Updates, Reminders, Info and Rants…
Next Round of Visits – be on the lookout for a separate email re: our next round of visits. Basically we will be following the same format from our last round that had us visit 3-4 classrooms with a focus on particular instructional practice.
BRYT Fidelity Indicators: We know you are all working hard to get BRYT up and running in each of your buildings, but do you often wonder where you are at in your implementation or how you are doing? Here is an important one-page implementation document with 7 different fidelity markers of what you need to have in place during this school year. Please know that to have a BRYT program in full implementation and running smoothly, will take several years, like 3-5 (yes, we said years, not weeks or months). This one page document has broken down what year one implementation will look like. This would be a good document to review with your Student Success Team and to do a quick check in of where you are at. Are you on track? Do you need to make plans to address any of the items? Do you need help? Don’t hesitate to reach out to your Behavior Coach, Jennifer Hauth, Tammy or Skip.
Evaluating Student Success Coaches/Instructors and EAs This is just an FYI to let you know that school site Administrators are responsible for the evaluation/observations of these staff at your schools. Please make sure that these staff know who at your site is responsible for their evaluation. In addition, these positions are falling under the state guidelines of TOSAs and they will NOT have to develop SLGGs.
Also, we are currently developing a rubric for evaluation of Student Success Coordinators and Student Success Instructors. It will likely be selected areas from 2 domains. We will gather input from some SSCs/SSIs, admin, and BEA in the process. Stay tuned for more information.
Department News…
From Human Resources – Over the past 12 months, HR has welcomed several new confidential staff members, supervisors and directors. To provide better service, we’ve also shifted some roles/responsibilities within our department. To assist you and your staff in knowing how to best direct your HR questions, we’ve created HR email groups so that you no longer need to remember the individual(s) responsible for a specific task and can easily connect with the most appropriate HR department.
In your email “To” cell, if you begin to type “hr-” and select the search directory, then you’ll see the list of possible HR email groups. We’ve created a HR reference google doc to capture the new email groups, the tasks/responsibilities within each department, staff members’ names and their phone extensions. If you ‘Star’ it within google drive or bookmark the page, you’ll have it for easy reference. This is a live document, and we’ll update it regularly.
HR Holiday Services – With the upcoming holiday seasons on their way, we wanted to communicate that there will be limited HR services during Thanksgiving and Winter Break. For new hires, Thursday, November 18th & Thursday, December 16th will be the last day to offer positions before each respective break. Steve H (503-539-1044) will the emergency HR contact over Thanksgiving and Paul (541-350-3168) will be the emergency contact over Winter Break.
Things In Red to Share or Do…
Masking Communication and some friendly reminders – Recently HR sent out an email to all employees reminding them of enforcement of face covering and illness reporting standards. Please re-read this email and become very familiar with its content. Also, please do a fidelity check of classroom practices regarding masks and distancing of kids – especially when gathering kids on the rug during instruction. During our visits this has been something we’ve noticed.
School Design Work – Reminder, that we moved up our Design Plan Critical Friends feedback day to Wednesday, December 15, from 1:30-3:30. You will want to have your Design Plan draft done by then and be ready to share your draft with a team that day. The middle and high schools have already done this. We know you have been working on the plans, so go ahead and put your on-going draft work in the plans as you go. Here is the link to the design plan folder with your school plan if you forget where it is.
Calendar
- SIW schedule
- Horizontal Meeting Schedule
- Tammy and Skip visitation schedule
- Monthly checklist
- November 12 – potential sub shortage – review your personal leave limits
- November 17 – admin training day 1:30 – 3 @ Ensworth and elementary admin happy hour 3:30 – 5. More info to come.
- November 18, 19 – Skip is out
- November 19 – College and Career Day
- November 22-26–Thanksgiving Break, No school
- December 13 – Horizontal meeting – location TBD
- December 15 – Horizontal leadership – Critical Friends protocol for Design plans with Lora – 1:30 – 3:30, location TBD
- January 1st – SLGG’s due
And Finally…
For all of you who may be a Veteran, who are married to a Veteran or have a relative who is a Veteran… Thank you for your service and for the sacrifices you made for our country.
