Congratulations to our new Deputy Superintendent, Lisa Birk!
To Do:
Thank you for announcing (specifically, notify each student (Val and Sal) and their families, staff and students) by the end of the day today!
Please send a photo of the Val and Sal, as well as a brief bio, to our communications team (Scott Maben and Becca Burda). They will share this information with media and include in an upcoming family newsletter.
Reminders/Action Items:
- 504 Training option for Administrators from CASE: LINK HERE!
- Youth Truth. By May 29, meet with your ICCL teams to synthesize the information you get from the posters at the data walks, and decide what you want to focus on. Write the 2 areas of focus and link them in your School Design Plans under the Annual Plan Review Tab in the mid-year location. Thank you!
- Roger White support: Want to help? Click this link. or Venmo Patrick to help with a bike for Roger!
- Inservice Week Certified work calendar for 24-25.
- From Culture of Care: Check out our latest news and workshop offerings!
- ICCL Hiring: Please refer to this document on ICCL posting/hiring.
- Tentative BEA Agreement can be found HERE
- Lewis and Clark Admin Cohort: If you know of anyone who is interested in starting their administrative (Principal) licensure program this next fall please share the flyer below with them. Flier for more information.
Information:
From Scott in IT: A majority of schools were slated for either a complete swap of their student iPads or were going to be receiving replacements for 6th and 7th gen iPads. This swap is currently on hold. A purchase is still anticipated, but the timeline has changed. The determining factors for this delay are:
*Moving to the next generation of iPad involves investment in peripheral technology that is greater than anticipated – namely keyboard and headphone adaptors.
*Logistical and instructional considerations that may impact school locations that actually need to swap devices.
At this time, plan on your roll-in to continue as planned outside of any devices being retired. iPads will need to be stored like in years past by student last name, next year’s teacher, etc. The Tier 1 website will reflect these changes as soon as possible. Please reach out to your building’s IT Client Services tech, a fellow Tier 1 or Roy Fuller for help or idea’s for rolling in. For a quick reference see below:
*9th-11th grade students will keep their device over summer
*12th grade iPads will roll down to incoming 9th graders
High Schools will continue to receive 9th gens as replacements to keep device types consistent.
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From Nick Shein in the Business Office: As we approach the end of the year, we wanted to get some quick accounting information and reminders out to you all. Please review, and reach out to Nick Shein ([email protected]) if you have any questions or concerns.
- Budgets: A recap of the typical funds available to you can be found here in case you are looking for other budgets to charge expenses too. It is perfectly acceptable to move allowable expenses out of your discretionary budgets and into some of these other funds as a way to balance your budgets or to preserve the spending flexibility that your discretionary budgets provide (ie discretionary can be spent on the widest variety of items).
- Carry Overs: With the reductions planned for next year, we are allowing a carry over of 20% in your school discretionary and athletics budgets this year. That is up from the typical 10%.
- Petty cash: If you have petty cash, please make sure it is counted and reconciled before you close your school for the summer.
Guidance on Gift Cards:
- For Staff: Gift cards for staff CANNOT be purchased with District funds at any time or for any reason. You may, however, purchase gift cards with your personal funds (your own pocket) and give them to staff so long as the value is less than the gift threshold of $50
- For Students: Gift cards CAN be purchased with District funds for students as prizes or incentives. The value must be $10 or less, and the cards must only be valid for stores that do not sell alcohol, tobacco or other items inappropriate for students. You must keep an inventory of the cards if purchasing in bulk. The exception is Title–please do not buy any gift cards with Title funds.
- For FAN: Your FAN advocates cannot accept gift cards to be used for FAN families, so your school should not solicit gift cards for FAN. Your PTOs are separate entities and, though inadvisable, CAN do a gift card drive for FAN if they really want too. However, the PTO must maintain ownership of the cards and will ultimately have to donate the cards to the FAN Foundation instead of your advocate ( https://familyaccessnetwork.org/).
Calendar:
LINK to the SIW Calendar and HS administrator work sessions and agendas for 23-24.
Here is the link to the Inservice Week Certified work calendar for 24-25
Here is the SIW Calendar for 24-25.
May 24: Notify students, staff and families of Val and Sal for the class of 2024!
May 30: School Counselor Celebration in board room 1:00-2:30 Come and support your counselors!
June 1: Pride @ Drake Park (BLS Family Advisory hosting a booth)
June 6: GSA in the Park: 10-1 at Troy Field/Ed Center
June 6-12: Graduation week!!
June 11: HS Administrator Work Session 7:30-9:30 @ BTA
June 13: 24-25 HS Professional Development Planning – send one building leader rep – if you are interested. @ BTA 8:00-10:00am
June 15-16: Juneteenth Community Celebration in Drake Park
June 20: BLAST end of the year luncheon 11:30-1:30 @ Ed Center
June 21: HS End of the Year Planning 8:00-10:00 @ La Pine High School