District Updates

Suicide Prevention and Awareness Month As discussed two weeks ago, September is Suicide Prevention and Awareness Month across the country. That message described some of the frightening statistics and the depth of the crisis. Today’s message...

We want your feedback at the Community Workshop on the 10 year facilities master plan! Join us Saturday, October 7th at 10am at John Knight Middle School's MPR. If you can't make it, send your ideas to facilitiesplan@dixonusd.org. #dixonpride...

Dear Dixon Unified Community, I wish to take the opportunity provided by the Weekly Update to make an announcement that is both tied to the business of the District, and very personal. I will be retiring from my career in education at the end of...

Suicide Prevention Awareness Month Dixon Unified has been a regional leader in addressing issues around our students’ mental health, and you will see messages in the Weekly Update throughout the year that share information, increase awareness, and...

AVID If you are a regular reader of the Weekly Update, you should remember a number of items when we wrote about the AVID program that we are implementing across the District. You also should have heard it referenced if you attended Back-to-School...

Enrollment, Attendance, and Funding Last week’s update was exclusively devoted to the importance of attending school and the impact that absences have on lost instructional time. Lost instructional time results in less learning. This is the single...

  Attendance! You are going to see a regular series of items regarding attendance in the Update this year. To put it in simple terms - our attendance stunk last year. The very first and most significant impact of poor attendance is on academic...

Please join the Solano County SELPA Community Advisory Committee (CAC) for a presentation provided by Dr. Amber Busay, Independent Child Advocate. Presentation Title: How to be Your Child’s Best Advocate! Presentation Overview: This training will...

The Weekly Update We publish a weekly update almost every Wednesday of the school year, and it will always be distributed by the means that you received it today. It is also posted on our Facebook page and website. The update is a mixture of news,...

We were informed by the City that they do not have an AV Tech to cover tonight’s meeting. Closed Session will begin at 5pm and the Business Meeting at 6pm in the City Council Chambers as scheduled, however, the meeting will not be livestreamed or...

June 20, 2023 The Governing Board of the Dixon Unified School District took action at its meeting on June 15, 2023, to open an application window for any individuals interested in filling the current board member vacancy. The Board also established...

Mental Health Awareness Month As highlighted in the last two Weekly Updates, May is Mental Health Awareness month. As we draw closer to the end of this month, we wanted to provide some additional information related to one section of the lengthy...

Brian Dolan is the Superintendent of Schools for the Dixon Unified School District. The views expressed here are his and do not necessarily reflect those of the school district.

Mental Health Awareness Month Mental Health Awareness Month has been observed in the United States since May 1949. Since then, major inroads have been made in the diagnosis and treatment of mental health disorders, awareness of mental health as a...

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Benefits of AVID We have written about our District-wide implementation of AVID many times, but want to focus today on some of the specific benefits of AVID implementation for our students. In the classroom: To an outsider, an AVID classroom may...

Focus Through The School Year There is a natural inclination for some students, families, and staff to return from Spring Break and relax about the rest of the school year - not taking things as seriously and working as diligently as they have...

Want your student to practice their bike skills and learn the rules of the road? Come to the Bike Rodeo Event at John Knight Middle School on Friday, April 14th from 3-5pm. Be sure they bring their helmet to help them be ready for National Bike to...

Follow-Up to Racist Social Media Post We have not forgotten about the racist social media post made by a student in early February and are continuing to take steps to address issues that have arisen from that incident, as well as longer-term....

Attendance Follow-up Last week’s update was focused on concerning information regarding our low attendance rates and the high percentage of students who are classified as chronically absent. We also shared some of the reasons being offered for...