Author Archives: Gary Timms

Safe Touch- From Skip- A big thank you to the Salem-Keizer Schools and a group of our elementary counselors, who got together to format the K-5 lessons from the Barbara Sinatra Children’s Center Child Abuse Awareness and Prevention Program.  This program is … Continue reading →

IPS- Please read the MTSS (formerly EBISS) overview. It is a nice summary of tier 1, 2 and 3. Tier 3 is IPS. In addition, check out the Tier 3 (IPS) checklist for if/ when a student moves to IPS. … Continue reading →

Inclement Weather- Elementary schools in BLP are to keep students inside if temperature (including windchill) drops below 20. We have a bit of wiggle room for judgement, but if it is below 20 we will be inside in most cases. … Continue reading →

Lots of extra coverage for unfilled sub jobs today. The silver lining for you is that notes are short. FYI- For those of you who don’t know, Claire will be out for three weeks beginning next week for abdominal surgery. … Continue reading →

Wireless Access Points- Just a reminder of our previous email informing you that our wireless will be down beginning at 2:45 today so that the district tech dept. can replace our wireless access points. Should be up and ready to … Continue reading →

Report Cards- Please remember these are to be sent home on Thursday, February 10. Thanks to Becky for putting the district letter in report card envelopes. Dibels/Reading/100% meetings- Winter dibels scores are now in and you have probably had an … Continue reading →

Report Cards- TLC sent report card info to us late this morning. Lots of good info in this. Some highlights and decisions that have been made: Report cards are to be sent home Thursday, February 10. We will make copies … Continue reading →

PBIS- Just another reminder from PBIS team that it’s never too early to review and remind students of our rules/expectations. Please be sure to do your rules rodeo and be handing out those Bronco bucks. We know that statistically and … Continue reading →

STEM Survey- On Wednesday, the STEM team will be meeting with the STEM Hub to figure out the details of our summer STEM PD. Please complete the survey to give us an idea of how we can tailor this PD … Continue reading →

SIW- Thanks to the PBIS team for the SIW on Wednesday. Remember to be on the lookout for the collaborative problem solving class if you want to take a much deeper dive into our learning from yesterday. A couple of … Continue reading →