Updates
Summer Learning! Our district is continuing to look for teachers to help support the summer learning they are calling SPARKS.
The summer instruction, grades 6 – 12 programming has a name, its SPARKS. Our district has created a helpful and informative document that provides behind-the-scenes information regarding what this summer will look like for students and staff. Please see this document for more details.
It was verified this week that iPads will not be turned in this June. Due to summer learning opportunities, we will ask our students to hold on to their iPads (just like they did last spring).
Last week of school: Some of you have wondered about what the last week of school schedule will look like this year. Now that we are all-in, and assuming we stay all-in for the remainder of this year, we will be following the original calendar during these last days of this school year. Specifically, during the last week of school, Monday and Tuesday are “regular” days, Wednesday is a “regular” (full-length) day, Thursday will be an “SIW release” day, and Friday is a work day for teachers and their last day.
Supervision
Here is the supervision schedule for this week. If you need to make any changes to your supervision assignment day/time, please see Kathy Russell.
** It’s important that we have supervision areas covered each day now that we have all our students back.
To Do
Required for Contact Tracing: – Seating assignments/assigned seating must be developed and used with fidelity in all classes. I also want to emphasize the importance of taking accurate attendance every period.
These are key strategies in our ability to accurately contact trace.
Assigned seating and taking accurate, daily attendance, provides teachers with the ability to quickly provide contact tracers with the names of students who may have been in close contact with a COVID-19 peer and to isolate and slow the spread of the virus.
Particularly at the high school level, our district has come across classroom teachers who are unable to quickly produce valuable assigned seating charts. While they hope this is an anomaly, it is an opportunity to provide a chance to double-check procedures. In some instances, because they can not accurately identify the students closest to a student testing positive, the result can be more students being quarantined.
Hawk News
Instructional Practices
Supporting Secondary Instruction
EdTech Bytes
Advisory
Second week back, Wednesday, April 21st
- Team-building activity: see menu
- Announcements: feel free to use our Family Newsletter
- Show: “How to Email Your Teacher” – your advisory lead will be sending something to you soon!
- Show: School Counselor Video https://youtu.be/A_K9lxjKO0Y
Sped / 504 / LEAD & Equity /HU (historically underserved)
Equity lens:
This time of year brings lots of opportunities to make important decisions. Here is our district Equity Lens. We are using these questions during our district admin Equity PD sessions.
New sign:
On this document, see top of page 2 for a picture of a new sign that we are getting from the district (and why we are getting it). It should be delivered before the end of April! LEAD, Tommy Ochoa, will help our office team find a great spot for it in our front entry. Reach out to Kinsey Martin or Tommy Ochoa if you have questions about any of this info!
Mental Health / SEL
Patterns of Stress & Resilience: Neurosequential Network Stress & Trauma Series This is a brief video (20 min) describing the sequential processing of experience in the brain. The Regulate-Relate-Reason heuristic is explained. This simple but powerful concept can help minimize miscommunication and behavioral challenges (especially with dysregulated adults and children).
Canvas
Safety
Rules that are still in place when we go All-In:
Masks required (no gaiters)
Seating charts required
Bathroom – one at a time from classrooms
Bathroom – sign out/in
No lockers
No vending machines
No food/drink in classrooms (other than personal water bottles)
Cleaning between classes
High Risk / Low Risk Symptom Checker:
As a reminder, please continue to use the symptom checker for students & staff.
Secondary School Mandated Rapid Testing
The latest metrics were released and because Deschutes County was over 200 cases/100K, secondary schools (not elementary) are required to offer rapid COVID-19 tests to symptomatic students/staff.
Q14: My school is in a county that exceeds its metrics and is required to offer testing. How long does my school have to implement the BinaxNOW testing program?
A14: Schools required to offer access to this program will have two weeks to register, train for, and administer the program when or if metrics change in their county in a way that makes this program a requirement.
Our date to have this program up and running is Monday, April 26th
Athletics / Activities
HERE is our Hawk Sports for the week.
Calendar Items
April 19 – Fire Drill, 11:30AM (end of 3rd period)
April 21 – SIW: Teacher Individual Work Time