School as we commence our 3rd official year as a charter school and our 28th year as an organization supporting families! Our admin team and staff have been busy planning for a great year and preparing ways to continue to encourage and support your educational experience with our school and program. Please remember that ParentSquare is our main mode of mass school communication and we hope you are able to receive messages as soon as we send them out so that you don’t miss any information and opportunities. New families should have received an invitation to join ParentSquare by email. If you register and download the app, you will be able to easily send messages to any staff. Please contact your Advising Teacher if you feel you are having any difficulties with ParentSquare so that we can take care of this right away. Offsite Classroom Update: As many of you know, Endeavor’s enrollment has increased slightly each year. We are now facing bigger challenges to accommodate all the onsite class opportunities as well as office space for staff. For this reason, the WSCS board and Administration is seeking both a short term and a long term solution for this challenge. As to our “short term” solution, we have been actively seeking an additional location that would provide more classroom space. Our staff offices will all remain at our current, main location. However, we need to add additional classroom space. We recently found a church that is less than ½ mile away from our main location. Being near to our main building is critical for easy and fast access for our students, parents and staff. The space available at this church is in a building separate from their main sanctuary and is used only for education purposes. We hope to be able to begin offering some classes at this new location for the Spring semester of this school year. We realize that the Fall schedule is more limited than in the past, but we are hopeful we can increase offerings and improve the schedule with the offsite classrooms. As we mentioned there is also a long term goal, as well, which will result in either a new, larger, permanent location or major improvements to our current location. This will require additional funding beyond our regular State revenue. Our purpose and commitment is that Endeavor Charter School will continue to offer families a choice and a voice in their children’s education. We are confident that our vision and mission is shared by our school community and we appreciate your understanding. Click Here for Fall 2022 TK-8th Enrichment & Math Onsite Class Schedule & Information or see attachments. Click here for Fall 2022 High School Onsite Class Schedule & Information or see attachments. Click Here for the 2022-2023 School Calendar or see attachment. Advising Teacher Initial Contact: Your Advising Teacher will be calling you starting on August 8th (next week) to schedule an initial appointment. As a kindness to our new families we are calling them first since many of them have not chosen curriculum and need more guidance. Like always, your Advising Teacher is your go to person for most questions and concerns. If you do not hear from them by Wednesday please call our office to make sure we have the correct contact information. Back To School Event Save the Date August 26th in the evening. This is an opportunity to meet or reconnect with other homeschool families and to meet all of our Endeavor staff! More details TBA soon! Staff Updates: We would like to welcome and introduce our new Endeavor staff: Melisa Culver is our new Technology Coordinator. She will serve alongside Phil Blas to help improve access and understanding of educational technology to our staff and students. Michelle Garrett is one of our new Elementary Advising Teachers. Although she is new to us she is not new to teaching. She has decades of experience in the traditional classroom setting. Michelle will also be teaching our 6th grade Enrichment Classes. Delisa Kuhtz is also one of our new Elementary Advising Teachers. Delisa is also an experienced teacher that will be teaching our 2nd grade Enrichment classes. Dave Smith is our new RSP and Elementary Advising Teacher. He has worked assisting students with special needs and accommodations for several years. He will be supporting students in the various Enrichment classes. IMPORTANT DATES August 2022: 8/1 - Endeavor Office opens 8/8 - Teachers return for training 8/11 - School Officially Starts/ Synchronous PE Instruction start (Zoom link & details sent in a separate ParentSquare ) 8/12 High School Cross Country Zoom Info Meeting at 3pm for all interested students. 8/24 - High School benchmark testing (9th-11th only 8:45am-12pm) & lunch & orientation (9th-12th 12-2:30pm) 8/26 - Back To School Carnival evening time- more details TBA Week of August 29th → 5th - 8th Math Classes, ROV classes, & High School Classes Start (see schedules) September 2022: TBD - Senior event - tentative more details to come 9/2 - Attendance 1 Due 9/5 - Labor Day Holiday 9/6- TK-8th enrichment classes begin this week 9/30- Attendance 2 Due WSCS Board will hold a Special Board Meeting 8/3/22 at 3:00pm.
