Congratulations to all of our of 2023 graduates! Check out these beautiful photos from our ceremonies:
To Do:
Summer Office Hours Sign – please print this sign and post it on your front doors.
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From Sean: Healthy Schools Family Letter Toolkit
The Healthy Schools team is going to develop a communication toolkit for schools this summer so schools can easily send letters to families on various health topics (think vaping, social media, substance use, etc.). We would like to collect ideas from you. What health topics would you like developed in the toolkit? What types of information do you want to communicate to families? The survey below will take 30 seconds. Toolkit Survey
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Support for your College Now Teachers: COCC is looking to host all of our College Now (dual credit) staff during in-service week to kick off the year and ensure they are ready to go once students arrive. We’ve landed at 2:00-4:00 on Thursday the 31st as a time. I understand you may have other PD planned for this time, but if you do not, could you please let your folks know they are free to attend? Or if you haven’t planned out your PD calendar, maybe work around this time slot?
Finding time in a tight week was tough but any support you can provide for these folks to attend would be greatly appreciated.
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Please read and share this with your staff: “Please see the email from Kinsey this week about CFEE and Taking It Up. This training is a significant priority for our school board and district leadership team, and is the underpinning of the work we are doing around instruction, inclusion, and belonging. Be sure to sign up if applicable, and please forward it to your teachers ASAP.”
Information:
Great news from Kim in Transportation: I shared in an earlier post that Kim and her fantastic team in the Transportation Department have added routes that allow for our choice high schools to align start and end times with the comprehensive high schools.
Additionally, they have added two buses to ensure that students attending BTA@MHS OR Realms HS, who elect to participate in athletics or activities, have a direct ride to their home school.
Kim communicated to me this week: “We are going to be able to have an additional bus for each high school at BTA and REALMS. Student athletes (and/or club participants) can ride this bus directly to their home school. We will get a list from the school, or AD’s of students for each season as this bus is only for students participating in athletics/club during their season. The buses will be at REALMS or BTA by release time, so if students hop on quickly the bus can get them up to their home school quickly.”
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From Student Services: An all day CPI Crisis Prevention Intervention (restraint) training will be offered for administrators on Aug. 24th. The sign-up will be in UKG. All building leaders are encouraged to attend.
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From Jackie:
Standard Operating Procedure for School Holidays
Summertime holiday shutdowns are a great way to help conserve resources and save money. Please make sure all the staff see the Standard Operating Procedures for school holidays. Shutting down electronics can assist BLS in decreasing energy waste. Please see the attached District SOP.
Vanpool for the 23-24 school year
If you have staff that are currently or have been wanting to start a carpool to get to their schoolwork site, they might be interested in a FREE Vanpool with Commute with Enterprise. Through this program, staff are provided with a van, a gas card and gain time from their commute. This program has been established in the spring with Three Rivers and can expand to schools in the fall. Please see the attached flyer and if staff are interested, they should contact the sustainability coordinator [email protected]
Thanks so much. I am in the office next Monday and then on a service trip with students Tuesday the 13-22nd. If you have any questions, please reach out on Monday. Have a great rest of the graduation week. I am super grateful there was no lightning for the Summit graduation last evening!
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From HR:
Temporary Employees – Very Important
HR will not be shutting down access to BLS email and UKG for temporary employees whose temp contracts end on June 30th. In order to give those employees the ability to apply for open positions and allow admin to communicate with those temporary staff about interview invitations, we are keeping those accounts open until August 18. We will close them on the 8/18.
FTE List Reminder
Each school received an email from Trish Uhart on May 5th with the subject line 2023-24 Certified FTE lists. Please read and respond to that email no later than June 23rd.
Updating Staff Assignments for 2023-24
Members of our HR team are holding an optional meeting with Office Managers on Tuesday, June 20th, from 12:00 – 2 pm at the Ed Center to review how to update staffing assignments through UKG. Lunch will be provided and this session is highly recommended for office managers who are still getting used to the HRIS module and HR Actions.
UKG’s Learning Platform
Performance Matters will be going away at the end of June, this year and replaced by UKG’s Learning platform. This means that anyone that wishes to pull their transcript data or certificates of completion for courses taken will need to do so BEFORE June 30, 2023. Go into your Performance Matters account -> MyCourses (at the top toolbar) -> My Transcript
If you want a sneak peek into the Learning module, here is a video overview of it. More information will be shared in August.
ICCL Hiring
Don’t forget to request to hire your ICCL candidates through UKG.
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Calendar:
June 19: Juneteenth Holiday. School offices Closed – be sure to communicate this with families.
June 20: HS Administrator meeting about scheduling for part time teachers 12:00-1:00 @ LPHS Library – snacks provided!
June 20: HS Administrator Work Session 1:00-4:00@ LPHS Library
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, Bend High
August 2: New Administrator Orientation 8:00-1:00 @ Education Center
August 7 and 8: K-12 Administrator Training – 8:00-4:00 @Riverhouse Conference Center
August 10 or 15: HS administrator Welcome Back!