Dan shared this video that does a great job of illustrating how many of us feel right now.<\/p>\n
<\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here’s a fun way that Jen is connecting with families at Miller. Thanks, Jen!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1n_BwXsB-WRGengHdsK8ck5XhlPIz7sTj\/view\">https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1n_BwXsB-WRGengHdsK8ck5XhlPIz7sTj\/view<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Connecting with families-<\/span><\/strong> Amazing work connecting with your families. There are about 8,120 students enrolled in BLP elementary schools and we have had contact with all but 28 since our distance learning roll out went live on April 1! That’s 99.7%- an A+ in most grade books. We know there are students who have packets or ipads who are not maintaining regular contact with teachers. That will be our next step. How and what will we do to get those students engaged? Great work and thank you for your efforts!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>From Lora-<\/strong><\/span> Elementary Team-Gary sent me the information today that for our entire elementary school population, we have only 28 on the \u201cunable to contact\u201d list. I am well aware that many students\/families you HAVE contacted are facing huge challenges right now, but I am so grateful for our caring staffs and their outreach efforts. You all rock!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Kindergarten Registration\/round up-<\/strong><\/span> I’m working on a plan that I will get approval for sometime next week. I will roll it out to you during our horizontal meetings or in the blog next week.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Report Cards\/Grades-<\/strong><\/span> I wouldn’t spend much (if any) time worrying about this right now. We will have a plan to share in the coming weeks. The goal will be to make it practical, realistic given our current circumstances, simple for teachers to complete and valuable information for parents.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Bridges Materials-<\/strong><\/span> As i shared in our horizontal meetings, Bridges has prepared a lot of materials to help teachers and families continue learning. Links below. please share with teachers. You may have trouble logging in, but your teachers should not. I’ll check to see if you can get login info if you want.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"https:\/\/bridges.mathlearningcenter.org\/home-learning\" href=\"https:\/\/bridges.mathlearningcenter.org\/home-learning\">Bridges Remote Learning Packets<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"https:\/\/www.mathlearningcenter.org\/home-learning\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mathlearningcenter.org\/home-learning\">Bridges Math At Home Resources<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Between the Bridges materials and Dreambox, math should be pretty thorough and simple to plan.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">District Guidelines-<\/span><\/strong> When the <strong>district guidance Google doc is updated<\/strong>, we\u2019ll try and remember to share with you when those updates occur and what they deal with. Here is your first update:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Under #5\u2026A new document, an FAQ from Sean and his team about SPED, has been added as a separate document.<\/li>\n<li>Under # 1 and #2\u2026We pulled docs out about high school grading and graduation.\u00a0 Have not replaced those with updated content yet.<\/li>\n<li>Under #7\u2026We added some content about how to access Google Voice when using your personal phone to mask your number and set up another number.\u00a0 We included a link about that.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>From Alandra re: Social Media-<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>SOCIAL MEDIA: We are seeing an uptick in digital communication and many schools and staff creating new social media accounts. Quick reminder that staff members who wish to create a professional social media account need to check in with Alandra Johnson. She has some important guidelines and tips to share about using social media while representing our schools. Send an email to <a href=\"mailto:Alandra.johnson@bend.k12.or.us\">Alandra.johnson@bend.k12.or.us<\/a> (She is also glad to hear from those who have already created accounts and now want to make them official.)<\/li>\n<li>RESOURCES FOR FAMILIES: When sharing community resources with families, be sure to use our district pages, which are updated, vetted and approved (many are also translated):<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bend.k12.or.us\/district\/parents\/families-need\">Families in Need<\/a> also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bend.k12.or.us\/district\/parents\/families-need\/familias-necesitadas\">Familias necesitadas<\/a> (Spanish)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bend.k12.or.us\/district\/parents\/student-mental-health\">Student Mental Health<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bend.k12.or.us\/coronavirus\">COVID-19<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bend.k12.or.us\/informacion\">Informaci\u00f3n<\/a> (resources in Spanish)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>FAN Update from Dana-<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\">Talk to your FAN Advocate about assigning a\u00a0classified staff member to help with outreach. \u00a0Some schools have done this and it has helped lessen the load for the FAN\u00a0Advocate.