December’s Weekly Memos
“Alone we can do so little;
together we can do so much.”
Week of December 1
IEEEP Newsletter
Here is the December 2025 IEEEP newsletter. Please share with staff and families
Help is available when you need it:
Access support from CFS Mental Health & Wellness team at cfs-mentalhealth@stancoe.org
SCOE’s Employee Assistance Program—In the moment counseling support is available by phone 24/7 at 800-295-8323.
CalHOPE: Call or text the CalHOPE Warm Line: (833) 317-HOPE (4673) The CalHOPE warm line connects callers to people who have persevered through struggles with stress, anxiety, depression—emotions triggered by circumstances and events in everyday life. The peer counselors listen with compassion, provide non-judgmental support, and guide you to additional resources that can give hope and help you cope.
Stanislaus County Warm Line—available by phone 24/7. Call 209-558-4600 Stanislaus Co residents can call when they are having a hard time making it through the day but not in crisis, need a caring listener to provide effective feedback to help explore options, or want support, assistance and resources toward recovery.
Stanislaus Behavioral Health and Recovery Services (STAN BHRS) Access Line: 1-888-376-6246
CA state hotline 833-544-2374 that people — particularly older, isolated Californians — can call for local non-medical services, such as food delivery and mental health care.
988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline—available by phone 24/7. No holds and no busy signals Dial 988
Your health insurance. Call the phone number on your card to access a provider who accepts your insurance. You can access a professional at just the cost of a co-pay
Anthem Total Health, Total You-created to help you take care of your health, work on lifestyle changes and connect with specialized health professionals. Services include 24/7 Nurseline, Behavioral Health Resource, Case Management, Emotional Well-Being Resources & Inclusive Care
Carelon Wellbeing provides support with counseling, work-live support, legal services and financial services
Kaiser-Mental Health and Addiction Care Services
Week of December 8
Got Subs?
Is your classroom understaffed when staff need to take time off? Are you frustrated with the lack of available substitutes? Are you ready to be part of the solution? Sign up to be a mentor teacher. If you are a Teacher, Associate Teacher or Infant Toddler Educator, you can be a mentor and have a mentee assigned to work in your classroom while acquiring hours to obtain a Child Development Permit.
If you are interested in participating in the 2026 mentorship program, please fill out the form below by December 17th, 2025. Mentors will receive a $250 stipend for each mentee assigned to their classroom. https://forms.gle/1RFaezwxUQLrUFSr5
IEEEP Survey
As part of the IEEEP consortia, SCOE GO center based staff is required to respond to the 2025 IEEEP Survey. The survey gathers information about educators’ experience with professional development and will be used to determine if professional development is of high quality, useful, and applicable to classrooms that are either inclusive or striving towards inclusion. Survey deadline is Friday, December 12, 2025.
Child Abuse Reporting Reminder
As a reminder all staff are required to submit a detailed Child Protective Services (CPS) report whenever staff suspect child abuse or neglect. If you are not sure if a situation is reportable, please call CPS and ask for a consultation. Even if CPS advises that a situation does not need to be reported, we can still submit a written report. If time is needed to complete the report away from the classroom, please make arrangements with your supervisor. As we all know, failure to report suspected child abuse by required timelines can result both discipline and legal repercussions. As a resource, here is our Child Abuse Reporting Guidance.
Active Supervision
Ensure your classroom staff are following their Active Supervision Plan and update if there have been any staffing changes. Supervisors, please utilize the risk assessment form to identify classrooms that may need additional support and reach out to Chris & Jewelee
COPA Updates
The Program Information Report (PIR) has been updated in COPA to reflect changes to Race and Ethnicity of families, children, and staff. The following changes have been made to the database and should be utilized moving forward with all new child and family applications, as well as new staff. The COPA Procedure (E-01 - Applications) has been updated to reflect these changes. For existing children and families that are currently in COPA, PIM will be working on updating Race and Ethnicity. Please contact PIM or QAT for any questions you may have moving forward.
