{"id":15,"date":"2015-09-11T03:38:42","date_gmt":"2015-09-11T03:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/jim.boen\/?p=15"},"modified":"2015-11-25T03:39:18","modified_gmt":"2015-11-25T03:39:18","slug":"9-11-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/jim.boen\/2015\/09\/11\/9-11-15\/","title":{"rendered":"9-11-15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">As you slide into the Friday afternoon of your first week with students I wanted to communicate what a pleasure it was to visit your building this week and see first-hand the great things that you are doing with and for kids. \u00a0I have never had the opportunity to be in other buildings on the first day of school and I enjoyed seeing and hearing what you were doing to welcome and connect with students. \u00a0It was a gift.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">My guess is that you are feeling a little spent and are ready for the weekend\u2026 Hope you don\u2019t stay long at school this afternoon and get out and enjoy the next couple of days!<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">A few items for you to know or be reminded of that I wanted to pass along:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul class=\"ul1\">\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">We have a pretty full agenda for our Sept. 21 Horizontal meeting at CMS (and I\u2019ve already started a list for our Nov. meeting). \u00a0With that said, if you have an item you think should be discussed please send that to me and I\u2019ll triage what needs to be on this agenda and which can wait until we meet again. \u00a0We\u2019ll be meeting from 3:15 \u2013 4:45.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul class=\"ul1\">\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">Smarter Balanced results will be released on September 17. \u00a0Just as an FYI.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul class=\"ul1\">\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">ODE is creating an \u201copt out\u201d letter\/form for parents related to SBAC testing. \u00a0We are hearing this will be sent to districts the first part of November. \u00a0By law we need to provide parents opt out notice at least 30 days prior to testing. \u00a0We will work on a plan for the district of how and when to do this \u2013 but it will likely not happen until at least after the new year.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul class=\"ul1\">\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">Leadership meeting this Monday from 3:15 \u2013 4:45. \u00a0One item on the agenda is Safety Drills Calendar. \u00a0Julianne will be sharing a drill calendar for each month of the year. \u00a0This is new and we hope very helpful.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Glad to be a part of your work &#8211;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Jim<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you slide into the Friday afternoon of your first week with students I wanted to communicate what a pleasure it was to visit your building this week and see first-hand the great things that you are doing with and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/jim.boen\/2015\/09\/11\/9-11-15\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":281,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3852],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-middle-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/jim.boen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","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=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/jim.boen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/jim.boen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions\/16"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/jim.boen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/jim.boen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/jim.boen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}