Team,
I hope you get out and enjoy the wonderful sunshine! I hope it keeps rolling for a while! ~Juan
To Do
Excellence in Education and Admin PD:
Please note that there is a location change for our all admin PD next Wednesday from 3:00-5:00. It has been moved from Perseverance Hall at BSH to the Mountain View High School cafeteria. Our Excellence in Education Awards ceremony is from 5:00-6:00 in the MVHS auditorium
Mini Observations and Summative Evals:
Keep up the good work inputting observation data and start planning for your end of the year evaluations.
From Roy Fuller
Please Read: Here is the Link
From HR (sent in an email earlier this month):
Just a quick reminder that the deadline for staff to submit their “Extended School Days Request for Absences” to building-level leaders is today.
As you start collecting these requests, please add them to the Google sheet, here. All requests must be submitted to HR by Monday, May 13th so HR Leadership can begin the review process.
You will find that the spreadsheet includes a space for administrative notes. Please provide HR with any constraints or other information to be considered when reviewing requests.
HR aims to respond to staff by Friday, May 17th. Once the approval decisions are made, staff will need to enter their leave into UKG before the payroll cut-off (Sunday, June 16th) with first and second-level approvals to properly process payroll for the end of the year. Note, if UKG leave requests are not approved before the submission of the employee’s timesheet, the leave will not be properly recorded on their June check. This will require a “Time/Leave Change Request (Prior Period)” submission. Additionally, for those staff members requesting time off as Personal Leave, if the staff member does not have sufficient leave banks (personal leave and personal carryover), the time off may result in Unpaid Time Off.
Youth Truth Reminder:
Please process your YouthTruth data with your staff and share key positives and areas for growth, as well as next steps, with your families and students by the end of the school year. Principals, you are strongly encouraged to additionally process your school’s data with your families and students, particularly, with your principal’s student advisory team, with the intention of setting school improvement and student learning growth goals (SLGGS). However, processing with these groups is not required this year.
This and That
From Aimee Snyder: Congratulations to BTA, LPMS, LPHS and MVHS!!
The message below was sent to the BLS Board of Directors directly from Matchstick Consulting, Oregon Health Authority’s contractor leading Sources of Strength statewide. It is announcing Bend-La Pine Schools’ Sources of Strength award recipients.
Student Winners:
Gunther Karle, La Pine High School
Peyton Thrasher, La Pine High School
Jay Beagles, Mountain View High School
Staff Winners:
Kelly Peters, Bend Tech Academy
Stuart Johnson, La Pine Middle School
Lani McQuilkin, Amanda Armstrong, and Lindsay Seibel, Deschutes County Health Services
Team Winners:
La Pine Middle School Sources of Strength Team
These are nomination-based awards for outstanding students, staff, and teams, out of the ~100 Oregon schools implementing Sources of Strength this year. The email also includes an invite to the state’s annual Sources of Strength virtual Showcase to celebrate these awards and the Sources work that’s happened across the state.
We plan to share the news of these awards, and other Sources of Strength successes from our schools, with the district and families over the coming weeks as the school year wraps up. There’s three particularly good stories about campaigns out of BTA, MVHS, and LPMS that we plan to share. Reach out to Aimee if you have questions!
Levy information on your reader boards
Here is messaging you can add to your reader boards leading up to May 21st.
From Colleen Funderburg
We wanted to extend an invitation to administrators and teams to join a virtual 504 Training sponsored by the Council of Administrators of Special Education (CASE). This Section 504 legal conference features Julie Weatherly, Esq., and is designed to provide learning opportunities to strengthen and grow the leaders in the field. There are opportunities for basic and advanced sessions. Buildings to cover cost, group rates available.
Having attended multiple conference sessions featuring Julie Weatherly, Esq., our administrative team can attest to her engaging and informative presentations. This is an opportunity not to be missed for administrators seeking to deepen their knowledge and expertise in Section 504 compliance. LINK HERE!
Basics Training: Foundational review of anticipated new 504 regulations
Advanced Training: New hot topics and hypotheticals! Scenario-based…what would you do?
| Basics Training | Advanced Training | ||
| June 10, 2024 | June 11, 2024 | ||
| 1:00 pm-4:00 pm (CT) 11-2 pm (PST) | 9:00 am-4:00 pm (CT) 7-2 pm (PST) | ||
| $250 CASE Member | $350 CASE Member | ||
| $350 Non-CASE Member | $450 Non-CASE Member | ||
| $225 Group Rate (per person for 3 or more) | $315 Group Rate (per person for 3 or more) |
*NOTE: Central Time Zone, two hours ahead.
Lewis and Clark Admin Cohort:
If you know of anyone who is interested in starting their administrative (Principal) licensure program this next fall in an all in-person, small cohort, central Oregon focused program, please share the flyer below with them. All instructors are central Oregon leaders. Please also share with your principals or other leaders who would know teachers who might be interested. Flier for more information.
We will be holding an information session: Thursday, May 23, 2024, 4:30-5:30 at the HDESD in the Cascades Conference Room
Please let Lora, Lisa or Paul Andrews at the ESD know if you have any questions.
Calendar
May 10: Leave requests by school DUE to HR by today
May 15: Admin professional development @MVHS Cafeteria, 3:00-4:30
May 15: Excellence in Education Celebration! @ MVHS Auditorium, 5:00-7:00
May 21: National Board Info Session 4:30-5:30 in board room
May 23: Middle School Horizontal @SVMS at 3:00-4:30
May 30: School Counselor Celebration in board room 1:00-2:30 Come and support your counselors!
June 1: Pride @ Drake Park (BLS Family Advisory hosting a booth)
June 6: Middle School Horizontal @LPMS at 3:00-4:30
June 6: GSA in the Park: 10-1 at Troy Field/Ed Center
June 15-16: Juneteenth Community Celebration in Drake Park
June 18: Last Day of School
June 19: Juneteenth Holiday
Fish On…