Bi-Racial/Multi-Racial should no longer be used
Children, families, and staff that are considered Bi-Racial/Multi-Racial should have all races selected (ex. Caucasian and Asian)
Other should no longer be used
Hispanic or Latino can now be chosen with no race identified (ex. Hispanic or Latino AND Caucasian can now be just Hispanic or Latino)
Additional race has been added: Middle Eastern or North African
Forms Orders
Supervisors will no longer need to order forms for health staff. The health team will order the forms they need directly through Elfida. This will prevent over ordering forms.
Also, SCOE GO has waivers in place for the following forms. Because if this, do not order the following forms on the master forms order form. Instead, print them from the SCOE GO Canva Drive . We are exploring a process to order these forms on NCR in the future.
E 3-CFS Child & Family Transition Plan & CF/E-25 Preschool Toileting Plan
ERSEA 3 Child Information Sheet
CF/E-16 Success Report
Home Based Program Admission Agreement CF/HB-1
DRDP Tracking Sheets- hold off ordering for next year. The tool may be revised again.
School Readiness
Preschool block play supports school readiness by building early math thinking through hands-on exploration of shapes, patterns, measurement, balance, and spatial relationships. As children plan, build, and problem-solve with blocks, they develop foundational skills in geometry, counting, and comparison. Key concepts that prepare them for later math learning and overall cognitive growth. Here is an article, a handout about mathematical questions, and an article about 21st-century skills.
RHS/EHS-CCP School Readiness Advisory Padlet: https://padlet.com/bchase17/school-readiness-advisory-padlet-h68acyco9eekfo9h
CLASS Webinar: https://info.teachstone.com/webinar/ty-interactions-to-foster-a-love-of-literacy This is a recorded webinar focused on implementing effective literacy practices and high-quality teacher–child interactions in preschool classrooms.
Policy Council
We had a great turnout at our first Policy Council meeting! Our next meeting is scheduled for December 16th. As a friendly reminder, please be sure to check in with your reps and alternates, and confirm whether they will need childcare. Unfortunately, we reached full capacity at our last meeting, and a few children had to stay with their parents. Your help in verifying childcare needs ahead of time is truly appreciated.
State Reminders
CSPP PDPY Programs must have families complete release of employment verification if the family’s eligibility is income. This does not apply to families who are eligible based on Government Means category
Families experiencing homelessness can start immediately after parent signs application and has the first 30 days to provide all required documentation including immunization record. Title 5 17771.
CSPP FD FY NOA must be given or mailed the same date of staff’s signature on the 9600 - this is how CDE, EED will monitor this regulation.
CARE CCD 26 Confidential Application for Services will be updated to reflect specific certification day of the month. Until this is updated, please write in the day of the month to correspond with the month and year of certification, then initial your documentation.
Help is available when you need it:
Access support from CFS Mental Health & Wellness team at cfs-mentalhealth@stancoe.org
SCOE’s Employee Assistance Program—In the moment counseling support is available by phone 24/7 at 800-295-8323.
CalHOPE: Call or text the CalHOPE Warm Line: (833) 317-HOPE (4673) The CalHOPE warm line connects callers to people who have persevered through struggles with stress, anxiety, depression—emotions triggered by circumstances and events in everyday life. The peer counselors listen with compassion, provide non-judgmental support, and guide you to additional resources that can give hope and help you cope.
Stanislaus County Warm Line—available by phone 24/7. Call 209-558-4600 Stanislaus Co residents can call when they are having a hard time making it through the day but not in crisis, need a caring listener to provide effective feedback to help explore options, or want support, assistance and resources toward recovery.
Stanislaus Behavioral Health and Recovery Services (STAN BHRS) Access Line: 1-888-376-6246
CA state hotline 833-544-2374 that people — particularly older, isolated Californians — can call for local non-medical services, such as food delivery and mental health care.
988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline—available by phone 24/7. No holds and no busy signals Dial 988
Your health insurance. Call the phone number on your card to access a provider who accepts your insurance. You can access a professional at just the cost of a co-pay
Anthem Total Health, Total You-created to help you take care of your health, work on lifestyle changes and connect with specialized health professionals. Services include 24/7 Nurseline, Behavioral Health Resource, Case Management, Emotional Well-Being Resources & Inclusive Care
Carelon Wellbeing provides support with counseling, work-live support, legal services and financial services
Kaiser-Mental Health and Addiction Care Services
Week of December 15
Congratulations!
