TO DO:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Check out this opportunity to learn more about STEM<\/strong> at your school. The fine folks at Academy at Sisters (one of our district ALOs) is offering an Informational Session on March 6… and you need to RSVP by today(!)<\/strong> if you are interested in attending. Each of our middle schools may send one person. See the flyer for additional information<\/a>. ______________________________________________________<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u00a0Please send Jody 2-hour blocks of time that you would like interpreters for conferences<\/strong>. (Bend-area spring conferences are April 8 & 9.) Please do your best to spread those times out a bit (day\/evening). If everyone requests evening, we will not be able to fill them. Please have this to Jody by Friday, March 13<\/em> so that she can share with our coordinator at the ESD who knows all of the interpreters and will do all of the scheduling. _____________________________________________________<\/p>\n\n\n\n I’m sending this along for fun… Whether you are a basketball fan or not, if you have ever attended a small college hoops<\/strong> game between rivals then you’ve experienced the potential of something magical happening<\/a>. That’s exactly what too place when Grace College and Taylor University met recently. Watch this in full screen mode so you can catch some of the details of this crazy finish. [To set the stage, Grace College – wearing white – has the ball and is down three points with seconds to go…]<\/p>\n\n\n\n THIS and THAT:<\/p>\n\n\n\n The DHS \/ Law Enforcement Interview Protocol Checklist<\/strong> form on the portal<\/a> and on our district website (it coincides with JFG-AR: Student Searches & Questioning<\/a>) was missing an important step : providing notification to the person interviewing a child about the student\u2019s disabling condition (if any). If you have copies already made, please either get rid of these, or update them to add this missing step.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I\u2019m confident our schools are currently doing this, but our checklist form didn\u2019t include that important (and required by law!) part of the process. Please share this with your front office staff as well! <\/em> __________________________________________________________<\/p>\n\n\n\n These coming weeks, as you know, are a very busy time – when you are finishing up the current year and have begun planning for next year. In that vein of thought, below is a reminder from Kerry Morton of how we process math acceleration requests<\/strong> from parents or recommendations from teachers. Please read through this carefully and ask me any questions you might have. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Below are the recommendations for by-passing a year of mathematics for grades 6, 7, and 8:<\/p>\n\n\n\n A couple key language shifts regarding this process:<\/p>\n\n\n\n I recommend reviewing your data of your students who by-passed a grade level:<\/p>\n\n\n\n A few of you have been asking me about the current progress of our district’s superintendent search<\/strong>. Here is an update from Lora: <\/p>\n\n\n\n While I am not officially facilitating the logistics of the\nsuperintendent search process, Andrea Wilson and I have been helping with some\nof the scheduling. A few of you have been asking about the process, so I will\nshare what we know. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Some information regarding The Bulletin’s Spelling Bee<\/strong> was recently shared with me and I wanted to pass it along (thanks Skip for sharing!). Please refer to this docuement<\/a> – or share as you’d like with staff – if interested in learning more. __________________________________________________________<\/p>\n\n\n\n As most of you are aware, I belong to the Sunriver Rotary Club<\/strong>. One of the main missions of Rotary is to serve\/give to others in the community. For our Club, this means providing funds to local non-profits, including schools. Once a year we hold a dinner and wine auction as our major fundraiser. If you are interested in attending the dinner (May 8) or would like to purchase tickets for the wine raffle ($10 each, or 5 for $45) let me know. [I promise this will be the only time I ask!] __________________________________________________________<\/p>\n\n\n\n REMINDERS:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Remember, we do not<\/em> have a Leadership meetin<\/strong>g scheduled for March.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Daylight Savings<\/strong> time is Sunday, March 8.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Our next Horizontal is March 16 @ PBMS<\/strong>. Please read and be ready to discuss chapter 4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" TO DO: Check out this opportunity to learn more about STEM at your school. The fine folks at Academy at Sisters (one of our district ALOs) is offering an Informational Session on March 6… and you need to RSVP by … Continue reading