Author Archives: Gary Defrang

Week at a Glance for December 2nd-6th Monday: Gift and Canned Food Drive Begins Tuesday: 2:00 PAW Celebration for November 2:45 Staff Meeting Wednesday: School Improvement Wednesday: We have invited Sean Reinhart from Special Programs to share information on the … Continue reading →

Friday is College Day! Got any gently used, OSU, U of O or other university’s children t-shirts or sweatshirts at home? Consider donating them to FAN and Tara will get them into the hands of our students who might not … Continue reading →

The feedback on the online master calendar has been verypositive! As events are added or dates adjusted (ie EBISS, Golden Ticket) Miriam usually updates the calendar that day. 🙂 Thank you for your time with progress monitoring. Our EA team … Continue reading →

Thank you for returning your completed salmon-colored reflection sheet from the Collective Genius SIW activity to my mailbox. We will put extras by the mailboxes for those who may not have received one on Wednesday. After talking with several of … Continue reading →

On Friday, November 1st we are participating in the Education Foundation Principal for the Day event. In the morning we will have a guest community member on site learning about Lava Ridge and the magic that you make happen every … Continue reading →

I came across this article on increasing student participation in class. The focus is on strategies to get all students participating in discussions especially those who may be reluctant to share their ideas. We are noticing an increased number of … Continue reading →

Thank you for letting Miriam know of any visitors coming to your class who do not volunteer for you on a regular basis. This advance notice provides time to make sure the person has completed their background check and so … Continue reading →

The Children’s Forest of Central Oregon has the goal of providing all children and youth in Central Oregon first hand connections with nature by providing meaningful, inspirational, and interdisciplinary education programs. More information about lessons, resources, and field trip grants … Continue reading →

It is SLGG time! 🙂 The good news is that nothing has changed…still two goals that are based on 100% of students demonstrating growth. The standard form (DIBELS, easy CBM, Lucy) and other form for creating your own goals have … Continue reading →

Thank you for your input into our Conference schedule for the year. Here are the results. In August I shared information with you about a couple of grant opportunities. A repost of this information is below: The Education Foundation has … Continue reading →