Team,
Level leaders have received staffing allocations from Brad and April will soon be putting together the templates for the staffing plans. I sent you all your allocation in an earlier email.
It will take time for April to create the template. As stated in my earlier email, we expect to have the template to you by April 1st. Don’t hesitate in reaching out to me if you have any questions. I will be available over the break by limited email, but you can call or text.
Take a break! You deserve it! I will see you soon.
~Juan
To Do
Process for requesting a field trip from TLC
We are actively looking for the best way to support teachers who are looking to take field trips during a time of limited subs and limited transportation. We keep working to find the way to make it as simple and effective that we can. Submitting a transportation request does not mean the field trip is approved. There are three steps to having a field trip approved
- Teachers submit a field trip request form to their principal (approval pending)
- Submit a transportation request to Transportation (approval pending)
- TLC will cross reference with any substitute needs for that day via Absence Management System in Frontline
- Level leads will meet once a week (Thursdays) to approve the field trip and communicate approval. (Approved!)
Transportation will need to begin routing buses at least 3 weeks ahead of time. We recommend that you get any transportation requests at least 4 weeks before the field trip. Please communicate to your teachers that they should anticipate a month lead time when requesting a field trip
This and That
From Kinsey
Thank you for the recent and ongoing conversation around bias incidents, and for ensuring that all staff in your building have access to the reporting tool.
Here are tips for managing the reporting logistics.
Here are sentence frames staff can use to interrupt when bias happens. If you would like partnership on a quick training/calibration conversation at your upcoming staff meeting, please reach out.
Here is the DEI Department newsletter from a few weeks ago, with additional resources for having difficult conversations. Feel free to share these with your staff.
Conferences
As you know and you have probably communicated, our conferences will be in person with the parents having the option to request a virtual conference. I have had a couple teachers reach out about doing fully virtual conferences because of health concerns. An ADA accommodation will need to be requested in order for this to be approved. To initiate this, the teacher needs to email HR Benefits ([email protected]) with his or her request. It would also be helpful in this email to include any note from a doctor. They are probably going to ask for that anyway so this will just reduce the emails going back and forth.
A request from Maintenance
Can you please talk to the principals about feminine hygiene products not being flushed down the toilets? We are getting sewer backups daily, sometimes multiple the same day. We are pulling tampons out of the drain lines. Their wrappers, and the “flushable wipes” which should never be flushed either. Our maintenance team members estimate they pulled over 1500 tampons/pads out of the drain lines last month. Let’s be kind to our maintenance workers.
Reminders
Just a reminder
Here is the link to some frequently asked RSSL Questions. This is not for public consumption so please don’t send it out to families. There are new questions and answers being added weekly.
COVID Corner (from last week)
- As promised – Here is an update around some frequently asked RSSL Questions. This is not for public consumption so please don’t send it out to families.
- RSSL update – here is the complete March 2 update to the RSSL
- From Tami Pike – Here’s some updated COVID-19 information from the the Health Service Team
Summer School Update from Kevin Milner (from last week)
Programming for summer programs is off and rolling. Kevin Milner is taking the lead on this, with summer learning options looking similar to last year. Programming (Jump Start (Gr. 1-5) and Spark (Gr. 6-8) will target learning and enrichment opportunities for our district’s traditionally underserved student populations (gr.1-8) and help these students to get an early start on learning classroom/school routines, along with strategies that will help them to be successful learners in the year ahead. In addition, we will offer participating students with enrichment opportunities that they normally would not experience during their time when they are outside of school.
The process to select students for Jump Start and Spark will be coming up in April.
Some details:
Programming Dates: August 1-19, Monday-Friday
Times:
Jump Start – (8:00-3:30) Day will have two segments: a morning academic focus and an enrichment focus in the afternoon.
SPARK – (9:00-1:00) Day will include academic, with enrichment built into the schedule.
Elementary Sites:
Ensworth: Students from Juniper, Silver Rail and Ensworth.
Pine Ridge: Students from Elk Meadow, Miller, Jewell and Pine Ridge)
Buckingham: Bear Creek, Ponderosa and Buckingham
High Lakes: Students from High Lakes, Highland, North Star and Lava Ridge
Elementary LaPine Site:LaPine Elementary (Students from Rosland, Three Rivers and LPES)
Middle School Sites:
Pilot Butte (Students from PBMS, Realms,…)
Cascade: (Students from Pacific Crest and Cascade)
Sky View: (Students from High Desert and Sky View)
LaPine Middle School
Postings for Jump Start Students Services and Spark Deans of Students will be coming out soon, with postings for classroom teachers, enrichment teachers, educational assistants, office managers, food service, nurses and other positions to follow in April. (Please share this hiring with staff)
Calendar
M.S. Horizontal Meeting Schedule
- March 29th, Youth Truth Data Debrief-Principals only 8-9:30 zoom Here is link: https://zoom.us/my/youthtruthjimmy
- March 29th-Juan in Portland for Job Fair (available by phone, text and email)
- April 4th-Preparing to Lead Equitable Schools-Principals only 3:30-5:00 location TBD
- April 15th, 18th &19th -Juan out of office (available by phone or text-limited email)
- Aril 25th-Middle School Horizontal Meeting @La Pine MS@7:30-9:00 am
- May 9th-Preparing to Lead Equitable Schools– Principals only 3:30-5:00 location TBD
June 20th & June 21 Leadership Training AcademyThese dates are no longer on the books. The training will happen in August. The dates will be decided soon! So, there is no Leadership Training happening in June!
Fish On…
This was the pic that Matt was talking about at our meeting on Wednesday! This is one way of saving on gas!!