NATIONAL SCHOOL NURSE DAY – MAY 10!
To Do:
Just say no to the Office Group: The Office Group has been sending information to several high school staff (counselors, coaches and some teachers). Please know that we do not have an MOU with this organization so staff should not be allowing them access to our students. Ensure that your staff is not sending student information to this organization OR encouraging families to reach out to them. The Office Group has not been vetted by our district.
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Information:
Change in student start and end times for choice high schools: Thanks to Kim and her fabulous Transportation Team, we will align the student start and end times for BTA@MHS and Realms HS with all high schools (and middle schools) beginning next school year (23-24). Kim’s team has reworked the bus routes to allow us to add instructional minutes to these schools and meet the state requirement! This is terrific news!
The staff work day will remain 8:00-4:00 with the drop of time between 8:15-8:30 pick up time at 3:53 (2:23 on Wednesdays) for BTA@MHS and Realms HS/MS. This adjustment may mean that students from our choice high schools will arrive later for after school activities at their home schools. This has been impacting our students at LPHS and may be new for students who participate at Bend area schools. Thank you for working with your coaches and advisors to minimize the impact on these students.
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From Jackie Mueller: May is the walk and bike challenge for staff. If your school has some active commuters via walking or biking, this is a great way to get involved and eventually get rewards. Please share with staff so we can the carbon offsets through the month of May.
- Go to Get There Oregon
- Sign up – use your school email
- Check email and confirm account
- For the find and join a network, look for your school under Bend-La Pine – YOUR SCHOOL
- Start to log trips commuting via carpool, walking or biking
- The district will review the schools with the most trips logged in May in the hopes of getting you involved in a reward program similar to Caldera’s.
- Here are BLS current statistics for this school year to date.
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From Dave: Oregon SEED Survey Information: Here is a brief update on Oregon’s Student Educational Equity Development (SEED) survey. As in previous years, SEED remains optional for 3rd-12th grade students, it takes about 15 minutes, and is delivered through the OSAS secure testing browser with the same menu of accessibility supports. SEED contains four domains: (1) Access to Learning Resources, (2) Opportunity to Learn, (3) Self-Efficacy Beliefs, and (4) Sense of Belonging. Two of these domains are content specific; that is, items measuring Opportunity to Learn and Self-Efficacy Beliefs are written to align with key academic expectations. Content areas are sampled by grade as follows:
• Reading/Language Arts Grades 3, 6, and 9
• Mathematics Grades 4, 7, and 10
• Science Grades 5, 8, and 11
• Native American Culture/History (OTL only) Grades 4-11
Additional information to help you determine whether your school (or even specific grade levels) might participate, including all survey questions, is available here https://www.oregon.gov/ode/educator-resources/assessment/Pages/Student_Educational_Equity_Development_Survey.aspx
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From Lora: This is a follow up to my announcement yesterday about an additional principals’ meeting this spring on Monday, May 22, in the board room:
- 3:00-3:30 is OPTIONAL. Dave is going to share a strategy for schools interested in focusing more directly on instructional practices in their school design work next year. The goal is to get feedback and learn what resources schools may need if they want to participate.
- 3:30-4:00 (ish) is mandatory. Steve will share additional information about budget and possible impacts on schools.
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Graduation reminders: Here is what each school recorded about past cord distribution. Plan to continue with what you have done historically for the class of 2023. Our team will revisit this practice and consider making adjustments next year.
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From Paul: Please reference UKG Job Requisition, Interview Prep, Applicant Screening and Hiring Tips as we enter into peak hiring season. We’ll share the recording of the WebEx from Wednesday next week but it was primarily an overview of the linked document.
Calendar:
May 9: HS Embedded Session 8-2:30 @BSHS; Principals only
May 17 and 18: Priority Standards Work with Anne McCarty-Perez
May 22: Principal PD @ Education Center in the Board Room
May 22, 23, 24: Katie out of the office
May 26: Project and announce Val and Sal at every school.
May 29: Memorial Day – No School
May 30: HS Administrator Work Session 8:00-9:30 @ SHS
June is graduation month!! All graduation ceremonies are located at our high schools
June 8: Summit HS graduation @ 7:00 pm
June 9: La Pine HS graduation @ 7:00 pm
June 10: Mountain View HS graduation @ 10:00 am
June 10: Bend Senior HS graduation @ 3:00 pm
June 12: Bend Tech Academy @ Marshall High School graduation @ 7:00 pm
June 13: Realms HS graduation @ 7:00 pm
June 20: HS Administrator Work Session 1:00-4:00 TBD