Team,
Congratulations on a full week of school with students, staff and families! I am always impressed when I visit your individual schools and see you in action! For example, when I was over at Pilot Butte, I saw Jessica, Sarah and Mary meeting, and calibrating on how to deal with student decisions. At Sky View, one of the PE teachers had their class outside playing volleyball. The weather was perfect for it. And then there is the moment when you know you are part of the team and have a skill set to offer because I helped a Spanish speaking parent over at Cascade. These are a few examples of the amazing work you are doing every day! Lastly, I have heard nothing but positive comments with the beginning of the school year. Nicely done everyone. ~Juan
To Do
From Sean Reinhart
Please make sure members of your School STAS Level 1 team sign up for the SIRC training.
What is SIRC
The Sexual Incident Response Committee sets of assessment protocols and safety planning procedures overseen and administered by a unique collaborative team. The SIRC process is much like the STAS process, but is used when the event is sexual in nature (harassment, assault, etc..).
All Level 1 Team members must register for a full day of SIRC training if they have not previously attended. It is only necessary to attend one day (not both). There is a maximum of 50 participants for each day. Training dates have been separated by elementary and secondary levels. Additional dates will be determined as needed. Registration links for SIRC trainings are attached.
SIRC Training Dates:
October 16, 2023 8:00 – 4:30 @ High Desert ESD (Middle & High School)
October 17, 2023 8:00 – 4:30 @ Bend-La Pine School District (Elementary)
Technology Resources for Parents:
Your IT team would like to encourage you to share the following links with your office staff and directly with families. The links include step by step guides for parents who wish to sign up for:
Parent Vue
Canvas Observer Accounts
School Meals
Bus Information
Technology Resources for Parents (English)
Technology Resources for Parents (Spanish)
Reminders/already shared in an email:
College App Night is September 19: Please sure your families and students are aware of this event. Here is the flier in English and Spanish.
From Kinsey: Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)
We are working to improve the workplace experiences and sense of belonging of our employees. One of the many ways we are doing this is through co-designed systems of support and networking called Employee Resource Groups (ERGs). Details here—page 2 has FAQ, in case you get questions.
In 22-23 a few different ERGs met regularly throughout the year, with awesome facilitators and lots of fun activities! Thanks to those of you who participated or encouraged your staff to participate. We are re-launching groups for 23-24, and need your help:
Can you please ensure all staff are aware of this opportunity? Here is a pre-written message you can send your staff—thanks for sharing in the next week or so. (If you haven’t shared last week’s CAFE Program info with your staff yet–or if you’d like to send a reminder–here is that staff message again as well.) Thanks!
From Kinsey: Here are the Bias Incident Lesson Series materials.
- Required (by Oct 27): the revised-but-similar version of last year’s single lesson.
- Highly recommended: The other three lessons in the series are Wayfinder activities that our equity coaches have carefully selected and sequenced, to facilitate classroom climates conducive to dialogue around identity and bias. Feel free to require the whole four-part series in your building! 🙂
Please connect with your ICCL DEI reps, to include teacher leadership in preparing the lesson roll-out for successful implementation across your building.
Reach out to our district LEAD/Equity Coaches to schedule support for your staff, and let me know if you have questions or concerns I can support!
Information:
ACR implementation change: In recent practice, students on an ACR who desire to move back to their home school are not given priority consideration over other students who submit an ACR.
Recently, a decision was made to approve any student on an ACR who would like to move back to their home school.
Process: Families/students will still complete and ACR, which will be approved. We will work with the home school on timing to minimize losing credit. Student attending Realms HS or BTA who wish to move back to their home high school should complete the Choice School application, found on our website here: Choice School AR (check out page 4 under exceptional situations). Please reach out with questions.
This and That
From Paul Dean, Human Resources
UKG: Staff Data
Human Resources/Payroll are aware that data in UKG regarding staff assignments is not currently up to date. Please refrain from contacting either of our offices about this until a future blog entry in which we will be soliciting feedback from you on anything that is not correct. Payroll is also working on updating accruals that are incorrect (like accumulated personal time).
UKG: Processing of PA
HR/Payroll are diligently processing PAs and prioritizing changes that impact an employee’s base compensation. Other compensation like extra duty and ICCL stipends in which hiring was completed prior to September 1st, will appear on an employee’s September paycheck. Anything that administrators completed after that date will likely not appear until October’s paycheck.
