{"id":127,"date":"2016-02-12T21:50:24","date_gmt":"2016-02-12T21:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/jim.boen\/?p=127"},"modified":"2016-02-12T21:50:24","modified_gmt":"2016-02-12T21:50:24","slug":"2-12-16-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/jim.boen\/2016\/02\/12\/2-12-16-2\/","title":{"rendered":"2.12.16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>This and That:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;ve created a few folders to replace the one &#8220;Documents&#8221; folder found at the top of this blog. \u00a0My hope is that this will help in locating documents if you need to refer back to them at a later date. \u00a0I&#8217;m not thrilled with the variety of documents found in the &#8220;BLS Docs&#8221; folder, so that may be separated out at a later date. \u00a0For now I hope this is more helpful. \u00a0If you have other suggestions for file titles or organization I am open to your ideas.<\/li>\n<li>I wanted to follow up with you regarding communicating Area Change Request (ACR) information.\n<ul>\n<li>There are a few spots on our district website where a parent can find the ACR form. \u00a0You are welcome &#8211; though not required &#8211; to put a small blurb in your parent communication\/newsletter. Here is <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/drive\/u\/1\/folders\/0BwH82Aoi_UKTSEZSOExWM1d5VEk\" target=\"_blank\">sample language<\/a> you might consider using.<\/li>\n<li>The district language\u00a0that deals with ACR&#8217;s (JC-AR) has been updated. \u00a0What remains: &#8220;Requests received after March 1 will be considered after all other requests have been evaluated.&#8221; \u00a0What was removed: &#8220;&#8230; and generally will be honored only on a one-to-one student exchange basis.&#8221; \u00a0This language was not on the application form itself, but in the AR. \u00a0It is still a principal(s) decision, but is no longer slanted towards an equal trade of numbers. \u00a0I believe this better fits our district&#8217;s belief in &#8220;choice options.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>ACR forms still need to be turned in to the student&#8217;s home school. \u00a0Creating and managing an online version is not feasible at this point in time, or with our current process in place.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>It is not uncommon for learners of all ages, including middle school-aged, to think they are &#8220;good&#8221; or &#8220;not good&#8221; at something. \u00a0Hence, they often like the things they are &#8220;good&#8221; at and dislike\/not want to spend time on those things they believe they are &#8220;not good&#8221; at. \u00a0If you were to ask your students if they were &#8220;good&#8221; at or enjoyed reading you would likely have a fairly strong opinion of agreement or disagreement. \u00a0I ran across the article <em><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/drive\/u\/1\/folders\/0BwH82Aoi_UKTRjlEWDdTWDd2ajQ\" target=\"_blank\">Getting Reluctant Middle-School Kids Reading<\/a><\/em>\u00a0recently and\u00a0thought it was worthy of being highlighted. \u00a0Helping kids find reading material at his\/her level and of interest is not always an easy task &#8211; but this article provides some ideas for librarians, media managers and teachers to consider to do exactly that.<\/li>\n<li>Apparently, I am not the only one being requested to appear for jury duty. \u00a0A question currently came up in one of our schools regarding a teacher who reported for jury duty &#8211; then was dismissed around 11:00. \u00a0Is this teacher required to return to school for the remainder of the day? \u00a0This <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/drive\/u\/1\/folders\/0BwH82Aoi_UKTSEZSOExWM1d5VEk\" target=\"_blank\">BLS Staff Leave Guide<\/a> was created in HR and is here to help answer this and other common leave questions. \u00a0It is worth a quick read.<\/li>\n<li>Starting Feb. 17, our website team is beginning a new process to review requests for changes and\/or additions to the website. The process will ensure suggestions are considered in a timely, consistent manner. \u00a0To submit a request, individuals must fill out a Help Desk ticket (Request Type is \u201cWebsite Change Request\u201d). All requests coming from a school must also receive approval from a building administrator. The web team\u2019s decision making process is outlined <a href=\"https:\/\/portal.bend.k12.or.us\/staff-resources\/content\/school-website-maintenance\"><span class=\"s2\">here<\/span><\/a>\u00a0on the Portal. If you have questions about the process or want to see if your request has already been recorded, check with Alandra at <a href=\"mailto:alandra.johnson@bend.k12.or.us\"><span class=\"s2\">alandra.johnson@bend.k12.or.us<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Reminders:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This is a math material adoption year. \u00a0Each of you had at least one teacher who is a part of the Math Curriculum Review Team (as is Scott O.) and attended an informational session this past Monday &#8211; listening and asking question of the various program finalists. \u00a0For middle school, the three finalist are College Preparatory Math, Connected Mathematics 3, and Eureka Math. \u00a0Here is a <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/drive\/u\/1\/folders\/0BwH82Aoi_UKTeE5pZ29XSEdlMGs\" target=\"_blank\">document<\/a> containing some additional information on all of the K-12 options being considered. \u00a0At the next district SIW (March 16) all MS math teachers will meet at PBMS and have an opportunity to preview these materials and provide feedback. \u00a0Additionally, materials will be available\u00a0for community input April 1 &#8211; 15. \u00a0Just as an FYI, elementary is also considering Eureka Math; and high school is considering College Preparatory as one of their options.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This and That: I&#8217;ve created a few folders to replace the one &#8220;Documents&#8221; folder found at the top of this blog. \u00a0My hope is that this will help in locating documents if you need to refer back to them at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/jim.boen\/2016\/02\/12\/2-12-16-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":281,"featured_media":126,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3852],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/jim.boen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/jim.boen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/jim.boen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/jim.boen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/281"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/jim.boen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/jim.boen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/jim.boen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions\/134"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/jim.boen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/jim.boen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/jim.boen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/jim.boen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}