High School Rock Stars!

TO DO:

I appreciate the work you are doing to complete all of the tabs of your staffing plans. Jim, Jon and I plan to connect on Wednesday, April 10 to begin talking about secondary staffing/placements. Let me know if I can help you work through these plans. Please have those completed by April 19.

In addition to your staffing plans, please complete your budget on your Measure 98 google doc by next Friday, April 12.

PURSUIT is coming April 15! The STC team is meeting with Cyndi, our community coordinator, on Monday @ Summit at 1:00 to run through the final logistics. Students will be sit in sections by color and be mixed by school. They will each get a colored event badge when they get on their bus Monday morning. Here is the transportation schedule. It is going to be an amazing opportunity for ALL of our sophomores! This inspirational event is bcompletely paid for by members of our community and is focused on getting our students to think BIG about their futures! Our job is to get them there!

CTE Building Admin: Be sure to meet with your CTE teachers and work on your desired Perkins Budget in preparation for our meeting: April 16 at the Ed Center in room 312, @3:00.

Please get Andrea your Perseverance Awards winner names by April 23. Also, submit your vote to Andrea for the date/time/location of the event:

1. Wednesday, May 22: event would be held in the Board Room with a catered dinner and a formal program – or –
2. Saturday lunch, probably May 18: event would be held at The Loft with lunch and a formal program

Please send me your dates for when you plan to run your SBAC testing.

Calendar:

Next week: I am at an Accreditation Meeting on Monday and Tuesday and at a U of O Advisory Meeting on Thursday and Friday. I will be checking emails and will have my cell with me.

COPA meeting – April 9 at 11:00, HDESD

PURSUIT- April 15 9:00-1:00, The Riverhouse

HS Admin Meeting – April 22 @ 3:15, Brinson Campus

HS Principal Meeting – April 30 @ 7:15, Jackson’s Corner

TO DO:

I am available to answer questions/help with your staffing plans the first part of next week. After the HS plans are submitted and approved, Jim, Jon and I will review these in light of the MS plans and teachers needing placement in the district. After those placements have been made, you will be able to post for new hires.

Amy Tarnow sent an email today about the process of ordering curriculum materials for next year. By April 3, please send her the name of your lead coordinator, or team members, who will compile the requests for curriculum materials. Amy plans to meet with them on April 10th during SIW.

Information:

The end dates for the third and fourth quarters (as well as second and third-trimester LPHS) have been moved back to even out the days in each quarter. Third quarter now ends on Friday, April 12 and the end of the fourth quarter is now Friday, June 14.

Here are some parent resources about vaping to share from Lauren Wood (Drug-Free Communities Coordinator with Deschutes Co.):

Centers for Disease Control Parent Tip Sheet

Keep Kids E-cigarette-Free

E-Cigarettes: What’s the bottom line?

E-Cigarettes Shaped Like USB Flash Drives: Information for Parents, Educators, and Health Care Providers.

A few of our schools have received a bogus letter entitled Federal License Management. If you receive a letter like this, please contact Scott Bojanowski for clarification prior to acting on any steps outlined in this letter.

Here is some information regarding the Honorary Page Program (for students aged 12 – 17) that is sponsored by the OR House of Representatives. Please pass it along to anyone you believe might be interested.

Calendar:

There is a Leadership meeting scheduled for Monday, April 1, at 3:15. Jay emailed us an agenda this week, with a note that this meeting will be for current administrators only. We are asking that all deans, student services, admin interns, or other non-current administrator employees not attend this meeting.

Job Fair – April 4 12-6 at the Deschutes County Fairgrounds

HS Admin meeting April 22, 3:15 @ Brinson Campus

TO DO:

Changes in ACT documentation: This year, ACT will begin charging us BY STUDENT for the juniors who do not take the ACT test on April 2 OR make it up on the make up day. We estimate about 150 students do not take the test each year, so the amount could be substantial. The new guidelines require us to submit a form for EACH student who does not take the test. Dave will complete this part of the process for you. What he needs from you is the NAME OF EVERY STUDENT who doesn’t take the test. The Tigard-Tualatin juniors took the early test and followed a process that their administration said went smoothly. Each high school entered the student numbers of juniors who did not take the ACT on the test date AND not on the makeup test onto a google doc. Since we automatically sign up every junior to take the test, the student numbers of any test that is left uncompleted could just be entered into this google doc. The spreadsheet would be created by Dave and shared with the schools. If you have other ideas about how to do this efficiently, send them my way early next week, otherwise, we are moving forward with this plan as the ACT test is April 2, right after spring break.