Other non-compensation related PA’s (positions, budget codes) will be processed in the order that they are received and be updated in UKG by mid-October at the latest.
Certified Evaluation Update
Lora, Paul and Sarah Barclay are meeting this week to discuss certified evals for 2023/24. We will have the following information to share with admin at the beginning of October:
- Certified goal setting process
- Mini-formal observation tracking
- On year summative evaluation list
- Summative Evaluation process and timeline
This doesn’t mean that admin can’t begin mini-ops now and tracking them on your own before we share how we plan to do this for the 2023/24 school year. By all means, feel free to start those.
Important link to the Certified Teacher Performance Evaluation Manual
Recommended that all admin review – especially new admin
From Linda Adams
Dear Administrators,
Welcome back! Here in Teaching and Learning we are super excited for the 2023-24 school year and are lining up PD opportunities for your math teachers.
Last year we offered a one-day workshop on supporting struggling math students plus most of our high schools had at least one lesson study/studio day where teachers learned the latest in best practices and strategies for engaging all students in mathematics and to meet the diverse needs of our students.
This year we’d like to offer that opportunity again to high school AND to our middle school teachers. We could offer up to 3 days, half or full depending on the school’s ability to partially fund this. One possibility is that teachers spend half of the day working on pedagogy and best teaching strategies and the second half working on PLC-standards work. In most cases I would facilitate the math strategies piece but am also willing to help organize the PLC work if desired.
TLC will also hold a new math teacher training, Introduction to Mathematically Productive Teaching Routines on October 3 for those who have not recently (or ever) had a best teaching strategies course for math early in October. this training will give teachers the background for the Studio-Math Teaching Strategies work during the year. Look for the flyer coming out soon with details.
We would love to start getting dates on the calendar (Mountain View already has theirs) so if this is something that you and your math team desire this year, please let us know. It is also good to consider including your math support teachers and these strategies are helpful for their classes as well. This time together also builds teams allowing them to plan more in the in between sessions.
All the best for a wonderful new school year,
Dean and Linda
Update on UpShift:
We are continuing to implement the UpShift program at ALL high schools this year as an alternative to suspension program to vaping. At this time, you should have identified which of your building administrators will serve as the UpShift Coordinator.
Starting next week, any new UpShift team members will be trained on either the UpShift Coordinator or UpShift Specialist role at their schools.
For those of you who have already completed an UpShift training in the past, we’ve prepared some helpful refresher videos that you can refer to as needed. Here’s what’s available:
1. Overview of UpShift Training Video :This video provides a comprehensive background on UpShift, explaining the ‘why’ behind it, the different UpShift roles, and how we track and monitor our efforts.
2. UpShift Specialists Refresher Video : Designed for those who deliver the Teen Intervene Curriculum to adolescents.
3. UpShift Coordinator Refresher Video : If you’re involved in coordinating adolescent disciplinary responses, contacting parents/guardians, or screening students for substance use disorder risk levels, this video is for you.
4. UpShift Google Drive Tutorial : Learn how to navigate the Bend – La Pine Schools UpShift folder and access your School – Site folder efficiently.
If you have questions or need further guidance, please reach out to me or the Public Health Specialist at your school. Your success in the program is important to us, and we’re here to support you!
Thank you for working through any implementation barriers and being committed to UpShift. Contact Heather Tang, if you have questions or need support for implementation.
From Dean Richards
Instructional Technology is aware of issues with rostering in easyCBM. This should be resolved on Monday.
Check this Out
Calendar
September 20: All Admin Professional Development 3:00-4:30 @ BSHS Perseverance Hall
September 21: Juan visiting schools
September 21: MS Horizontal @La Pine MS at 3:00-4:30
September 26-October 5: Wayfinder Assessment: For ALL students; & For ALL Middle schools
September 28: MTSS Lead Professional Development Location TBD at 3:00-4:00 (Only MTSS admin Lead for your building needs to attend-Dean sent calendar invite)
October 3: ICCL and building administrator training and work session location (TBD) (Topic Equitable Grading)
October 5: Juan visiting schools
October 5: MS Horizontal @Cascade MS at 3:00-4:30
October 11: Educator Network Day
October 19: MTSS Administrator Lead Professional Development @ 3:00-4:00 @ Ed Center Board Room
October 25: All Admin Professional Development 3:00-4:30 @ BSHS Perseverance Hall
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