Happy Birthday, Scott!
To Do:
Levy Talk: Consider the ways in which you might educate your families related to the upcoming levy. Perhaps a presentation to your Site Council, Booster Club or family night. Ballots will go out in just a week! HERE is some information that Scott has put together if you’re looking for a bit more information than the flyers.
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Family Engagement Tool: I am currently attending a Family Engagement conference in Chicago. We are learning a lot about what it means to create AUTHENTIC family engagement and I am eager to share more with you about we can improve authentic engagement with our families.
NAFSCE (National Association for Family, School and Community Engagement) provides an outstanding tool that your school could use when creating your family engagement plan. Check out page 26 for a way to monitor your programming over time.
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First Aid/CPR: If your school is under the ration needed for CPR/First Aid shared by Stephanie Bent this week, please make a plan to meet this before we leave for the year. It will help you be prepared for next year without a question. If you need help or ideas, please reach out.
Reminders/Action Items:
Youth Truth Reminder: Please process your YouthTruth data with your staff and share key positives and areas for growth, as well as next steps, with your families and students by the end of the school year.
Principals, you are strongly encouraged to additionally process your school’s data with your families and students, particularly, with your principal’s student advisory team, with the intention of setting school improvement and student learning growth goals (SLGGS). However, processing with these groups is not required this year.
This is a K-12 expectation for all schools.
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Four hour and less sub payments: Every sub coded between July 1, 2023 and the date of March 4,2024, covered by the district. Anyone who was coded 4 hours after 3/4/24 will be paid by you. As of April 5, if you put in for a 4 hour sub they will be paid for only 4 hours.
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- Interested staff members must indicate their interest in having their child attend KIDS Inc by filling out the KIDS Inc Interest Form and submitting an application to the program that can be found on the KIDS Inc website. The application period is May 6- May 17.
- Support for Roger White: Click this link.
- Performance Evaluation Reminders: All goals, formal observations and most mini’s should be finalized in UKG by the end of April. We are asking Level Leaders to review your progress during their next one-on-one site visit.
- In addition, please initiate Self-Reflections (SRs) for your staff this week. You may ‘skip’ instead of ‘initiate’ SRs those who are not on a full evaluation cycle this year. Staff are instructed to complete their SRs by May 1.
- Here is an instruction video to share with your staff on how to complete self-reflections
- Here is an instructional video for admin on how to review, submit and finalize self-reflections
- Tentative BEA Agreement can be found HERE
Information:
From Colleen, Science TOSA: Thank you for your input regarding the high school course pathways. Regardless of the pathway, master schedule and staffing are top concerns. The following is input from the attending group.
Three people prefer Pathway #2 (Physics-Chemistry-Biology)
Benefits: Ensures students take three years of core sciences plus earth and space science integration.
Concerns: staffing, students may need to double up science for IB/AP
Seven people prefer Pathway #3 (Physics A/Chemistry A – Biology – Physics B/Chemistry B)
Benefits: students are exposed to the three core sciences in 2 years, creates flexibility and assures all students take a year of biology.
Concerns: staffing and scheduling challenges with semester courses, students may need to double up science for IB/AP. Students have too many choices. AP chemistry, AP Biology prerequisites.
Four people did not have a preference but listed staffing challenges and concerns for whether BLPO school options matching biology at a junior level and physics at a freshman level.
Here is a link to the SWOTs for each pathway and a few articles related to each pathway. Centering Equity in High School Science Pathways and NGSS: Changing Systems is Hard Work.
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From Aimee Snyder: Please look for an e-mail coming from Aimee Snyder, our District/County Partnership Health Supervisor. She is sending an invite for parents/caregivers of students in grades 4th-10th to participate in a 20-minute online survey.
This survey is part of a county-wide assessment of prevention needs for families around topics like substance use and mental health. And, the first 85 English respondents and 85 Spanish respondents will receive a $15 Visa gift card for their participation!
Calendar:
LINK to the SIW Calendar and HS administrator work sessions and agendas for 23-24.
April 30: All goals, formal observations, and most mini observations finalized in UKG
May 1: BRYT Focus Groups for SSCs/SSIs during SIW
May 4: Queer Prom 7 pm at BTA (Star Wars theme)
May 6-May 10: Teacher Appreciation Week!
May 7: HS Administrator CBA work session: 7:30-8:00 @ BTA
May 7: HS administrator work session 8:00-9:30 @ BTA
May 21: HS Administrator CBA work session: 7:30-8:00 @ MVHS
May 21: HS administrator work session 8:00-9:30 @ MVHS
May 21: National Board Info Session 4:30-5:30 in board room
May 24: Notify students, staff and families of Val and Sal for the class of 2024!
May 30: School Counselor Celebration in board room 1:00-2:30 Come and support your counselors!
June 1: Pride @ Drake Park (BLS Family Advisory hosting a booth)
June 6: GSA in the Park: 10-1 at Troy Field/Ed Center
June 6-12: Graduation week!!
June 15-16: Juneteenth Community Celebration in Drake Park
June 18: Last Horizontal meeting of the year @ Hollinshead Barn, 3:00-5:00.
June 21: HS End of the Year Planning 8:00-10:00 @ La Pine High School