{"id":622,"date":"2017-04-28T15:17:41","date_gmt":"2017-04-28T15:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/jim.boen\/?p=622"},"modified":"2017-04-28T15:17:41","modified_gmt":"2017-04-28T15:17:41","slug":"4-28-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/jim.boen\/2017\/04\/28\/4-28-17\/","title":{"rendered":"4.28.17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>TO DO:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Don&#8217;t spend any money on radios! (Can a &#8220;don&#8217;t do&#8221; fit under the &#8220;To Do&#8221; category?) \u00a0Just about all of you rely on radios throughout the day for communicating with a variety of people within your building. \u00a0As a district, there are a number of various types of radios being used and costs for purchasing them fluctuates as well. Julianne is working on getting our district good radios at a fair\u00a0(reduced) price. \u00a0Please don&#8217;t purchase any radios in the coming weeks as she hopes to work with a vendor soon to get you the most radio for your dollar. \u00a0Let J-Rep know if you are interested in purchasing radios this spring\/next fall.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>THIS AND THAT:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I believe I have spoken with each building regarding your 2017-18 staffing plan. \u00a0I also believe you have jobs posted that need to be and everyone understands that no further action (no contacting applicants or setting up interviews) should happen until I give you the green light to do so (which won&#8217;t happen prior to May 16th for sure). \u00a0Let me know if you have any questions or need clarification on any part of this process.<\/li>\n<li>If you haven&#8217;t had the opportunity yet, try and find 4 minutes to watch this (I also sent it out two weeks ago)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/a\/gapps.bend.k12.or.us\/file\/d\/0BwH82Aoi_UKTcm80TkR1X05ydms\/view?usp=sharing\">MLTS Sparks video on creativity<\/a> (Stanford d.School). \u00a0A few of the questions that struck me, connected with this video, are: Where in your school are students most creative? Do students have an opportunity to build on each other\u2019s ideas? If a student approaches a problem in a way that was not taught, is he\/she punished or rewarded? In what ways is creativity honored in your school? (http:\/\/sparks.mltsfilm.org\/)<\/li>\n<li>On a personal note, our oldest son will be graduating from Corban University\u00a0next Saturday and Christie and I are very proud of him! His plan is to live at home for a year (our youngest is heading off to college in the fall), work part-time (to pay off his undergrad) and study (with the goal of entering medical school). \u00a0He plans on\u00a0further his education and become either a PA or DO (and hopefully caring for his ailing parents as we age!).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>REMINDERS:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We have a Leadership meeting on Monday in the board room, starting at 3:15. \u00a0Please refer back to an email sent by Jay on 4\/26 with additional details regarding this meeting (including the need for you to sit by your &#8220;SDP site visit teams&#8221;) as you arrive.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TO DO: Don&#8217;t spend any money on radios! (Can a &#8220;don&#8217;t do&#8221; fit under the &#8220;To Do&#8221; category?) \u00a0Just about all of you rely on radios throughout the day for communicating with a variety of people within your building. \u00a0As &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/jim.boen\/2017\/04\/28\/4-28-17\/\">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-622","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\/622","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=622"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/jim.boen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":666,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/jim.boen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622\/revisions\/666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/jim.boen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/jim.boen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/jim.boen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}