Our Principal/Nuestra Directora
Hortencia Hernandez, Principal/Directora
Welcome Beamer Park Families and Students to the 2024-25 school year!
I am honored to serve our Beamer Park Elementary community and I am excited about continuing to work alongside my community, as I enter my sixth year as principal of Beamer Park Elementary as we work to Restore, Rebuild and Reimagine with Equity at the Center of all that we do for students. I am honored to continue to serve our Beamer Park Elementary families and I am excited about continuing to work alongside our community as we work together to achieve student success.
At Beamer, we are familia and we definitely faced and overcame the pandemic together, along with many obstacles that we braced and navigated together. Our Beamer Park Elementary family is looking forward to bringing you and your student(s) an amazing educational experience as we listen, learn and continue to grow together. Attached you will find our School Calendar for the 2024-25 Academic Year.
The families of Beamer Park Elementary are unique in that together, we are a community. We are committed to the success of every child, and we will work collaboratively to assure that happens. Our priority is to focus on student learning, through teacher efficacy and implementation of high rigorous, standards focused, instructional practice. Each year, we are committed to being intentional with building relationships, communication, and delivery of instruction, for our students and our families. With these three areas in the forefront of everything we do, we hope to make every classroom a place where students feel loved, supported, and successful. Families, we can not do this work alone, we will need your support to be sure to check weekly communications on Parent Square, volunteer on our campus and work together with our Beamer Park community to ensure success for ALL!
Our first two weeks of the school year will focus on relationship building, safety, school policies, procedures while getting to know our students, discovering how they learn best, and establishing respect and relationships between maetr@s, our students and all staff. Part of this includes providing more time to focus on social emotional learning daily in order to build better connections and meet our students where they are. We will be working to create student leaders on campus and listen to student voices through class discussions, clubs and surveys.
We will continue to improve communication this year. Parents are a pivotal part of our success every year, but this year more than ever before. We are striving for frequent, and
meaningful messages each week. I will continue to deliver weekly messages on Sundays using ParentSquare. Our Maestr@s will also be communicating via Parent Square and we ask all families to stay connected to our Beamer Community. All families will be able to complete data confirmation beginning August 1, 2024 and make changes to your current parent portal and update all contact information, as we went paperless four years ago but we are always here to help and offer support through our schools CAFE Specialist, Tere Sanchez.
Our Beamer Park Community is committed to preparing and empowering students for a future of endless possibilities, we will focus on delivering the best first instruction. This means continuing to honor our dual language model, teacher collaboration, improve our practices through professional development to assist our teachers and staff with engaging all learners as we return to in person instruction. We are excited to be part of the Project Promesa Grant which will work in conjunction with CABE (California Association of Bilingual Education) to provide professional development for all of our maestr@s for the next two years. We look forward to including our families in our parent partnership with Promesa, as being biliterate and bilingual requires parent support and engagement, daily. We will share more details in the coming weeks.
I am looking forward to an amazing year. This year will definitely come with its challenges, but through commitment, passion and determination, we will make this an amazing year for our Beamer Park Elementary Bears and our familias!
Gracias!
Directora Hortencia Hernandez
