To Do:
Educator Network Day April 19: HERE are the sessions planned for this time. Check out the sessions to see where you are asked to be that day. Thank you for supporting our teachers on this collaboration day.
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ACR’s for 23-24: Please remind your front office and counseling teams of our ACR process: If a student from another school reaches out to your school about transferring, remind them to complete an ACR. These ACR’s will be reviewed at the end of this year and again in early August.
School staff can share with families that their request will be considered based on balancing the numbers by school and grade AND using priority considerations.
Students currently on an ACR seeking to return to their boundary school are not automatically approved. These students must submit an ACR for consideration. This is the case for students considering transferring to or from BTA@MHS and Realms HS, as well as the comprehensive high schools in Bend and La Pine.
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From Kinsey: Respectful language message to families: Kinsey recently sent an email to all principals with a message that needs to go out to all your families re: respectful language. Please be sure to read that email and send the message to your families as soon as you can.
Dear Principals, Recently two of our student/family advisory groups provided important recommendations related to our work with bias, inclusion, and belonging. Given that guidance and partnership from our advisory teams, we will be sending this message to all families via the next district-wide Spotlight newsletter on April 17.
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From our HS WS this week: One of our agenda items Tuesday was to share input on the Honors Diploma from our District Student Advisory Group. They have requested that we collect additional input from students. Principals agreed to meet with their student groups to review the proposal.
Here is a link to a very simple slide show to use when working with your student groups to provide feedback. The last slide has a feedback form they can use.
Please check in with your superintendent’s advisory council rep(s) and create a space for one or more of your school teams to weigh in on the issue.
We would like this information by the end of May.
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Please share with your science teachers: Oregon Dairy and Nutrition Council is hosting an NGSS On the Farm STEM immersive experience for district curriculum directors, administrators, and high school science educators based in the states of Oregon and Washington to learn the science of dairy.
This immersive experience brings together teams of science educators with experts in science education and agricultural science to envision a model for science learning that will inspire today’s students, our next generation of scientists and citizens, to take action and feel empowered to use agriculture to improve society.
We are now accepting applications for this unique FREE opportunity. All applications are due May 15, 2023.
Information:
23-24 ACR review conversation: I have scheduled a meeting for us in May to review the ACR’s submitted for the 23-24 school year. To ensure a comprehensive, equitable review of requests, we will review these requests together based on balancing numbers across grades and schools AND priority considerations.
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From IT: Performance Matters is going away June 30. All Certified staff that need to present documentation for PDU or certificates for classes taken (for TSPC) will need to retrieve that information from Performance Matters by June 30 because the system is going end of life. Performance Matters is Going Away
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May 10th is National School Nurse Day! Please be sure to recognize them for all of their hard work and dedication to our school community!
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Reminder about Classified Evals – As you complete your classified evaluations for the 22-23 school year, please upload them into UKG. The instructions on how to do that are below.
Thank you for your patience with this process. Please let us know if you have any questions.
Instructions to upload classified evaluations into UKG:
Menu> Team Icon> HR Tab> HR Actions> Available
- Find classified evaluation upload
- Click start
- Type and find employee’s name
- Type the current date (this will fill “effective from” field)
- Click upload document
- Choose correct evaluation to upload
- Select “evaluation” as the document type
- Click “upload”
- Click “submit”
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From Jennifer Hauth: A reminder to please add this to your weekly email to families or your next family newsletter:
Hope, Help & Heal is a virtual event to support and connect families and
caregivers with education, awareness, and discussion around youth mental
health in Deschutes County. Topics covered in this event include;
anxiety, social media, suicide prevention, substance misuse, and more. Please join us on Thursday May 11, at 6:00pm for a free event for families and caregivers. Topics covered in this event include; anxiety, social media, suicide prevention, substance misuse, and more. For more information or to register for this event, please visit: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/549796996617.
Esperanza, Ayuda & Sanación es un evento virtual para apoyar y conectar a familias y cuidadores con educación, concientización, y discusión en torno a la salud mental de los jóvenes en el Condado de Deschutes. Temas tratados en este evento incluyen; ansiedad, comunicación social, prevención de suicidios, abuso de sustancias, y mucho más. Por favor, únase a nosotros el jueves 11 de mayo, a las 6:00 pm para un evento gratuito para las familias y los cuidadores. Los temas tratados en este evento incluyen: ansiedad, medios de comunicación social, prevención del suicidio, abuso de sustancias, y mucho más. Para obtener más información o para inscribirse en este evento, por favor visite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/549796996617.
Calendar:
April 21: HS principal breakfast 7:30@ Original Pancake House
April 24: Safety Cadre meeting 314 @ Ed Center
April 25: HS Administrator Work Session 8:00-9:30 @ BSHS in Perseverance Hall
April 26: Equitable Grading Think Tank session 8:00-12:00 @ Cascade MS
May 1: Principal professional development 3:00 @Ed Center in the board room