SEL Concerns Ticket Please use this if you have concerns with a student’s lagging SEL skills and you would like to do some collaboration with us (Heidi T. and/or Brian) to problem solve. Thanks!
FYI Ticket Please use this if you have an incident or recurring incidents with a student. This helps us with follow through, communication and data. Thank you!!!!! New and improved: You can now check more than one teacher for each FYI! Please use this function when more than one student is involved (including the victim if there is one).
Staff Shout Outs are BACK! Please fill out when you see/hear about the great things our staff is doing. I keep forgetting to make the time to share these, so I might come up with an alternative to share these great deeds and compliments!
How’s it going? Please keep these coming.
Highland Culture of Care is looking for teachers and/or grade levels to sign up for assembly videos! You can do that here. We still need someone for December (Generosity), thank you!!!
Our character trait for November is Gratitude! Here is a link to some gratitude ideas from The Greater Good.
Holiday Party – Thank you to Ashley and Sam for hosting our holiday gathering! Looking forward to it!
Lexia Fishbowl Activity – Thank you to everyone for your participation and especially your humor with the Lexia Fishbowl Activity yesterday. I really appreciate our “voluneteered” inner circle participants putting themselves out there as well as the questions, feedback and contributions of our outer circle. My hope is everyone came away with something positive from the experience AND I hope to make using Lexia easier and easier for you with every opportunity we get.
Indoor Lunch – next week is looking like we may have our first full week of indoor lunch given the report as it reads right now. If you have not done so, please take some time to update your seating charts. If you get a call from a contact tracer, this will make things easier to communicate.
Release Days for Storyline Planning – although the substitute situation is improving dramatically week by week, we are not yet approved to use subs for planned PD.
Craft Day $$ – If you are planning on providing some form of your own craft day next week, there is a line item in the PTO budget under the Priority 3 expenses for supplies that comes to $50 per classroom. The original intention of this line item is/was to allow for parents [based on pre-pandemic experience with parent volunteers] to submit for reimbursement for up to $50 for supplies when they bought and volunteered in the classrooms. Since volunteers won’t be able to contribute this year, we felt this could be utilized to mitigate use of your classroom fund balance. If you did or will be buying some supplies specifically for a craft day experience, then these will be a separate reimbursement request to PTO as these are not part of your classroom storyline funds we now manage in our Student Body Account. If you bring these to me, I can work on getting them processed. It should be noted that we have not met the giving campaign goal yet, so technically not all the priority 3 items will be funded if we do not reach that goal, but that will simply cause the board to make some budget cuts to other line items.
“Test to Stay” – just as an FYI for everyone, I will be attending a webex at 1:30 Friday regarding the new Test to Stay process recently released by the state. From what I’ve read so far, this has some potential to add quite a bit to the office activity, as well as some more confusion regarding quartines, etc.
Nutrition Service Announcement:
In response to new United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) rules, Bend-La Pine Schools will no longer offer “grab and go after school snack/supper” for all students in the new year. Instead, as of January 3, 2022, “snack/supper” will be available only to students enrolled in after school academic programs, such as Kids Inc.. Breakfast and lunch will continue to be provided for all students at no cost for the remainder of the 2021-2022 school year.
SLGG Form – Here is a link to the SLGG form – If you or your team have questions about these and you would like to meet, please let me know. Let’s have these submitted by Friday 12/17.
- LEXIA SLGGs – Here is a screencast video explaining this process. Your goal could be written similar to this; “Students working in below grade level material will make ambitious growth [5 levels or better]. Students working at or above grade level material will make typical growth [4 levels].” This goal is more directed and beneficial to students as it promotes more intentional use, completing the required units rather than just time on the program.
- If you use Dreambox then here is a recommended goal; “During this school year, 100% of students will meet usage recommendations* and will make at least one year’s growth in Dreambox.” [*>5 lessons per week] The Dreambox Impact Report shows the progress from the start of the year.
First Aid – Due to COVID-19 we will again be offering a blended model for the First Aid/CPR class. The class will be done online with a hands-on skills assessment to follow. The online portion of the class should take about three (3) hours with the skills assessment to follow with a first aid/CPR trainer that will take about 20 minutes. The online course can be done to fit your schedule. Your First Aid/CPR card will not be issued until all portions of class are completed.
The process will be as follows:
1 . Sign up for the class in Performance Matters
2. Stephanie Bent will send you a link from HSI/Medic to get started ([email protected]).
Please check your Junk Mail if it does not appear in your regular inbox.
3. After each section of the online session, there will be a one or two question quiz.
4. When scheduled, the hands-on skills assessment schedule will be emailed to you to register if you have completed the online portion. You can only do the in-person skills assessment after you have completed the online portion of the class.
5. The in-person skills assessment will be done in 30-minute increments with 1 to 6 person ratio (20 minutes for the class and 10 minutes to clean and sanitize equipment).
6. First Aid cards will not be sent out until both portions of the class are completed.
The class currently in Performance Matters opens 12/3/2021 with a completion date by 1/28/2022.
Week Preview:
- Monday 12/13
- Tuesday 12/14
- 8:00-9:00 Skip Visiting
- 2:30-3:15 Culture of Care Team Meeting
- Wednesday 12/15
- SIW – Individual Teacher Prep
- Thursday 12/16
- Friday 12/17