TO DO:
Please make a note of the following order of contact when you have a potential positive COVID situation that needs to be reported or you need support with (e.g. a potential positive test of a staff member):
- Tami Pike (Text first: 541-350-8387)
- Julianne Repman (541-788-6890)
- Nurse Maria Buagas (541-647-7952)
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We are getting phone calls at the Ed Center from parents saying that they are not able to connect with the counseling offices at many of our schools. The pattern of concern we are hearing is no one is answering the phone, they leave a message and no one returns the call. Our attendance, counseling, activities/athletics, and main offices should be answering calls at this point in time. Give me a call if you have a wondering about this or would like to problem-solve together on how best to get this covered.
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HERE is a fabulous resource for you to send to your parents about Canvas! Created by the amazing Laura Clark! Feel free to send this to your families.
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Share this with teachers: Your teachers my be recording videos as a way for students to access instruction they may miss during a Live session. Please share this video with all of your teachers. By following these steps, teachers will be able to post their recorded lessons within a short period of time after completing the recording (as opposed to the next day if the recording is saved to Webex). Reach out to your instructional tech coach if you have any questions!
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Share this with teachers: Speaking of Canvas… all students have a Canvas “icon” (it’s actually a “web clip”) pre-loaded on their iPad. Additionally, there is a Canvas “app” in self-serve. Here is a short video to share with teachers – and that they may consider sharing with their students that explains how these can be used together by students. If you have easy questions about this, please reach out to John, Scott Mc., or Christie.
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Share this with your counselors: High School Counselors have been asking about how to address this question: As a district, should the high schools be entering new out-of-state students’ transcripts exactly as shown, whether the students were issued letter grades or P/INC for the second semester of 2019-2020, or should we be translating last semester’s letter grades into P/INCs? The answer is we will transcribe what we receive on their transcript, even if that is a letter grade. This will be an issue that comes up with transcripts from out of state.
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Remind your teachers about taking attendance: There was a training for attendance secretaries earlier this week and the following two concerns (teachers being informed that they need to take attendance, and teachers being informed about the PV and NPV code) came up a few times. You may have already communicated these items, but your office secretary may not have received it. Here are our agreed-upon CDL/Hybrid attendance agreements. Please refer to this doc or give Becky a call when you have questions about attendance. Please make sure all of your teachers are aware of the need to take attendance beginning on Monday.
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Information:
As we discussed in our meeting this week, we will be offering the SAT at BSHS in the fall and you can offer the PSAT at your schools in October. In order to safety offer these in-person test, your school safety team will need to complete the COVID check sheet I sent out last week (and reviewed in our meeting this week) AND adhere to all of the safety guidelines. Additionally, please limit the number of students to 100 per session. The charge to administer the PSAT taken on Saturday, Oct 17 is $25.
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Last week I sent you a document called Supervisors Guidelines that is a great resource guide around things you need to be aware of. This week, I’m sending it to you again because it’s been updated to remove language requiring the wearing of face shields by your office staff. Here is the new language: In general, face coverings (masks) are preferred over face shields, as they may provide better containment of small aerosols that can be produced while talking. Clear plastic face shields remain an acceptable alternative in some instances because they enable students to see whole faces. This avoids potential barriers to phonological instruction and reinforces social-emotional cues.
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Check this out when you have a minute: As you know, earlier this week BRYT offered a one-hour Self and Collective Care workshop to any BLS employee (similar, but different to the one that you were invited to last week). There wasn’t an overwhelming turnout, but those in attendance found it very helpful/useful. I ended up recording the session and was sent the slides and a worksheet that was used or talked about during it. I’m sharing these with you as a tool or starting place for your Culture of Care school team and/or sharing with your entire staff (as I think it would be useful). It really is good stuff!
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We are moving forward with a professional development plan to train our staff in supporting our Tier 3 students using BRYT! HERE is a draft of that plan!
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Rumor Control: A few folks have heard that we are moving to a 24 credit diploma and away from a 26 credit diploma. This is not accurate. We will continue to honor 26 credits as our BLPS Academic Diploma.
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As you are aware, we have a number of classified employees across our district who are currently not working (mainly transportation and nutrition) due to CDL structure of teaching/learning. A number of these folks want to work and have been given other work to do – some of which is occurring in your building. If you have one of these re-assigned classified employees working at your site then know that she/he has been given an assignment and an on-site supervisor for this work. Do not ask these folks to do other work than what they’ve been assigned. If you have questions regarding this please reach out to Scott Bojanowski.
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I reviewed the school work teams at our meeting this Thursday. Thank you for having the School Safety Team selected by today. Also, remember they should be meeting weekly and it is important to share out the minutes from those meetings with your staff. Thank you for being sure your staff knows who is participating on your SST AND that if they have concerns they should submit those to one of the members of that team. One of the other building teams that you’ll be forming is for Family Engagement. Please be sure to include your FAN advocate. ________________________________________________________________
This is an FYI only. The following two suicide prevention documents have been shared with your health teacher(s) and counselor(s). One is regarding prevention curriculum, the other relates to prevention safety guidelines.
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Just a reminder regarding meal service availability! It is free of charge through Dec. 31, 2020, to all students. Please help spread the word to your students and families!
Calendar:
HS Admin WebEx Meeting: September 17 at 8:00am
BRYT WebEx training for high school teams: September 24 10-11:30