What do we do after the pandemic?! – This is an incredibly important read!
Desks and Classroom Set Up
As of this morning, we should have all the single desks needed to get our classrooms ready. Shout out to Zach and Heidi for seeing this through!
1c. Physical Distancing – Establish a minimum of 35 square feet per person when determining room capacity. Calculate only with usable classroom space, understanding that desks and room set-up will require use of all space in the calculation.
2f. Classrooms/Repurposed Learning Spaces – Seating: Rearrange student desks and other seat spaces so that staff and students’ physical bodies are six feet apart to the maximum extent possible
Ready Schools, Safe Schools Doc
YouthTruth Survey: Our district has contracted with YouthTruth to survey our families, students, and staff.
Here are a few facts for you to know about the survey:
- Testing window is Jan 4-22
- Students in grades 6-12, K-12 families and staff will be surveyed on a variety of topics related to our work, including belonging, academic rigor, culture, diversity, equity and inclusion, and distance learning
- Surveys take 20 min and are already translated into several languages
- We will notify parents about the survey in our family newsletter to be sent the week before we return from winter break
- YouthTruth provides templates for communication you can send from your school
- We will get results back mid-February
- We are scheduling trainings by level on how to access/interpret the results
20-21 Report Card Update! In a year of so many uncertainties and continuous changes, it is more important than ever to focus on the most important instructional priorities at each grade level. Achieve the Core Partners and Oregon Department of Education have provided us with instructional priorities for the 20-21 school year in English Language Arts, mathematics, writing and speaking, and listening. This year our report card will reflect instructional priorities and standards for each grade level. The most important goal of the report card is to communicate to families/guardians a child’s progress toward grade-level standards. This year we will only communicate progress toward the most important priority standards for each grade level. The additional standards/supplementary standards will be grayed out on the report card. In addition, a document has been created for each grade-level to assist teachers in identifying which priority standards we will report on, which standards we will still teach but will not report on and which data sources might be helpful for each priority standard.
Additional Information:
- The statement “Reporting each semester reflects a student’s knowledge of content taught to that point. This report card has been temporarily modified for the 2020-2021 school year to represent priority instruction areas,” has been added below the legend to inform families and caregivers of changes to the report card.
- NEI “not enough information” has been added to the legend. This code will be used to communicate not enough information could be collected to communicate progress. It is expected that if the “NEI” code is used, a follow-up explanation will be provided in the comments.
- Priority Standard Documents for each grade-level (will be complete January 8th)
- Sample 20-21 Report Cards
- There will still be some N/A or NEI for mathematics on the February report card. More information will be provided in January.
Inclement Weather Guideline for 2020-21 – The Bend-LaPine District will be able to respond differently to inclement weather events since we are in Comprehensive Distance Learning. If we need to close our buildings, we can still continue to teach and provide services. Click here to read the 2020-21 Guidelines. Families will get this same information but in a format that is tailored specifically to them.
Below are some previous posts that provide both the teacher-cleaning routine (video) and the custodial-duties routines.
Staying Clean…Many thanks to the dynamic duo of Nole Kennedy and HDMS lead custodian, Tim Bennett, for creating this “How To” video instructing staff on daily cleaning routines of desks/tables.
Custodial Duties – Click here
Please take a few moments to examine progress on Lexia and Dreambox. Links below will show you a global look at our usage and progress.