Welcome Back, High School Leaders!
Our high school administrator BLOG is intended to provide you with current information while limiting the number of emails you receive. I will update the BLOG weekly – but I will not send out another weekly post until the end of this month.
To Do:
- Principals, here is this year’s admin work calendar for you to fill out and return to me. Please take your best guess of days you will not be working by blocking them out on the calendar. Please plan to have these returned to me by the start of September. Assistant Principals, you should turn yours in to your principal.
- Rather than schedule meetings in August, I’d like to come visit with you at your school for 30 minutes at a time that works for you. Please let me know when you’d like for me to come to your site in the next few weeks. Again, I’ll try and keep it to 30 minutes of your time and there is nothing you need to prepare for in advance.
Informational:
- Our fall conferences come a week prior to the end of the first quarter. The reason for this is Halloween. We are avoiding making our (and elementary as well) parents choose between coming to school conferences or taking their child trick-or-treating.
- Principals will meet the last work day of each month. Assistant Principals and Principals will meet the fourth Monday of each month with a different school hosting each month. Principals, please let me know if you are unable to host on the date you are listed. See the HS Horizontal Team meeting dates here.
Reminders:
- None at this time
Calendar:
- Tomorrow, Wednesday (Aug 8) is our Leadership Academy in Sunriver. Please bring a copy of your school’s Design Plan with you. Also, that evening is the annual admin dinner at Mike Tiller’s home.
- As a reminder, Safety Day training will be on Aug. 9 at Summit HS. Registration begins at 7:30, first speaker at 8:00 and concludes at 4:00. The keynote trainer for the day is John Michael-Keyes, who’s team developed the Standard Response Protocols we use in our district. Please plan on attending!
- If you have not participated in the Take it Up training previously, I encourage you to attend with some others from your staff. It will happen on Monday and Tuesday, Aug. 13, 14 at Pacific Crest MS.
- You have received emails inviting you to sign up for the Innovative Teaching & Learning conference happening on Aug. 21 & 22 (Tues & Wed) at PCMS.
- The second annual Trauma Informed Summit will happen on Thursday, Aug. 23 at SHS.
- Principals, plan on being at Summit HS on Monday morning, Aug., 27, in order to introduce your new certified staff. Introductions should be brief, warm, and welcoming.
- Our district staff welcome back (with keynote speaker, Chad Hymas) will begin at 1:00pm at Bend High on Tuesday, Aug. 28. Because activities will end around 4:00pm this day, feel free to encourage your staff to arrive to work at 8:00am that morning and stay until 4:00pm that afternoon.