TO DO:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Please complete your Self-Reflection<\/strong> soon if you haven’t already.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We are asking that you and your ICCL folks register for the Aug. 20<\/a> Leadership day (that will start with a Mary Ehrenworth keynote). Please click on the “Sections” tab and make sure you are registering for the Aug. 20 day (section # 10456), and not Aug. 21 (unless you will be attending both days).<\/p>\n\n\n\n And speaking of next fall, here are a couple of documents that will be very helpful in your planning. First is one for you and has to do with Admin August inservice offerings<\/a> (both required and optional). The second is the certified August work calendar<\/a> that we’ve provided the last couple of years. Please make sure you share this with your staff – and specifically point out the required subject-area inservice on Aug. 30 for math and social studies.<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n THIS and THAT:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Obviously, great news coming out of the Senate this week with the passage of HB 3427<\/a> and much-needed funding for K-12 education<\/strong>. This linked article does a nice job of providing some of the behind-the-scenes drama, as well as outline the areas where these additional dollars will be earmarked. As a reminder, these funds do not infuse any additional revenue into our district’s 2019-20 budget. (Also of note is that an increase in PERS rates – 4.75% – will equate to an additional 4.4 million per year payment increase for BLS beginning next fall.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n I’m sure you are all familiar with “National Signing Day” for high school seniors. What started out as a revelation of where a student-athlete would be attending college has increasingly become a celebration of continuing a young person’s educational (academic) journey.<\/a> This fall, our traditional day for welcoming new certified staff to our district might become known as “Teacher Signing Day”<\/strong> – in recognition of welcoming and honoring new certified employees to BLS. I’ll be sharing more details about this at our Horizontal meeting on Monday – and am very excited (this is me being very excited!) about the possibilities this will have in “creating a moment” for this new group of employees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You have heard that TSPC had some changes in store for Oregon administration licensure<\/strong>. These will be in effect August 1, 2022. If you do not currently hold your “continuing” license – and consider working in a position outside of a building someday, then you should begin by reviewing this TSPC informational page<\/a> because these changes will likely affect you. Additionally, if you know of anyone working on or thinking about working on her\/his Oregon admin license, you may want to pass this informational flyer<\/a> on to them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Starting this week, the Extra and Co-Curricular measure in DART<\/strong> will include students in grades 6-12 who are enrolled in coursework like the performing arts, stagecraft, ROTC, mock trial, etc. We expect this change will identify about 10-15% more students as participating in Extra and Co-Curricular Activities. This change will affect the measure back to the 2013-2014 school year. If you haven’t taken a look at DART lately, this change might be the reason to review some of your school data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n REMINDERS:<\/p>\n\n\n\n We\u2019ll be discussing chapters 13 \u2013 17 of <\/strong>The Culture Code<\/strong><\/em> at our last Horizontal meeting of the year on May 20 (at PCMS). Here are my notes<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Here is the agenda<\/a> for our Horizontal meeting on Monday<\/strong> (3:15 @ PCMS). Please bring your laptop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Don’t forget to be prepared to talk<\/strong> at our Horizontal about a decision you made through a set of Equity Lens questions<\/a>. You’ll be discussing this in small groups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" TO DO: Please complete your Self-Reflection soon if you haven’t already. We are asking that you and your ICCL folks register for the Aug. 20 Leadership day (that will start with a Mary Ehrenworth keynote). Please click on the “Sections” … Continue reading