To Do:
Disciplinary Literacy Cohort: Dean and Jackie will begin connecting with your teachers in the Cohort a week from Monday, Sept 23. It’s possible these teachers may have no idea that they are in the Disciplinary Literacy cohort. This could make for an awkward first conversation with the teachers. Building administrations, I am asking that you please connect with your cohort teachers in person or via an email next week to let them know that Dean or Jackie will be calling them about their Cohort involvement. Feel free to use this information for the conversation or in an email.
Here are the three disciplinary literacy training dates: October 14th, January 14th, March 17th from 12:30 to 4:00 in the board room. Please use this subcode: ESSA Dis Lit.
Required Training for your Health Teachers and Counselors can come too: Deschutes County Health Services will be conducting required suicide prevention training for high school health teachers. This training is directed specifically toward health teachers and the curriculum they use. However, at some schools, counselors implement the prevention curriculum. If this is the case they should attend the training.
The training will occur on September 24th in the board room at the Education Center from 8-12. Teachers and/or counselors can sign up on Performance Matters.
Use the sub code “crisis prevention training” when arranging subs and please remind teachers to bring their i.d. to enter the building.
Our organizer, Whitney Schumacher from Deschutes County Health Services, asks that teachers bring their SOS curriculum to the training. She also needs a list of the participants ahead of time so she can email them additional details, so please email Whitney the names of your health teachers and any counselors that might be attending. [email protected].
Safety Notes from Marsha Baro: Please complete the first fire drill within the first ten days of school, which is Friday, 9/20/19. Here is the Guidelines for Drills and Schedules.
Fire Drill Log: To be in compliance with the Oregon Fire Code, please send Marsha Baro an e-mail upon completion of your monthly drill PDF fillable form and update the Google Document. Follow Safety Protocol in the event of a real incident utilizing a 911 call and the district phone call procedure.
Information:
Here are some guidelines around green cleaning, our WE REDUCE program and cleaning products from our District Sustainability Coordinator, Jackie Wilson. Did you know that SHS is the only high school that currently has a Sustainability Advisor? Let interested staff members know that the first meeting for Sustainability Advisors is Wednesday, September 25th from 6:00-7:30.
Please ensure at least two of your staff members is ASSIST trained.
We have updated the SPED Discipline Flowchart, Discipline Hearing Waiver Form, Notice of Hearing Letter, Discipline Hearing Date Request Form and Referral Form. All of these forms are located on the Staff Portal under Discipline.
Here is an important update from HR related to new legislation.
Our Transportation Team continues to work hard to ensure students are getting to school in a safe and timely manner. Kim Crabtree, our Transportation Director wanted to share this with school teams:
- Please make sure bus loops are clear of parent traffic, so buses can move thru efficiently.
- Please do not mark students tardy for late buses. We have not been calling schools about late buses, because it is still the majority that is running late.
- We are brainstorming for some fixes for transfer buses. Buses are scheduled to drop at schools at 8:30, then head to Option Schools. There are areas of town that make it nearly impossible to get to another school within 15 minutes, it is our goal- unfortunately, we are not meeting this.
Reasons we are running late:
Many students are just getting onto buses this week and are not familiar with the process. We have a high volume of MS/HS students riding, buses are very full- which slows down loading and unloading Lots of construction- Brosterous, 15th causing large delays Lots of parent traffic at school delaying our ability to get into the bus load/unload zone. All drivers have new routes this year. Our transportation team has a huge responsibility! Take a moment to appreciate them, when you are out connecting with students as they exit or board their buses.
Evaluations and SLGGS for 2019-20: Remember that Contract teachers who are on an evaluation cycle will receive SIX mini observations and complete SLGGs, a self-reflection and a summative evaluation. Contract teachers who are not being evaluated this year will receive THREE mini observations and complete the SLGGs. ALL Temporary and Probationary teachers get TWO FORMAL observations prior to the end of Feb. For a mini observation to be considered “legit” you must submit written feedback OR have a debrief conversation with the teacher within 72 hours of the observation. Please call with questions!
Jody McBride in our office handles all of the translation requests through the HDESD. Please contact her at x1056 if you have questions. Here are some quick guidelines related to these requests:
- Documents for translation take approximately 5-7 school days for turn around. It can be longer during busy times.
- Please send your documents as an attachment in an email, and in manipulative form (Word, Pages etc) if at all possible. PDF’s are difficult to translate and take longer. Please don’t convert a PDF to Word. It ends up corrupted for the translator.
- Remember to request your interpreter(s) on the portal 5-7 school days in advance unless it is an emergency issue such as medical, discipline, etc. The HDESD will always try to fill every request, but sometimes there isn’t anyone available last minute.
- Don’t forget to notify our office in advance if the appointment is cancelled or changed. We are charged for cancellations with less than 24 hours notice.
Calendar:
9/16-HS Admin Meeting 7:00-8:15 – LPHS
9/16 – Leadership Team Meeting – Board Room @3:15
9/27-HS Principals Meeting 7:00-8:30 Jackson’s Corner eastside
10/9-Future Ready Work Team – all Principals 8:00-9:00 @Bend Chamber Conf Rm