To Do:
HS Teams and Leads: Please update this document with 23-24 administrative leads from your school by Sept 1. The only name on the list that will not be an administrator is the ICCL Lead coach.
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Concussion Study notification to families: All high schools, please mail home these letters to your families by Friday, August 18: Information about the Ready for School Project, Letter to Families in English; Letter to Families in Spanish. Feel free to contact Jody Slocumb: [email protected]., if you have questions about the project and encourage families to do the same. This is the last year of the project. Thank you!
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From Eric Powell, Assistant Director of Student Services : SIRC (Sexual Incident Response Committee) /STAS (Student Threat Assessment System) Information
*Please review your SIRC/STAS Level 1 Team for the school year (and add/update names as needed): 2023-2024 SIRC/STAS Teams Link
*Please sign up for one of the SIRC/STAS trainings below to be prepared for the school year:
2023-2024 Training Dates (STAS)
2023-2024 Training Dates (SIRC) – Elementary
2023-2024 Training Dates (SIRC) – Secondary
*Here is a link to our SIRC/STAS 101 document (also linked in the ‘Resource Guide’) for you to reference as you think about threat assessment for the school year: SIRC/STAS 101
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Information:
Here are the slides from our trainings this week:
August 8 Culture and Climate: Tier 1 Instructional Practices session: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1sLk8dQvSljZOBO7CRUzfqSWkm89OjzSdDrRBFXwu4dU/edit?usp=sharing
August 8 Culture and Climate: Tier 1 Teaching and Reinforcing Belonging for ALL students
August 9 Office Managers Meeting Powerpoint-in case you were wondering what was covered.
August 10 Secondary Administrator Training
Task Force Team Members: HERE is the list of team-members on the task force.
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From Lora: Just a friendly reminder that is in violation of Oregon law to require or even ask K-12 students to provide or pay for ANY supplies required for their “free and appropriate public education.” Here are the exceptions:
- Instrument rental
- PE uniforms
- (applies only to elective classes) Materials for projects that the student will keep (i.e. jewelry). Students cannot be prohibited from taking the class if they don’t pay a materials fee, they just can’t keep the projects.
For the law/policy geeks, here is the law: https://oregon.public.law/statutes/ors_339.155
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From Scott Maben, Communications: Our Welcome Back virtual presentation for all district staff will be Tuesday, August 29, from 8:30 to 9:30 a.m. This will be a Microsoft Teams meeting. In the event it runs a little past 9:30, we advise not scheduling other staff activities before 10 a.m. that day.
We encourage you to gather your building staff for a group viewing of our Welcome Back event… perhaps serving breakfast treats, creating a Bingo game, using a campfire theme. Have fun!
A “save the date” postcard was recently mailed home to all district employees and noted more information will be shared via email. We anticipate sending that email to all district no later than Monday, August 14. Our final agenda planning meeting will be this Friday.
You may be asked why, post-pandemic, we are still holding this meeting virtually. It’s about the logistics of gathering all staff in one location and the distance employees need to travel. The impact on the rest of the workday is especially challenging for our south county schools. We want to make it as easy and stress-free for all employees to join us for this one-hour kickoff to the school year.
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From Scott McDonald, Director of Instructional Technology Greetings, Your IT System Support team provides many important training opportunities for admin, office, and support staff at the start of the year. You can find a calendar of available offerings and support documentation on the “Office Staff Essentials” page in the staff portal. PLEASE make sure your office staff is both aware of the training calendar and that they are protected from schedule conflicts as much as possible. Our IT team is not available for make-up sessions. One-to-One support will need to be provided by staff in similar roles.
Any of these training sessions are open to administrators. Having multiple people in your building with operational knowledge of our systems is strongly encouraged.
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Calendar:
- August 22 and 23: 8:00-4:00 Taking it Up training for those who have not attended previously
- Inservice Week Schedule
- August 28: 7:30-9:00: New Teacher Orientation Day at Northstar Elementary
- August 29: 8:30-9:30+ District Virtual Welcome Back Event; be sure that ALL STAFF are in one location for this event. Be ready to send pics! (see Scott’s note above).
- August 30: Building Led Professional Development
- August 30th am focus: Assessment and Feedback Practices (formerly known as Equitable Grading)
- August 30th pm focus: Tier 1 MTSS framework: Teaching and supporting the development of prosocial behaviors.
- September 6: Ninth grade only day; regular daily schedule (8:00-4:00).
- September 19: 8:00-9:30 HS Work Session
Congratulations to the Corn Hole Champions, Juan and Susie:
Enjoy this video of our ROCK PAPER SCISSORS Semi-Championship round at our Leadership Launch this week! Watch Dr Clark defeat Dr Cook!