Great Short Inspirational Read – Click here
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!!!!!
How’s it going? Please don’t wait for something negative to share here – it’s always nice to read the positives too.
YouthTruth Survey – The YouthTruth survey is extended for another week until Friday 2/4.. Here’s the link to the staff survey.
Info from Heidi and the Highland Culture of Care Team: Our character trait for the month of February is Problem Solvers. Thank you to Becky H. for signing up to make a video for the February assembly on the 25th Here is the link to our year long assembly plan with a few resources.
As a team, we are continuing to read Classroom 180. Our next SIW will be on February 2nd and we plan on discussing domains 2 and 3. We also want to hear from YOU! The plan is to hold another “Fishbowl” to discuss regulation and using the language of trauma. You can also bring your wonderings and problems that need solving! Thanks! ~Heidi Thomas
SEL Lessons: Reminder, I (Heidi) am ALWAYS happy to come in and teach what I call an anchor SEL lesson! I also love helping teachers brainstorm ways to integrate SEL into their day. I have a lot of resources to share with you, just let me know what you need. This is the time of year when we start to see behaviors showing up more frequently and at higher rates. Class meetings, restorative circles and targeted lessons are just a few ways we can help mitigate them.
2021-2022 Staffing Survey: This is a ways off, but I am gathering information for planning for next year. Please take a moment to respond to the survey linked here.
6-10 Day Club: thanks for your patience and understanding as we figure this out. We did our best with the information as it crystallized, but it was definitely a moving target. Keep your fingers crossed for a more stable target next week.
Time Change Reminder – New Bell Schedule – Starts Monday 2/7:
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday
- 7:30-7:40 Student arrival and line up
- 7:40 – First bell – teachers meet students in line, you may enter the building with kids when ready.
- 7:45 – Second bell – school starts
- 2:15 – School dismissal
- 2:18 – Bus leaves
- Wednesday
- 7:30-7:40 Student arrival and line up
- 7:40 – First bell – teachers meet students in line, you may enter the building with kids when ready.
- 7:45 – Second bell – school starts
- 12:45 – School dismissal
- 12:48 – Bus leaves
Indoor Meal Plan: Zach placed all the cafeteria tables and it looks like we will be able to fit around 70 students at a time with adequate spacing. This should allow us to put the entire Kindergarten or the entire 1st grade down stairs for lunch time and we can fit two of the upper grade classes in there during their lunch periods. I will put a plan in writing and run it by Skip and Tammy as soon as I can. Once I have their approval I will give you a start date and a rotation schedule for utilizing the cafeteria.
Culminations: In the next update I will share a Culmination Planning Checklist google form. The hope is that we might have some options for in-person culminations in March, assuming our community and district conditions allow for it. If you would like to think differently about how to provide an after school, in person culminating event, then this will be the place to start your planning. It is not mandatory for anyone to provide an in person culmination and, in fact, it’s probably best not to provide one for every class. Although we will want to start our own planning soon, we should not advertise this to parents until we have more confidence in an approval. We’ll leave the google form open for about a week and then once we have some plans in place we’ll work on gaining approval. Even if you do want to try for the in person culmination, you will likely want to create a Plan B, just in case. Email me if you have any questions.
FROM BEA (SARAH BARCLAY) Equitable Grading Practices: As everyone knows Bend-La Pine Schools has been moving through a process, in collaboration with BEA, to examine best practices in grading at the secondary level. OEA has also been exploring this topic of discussion and we wanted to ensure that all BEA members were aware of some available resources.
- Grading for Equity Book Study Flier: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1J7d4MjAPOPuPsrQJRAvVc8ZfuIPzHMnj/view?usp=sharing (This is the same book the BLS Equitable Grading Think Tank has been using to guide their work!)
- Rethinking Grading Webinar Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nl3_0SNHqpE
Week Preview:
- Monday 1/31
- Tuesday 2/1
- 2:30-3:15 Safety Team
- Wednesday 2/2
- SIW – Culture of Care
- Thursday 2/3
- 2:30-3:15 Leadership
- Friday 2/4
- No Students – Report Card Day
- All elem admin are at Skyview for the morning. I plan to be on campus for the afternoon, if you need a distraction from working on report cards.