Team,
I hope you all had a great kickoff with staff. I was in a few schools and I totally had that nostalgic feeling of being with staff and the excitement of a new school year.
For next week, Please survey your bike rack areas to count how many E-bikes, and other E-modes of transportation students are using to get to school. Please do this for the first three days of school. Here is the doc to document. I may ask you to do it for the following week, but I will let you know.
For your review and delivery in advisory, here is the bike safety presentation in the Fish Basket under Instruction.
Here is the link to Rick’s presentation from Wednesday if any staff were unable to attend.
Have a wonderful weekend. ~Juan
To Do
From Kinsey Martin
Bias Incident Lesson-Here is the information that was sent earlier in the week: Doc
From Dean Richards
MS team,
Here is a letter to share with your Language Arts teachers regarding easyCBM. I am more than happy to come and talk with LA teams for 20 minutes about the assessment. Please let me know if and when you would like me to come to your site.
We did set a completion date of October 13th for al LA easyCBMs to be complete. This is a few weeks before conferences. I would not endorse sharing risk factors with families or students at this time without the context of the assessment and its purpose. It could provide unneeded stress to families and students. This data is internal. If I come to your site, I do provide some context with a norm based assessment that is helpful for teachers when discussing these results.
From Doug Pigman
Summer and fall can mean smoky air in Central Oregon. The amount of smoke in the air will vary across our 1,700 square mile District, so recommended strategies to keep the smoke outside will also vary. You can find the DEQ operated air quality station nearest you at:
Oregon DEQ Air Quality Index Map
Indoor Mitigation Strategies
First, please keep your doors and windows closed during smoke events. I know this seems simple, but our facilities have lots of doors and windows, so it’s best to walk the building and check. If you have smoke in the building, opening doors and windows will not help the smoke leave the building.
Second, let the filters do their job. The filters in our air handlers will filter interior air 4 to 6 times per hour. The units will also pull a small amount of outside air 4-6 times per hour, which is filtered as it enters the building. Please do not shut off the air handler units!
Third, use the air scrubbers provided to each school by our Custodial Department (541-355-6601). This added filtration can help in areas that may be smokier than others (ie entryways). If the smoke in the facility appears to be excessive, please call our Maintenance team at 541-355-4700 and they will evaluate the system. They may ask you to shut down the air handler system with the shut-off button at that time.
From Scott Bojanowski
Safety Reminders:
- Please ensure all of your staff are familiar with the BLS Culture of Safety document on our staff portal. This is the document we discussed during Leadership Launch and outlines our key safety policies and procedures.
- All staff that are visiting schools or facilities outside of their primary duty location (i.e. attending training at a school other than their own), need to sign in and out with their staff ID badge at the visitor management kiosk in the front of the school during duty hours.
- All staff need to visibly wear their staff ID badges at all times during duty hours.
- Please remember to complete your first fire drill within the first ten days of school and to complete your Lockdown drill within the first 30 days of school. You can find the drill guidelines handbook and the drill completion tracking sheet on the Safety Resources Google Drive.
This and That
Jamie Goldman
Bend-La Pine Education Foundation’s fall classroom grants cycle runs from August 29th-September 30th, with funds distributed in October. Check out the flyer for more details.
From Tami Pike
Health Services Support
Our district student support needs have shifted over the summer. We have seen increasing numbers of type 1 diabetes diagnoses along with an increasing number of students with complex medical needs starting school. With these increased needs, I wanted to send out a reminder to schools about how best they can support their student population.
- Health Room Responsibilities
- A (non-nurse) staff person and a backup staff member, (designated by the school administrator) are responsible for the health room duties. This includes medication intake and administration, first aid, students presenting with rashes, supporting ill students, etc. Staff should follow the Communicable Disease Guidance for Schools to help determine if a student should be excluded from school. (Pages 9-10 in the CD guidance specifically address symptoms that are criteria for school exclusion.)
- Administrators, please remind your designated staff about their role in health room management. The school nurse can be notified for an urgent/emergent situation such as: broken bone, breathing difficulty, profuse bleeding, loss of consciousness, etc.
- Student support
- Due to the increased number of students with type 1 diabetes attending sites throughout the district, a (non-nurse) staff person and a backup staff member, (designated by the school administrator) should be identified to support diabetic matters in the absence of a school nurse following the student’s health management plan. The school nurse (or designated substitute nurse) is available by phone for guidance. Nurses will do their best to assist with direct care diabetes support. However, most nurses have more than 1 site they are responsible for and unfortunately cannot be at multiple places at once.
School Nurse Responsibilities
School nurses are responsible for developing, maintaining, and/or updating health management plans for students with chronic illnesses and disabilities (including obtaining health care provider orders for care), staff trainings (health plans general and student specific, delegation and follow up of specific health service tasks, scheduled and emergent medication administration), direct care support, concussion management, care coordination between school teams and community health partners, suicide screening, IEP/504 participation, communicable disease prevention/management, etc.
From Jennifer Hauth
We are getting lots of questions in our trainings around teachers not having the correct Wayfinder digital tools and workbooks associated with their name.
- My teacher has the wrong grade level materials!
- Digital Tools- Please make sure that the teacher is loaded into Synergy correctly. In theory, Clever will synch with Synergy each night and assign the correct digital tools. If you do this and they continue to have the incorrect tool, please refer to the “Request new tool” feature listed below.
- Workbooks- Your administrator should collect numbers for workbooks needed for the school. This should be sent in one e-mail to Julie Walker, Dean Richards, and Stephanie Bent.
- My teacher is teaching a blend and needs both grade levels!
- Digital-Your teacher should have the lower grade level materials. If they need another grade level to explore, please ask that they use the “Request new tool” feature listed below.
- Workbooks- See above
- My teacher should have access to all grade levels! (Counselors/PE teachers, Music teachers, etc.)
- Digital- Make sure they are loaded into synergy correctly and then ask that they request the tools using the feature below.
Instructional Tech and Information Technology partnered to build an application where teachers can see what tools have been deployed to each of their classes.
https://instructionaltools.bend.k12.or.us/
At the top of this page there is a feature where they can request a new tool
This can be requests to add, change, or remove tools.
From Scott McDonald
When to use the Webhelpdesk support ticket system.
There are several ways to communicate with your Bend-La Pine Schools IT support staff. The most effective of which is the webhelpdesk ticket. If you have a quick question, call the help desk or shoot an email to your client service representative. But if you have an expectation, or a request that will require action, you should ONLY use the webhelpdesk ticket system. Why?
• a web help desk ticket will direct your request to one of 30 IT staff that is best suited to answer your question.
• It is the only communication method that will alert IT support if it remains unanswered. (1 day happy and green 3 days yellow and SCARY RED at day 5!)
• It tracks common issues that could be addressed to benefit all BLS users.
Calendar
September 4: Labor Day
September 6: 6th Grade Only Day
September 7: First Day of School for All Grades
September 14: Juan visiting schools
September 21: Juan visiting schools
September 21: MS Horizontal @La Pine MS at 3:00-4:30
September 28: MTSS Lead Professional Development Location TBD at 3:00-4:00 (look for calendar invite shortly)
October 5: Juan visiting schools
October 5: MS Horizontal @Cascade MS at 3:00-4:30
October 19: MTSS Lead Professional Development Location TBD at 3:00-4:00 (look for calendar invite shortly)
Fish On…
