Author Archives: Gary Defrang

In 2019, Bend-La Pine School District, in partnership with Better Together, received a $1.5 million grant from the Central Oregon Health Council to develop and strengthen trauma-informed cultures across education systems in Central Oregon. As part of this initiative, you … Continue reading →

Week at a Glance for February 17th-21st Monday: No School-President’s Day Tuesday: 2:45 PLC Meetings: Math Focus Wednesday: 1:30 School Tour School Improvement Wednesday: Work in Classroom Day Thursday: 7:30-8:30 Kindergarten Parent/Guardian Coffee and Connect Social hosted by PTO in … Continue reading →

February is Black History Month. Here are some resources from the Instructional Technology Department you may wish to use with your students. As we discussed at the Staff Meeting on Tuesday, #110 is the code for schoolwide announcements via the … Continue reading →

Happy Halfway Through the School Year! Heads Up…School Improvement Wednesday on February 12th will be PLC Time for grade levels to work on Lava Read 🙂 We are off to the Olympics! The Olympics will be our AR theme this … Continue reading →

This week we sent the note below to families about the adjustments we have made to the student drop-off/pick-up area: “The next time you drop-off or pick-up your student you will see a safety improvement we have made to the … Continue reading →

We have two dress rehearsals and a drumming assembly on the horizon. Details below- 1/29:  4th grade dress rehearsal  @ 9:40 (load at 9:30)  Recesses after assembly.   Lunch will be in classrooms on this date. 2/26:  2nd grade dress rehearsal … Continue reading →

During School Improvement Wednesday we will be meeting in School Design Teams. With our faculty collaborating to determine the strategies we use to meet our goals, we are counting on all certified staff to be part of this work. The … Continue reading →

One of the things I enjoy in December are “Best of …” lists for the year . Came across one from the School Library Journal you may find of interest (on the right hand side of the page are more … Continue reading →

A note from the PBIS Team…The PBIS team is working on the staff request to organize PBIS character trait lessons, videos, and other documents in a Google Drive folder. There is now a PBIS folder in your shared drive located … Continue reading →

I came across an interesting article from Education Week with 10 ideas for supporting students impacted by trauma. It can be located here. Interested in donating to the United Way? Additional pamphlets of information can be found at the mailboxes … Continue reading →