Our EME Focus
- Tier 1 Instruction
- Belonging
- Define what it means to be an Integrated Arts School
Thoughts of the Week
What do you want to be when you grow up? This kid has a good answer!
The Coming Week
- Monday
- SLGG Overview 2:30-3:15
- Tuesday
- Office Staff Meeting 10:00
- Conferences 3:15-7:15
- Wednesday
- Teacher Prep 7:15-3:15
- Ben and Amanda out 8:00-4:00 for Training
- Conferences 3:15-7:15
- Thursday
- Conferences 7:15-3:15
- Melissa Landolt’s Birthday!
- Pam Bradbury’s Birthday!
- Friday
- No School
UPCOMING DATES:
- November is Native American Heritage Month
- November 4th – Staff Meeting 2:30-3:15
- November 4th – BAM Meeting 3:30-4:45
- November 5th – Election Day
- November 5th – Safety Meeting 7:00-7:30
- November 5th – Kindergarten Field Trip
- November 5th – ICCL Meeting 2:30-3:15
- November 6th – Admin Meeting 7:00-7:30
- November 6th – SIW
- November 7th – Sped Team Meeting – 2:30-3:15
- November 8th – EET Weekly Meeting 8:00-9:00
- November 8th – Safety Cadre Meeing 1:30-3:30
- November 11th – Veterans Day – No School
- National Psychology Week 11th-15th
- November 12th – Care Teams Meeting 7:00-8:00
- November 13th – Admin Meeting 7:00-7:30
- November 13th – EA Meeting 1:00-1:30
- November 13th – SIW Teacher Prep 1:00-2:30
- November 13th – All Admin Meeting 3:00-4:30
- November 14th – Ruby Bridges Day
- November 14th – 4th Grade Field Trip to High Desert 9:00-2:00
- November 14th – Sped Team Meeting – 2:30-3:15
- November 15th – Ben Out
- November 15th – Tori Eisenbeis’ Birthday!
- November 15th – EET Weekly Meeting 8:00-9:00
- November 18th – Committees 2:30-3:15
- November 18th – Principal Cohort 3:00-4:00
- November 19th – Picture Retake Day
- November 19th – Lilly Paradis’ Birthday!
- November 19th – Elementary Admin Horizontal Meeting 3:00-5:00
- November 20th – Admin Meeting 7:00-7:30
- November 20th – SIW
- November 21st – Sped Team Meeting 2:30-3:15
- November 22nd – EET Weekly Meeting 8:00-9:00
- November 24th – Steve Miller’s Birthday!
- November 25th – Amanda Gylling’s Birthday!
- November 25th-29th – Thanksgiving Break
- December 2nd – Staff Meeting 2:30-3:15
- December 3rd – Vision Screening
- December 3rd – EME Safety Meeting 7:00-7:30
- December 4th-6th – Amanda Out for Law Conference
- December 4th – SIW 1:00-2:30
- December 5th – Sped Team Meeting 2:30-3:15
- December 6th – EET Weekly Meeting 8:00-9:00
Updates from Downtown
Hang in there!
From Tammy
Important Links
- SLGGs—plug and play for the year
- Title 1 Compacts to be done at conferences for all Title 1 Schools (now in a fillable pdf too)
- October 23rd Elementary TLC Update
- Topics of Interest/Problem of Practice–get advice from your colleagues
- TAG Folder of helpful things
Notes from our Team:
From Kerry Morton, Math TOSA and Coach: Math Adoption Update!
Math Field Test Materials – October 29-October 31, each elementary school will have all three programs available in their buildings for families and teachers to view. Reach out to a Math Curriculum Review Team member if you have any questions about the programs: Amplify Math with Desmos, StemScopes Math, and Experience Math.
From Jennifer Hauth regarding Wayfinder and EL Integration:
To see completion rates of lessons for teachers in Wayfinder, you need to set the core lessons as the featured content. Here is a tutorial on how administrators can set up featured content for their sites (make sure to scroll down to “For Principals + School Admin”). Check out this document that links EL Module 1 with Wayfinder’s 20 Minute lessons that teach the skills students need that was shared with teachers this week.
From Scott and Becca in Communications: Help us celebrate the veterans throughout Bend-La Pine Schools on Monday, November 11! We would love to say “thank you for your service” on social media and include faces throughout the district. If you have a veteran (or more than one) in your building or department, please ask them if they would like to be included in a social media “thank you.” If the answer is yes, take their photo and email it to [email protected], along with the staff member’s name.
From McScott in Technology: YouTube Access for K-8 Students – Trial of “Allow List” Solution. As you know, we are currently blocking all YouTube content for students in grades K-8. Starting next week, we will be implementing a trial of an “allow list” solution, which will enable students to access a curated set of videos. At present, nearly 1,000 YouTube videos necessary for the SchoolLinks curriculum have been added to this allow list.
Why is this important? If this trial proves successful, we can explore expanding the allow list to include additional teacher-requested YouTube content.
We understand that limiting access to non-essential YouTube content remains a high priority for our staff, and this allow list solution is designed to support that goal without diverting from it.
From Dave VanLoo in School Improvement: Accessing OSAS test scores and ODE Individual Student Reports (ISRs) in Synerg during conferences.
Please share the following information with any staff who may need it, particularly teachers who may want to discuss OSAS during conferences.
We have been working for some time to enhance access to OSAS state test results across multiple Synergy applications. Here is a folder with brief instructions for staff, parents, and students to access OSAS state test scores in a variety of ways. All these groups can view and download the one-page ISRs that ODE creates each year. Teachers also can view lists of OSAS scores for their classes in TeacherVue. ISRs from spring 2024 testing have been loaded in English and Spanish ISRs should be there next week. Whether Spanish ISRs are loaded for a student is based on the ‘resolved’ language in Synergy.
ODE requires schools to report OSAS results to parents annually. In the past this process has been time and resource intensive and involved downloading, printing, and sorting thousands of pieces of paper. With ISRs available in both ParentVue and StudentVue, users can now access OSAS results on-demand in Synergy. This will significantly reduce the number of printed copies that end up in trash or recycling. Schools still should plan to print an ISR for any parents who request it and may continue to print ISRs as makes sense.
During conferences, teachers who want to use ISRs now have the option to quickly pull them up in real time and display them on any screens that are available to them.
Please reach out to Dave VanLoo with any questions about accessing OSAS results in Synergy.
From our Amazing Bus Drivers and Transportation Department! Please share this flyer with your families, (in your newsletters and/or posted at conferences) as our transportation department is holding their very own trunk or treat for our students at the bus garage! This event is something that the drivers are doing to show the kids how much they love them. Pass it on!
Important Dates
- Conferences: Oct 29–3:15-7:15, Oct 30–3:15-7:15, Oct 31–7:15-3:15
- October 30: Certified work day, 7:15-3:15
- October 30: Administrator EL training–Ensworth Elementary, 8:00-2:30—lunch provided!
- October 31: Safe School Trainings need to be done by today
- November 4: Karen Rush’s first official day!!! (Maybe sooner if we are lucky!)
- November 8: Safety Cadre Meets at the Ed Center Boardroom, 1:30-3:30
- November 11: Veteran’s Day–No School
- November 13: All Admin Meeting at Perseverance Hall, 3:00-4:30
- November 19: Horizontal meeting, @ Bear Creek, hosted by BCE and Miller, 3:00-5:00