To Do:
Remember to Vote! Please add one last effort to your families to encourage everyone to vote. The levy page has information about the levy as well as videos that you may want to share with others to increase information access. LEVY VIDEO
Thank you to those who have put up a levy message on your reader board to VOTE between now Tuesday, Election Day. Please post this if you have not already.
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Projecting Val and Sal for the class of 2024 is this week! Our protocol for all high schools is to project/calculate the semester 2 grades, and, therefore, the cumulative GPA for the top 20 seniors a week or so prior to the Friday before Memorial Day (this year, that is May 24th). To qualify for these distinctions, students must earn an Honors Diploma.
All high schools announce (specifically, notify each student (Val and Sal) and their families, staff and students) by the end of the day on Friday, May 24th.
Additionally, plan to send a photo of the Val and Sal, as well as a brief bio, to our communications team (Scott Maben and Becca Burda) which they send to the media and include in our family newsletter.
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Leave Requests for June 17 and 18: A team led by our Human Resources Department reviewed the requests for leave on the last two days of schools. Building leaders, please review the status of the requests on this document and communicate that status to staff who had made the requests. Reach out to me if you have questions.
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From Kinsey: Please take a moment to share here your feedback related to our Admin PD session this week. Thank you for taking the time to share your perspective.
Reminders/Action Items:
- Levy information on your reader boards: Here is messaging you can add to your reader boards leading up to May 21st.
- Mini Observations and Summative Evals: Keep up the good work inputting observation data and start planning for your end of the year evaluations.
- 504 Training option for Administrators from CASE: LINK HERE!
- Roger White support: Want to help? Click this link.
- CDA Days for all HS LA teachers is on May 21 and 23. HERE is the information. We encourage a building leader from each school to check in on the day your teachers are involved.
- 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.
- Tentative BEA Agreement can be found HERE
- Lewis and Clark Admin Cohort: If you know of anyone who is interested in starting their administrative (Principal) licensure program this next fall please share the flyer below with them. Flier for more information.
- From Culture of Care: Check out our latest news and workshop offerings
Information:
From HR:
Snow Days & Time Off Approvals: Please remind your staff whose snow make-up day(s) time off was approved to enter them into UKG
ICCL Hiring: Please refer to this document on ICCL posting/hiring.
School Administrator Performance Evaluation Bug: We’ve encountered some problems with Domain 9, Standard 6 populating correctly. If that domain/standard appears on your self-reflection or summative evaluation, please skip it for 2023/24.
From HR part II: Summative Evaluations – Due by June 30th
We are entering into the final stretch of the performance evaluation process for 2023/24. Please refer to the self-reflection videos for information on how to interact with the ratings and submit summative evaluations forms in UKG. It is an expectation that you meet with the people that you supervise to discuss their evaluation before Finalizing it.
If you have an employee of concern, please be sure that your summative evaluation captures the areas of deficiency that you’ve discussed with them. In addition, add to your summative evaluation comment box if you are moving them to Focused Performance Review for 2024/25.
- Contact [email protected] or Stu at x1107 for technical help.
- Drop an Outlook calendar invite to Paul if you have an employee of concern that you wish to discuss.
HR will have a virtual training for anyone who would like a refresher on how to complete Summative Evaluations on Thursday, May 16 at 11 am. Use this link for the meeting (Join the meeting now). If you can’t make this session and would like us to schedule another one next week, please email [email protected] with your desire for an additional session.
Resources
- 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
- UKG Performance Evaluation Guide for District Administrators
- Slides from the January 31 Leadership training
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From Kinsey: Here are the policies referenced during our scenario work at the Admin PD session this week, in case any of them piqued your interest:
- Appropriate Use of Technology: AR
- Administrator Responsibilites related to Technology: AR
- Social Media Use and Expectations: AR
- Hazing, Harassment, Cyber-bullying: BP
- Personal Communication Devices: AR
- Bias Incidents: BP and AR
- Grades and Credits: AR
- Public Complaints: AR
Have a suggestion for a policy update or revision? Share it here!
Regarding your team’s bias incident data analysis: I’d recommend saving somewhere the link to your level/school’s data, for use next fall as you prepare staff to teach the bias lessons. If your team would like to further discuss your data (or your response or record-keeping processes), please reach out.
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From Jess: High School Pre ACT-Results Resource: Here is a resource to share with families and students now that they have received their Pre ACT scores. With more colleges returning to standardized testing, it is important to provide students and families with resources to support the decision-making process for post-secondary options. The linked handout includes a slide deck develop by high school counselors with more detailed information. We hope to do something similar in the fall after the PSAT.
Pre ACT Results Flyer in English
Pre ACT Results Flyer in Spanish
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Messaging about K-12 state funding from Oregon superintendents: The intent of this message (OSBA article and video) is to communicate clearly with the Legislature and governor’s office well before the 2025 legislative session opens. As school districts across the state are preparing to make major budget cuts, we want to help lawmakers and the public understand why this is happening and draw attention to the opportunity to reinforce support for public education in the 2025-27 biennium. We represent different communities, but our districts are united in advocating for a level of state funding that allows us to meet the state’s quality education goals. Superintendent Steve Cook
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From Student Services: Administrators and Supervisors, Good News our pool posting(s) for our Inclusion EA positions for 24-25 school year are now posted on our website. Please direct any interested candidates to these postings (this would include any temporary Inclusion EA’s who are interested in returning). There are three postings, one for Bend Area, one for South County, and one temporary.
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From Scott in IT: Bend-La Pine Schools IT is rolling out a security change to staff Macs that you may need to be aware of if you have installed personal software on your Mac.
There is a new process to gain administrator access on your computer for installing or updating non-standard software. If you need administrator access on your computer, please review our guidance on the staff portal:
https://bendlapine.sharepoint.com/sites/technology/SitePages/Make-Me-Admin.aspx
If you run into any issues with this process, you can contact the IT Help Desk at ext. 1200 or open an IT support ticket at https://help.bend.k12.or.us.
Calendar:
LINK to the SIW Calendar and HS administrator work sessions and agendas for 23-24.
Here is the link to the Inservice Week Certified work calendar for 24-25
Here is the SIW Calendar for 24-25.
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 21: Last day to submit ballots!
May 21 and 23: CDA calibration and collaboration days for all HS LA teachers @ PCMS HERE is the information
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 11: HS Administrator Work Session 7:30-9:30 @ BTA
June 15-16: Juneteenth Community Celebration in Drake Park
June 20: BLAST end of the year luncheon 11:30-1:30 @ Ed Center
June 21: HS End of the Year Planning 8:00-10:00 @ La Pine High School