I am looking forward to visiting with many of you at your building next week.  You can look at the shared Google “MS Calendar” for more details, but I will want to visit a few classrooms with you and talk a bit about your SDP.  Let me know if you have any questions about this.  Here are a few other things I want to highlight for you:

Reminders:

• The Gallup Student Poll is open until Oct. 30.  Please coordinate a time, if you haven’t already, for having your students complete this short poll.
• The Bright Bytes survey is also currently open.  Thank you for having all of your students and staff take this survey (using different login codes that Skip sent you).
• If you are needing an interpreter or translator please plan ahead (knowing there are exceptions at times) and request this service through JoAnne Kienzle in the TLC office.  It may seem easier to just grab a bilingual staff member to assist in these situations, but is better to use this request for service process for both tracking of need/use, as well as not placing a burden on your building staff.
• The Ed Center exterior doors are now locked all of the time.  The only open door with access upstairs is the main entrance on the North side of the building.

New information:

• Here is a document that outlines the monthly talking points for my site visits this year.  These points are taken directly off of the MS Calendar notes – I haven’t changed them – but thought some of you might be interested in having all of these talking points on one document.
• Here is a link I thought would be worth passing along to you (if you haven’t already seen it).  It is a web site you could share with parents who would like additional information or resources to help support their child related to the SBAC.  It allows them to drill down on what the test is asking kids to know, as well as suggestions on what can be worked on if their child did not perform well in a particular area.  Here is the link:

http://www.greatschools.org/gk/sbac-test-guide/?state=oregon

Thanks for coming to work and getting after it this past week!

Jim