Mini Observations-  Just a reminder that spring break is a deadline for formals/mini observations. 4 mini observations (or 2 formals and 2 minis for probationary) need to be completed and entered into Talent Ed by spring break. Thank you!

Feedback is Requested from you regarding STAS

The Student Threat Assessment System Team seeks feedback from administrators, school counselors, school psychologist, school resource officers, and others who may have participated in a Level 1 or Level 2 Threat Assessment over the past 18 months.  Please complete the survey by April 1.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/CVDBWNM

Proper Recording and Destruction of Substances

Drugs and drug paraphernalia seized at school or at school events should be provided to law enforcement following investigation for destruction. Seized drugs and drug paraphernalia that are ‘lost property’ should also be destroyed through law enforcement. Drugs and drug paraphernalia should not be stored at school sites. Call your school SRO or the non-emergency line (541.693.6911) for collection and destruction. Controlled substances could include, but are not limited to: prescription pills, pills, marijuana, etc. and anything that may contain marijuana or controlled substance residue.

It is illegal for any person under the age of 21 to legally buy or obtain tobacco products, inhalant delivery systems, and tobacco product devices. Enforcement of the law began on January 1, 2018. Vape pens and products taken as evidence should be turned over to law enforcement or returned to owners 21 or older – if you are confident it does not contain marijuana oil. Alcohol can be poured out and the container destroyed.

Photographs of seized substances should be captured and stored in the student’s discipline file, if applicable. Staff involved with seizure, return and destruction of substances should maintain a log that includes items seized, by whom, amount, whom released to or whom released for destruction to and on what dates.

As an aside, you should always wear gloves when handling controlled substances.

Inhalant means “nicotine, a cannabinoid or any other substance that (a) [i]s in a form that allows the nicotine, cannabinoid or substance to be delivered into a person’s respiratory system; (b) [i]s inhaled for the purpose of delivering the nicotine, cannabinoid or other substance into a person’s respiratory system . . . .”
Or. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 433.835(3)

We are looking for students to feature in our Family Handbook & Calendar and need your help! We love to highlight students from all backgrounds and abilities and hope you will take a moment to nominate a student. Submit a suggestion here: https://goo.gl/forms/xtezfi6qeTjsNup12

Information:

The JOB FAIR is scheduled for Thursday, April 4. Be sure to schedule in two administrators per 3 hour session.

Some changes are coming to AP. Here are the documents Dave sent today that you will need to ensure you are prepared: Principal Letter, Poster, Checklist.

Here is the updated ABC Calendar for the year.

Here is an important note from Jon in HR that relates to questions about our February snow days.

There were four school closure days due to snow:   February 25, 26, 27, and 28

Possible leaves for Certified could include:  Sick days, Personal Day, and FMLA. 

All leaves that were taken during the snow days will be returned since the days have been rescheduled.  Leave sheets that have already been sent to payroll will be modified by the payroll staff.

FMLA- employees currently on FMLA will have an opportunity to extend the leave up to four days.  HR has already contacted all employees that are currently on FMLA.  If the employee wants to extend, then a substitute might be needed.  HR has communicated this with office managers.

This will hopefully answer questions for certified staff.  Certified staff with questions are welcome to contact HR.

These rules will not necessarily apply to classified.  All classified staff with leave questions need to contact HR.

Reminder:  The Education Foundation’s 2019-2020 Classroom Grant program that supports STEM, art, music & wellness requests from K-12 educators is now OPEN and will close on Friday, March 22, 2019. Teachers may submit only (1) grant request, but schools may submit several requests, with priority ranking by the school principal.  Technology requests must be prior approved by BLS Technology.  Our Guidelines and the online Application are attached. Please share with your staff.  All applications must be submitted to our email address at:  classroomgrantapplications.com

If you have any questions, EF Allocations Chair Angie Cole or myself can speak with you or the educator. This marks our 30 years of service to the K-12 educational community, and we are honored to have awarded over $89,000 in Classroom Grants last year in addition to the other programs we support (Activity Fee Scholarships, Latinx Scholarships and Perseverance Awards). Michelle Johnson, Executive Director

We have been talking about how to incorporate student voice into our work. Dave VanLoo shared an article from Education Week highlighting a high school in which students and teachers embark on PD together to improve classroom lessons. This is a solid example of how students can help us to build relevancy into our classrooms.

