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If you have staff who need coverage for receiving vaccination during school hours<\/strong>… For staff who need to be out of the building for vaccinations shots or who have post-injection illnesses that prevent them from working, identify the absence\u00a0under “other” and write in “vaccination” on the Leave Sheets.\u00a0HR will be communicating with office managers about how to code other COVID-related leave.\u00a0 _________________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n\n\n\n As you know, the second round of vaccinations are upon us. What you also may have heard is that 20-30% of those who receive this second vaccination have side effects noticeable enough to keep them out of work for one or more days. If<\/strong> a staff member needs to take leave due to symptoms after vaccination, please code both of these as “other leave”<\/strong> and put something like “illness due to vaccination” in the reason for leave. This will come out of a staff member’s 5-day COVID leave, and not the typical sick leave allocation. Let me know if you have questions about this. _________________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n\n\n\n Please share this<\/a> substitute request flow chart <\/strong>with your office manager and anyone else that you think may need\/use it. Please remind your Office Manager to put leave requests in early (as early as they find out) and check them often. A number of sub requests have not been getting filled through the ESD already this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n THIS and THAT:<\/p>\n\n\n\n There is a new MS\/HS safety video<\/strong> posted on our district’s website that may be worth passing along to your parents in a future communication. Here is the link to that video.<\/a> _________________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n\n\n\n Now that schools are reopening for in-person learning, I wanted to reshare this helpful social media guide<\/a> that also applies to school newsletters, websites, teacher emails, and any other communication to families.<\/strong> Please be sure that the photos you share reflect the consistent safety practices you have in place in your buildings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n A few keys: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Questions? Email Alandra any time! _________________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n\n\n\n As you know, February is Black History Month<\/strong>. You may or may not have seen this blog post<\/a> regarding some highlighted Black authors and recommended videos that could be used for instruction this (or any) month. I watched one of these videos, as the title caught my eye: “The exceptional life of Benjamin Banneker.” Here is a link <\/a>that will bring you to this video (on the right side of the page), as well as other educational resources. The video is definitely appropriate for MS-aged kids (likely geared more towards a younger audience), and the 3:30 clip kept my attention and left me wanting to learn more. _________________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you have any new\/temporary certified staff for the remainder of this year, here are a couple pieces of evaluation news<\/strong> that you need to know: <\/p>\n\n\n\n The temporary teachers that we are hiring right now will not work the 135 days to count as a full year for TSPC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Therefore, we are not required to complete the two formal observations. Since we are halfway through the year, I would recommend that we have administrators complete a minimum of two mini observations<\/em>. I\u2019d also like them to complete an evaluation<\/em> so that we have a record of how the teacher performed this year. Let Jon or myself know if you have any questions regarding this. _________________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n\n\n\n Following are some questions regarding quarantining<\/strong> that Scott O. asked and Paul Dean and Tami Pike responded to. Thought you might have (or likely will have) the same questions asked of you soon…<\/p>\n\n\n\n Following are a number of updates from Paul…<\/p>\n\n\n\n New County Metric Guidance<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Last week, the state issued new indoor\/outdoor guidance that applies to our after-school activities. Here<\/a> is the information to share with your team (mostly applicable to high schools) for Deschutes County which is still in the extreme zone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Rapid Testing<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n RSSL requires schools to have the capacity to offer rapid COVID-19 tests (BiomaxNOW) available to symptomatic students\/staff by March 1. Here is the rollout timing:<\/p>\n\n\n\n MOU<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n In order to satisfy this requirement in the MOU:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Each school site will post the school\u2019s COVID-19 Safety Checklist and a copy of the OSHA emergency temporary standards on the safety bulletin board.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Please post a hard copy of your latest Checklist and a hard copy of this\u00a0document<\/a>\u00a0(103 pages) on your staff bulletin board.<\/p>\n\n\n\n BLS COVID-19 Cases<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The district will be creating a dashboard that reflects positive COVID-19 cases within our schools. The data will be updated every Wednesday after OHA\u2019s weekly Kindergarten-12th grade school report<\/a> is released. We will also include a list of FAQs<\/a> to explain more information about the data. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Non-Masking Students On Buses<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n If you receive a complaint of students not wearing masks on a bus, it would greatly assist transportation if you can gather the following information prior to emailing Kim\/Tina: <\/p>\n\n\n\n Ideally, students should report non-masking behavior immediately to the bus driver.<\/p>\n\n\n\n REMINDERS:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Last week I shared the following message with you (which also came with a task), but I did not have a Chinese language version of the letter to share at that time. Here is the Chinese language version<\/a> – as well as part of the message from last week: Please share this letter (English<\/a> and Spanish<\/a>) in your next parent communication. [Don’t forget to make a copy of these letters first – as well as check the access to the link to make sure parents can view it.] This letter outlines the communication steps that will occur every time there is a positive COVID case at a school.<\/strong> _________________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n\n\n\n Here are links to two documents that Jon referenced in our Horizontal this past Tuesday. First, the final MOU with BEA for Hybrid instruction<\/a>. Also, this MOU key points<\/a> document. _________________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n\n\n\n Don’t forget (I spoke about this at Horizontal earlier this week) to have someone follow-up with reaching out to students enrolled at your school but do not show up next Monday or Tuesday<\/strong>. We want to make sure all students are accounted for (and enrolled in the program they plan to finish the year in). _________________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n\n\n\n Don’t forget that we’ve moved our Horizontal meetings to Tuesday mornings at 8:00am<\/strong>. We will still meet in my Webex room. _________________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" TO DO: If you have staff who need coverage for receiving vaccination during school hours… For staff who need to be out of the building for vaccinations shots or who have post-injection illnesses that prevent them from working, identify the … Continue reading Short Term Temp Dates:<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n
Any temporary<\/strong> classified people hired after the dates below, will not qualify for medical benefits. HR communicates this at time of hiring but we recommend schools inform interviewees too:<\/h1>\n\n\n\n