SWAG’s For February…
Hard to believe but we are starting Week #7 of a 13 Week Trimester!
District Hosted Staff Breakfast For RMS & RHS!
Tuesday Morning – for those of you who haven’t experienced this… IT IS AWESOME! Basically a BIG Crew of our District leaders (usually including Superintendent) will descend on our school and set up a full “made to order” omelette and pancake bar – it is fun, celebratory and, well, TASTY!
They will begin serving at 8:00AM – to start their clean up at 8:30AM! Bring your appetite 🙂
Due to our increased size, this year they will not be feeding kiddos. In the past, because our school has been so small, they allowed kiddos to come in and eat. However, at other schools, this is a STAFF APPRECIATION breakfast – no kids!
MIDTERM PROGRESS REPORTS THIS FRIDAY (or weekend)
Just a reminder that we will be sending midterm progress reports home on Friday (or sometime over the weekend if needed)!
RHS GRADUATION RATES 2nd IN DISTRICT!!
This is worth celebrating!! If you didn’t see it already, last week the statewide graduation rates were released. Take a look at this:
School-Specific 4-year Cohort Graduation Rate for 2021-22
• Bend Senior High: 88.2 percent
• Bend Tech Academy at Marshall: 51.6 percent
• La Pine High: 59.2 percent
• Mountain View: 87 percent
• Realms High: 94.9 percent!!!!!! WOOT WOOT!
• Summit: 95.8 percent
This is a pretty awesome piece of data and definitely DEFIES the demographics of our students with respect to socioeconomic and SPED/504 status. Well done all!
Friday PD and Teacher Planning
This Friday there is no school (see SWAG) and it is a work day for us. Half of the day is dedicated to building led efforts and half to teacher directed time.
Our plan for the building led time is to dig into our Student Experience Goal for this year: All students at RMS and RHS will experience a high quality Crew curriculum that is:
- engaging and affirming for all students
- well aligned to Core Practice 23 (specifically section D2 and D5-9)
- well documented so we can continue to re-use and improve year to year
We are finalizing the SCHEDULE & AGENDA for the day at the moment, but it is MOST LIKELY that the Building Directed potion of the day will be in the morning… either 8-11:30 OR 9-12:30, depending on some of our part timers schedules. Stay tuned!
The remainder of the day is teacher directed time.
YouthTruth Survey Window – EXTENDED – Please Complete!
SPECIFIC SURVEY LINKS IN TABLE BELOW!
| Total | Complete | Percentage | |
| Realms High School STAFF | 28 | 21 | 75% |
| Realms Middle School STAFF | 17 | 9 | 53% |
| Realms High School STUDENTS | 139 | 84% | |
| Realms Middle School STUDENTS | 143 | 97% |
MIDYEAR LISTENING SESSIONS – pls schedule!
As mentioned a week or so ago in Staff Crew, Harju and I would like to schedule 20-30 minute listening sessions with each staff member over the course of February. These listening sessions can take lots of different forms, and we have drafted these prompts that you can choose from to guide the conversation.
| Roger | Zach |
| all of our ELA and Social Studies Teams all of our SPED Team plus Kat & Addy both of our Art teachers all of our Inclusion EA’s all of our Office Team | all of our Math and Science Teams all of our PE, Language and CTE Team SSC EA & Fieldwork: Caleb, Martha, Maya |
STAFF PARKING – Please do NOT Park in Spots on Humm Side of Building!
We made an unofficial trade of parking spots with the folks from Humm. They gave us the whole front lot in trade for the 10 or so parking spots on the Humm side of the building back by the middle school. We are trying to keep that whole side of the building free of students/staff as there are trucks using it often for “maneuvering”! Please do not park in those spots – thanks!
SUPPORTING INNOVATION – HONORS, AP, INTENSIVES…
HONORS SECTIONS – Our students are asking us for more challenge! To this end, I have put in place a system for teachers who offer EITHER an AP section inside a regular section OR an Honors section inside a regular section. Per trimester – 8 timesheet hours (curriculum rate) OR 2 @ .5 sub days for planning
INTENSIVES – We need new Intensives developed to add to our “quiver”! We can’t ONLY repeat ones we have in the list so far as our students will run out of choices by senior year. If you are willing to develop (AND DOCUMENT) a new (repeatable) Intensive, we will pay 4 hours of timesheeted planning time.
STAFF CREW… Leaning Into “Challenge By Choice”
Linked below are the most recent slides in case you missed it. There are deet’s in here about our purposes for and format for Staff Crew. This will be our ONGOING STAFF CREW SLIDE DECK!
Our dates are as follows. These will be on the Outlook calendar and SWAG as well.
| 1/23 | Staff Crew – RW (YouthTruth) |
| 2/13 | Staff Crew – Sunshine Committee (Lauren-Allie?) |
| 3/13 | Staff Crew – Equity Team |
| 4/10 | Staff Crew – TBD |
| 5/1 | Staff Crew – TBD |
| 5/22 | Staff Crew – TBD |
IMPORTANT DIVERSITY-EQUITY-INCLUSION RESOURCES AND UPCOMING OPP’S!
Feb K-12 Door-Decorating Contest – Black Excellence:
Please consider having your staff participate in this FUN activity (and friendly competition) for Black History Month! So far, we have multiple teams participating from Caldera, Three Rivers, Westside Village, High Lakes, Miller, and Elk Meadow.
Bias Lessons: Survey and New Lesson Tools
Dear certified colleagues – As we wrap up the first semester, now is a great time to revisit the topic of respect, inclusion, and expectations around bias incidents, slurs, and reporting procedures. We addressed this topic systematically this fall via our Bias Incident Student Lessons, but we know complex topics like equity, bias, and inclusion deserve ongoing energy.
To that end, here are some one-pager lesson ideas for taking another step into conversation with students on this topic. While these are not required K-12 across all schools like this past fall, we know many teachers reported having very productive and meaningful conversations with students as a result of the Bias Incident lessons, and many folks have asked for ideas to expand that conversation and to take the next step in pulling our Equity Stance into classroom conversation. As we share those follow-up lessons with you, we also want to make sure we prepare differentiated supports for teachers who are at different places in their comfort and practice with these topics. Please take a moment to share with us: What supports, scaffolds, and resources have been helpful to you in engaging in lessons on these topics? What other supports would you like to have available? This is a quick survey to help us help you better!
Other Upcoming DEI Events:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fmZXgUG2yUNnHSvNSzaBusfwoJiqb-HwUxK1k9HSCNk/edit