Calendar:

March 22, 2019 – HS Principal meeting, 7:15

March 25-29 -Spring Break!

April 1 – Leadership Meeting

April 4 – Job Fair

TO DO:

Please verify that all of the ACR changes have been entered into Synergy. Brad Henry will be providing staffing allocations for the 2019-20 school year prior to spring break – and completing the ACR changes in Synergy across the district will dictate when he provides these to schools in the next two weeks.

Within the next few weeks, Wendy Reeves will share with each building your Measure 98 allocation for 19-20. There are a few factors that will impact your allocation. We anticipate that Measure 98 will be funded at 65% this biennium, just as it was previously. If that percentage increases, you will see an increase in dollars to your allocation. Also, note that because most of the Measure 98 dollars we are spending are dedicated to personnel, you may see a decrease in your allocation as those costs increase. Additionally, if you rolled up money from year 1 to year 2, you may see a drop for 19-20 as money cannot be carried over to next year. Lastly, you may see an increase or a decrease if your enrollment changes as we allocate Measure 98 money based on enrollment. I will visit with the principals about these allocations over the next two weeks during our individual meetings.

Calendar:

This week, Shay announced the addition of two days and 16 hours to our HS calendar to add instructional time for our students. Please work with your teachers on how they plan to connect with parents during these additional hours they will be working. You do not need to document those hours, but a conversation about how we connect with parents during that time would be helpful. Here is a summary of how we are adding the additional days:

HIGH SCHOOL

• Friday, April 12 — Full school day
• Thursday, June 13 — Full school day
• Friday, June 14 — School Improvement Wednesday schedule

Note: Graduation dates will not change.   

LA PINE MIDDLE, LA PINE HIGH AND MARSHALL HIGH SCHOOLS

• Friday, March 22 — Full school day
• Thursday, June 13 — Full school day
• Friday, June 14 — School Improvement Wednesday schedule

Note: Graduation dates will not change.

Don’t forget to move your clocks forward one hour this Sunday!

The new HS principal interviews are this Monday and you have probably seen the announcement regarding the four finalists sent out earlier today. There will be a public forum that evening, beginning at 4:00pm, in the board room that you are all invited to attend.

Friday, March 22 – HS Principals Mtg at 7:15

TO DO:

On Monday, Debbie sent out our agreement with our classified staff in regards to school closures and late starts. Please review it and check with Debbie if you have questions.

As part of our board outreach, The Hope, Help, & Heal Series is coming up in March and April. In order to make these events go smoothly, we are needing volunteers for each event. Volunteers can help in 4 different ways:

• Registration & Resource Table
• Welcome attendees, distribute group wristbands, ensure attendees sign in, staff resource table at conclusion of event
• Group Escorts
• Assigned a group to rotate with, assist with group management, if someone triggered connect them with a Mental Health Support person
• General Escorts
• Remain in halls during breakout sessions and direct attendees to their rooms, monitor hallways during event, connect anyone that needs mental health support to the Quiet Room
• Mental Health Supports*
• Professional Mental Health or Behavioral Health provider who will assigned to staff a safe room OR staff a break out session. Provide support to attendees that express needing extra support
• Before signing up for this role, please contact Misty Groom ([email protected])

Folks can sign up to volunteer here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1aYLuKv1eI16Cb_sjcl2hOxhhfbJ78BdDokaUhtcfZ2U/edit#gid=235871403

If you are willing and able, please consider volunteering for a role. If you are already speaking at this event, or If you know of someone in your organization who you think would be a great fit for a volunteer position, please pass this along. After folks sign up, they will receive an email with detailed instructions.

Information:

Dr. Tim Feeney is coming to Bend on March 5 and will focus on strategies for providing collaborative supports for youth who demonstrate significant behaviors. District admin has an opportunity to meet personally with Tim on March 8 (7:30am – 10:00am in the Board Room) to speak with him about working with students who demonstrate challenging behaviors. Please let Hayley Etnier know if you plan on joining on March 8. Here is a flyer for additional information.

One Class at a Time: Mid Oregon Credit Union in Partnership with KTVZ is sponsoring this program that highlights one classroom a month that is doing something unique with our students. The teacher is rewarded with $500 to use towards a project. Consider nominating one of your teachers for this OR send this info to your staff so they can enter themselves! Let’s get the word out about the cool opportunities happening in our schools!

Reminders:

Here is a reminder sheet from Andrea about changes to our AR’s. I sent these out to you last week. Be sure to replace old forms with this new Field Trip form!

