To Do:

• Please add one more MS Horizontal meeting to your calendar.  For some reason I did not have this on my list of meetings when we had a discussion a few weeks ago.  Please add Feb. 12, 2018 at REALMS to your calendar.  Thank you!

This and That:

• Here is a quote from author Dan Rockwell for you to consider: “Feedback is a gift when it comes from someone who is committed to your success.” I would add that if the receiver doesn’t think you are committed to their success, the feedback is anything but a gift. How might you communicate your heart for someone’s success before you need to provide feedback?
• The School Board has “adopted” schools for this year.  What this means is that you may have a board member reach out to you – or you can feel free to reach out to her/him – for a visit, gather your input or insights, or just touch bases with you to see how things are going this year. Thank you in advance for making your “adopter” feel welcome and a valued piece of the work that you do. Here is this year’s adoption list and School Board email contact info.
• As you likely have heard, our Oregon Report Card is going to receive an overhaul.  With ESSA coming on board, the Report Card that provides feedback/rating to the public schools in our state is going to have a new look.  Here is a Frequently Asked Questions 1-pager that highlights the changes that are known at this point.  Additionally, the new ratings will fall within three categories (Opportunity to Learn, Academic Success, and College and Career Readiness) – without giving a school an overall mark.  Sounds a little like our “three buckets” of School Design work, doesn’t it?  Within this sample ESSA Report Card you will see three new indicators that will be included: Chronic Absenteeism, Freshmen-On-Track, and Five-year High School Completion Rates.  Only Chronic Absenteeism will be rated for middle schools.
• Happy Birthday on Thursday to Steve Stancliff!
• Mindy Drake, PE teacher at Silver Rail Elem., is the director of Oregon SHAPE which is our statewide physical education and health association. She has asked that we help communicate some exciting news:This year we are having our annual conference in Bend on October 13th & 14th, and we wanted to formally invite all the administrators in the District to attend the conference or even portions of the conference.  As part of our advocacy plan we comp the registration for any administrator who would like to attend.  We do offer PDU credits for attendance, and this year we have Dean Kriellaars as our keynote.  He was the keynote speaker at our National Conference in Boston this year, and the opportunity to listen to him speak about physical literacy is unique and exciting.  With the whole child emphasis that our district is turning to as well as bucket work, he speaks in a highly engaging way to all three buckets.   If you’d like to know more about him, click on the link below for additional info.

  http://www.pise.ca/dr-dean-kriellaars-health-physical-literacy/

  In addition to Dr. Kriellaars acting as our keynote, we have also paired with ODE and the PEAK coalition to talk about the new release of Oregon Physical Education standards and to address information with regard to HB 3141 (as it was formerly known).  There will be sessions that have the most current info on the law and its implementation.  Here is a flyer regarding this conference.  If you or another building administrator is interested in attending, they can contact Mindy directly and she will help with the registration process. And finally, there are new tools for evaluating health and physical education programs, some of which could be quite useful and streamline the evaluation process for principals. Contact Mindy if you’d like to learn more about these.

Reminders:

• We are having a Leadership meeting on Monday in the Board Room.  Don’t forget to bring some ideas/examples of a SDP “challenge” you are currently facing.  Also, each school should plan on bringing a laptop to use during this meeting. When you arrive, please find and sit with your school visit teams.  As a reminder, here are our teams this year: 1) LPMS, REALMS, HDMS, SPED; 2) SVMS, CMS, Tamarack; 3) PCMS, PBMS.