CDL/Hybrid
I am deflecting a lot of questions regarding Hybrid at the moment so I can stay focussed on the CDL needs, but I just want you to know just about every decision and action is made with one eye on the Hybrid situation in the future. I just want to avoid talking too much about the hybrid situation details and all the “what-ifs” because lots of details will likely change between now and that time. Please just know that even though I am not sharing much about it, it is taking up a sizable chunk of my brain at any given moment of the day.
School Supplies/Classroom Funds/PTO budget
Please let me know ASAP if you would rather simply use the district kits – it appears they might meet our needs. See email.
Skip sent me a message to let me know that they will not be providing the district math kits for us since they are materials are associated with the Bridges program. They estimate the cost per student for these kits is approximately $5 per student, so they will put this into our school budget. We’ll still move forward with the $20 per student plan for any supplies we send home, but this is a nice safety net added to our budget to cover supply expenses as we move into the year.
Below are links to lists of the types of items they are purchasing at each grade level for a basis of comparison. I will leave it to you and your teams to decide what we need to send home.
Bridges Kindergarten Student Kit (5-pack)
· Bridges Grade 1 Student Kit (5-pack)
· Bridges Grade 2 Student Kit (5-pack)
· Bridges Grade 3 Student Kit (5-pack)
· Bridges Grade 4 Student Kit (5-pack)
· Bridges Grade 5 Student Kit (5-pack)
Startup Week Plan
I need to change the plan for this week as we will need to take some time to roll out the Standards of Practice. These are pretty robust documents that will require some time for us to process in our teams. We have a few suggested protocols for sharing these out but I will be asking the ICCLs to work with me next week to determine how to best approach this for our staff. I am assuming you want to dig into these sooner rather than later, so let’s plan on taking half the day of September 1st to start that process.
BLPO Enrollment
So far with nearly 260 respondents, we have over 90% of our families choosing to stick with CDL and only a handful choosing BLPO and even fewer choosing other options. We will start calling any non-responders on Monday to get a final answer.
CDL Standards of Practice & Schedules
This message below from Skip is for STAFF ONLY, please do not share beyond our own team.
Teachers –
As we move forward with comprehensive distance learning this year it is important that we listen to our stakeholders and community members and consider the feedback from them when planning for this Fall. We consider our teachers one of our most important stakeholders and we’ve been listening. We respect and honor all of your hardwork and thought as we work up to best practices virtually. The following information and documents will provide you with much needed information regarding logistics of the upcoming school year.
One overarching theme from the feedback was the need for consistent standards of practice (schedules, curriculum, instruction) across buildings and classrooms. When the decision was made to move to CDL, a team of teachers, coaches and administrators began immediately working on schedules, strategies for engaging families, and instructional practices that would help us meet the needs of students and families in a distance learning model and also meet the Oregon Department of Education Guidelines. Scaled down versions of these standards of practice will be communicated to our families next week to assist them with their decision making for the upcoming year. Just like you, our families want to know what the year will look like so they can plan how to best support their child in CDL.
Attached to this email you will find:
- standards of practice document for k-5
- overview of the k-5 schedule
- detailed schedules for k-1, 2-3, and 4-5
We understand that receiving these documents via email might create more questions for you and that the information might be overwhelming. Our intention is to get this information to you sooner rather than later. Building principals will be dedicating time during inservice week to review and discuss the standards of practice and the schedules in more detail. The teacher-facilitated blocks on the master schedule are intended to create consistency. The more detailed schedules for K-1, 2-3 and 4-5 are meant to provide more details about what the day looks like for your grade band. Please know that within the schedules there is flexibility for meeting the needs of your students.
We want to support you and be available to answer any questions you might have. Prior to inservice week the TLC department will be hosting virtual question and answer sessions on the standards of practice and daily schedules. Please join us at one of the following times next week to engage in an overview of the process and explanation of the key elements of the standards.
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday August 24-26 from 3-4 pm
https://bls.webex.com/meet/skip.offenhauser
Remote Learning Tools
Take a few minutes to review our district’s Remote Learning Tools web page. This page likely looks familiar to you – it was in existence last spring – and continues to be updated.
k-2 iPads
Just so everyone knows, we are looking at making the k-2 ipads very easy to use and that means having very few apps. We want to start off small and build from there if needed. So please let your teachers know that if they are planning on using different apps with their kids they should re-think this. Currently we are looking at: WebEx, Sora, SeeSaw, and Clever to access Lexia and Dreambox. Maybe one or two more but possibly not.
Staffing Update
I want to send a huge thank you to our interview committee for their hard work yesterday. I think we all agree that our interviews were incredibly successful and we look forward to introducing a new member to our team very soon.
Schedule for Decisions on Returning to School Steps (comprehensive distance learning, balanced/hybrid, “all in”)
Although we must always leave room for flexibility and changes due to the rapidly changing nature of our understanding of this virus and its impact on schools, below is the chart we’ve created for district decisions:
| Dates of 6-week terms | Dates to Monitor Metrics | Announcement Dates |
| Sept 14-Oct 23 | Friday, Oct 9 | Monday, Oct 12 |
| Oct 26-Dec 11(Thanksgiving break Nov 23-27) | Friday, Nov 20 | Monday, Nov 23 |
| Dec 14-Feb 5 | Friday, Jan 22 | Monday, Jan 25 |
| Feb 8-March 19 (spring break March 22-26) | Friday, March 5 | Monday, March 8 |
| March 29-May 7 | Friday, April 23 | Monday, April 26 |
| May 10-June 17 |