School News

Message from the Superintendent

Dear Rosemary Elementary School Families,

Educating students to their highest potential is job one for all of us in Campbell Union School District. As we work toward successfully completing this school year, we are looking ahead at how to provide the best support to students in the year that begins in August.

I hope you will join me and Mr. Schmaedick in welcoming Rosemary’s next Principal, Mr. Ronald “Hugo” Galvan. As Rosemary School’s new instructional leader, Mr. Galvan is committed to ensuring all students learn at their highest level through the EL Education process.  

Mr. Galvan comes to us with 17 years of experience in education. He most recently has been a middle school principal in Hollister, and before that was an elementary principal in North Monterey County Unified School District.

Families will have an opportunity to meet him before the end of the school year.

Mr. Galvan is committed to continuing the great programs and experiences for Rosemary students, staff and families. We believe his leadership will nurture Rosemary School’s work in preparing our future graduates for the challenges of a yet-to-be-defined future.

Sincerely,

Shelly Viramontez, Ed.D., Superintendent

Last month, Brian Schmaedick announced that he will be retiring from the position of Principal at Rosemary. 

As he shared in the letter sent out to the Rosemary community on February 15:  

"Rosemary has been a special place since long before I took over as principal in 2012.  There is a spirit of dedication here, a spirit of collaboration and of caring that makes it a wonderful place for kids.  At Rosemary, leadership is shared.  We have strong leaders all over campus and all significant decisions are made by a team or by the whole staff.  The responsibility to lead does not sit in the principal’s office alone."  

We need our community's help in selecting the best possible person to be our next Principal.  You are invited to join Lena Bundtzen, Assistant Superintendent for Rosemary Elementary ‘s New Principal Search Community Input Meeting.  You will learn more about the hiring process and provide input on the characteristics and attributes you would like to see in our new Rosemary leader for the 2019-20 school year.

Friday, March 1

8:20-9:00 a.m.

Rosemary Cafeteria  

Rosemary School is in the first year of implementing a critically acclaimed Language Arts Curriculum developed by EL Education.  The EL Education Curriculum emphasizes rigorous instruction, engaging learning modules at every grade, depth of learning over breadth, and research-proven approaches to foundational skills instruction in reading and writing.  The curriculum integrates important habits of scholarship such as collaboration, persistence, and academic courage into each unit and teaches every child to monitor their own progress towards the learning targets.  Ask your child what they are studying.  Talk to them about the module theme.  Check out relevant books with them from the public library and learn with us about weather (Kindergarten) and space (1st grade), fossils and dinosaurs (2nd grade) and frogs (3rd grade), animal defenses (4th grade) and biodiversity  (5th grade).