DECA Recognized for Efforts to Implement Behavior Program

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Submitted by Denair Elementary Charter Academy

Denair Elementary Charter Academy has received recognition for its implementation of a national program that supports proper behavior by students on campus.

Known as Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports, or PBIS, the program offers a range of “evidence-based interventions to achieve academically and behaviorally important outcomes for all students.”

According to the PBIS website, “the important supportive relationship between positive school- and classroom- wide culture and individual student success is emphasized.”

DECA’s staff began staff training in 2015-16 for the tier 1 PBIS guidelines, which were implemented last school year. There was training last year for the second level of the PBIS program, which will begin when classes resume this week. And training will occur this year for the tier 3 guidelines to be implemented next fall.

DECA is among hundreds of schools in California that follow the PBIS standards. In recognition, the campus received a bronze medal for 2016-17 from the California PBIS Coalition.

Denair High School FFA Students Have Strong Showing at Fair

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Submitted by Denair High School

Denair High FFA students had a very successful showing at the recent Stanislaus County Fair in Turlock. The fair is the annual culmination of many months of work getting animals ready to show or completing projects.

Here are the results:

 

 

 

Chris Galhano: Reserve Champion Market Lamb and 1st place in Senior Showmanship

Hector Obando: Reserve Champion junior dairy doe, 1st place dam/daughter dairy goats

Abi Dirkse: Champion and Reserve Grade Beef Heifer

Madison Womack: 1st in class goat

Bryson Prock: 1st place welding trailer

Brielle Prock: 1st  in skillet arrangements, box arrangements and lunch box arrangements

Chenoa Urchison: 2nd in class swine

Danielle Tigner: 4th in class swine

Yesenia Barrera: 4th in class goats

Cierra Rodriguez: 4th in class goat

Jesus Perez: 5th in class beef

Blain Cole: 6th in novice sheep showmanship

Alexandria Sanders: 8th in novice goat showmanship

Tristan Haile: 12th in advanced showmanship

 

Everyone with a market animal made weight and grade, meaning they sold at the junior livestock auction.  Here are the rest of the Denair FFA students who participated in the fair:

 

Emilee Fanning: sheep

Heidi Johnson:  goat, dairy goat

Logan Johnson: goat

Jacob Lewellen: goat

Crystal Mancilla: sheep

Christian Obando: sheep

Kelsey Park: goat

Courtney Prock: goat

Kyle Prock: replacement heifer

Angelo Retana: goat

Justin Short: goat

Adrianna Snyder:  goat

New Principal Naranjo Brings Personal Experience to DCA; LaFountain Takes Over at Middle School

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Submitted by Denair Unified School District

More than most school administrators, David Naranjo knows what it’s like to be a teen-ager struggling to make his way in high school. That empathy comes from personal experience. Naranjo was once a high school dropout himself. He has felt the uncertainty and the disillusionment, and sensed the lowered expectations that others have for teens in that situation.

And he’s living proof that there is a way out. That difficult family or financial circumstances or poor choices made as a teen don’t have to determine the rest of your life. There is hope.

As the new principal at Denair Charter Academy, Naranjo wants to be a role model for his independent study high school students, many of whom confront similar challenges as he once did growing up in San Diego County.

“I tell them, ‘I was a high school dropout,’ ” Naranjo said. “I had a tough family situation, but I went back and graduated from a continuation school. I started college when I was 23 and became a straight-A student.

“I was the first person in my family to graduate from high school or college. If I was going to break the cycle of not graduating, that was on me. I took it very seriously. That’s the example I want to set today for our students.”

Officially, Naranjo’s title is senior director of student support services. In addition to his duties at DCA, he will oversee various state-mandated responsibilities for all of Denair Unified’s four campuses. But much of his initial focus will be on the staff and students at DCA, which offers home-school options for parents of students up to eighth grade in addition to independent study for high schoolers.

Naranjo replaces Brian LaFountain at DCA. LaFountain moves across the street to Denair Middle School as principal.

Naranjo comes to Denair from the Tuolumne County Office of Education. His new role reunites him with Denair Superintendent Aaron Rosander. Naranjo was principal of Mariposa High School and Woodland Elementary School when Rosander was the schools superintendent in that county. Continue reading “New Principal Naranjo Brings Personal Experience to DCA; LaFountain Takes Over at Middle School” »

Get Your Fireworks and Support Denair!

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Still looking for those last minute fireworks for tomorrow night? Buy your fireworks in Denair and support local youth groups.

Denair Sober Grad and Football have a booth, selling Phantom Fireworks on Main Street, in front of Denair Foods. They are open 10:00 am – 9:00 pm and are offering 10% off for DUSD employees.

Denair Youth Football has a booth selling TNT fireworks, in front of the Denair Gaslight Theater and the Denair Community Center on Main Street. They are open 12:00 pm to 9:00 pm.

Stop by either of these fireworks booths and rest assured your dollars are supporting local Denair youth groups!