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Equity in grading is a topic we have been discussing recently. Dave Van Loo shared out some excellent pieces on equitable grading. Dave writes: “The ideas are mostly familiar but it does contain quantitative and qualitative impact data on the effect of deliberately equitable grading practices, which is powerful. This does a nice job of framing grading of students as an equity issue. Some of the comments in this closely mirror what the student in yesterday’s (at Monday’s Leadership Team Meeting) panel said.”
Call to Action for Equitable Grading article Hattie’s 250 influences Why Grades Drop When Students Get to High School and What Adults Can Do About It.
On February 5, ODE sent out a memo regarding attendance, which supports our belief in engaging students in extra curricular activities. Beginning in the 2019-20 school year, all time spent engaging in school-sponsored extracurricular activities during the official school day (including travel) will be counted as time present for the Cumulative ADM data collection. School-sponsored, extracurricular activities include but are not limited to: sporting activities, mathletes, music events, drama, debate and robotic competitions.
Any time spent engaged with these activities (including travel) will count as time present in the Cumulative ADM data collection. It is important to note that the reporting of students as “present” for time spent traveling to and from sporting events and extracurricular activities (instructionally-related activities) does not alter the definition of instructional time as defined in OAR 581-022-0102(30).
The Education Foundation for Bend-La Pine Schools will open the 2019 Classroom Grants program on February 18, 2019. Educators may submit one grant but schools may on the activities several grants with principals indicating mostly familiar priority of requests. The online grant application and guidelines will be available at www.engagedminds.org beginning Feb. 18th. The program closes at 5pm on Friday, March 22, 2019. An email communicating this information to all BLS educators grading of will be distributed by the Superintendent’s office on February 19th. Last year the Foundation awarded over $89,000 in innovative STEM, art, music & wellness grants! Any questions? Contact Michelle Johnson, Executive Director at [email protected] or (541) 355-5660.
We landed on Wednesday, August 14 at the Riverhouse for our Leadership Summit that includes building admin and ICCL teacher leaders. More details to come as we get closer to the date!
Here are the rotations for the 2020 graduations for MVHS, BSHS and SHS:
Thursday, June 4 at 7:00pm – SHS
Saturday, June 6 at 10:00am – MVHS
Saturday, June 6 at 3:00pm – BSHS
Mindfulness for staff!-If you are interested in working with a local psychologist to provide mindfulness (stress reduction) training to your presenting, please contact Jim Boen. There may be a cost for this training.
Calendar:
MAC Day-Tuesday, February 12. Please encourage your staff to get this completed. It is a major source of our FAN funding.
HS Admin Meeting: February 25 @ Marshall HS, 3:15
HS Principals Meeting: March 1 @ Jackson’s Corner 7:15