Sparks-Summer-Program-Overview-Spanish<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n As your school begins to know and confirm the names of students for summer school you will now have your registrar matriculate<\/em> those students to their pointed summer school. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Here is what you need to share with your Registrar<\/em> to point your school’s students to summer school. It contains all the pertinent information to complete this critical step. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Summer School Pointing<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n To date we only have 17 MS students enrolled. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Let me know if you have any questions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Subs<\/p>\n\n\n\n Because of the shortage of subs we cannot have schools bringing in subs for meetings, assessments, or releasing teachers for school business (ie supplemental subs for ECSE meeting, progress monitoring, team planning\u2026). Every day this week we\u2019ve had numerous unfilled jobs so we need to reduce the impact by not scheduling subs for these things<\/p>\n\n\n\n From Jennifer Hauth <\/p>\n\n\n\n We have posted a full time counselor on special assignment (COSA)<\/strong> position for next year. The focus of the work will be K-12 but with a heavy emphasis on high school at first. The position will focus on program alignment, coaching, professional learning and adopting a comprehensive school counseling program at each site. Please send people my way if they have any questions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n From Kinsey<\/p>\n\n\n\n Bias Incidents: Curious about next steps with our bias incident work? This timeline<\/a> shows where we\u2019ve been in recent years (a celebration of our collective efforts, considering the pandemic happening in the \u2018background\u2019), and where we\u2019re headed next: short-term actions for this spring, as well as longer-term\/ongoing work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Your LEAD teacher (if you have one) will be trying out a lesson on Bias in their class. Ask them about it and pop in if you get a chance. These will not be taught schoolwide this year (except in the case of HDMS who is piloting it school wide). <\/p>\n\n\n\n Note that the bold items occurring this April and May 2022 (second page) include some action needed on your part. If you would like a mini-PD\/calibration activity or protocol for re-visiting this topic with your staff, please reach out to Kinsey. Remember that this tool is as much intended to facilitate partnership<\/em> in responding to incidents, as it is to track and record data<\/em> on the incidents themselves. Thank you!<\/p>\n\n\n\n From Garra<\/p>\n\n\n\n Nutrition News!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Regulations for summer lunch and next school year have changed significantly. All waivers extended during the pandemic emergency will end on the last day of the 2021-2022 school year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For summer lunch meals will continue to be free to all children 18 years and under but now the meal will have to be eaten on site and grab and go or parent pick up is no longer an option. <\/p>\n\n\n\n For next school year, school meals will be paid, free, or reduced price which will require an application to be completed after Aug 1st<\/sup>, except for students attending community eligibility provision (CEP) schools. The CEP schools for 2022-2023 are: Bear Creek Elementary, Ensworth Elementary, Pilot Butte Middle, Bend Tech Academy at Marshall High, Three Rivers, La Pine Elementary, La Pine Middle, La Pine High, and Rosland Elementary. <\/p>\n\n\n\n More people may qualify for the meals program due to the Student Success Act. The State of Oregon supports students who do not qualify for free and reduced meal benefits using federal income guidelines. It provides meal benefits to households with incomes above 185% but not exceeding 300% of the federal poverty guidelines. This means that a family of 4 with an annual income of $79,500 could qualify for meals at no cost. Families are encouraged to apply if they think they may qualify.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And<\/p>\n\n\n\n Alandra is working with Garra in Nutrition Services to communicate changes to summer meals as well as meals for the 2022-23 school year. Watch for that info in English and Spanish next week to share. (If you already shared communication from Nutrition Services, that\u2019s great. This is likely one that we will share multiple times because it marks a significant change for families.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n From Austin James<\/p>\n\n\n\n The time to request new instructional tools (both physical and digital) for next year is quickly approaching. We currently plan to send each teacher an email in early May outlining their classes for the current year and tools that have been inventoried. The email will include links to request new resources for next year via Google Form. There will also be a link to request instructional tools for new classes. As requests are received, we will evaluate each request using updated criteria<\/a>. It is our sincere hope that we provide a response for every request before teachers leave for the summer. If you have any questions regarding the process or criteria, please contact Dean Richards or Austin James.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n From Aimee Snyder<\/p>\n\n\n\n Pilot for Vaping Prevention Education<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The district has approved for schools to pilot<\/u> CATCH My Breath,<\/strong> a vaping prevention curriculum effective at preventing youth experimentation with vaping. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The curriculum includes four 35-min lessons for 5-8th<\/sup> grades and 9-12th<\/sup> grades. It is a free curriculum, available through the CATCH.org online portal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n School staff interested in piloting the CATCH My Breath program can follow <\/strong>this step-by-step guide<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong> The guide provides instructions on how to access and navigate the most useful resources in the portal. The guide also provides all the links needed for the parent letter, teacher eval form, and student pre-\/post- tests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A parent\/guardian notification letter, with an opt out option, should be provided to parents\/guardians before piloting the curriculum and administering student pre-\/post-tests, according to BLS policy KAB-AP<\/a>. The parent notification letter included in the step-by-step guide provided everything needed to comply with this policy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n We are testing and reviewing this curriculum as a part of our process to develop a K-12 Health scope and sequence. The K-12 Health scope and sequence and a thorough review of current and potential supplemental Health curriculum to adopt will be done through a workgroup this summer, June 20-23 (8:30am-3:30pm). School staff will receive curriculum pay for their time. School staff interested in joining this workgroup should email Denise.Horton@bend.k12.or.us<\/a>or Aimee.Snyder@deschutes.org<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This pilot and the scope and sequence development this summer is part of our Healthy Schools program, a 50\/50 partnership between Bend-La Pine Schools and Deschutes County Public Health\u2019s Prevention and Health Promotion. More info about Healthy Schools is included at the bottom of the step-by-step guide for this pilot project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n April 25th, Staffing meeting with HS principals at 8:00-9:30 at Bend HS-Please bring your Staffing Plans<\/p>\n\n\n\n May 2nd-Principal Only<\/strong> Breakfast at Original Pancake House on the West Side 7:30-9:00<\/p>\n\n\n\n May 9th-Preparing to Lead Equitable Schools\u2013 Principals only <\/strong>3:30-5:00 location TBD<\/p>\n\n\n\n May 16th-Middle School Principals Meeting-@7:30-9:00 at Cascade Middle School<\/p>\n\n\n\n May 19-Principal Only<\/strong> Breakfast at Original Pancake House on the West Side 7:30-9:00<\/p>\n\n\n\n June 2-Principal Only<\/strong> Breakfast at Original Pancake House on the West Side 7:30-9:00<\/p>\n\n\n\n August 10th<\/sup> & August 11th<\/sup> Leadership Training Academy Sessions 1 & 2<\/p>\n\n\n\n Team, Staffing plans are taking a bit longer than expected to review. 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