Calendar:

Monday, March 4: HS Principal meeting 7:15 at Jackson’s Corner eastside

Daylight Savings Time starts on Sunday, March 10.

No Leadership meeting this month. Please use this time to connect with your Administrator PLC!

TO DO:

THANK YOU for completing your: Initial SLGGS for YOU and EVERY TEACHER, as well as YOUR self evaluation. You should have scheduled in/be close to completing your MID YEAR SLGG meetings. Your two Formal Observations for all Temps and Probs should be completed AND three Mini Observations for every teacher. Keep up with the great work! Need help with tracking all of this? Let me know…

I sent the Perkins Allocations to each building CTE administrator on Monday of this week. As a reminder, please have the building administrator who oversees CTE in your building bring your site allocation plan to our April 15, 3:00 meeting in room 329. Part of this process will include a meeting with your CTE teachers to design that plan. At this April 15 meeting, we will determine the final allocations.

In addition to these allocations, each CTE teacher or teams of teachers can apply for a Program Enhancement Grant. The total amount available is $26,984. I ask that the building CTE administrators bring grant requests to our meeting on May 6 at 3:00 in room 329. Here are the docs related to our Perkins allocation process including the Program Enhancement Grants and the related scoring guide. We will evaluate this process in the fall and your input will be important as we continue to improve. My goal is that we have a transparent, equitable process for allocating funds. Please reach out if you have questions!

Please familiarize your team with the changes to this AR related to Transporting in Private Vehicles, so you are aware of the changes. Here is the NEW Field Trip Permission Slip form. Please use THIS form for all trips, from now on. I will send you the clean one soon! Here is the new AR related to Volunteers.

Information:

With the deadline for applications past, here are the “next steps” in our process related to our Choice High Schools. There are still spots available in all three of our choice schools so we will not do a lottery. Here is the timeline related to confirming the students for next year and our ACR process:

1. Week of Feb 11– email out acceptance letter to families who submitted an application – all schools will all use the same letter.
   
2. Schedule Q and A nights to provide opportunities for parents/students to get additional information:  Skyline HS and REALMS HS – Feb 26, MHS – Feb 27
3. Week of Feb 18 – reopen application process: first come first serve accepted, then each school will begin a waiting list.
4. Thursday, Feb 28 – deadline for parents to confirm (online) their school choice.
   
5. Friday, March 1 – Office Managers compile lists of confirmed students for Hicks, McDonald, Reese to use when reviewing ACR’s next week.  Confirmed students entered into Synergy.
   
6. Monday, March 4, by 9:00 student lists sent to Hicks, McDonald, Reese.  ACR’s approved and entered into Synergy
   

Thank you to the CTE administrators who made the COPA meeting at the HDESD last week. There are a handful of these meetings scheduled and facilitated by Brook and Ryan each year and they provide helpful information and networking for our region. Here are the minutes from the COPA meeting last week. Brook and Ryan shared the articulated credits and courses from 16-17 and 17-18  as well as the Perkins Alliance Inventory worksheet and the Travel Expense Reimbursement Guidelines.

Here is an important message from Leslie at the HDESD regarding CTE testing!

It is the Technical Skills Assessment (TSA) registration time again!  
Please disseminate the attached form to your CTE Program Teachers, accumulate the lists and send one combined list per school to Ryan Beard.  This information is due to Ryan Beard by Feb. 28, as we need time to coordinate test scheduling with CTECS.  Thank you for your understanding!  🙂 Please remember:

o     Test juniors and seniors who have completed at least one credit in a given program 

o   Program teachers are responsible for selecting students who will complete the assessment (15 – 20 students is a good rule of thumb)

o   The testing window will be open for one month, beginning April 15 and ending May 15

o   Send registration forms to Ryan, [email protected], no later than Feb. 28 

 (1 registration form per school, please – all programs included)

o   Proctor needed.  Instructors cannot administer their own program’s assessment

o   Assessment results are sent to both teachers and administrators

Here is an opportunity for students from Deschutes County: “The substance abuse prevention team at Deschutes County Health Services is looking to interview middle school and high school students about prescription drug misuse/abuse. These interviews are part of a federal grant awarded to Deschutes County that aims to investigate prescription drug misuse/abuse in 12-25-year-olds throughout the county. Students will not be asked about personal prescription drug misuse/abuse but rather what their and their peer’s perceptions are around this topic. Further, when the data is analyzed from interviews, any information that would allow others to identify the students, individuals that they may identify in the interview or locations mentioned will be removed. Interviews take around 30-45 minutes and students will receive a Dutch Bros gift card for their time. If interested in participating, please reach out to the project coordinator, Cassidy Brewin, at [email protected] or at 541-388-6606.”