Our wonderful Center Supervisor, Norma Aranda, will be retiring, with her last day of service being Friday, December 19, 2025. Norma has touched the lives of countless children, families, and staff through her dedication and commitment over the past 22 years. Her warmth, leadership, and passion for our program will be deeply missed. Please join me and our GO Team in wishing Norma all the best as she begins this exciting new chapter in her life.
Cindy Trujillo has agreed to substitute in the position and will be on site at Del Puerto this week to support the transition. She will begin supporting MLA as well after winter break.
Art of Sculpture
It’s almost time for the Art of Sculpture to come alive in our preschool classrooms! The four-week study will begin Monday February 2nd. Teacher binders to support the Art of Sculpture curriculum will arrive in the new year. The curriculum is based on the Recycled Materials Study. To assist you, the activity plans are all pre-populated, but teachers have the freedom to make any changes they feel are appropriate for their children. Materials have already been sent out to sites. There are a few odds and ends in Jewelee’s office in case you find that you are missing anything. Each classroom will receive a board to use as a base for their class sculpture. Sculptures can be up to 3 ft tall and up to10 pounds.
Itinerant Preschool Art Assistants will be hired to support implementation of the project. Please refer anyone you know who would be interested in applying for the position to our EdJoin posting: https://www.edjoin.org/Home/JobPosting/2149265
The Art of Sculpture Gala will run over four days: 3/10-3/13 5:30 PM-8:00 PM at the Modesto Children’s Museum. Classrooms have a designated date and time to view the sculpture and experience the Museum. See Schedule
Here is the PowerPoint with details on the project. The PPT contains links to submit candid photos of children participating in the project as well as a class photo by 2/20/26. In addition, SCOE marketing team will visit two sites to snap additional candid photos. Please have families sign the filming consent.
IEEEP Survey
As part of the IEEEP consortia, SCOE GO center based staff is required to respond to the 2025 IEEEP Survey. The survey gathers information about educators’ experience with professional development and will be used to determine if professional development is of high quality, useful, and applicable to classrooms that are either inclusive or striving towards inclusion.
Learning Genie AI Unit Planner
We are interested in your feedback on the LG AI Planner since it’s been about a month since we received training. Please let us know your thoughts https://forms.gle/bwshcECNzkjyvd5NA
In case you missed it, here is the recording of the Learning Genie Training on the AI Planner from 11-10-25
Here are some resources for using the Planner
Self-Learning Video | How to Create a Unit
Self-Learning Video | How to adapt a unit to Weekly Planner
November GO Status Report
Here is the GO Site Status Report as of 11/30/25
Help is available when you need it:
Access support from CFS Mental Health & Wellness team at cfs-mentalhealth@stancoe.org
SCOE’s Employee Assistance Program—In the moment counseling support is available by phone 24/7 at 800-295-8323.
CalHOPE: Call or text the CalHOPE Warm Line: (833) 317-HOPE (4673) The CalHOPE warm line connects callers to people who have persevered through struggles with stress, anxiety, depression—emotions triggered by circumstances and events in everyday life. The peer counselors listen with compassion, provide non-judgmental support, and guide you to additional resources that can give hope and help you cope.
Stanislaus County Warm Line—available by phone 24/7. Call 209-558-4600 Stanislaus Co residents can call when they are having a hard time making it through the day but not in crisis, need a caring listener to provide effective feedback to help explore options, or want support, assistance and resources toward recovery.
Stanislaus Behavioral Health and Recovery Services (STAN BHRS) Access Line: 1-888-376-6246
CA state hotline 833-544-2374 that people — particularly older, isolated Californians — can call for local non-medical services, such as food delivery and mental health care.
988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline—available by phone 24/7. No holds and no busy signals Dial 988
Your health insurance. Call the phone number on your card to access a provider who accepts your insurance. You can access a professional at just the cost of a co-pay
Anthem Total Health, Total You-created to help you take care of your health, work on lifestyle changes and connect with specialized health professionals. Services include 24/7 Nurseline, Behavioral Health Resource, Case Management, Emotional Well-Being Resources & Inclusive Care
Carelon Wellbeing provides support with counseling, work-live support, legal services and financial services
Kaiser-Mental Health and Addiction Care Services
Week of December 22
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