Staffing- Lots going on here so wanted to provide a bit of an update/timeline.
- Transfer interview announcement went out from Jon today. We will hold these on March 3 at North Star. Process will be the same as past years. Please tell me by February 28 if you are going to attend the transfer interviews so I know who to put on the schedule.
- Generic primary and intermediate regular and temp in town and s. county have been posted.
- I have requested permission to post elementary counselor positions as soon as possible. Some of you will be hiring counselors. There will be a limited number available. I’d like to do the interviewing for these as a team and place counselors cooperatively. I’ll work with s. county schools as well to determine if we want to do a separate s. county elementary counselor posting. We won’t do anything without talking to you so don’t worry.
- We are working on a job description for the behavioral/SEL support positions coming your way. We will work closely together to post/hire for these as I suspect there could be quite a bit of interest.
- You will receive staffing allocations March 13.
- Complete your staffing plans asap after that including any staff returning from leaves (Jon will be meeting with Katie, Jim and me soon to determine who is/isn’t returning) and indicating openings you may have.
- I will give ok to post any school specific openings after I have approved your plans- probably sometime during the week after you are given allocations.
- We will follow the same process as years past- I will approve a posting or you to interview using generic pools. I will then send an email to you and HR indicating approval. You will then be able to move forward.
- You will be able to begin hiring as soon as all of the above is complete AND we are ok to hire… you may be able to post, but there is always potential for hiring process to stall depending on funding/etc.
I think that covers most of it. Please call if you have any questions.
BRYT- Thanks for your thinking and feedback on the BRYT support we are considering to help with implementation of the new behavior/SEL positions. Please share any thoughts you might have with me in the next few days.
Here is an article that was published last week regarding BRYT.
Resiliency Survey- Your school’s Child and Youth Resilience Survey (CYRM) administration day coming soon. Please check to see if your date is ok. If not, communicate as directed below. Please note that there are two important actions for you to do:
- Check your survey date and communicate with Shelley Irwin if you need to change the date.
- Send parent notification at least 1 week prior to administering the survey.
Everything you need can be found in the link below. Please let me know if you have any questions.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xvuAkKuAN8VV6O4RKQ2I4WASUETWPAXxQGW6xPXzQ9E/edit?usp=sharing
Kindergarten Round UP- April 22 is the day. Thanks for your feedback.
The Center Foundation Helmet Give Away– If you haven’t already signed up for this, please do ASAP. See below.
We are fortunate to be working with The Center Foundation once again to provide bicycle helmets for any third grader in need. Please schedule a time for your school. You will need to provide 45 minutes for the assembly and fitting. Assemblies need to be scheduled to take place between April 14 and May 29 and must be scheduled in the morning. They can only accommodate one school per day, so please do not schedule a day if another school has already scheduled for that day. Your school contact should expect an email about a month before your assembly with a permission letter and directions. Please be sure your school contact, if not you, is on top of things so permission slips get delivered and collected on time. Stuart Schmidt will be the contact for The Center Foundation. He can be contacted at [email protected] or 541-322-2323. You can also give me a call if you have a question. Thank you for your help with this. It’s a valuable service they offer for our students.
Grow Your Own- You may or may not be aware that we have a “Grow Our Own” incentive program here in our district, where support is given to current classified employees to pursue a credential/degree in a hard-to-fill position. This program is relatively new and we believe not everyone is aware of it. The attached documents were sent out to all classified staff, but if you know of any amazing classified staff in your building who would do great in a hard-to-fill certified role, it would be awesome to have you encourage these folks to attend the info session. (Thanks to Kinsey for promoting/highlighting this program!)