{"id":1287,"date":"2021-09-28T02:34:21","date_gmt":"2021-09-28T02:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/roger.white\/?p=1287"},"modified":"2021-09-29T20:00:06","modified_gmt":"2021-09-29T20:00:06","slug":"rhs-staff-update-9-26-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/roger.white\/2021\/09\/28\/rhs-staff-update-9-26-21\/","title":{"rendered":"RHS Staff Update: 9-26-21"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Updated: 9\/29 @ 1:00 PM<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-color has-background wp-block-heading\" style=\"background-color:#eff4e1;color:#0074a6\">Grading Updates and this Week&#8217;s SIW + Friday<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>We will be digging into Standards Based Grading during our SIW this week AND during our Friday October 1st &#8211; RHS PD Day. <\/strong>To be clear, this Friday is one of several additional PD (and some planning) days that RHS is granted as part of our implementation of the EL Education model. To see the others, you can look at our <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/d\/1ZS3OPOn2DFQEt6gFjdrTu6jB6KCy3uoghHcR49KlXsU\/edit#gid=0\" target=\"_blank\">major dates calendar<\/a> (also on the <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1U5f-cSplCGUQxhH62CbERfZoCpNNasnGksoPvbLiQFA\/edit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">quick links portal<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This means that we will spend time on Wednesday and Friday this week getting our gradebooks set up in Synergy and also sharing some of our grading guidelines associated with standards based and equitable grading practices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Wednesday SIW (including time shift):<\/strong> <ul><li>I am hoping to move our SIW this week (just 1 time) from the usual 2:30 &#8211; 4:00 to <strong>2:00 &#8211; 3:30.<\/strong> End your day at 3:30!! <span style=\"color:#a30003\" class=\"has-inline-color\">If anyone has a meeting already scheduled between 2:00 and 2:30 and therefore has a conflict, please let me know! <\/span><\/li><li><strong>2:00 &#8211; 3:00 <\/strong>&#8211; 60 min &#8211;<span class=\"has-inline-color has-black-color\"> Equitable Grading Practices &#8211; From Theory to Practice <\/span><\/li><li><strong>3:00 &#8211; 3:30<\/strong> &#8211; <span class=\"has-inline-color has-black-color\">30 min &#8211; MTSS Update and Sub expectations? <\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Friday PD (and some work time) Day:<\/strong> <span class=\"has-inline-color has-black-color\">Gradebook Set Up &amp; Catch Up<\/span><ul><li>8AM &#8211; 10:00AM &#8211; <strong>Teacher<\/strong> <strong>Training<\/strong> &#8211; Setting up stds based gradebooks in Syn &amp; how to score. Ways to use Canvas when we are scoring on stds in Synergy.<\/li><li>10:00AM &#8211; 12:00PM &#8211; <strong>Teacher<\/strong> <strong>Work Time<\/strong> &#8211; Gradebook Set Up and Catch Up plus optional help sessions for those who are new<\/li><li>12:00PM &#8211; LUNCH<\/li><li>12:45 &#8211; 2:15 &#8211; <strong>Team Planning Time or PD<\/strong> (TBD &amp; possibly differentiated by need here)<\/li><li>2:25 &#8211; 4:00 &#8211; <strong>Work Time<\/strong> &#8211; Gradebook Set Up and Catch Up<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">** All certified staff are required to work on these additional PD days!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">** For Student Success Team certified staff, our work on equitable and standards based grading will be applicable to you and you will have MTSS team work time on Friday as well. Details to come<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">** For classified EA&#8217;s and Kem, this Friday <strong><em>IS<\/em><\/strong> a paid work day for you as well. If you would like to take this day off, please email me and we can discuss using any banked time you may have.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Regarding Mastery Connect vs. Synergy:<\/strong> Thanks for your patience thus far! By way of an update&#8230;Tyler, Danny, Allie, Harju and I all attended a handful of trainings on the Mastery Connect standards based grading tool that is now integrated into Canvas <strong>and after some CAREFUL analysis and discussion we have decided to HOLD OFF on implementing Mastery Connect for now! <\/strong>Mastery Connect really DOES look like the right platform for standards based grading at RHS, however we felt that between the training load required of our teachers and the fact that there are still a couple of unsolved tech issues, it made sense to DELAY our implementation of this platform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-color has-background wp-block-heading\" style=\"background-color:#eff4e1;color:#0074a6\">COVID Vaccine Status Upload Reminder<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just a reminder that all staff need to upload their vaccine status or waiver form using the email that was sent to you last week from <strong>no-reply@frontlineed.com<\/strong> called: <strong>Frontline Central Reminder: Bend-La Pine School District 1 &#8211; You have a form&nbsp;<mark>Vaccination<\/mark>&nbsp;Survey to complete<\/strong>. If you never saw it, be sure to check your junk folder or clutter folder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Your submission is due NO LATER than Friday Oct 1st!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-color has-background wp-block-heading\" style=\"background-color:#eff4e1;color:#0074a6\">Calling All Clubs!!<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a small school RHS does not offer all the sports teams and extra curriculars that a big school does (<em>YET!!<\/em>), but I want to invite any of you who are interested in helping students form a club or who are interested in getting a club started to consider it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the past we&#8217;ve had a fitness club, an Art club, a Jam Band, a Green Team, and a Games club. I KNOW that many of our students are interested in more opportunities&#8230;. it came up often last year and already is coming up this year!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>$$$$<\/strong> &#8211; I would really like to support (and even incentivize) these clubs, especially those that meet after school. <strong>I have BUDGET to buy equipment and I have budget to timesheet teacher leaders for your time and efforts! If you are interested &#8211; reach out to Zach or I&#8230; the sky is the limit!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-color has-background wp-block-heading\" style=\"background-color:#eff4e1;color:#0074a6\">Guidelines For Subs and Leave<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>SUB SHORTAGE:<\/strong> There are typically 20-40 unfilled sub jobs across our District daily right now. We are in a significant sub shortage! Cert teachers who cover a class during their prep will be timesheeted at their hourly for the lost prep period. Thanks in advance. EA&#8217;s can cover the odd class or two here and there i in a pinch, but it should be our last resort&#8230; not because they aren&#8217;t awesome (they are!), but because that&#8217;s the way the District wants it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>PERSONAL LEAVE:<\/strong> <strong>By District rule, no more than 5% of building staff can take a personal day on any given day.