To Do:

• Now is the time to begin thinking about your own SLGGs.  This will be one thing we touch bases on when I come see you in November and/or December. Let me know if you have any questions regarding this.

This and that:

• Your final SIF/Alt Fund carryover amounts are now available.  If you look under the SIF tab at the bottom of your building’s Staffing Plan page (in Google Docs), you will find that your carryover has been added and is ready to be allocated.
• As you are fully aware, the change in start times for next year has been communicated to the public. If you would like to follow-up with a reminder in a newsletter or other publication you may send to parents, here are a couple of graphics that you could use: Spanish / English.
• Last week you read an introduction of the article 5 Questions to Ask Yourself About Your Unmotivated Students, by author Jennifer Gonzalez (Cult of Pedagogy, Feb. 20, 2016). This week you will dive deeper into Question #1: How is your relationships with your students, really? (As a reminder, after explaining more about the question, Jennifer provides you with her self-rating for this question and follows with some resources/ideas to help you improve.)
• Passing this opportunity along for Julianne.  I attended one of these trainings a few years ago as a “player” and while it was intense, it was also very worthwhile: Please make time to join Bend Police and Bend Fire professionals, in partnership with 9-1-1 and other first responding agencies to crisis situations, for an active threat training on November 13, 14, 15 or 19 at Elk Meadow Elementary School from 7-10 p.m. nightly.We are looking for approximately 40 “players” for each night’s training. Participants will see first-hand how emergency personnel respond to active threats in schools in several live scenarios throughout the evening. Participants will implement procedures they’ve learned during their own school trainings as controlled scenarios play out in front of them.RSVP https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/SMG9LKKYou are welcome to share this invitation with staff members. Further information regarding this training will be emailed to participants in early November.
• This is info that Skip shared out via email on Thursday afternoon.  If I were to distill it for middle schools, the following departments have required meetings: health, math, science, computer science and ELL. Let me know if you have any other questions…The link below has the list of the District SIW opportunities this Fall.  Please find the session(s) that pertains to you. As you will see, not everyone has a training to attend but many do.  If your content area isn’t scheduled for a district activity/meeting/training on these days, feel free to initiate a collaboration with teachers in other high schools or middle schools.  (ie:  music teachers, drama, and art teachers).Currently we will not have teachers sign up for sessions using Performance Matters (the new PD Place).  However, there will be sign-in sheets at the sessions and your attendance will be entered into Performance Matters afterwards for PDU tracking.

   

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Reminders:

• We will be meeting as a Horizontal group on Monday (10/15) at SVMS.  We will begin at 3:15. Here is the agenda.
• I’m sure you don’t need a reminder on this… but I’ll put it out there anyway. The contract between BLS and BEA notes that 4 SIW dates “…will be allocated for individual teacher work time for preparation and planning…” One of these dates should be Oct. 24 – the date of our first conferences. Another obvious one is the Wednesday of our spring conferences. Please be sure you set aside two additional SIW times (e.g. prior to end of term grading) this school year, for a total of four SIWs.