{"id":1229,"date":"2018-12-21T21:57:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-21T21:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/jim.boen\/?p=1229"},"modified":"2018-12-21T21:57:00","modified_gmt":"2018-12-21T21:57:00","slug":"12-21-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/jim.boen\/2018\/12\/21\/12-21-18\/","title":{"rendered":"12.21.18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>To Do:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Andrea Wilson received an email this week from Aaron Henderson, Bend REI Outreach Coordinator. He was reaching out in order to see if there would be anyone interested in having REI bike techs come to schools in order to <strong>teach basic bike maintenance skills to students<\/strong>. You can reach Aaron at: <a href=\"mailto:aahende@rei.com\">aahende@rei.com<\/a> if you are interested in discussing possibilities of how this might look with him.<\/li>\n<li>Please see the following reminder\/To Do from Jon Lindsay regarding any <strong>3rd year probationary teachers<\/strong> you have this year: It is only December but\u00a0it is time to start thinking about <strong>the renewal\/non-renewal\u00a0process<\/strong>. If you have an employee that you don&#8217;t want to renew, then\u00a0we\u00a0have some work to do in this area before the public board meeting February 12th.\u00a0<strong>By\u00a0Jan. 9th:<\/strong>\u00a0Please have a conversation with me about\u00a0any certified employee that you have some\u00a0concerns about. \u00a0If you have a concern about an employee, we need to start making a plan for how to move forward with that person. \u00a0We may decide to start with informal supports or go to our formal process.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0We have several options when we are talking about\u00a0probationary\u00a0employees of concern. \u00a0One option is to non-renew a\u00a0probationary\u00a0contract. \u00a0This is formally done at the Board Meeting in February. \u00a0If we decide to move toward non-renewal, we will\u00a0need to have\u00a0some\u00a0discussions\u00a0with the teacher, with the BEA, and with the board during Executive Sessions. \u00a0If you are having concerns with a\u00a0probationary\u00a0teacher, please make sure we talk about it. \u00a0Once a teacher becomes contract it can be a much harder process.I also need to know about\u00a0contract\u00a0teachers\u00a0that you have a concern about. \u00a0You may only be supporting the person informally, which is great, but I still need to know about them.\u00a0\u00a0If you have started the formal support system, which includes Focus Performance Review, Support Strategies, and\/or a Plan of Assistance, you must contact me so that we can work through it together.\u00a0<strong>Due by Jan. 21st<\/strong>: \u00a0Probationary\u00a0three letters of support. \u00a0We need to be hiring and putting the best\u00a0teachers\u00a0in front of\u00a0students. \u00a0It is an\u00a0important decision\u00a0when moving an employee from\u00a0probationary\u00a0status\u00a0to contract status. \u00a0After participating in the board process last several years, I have a better feeling for what the board is looking for in these letters.\u00a0 The board takes moving a\u00a0probationary\u00a0employee to contract status very seriously. \u00a0They really want to know that each of you have specific reasons why each one of these\u00a0employees should move to contract status. \u00a0Here is a <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1NwRA0GBGRPIFPXQszizTw7pCGkuy5ie3\/view?usp=sharing\">spreadsheet of\u00a0probationary\u00a0three employees<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/15k2rFWnfLlANLmv8v1gkOK_I9pshNLYp\/view?usp=sharing\">the famous probationary letter from Matt<\/a>. (Please don&#8217;t just change Matt&#8217;s name to yours as there will be some other obvious updates needed as well!) If you have any questions, please feel free to give me (Jon) a call.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>This and that:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Apple has created a video around the question of: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3dJCroCMBPM\">Have you ever made something wonderful but were too afraid to share it?<\/a>&#8221; You may have recently seen this video\/commercial, but I thought it was worth sharing with you as we head into this holiday season. I think there could be a number of applications to your work as leader of educational professionals and young learners &#8211; and I&#8217;ll let you make those connections for yourself, rather than tell you what they are for me.\u00a0 However, I one I do want to pass along is as a personal &#8220;thank you&#8221; for giving of your gifts daily to those you lead, work with and serve. This week was another great reminder for me of the great work you do in your interactions with students and families!<\/li>\n<li>As a heads-up, Skip Offenhauser is days away from opening up the application window for additions to the adopted or supplemental <strong>Health curriculum<\/strong>. Our district offers rich social emotional health and wellness curriculum throughout all levels, including video and speakers, for teaching and learning. <em>Only those persons and materials approved by the Health Advisory Committee should be in front of our students<\/em>. For example, suicide awareness, alcohol, vaping, tobacco cessation, sex trafficking, sexuality, etc. materials must be approved for use as well any guest speakers on these topics. If teachers have materials or speakers that they would like to see approved, please have them share these resources with Skip and the team.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Reminders:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I communicated this last week as well, but wanted to put it back on your radar in case you were planning on doing some reading over the break&#8230;\u00a0<strong>At our next MS Horizontal meeting (Jan. 28) we will <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">not<\/span> be discussing chapters 7 &#8211; 8 of\u00a0<em>The Culture Code<\/em><\/strong>, so you <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">do not need to read that section quite yet<\/span>. Instead, we will be spending that time processing the information that Austin James collected from you during a site visit in the past number of weeks. Remember Tony Hsieh (downtown Los Vegas project from chapter 5)? He was quoted as saying: &#8220;I try to help things happen organically. If you set things up right, the connection happens.&#8221; (p. 64) He is also the one that spoke about the power of &#8220;collisions&#8221; &#8211; the belief that: &#8220;Serendipitous personal encounters are the key driver of creativity, community, and cohesion.&#8221; (p. 66) One of my goals for our time together on Jan. 28 is to allow for &#8220;collisions&#8221; to happen among you. (And taking a risk that my plan doesn&#8217;t crash and burn instead!)<\/li>\n<li>We are officially back on Jan. 7,\u00a0<strong>2019<\/strong>!<\/li>\n<li>We will <em>not<\/em> be having a Leadership meeting in January.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To Do: Andrea Wilson received an email this week from Aaron Henderson, Bend REI Outreach Coordinator. 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