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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=red face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:red'>PLEASE do not reply to this email, contact
Margit Roos-Collins <span id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT1219"><span class=object><a
href="mailto:margitrooscollins@comcast.net" target="_blank">margitrooscollins@comcast.net</a></span></span>
or Mark Coplan </span></font><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a
href="mailto:Mark_Coplan@berkeley.k12.ca.us">Mark_Coplan@berkeley.k12.ca.us</a></span></font><font
color=black face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'> <br>
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</span></font><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Arial;color:black'>The central topic on the School Board's agenda
this week is a study session on <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Berkeley</st1:PlaceName>
 <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">High School</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>.  In
response to the Board request for a study session on the academic performance
at Berkeley High School, staff has prepared a presentation that includes assessment
data, an update on the WASC process, a report on the Small Learning Communities
Grant, examples of effective interventions, and the Principal’s proposed
initiatives for 2011-12.<br>
<br>
You can watch the meeting on Channel 33, live on Wednesday night or repeated at
9 a.m. Thursday morning.  It is also broadcast on radio station KPFB
89.3. The meeting begins at 7:30 pm at <st1:Street w:st="on"><st1:address
 w:st="on">2134 Martin Luther King Jr. Way</st1:address></st1:Street>, 2nd
floor.<br>
<br>
The packet, available online at the BUSD website at <span
id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT1067"><span class=object><a
href="http://www.berkeley.net/board-meeting-information/" target="_blank">http://www.berkeley.net/board-meeting-information/</a></span></span>,
contains an analysis of the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Summer</st1:PlaceName>
 <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Bridge</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> program, the
annual academic assessment presentation by the District's Evaluation and
Assessment office, an annotated list of student support services available, and
an evaluation of the small learning communities by an outside consultant.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>Diane Douglas, Marguerite Fa-Kaji and Pat
Anderson are the parent-volunteer facilitators of the etree; please direct any
questions to them at <a href="mailto:bhs-owner@lmi.net">bhs-owner@lmi.net</a></span></font><font
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>BHS etree archives: <a
href="http://lists.lmi.net/pipermail/bhs/">http://lists.lmi.net/pipermail/bhs/</a></span></font><font
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color:black'>.</span></font><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span
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