TO DO:
From Lora: Discussing YouthTruth with your staff: In Google Drive is a folder named ‘YouthTruth Analysis Supports’ that contains resources to help you lead staff in analyzing YouthTruth results this year. The folder currently contains:
- A one-page guide for administrators
- A slide deck to use to introduce staff to YouthTruth surveys and data
- A handout about data analysis to share with staff when leading them through YouthTruth data
- Two protocols for digging into YouthTruth data – one for secondary and one for elementary
The secondary protocol looks at student survey data related to the theme of Academic Challenge. The elementary protocol looks at family survey data related to the theme of Communication & Feedback. These themes were selected because, as a district, for two consecutive years, Academic Challenge and Communication & Feedback have been clearly identified as areas where we as a district must improve greatly. These protocols are designed to support simple ‘plug and play’, or to be expanded on using other facilitation tools.
We are asking that every school staff spend some time digging into Youth Truth data before the end of the school year. I want to be clear that school leaders are NOT required to use these particular tools/resources/protocols for digging into Youth Truth. Schools ARE required to have some sort of process that will allow staffs to explore relevant Youth Truth data. Having all schools dig into similar data is critical for building a shared understanding across our organization of our current strengths, areas for improvement, and potential next steps to make our schools even better.
In addition, we are asking all principals to review staff survey results, including comments. With your ICCL team or with the whole staff, if you prefer, share 1-2 of your school’s strengths, according to staff, and 1-2 areas for growth.
Please reach out to Dave VanLoo or your level leaders with any questions or thoughts. Thanks for all you do. Lora
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Important Reminders:
Please submit your safety plan AND indoor contingency plan for Graduation by May 2. We will review them at our May 5 COVID meeting. There are two circumstances that will require us to move graduation indoors and therefore need a contingency plan: unsafe smoke levels and lighting/thunder.
Be sure to allow a time during your ceremony in which Dr. Cook accepts the class.
22-23 HS School design plans are due by May 13. Here is the link to the School Design folder. HERE is a link to the essential questions Dave Van Loo prepared to guide thinking about plan design.
Information:
Here is the LINK to the presentation from the Roseburg team last week. It was helpful to learn about how a high school of 1700 students has organized their MTSS model. There are many similarities between the transitions and supports we provide for our 9th grade students. As we continue our journey to embed more inclusive practices in student management, I understand this is a significant mind set shift and that we still need to work closely together to align our practices and support the realities you face in the buildings.
I also recognize that we have been navigating this change during a pandemic and it has been challenging. This is not easy work and I applaud you for the efforts you are making on behalf of our most marginalized students. Our students “the furthest from justice” need us to think differently about how we support them because we are not OK for 25%+ of our population to consistently not find success in our schools. Thank you to the high schools who shared their learnings during the two day visit with the Roseburg team: Caldera HS, Realms HS and Summit HS.
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From Dean: Next week is the voluntary Educator Network Day which provides an opportunity for you to meet with teachers in the same content area. The Educator Network Days are led by ICCLs in each content area. You will be time sheeted for your time collaborating with your peers.
Educator Network Day Opportunities
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Update from Jennifer Hauth: Optional Educator Network School Counselor Professional Learning
Please encourage your school counselors to attend the optional training on Wednesday from 2:30 to 4:00 pm at Caldera High School in Room 210. We will be reviewing school specific Youth Truth data in the social-emotional and engagement categories. The goal is to support counselors in using this information to take the next steps in building a data informed, comprehensive school counseling program.
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Personal days – It’s that time of year where people will be cashing in their personal days. Please remember the 5% rule. No more than 5% of your bargaining unit (certified) can be out on the same day with personal days. As Steve Herron mentioned last week at our meeting, it is up to the school to keep track. Rule of thumb is that for larger schools, It’s 2 people. Please pass this information on to your office managers so they can help you manage these requests so you don’t approve too many for one day.
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Calendar:
HERE is the calendar for meetings for the year
Here is a sample Learning Walk schedule you can use as a guide to plan that visit.
April 18, 19, 20: Katie at a conference in Virginia
April 25: MS and HS Staffing meeting; Principals with HR (transfers, music discussion) 8:00-9:00 (with MS) 9:00-11:00 (HS Principals) @ BSHS in Perseverance Hall
April 26: HS Admin WS 8:00-9:30 @ BTA@MHS
April 28: Learning Walk LA and SS @ Realms HS
May 3: HS Admin WS 8:00-9:30 @ Realms HS
May 9: Preparing to Lead Equitable Schools– Principals only 3:30-5:00 Ed Center, Room 314