{"id":2022,"date":"2020-09-25T21:39:46","date_gmt":"2020-09-25T21:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/katie.legace\/?p=2022"},"modified":"2020-09-25T22:01:58","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T22:01:58","slug":"september-25-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/katie.legace\/2020\/09\/25\/september-25-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"September 25, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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BRYT Kick-Off training Thursday<\/strong>: Thank you for your participation in the BRYT training this week. I am thrilled that we are embarking on a comprehensive system and plan to support some of the most marginalized students in our schools<\/strong>. These are the students who struggle with mental and physical health challenges that severely impact their ability to access school<\/strong> and be successful! HERE<\/a> is the link to the sign up for the school focused work sessions. Thanks to those of you who have signed up for your session. I encourage you to invite THESE SCHOOL TEAM MEMBERS <\/a>to this first school-specific work session. This is where your team will develop the MTSS framework<\/strong> that will help inform WHO are the students<\/strong> who will benefit the most from this work. Next, your team will determine the protocols you will follow to place and support your students.<\/strong> Having this larger group on board for this important discussion to launch your program, is essential. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here are the district guidelines<\/a> for running the PSAT test on Saturday, October 17<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Read and communicate with your ELA teachers.<\/strong> This was sent to YOUR ELA TEACHERS<\/a> last week. As you know, our high school Language Arts Teachers have been working to develop Common District Assessments for our high school students. Michele Clements, our HS ELA TOSA, sent this information to your Language Arts teachers last week. Teacher representatives from our high schools<\/strong> designed a CDA for every grade level (9-12) <\/strong>and put it into a Canvas Module for all high school ELA teachers to use. We began our district-wide plan to implement and calibrate these Common District Assessments last March. We will continue moving forward with this plan this year with district-wide calibration in the spring. Michele is developing a training plan to support your teachers this fall. Your role is to set the expectation in your building that ALL of your ELA teachers teach the module by spring break.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Complete this form for LIPI Transportation:<\/strong> You\u2019ve turned in your school safety plan in order to begin Limited In-Person Instruction<\/strong> \u2013 thank you! Next, you will be bringing in a limited number of students under this plan. Here is a link<\/a> that will need to be completed for every student you bring in to LIPI that requires transportation<\/strong> support (except those SPED students whom you\u2019ve submitted a bus transportation plan for). Transportation will provide transport for your Life Skills students AND students with NO connectivity even with a Hot Spot the week of Oct 5. For students other than these groups, if you complete this form sometime next week, then transportation will begin delivering students to you on Oct. 12. If you have students who do not require district transportation assistance, then you may bring them in prior to Oct. 12. Let me know what questions you have regarding this. ** Staff must be logged in to their district Google account to have access to complete these transportation requests. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Share this with your staff by Wednesday:<\/strong> Now that you have completed your School Safety Plan<\/strong> (for bringing in students for LIPI), please make sure you share it with your staff so they are aware of your processes and may ask questions they are not sure about. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sign up your school team for Restorative Practices Training:<\/strong> We are requiring our high schools to send teams to Restorative Practice<\/strong> training this year. This training will occur over four days (two in November and two in February). Please take a look at this FLIER <\/a>with more information and please sign up the team f<\/a>rom your school who\u2019ll be attending. (The number next to your school name is how many slots you have for staff \u2013 including admin.) Once selected, please notify these folks that EACH of them need to complete the simple registration process<\/strong> (link<\/a>). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Read, Understand, Ask Questions:<\/strong> Make sure you read and understand the two documents that nurse Tami emailed you yesterday. Here they are for your review: BLP Staff Symptom Algorithm<\/a> and Administrator Guidelines for COVID-19 Illness<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Send letters to parents about Oregon Healthy Teens Survey:<\/strong> Jim sent an email about this earlier this week and I am posting is here as a reminder: This is a year to conduct the Student Health Survey to our 6th<\/sup>, 8th<\/sup>, and 11th<\/sup> graders. (Reminder: We used to have two similar assessments, Oregon Healthy Teens and Wellness Survey\u2026 now we have just this one.) We use the results of this survey for not only making decisions around supports needed for our students, but also for grant applications that we (or our community partners) submit to support student health. This year\u2019s survey window is from Oct. 5 \u2013 Oct. 16, 2020.<\/strong> Here is a document that outlines timeline and process for this year\u2019s survey.<\/a> Please let Amy Stafford or myself know if you have any questions regarding this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Within the above link you will find four documents:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first is a Parent Notification letter, provided in multiple languages. This letter must be sent to your parents (of students surveyed) at least two weeks in advance. (Which is going to be soon!) Please make sure you personalize this letter for your school (e.g. school name, date of survey administration, etc.).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The next three documents are sample surveys for each grade level. These are provided to you if a parent would like to see the survey prior to giving permission for their child to participate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NOTE: All of these documents are in Google doc and set to be viewable from anyone within our system. They are NOT viewable by anyone outside of our district, therefore you need to copy\/share any pieces you want to share with families (as sharing a Google link to these documents will not work).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Share with your NEW teachers:<\/strong> Some of you have new teachers to our district that were hired late and did not attend our annual \u201cnew teacher day\u201d<\/strong> that was held a few weeks ago. Because of such late hiring this year we are going to hold another round of the activities missed for those hired very late in the afternoon (1:00 \u2013 4:00) of September 30. Here is a letter<\/a> that will be sent to those that missed this day. If you have any that receive this letter, I hope you work with them to attend the sessions planned for that afternoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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If you have any questions at all regarding school this fall, this graphic <\/a>will clear up your confusion. (Thank you to Skip!