{"id":2627,"date":"2021-02-13T02:00:03","date_gmt":"2021-02-13T02:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/katie.legace\/?p=2627"},"modified":"2021-02-13T02:00:03","modified_gmt":"2021-02-13T02:00:03","slug":"february-12-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/katie.legace\/2021\/02\/13\/february-12-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"February 12, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Interest in college is surging around the nation as more colleges drop the SAT\/ACT <\/a>requirement for admissions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Please be sure your safety committee is implementing this process for your staff:<\/strong> RSSL requires that schools Create a simple process that allows for named and anonymous sharing of concerns that can be reviewed on a daily and weekly basis by the designated RSSL building point-person. Example: Anonymous survey form or suggestion box where at least weekly submissions and resolutions are shared in some format.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Each school’s safety team is required to identify <\/strong>either a digital or physical method for staff to submit COVID related concerns.\u00a0 There must be an opportunity for someone to submit a report anonymously.\u00a0 The safety team will publicize how those concerns can be reported and communicate the team\u2019s problem-solving resolution to the staff on at least a weekly basis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As you know, Area Change Request (ACR) <\/strong>forms are due on March 1. Here is the link <\/a>to the district website where parents can access the form, complete a fillable form (that needs to be turned in to the home school), and the new electronic form (physical forms are still accepted). This letter (Spanish<\/a> and English<\/a>) was provided to all families of 5-11 graders Friday morning. Principals from the Bend comprehensive high schools will meet March 3 to review ACR’s. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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If and when you have a positive case at your school then a letter of communicating this to your families is required<\/strong> (as you know). Our experience, thus far, is that these notifications tend to not occur until after hours. Therefore, please have a plan ready, before you need one, in terms of who will be emailing this letter home to your families. Also, make sure you have access to these various letters so you can personalize them for your school before sending them home. (The requirement is to send a letter home within 24 hours of being notified \u2013 but in most cases, you\u2019ll want to send it much sooner than this.). Julianne and Tami are your key people for helping with this!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A Note from Paul in HR:<\/strong> If you remember way back to pre-COVID days, the classified rubric was updated last school year and you can find the new forms in this folder<\/a>. On Monday, Feb. 22, HR will be sending you a list of employees that you are slated to evaluate during the 2020-21 school year \u2013 along with instructions on how to complete them before May 1, 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The next round of vaccinations (for those that received Moderna) is the weekend of Feb. 20 & 21<\/strong>. This means that there may be some staff who have a reaction that does not allow them to come to work on Monday, Feb. 22. (This is also the first day that Redmond students will be returning to school.) As of now, we are planning on requesting and securing subs (from HDESD) now for that day. We hope to have at least 25 subs (in addition to our roaming subs). If you have a staff member who is not able to report to work that day, please follow the regular sub-request process as we want to hold on to our roaming subs for late or emergency needs on this day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Following is an important piece of information from Scott B<\/strong>. regarding \u201cessential visitors\u201d and Raptor<\/strong> sign-in:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While visitors and volunteers are still not allowed in schools and facilities, there may be some situations where essential visitors are allowed. If there are essential visitors entering our facilities, they will need to sign in on the Raptor system and wear a badge while in our schools (in accordance with district visitor\/volunteer policies). <\/p>\n\n\n\n


We have added a contact tracing capability to Raptor for those essential visitors signing in. They will answer the required contact tracing questions through Raptor and will not need to fill out the QR or paper logs for contact tracing when signing in through Raptor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


The IT techs are working this week on getting all the Raptor kiosks updated with the new contact tracing function at each of our schools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Please continue to advocate for remote meetings with visitors through telephone or video conferencing. Building administrators have the discretion to determine if a visitor is essential and can meet in person at the school, ensuring all RSSL safety protocols are being followed.\u00a0
Examples of essential visitors \u2013 DHS worker conducting an investigation, fire marshal or law enforcement on official business, student\u2019s medical service dog conducting mandatory training, etc. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Project HELP update<\/strong>:\u00a0 Mara Stephens will be leaving our district later this month.\u00a0 Sandy Schmidt, a longtime FAN Advocate, will be taking over for Mara.\u00a0 Thank you to Mara for the amazing work she has done for some of our most marginalized students! Please welcome Sandy to this new role when you see her at your school.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Next year\u2019s district calendar<\/strong> will soon be loaded on our website \u2013 or you can find it here<\/a> if you want a sneak peek. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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An important note from Scott McDonald: <\/strong> Several teachers have noticed that there have been some changes to Apple Classroom since we were last in the buildings with our students.\u00a0 Our most recent Instructional Tech Blog post will give you step by step instructions on how to get started.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/instructionaltechnology\/2021\/02\/11\/changes-to-apple-classroom-as-of-february-12-2021\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Changes to Apple Classroom as of February 12, 2021 \u2013 Instructional Tech @ BLS<\/a>Now that many of us are back to face to face learning managing student iPads using Apple Classroom is essential. If you have not used Apple Classroom before, check out the quick start guide linked here for a list of features that are really useful for educators. Additionally, we have some earlier posts in this blog that may be helpful for first-time users.blogs.bend.k12.or.us<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

If you have never used Apple Classroom, then this may be a really good time to try it out.\u00a0 \u00a0Consider it one way to get closer than 6 feet to your student’s work.\u00a0\u00a0
Apple Classroom allows you to:\u2022 monitor all iPads that are in your classroom\u2022 lock the screens of all the iPads when it is time for a discussion\u2022 lock students into a specific application\u2022 pass out resources directly to your classroom iPads\u2022 see a history of how students have utilized their time while working on a device.
The following document will give you some additional details on how Apple Classroom can be used to manage student iPads.\u00a0 \u00a0https:\/\/www.apple.com\/education\/docs\/getting-started-with-classroom.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Our next Leadership Equity PD is on the afternoon of Feb. 17<\/strong> at SVMS starting at 3:00. One of our focus points is to review and discuss your equity goals (that you documented prior to the holidays). You may want to take a look at this spreadsheet <\/a>to make sure: 1) you wrote down your three goals, 2) make sure you have responded to someone else\u2019s goals, and 3) see if you want to modify any of your goals. We will likely be asking that you share and dig deeper into your stretch goal when we meet on the 17th.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We have scheduled a meeting on February 19 @ 8:00<\/strong> with Doug Reeves and his team to share out some planning associated with the equitable grading initiative we will be working on over the next many months. I would like principals at the meeting<\/strong> and Sarah <\/strong>has reached out to your BEA reps to invite them to the discussion. Please encourage them to join us as their input is key in moving forward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We also have a meeting on February 19 @ 9:00 <\/strong>with the principals of the comprehensive high schools in Bend. We will discuss the coordination of forecasting in March and programming at Caldera. All principals are welcome to come, but you are not required as it may not be relevant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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With students back in person, we will no longer schedule weekly HS Admin meetings.<\/strong> Our next HS Principal WebEx is scheduled for Wednesday, February 24 @ 11:00. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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