{"id":989,"date":"2018-06-08T14:56:43","date_gmt":"2018-06-08T14:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/jim.boen\/?p=989"},"modified":"2018-06-08T14:56:43","modified_gmt":"2018-06-08T14:56:43","slug":"6-8-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/jim.boen\/2018\/06\/08\/6-8-18\/","title":{"rendered":"6.8.18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>TO DO:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Have a great last week with your students and staff!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>THIS AND THAT:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Earlier this week Skip and I spoke about <strong>required trainings in the fall for your teachers<\/strong>. He is working on putting together a concise list of what and when those trainings are, and will communicate these prior to your teacher&#8217;s departure next week.<\/li>\n<li>At our last Horizontal meeting we spent some time talking about Article 15 in the BEA contract &#8211; regarding <strong>schools grading on the quarter system<\/strong> receiving 4 hours of work time. This week I was able to follow-up with folks here regarding &#8220;option C&#8221; that we discussed to see if it would fit within the language of our current contract. In short, it does not. I&#8217;d be happy to fill you in on the reasons for this if you&#8217;d like &#8211; just let me know. Therefore, with current contract language, your <em>school<\/em>\u00a0can take 4 hours of prep (Thursday conferences then begin at 11:15) if <em>everyone<\/em> grades on a quarter system. If you will not be<em>\u00a0issuing final grades school-wide every quarter<\/em> then your Thursday conferences will start in the morning and last until 7:15pm.<\/li>\n<li>I end this year&#8217;s Tribe updates with a story that is one of my favorites, of a person whom &#8220;beats the odds&#8221; &#8211; that highlights <strong>the power of the will of the human spirit<\/strong> &#8211; one that didn&#8217;t listen to the doubters, but stuck to their vision. Hope you enjoy the message of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/2017\/12\/tatsuo-horiuchi-excel-artist\/\">this 2:28 minute video<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The fall district <strong>Welcome Back will occur<\/strong>, as you know, <strong>on August 28<\/strong>.\u00a0 What you may not know is that it will begin at 1:00 and end at 4:30pm at Bend High. This is a workday for many, but not all of our employees.\u00a0 For whomever it is regular workday the expectation is that they come to this event. [And besides, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?time_continue=57&amp;v=5nZO91Th6B0\">Chad Hymas<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hDUFgIZzeto\">keynote speaker<\/a> is fantastic!] Because it is scheduled to end at 4:30, we are asking all secondary admin to have their staff start their workday at 8:30 (rather than 7:15) so they can stay throughout this event during their 8-hr workday. However, this is not a hill to die on. If an employee wants to start at 7:15 and leave this event at 3:15 then they can do that. (They will be missing staff awards, free food and live music.)<\/li>\n<li>I currently plan on\u00a0<strong>not being in the office on Tuesday afternoon<\/strong>, but you can reach me by cell at any time. If I haven&#8217;t told you yet, we are moving (to DRW) and can&#8217;t get into our new home until noon on Tuesday, have to return our U-Haul by 4:00pm, and have to be completely out of our current house that same day by 5:00pm. And, I wish there was someone (else) I could blame besides myself for committing (six months ago) to getting a puppy at this same time.\u00a0 Hope you enjoy the photo of Christie and our 9-week-old &#8220;Mellie.&#8221; Things are a bit crazy around the Boen house right now&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/jim.boen\/files\/2018\/06\/Screen-Shot-2018-06-05-at-10.54.15-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1190\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/jim.boen\/files\/2018\/06\/Screen-Shot-2018-06-05-at-10.54.15-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"345\" height=\"484\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>REMINDERS:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This will be the <strong>last TRIBE for the 2017-18 school year<\/strong>&#8230; can&#8217;t believe we are looking through the rearview mirror at another year!<\/li>\n<li>Looking forward to seeing you all at the <strong>Leadership BBQ on Monday<\/strong>, June 18 at noon.<\/li>\n<li>Please keep in mind what you might do &#8211; or have your ICCL&#8217;s involved doing &#8211; to <strong>create a memorable moment for your new certified hires<\/strong> between now and the start of the year.\u00a0 As a reminder, <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1PaezStJsv1xQNZEoOJxhdvDN4It7BWV_U3WCxdoKgRQ\/edit\">here is the link<\/a> to an &#8220;ideas page&#8221; that might help spur a new idea to try.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TO DO: Have a great last week with your students and staff! THIS AND THAT: Earlier this week Skip and I spoke about required trainings in the fall for your teachers. He is working on putting together a concise list &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/jim.boen\/2018\/06\/08\/6-8-18\/\">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-989","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\/989","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=989"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/jim.boen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1194,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/jim.boen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989\/revisions\/1194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/jim.boen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/jim.boen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/jim.boen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}