TO DO:

All, here is a link to your 2020-21 work calendar. Principals, please complete this – to your best of your ability – sometime in August. I’ll review these. Assistant principals, please complete your calendar and share it with your principal. Let me know if you have any questions regarding this. ___________________________________________________________

As I mentioned last week, there are a couple of AR’s that have been temporarily updated due to distance learning/Covid. These are JC-AR: Attendance Areas & In-District Transfers and IGBHAB-AR: Choice Option Schools & Programs. One change to note (from last week): The timeframe for holding a student’s spot has been extended from end of first semester to this entire year. _________________________________________________________

Most of you do not have your master schedule finalized yet. Once you do, please share your bell schedule (even though we know we are not starting with students in the building) with your head cook. Nutrition Services need to see these in order to generate work times for nutritional support employees at your site.

THIS and THAT:

Lora communicated this week a few changes to our district meeting calendar that you need to be aware of. First, August 11 had been reserved for our Leadership meeting. Instead, please plan on meeting from 1:00 – 3:00 as a Horizontal team. I’ll likely not need this much time, but would rather have you excited to leave 5 minutes early (😁) than drag on beyond what I told you. Let’s meet in my Webex personal room. She also communicated that August 19 had been reserved for Safety Day. This will now become the date of our Leadership meeting. I don’t have a lot of specifics yet as to time (likely morning) and location (likely spread out at multiple buildings), but this may be an in-person meeting, pending next week’s ODE guidance update. More to come on this… _______________________________________________________

This is more of a “begin to think about” than a “to do” item… As we start the year with Distance Learning, most of your staff will be quite busy. However, you also have a few staff who’s main responsibility involve direct student contact (e.g. some EA’s, attendance secretary, etc.) and will not be as busy doing her/his traditional work. Please begin thinking about who these folks are, as well as some areas where they can be engaged with supporting teaching/learning. We will talk a bit more about this next Tuesday (see above bullet if you just thought to yourself “what’s next Tuesday?”). ___________________________________________________________

You may likely be aware of this already, but I wanted to pass this along just in case. We have a district Return to School FAQ page that is constantly being added to and updated. This is a resource page that I suggest you become familiar with as well as communicate with your staff and families. __________________________________________________________

Sean recently shared this – but wanted to make sure that this was on your radar if you were planning on bringing a team to the Jim Sporleder training later this month. Here is the flyer – that does not include a few updates: All school leadership teams are now welcome to join both day 1 and 2 (not just priority schools on day 2).  Also, there are reimbursement funds to pay teachers that are attending outside their contracted days.  You can access those funds through the ESD.  The reimbursement is predicated on the fact the staff member is part of a team with the building administrator.

REMINDERS:

I use the thought of “reminder” loosely here – as you didn’t know about it until you started reading this blog post, but please put an MS Horizontal meeting on your calendar for next Tuesday (8/11) from 1:00 – 3:00. We’ll meet in my personal room.