To Do:
At our HS Administrators meeting September 16, each of you got a copy of the book The Culture Code by Daniel Coyle. We are going to spend some time discussing the first three chapters of the book at our meeting on Oct 21, so please spend some time reading and reflecting on those pages as they relate to your work, prior to our meeting in October.
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Please share this opportunity with your staff: Educator Effectiveness Committee Info.
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We have scheduled some training for our classified staff for Oct 25. Please share this flyer with your classified team members. Our “Annual Literacy Strategies Conference” is voluntary and staff who choose to participate will be paid. ______________________________________________________________
This “to do” is connected to our upcoming Parent Conferences and our usual need for additional interpreters. If you have bilingual staff who are not classroom teachers and who might be available to support with interpreting during fall conferences (for the time slots we are unable to fill with our regular interpreters), we need to ensure they receive some training on this role. Please invite them to this meeting: Thursday, October 10th, 4:00-5:00pm in Room 312 of the Education Center. Please have them RSVP to Kinsey Martin. They will be time-sheeted for this training and paid for any interpretation time they work. If they attended this training last year, they don’t have to attend again, but are welcome/encouraged to get a refresher.
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Here is an update on our Culture of Care Project, as well as action you need to take if you are interested in being involved at a deeper level:
Our three regional Culture of Care coaches developed a plan of action to structure how they can support our district and your buildings. Overall, they have 67 schools in the region to support over three years and have designed a three-tiered support model with priority schools, consultative schools and facilitative schools. Bend-La Pine Schools has the capacity for 11 priority schools this year. Our goal is to have a representative from all levels (K-12). All other schools will fall into the consultative category for year 1.
Currently, we are looking for buildings that are interested in being a priority school this year. Your school is a good candidate if:
- Your building was not a priority school/pilot school last year with Dr. Rick Robinson. (All year one schools will receive consultative services from our regional care coaches)
- Your building has a core team ready to lead the work at the building level.
- School leadership has articulated a commitment to building a Culture of Care.
- Resources (staff/time/budget) have been allocated to support the adoption of a Culture of Care.
- School leadership has begun eliciting input from staff to adopt a Culture of Care
- School has begun to gather data to guide Culture of Care work.
If you are interested and excited about your building being a priority school this year, please send Sean Reinhart an email no later than Wednesday, Oct. 2nd. You will be notified by Monday Oct. 7th. ___________________________________________________________
Information:
Our October 7 Leadership meeting will focus on modeling an Equity and Excellence building listening session. At this meeting, you’ll be provided some district and school-specific data. The idea behind this modeling is that you would then use one of the SIW’s between Oct 9 and Nov. 13 to conduct your building Equity and Excellence listening session (including using the same district and school data). I understand that you have already planned your SIW’s for the year, so we are “giving” you the first District SIW on Oct 9 to meet with your staff so you can complete this activity. We will NOT schedule any district SIW activities on Oct 9 so please communicate this to your staff. As I explained to the principals today, I will work with the HS LA PLC members arrange for another time for their meeting.
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Here is an observation/evaluation update from HR: Expectations this year look exactly like last year. Here is the summary from Jon Lindsay.
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This year’s Job Fair (yes, you read that correctly!) is scheduled for April 13. For all of you planners out there, you’re welcome. For those non-seven-months-ahead planning types, don’t worry – there will be more communication/reminders on this in the months ahead.
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These Adolescent Suicide Matrix of resources were shared at the Suicide Prevention Training led by Whitney Schumacher this week.
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Dual Credit Data: Jenni Newby, Instructional Dean and the new College Now administrator at COCC, recently sent out the data for college-level courses taken at your schools and the corresponding savings to families.
Calendar:
10/7-Leadership Team Meeting 3:15 in Board Room
10/9-Future Ready Work Team – all Principals 8:00-9:00 @MHS
10/21-HS Admin Meeting 7:00am @ MHS
10/31-HS Principal Meeting 7:00 Jackson’s Corner eastside