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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BEA MOU during CDL<\/strong>: Following is some important information from Jon regarding temporary changes to our BEA contract<\/strong>: Whenever we change the contract, it gives the union the right to open up bargaining.\u00a0 We\u2019ve reached a verbal agreement around topics that relate to CDL.\u00a0(Next will be MOU\/Hybrid discussions.) I am sharing some of the agreement (in place through Nov. 11) because it will have an effect on what we can do during CDL.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lora will be sending out a joint statement with the union regarding the need to follow safety protocols and how to address issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We have agreed to work with the union to modify our SLGGs, observations, and evaluation process to reflect CDL and the Hybrid phases.  Information will be shared with administrators after the committee has reached an agreement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We\u2019ve agreed to give teachers more SIW time and preparation time. \u00a0Until November 11th<\/sup>\u00a0the district will not increase instructional time requirements from the Comprehensive Distance Learning schedules that were established on September 14th<\/sup>.\u00a0 \u00a0We can adjust the schedules, but we can\u2019t add instructional time.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We also agreed that only one SIW a month can be building administrator directed. Other SIWs are reserved for collaboration or individual preparation and planning, unless professional training is requested by the staff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Staff meetings may be scheduled before or after the instructional day as needed. If a staff member can\u2019t attend, they will need to communicate that with the building administrator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We are NO LONGER using the 6 week time period and developing a new plan for tracking and communicating a move from CDL to Hybrid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mid Oregon Credit Union is starting up their One Class at a Time<\/strong> collaboration with News Channel 21 to identify classroom needs and stories we can share along with $500 awards to help meet the financial needs. They are looking for programs that help support the online learning process. Got any stories to share? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Thank you Amy and Scott for organizing our Canvas WebEx Demos for parents this week: Canvas demos are both available on our website (ENG and SPAN)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Additionally, our Learning Supports webpage<\/a> has a ton of additional tech tips, videos and troubleshooting items relevant for families (That is also available in ENG and SPAN). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Our tech\/Canvas folks have been communicating with Canvas that we need to get the grading synch process up and running ASAP<\/strong>. I learned yesterday afternoon that these conversations have been ongoing and fruitful. As soon as next week we should be testing the synch process with some of our schools (to make sure it works as it should and iron out any wrinkles) and then implement across all secondary schools immediately after. Progress is good!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A couple of updates from Amy Tarnow<\/strong>: First, when a student has had a schedule change this fall, both the new class and removed class remained in view \u2013 and was causing some definite confusion. These dropped courses should all be gone from student Canvas dashboards and currently enrolled courses should be the only ones visible now. Additionally, teachers should only be seeing students currently enrolled in their sections. Second, all digital curriculum (e.g. Dreambox or SS material) should be working for both student and teacher. If you have any students for which digital curriculum is not working, please collect all of these student names and which curriculum is having issues, then email Amy with this information. She will then route it to the appropriate person on her staff to resolve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Thank you to Paul for putting this Safety WebEx on Wednesday<\/strong>: The COVID-19: What Our Local Medical Professionals Know About The Virus : We had over 400 BLS staff attend the Webex with Logan Clausen, MD, Chief Medical Officer of Central Oregon Pediatric Associates (COPA) and Nathan Ansbaugh, MD, MPH, St. Charles emergency physician,<\/strong> to learn more about the COVID-19 virus and answer questions submitted by certified and classified staff members.  Since the video quality was low and no visuals were shared, we are providing the audio of the 64-minute session.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Audio of COVID-19 Session with Dr. Logan Clausen and Dr. Nathan Ansbaugh <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Paul wants you to know that our district Return to School Advisory Team <\/strong>is discussing these topics: Shields, Internal metrics to transition OUT of K-3 Hybrid back to CDL (ODE leaves this as a local decision), Promising practices for PE, Orchestra\/Choir\/Band, meals, ventilation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Paul would also like you to know that contact tracing for pullout support and other small groups<\/strong> that occur may not be caputured in Synergy (e.g. a student uses a space for becoming regulated, or your speech path works with a student 1-on-1). Here are your options for contract tracing in these situations: 1: Paper and pencil daily log that is saved for 30 days and can be produced if\/when needed. 2: A google form or google sheet that teachers use (design one that works for you)\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Additionally, Paul is working on a video for teachers on how to clean commonly used surfaces in their classrooms<\/strong> that will be shared next week. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Recently Carly in HR sent out the schedule for flu shots<\/strong>.\u00a0 Be aware that family members will not be allowed to enter buildings for shots. However, your office manager may reach out to Rite Aid and discuss the possibility of an outside table where family members can get the shot.\u00a0 Scott B. has sent an email to office managers about exploring this option.\u00a0 Otherwise, family members will have access outside resources for their shot. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Frequently Called Numbers list for schools<\/a> and admin\/support <\/a>have been updated<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Calendar: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

HS Administrators WebEx meeting<\/strong>: September 30 @ 9:00 (I sent an invite)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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