Team,
Congratulations on the first week of school! It was great to see you all with hustling & bustling buildings full of students and staff. I think my highlight of the week was watching each of your WEB leaders creating a safe, inclusive and welcoming environments for all 6th graders! Nicely done!
As I mentioned to each you, I want to know your enrollments and know how many actual MS kids are in our schools. Please complete the following document. Please complete by Monday, September 11 at 4:00 pm.
You will notice that I will be out of the office on Monday, September 11, all good, and I will be available by text and phone. I will be monitoring email but it will be limited.
Have a great weekend, summer is still happening!!!
~Juan
To Do
From Aimee Synder
For Schools Starting Sources of Strength Classes or Clubs
Last Call: Our last planned Sources of Strength Adult Advisor/Teacher training is on Sept 19, from 8:30-3:30pm, at the Ed Center (#314). This is the promo flier with the registration link. We have 12 spots left. Share the flier with anyone you’d like to send to the Adult Advisor training so they can register. Regardless of whether your school is doing a class or club, the ideal ratio is 1 trained Adult Advisor/Teacher for every 6-7 Peer Leaders.
This is a list of all the Sources of Strength Peer Leader trainingshappening at schools between Sept 8 – Oct 17. Students need a signed parent/guardian permission slip to attend the Sources of Strength Peer Leader training and the training would be required for participating in the Sources Peer Leader classes or clubs. Jamie Gunter ([email protected]) is the person to contact about the parent/guardian permission slips.
Your school’s trained Adult Advisors/Teachers should attend your Peer Leader training because they will support the Peer Leaders at the training and then also in the Sources class or club. The Peer Leader training is important for establishing the adult-to-peer leader relationship. If your Adult Advisors are teachers and need sub coverage, use the $1,000 in start up funds your school received from Matchstick to cover the sub costs. There’s also additional $1,000 mini-grants available that your Public Health Specialists are aware of and can help your school apply for.
From Walter Norris
Please read this document and below ARs.
Document Pest Management Pest Management II
From Stephen DuVal
Principals, please send the following out to all staff.
We are looking for staff to support students with administration of the SAT this year. This is a PAID opportunity where staff can help students on their postsecondary journey. There are a variety of roles available on a variety of dates. The first of which is right around the corner on October 7th.
Roles available:
Standard Proctors ($125)
Accommodated Proctor ($185)
Room Monitors ($100)
Hall Monitor ($100)
If October 7th doesn’t work for you, please consider the next testing dates. (All tests occur at Bend High)
November 4, 2023
December 2, 2023
March 9, 2024
May 4, 2024
June 1, 2024
If you are interested in the 10/7 test date or any other SAT testing date, please contact Theresa Quade ([email protected]).
From Kinsey: CAFE Program
Please read and share applicable portions with your staff:
A key tool we offer for translation/interpretation support is the Bend-La Pine Schools’ CAFE Program for staff. Full details here. Note: School and dept administrators should be familiar with items 5 and 6 on page 2.
We are lauching the sign-up process to add new members to the CAFE Program. Please help us ensure all staff have access to this information and opportunity: Here is a pre-written message you can copy and send to your whole staff (all certified, classified, administrative, and confidential staff are welcome to participate).
Thank you for sending that message within the next week! Additional information about CAFE, including the most up-to-date list of members, can always be found on the Portal’s Equity page.
This and That
From Sean Reinhart
Please see the following link for suicide intervention: Document
From Jennifer Hauth
Thank you all for participating in the Wayfinder trainings last week. We trained 33 schools in one tool – a huge success and lots of great feedback. Many of you have been so excited about Wayfinder and you are ready to share information with your families. I am working with Scott Maben on content that can be shared, we want to be mindful to use Life and Career readiness when speaking about our new tool so please wait to share with families until we get some agreed upon text.
Our focus has been teachers and students for this first wave of training. Later this month, we will prioritize Student Success, Learning Specialists, School Psychs and Speech and Language for logins and training. Many secondary people in this position have received training with their school site and are waiting on a login. We are working on it😊
The Waypoint assessment that all 6th through 12th graders will be taking opens on September 26 and closes at 4 pm on Friday October 5th. There are 43 questions and you should allow 30 minutes for students to compete the assessment on their ipads. You will have access to the data on your admin dashboard once the window closes.
For ongoing tech assistance, please use the process below for Austin’s team:
Q: A teacher has the wrong grade level materials, what do I do?
A: 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.
A: Workbooks- Your administrator should collect numbers for workbooks needed for the school. Then, they can USE THIS FORM to do a curriculum request which comes to Julie and Stephanie.
Q: A teacher is teaching a blend and needs both grade levels, what should they do?
A: For Digital Tools-the 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.
A: For the Workbooks (Middle School only. No workbooks for HS)- See above
Q: I have teachers who should have access to all grade levels (Counselors/PE teachers, Music teachers, etc.) How do we go about getting them access?
A: For Digital Tools- 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. 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 Tami Pike re: Communication to the School Nurse After School Hours
Non-Urgent Student Matters For any non-urgent student health matters, please email your school nurse and they will get back to you on the next school day. Please do not phone or text after school hours.
Urgent/Emergent Student Matters For any urgent/emergent student health matters that need to be addressed immediately, please contact Tami Pike for assistance. (please text first 541-350-8387)
Employee Health Related Questions. For any employee health-related questions/concerns, please reach out to Human Resources at 541-355-1100.
WHEN TO STAY HOME REMINDER
Illness Symptoms and When to Stay Home. Bend-La Pine Schools follows the Oregon Health Authority/Oregon Department of Education’s Communicable Disease Guidance for Schools. This guidance includes when an individual should be excluded from attending school on site (including any school-related activities such as clubs and sports).
For information on symptom-based exclusion guidelines, see page 8 of the Communicable Disease Guidance for Schools.
- Fever – An individual must be fever free for 24 hours without the use of fever reducing medications.
- Diarrhea/vomiting – Must be 48 hours since last episode.
COVID-19 is no longer an excludable disease (unless symptoms of fever, vomiting, and/or diarrhea are present).
Parents/guardians/staff are no longer required to report positive cases of COVID-19 to the schools. COVID-19 test kits and medical grade face masks are available to students and staff upon request. Check with your school nurse about how to obtain a supply for your school.
You may also refer staff to the Health and Wellness section on our Bend-La Pine Schools website for more information about when to stay home.
Calendar
September 11: Juan out of office-You can text or call. I will have limited email.
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)
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