{"id":1341,"date":"2020-01-24T18:51:14","date_gmt":"2020-01-24T18:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/gary.timms\/?p=1341"},"modified":"2020-01-24T18:51:14","modified_gmt":"2020-01-24T18:51:14","slug":"january-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/gary.timms\/2020\/01\/24\/january-24\/","title":{"rendered":"January 24"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Oregon RTIi Conference-<\/strong><\/span> This year&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1ToMiBtFrtDAdE9pFKc-HCdPplYZv_SUK\/view?usp=sharing\">Oregon RTIi conference<\/a> is being held April 8, 9 and 10 in Portland. I would highly encourage you to consider taking a team. Registration is half full already, so don&#8217;t wait too long.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Head Start Family Nights-<\/span><\/strong> We are in need of some kindergarten teachers to attend some Head Start Family nights. These are low key Q and A&#8217;s that include dinner. We have done this for several years and have found it to be a great way to reach out to families to help them with the transition to kindergarten and get them registered this spring. Teachers who attend can fill out a timesheet and get 2 hours at curriculum rate. Below are the times\/places. Please let me know if you have a teacher who wants to do this. Thank you.<\/p>\n<div>Healy Heights: 1900 Bear Creek Road: Family night is Feb. 13th, dinner begins at 5:30 and parent meeting at 6pm.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>East Bend\u00a0 on Dagget:\u00a0 Feb. 13th 5:30 dinner and meeting at 6:00 pm<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>La Pine on Coach Road:\u00a0 Feb. 6th 5:30 dinner and 6:00 pm parent meeting<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>South Bend on Brosterhaus Road: Feb. 4th dinner at 5:30 parent meeting at 6pm.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Special Programs Service Delivery-<\/strong><\/span> Please see <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1TiGLEqctUg87DE5RKS0tTdh3uQ3DlYlezA_n-AJ2PW8\/edit?usp=sharing\">Sean&#8217;s summary<\/a> of some proposed changes to how special services programming is delivered.<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Resiliency Survey-<\/strong><\/span> We will once again be administering the Resiliency survey. Please see below for details. These will begin on February 24. Be on the lookout for scheduling information as support will be coming to your schools to help administer.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Improvement Science Training-<\/strong><\/span> Some of you have heard about or participated in an <strong>Improvement Science<\/strong> training in the past year or so. The HDESD is bringing two additional PD opportunities to Central Oregon in the next month. There will be a <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1I73a3-xZHXy5R9z-IfkyhpMB82F6TKG6\/view?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">basic training<\/a> (Feb. 10), as well as an <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1y59ebRAjbAwMcYsN5Db2t0jJ0GChYqJD\/view?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">advanced training<\/a> (Jan. 31) opportunity. Both are free and will be held at the HDESD. Click on a link to find out more or to register.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>HR Note from Debbie-<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If an employee is scheduled for four (4) hours but less than six (6) hours, the employee must be scheduled for one fifteen (15) minute <u>paid<\/u> break<\/li>\n<li>Employees scheduled for six (6) hours get a fifteen (15) minute <u>paid<\/u> break and a minimum of a thirty (30) minute <u>unpaid<\/u> meal period<\/li>\n<li>Employees scheduled for more than six (6) hours shall receive two (2) fifteen (15) minute <u>paid<\/u> breaks and a minimum of one (1) thirty (30) minute <u>unpaid<\/u> meal period.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Also, please know you cannot regularly schedule lunches or breaks at the start or end of the employee\u2019s work hours, or combine break and lunch periods to provide for early release or longer lunch breaks.\u00a0 This would be considered a violation of our contract and Oregon law.\u00a0 You do, however, have flexibility to modify an employee\u2019s daily schedule for an extenuating circumstance.\u00a0 If you have any questions about employee work schedules and ensuring you are providing the appropriate paid and unpaid breaks, please call our office.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Sustainability-<\/strong><\/span>Please see message from Jackie Wilson, BLSD Sustainability Coordinator-<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\">Please see <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/181iMWGN0ZeVxcDgJNje4zdmwab5mc6Gx\/view?usp=sharing\">information about energy use in the district<\/a> and where all schools are in the ENERGY STAR ranking across the district. Also included in the update is a link to a survey about energy management. I am hoping to get a few hundred to take the survey and get a better pool of information to work from. The link is here:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"https:\/\/www.surveymonkey.com\/r\/T2CSFFR\" href=\"https:\/\/www.surveymonkey.com\/r\/T2CSFFR\">https:\/\/www.surveymonkey.com\/r\/T2CSFFR<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Horizontal Meeting-<\/strong><\/span> We will have our horizontal meeting on Monday at High Lakes beginning at 3:15. Please see last week&#8217;s notes so that you are prepared for our Excellence and Equity report review activity.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll leave you with a <a href=\"https:\/\/storycorps.org\/stories\/why-do-you-like-space-so-much-a-nasa-engineer-talks-with-his-space-obsessed-nephew\/\">fun, light, inspiring conversation between a kindergartner and NASA engineer.<\/a> How awesome is it that we get to work with kids every day! Be sure to allow yourself a minute&#8230;or 2 and a half once in a while to talk with a couple of them about whatever they want! It&#8217;s worth it!<\/p>\n<p>Have a great weekend! See you Monday at High Lakes.<\/p><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oregon RTIi Conference- This year&#8217;s Oregon RTIi conference is being held April 8, 9 and 10 in Portland. I would highly encourage you to consider taking a team. Registration is half full already, so don&#8217;t wait too long. 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