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\">We will be\u00a0conducting our Spring MAC Survey the week of April 20. \u00a0Mara Stephens and the FAN Advocates will get information out to staff. \u00a0Mara has also recorded a training that can be viewed by staff members that need to complete the MAC training.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\">Please remind staff that if they hear of\u00a0families\u00a0that are now homeless, we need to get them counted. \u00a0Connect with your FAN Advocate so she can follow up.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\">There is a district team that is working to\u00a0identify locations\u00a0where\u00a0students are not able to access the\u00a0Grab and Go lunches. \u00a0Look for\u00a0information in the days to come about expanded food delivery locations.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\">FAN Advocates are collecting names for the Hot Spots. \u00a0Dana, Ben and Skip\u00a0continue to coordinate\u00a0with Bend Broadband to get connectivity up for those that apply. \u00a0Hot Spots will be coming soon, and a plan for\u00a0distribution will\u00a0follow also. \u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\">Please take a\u00a0minute to reach out and thank your Advocate. \u00a0They are all working incredibly hard and are doing\u00a0everything they can to connect students and\u00a0families to services. \u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\">If you feel there is an unmet need, please don’t\u00a0hesitate to email or call Dana\u00a0Pedersen. \u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>From Hayley E for Behavior Support-<\/strong><\/span> Our team of amazing <strong>Behavior Coaches have organized a user-friendly tool for parents<\/strong>. The tools in this resource- schedules, ready\/not ready, and break routines- are tools that we use when coaching across the district (so students may\/will be familiar). All the links are set for\u00a0<em>Anyone with the link can view<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1grqj9kaCQq7GUQWsX-OI4qv3bu6WocH6akMZAjm-eFA\/edit?usp=sharing\">Behavior Coaching Tools: For Parents & Families<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Outreach Google Survey-<\/strong><\/span> At this time we will not be having you do the outreach google doc that I referenced in our horizontal meetings. Your ELL and FAN are coordinating to help with much of what was referenced in Dana’s notes above.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>SPED info-<\/strong><\/span> Sean will be sharing <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1OPpeaQgbRD52RXUsjWjpDIX6GuaP7Rx2\/view?usp=sharing\">this letter<\/a> with SPED staff and families. Please reach out to sped staff to discuss questions or specifics about your school.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">From Scott Bojanowski Re: SRO’s-<\/span><\/strong> During this morning\u2019s safety meeting, we had some questions from school administrators about our SROs and if they will continue to service our schools now that school buildings are closed for the remainder of the school year. I talked with our SRO supervisors at Bend PD and Deschutes County Sheriff\u2019s office today.\u00a0<br \/>The <strong>SROs will be on patrol duty during the weekdays<\/strong>, but they are still available to assist school administrators when needed.\u00a0 As always if there is an emergency, please call 911 to get law enforcement assistance ASAP.<br \/>Jimmy Krauger (Summit HS) and Amy Ward (Bend HS) will be working patrol Monday \u2013 Thursday 8:00 AM \u2013 6:00 PM and Scott Schaier (Middle Schools\/Marshall HS) and Erik Ammon (MVHS) will be working Tuesday \u2013 Friday 8:00 \u2013 6:00 pM on patrol.\u00a0 I did not receive specific shift times for Deputy Bryan Morris is South County, but he will be working during the weekdays.<br \/>The SROs will continue to try and help serve meals at the designated school sites, and will be available for school administrators to call or email with support requests (i.e. welfare checks on students, vandalism reports, etc.).<\/p>\n<p>I’ll end with the reminder to be flexible. I’ll be flexible with you, you be flexible with teachers and teachers be flexible with students and parents. As Dan shared at the start of today’s blog, we’re building the plane as we go and things might not always work as planned. A little grace, forgiveness and understanding will go a long ways in making it fly! Take care of yourselves and go out and get some vitamin D this weekend!<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan shared this video that does a great job of illustrating how many of us feel right now. Here’s a fun way that Jen is connecting with families at Miller. 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