Celebrating our Graduates!
Congratulations to our first graduate, Monir, from our District’s Newcomer Program! 🎉. Kinsey, the team at Mountain View HS and the Newcomer Program staff hosted a surprise graduation party for Monir this week! Kinsey wrote, I am so proud that our district offers this program to our community. I wanted to take a minute to celebrate not only our student but also this incredible team—this accomplishment is thanks to you, and this celebration is yours as well. ¡Salud!
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Congratulations to our first Graduating Class of Dual Immersion Students! The DI program and our students were also highlighted on the front page of the Bulletin: HERE. The program has been at Bend Senior HS and will be located at Caldera HS next year. An impressive accomplishment for these students!
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Congratulations to the students earning an International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma! These Bend Senior HS students were celebrated at a special ceremony this week!
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Congratulations to the team at Summit HS for a successful graduation last night! Can you guess the parent of these Summit graduates…?
To Do:
From Instructional Technology: Please take a look at this secondary iPad roll-in information as we work to clean up iPads for the summer. Not only do these efforts get a jump on ready-to-use iPads in the fall, they also introduce organizational skills of digital materials. For a complete view of what’s happening district-wide, check out the Spring iPad plan. Take a look at BLS tier one page or reach out to your site tech with questions.
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From Stephen: COCC will be running a Sponsored Dual Credit (SDC) training this summer to prepare HS instructors interested in articulating PS 201, Introduction to US Government and Politics (4 credits). This aligns well with APGov or similar (IB equivalent?). Would you mind sharing this out to BL high schools that may have interest? No cost to instructors/districts to attend.
Training Dates:
Friday, 8/4, 8am – 11am
Friday, 8/11, 8am – 11am
Friday, 8/18, 8am – 11am
Friday, 8/25, 8am – 11am
Link to register for training here.
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From Walt Norris: Since we are getting closer to summer, it’s time for our custodial crew to start firing up for summer clean. One thing that happens every year that is an issue, is the teacher’s personal items left in the classroom. Because of security, safety and personal reasons custodial will not be handling them. This soft furniture, bookshelves, rugs, aquarium’s, plants, animals etc. shouldn’t be a custodial responsibility to clean and is ultimately a risk if there is breakage, missing or otherwise. Please encourage teachers to take their personal items home for the summer. The custodial crew thanks you!
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Please share with staff these upcoming trainings offered through the HDESD:
Collaborative Problem Solving
Tier 1: Essential Foundations Training
When: August 23 & 24, 8:30 – 4:30 p.m.
Where: Crook County High School – Commons
Breakfast & Lunch Provided
Learn More About Collaborative Problem Solving
Belonging Through a Culture of Dignity’ Book study Returns in Fall 2023!
Complete the Fall 2023 Session Interest Form
Information:
Queer Prom: Kudos to Kinsey for organizing our first Queer Prom last Saturday! The event was a huge success with about 70 students form and all of our high schools were well represented. There were no issues or disruptions of any kind. A special shout out to Officer Ward who was an amazing support at the event.
Additionally, Kinsey organized a Field Day for our GSA clubs this week! Thank you to all of the MS and HS GSA advisors who helped to make this day a success! EVERY student deserves to feel happy and proud!
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A Celebration of our Counselors! On Friday June 2nd, counselors gathered in the level groups to celebrate their school counseling program. During our time together, counselors delivered short presentations to share data and program updates that looked at how students are different as a result of school counseling programming. In alignment with the American School Counselor Association (ASCA), school counselors evaluate and share the results of their programs impact and effectiveness with key shareholders. We are so grateful for those that were able to attend our celebration. If you weren’t able to attend, we encourage you to meet with your school counseling team to go over their data and slides.
Below are the slide decks by level for your reference:
Elementary School End of Year School Counseling Presentation
Middle School End of Year School Counseling Presentation
High School End of Year School Counseling Presentation
Thank you again for all of your support of our K-12 School Counseling Program. “Without administrator support, school counselors will strive , but not thrive.” -Dr. Trish Hatch
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From Lora: Here is guidance to follow when creating your master schedule.
Guidance for Part-time Scheduling Doc
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From HR:
Revised Request To Hire Guidance
We are removing the Hiring Checklist from the request to hire process as of Monday, June 5th [insert cheer]. The instruction video has been re-recorded to reflect this and we’ve also updated where to change a candidate’s hiring stage from Applicant to Request to Hire as the old video became outdated when UKG performed a software update last month.
UKG and Hiring Season
Please reference UKG Job Requisition, Interview Prep, Applicant Screening and Hiring Tips as we enter into peak hiring season. We have important information about ICCL hiring in this document (cut/pasted below). Within the document is also access to a Veteran’s Preference report where you can easily view which external candidates are veterans.
REMINDER: Certified Temporary/Probationary 1 & 2 and Contract Staff of Concern
As you complete Summative Evaluations, it is imperative that you note any performance deficiencies in both the domain/standard rating AND in the summary section at the end.
You may use language like,
- “Teacher AB does not meet performance expectations in [insert any/all that apply]”
- “It is necessary that AB becomes effective in these domains”
- PROBATIONARY/TEMPORARY ONLY: “Failure to meet performance objectives will result in probationary non-renewal at the conclusion of the following school year or failure to move from probationary to contract status by March of year three”
- “Teacher AB will be placed on Focused Performance Evaluation at the beginning of the upcoming school year” [or insert Support Strategies if you’ve already completed the Focus Perf. step]
HR will be contacting administrators in August/September to identify probationary teachers of concern.
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From Magadalyn Hasse: In case you weren’t aware…Magadalyn has been hired to replace Denise in Student Services. Please send Magadalyn a list of your 2023 -2024 504 coordinators before the end of the month.
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2023-24 SIW Schedule – Here is the SIW schedule for next year. Thank you Stephen Duval for putting this together.
Calendar:
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 16: Last Day of School – Follow your SIW schedule
June 19: Juneteenth Holiday. School offices Closed – be sure to communicate this with families.
June 20: HS Administrator Work Session 1:00-4:00 TBD
June 21: BLAST end of the year lunch and celebration 11:30 @ Ed Center
June 22: Last day with CEL–Leading Equitable Schools 8-2 @ Perseverance Hall, BSHS