Leadership Reminder- On Monday, October 7th, we will be walking our leadership team through an exercise for our district’s Excellence and Equity Review that we are asking each school to complete on a School Improvement Wednesday. The activity will take approximately 90 minutes.
You can lead your staff in this activity on any Wednesday between October 9th and November 13th. We are emphasizing this because you will have some data you’ll be asked to share with your staff, and it’s important that you and your ICCL’s are familiar with the data and able to answer questions.
Please be sure to bring you laptop. Let us know if you have any questions or concerns.
SLGG- Please complete your SLGG’s and have them ready when I visit in October. I am fine if you would rather do them electronically and email them to me before our October visit. Forms can be found here and here.
Conferences- Your sites once again have options for conferences. Option 1: 4-8 on Wednesday, Noon-8 on Thursday, 8-Noon on Friday. Option 2: 4-8 on Wednesday, 8-8 on Thursday, Off on Friday. Teachers have 8-4 on Wednesday as a prep for both options. As always, the decision at your site needs to be consensus.
Interpreters- I haven’t received much input regarding best ways to schedule interpreters, so I’ll take a stab at it and hope for the best. Please work closely with your ELL teacher. Complete this spreadsheet indicating how many conferences will need interpreters. In conjunction with your ELL teachers, work with families to find best blocks of time and choose two from the following choices:
- Wednesday, 4-8
- Thursday, 8-noon
- Thursday, noon- 4
- Thursday, 4-8
If at all possible, please attempt to choose at least one that isn’t an evening. If everyone signs up for just evenings, we won’t have enough interpreters (and still might not). Please provide the information by the end of the day, next Thursday. If you do not need interpreters, please write “none” in each box so that we know you’ve been considered. Please factor in availability of your own staff who are able to conduct conferences in Spanish or provide interpreting before completing your requests. The more we can conduct in house, the more likely we will be able to meet all needs at all schools. We don’t yet know how many interpreters are available, but want to be able to start scheduling as soon as the ESD tells us who we have. Thank you for your help!
From HR- On Monday, October 7, an Excel Spreadsheet of your current certified assignment, FTE and budget accounts for the 2019/20 school year will be emailed to you. This list shows all changes up through September 30th. We have delayed this process until now to try and capture all the late hires and additional FTE to each certified employee, however there still may be some changes that have not processed through Payroll yet until the October PA run. If you see a change that needs to be made, please submit a PA to Carrie Hulbert as soon as possible.
Also attached will be a current licensure list of each licensed employee in your building with the endorsements they are approved to teach. Each year we report to the Oregon Department of Education by SCED code to ensure correct certification for each teacher. If you have a certified employee teaching outside of their endorsement, please contact Candy Gelatt as soon as possible.
Thank you for your dedication in working with us on this project every year. Your time and hard work is very much appreciated.
PE- Please be sure to share the PE keynote with your staff if you haven’t already. The activities spreadsheet is also now ready to share with teachers. Please do so as soon as possible. PE teachers will continue to update this and add to it as the year goes on, so I will keep you updated.
Boundary Change- Here is a document outlining the boundary change process that will occur this fall/winter – and go into effect in the fall of 2021 (when the new HS opens). If you are interested in learning about the timeline of this process or curious about who is involved – check this out!
I stole the below video from Jim’s blog. A great reminder that you don’t always get to see the impact you make, but you are making a difference. Thank you.
Upcoming Events
October 7- Leadership Meeting- 3:15- Board Room
October 21- Horizontal Meeting- 3:15- Site TBD
October 23-25- Conferences