Being part of an Accreditation Team is great PD! There are a few reasons why: it broadens your perspective to see how other school administrators handle similar questions and challenges in their schools! It allows the opportunity to network with other administrators around the state. Lastly, each high school in Oregon is required to go through accreditation every 5-6 years. It is quite an involved process and it is helpful to be a participant in an evaluation of another school prior to preparing for your own! There are several schools needing team members this year – here is the list if you are interested! Let Jim Boen or I know if this piques your interest.

Calendar:

am I am out of the office today and tomorrow and will be checking email. Also, I available by cell in the case of an emergency.

Monday, Feb 25: HS ADMIN meeting @ MHS 3:15

Monday, Feb 25: HS Principal posting closes

Friday, March 1: HS Principal meeting @ Jackson’s Corner – eastside, 3:15

TO DO:

PURSUIT:

Here is an update on our work with PURSUIT. Administrators should be connecting with their STC folks on specifics. Cabinet just approved a new Field Trip Permission Slip form. I will send that to you when it gets cleaned up so you can send it out for this event. Also, the promo video and flier will be out on March 8. That week, schools will need to start the work of getting ALL of our 10th graders signed up. I am working with Julianne and Alandra on the communication plan. This event is being organized by community members for our students and is FREE! This should be an amazing event for our sophomores!

The 2019-2020 Classroom Grant program of the Education Foundation for Bend-La Pine Schools opens Monday, February 18, 2019 and closes by 5 pm on Friday, March 22, 2019.  This program provides funding for innovative STEM, art, music & wellness requests from public school K-12 educators in Bend, La Pine & Sunriver.  Requests for funding of programs/projects must be for the 2019-2010 academic year and approved by your school principal before submission.  Educators must submit their request online by completing the 2019 Classroom Grant Application which can be found on our website.  Please review our Guidelines before submitting your request. Educators may submit only (1) request, but schools may submit several requests (which must be prioritized by the school principal). All requests must be completed using the online form and emailed to:  [email protected] to be considered and must be received no later than Friday, March 22, 2019. 

Any questions can be director to Michelle Johnson, Executive Director.   In 2018, the Education Foundation funded over 53 requests totaling over $89,000.  Since 1988, the Education Foundation has invested over $1.5 million in our public schools through our programs.

Education Foundation for Bend-La Pine Schools

Information:

Here is the timeline for staffing allocations, plan development and postings. I am meeting with the Principals on specifics, but wanted you to have the timeline.

As you are likely aware, it is our goal to have at least two people in each school be ASIST (Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training) trained. As the name suggests, this is a best-practices approach to suicide intervention. It is common for school psychs, counselors and others (e.g. admin, health teachers, etc.) to be trained. Here is the current list of those who have been trained at each building. The next training is in early April and participants must pre-register. Here is additional information you can share with staff regarding it.

Here is a message from Lora about the Shadow a Student initiative: First of all, I want to thank all of you who took the time to shadow a student. While I know everyone is busy, I believe the opportunity to see the world of school through a student’s eye makes us all better leaders. I encourage all of us to make this a part of our routine once or twice a year! And now for the news you’ve all been waiting for…the WINNING horizontal team: our elementary team, with 58.6% of administrators participating! Middle school was close behind, with 58.3% (and yes, Eric Powell, I included you in the middle school count J). High School had a 50% participation rate.

FAN updates from Dana Arnston:

• Boundary changes and changes in school/district demographics will potentially impact staffing.  Dana will contact site administrators prior to any information being shared with Advocates.  Dana will do her best to make as few as changes as possible.
• If your school is considering a fundraiser that will benefit FAN, please give Dana a call first.  Ensuring that we follow Board Policy and Business Office protocols will help get the funds to the right place and not cause any further work for staff.
• As we approach evaluation time, Dana will be in touch if your FAN Advocate is due for an evaluation.  She loves having input from site administrators when completing the evals.  
• As always, if you need anything FAN related, please don’t hesitate to call or email Dana.  

