Team,
It was great to see all of you back this week. I hope you were able to find good and helpful information in our trainings this past week.
Please take a look at the following document MS Teams & Leads 23_24 (please complete). I want to use this document for a couple of reasons. One, to assist me in my school visits, and secondly, to know and understand your different teaming structures and systems. I think the google sheet is self explanatory, but let me know if you have any questions.
I really appreciate everyone’s dedication and focus this last week.
Keep hanging on to summer! ~Juan
To Do
From Lora Nordquist (read)
Role of Media Managers: Here is a link to a document outlining the guidelines for our media managers. Please let us know if you have any questions or want to discuss any ideas around how you used them in your school.
This and That
Here are the slides from our trainings this week:
August 8 Culture and Climate: Tier 1 Instructional Practices session: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1sLk8dQvSljZOBO7CRUzfqSWkm89OjzSdDrRBFXwu4dU/edit?usp=sharing
August 8 Culture and Climate: Tier 1 Teaching and Reinforcing Belonging for ALL students
August 9 Office Managers Meeting Powerpoint-in case you were wondering what was covered.
August 10 Secondary Administrator Training
Task Force Team Members: HERE is the list of team-members on the task force.
From Scott McDonald
Your IT System Support team provides many important training opportunities for admin, office, and support staff at the start of the year. You can find a calendar of available offerings and support documentation on the “Office Staff Essentials” page in the staff portal. PLEASE make sure your office staff is both aware of the training calendar and that they are protected from schedule conflicts as much as possible. Our IT team is not available for make-up sessions. One-to-One support will need to be provided by staff in similar roles.
AND…
Any of these training sessions are open to administrators. Having multiple people in your building with operational knowledge of our systems is strongly encouraged.
From Doug Pigman, Executive Director of Facilities, regarding summer maintenance:
From Scott Maben, Communications
From Eric Powell
SIRC (Sexual Incident Response Committee) /STAS (Student Threat Assessment System) Information
*Please review your SIRC/STAS Level 1 Team for the school year (and add/update names as needed): 2023-2024 SIRC/STAS Teams Link
*Please sign up for one of the SIRC/STAS trainings below to be prepared for the school year:
2023-2024 Training Dates (STAS)
2023-2024 Training Dates (SIRC) – Secondary
*Here is a link to our SIRC/STAS 101 document (also linked in the ‘Resource Guide’) for you to reference as you think about threat assessment for the school year: SIRC/STAS 101
From Lora Nordquist
Just a friendly reminder that is in violation of Oregon law to require or even ask K-12 students to provide or pay for ANY supplies required for their “free and appropriate public education.” Here are the exceptions:
- Instrument rental
- PE uniforms
- (applies only to elective classes) Materials for projects that the student will keep (i.e. jewelry). Students cannot be prohibited from taking the class if they don’t pay a materials fee, they just can’t keep the projects.
For the law/policy geeks, here is the law: https://oregon.public.law/statutes/ors_339.155
Calendar
August 21: MS Horizontal @8:00-9:00 at HDMS
August 22 & 23: Taking It Up 8:00-4:00 Taking it Up
August 28: New Teacher Orientation Day 7:30-9:00 @North Star Elementary
August 29: Welcome Back virtual presentation for all district staff will start at 8:30 to 9:30 a.m.
August 30: Building Lead Professional Development
August 30: (AM Focus) Assessment and Feedback Practices (formerly known as Equitable Grading)
August 30: (PM Focus) Tier 1 MTSS Framework: Teaching and supporting the development of prosocial behaviors ie. “How are we going to play MS in all areas of the school building?”
Guidance for planning during the week of August 28th and the week of September 4th Doc
Fish On…
