Summer is fast approaching! 

We are collecting used books here at Burnett  

 to start a book swap.

Our goal is to get each child to get a “new” book to

read over the summer.

Please bring any of your gently used books

to school by June 1^st.

Depending on the number of donations, we hope to hold our swap the last week of school!

Benefits of Khan Academy for Burnett Bulldogs

• Custom profile, points and badges to measure progress
• Teachers, parents and coaches have unprecedented visibility into what their students are learning
• Real time class report is generated for all students, anytime and all of the time
• Constant collection of data on all students to inform teacher's daily instruction
• Students make use of extensive video library, interactive challenges and assessments
• Complete self-paced learning tool

For more information about Khan Academy visit: www.khanacademy.org

In order to be invited to apply for Distinguished School honors, schools must meet a variety of eligibility criteria including designated federal and state accountability measures based on the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) and the Academic Performance Index (API) requirements.

Once we were considered eligible, the California Department of Education invited us to apply to be recognized as a Distinguished School. We passed a rigorous application process, including a written application outlining our two Signature Practices, Systematic English Language Development and Board Math. The Santa Clara County Office of Education sent a team of educators from around the valley to validate the implementation of these two practices during a site visit on March 1, 2012.

Burnett passed all levels of the application process and was officially notified of our Distinguished School status on March 29. We will be honored on May 30 at an awards ceremony where State Superintendent Tom Torlakson will present us with a 2012 Distinguished School plaque and flag.

This award demonstrates the incredible commitment of Burnett teachers, staff, students and their families in providing a world-class education to every student at Burnett. 

Sincerely,

Ms. Waslif

13, 567 Books Read! Encourage your child to attend our daily Reading Counts Club. Join us every Mon-Friday morning from 7:30 to 7:50 in our Info Lab portable 1500. Burnett students can read any book found in their classroom library, school library, or public library—fiction or non-fiction. Students can then take the corresponding computer based quiz; Scholastic Reading Counts automatically generates a quiz that meets each student's reading needs.  Every quiz is assigned a point value based on the reading level of the book, and throughout the year students will accumulates individual totals. At the end of the year we'll calculate an overall school-wide total. Burnett students have made 20,000 books their goal for 2012

NEW VACCINATION NEEDED FOR INCOMING 7TH GRADERS All students entering 7th grades will need proof of a Tdap Booster shot before starting school on August 20, 2012. Students that have not submitted this proof will not be able to start school on August 20, 2012. There has been a dramatic increase in the number of cases of pertussis (commonly referred to as “whooping cough”) in California. Whooping cough is a vaccine-preventable disease. The best way to stop this epidemic and keep it from spreading to babies is to get as many people vaccinated as possible.

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