To Do:

• Take a look within the “Team Drives” folder within our district Google Drive and find the tab for your school. As you will recall, this is the location where we’d like each of our schools to document with whom, when and the focus of your School Design visits.  As a heads-up, you’ll be receiving a very short survey very soon regarding the process we’ve used prior to this round of school visits.  Questions will ask you to reflect on both our Leadership meeting and your site visits.  Obviously, you’ll be better able to complete this survey if you’ve completed two or more of your site visits. We’ll need to have folks complete this survey prior to the end of December so we can use this information to plan for our next SDP-focused Leadership meeting in February. (You can still complete your SDP site visits in January if need be – as we do not have a Leadership meeting scheduled that month.)
• Check out these activities that will be taking place at SVMS and PCMS that you can be involved with! Please also feel free to pass these opportunities on to your staff as you see fit.  (Additional info on both can be found through the below hot links and/or in the PD tab in our shared TRIBE Google Doc folder.)
  • First, Sky View will have Central Oregon’s first Makeathon on Nov. 15 and they need a few more adults to participate with their students.  Read the details and consider supporting SVMS – as well as learn more about this activity through your participation.  Let Scott know if you have questions or are interested in being involved.
  • Also, PCMS will be hosting the second (of four) Parent Workshops on Nov. 30, with a focus on Internet Safety.  KIDS Center will be providing this two-hour training to help adults keep children safe online. The first parent workshop was attended by over 150 parents and was a great success!

This and That:

• I will be away from my office, but available by cell (call or text), from Thursday afternoon through the end of next week (11/9 – 11/11).  Many of the folks on Cabinet will be in Portland for an annual OSBA Conference with our School Board. I’m sure most of you will not be working on Friday (Veterans Day observed), but if you need anything Thursday afternoon or any time Friday, please try reaching me on my cell phone first.
• I pulled the following out of Marshall Memo, and am passing it along because I thought it was a great example of an authentic audience for your students.  An online site for students to publish their science research – In this article in American Educator, Olivia Ho-Shing describes the Journal of Emerging Investigators, a nonprofit online science publication to which middle and high-school students can submit original research, receive feedback from expert scientists, and have their work published. It’s at https://www.emerginginvestigators.org.“From Students to Scientists” by Olivia Ho-Shing in American Educator, Fall 2017 (Vol. 41, #3, p. 16-19), https://www.aft.org/sites/default/files/periodicals/ae_fall2017_ho-shing.pdf
• Each of our middle schools were involved with the Ed Foundation’s Principal for the Day event yesterday, but only one of you were lucky enough to be included in a news clip on KTVZ.

Reminders:

• Daylight Savings Time ends this Sunday… don’t forget to “fall back” and adjust your clock by an hour.
• Monday, Nov. 6, was our agreed upon date to have all unexcused Synervoice attendance calls change from once a day (morning only) to morning and afternoon calls (so parents are notified early of any AM absences, but also in the afternoon if there is only a PM absence – but not both times if the unexcused is all day).  As you will recall, we discussed this at our Oct. 16 Horizontal meeting.
• We have a district Safety Committee. (Is this a reminder?)  Teri has graciously volunteered to be your MS representative for this monthly meeting. People representing a broad stroke of district jobs and departments are represented on this committee.  Here are the meeting minutes from our last (and first of the year) gathering.  If you have any safety trends or concerns from your building, please let Teri know and she will share that with this group in an effort to be aware of what is occurring across our district, problem-solve and answer at this meeting, or make a referral for another person or group to follow-up with and get back to you.  Let Teri or I know if you have any questions about this group or it’s function. Thank you Teri for taking on this role for our TRIBE!