<\/strong> With the size of our staff, that means 1.3 staff per day. On some occasions I can and will interpret this as 2, and other times, especially if we have folks out sick, it may need to be interpreted as 1! Get your personal day requests in early, especially if they are flexible. We put any approved leave on the Outlook calendar so you can see it. Jennifer can get you personal leave request forms if you need them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>LOGISTICS AND GUIDELINES FOR SUB PLANS:<\/strong> Because getting subs is tricky, we&#8217;d like to make sure the process of communicating is clear and the plans we leave for subs are high quality to the maximum extent possible! Depending on the quality of the sub and the depth of the sub plan, a sub day can range anywhere from ineffective for learning and harmful for behavior to effective for learning and, dare we say it, even culture building for kids!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/11lnCK8kW1P4gTYBkysIR3TtR99V9fVyoYXYWN4K3vF8\/edit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>RHS Sub Planning Protocols &amp; Guidelines<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-color has-background wp-block-heading\" style=\"background-color:#eff4e1;color:#0074a6\">Student Health Plans<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>ALL STAFF:<\/strong> Please review the attached list of students with health plans. In the past, Jennifer has made binders with these health plans but we have decided to skip that step for efficiency&#8230; <em>making it all the more important that you take the time to review which of your students are on this list!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/roger.white\/files\/2021\/09\/RHSHealthPlansSept2021-1.pdf\">RHSHealthPlansSept2021-1<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/roger.white\/files\/2021\/09\/RHSHealthPlansSept2021-1.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download>Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-color has-background wp-block-heading\" style=\"background-color:#eff4e1;color:#0074a6\">Bus Evacuation 90&#8217;s Party<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We have been asked to have teachers show<em><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bend.k12.or.us\/bus\/transportation-videos\">this twelve-minute (!) video<\/a> <\/strong><\/em>in our advisory classes <strong>before October 15th<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Honestly&#8230; what I watched of the video is hilarious, and I think the students will agree. Cringe-y 90&#8217;s aesthetic ABOUND. Might I suggest pairing this with a 90&#8217;s Music Kahoot and a check-in discussion (or chalk talk) about what is similar and different between youth culture from the 90&#8217;s and today?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"522\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/roger.white\/files\/2021\/09\/Screen-Shot-2021-09-28-at-11.20.59-AM-1024x522.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1343\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/roger.white\/files\/2021\/09\/Screen-Shot-2021-09-28-at-11.20.59-AM-1024x522.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/roger.white\/files\/2021\/09\/Screen-Shot-2021-09-28-at-11.20.59-AM-300x153.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/roger.white\/files\/2021\/09\/Screen-Shot-2021-09-28-at-11.20.59-AM-768x391.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/roger.white\/files\/2021\/09\/Screen-Shot-2021-09-28-at-11.20.59-AM.png 1523w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thanks for taking the time to schedule this into your grade-level Crew plans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-color has-background wp-block-heading\" style=\"background-color:#eff4e1;color:#0074a6\">TikTok &amp; Locking Classroom Doors<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you are not aware, there is a TikTok challenge going around in which kids are stealing random items from their schools. Yes&#8230; it has already happened here \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Additionally, we have seen a few kiddos hanging out and eating lunch in unsupervised classrooms. Please do your best to remember to lock your classroom door when you aren&#8217;t in there! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-color has-background wp-block-heading\" style=\"background-color:#eff4e1;color:#0074a6\">Introducing Michelle&#8217;s Instructional Guide Role!<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are very fortunate to have Michelle Hanford designated as our Instructional Guide [IG]! What this means is that she has a little time set aside in her schedule to collaborate with teachers as we all work to improve our practices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This might look like&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Teacher-initiated support requests.<\/strong> Michelle can be a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">valuable<\/span> collaborator in a number of categories, from using Learning Targets to using Classroom Protocols to EL-ifying your curriculum (regardless of content area).<\/li><li><strong>One-on-One Thought Partner Sessions with teachers new to Standards-Based Grading.<\/strong> If you are new to us, expect an invitation for one check-in from Michelle in the coming weeks. These sessions could be a single 5-minute meeting OR weekly 30 minute support sessions&#8230; or whatever works for you both.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking of which, <strong>Michelle has requested that all classroom teachers complete <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSejK5NY424P_SewvlNklzDi5fNSpGCznvesJLhI6okR-6zRzA\/viewform\">This Google Form<\/a><\/strong> to give her a better sense of how she might best support you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One final note&#8230; the work that you and Michelle do together will NOT be communicated back to Roger and Zach, and is strictly non-evaluative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thanks to Michelle for providing her incredibly valuable support, and thank you ALL for your ongoing commitment to improving your practices for the benefit of our students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Updated: 9\/29 @ 1:00 PM Grading Updates and this Week&#8217;s SIW + Friday We will be digging into Standards Based Grading during our SIW this week AND during our Friday October 1st &#8211; RHS PD Day. 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