Today’s notes are full of important information brought to you by the following: Julianne, Jon L. and REI. I add a little at the end.<\/p>\n
From Julianne-<\/strong> <\/span> Skip Offenhauser is days away from opening up the application window for additions to the adopted or supplemental Health curriculum. Our district offers rich social emotional health and wellness curriculum throughout all levels, including video and speakers, for teaching and learning. Only those persons and materials approved by the Health Advisory Committee should be in front of our students. For example, suicide awareness, tobacco cessation, sex trafficking, sexuality, alcohol, vaping, etc. materials must be approved for use as well any guest speakers on these topics.\u00a0 <\/em>If teachers have materials or speakers that they would like to see approved, please have them share these resources with Skip and the team.<\/em><\/p>\n From Jon L.<\/span><\/strong>– Principals\/Supervisors,<\/p>\n It is only December, but\u00a0it is time to start thinking about the renewal\/non-renewal\u00a0process. If you have an employee that you don’t want to renew, then\u00a0we\u00a0have some work to do in this area before the public board meeting February 12th.<\/p>\n By\u00a0Jan. 9th:<\/b>\u00a0Please have a conversation with me about\u00a0any certified employee that you have some\u00a0concerns about. \u00a0If you have a concern about an employee, we need to start making a plan for how to move forward with that person. \u00a0We may decide to start with informal supports or go to our formal process.<\/p>\n We have several options when we are talking about\u00a0probationary\u00a0employees of concern. \u00a0One option is to non-renew a\u00a0probationary\u00a0contract. \u00a0This is formally done at the Board Meeting in February. \u00a0If we decide to move toward non-renewal, we will\u00a0need to have\u00a0some\u00a0discussions\u00a0with the teacher, with the BEA, and with the board during Executive Sessions. \u00a0If you are having concerns with a\u00a0probationary\u00a0teacher, please make sure we talk about it. \u00a0Once a teacher becomes contract it can be a much harder process.<\/p>\n I also need to know about\u00a0contract\u00a0teachers\u00a0that you have a concern about. \u00a0You may only be supporting the person informally, which is great, but I still need to know about them.\u00a0\u00a0If you have started the formal support system, which includes Focus Performance Review, Support Strategies, and\/or a Plan of Assistance, you must contact me so that we can work through it together.<\/p>\n Due by Jan. 21st<\/b>: \u00a0Probationary\u00a0three letters of support. \u00a0We need to be hiring and putting the best\u00a0teachers\u00a0in front of\u00a0students. \u00a0It is an\u00a0important decision\u00a0when moving an employee from\u00a0probationary\u00a0status\u00a0to contract status. \u00a0After participating in the board process last several years, I have a better feeling for what the board is looking for in these letters.\u00a0 The board takes moving a\u00a0probationary\u00a0employee to contract status very seriously. \u00a0They really want to know that each of you have specific reasons why each one of these\u00a0employees should move to contract status. \u00a0I have attached a spreadsheet of\u00a0probationary\u00a0three administrators<\/a> and certified employees<\/a> and the famous probationary letter from Matt<\/a>.<\/p>\n If you have any questions, please feel free to give me a call.<\/p>\n Thanks for\u00a0all\u00a0you do.<\/p>\n From REI- <\/strong><\/span> Hello, my name is Aaron and I am the Outreach Coordinator for the Bend REI. I’ll keep this message short, as I’m sure you receive a lot of messages each day, but I would love to be put in contact with someone at the District whom I can speak with about teaching practical bike maintenance skills to students. I know that a number of schools have bikes in their equipment inventory, and those might be especially good ones to start with.\u00a0 REI used to have a program in place to get into schools and teach camping basics, however, we see a lot of potential benefit in working together to develop some programming around bike mechanic work. We have a number of different ideas, and would be happy to chat with anyone who may be interested.<\/p>\n Thank you!<\/p>\n