{"id":167,"date":"2021-10-18T21:43:15","date_gmt":"2021-10-18T21:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/amy.tarnow\/?p=167"},"modified":"2021-11-29T21:59:53","modified_gmt":"2021-11-29T21:59:53","slug":"monday-october-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/amy.tarnow\/2021\/10\/18\/monday-october-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday, October 18"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hello Everyone!  I hope you had a wonderful weekend and were able to get out and enjoy some of the brilliant fall colors around town.  Here are our announcements for the week:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">First, a shoutout to Brad Soto, who was honored as Bend-La Pine&#8217;s Teacher of the year last Wednesday. If you missed seeing the news story, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bend.k12.or.us\/district\/news-events\/news\/2021\/10\/longtime-math-teacher-educator-year\" target=\"_blank\">you can find it linked here<\/a>.  Congratulations Brad!  We&#8217;re stoked to have you on staff and appreciate all you are bringing to our program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><u>Civil Rights Training Follow-Up:&nbsp;<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is from Kinsey Martin as a follow up to the training our NSE-based staff participated in on September 15th.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Through our Excellence and Equity listening sessions in 2019, we gathered incredibly valuable information about our students and families: who they are, and what their experience is like in our district.&nbsp; However, we don\u2019t have this same level of information on one key district group: our employees.&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>We care deeply about who you are and what it\u2019s like for you to work in our organization.<\/strong>&nbsp; Getting a better sense of this will help us ensure our staff have the same civil rights\u2019 protections as our students and families.&nbsp; You are invited to share your identity, experiences, and perspective with us via a brief survey.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The survey:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>is entirely&nbsp;<strong>anonymous<\/strong>;&nbsp;<\/li><li>will take less than 10 minutes;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li><li>is intended for&nbsp;<em>all<\/em>&nbsp;Bend-La Pine employees (certified, classified, administrative, and confidential); and&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li><li>will&nbsp;<em>only<\/em>&nbsp;be used to gather district-wide trends about our workforce and to identify areas we can better support our most valued resource: you!&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thank you for partnering with us.&nbsp; Please aim to complete&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSfzhbNsINXmd7kGE-L1Xymi17YmoRxkY_okKtC-6p7aTvvNGw\/viewform?usp=sf_link\" target=\"_blank\">this survey<\/a>&nbsp;<strong>no later than October 29.<\/strong>&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Upcoming Dates<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>This Wednesday, October 20th:  OSSM Meeting in Amy&#8217;s WebEx Room at 7:45 AM<\/li><li>Also on 10\/20:  Elementary Meeting at 9:30, Secondary meeting at 10:30<\/li><li>10\/28\/21:  Student and staff photos at NSE<\/li><li>11\/4\/21: Virtual Coffee time for parents of Full Time Online Students in Kevin&#8217;s Webex Room<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Have a wonderful week!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello Everyone! I hope you had a wonderful weekend and were able to get out and enjoy some of the brilliant fall colors around town. Here are our announcements for the week: First, a shoutout to Brad Soto, who was <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/amy.tarnow\/2021\/10\/18\/monday-october-18\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Monday, October 18<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":171,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22799],"tags":[22802],"class_list":["post-167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/amy.tarnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/amy.tarnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/amy.tarnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/amy.tarnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/amy.tarnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/amy.tarnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/amy.tarnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions\/175"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/amy.tarnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/amy.tarnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/amy.tarnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/amy.tarnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}