Team,
I appreciate your work and effort that you do for your staff, students and families. My visits with Eric and with your ICCLs have been so informative. We are looking forward to the next steps; visiting classrooms, noticing instruction and observing school environments. Let me and Denise know if you are not scheduled for these walk-throughs in February.
Keep soaring~Juan
To Do
From Aimee Snyder
Please clic on this link. In this link you will find a doc to share with families (English & español) about student vaping.
From Eric Powell
Hello Secondary Principals!
When you have a free moment, would you please review this document to provide any adjustments/changes you’d want made as we look toward this being a visible document for parents/students/community for the 23-24 school year.
LINK to BLS Cell Phones/Electronics
The goal of this document is to be simple/structured enough for all schools to put in place, but also with some areas for schools to implement according to what works at your specific sites. The language around “Support Plans” would give you the freedom to create a strict ‘support plan’ (ie: Phone required to be turned in daily) while also accounting for a ‘support plan’ that is thoughtful of a unique student situation (IEP).
Finally: For lunch and passing, it seems like there may be some difference between what Middle Schools and High Schools want (and we’d want to be thoughtful of REALMS as well).
For Middle School Principals: Are you currently allowing (or not allowing) cell phones or devices during Passing/Lunch; Do you want to align next year and have NO electronics allowed during passing/lunch?
For High School Principals: Are electronics allowed during passing/lunch? Do you want this to continue for next year?
Erin’s Law
Principals please check-in with your Health/PE teachers. Please know that some middle school PE/Health teachers did not request Safety Matters (curriculum), but that does not mean that they are not in complying with Erin’s Law. The check-in is to know how they are complying with the law. Here is a google form for you to complete this request.
UKG Update
IMPORTANT: Job Postings
Due to the transition from Frontline’s recruiting system to UKG, we will not have any jobs closing from Monday, February 13 – Thursday, February 16 to give us time to confirm that the open postings due to close after the 16th and all applicant data has sucessfully been moved from one system to the other. Our [email protected] team will work with you to have a closing date before or after this window.
You WILL be able to screen applicants and request to hire for postings that close prior to February 12th through Frontline (all data in Frontline will be retained until June 30th). There will be a transitionary period when you may be using both Frontline and UKG to complete the hiring process.
To learn more about this and how UKG’s recruiting system functions, don’t forget to sign up for one of the trainings below.
Admin/Supervisor In Person Sign Up Link
Tue 1/31 – In Person Recruiting/HRIS/T&L trainings
- 9:30 – 11 am @ Northstar
- 2 pm – 3:30 pm @ MVHS
Tue 2/7 – In Person Recruiting/HRIS/T&L trainings
- 9:30 – 11 am @ Silver Rail
- 2 pm – 3:30 pm @HDMS
Fri 2/10 – In Person Recruiting/HRIS/T&L trainings
- 9:30 – 11 am @ LPHS
- 2 pm – 3:30 pm Virtual (Paul’s Webex Room)
Fri 2/17 – In Person Recruiting/HRIS/T&L trainings
- 9:30 – 11 am @ Ensworth
- 2 pm – 3:30 pm @ Caldera
This and That
From Dean Richards
February 7th- ICCL/Admin Collaboration
In order to create space for ICCL team time and collaboration, we will not be hosting a district ICCL team training on February 7th. We are asking you to reserve two hours with your ICCL team between now and our next meeting on April 4th. We will be asking ICCL teams to collaboratively share a promising practice or an effort that they are proud of and would like to showcase (aka “Braggy Show and Tell Moment”) around Tier One MTSS Culture and Climate or a Tier One Instructional practice (specifically foundational skills for elementary). Please communicate with your ICCLs regarding the change in calendar.
April 4th prep:
Please prepare a 10 minute presentation on a promising practice or an effort that the ICCL team is proud of including the linkages below.
Linkages:
- Tier 1 culture and climate or Tier 1 instructional practices.
- Collaborative inquiry cycle – describe how the team went through the cycle or what data sources were used to make the decision
- If possible, link to school design plan
- Provide archival documents etc. to share with other schools
- Elem – link to tier 1 core effectiveness meetings (perhaps link to the data question that drove the inquiry cycle)
In collaboration with the Bend Downtown Association our students will have the 2nd annual Youth Art Takeover in Downtown Bend. Our celebration of artists and gallery walk will correspond with First Friday Event, on April 7th. This event is how we will be honoring our students who have won awards for the Scholastic Art competition, senior portfolios, etc., as well as honoring teacher choice artists. We are also hoping to have some student musical and theatrical performances as well!
The ask: Please allow art teachers to head downtown to hang student work on Wednesday April 5th during SIW time. If this is a hardship for the SIW plans that you have in place for April 5th, please connect with your Art teacher ahead of time so that they can make adjustments to their plans.
From Renita Cuevas, Marketing Manager, Central Oregon Community College
My name is Renita Cuevas, marketing manager at Central Oregon Community College. I would like to share with you some upcoming youth programs that may be of interest to your middle school parents:
- Applications are now being accepted for COCC’s inaugural “My Summer in China” Chinese language day camp, a free youth program funded by the prestigious National Security Applications Agency’s STARTALK grant. COCC is one of only a few community colleges nationwide to be awarded the STARTALK grant this cycle. COCC will offer “My Summer in China” to Central Oregon students in grades 7 to 12, including those who home-school. Space is limited and the application deadline is March 15. Visit cocc.edu/mysummerinchina for complete details.
- Safe Sitter CPR classes are coming up for 6-9th graders with multiple locations and times available.
- There are quite a few youth camps for ages 10-14 currently open. Most of these are offered online. My Summer in China
- COCC program managers are currently working on our in-person traditional summer youth camp line up so please look for this soon.
All COCC youth programs can be viewed at cocc.edu/youth and click on ‘Browse & Register for Youth Programs’ button. We’d love help in getting this information to your middle school parents.
Calendar
January 23: Dean/VP PD in Boardroom 7:30-8:30
January 23: District Safety Meeting 9:00-10:00 Ed Center
January 25: Asian American Family Night at Pacific Crest MS @5:00 pm
January 26: MS Work Session Cancelled
January 26 & 27: Juan is out of office attending COSA Winter Conference
January 30: Listening Session High Desert Middle School @8:05
February 3: All Admin Center for Educational Leadership @Bend SHS in Perseverance Hall 8-2 pm
Fish On…
