Team,
Please ensure your staffing plans are up to date-and accurate. I have checked in with a few of you and it was helpful to fully understand your thinking for your school. Let me know if you have any questions.
Have a wonderful weekend. ~Juan
To Do
From Kinsey Martin
Can you please take a moment to share here your feedback related to our Admin PD session this week? Thank you for taking the time to share your perspective!
Here are the policies referenced during our scenario work at the Admin PD session this week, in case any of them piqued your interest:
Appropriate Use of Technology: AR
Administrator Responsibilites related to Technology: AR
Social Media Use and Expectations: AR
Hazing, Harassment, Cyber-bullying: BP
Personal Communication Devices: AR
Grades and Credits: AR
Public Complaints: AR
Have a suggestion for a policy update or revision? Share it here!
Regarding your team’s bias incident data analysis: I’d recommend saving somewhere the link to your level/school’s data, for use next fall as you prepare staff to teach the bias lessons. If your team would like to further discuss your data (or your response or record-keeping processes), please reach out.
From Josh Marks
Administrators and Supervisors, Good News our pool posting(s) for our Inclusion EA positions for 24-25 school year are now posted on our website. Please direct any interested candidates to these postings (this would include any temporary Inclusion EA’s who are interested in returning). There are three postings, one for Bend Area, one for South County, and one temporary.
From Paul Dean
Snow Days & Time Off Approvals
Please remind your staff whose snow make-up day(s) time off was approved to enter them into UKG
ICCL Hiring
Please refer to this document on ICCL posting/hiring.
School Administrator Performance Evaluation Bug
We’ve encountered some problems with Domain 9, Standard 6 populating correctly. If that domain/standard appears on your self-reflection or summative evaluation, please skip it for 2023/24.
This and That
From Scott McDonald
Bend-La Pine Schools IT is rolling out a security change to staff Macs that you may need to be aware of if you have installed personal software on your Mac.
There is a new process to gain administrator access on your computer for installing or updating non-standard software. If you need administrator access on your computer, please review our guidance on the staff portal:
https://bendlapine.sharepoint.com/sites/technology/SitePages/Make-Me-Admin.aspx
If you run into any issues with this process, you can contact the IT Help Desk at ext. 1200 or open an IT support ticket at https://help.bend.k12.or.us.
Youth Truth Reminder from last week
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.
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 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
Honoring the 70th Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Ed