{"id":1196,"date":"2018-08-02T15:54:33","date_gmt":"2018-08-02T15:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/jim.boen\/?p=1196"},"modified":"2018-08-02T15:54:33","modified_gmt":"2018-08-02T15:54:33","slug":"8-3-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/jim.boen\/2018\/08\/02\/8-3-18\/","title":{"rendered":"8.3.18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>To Do:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Principals, here is <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1MRYv7hLE7B3xM1KAvQKH5tRzYEEx5HYs\/view?usp=sharing\">this year&#8217;s admin work calendar<\/a> for you to fill out and return to me. Please take your best guess of days <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">you&#8217;ll not be working<\/span>\u00a0by blocking them out on the calendar. Please plan to have these returned to me by the start of September. VP&#8217;s, you should turn yours in to your principal.<\/li>\n<li>Rather than try and schedule a horizontal meeting in August, I&#8217;d like to come visit with you at your school for 30 minutes at a time that works for you.\u00a0 <strong>Please let me know when you&#8217;d like for me to come to your site in the next few weeks.<\/strong>\u00a0 Again, I&#8217;ll try and keep it to 30 minutes of your time and there is nothing you need to prepare for in advance.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>This and that:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This will be the first TRIBE of the year &#8211; but <strong>I will not send out another weekly post until the end of this month<\/strong>. I did want to send this one out in early August in order to remind or provide you one-stop shopping access to a number of documents and other information prior to your staff returning. This one is going to be heavy on &#8220;sit and get,&#8221; but\u00a0I&#8217;ll try and make it as painless as possible&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>You may have noticed already, but our <strong>fall conferences come a week prior to the end of the first quarter<\/strong>.\u00a0 The reason for this is Halloween.\u00a0 We are avoiding making our (and elementary as well) parents choose between coming to school conferences or taking their child trick-or-treating.\u00a0 Pretty sure we&#8217;d lose that one.<\/li>\n<li>Here is a list of dates\/times and tentative locations (tentative because I have not heard back from all of the principals yet as to whether they are able to host on the date suggested) of our <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1qq7_gotwMe3Rm_thNtvpUH_C7zW5o6Mc\/view?usp=sharing\">Horizontal meetings for this year<\/a>.\u00a0 You&#8217;ll also find this list stored on the TRIBE BLS Docs tab.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Reminders:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>At our Horizontal last May, we discussed some changes in MS math sequencing and identification of excelling students.\u00a0 At that time we agreed that it would be a good idea if we had our math teachers <strong>proctor the easyCBM during the first week(s) of class<\/strong> in order to help identify any students who should be placed in the next sequenced math class. As a reference, here is the <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/10eNPWftAK1oqln9OTmAK6p7ih27fi9Iz\/view?usp=sharing\">bypass test requirements<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/11gh7oDQ3WF0eeypfyETCS1Nr2tngL5Cc\/view?usp=sharing\">pathways guiding principles<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/18rhbCywLvE1mqodxKXGk3IQbspebvso1\/view?usp=sharing\">pathways info for parents<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1RK_NRpUOFilqs9wiYgnjHp9OTED9gclb\/view?usp=sharing\">MS math acceleration options<\/a>. And maybe most useful of all, here is the link to the <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/drive\/u\/1\/folders\/1_kQ9gLkP5T2efyE0ADNXl5pOorxrKgPU\">Google Doc with all of these documents<\/a> (including the bypass tests by grade level). Please note\u00a0that <em>even though you are going to be administering the fall math easyCBM, you will still be asked to also have students complete the fall math ACT Aspire<\/em> assessment as you&#8217;ve done in the past. There will be further discussion regarding the on-going feasibility of both of these being administered in the fall, but for this year please plan on completing both with students.<\/li>\n<li>Another item from our May Horizontal that I followed-up on was the question around <strong>Article 15 in the BEA contract<\/strong>. As a reminder, the language reads: &#8220;One-half day at the end of the first and third quarter for school grading on a quarterly system.&#8221; The question was (basically) &#8220;does the whole school need to be grading on a quarterly system in order to get this half-day grading, or can those individual teachers grading on a quarterly system within a school have the half-day?&#8221; The answer, as a reminder, is that the only way <em>any teacher<\/em> receives a half-day grading is if the <em>whole school<\/em> is on a quarterly system. In practical terms, if your whole school is issuing final quarter grades (i.e. SVMS) then conferences start at 11:15am on Oct. 25. If some teachers (or no teachers) are grading issuing final quarter grades, then everyone starts conferencing at 7:15(ish) on Oct. 25. If you already have some teachers grading on the quarter system, a conversation with your ICCL\/staff about having everyone issue final grades each quarter may not be out of line.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Calendar:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Next Wednesday (8.8.18) is our Leadership Academy<\/strong> in Sunriver. If you haven&#8217;t already, please let Andrea Wilson know right away how many ICCL&#8217;s you&#8217;ll be bringing from your school. Please bring a copy of your school&#8217;s Design Plan with you. Also, that evening is the annual admin dinner at Mike Tillers.<\/li>\n<li>As a reminder, <strong>Safety Day training will be on Aug. 9<\/strong> at Summit HS.\u00a0 Registration begins at 7:30, first speaker at 8:00 and concludes at 4:00. The keynote trainer for the day is John Michael-Keyes, who&#8217;s team developed the Standard Response Protocols we use in our district. Please plan on attending!<\/li>\n<li>If you have not participated in the <strong>Take it Up training<\/strong> previously, I encourage you to attend with some others from your staff. It will happen on <strong>Monday and Tuesday, Aug. 13, 14 at PCMS<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>You have received emails inviting you to sign up for the <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/u\/1\/d\/e\/2PACX-1vR5Bg1fQDd6tNKkYKfKmkMYMRnSAYqEQKgINSrjX7Ly5ZJDzDUgbl45iAI7hPLTZAh7A0MtYp_lICWi\/pubhtml\">Innovative Teaching &amp; Learning conference<\/a> happening on <strong>Aug. 21 &amp; 22 (Tues &amp; Wed) at PCMS<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The second annual <strong>Trauma Informed Summit<\/strong> will happen on Thursday, Aug. 23 at SHS.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Principals, plan on being at Summit HS on Monday morning, Aug., 27<\/strong>, in order to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">introduce your new certified staff<\/span>. Introductions should be brief, warm, and welcoming.<\/li>\n<li>Our district staff welcome back (with crazy good speaker, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hDUFgIZzeto\">Chad Hymas<\/a>) will begin at 1:00pm at Bend High on Tuesday, Aug. 28. Because activities will end around 4:00pm this day, feel free to encourage your staff to arrive to work at 8:00am that morning and stay until 4:00pm that afternoon.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To Do: Principals, here is this year&#8217;s admin work calendar for you to fill out and return to me. Please take your best guess of days you&#8217;ll not be working\u00a0by blocking them out on the calendar. 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