The Western Sierra Charter Schools (WSCS) Board of Directors (Board) and employees of WSCS shall meet via the Zoom meeting platform. Members of the public who wish to access (view) this Board meeting may do so at: https://www.facebook.com/wscsfamily/live or go to https://www.wscsfamily.org/live-broadcast.html Members of the public who wish to make written comment to the Board for this meeting should make their written request at least 24 hours prior to the meeting at: http://www.wscsfamily.org/board-request.html Members of the public who wish to make live, spoken comments during this meeting should make their written request at least 24 hours prior to the meeting at: http://www.wscsfamily.org/board-request.html. Public will remain muted until an appropriate time. Individual comments will be limited to three (3) minutes. If an interpreter is needed for comments, they will be translated to English and the time limit shall be six (6) minutes. The Board of Directors may limit the total time for public comment to a reasonable time. The Board reserves the right to mute or remove a member of the public if comments or actions disrupt the Board meeting. Access to Board Materials: A copy of the written materials which will be submitted to the WSCS Board may be reviewed by any interested persons on http://www.wscsfamily.org/board-agenda-and-minutes.html website along with this agenda following the posting of the agenda at least 72 hours in advance of this meeting. Disability Access: Requests for disability-related modifications or accommodations to participate in this public meeting should be made 24 hours prior to the meeting at http://www.wscsfamily.org/board-request.html. All efforts will be made for reasonable accommodations. All efforts will be made for reasonable accommodations. The agenda and public documents can be modified upon request as required by Section 202 of the Americans with Disabilities Act. WSCS Board will hold a Board Meeting 6/14/22 at 2:00pm. The Western Sierra Charter Schools (WSCS) Board of Directors (Board) and employees of WSCS shall meet via the Zoom meeting platform. Members of the public who wish to access (view) this Board meeting may do so at: https://www.facebook.com/wscsfamily/live or go to https://www.wscsfamily.org/live-broadcast.html Members of the public who wish to make written comment to the Board for this meeting should make their written request at least 24 hours prior to the meeting at: http://www.wscsfamily.org/board-request.html Members of the public who wish to make live, spoken comments during this meeting should make their written request at least 24 hours prior to the meeting at: http://www.wscsfamily.org/board-request.html. Public will remain muted until an appropriate time. Individual comments will be limited to three (3) minutes. If an interpreter is needed for comments, they will be translated to English and the time limit shall be six (6) minutes. The Board of Directors may limit the total time for public comment to a reasonable time. The Board reserves the right to mute or remove a member of the public if comments or actions disrupt the Board meeting. Access to Board Materials: A copy of the written materials which will be submitted to the WSCS Board may be reviewed by any interested persons on http://www.wscsfamily.org/board-agenda-and-minutes.html website along with this agenda following the posting of the agenda at least 72 hours in advance of this meeting. Disability Access: Requests for disability-related modifications or accommodations to participate in this public meeting should be made 24 hours prior to the meeting at http://www.wscsfamily.org/board-request.html. All efforts will be made for reasonable accommodations. All efforts will be made for reasonable accommodations. The agenda and public documents can be modified upon request as required by Section 202 of the Americans with Disabilities Act.  WSCS Board will hold a Board Meeting 5/17/22 at 2:00pm.
The Western Sierra Charter Schools (WSCS) Board of Directors (Board) and employees of WSCS shall meet via the Zoom meeting platform. Members of the public who wish to access (view) this Board meeting may do so at: https://www.facebook.com/wscsfamily/live or go to https://www.wscsfamily.org/live-broadcast.html Members of the public who wish to make written comment to the Board for this meeting should make their written request at least 24 hours prior to the meeting at: http://www.wscsfamily.org/board-request.html Members of the public who wish to make live, spoken comments during this meeting should make their written request at least 24 hours prior to the meeting at: http://www.wscsfamily.org/board-request.html. Public will remain muted until an appropriate time. Individual comments will be limited to three (3) minutes. If an interpreter is needed for comments, they will be translated to English and the time limit shall be six (6) minutes. The Board of Directors may limit the total time for public comment to a reasonable time. The Board reserves the right to mute or remove a member of the public if comments or actions disrupt the Board meeting. Access to Board Materials: A copy of the written materials which will be submitted to the WSCS Board may be reviewed by any interested persons on http://www.wscsfamily.org/board-agenda-and-minutes.html website along with this agenda following the posting of the agenda at least 72 hours in advance of this meeting. Disability Access: Requests for disability-related modifications or accommodations to participate in this public meeting should be made 24 hours prior to the meeting at http://www.wscsfamily.org/board-request.html. All efforts will be made for reasonable accommodations. All efforts will be made for reasonable accommodations. The agenda and public documents can be modified upon request as required by Section 202 of the Americans with Disabilities Act. The results of the lottery are in for Endeavor Charter School for the 2022-23 school year. Click here to view. Please note the following:
We are pleased to announce that the May/June Newsletter is now available online. You can find the newsletter by either clicking on the picture below, click on the attachment, or go to https://www.wscsfamily.org/newsletters.html. Hard copies are available at school, Please take some time to read over the newsletter as it is our main way to communicate upcoming events and important announcements. Please let us know if you have any questions  |
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