Team,
For quarter teachers who are on the wheel and will be assessing grades for the end of the quarter—the 3 quarter ends on April 9th.
- I will let Scott M know to open the grading window from April 5 to April 12.
- Principals may offer the following to quarter teachers:
- ½ sub to complete grades (or)
- 4 hours timesheet to complete grading
- All teachers will participate in conferences on April 10th and 11th
- Teachers will receive April 12 as a comp day for conferencing.
Have a wonderful weekend.
To Do
From Sean Reinhart
This is a memo on how to handle confidentiality of students accessing the SBHC. Admin and front office staff will want to read. This has come up again and this time it was a middle school student.
From Lora Nordquist
Here is the work calendar for certified staff for the 2024-2025 school year. Doc
From The Communications Department:
Please make sure you share this message with families prior to spring break. We want to make sure our families have the resources for care during break when we are not available to support.
This and That
From Scott in IT:
Your giant Stanley Cup may be costing your school money!
We have been issuing teacher computers to all certified staff since 2006. Eighteen years ago. In each of those eighteen years, our breakage has been relatively flat. That is, until January of this year. For the first half of the school year, we had 4 teacher laptops turned in for non-warrantied damage. Since January 2024 we have already received 18! Eight of which the user reported that a (water) spill was the source of the damage.
Your school or facility will now be responsible for the cost of any computer repair or replacement caused by damage or negligence. Any money going toward repair is less money going toward necessary technology updates or innovation.
Now, we can’t officially link the cause of this uptick to the popularity of Stanley sippy cups that seems to have occurred at exactly the same time. However, it is quite a coincidence! Please help us and your school by keeping any beverage on a separate surface away from your computer.
AI tools: AI tools are considered apps or services! As such, both IT and Teaching and Learning need to be informed to perform the required Privacy/Security/Quality audit before they are put to use. The details of this process can be found here.
CPR/First Aid Training:
The district offers free CPR/First Aid training to all employees. The majority of the training is online with a 20 minute in-person skills check-off by one of our district instructors. Instructions on how to sign up for the class are below.
How to Register for CPR/First Aid Training/Renewal Course for BLS Staff in UKG
- Go to UKG
- My Info (drop down menu, 3 stacked lines upper left side, above your initials)
- My Career
- My Learning
- Access Learning (upper right side)
- Training (top menu bar)
- Courses
- First Aid (on right side)
- Click on First Aid Link
- Click on green Enroll Now button
Please contact Michelle Spetic if you have any issues signing up.
From Dean Richards
Use Approved Guest Speaker List and Guest Speaker Application
District approval is required for all guest speakers providing instruction or guidance to students on Health-related topics in classes and assemblies. This is in order to vet outside speakers messages and maintain a consistent message that aligns with our larger health-related content area. We want to provide as much protection to teachers and schools when outside speakers are speaking on sensitive topics.
In the past, this has been mostly relevant to Health classes and your Health teachers are aware of this, but this may now apply to assemblies and Advisory or Life/Career Readiness classes if the guest speakers are providing instruction or guidance on Health-related topics, or topics that relate to personal values.
Before bringing in a guest speaker to talk about health-related topics in classes or assemblies, check the district’s Approved Health Curriculum and Resources list. If the guest speaker is not on the list, direct them to submit a Guest Speaker Application.
The Guest Speaker application is also available on the Staff Portal under TeacherHub and then Resources. The links will need to be opened, copied and sent to a guest speaker.
Questions, concerns, or issues related to this process go to Dean Richards. You can also direct potential guest speakers to Dean Richards.
All guest speakers who contact schools or teachers directly with requests to be a guest speaker should be directed to:
- If not on the approved list: To the guest speaker application to apply or to Dean Richards for questions/issues
- If already approved: To wait until the school or teachers reach out to them with a request. The contact info for all approved guest speakers is listed in the guest speaker section of theApproved Health Curriculum and Resources list.
Calendar
March 21: Middle School Horizontal @LPMS at 3:00-4:30
March 20: Admin PD at Perseverance Hall at Bend High 3:00-4:30: Focus is on ELL and Newcomers
March 20: Sign up for Job Fair due
March 24: Excellence in Education Nominees are due!
March 25-29: Spring Break
April 10: No classes, Teacher work day, and conferences
April 11: Conferences
April 11: Middle School Horizontal @HDMS at 3:00-4:30
April 12: No school
Fish On…
