{"id":726,"date":"2020-11-14T01:26:25","date_gmt":"2020-11-14T01:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/brian.kissell\/?p=726"},"modified":"2020-11-14T01:26:25","modified_gmt":"2020-11-14T01:26:25","slug":"november-13-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/brian.kissell\/2020\/11\/14\/november-13-update\/","title":{"rendered":"November 13 Update"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

State Freeze – <\/strong>With Governor Brown\u2019s announcement today I am being directed to encourage you to work from home if at all possible during this upcoming two-week freeze.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

New & Improved <\/strong>– I changed up the format to weekly update.  The most recent post should be your first visible post.  I also added a calendar and a search function.  You can use this search function to shorten the time necessary to look back and reread those old posts.  I hope that helps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Staff Absences <\/strong>– please remember all staff absences are confidential.  Shawna and I cannot share any information unless we have explicit permission so please do not put us in a position that threatens the privacy of another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shout Out Ticket<\/a> \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

SEL Ticket <\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bring out the Best<\/strong><\/a> – The brief (less than 5 min) video linked below is a great source of learning for anyone interested in bringing the best out of people, both adults and kids.\u00a0 Although video focuses on hiring processes, this kind of approach and attitude is valuable for developing people, teams and especially developing the strengths of our students.\u00a0 Watch it and compare and contrast some of our school practices to this approach.\u00a0 I think you\u2019ll find it valuable.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SEL\/Culture of Care: <\/strong>There are now 7 SEL menus available here<\/a>! I have started working with different grade levels on what kind of additional SEL support they would like. Please reach out if you are looking for something specific, I am more than willing to help!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Your culture of care tip of the week:  When their storm meets our calm, co-regulation occurs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meetings Next Week:<\/strong> Based on some of the information coming out today, I am going to ask everyone to pencil in a staff webex meeting for Tuesday at 2:00<\/strong>.  I will confirm or cancel on Monday, but it might be good to touch base one more time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While I\u2019m Out<\/strong> – I am out of the building from now on.  I will be working from home until Tuesday 11\/17.  Until then, please feel free to email and\/or call me.  After the 17th, please continue to email me and Heidi Thomas with any questions or concerns throughout my absence.  I will put my Out-of-office reply on from the 18th until the 29th, but I will start checking messages as soon as I am feeling up to it after the surgery.  Heidi will be able to problem solve just about everything and if needed she can punt to Vanessa or me when I am back online when the need arises.  (As of Friday evening, the surgery is still on – fortunately the hospital needs money, so as long as there is not a surge of critical COVID patients, I should be good to go…I am biting my nails though!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Return to School Phases – <\/strong>Watch the WebEx from Lindsley on the TLC update to see this document and more.  A key message you should hear is that Asynchronous week is intended to give you a week to prepare for students coming to campus.  There is no expectation that the same rigor and schedule is being maintained during that week, so don\u2019t expect that of yourself.  Based on the numbers I think there is a very low to no chance that we could consider seeing kids on our campus prior December 7. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ready for Hybrid?<\/strong> – all your rooms have what is needed for hybrid.  Some of you have some tidying up to do to be fully ready but you have all the basics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ready for All In?<\/strong> – most of your rooms are ready as they are, but some of you will need to add singles and\/or trade out the doubles.  I put a request for 60-70 of these desks.  At this point there is nothing you can do until we know if and when these desks are coming.  Kinder team – you have more tables coming to you from team up (after the move) and I anticipate using some other smaller desks to provide more options when the time comes.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

LIPI <\/strong>– Since this was shared in a BEA announcement, I will let you know that we [principals] were made aware today that there are meetings occurring next week regarding LIPI and looking at ways to expand its use to get more students into our buildings.  Just as a reminder the group size for LIPI is 20 or less and it\u2019s for no more than 2 hours at a time.  No decisions are made right now, but as the metrics continue to evade us, this might be a way for us to get some contact with students while still playing within the rules.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Safety Team<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n