TO DO:

If you haven’t already, please complete your Measure 98 funding worksheet ASAP. Let me know if you have any questions regarding this, as well as take a look at what your colleagues have in their plan if you are looking for ideas.

As a reminder, MS and HS will not be posting next year’s openings (except for some hard-to-fill spots) until all secondary school staffing plans have been approved. Please let me know once you have your plan completed so I can take a look. So far, a few middle schools have completed plans and I believe a couple of high schools are complete as well. Make sure we also talk before you reach out to HR regarding any postings you want to submit. Although there is no hard deadline, the sooner all staffing plans are completed, the sooner you get to post and fill any openings you will have.

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And speaking of staffing plans, Katie and I will meet next Wednesday (4/10) to review the plans that are complete, to see where any holes are in plans, and begin taking a look at the employees that will be returning from a leave, going on leave, or have resigned in order to make sure we have a spot or an opening for each of these employees. If your staffing plan will not be completed by next week, please have it finished no later than April 19.

Starting this coming Monday, a parent can view an unofficial student transcript directly in ParentVue… for high school students. (Originally, the button was labeled MS or HS transcript, but Patty was able to change the name of this button.) I wanted you to have a heads-up on this and know that it only works for HS student transcripts.

There is a professional development class occurring on April 18, Youth Mental Health First Aid, posted in Performance Matters. I took this training a few years ago and found it very worthwhile. Some staff that I would suggest attend are admin, counselors, SPED teachers and any classified employee. The training is free (provided by Deschutes County), but subs would be the responsibility of your building. Registration needs to occur by April 12 in order to verify adequate numbers will be attending.

Here are some pages produced by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention related to e-cigarettes. I thought this information might be useful for your knowledge or sharing with staff, students, and parents. My guess is that many parents are not aware of what e-cigarettes look like or are made of.

Just a heads-up that I will be out of town (available only by cell or email) on Monday afternoon (4/15) through Thursday (4/18). The ESD is bringing a team from Central Oregon to the Carnegie Foundation Summit on Improvement in Education, and Gary, Jay and I are representing BLS.

As an FYI, interviews for the PBMS VP opening will be next Friday, 4/12.

REMINDERS:

Our next Horizontal meeting is on April 22. We’ll be discussing (first!) chapters 10 – 12 of The Culture Code.