Hiring- A couple of notes from HR regarding hiring when we do get the green light:
- The transfer interviews we conducted in April were for the generic primary and intermediate postings. If you hire off of those postings, you are not required to interview in district teachers wanting a transfer. The transfer interviews fulfilled that requirement. If you are hiring off of any other postings, you are required to interview any in district teacher who has put in for that opening. Call if you have any question.
- Please remember requirements around veterans. If you have any questions about those requirements, please contact Jon or Debbie in HR.
Schedules- As many of you are beginning to work on schedules for next year, I think it is a good time to remember our standards of practice, specifically instructional time. As we move into RTI for SLD, it is especially important that we maintain our instructional time. Here are links to the standards of practice:
Title I- Well….I once again inquired with our ODE rep about when we might be receiving our Title I allocations for next year. Unfortunately, I was told they hoped to have those to us by the end of THIS month. Last month, they hoped to have it to us by the end of that month. So, ODE is hoping to get that to us by the end of May. I realize what this does to you (and us) in regards to staffing and hiring and know that waiting is difficult as so many decisions hinge on Title I $$. We know that there are more students in the state and less of them are in poverty (a good thing). But that does mean less money from the feds to the state. We also know that our F & R numbers as a district have gone down. Both of those things make me believe we will receive less from the state this year. Am I sure? No. How much less do I think we’ll get? No idea. I have asked JoAnne to run some guestimate budgets in order to help us come up with some possible paths. I had her run what things would look like if we got the same allocation as last year with costs going up (i.e. your cost per FTE will increase this year). I’ve also asked her to run one with a 10% reduction to our Title I allocation (realizing that our average reduction over the last four years has been 9+%), again factoring in increased costs. Neither of those look great-any time you get the same amount of money, but your costs go up, it is difficult-and I won’t even talk about getting less money. I am meeting with Shay, Jay and Lora on Monday to share those figures and discuss priorities. If it looks like your school may be taking a hit with one or both of the above scenarios, I’ll try to touch base with you asap. Again, this is all guess work, but I hope that we can know what direction we’ll take so that we can move as quickly as possible once we have our allocation. In the meantime, thank you for your patience and understanding.
PD Opportunities- Here are a couple of PD opportunities to share with your staffs.
Eval Conference- Please remember to complete your self-eval by May 26. Please also sign up for an end of year eval conference with me right here.
May 17 SIW- The May 17 SIW will NOT be a district SIW. It is yours to use how you need it.
Upcoming Events
May 14- Mother’s Day
May 15- Horizontal Meeting @ 4:00 P.M. @ Elk Meadow
May 16- Apple Integration Training @ PCMS. 2:00-5:00.
May 26- Self- Evals complete
May 29- Memorial Day- No School