To Do:

• Principals, I’d love to start collecting your yearly work calendar.  Please get these to me by Monday, September 11.  Thanks to you three early birds who have already sent yours to me.
• Here is a list of the Teacher Candidates and their MS placements this year.  Please take a look at this to make sure you (and your teachers) are aware of these folks joining your team this year.  Thank you in advance for opening your school/classrooms for training our next wave of professionals.
• There are a number of MS teachers that are required to attend a training on Friday, Sept. 1.  If you have an opportunity to reach out to these folks please remind them to sign up in PD Place and attend where advertised. Teachers include science, math, and ELA (if they did not attend the same training on 8/16).

   

This and That:

• A few other ideas came up (from Redmond) regarding the topic of expectations around subs this year.  One idea, if you have a long term sub in your building (whom can’t work more than 40 hours per week, or is due time and a half pay) is to hire these folks into temporary positions (to negate the 40 hour a week restriction).  This has not been processed yet as a possibility, but if you have a long term sub in your building then let’s discuss this.  Also, if you have teacher candidates (student teachers), you may want to consider how/if these folks might help provide coverage of breaks for a substitute.
• Here is a link to OAR language around Meals and Rest Periods, as well as a Q & A sheet connected to substitute breaks.  Both of these two documents were shared with you (hard copy) when we first discussed this topic, but I wanted to make an electronic copy available to you as well.
• To be filed under “probably more information than I need” category, here is a link to this year’s ESD Substitute Handbook.  You will also be able to find it under the BLS Docs tab in this blog.
• As a heads-up, all of you have used a SIW in the past two years for a QPR training with your staff.  Because this training is provided every three years, some of you will be asked to provide another SIW between Jan. and June, 2018 for this training once again.  The schools needing training this winter/spring are: Cascade, High Desert, Sky View, Three Rivers and Pilot Butte.  (The rest of you will receiving training next school year.)  There is nothing to do at this time, besides know that you’ll be asked in the coming months to sign up for a training date later this school year.

Reminders:

• I am not working on Friday, 8.25.17, but am available by cell phone.  Christie and I are bringing our youngest child, Brogan, off to start his first year of college and will be making our formal drop-off/not coming home with us activities this weekend.  I’ve psyched myself up to believing that dropping our third one off at college is going to be much easier than dropping the first two off were.  We’ll see…
• Principals (or VP if you can’t make it), see you all Monday (8.28.17) morning for the New Teacher Day at Summit HS to introduce yourself and any new certified staff you have this year.  Plan on getting through the breakfast line at 7:00am, prior to the busses with new teachers arrive. You’ll be able to head back to your building no later than 9:00.  Let me know if you have any questions regarding this.
• If you do any communication (in writing) with your staff regarding the Welcome Back BBQ on Tuesday, 8.29.17, please do not include the option to “flex their time” (come in later than normal in order to include the BBQ as part of his/her work day) as this is not a part of a regular work day for many of our classified staff. Let me know if you have any questions regarding this.