Calendar:

HS Admin Meeting: February 25 @ Marshall HS, 3:15

HS Principals Meeting: March 1 @ Jackson’s Corner 7:15

Information:

Equity in grading is a topic we have been discussing recently. Dave Van Loo shared out some excellent pieces on equitable grading. Dave writes: “The ideas are mostly familiar but it does contain quantitative and qualitative impact data on the effect of deliberately equitable grading practices, which is powerful. This does a nice job of framing grading of students as an equity issue. Some of the comments in this closely mirror what the student in yesterday’s (at Monday’s Leadership Team Meeting) panel said.”

Call to Action for Equitable Grading article Hattie’s 250 influences Why Grades Drop When Students Get to High School and What Adults Can Do About It.

On February 5, ODE sent out a memo regarding attendance, which supports our belief in engaging students in extra curricular activities. Beginning in the 2019-20 school year, all time spent engaging in school-sponsored extracurricular activities during the official school day (including travel) will be counted as time present for the Cumulative ADM data collection. School-sponsored, extracurricular activities include but are not limited to: sporting activities, mathletes, music events, drama, debate and robotic competitions.

Any time spent engaged with these activities (including travel) will count as time present in the Cumulative ADM data collection. It is important to note that the reporting of students as “present” for time spent traveling to and from sporting events and extracurricular activities (instructionally-related activities) does not alter the definition of instructional time as defined in OAR 581-022-0102(30).

The Education Foundation for Bend-La Pine Schools will open the 2019 Classroom Grants program on February 18, 2019. Educators may submit one grant but schools may on the activities several grants with principals indicating mostly familiar priority of requests. The online grant application and guidelines will be available at www.engagedminds.org beginning Feb. 18th. The program closes at 5pm on Friday, March 22, 2019. An email communicating this information to all BLS educators grading of will be distributed by the Superintendent’s office on February 19th.  Last year the Foundation awarded over $89,000 in innovative STEM, art, music & wellness grants!  Any questions? Contact Michelle Johnson, Executive Director at [email protected] or (541) 355-5660.

We landed on Wednesday, August 14 at the Riverhouse for our Leadership Summit that includes building admin and ICCL teacher leaders. More details to come as we get closer to the date!

Here are the rotations for the 2020 graduations for MVHS, BSHS and SHS:

Thursday, June 4 at 7:00pm – SHS

Saturday, June 6 at 10:00am – MVHS

Saturday, June 6 at 3:00pm – BSHS

Mindfulness for staff!-If you are interested in working with a local psychologist to provide mindfulness (stress reduction) training to your presenting, please contact Jim Boen. There may be a cost for this training.

Calendar:

MAC Day-Tuesday, February 12.  Please encourage your staff to get this completed. It is a major source of our FAN funding.

HS Admin Meeting: February 25 @ Marshall HS, 3:15

HS Principals Meeting: March 1 @ Jackson’s Corner 7:15

TO DO:

At the HS Principal meeting this week, we discussed several items that need a timely response. The details for these decisions are in the notes I sent to the Principals after the meeting and involve these five areas:

1. 19-20 Graduation Rotation (MVHS, BSHS and SHS only)
2. 19-20 SIW District Dates
   
3. 19-20 Parent Conference Proposal
4. SBAC week vote
5. SBAC Plan agreement to move forward
   

We are gearing up for PURSUIT in April. Please connect with your STC Coordinators and determine how the logistics will be handled at the school level.

Calendar:

February 4 at 2:00 New Administrators Training: Budget and Staffing, Board Room

February 4 at 3:15 Leadership Team Meeting

TO DO:

Still looking for input from a few of you on the following question: Would you recommend having our annual district Leadership Academy (building admin and ICCL leaders) this next fall on Aug. 7 or Aug. 14?  So far Aug 14 has the most votes.

You have one more week to schedule your STUDENT SHADOW. Here are the necessary docs you will need: a description of the parameters for participating, some interview questions, and a Google form for your reflections.

Informational:

Ross Greene-Ross Greene, author of “Lost and Found” and  other books on helping behaviorally challenging students, will be presenting at Tetherow on Friday, May 17. Information on the class and registration can be found on this flier.

Stop Stop the Bleed- Please be sure you are not doing any ‘Stop the Bleed’ training in classes. We are still working on appropriate channels for this.  Call if you have any questions. Thank you.

Calendar:

Jan 23-31 – Orientations for Incoming 9th grade students

Jan 31 – HS Principals Meeting – Ed Center, room 312 @7:15 am

Feb 1 – No students, teacher work day!  Half way through our year!

Feb 8 – Choice School apps due