{"id":505,"date":"2019-10-18T22:08:12","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T22:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/brian.kissell\/?p=505"},"modified":"2019-10-18T22:18:59","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T22:18:59","slug":"10-18-19-weekly-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/brian.kissell\/2019\/10\/18\/10-18-19-weekly-update\/","title":{"rendered":"10\/18\/19 Weekly Update"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Serious Inspiration!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you would like some serious inspiration visit this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ineos159challenge.com\/\">site<\/a>.  The challenge to break a 2-hour marathon happened and the story is incredibly heart-warming.  Some people have compared this accomplishment to putting a human on the moon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Great Kid Quotes:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>\u201cThe tooth fairy left a 12-dollar bill under my pillow!\u201d<\/li><li>\u201cI love Storyline more than recess!!\u201d<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Sites &amp; Facilities Survey<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Please take some time to respond to the questions in this <a href=\"https:\/\/forms.gle\/U7omYHX324eymFrY7\">survey<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Timeline:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>1st year [this year]<ul><li>Staff Survey Window: Friday 10\/18-11\/8<\/li><li>Site Council Input: Thursday 11\/21 3:00-4:00<\/li><li>Leadership Review &amp; Refine: Thursday 12\/5 2:45-3:30<\/li><li>Process due to district Wednesday 12\/11<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>2nd year [next year]<ul><li>District Sites &amp; Facilities Committee meets regularly over an approximately 6-month period to review school site priorities and needs then makes recommendations to the board.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Visitor\/Volunteer System Change<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">FYI &#8211; Red is the new yellow and yellow is the new red.&nbsp; Red badges now signify visitors and yellow badges now signify volunteers.&nbsp; We are communicating this to parents both verbally and with a poster over the sign-in system.&nbsp; (I am not sure about the why behind the change, and yes, I am having difficulty keeping a straight-face as I type this.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Milage Club Make-Up Days<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Monday 10\/21<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Upcoming Meetings:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Monday 10\/21 EBISS 4th\/5th Grade 2:45-3:30<\/li><li>Tuesday 10\/2 PLC 2:45-3:30 &#8211; Core Effectiveness Meetings (see post below)<\/li><li>Wednesday 10\/22 Conference Prep &amp; Conferences<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Core Effectiveness Meetings<\/strong> &#8211; I will send a document to each grade level team on Monday to guide you through this work on Tuesday afternoon for your PLCs.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>PE-<\/strong>&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/d\/1E5NQzlyYOb1luKMlX2Pfz1vnoI2ZIC25a0HrE_HQ7vU\/edit?usp=sharing\">activities spreadsheet<\/a> for classroom teachers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Dreambox &#8211; <\/strong>On <strong>November 6<\/strong><strong><sup>th<\/sup><\/strong> district SIW there will be a training webinar.&nbsp; <strong>All<\/strong> elementary Dreambox users (\u2154 and \u2158 teachers) at your school will be required to participate in the webinar.&nbsp; This webinar will focus on accessing data and using the Dreambox dashboard. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Good Short Read<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fairly recently I had a conversation with my parents about the changes in parenting and education expectations in our lifetime.\u00a0 This article (summary below; full article linked further below) captured some of the ideas we discussed and I found it really interesting so I thought I would share.  I feel the last paragraph in the summary is incredibly impactful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The Distance Between Adults and Today\u2019s Young People<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cIt\u2019s not our imagination, kids really are different,\u201d says former counselor and administrator Jen Cort in this article in <em>AMLE Magazine<\/em>. \u201cToday\u2019s youth face four constructs that adults either did not experience at all or did not experience in the same way as youth today.\u201d Here\u2019s her list:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u2022 <em>Athletics<\/em> \u2013 Many kids \u201cmajor in sports\u201d as early as seven, and sometimes focus on only one sport. Often it\u2019s, \u201cI\u2019m James, a soccer player,\u201d versus \u201cI am James, I play soccer, baseball, and like video games.