{"id":448,"date":"2017-03-10T22:16:55","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T22:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/jim.boen\/?p=448"},"modified":"2017-03-10T22:16:55","modified_gmt":"2017-03-10T22:16:55","slug":"3-10-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/jim.boen\/2017\/03\/10\/3-10-17\/","title":{"rendered":"3.10.17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>To Do:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Please read the following from Alandra and send her potential names of your students that fit this description:\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">This year we are hoping to feature <strong>students in our schools who are changing the world or to have goals in the future to change the world<\/strong>. Do you know a student who fits this description? The students will be featured in a districtwide video as well as our annual district calendar. \u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Please send back the name of the student you have in mind and a sentence about how you think this student is planning to change the world. \u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Several schools have already submitted students, but we need a few more.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>If you have a field trip this spring in which a student needs <strong>direct care nursing services<\/strong> in order to participate then your school nurse needs at least <em>two weeks notice<\/em> to make necessary nurse staffing adjustments.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>This and That:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You may have heard it announced already, but I wanted to mention we have hired a new Business Manager for the district &#8211; as Zhai Logan will be\u00a0heading off to retirement. \u00a0His name is Roy Burling and he comes to us with a long and successful history of doing similar work with schools. \u00a0To show our gratitude of his arrival we&#8217;ve given Roy an office at the Ed Center. \u00a0Unfortunately, we had to clear out some stored items under the stairs leading down to the basement so he could set up his new space. \u00a0Hopefully this will only be temporary! \u00a0Please welcome Roy when you cross paths with him. \u00a0Currently Roy is working with our insurance carrier and many others to assess and process claims around &#8220;snowmageddon&#8221; and will be taking on Zhai&#8217;s role after May 15 when she officially retires.<\/li>\n<li>This article, entitled: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/ed\/2017\/01\/14\/508991615\/5-big-ideas-in-education-that-dont-work\">5 Big Ideas in Education That Don&#8217;t Work<\/a>&#8221; was shared with me a number of weeks ago so you may have already come across it. \u00a0It is a short article from NPR that focuses in on some of John Hattie&#8217;s work around his extensive research around what makes schools effective. \u00a0I enjoy reading what Hattie has to say because his voice is grounded\u00a0in research, he isn&#8217;t afraid of stepping on the toes of tradition, and I usually find myself reflecting on ways his points could be practically implemented. \u00a0I hope you feel the same about this article.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To Do: Please read the following from Alandra and send her potential names of your students that fit this description: This year we are hoping to feature students in our schools who are changing the world or to have goals &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/jim.boen\/2017\/03\/10\/3-10-17\/\">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-448","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\/448","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=448"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/jim.boen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":608,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/jim.boen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448\/revisions\/608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/jim.boen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/jim.boen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/jim.boen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}