To Do:
Communication to parents: If you haven’t already, the communication should have been sent to parents regarding the upcoming PreACT testing next week AND the HS orientation nights on Monday English, Spanish and Chinese.
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Parent Conferences: These are the dates schools shared for when you will scheduled four hours of spring parent conferences. Realms HS and BTA@MHS completed their conferences in the fall and the winter, according to their calendar. Please confirm these dates are correct:
April 6 MVHS
April 10 BSHS
April 11 SHS
April 12 LPHS (confirmed)
April 13 CHS
Also, please arrange for interpreters to be present and available to support families at your school during this event. Providing interpreters for school events such as these is required. Reach out to Kinsey if your team is in need of support.
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ICCL connection meetings: Eric and I will have met with each high school’s ICCL team prior to spring break. It has been helpful for us to hear what teachers want to share with us without any specific topics identified by us. As we communicated previously, our plan is to pull together the themes we learn from each session and develop some next steps.
I would like to begin scheduling our next set of meetings with your ICCL team. More information to come about the structure, but please reach out to get those scheduled. Our preference is to meet with every ICCL team by mid April.
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AP training requests reminder: AP training through the college board is an outstanding professional development opportunity for our AP teachers. We strongly encourage teachers to be trained in AP prior to teaching an AP course. We also support sending AP teachers to be trained when there is an AP course redesign or if an AP teacher is requesting additional training to improve their practice (the former is prioritized over the latter). Linda Adams is working to bring a trainer for AP Pre Calc to Bend this summer because we understand there are several math teachers asking for this training.
Please add all of your AP requests to this document by April 1. We will review the sheet and prioritize needs after that date. Please let KT know if you have questions.
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From Stephen and Linda: We have been partnering with COCC to provide training for math teachers interested in articulating MTH 111/112 or 105. We’ve been working to expand options for our teachers who may not qualify with their current credentials. This training would allow them to articulate with COCC if interested. Please share this link: Math Sponsored Dual Credit Survey from COCC with your teachers to inform interest.
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From Jess: Families and students are invited to learn more about Oregon colleges during Bend-La Pine Schools’ College Information Night on March 14 from 6 to 7:30 pm at Bend Senior High School. Families and students in grades 9-11 are invited to attend.
To kick off the night there will be a presentation from Bend La Pine Schools (BLS) School Counseling and Oregon college representatives. Attendees will then visit a mini-college fair with representatives from all nine public universities in Oregon, Central Oregon Community College and various community partners. Representatives from BLS High School Counseling and School to Career will also be on hand to talk about key steps for families to prepare for college.
Spanish interpretation will be available. Here are flyers to send to families in English and Spanish😊
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A reminder From Dean: The Secondary Instructional Coaches will be visiting schools to solicit qualitative feedback from teachers on the process and product of draft standards work the week of February 23rd.
- If there is a conflict with this date, please let Dean know ASAP.
- Please have a space for the Instructional Coaches to be available for teachers (i.e. library, future center, other common meeting spot)
- Please communicate with staff that they will be coming ahead of time.
- Please give an all call that they are available on the date of their visit
8:00-8:30 at each site
| Thursday, February 23(Dean will schedule BTA) | Team #1: Monica Coleen Julie Team #2: Torie Linda Michele | MVHS Summit |
| Tuesday, February 28 | Team #1: Michele Coleen Julie Team #2: Torie Linda Monica | Caldera Realms HS/MS |
| Thursday, March 2 | Team #1: Michele Coleen Julie Team #2: Torie Linda Monica | LPH/LPM BSH |
| Tuesday, March 7 | Team #1: Michele Monica Julie Team #2: Torie Linda Coleen | HDM CMS |
| Thursday, March 9 | Team #1: Michele Coleen Julie Team #2: Torie Monica | SVMS PCMS |
| Tuesday, March 14 | Team #1: Michele Coleen Julie Team #2: Torie Linda Monica | 3R PBMS |
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From Dr. Cook – Oregon Statewide Educator Survey: deadline extended! – The deadline to complete the educator survey has been extended to Friday, March 24th. This extension will allow Oregon educators additional time to share their experience and provide essential feedback that will be used to help inform local and state school improvements. Please pass this information onto your staff and try to provide them with the time to complete it.
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Information:
From Stephen: I wanted to share our new grading webpage with you all. Feel free to point families here when they want to learn more about our process. This can be accessed through both the Middle School Instruction and High School Instruction pages. Grading Webpage. Please let me know if you have any questions.
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New Oregon TAG Rules from Kelle Hildebrandt – In January 2022, the Oregon State Board of Education adopted new TAG identification rules that are intended to uproot a system of prescribed inequitable outcomes. These newly designed and adopted rules have created new learning curves for districts and educators throughout Oregon. I have taken on some leadership to help evaluate our current TAG systems in BLS and assimilate these new rules. We have gathered a TAG advisory team that is currently working on a Core Beliefs document and learning about the new rules. Next year, the team will recommend changes to our assessment, identification, and instructional services. For this year, our systems will look the same as in previous school years. Please reach out to Kelle for any TAG questions or support.
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From the Safety Team – click here for updates and information from our Safety Team. Included in this update are slides from the recent meeting, upcoming meeting dates, training opportunities, and links to teaching resources.
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Calendar:
March 7: Embedded school session with CEL; Principals only; 8:00-4:00 @MVHS
March 13: Principal Professional Development 3:00-4:30 @ Ed Center/Board Room
March 14: HS Administrators Work Session 8:00-9:30 @ BTA@MHS
March 15: Priority Standards SIW designated for LA, SS, Sci, Math, WL; virtual meeting
March 20: Assistant Principals and Deans PD 7:30-8:30 @ Ed Center/Wall Street Lab
March 21 and 22: Priority Standards collaboration/PD with Anne McCarty Perez; teacher reps attend; virtual training
March 23: Central Oregon Educator Job Fair 12-6 @ Eaglecrest
March 27-31: Spring Break