To Do:
CFEE Training in June: The Bend-La Pine spaces for the late-July CFEE have all been filled by members of our leadership team, but there are a couple spaces left in the June session (6/28-7/1, entirely virtual). Please reach out to Kinsey by this Tuesday if you are interested in taking advantage of this personal and professional opportunity for growth! The expectation is that every high school administrator attends CFEE!
What is CFEE? Coaching for Educational Equity is a deep-dive into the impact of Oregon’s history on ourselves as educators and on the students and families we serve. To date, over 40 leaders in Bend-La Pine Schools have already participated, and it is our intent to continue growing our CFEE-graduate cohort over time. Thanks for considering this opportunity to develop shared knowledge, language, and leadership for equity.
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Please be ready to name your Val and Sal on May 28 and send this information about each of these students to Alandra:
- Name
- Photo
- Title – Val or Sal or other
- Post-Secondary Plans
- Contact info (we may try to do a short feature on each, if possible, so a way to reach the students would be great)
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Michele Oakes sent you the following email last week. Please share it if you have not already done so.
As part of our work with the Regional Educator Network, BLS has defined a need to increase the number of counselors in our district, especially those who identify as BIPOC. As you know, counselors support our students, teachers, families and community. As we increase the number of BIPOC counselors in our district, we will positively impact the students and community that we serve.
In order to determine who is interested, we have created a survey for staff. Please send this survey to all certified and classified staff.https://forms.gle/NMyVf19aSyP4tfna7
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From Alandra: We are planning to share a press release celebrating our Excellence in Education award recipients May 21, hoping that will give enough time for schools that want to make the awards a surprise (if you have a conflict, let Alandra know and we may be able to push back the release date). Alandra is also collecting photos of the honorees and is looking for 1-2 events to attend, so if you have something fun planned for your recipients, let her know.
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You will be receiving an email from Marsha Baro regarding a requirement (SB 155) to display a poster that is a reminder for reporting sexual conduct and child abuse. Please post this where you have other required documents for staff to see.
Information:
If you have a concern about a decision to quarantine a student and wonder if it should be overturned, please contact Tami Pike, our Head Nurse. It is not the role of an administrator to overturn a quarantine as educators are not health professionals. If you are concerned, reach out to Tami and she will work collaboratively with your school nurse and other local and state health professionals to determine if the quarantine should be altered.
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Paul’s updates from his email sent 5/11 at 2:27: In this email, he provided a number of timely Covid updates, including: Gov. Brown’s changes to county metrics that may move Deschutes Co into a “low risk” category soon; the move from a 10-day to a 14-day mandatory quarantine beginning this Monday; a message that we are not following or enforcing in other program quarantines (yes, a youth could be quarantined at Boys and Girls Club, but attend school); an approved vaccine for 12-15-year-olds may be available/given at one or more of our MS buildings outside of school time – parent permission required; and the balance between poor air quality and Covid requirements. Whew!
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Mask wearing update from CDC: You have likely read or heard about the CDC updating their guidance around mask wearing and folks who have been vaccinated. And you also probably heard that Gov. Brown is going to move Oregon requirements regarding mask-wearing (indoors and outdoors) to align with this new CDC guidance. What you may or may not have caught in the small print (so to speak) is that Gov. Brown also said that for schools, we will continue to follow current RSSL guidance regarding social distancing and mask-wearing for the remainder of this school year (see end of third paragraph). In other words, no changes for us (as of now anyway!) in how we do school this spring.
Calendar:
CANCELED: HS Administrator WebEx: Wednesday, May 19 @10:30
Thursday, May 20 at 1:00 location TBD: HS Principal in-person discussion and sharing: SEL
CANCELED: HS Administrator WebEx: Wednesday, May 26 @10:30
Paul and Courtney from BRYT will be in Central Oregon the week of May 24. They have scheduled a visit at each school with each school team! Dean is sending out a confirmation of your school meeting day and time. During their week, we have scheduled a HS building admin meeting for Thursday, May 27 from 10:15-11:30 in our board room. If you would like to stay for a pizza lunch until 12:00, let me know! This will replace our HS meeting for the week of May 24.