\u201d In addition to narrowing their experience and being set up for disappointment if they don\u2019t qualify for elite teams, specialization increases the risk of overuse and traumatic injuries. Some parents get too involved, sending an unfortunate message when victories are followed by an exultant \u201cWe won the game!\u201d but losses by, \u201cI\u2019m sorry you lost.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u2022 <em>Devices<\/em> \u2013 Smartphones are ubiquitous, says Cort, and Google is where kids find out about things that previous generations asked the adults in their lives. One boy was told by his mother that he was too young to know what <em>pansexual<\/em> meant, so he found out online. Another asked about Charlottesville and didn\u2019t get answers, so he went to YouTube and watched the death of Heather Heyer over and over. His takeaway was that if you stand up for what you believe, you can be killed, which directly contradicted what adults had been preaching about being an upstander. Kids are quick to see the hypocrisy of adults telling them not to be on their phones all the time and doing the same thing themselves. But limit-setting is sometimes grudgingly appreciated: one boy acknowledged that his family\u2019s rule about not having a smartphone in the bedroom overnight was good for him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u2022 <em>Development<\/em> \u2013 We used to think the maturation of kids\u2019 frontal lobes (responsible for impulse control) was complete by 18, but now scientists say it\u2019s more like the mid-to late-20s. Puberty happens around sixth grade, right? Actually it occurs between age 8 and 13 for girls and 9 and 14 for boys \u2013 and physical changes are preceded by chemical rumblings. Families celebrate early developmental milestones \u2013 moving from a tricycle to a two-wheeler \u2013 but are reticent when it comes to preparing their kids for adolescence. \u201cParents and teachers serve students well,\u201d says Cort, \u201cby letting them know as young as second grade that just as they grew from babies to second graders, they will also grow from second graders to teenagers. Just as when they were babies, adults are present to support them through these changes.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u2022 <em>Diversity<\/em> \u2013 Let\u2019s assume that people don\u2019t remember most events that occurred before they were four. That means today\u2019s:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8211; &nbsp; 19-year-olds don\u2019t remember a time before smartphones and 9\/11 (and the subsequent surge of Islamophobia).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8211; &nbsp; 18-year-olds are the first to grow up with their country at war their entire lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8211; &nbsp; 15-year-olds don\u2019t remember a time before having an African-American president, and may experience having a white president as unusual.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8211; &nbsp; 8-year-olds don\u2019t remember a time before the resurgence of the women\u2019s movement, the international movement of teens around #Marchforourlives, the legalization of marriage for gay and lesbian couples, and the word <em>transgender<\/em> becoming part of the mainstream lexicon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8211; &nbsp; 7-year-olds don\u2019t remember a time before the #MeToo Movement and the first openly transgender male qualifying for a U.S. Olympic Team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8211; &nbsp; 6-year-olds don\u2019t remember a time before media race awareness changed due to the racist response to a Cheerios commercial featuring an interracial family.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8211; &nbsp; 5-year-olds are the first born into a majority-minority race demographic in the U.S.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe are moving from believing that if we admit to being biased and privileged, we also admit to being racist,\u201d concludes Cort, \u201cto now, not admitting our biases and privileges means we are racially insensitive \u2013 at best prompting the question, \u2018who teaches us in between?\u2019 The answer is that we need to do our own work and learn from our students.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s Different Now\u201d by Jen Cort in <em>AMLE Magazine<\/em>, October 2019 (Vol. 7, #4, pp. 20-22),&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/31gIWcP\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/31gIWcP<\/a>; Cort can be reached at jencortedcon@gmail.com.&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/calendar.google.com\/calendar\/embed?src=gapps.bend.k12.or.us_hhk19vt49jka6j21og22ihnrng%40group.calendar.google.com&amp;ctz=America%2FLos_Angeles\"><strong>Calendar Link<\/strong><\/a><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Serious Inspiration! 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