January | 2015 | arletelouise

Mike Wade and I gave a CBET (Community Based English Tutoring) training back on Dec 8 and were asked to repeat it for the final wave of teachers who will be teaching in schools. Graciela Garcia Torres, Director of the EL Department, introduced this year’s program.

It’s always so much fun to work with Mike. He was Justin’s 3rd AND 4th grade teacher, which Justin didn’t enjoy so much, although Mike and I had a great time writing notes back and forth to each other on his homework.

And, by a round-about way, I am now a part-time independent contractor with TRUSD. The scope of work I submitted was accepted and will support ALL the teachers teaching CBET. In addition, I will try to expand EL services into school libraries, computer labs, and Sacramento Public Libraries. And whatever else I can come up with!

I gave my camera to Brian, one of the parents who comes to our bike club meetings. Therefore you are about to see more of me in a blog post than ever before. Below, at the far left, is Cindy who works at Auburn Elementary and is the grandmother of one of the club members. It’s great to have TWO involved parents to support our club.

As we got ready to go the playground for blacktop drills,

Brian took a picture for another Bicycle Garden planting.

Club members are working through a series of skills which must be mastered before we can even consider going for a street ride: starting in power pedal, controlled stop using both brakes, hand signals, lane positioning.

Today, we moved on to scanning over the left shoulder and deciding if it was safe to leave the right lane position to avoid a hazard.