T0 D0:
- DHS no longer wants a paper copy of abuse referrals. They DO want a phone call. Please continue to fill out the reporting form, keep one copy, and send one copy to Jody in the Office of School Support.
- Check out this great opportunity with the Cascade Culinary Institute at OSU-Cascades.
- Please share this opportunity with your science teachers. The Oregon Science Teacher Association is hosting an introduction to Argument-Driven Inquiry (ADI) instructional model on Nov. 30 at Redmond HS from 8:00 – 3:00. Check out this flyer for more information!
Informational:
*At our last HS Principal meeting, we agreed to the following:
- We will decide on a district “Open Block Request” form that we will require parents and students to sign for a student to have an open block. I will send out a draft within the next few weeks.
- An aligned ACR/Choice School process that is completed by March. I will run this by Cabinet.
- Next year, we will run period 7 the way we run period 1 this year – three period 7’s at the end of the day.
*School start and end times for students have been decided for next year. They exact times may change, but these are close:
- Elementary will be 8:00-2:30 (8:00-1:00 on Wednesdays)
- Middle School will be 8:45- 3:40 (8:45–1:55 on Wednesdays)
- High School will be 8:45-3:45 (8:45-2:00 on Wednesdays)
The District Lead Together team is currently working on a process to collect input on employee work times for next year. This may come in the form of your staff completing a survey in the coming weeks. The basic question relates to the amount of time we want staff “on duty” prior to and after classes. Currently staff are required to report at 7:15, be in their rooms for tutorial and work until 3:15 (30 min before and after student start and end times). Will we continue with tutorial before school as an expectations for teachers? Also, consider if it makes more sense to make before or after school a longer chunk of time and the opposite (before/after) a shorter amount of time. More information to follow once the survey has been created.
*Attendance and extra curricular participation: Recently, we learned of clarification related to how we record student absences this year. Last year, ODE published draft guidance suggesting that students should be marked absent for time spent traveling during the school day for extra-curricular activities. Final guidance has not yet been published by ODE. Therefore, in 2018-2019 we will submit attendance data using the same calculations that we have used for the past several years. In other words, this year student absences for school-sponsored events (e.g. music, athletic, or field trip travel) will be considered EXCUSED absences. Please connect with your attendance secretary to verify this is how these absences have been categorized.
*Congrats to our colleagues at La Pine High School who will be piloting the Teen-Intervene Program for the high school team!
Calendar:
- Veteran’s Day – no school – on Monday, Nov. 12.
- I am attending the Dual Immersion Conference Nov 14-16 next week and will be out of the office on those dates.
- BrightBytes/Clarity survey opens again next week and closes Nov. 30.
- Thanksgiving break is Nov. 19 – 23.
- HS Admin meeting – Monday, Nov 26 @ MVHS, 3:15.
- HS Principal meeting – Friday, Dec 7, 7:15 @Jackson’s Corner.