From Julie re: Regional Dyslexia Conference – Please share this information with your staff
Summer Enrichment Fliers – you may have received a collection of Summer Enrichment fliers from OSU Cascades asking you to give them to kids. Please do not distribute. They are not from OSU Cascades. Deposit them in your recycling or nearest burn barrel.
UKG Updates
Staff Assignment Report – UKG – As you start to build your staffing plans for the next school year, you will now have access to a new tab on your UKG dashboard labeled “Staffing” that will display employees at your building, their assignment(s), FTE, and employee status. This report is only reflective of an employee’s assignment as it currently stands and does not indicate those who have resigned for the next school year. HR will be continuously updating this report to reflect any movement/changes to your employees over the next few months.
This information should be crossed-referenced with your staffing spreadsheet for accuracy purposes. If you find a discrepancy or have any questions regarding an employee, please reach to Human Resources before taking any further action.
Workflow Delegation – When you take time off, your administrator tasks, such as employee request approvals, can be delegated to ensure a continuous workflow. The Workflow Delegation feature enables administrators to assign tasks to other employees during that time. Based on security permissions, administrators can delegate tasks to other employees and allow delegated employees to view and approve workflow actions.
Instructions to Add a Workflow Delegation (Menu > My Info > My HR > Delegations)
- From the Delegations page, select Add New. The Workflow Delegation window appears.
- At the Delegate To field, select the Browse icon.
- Select the employee(s) to delegate, then select Apply.
- From the Workflow Type drop-down list, select the applicable workflow or all workflows.
- At the Date From and Date To fields, select the dates that the assigned user completes the delegated tasks.
- Select Save.
Staffing Plans – FYI – we are hoping to have staffing plans out to everyone Monday.
Kindergarten Early Entrance – the School Board recently voted to accept changes to our early entrance policy. The changes are outlined here. Please the time to read over this policy for all the details. The biggest change is that we will not consider entrance to kindergarten for students turning five after September 1st.
The Red Zone – Things to definitely read, do or share
Kindergarten Orientation – First, please review the Kindergarten Orientation Expectations and send us any questions or suggestions you have on these expectations. Second, tell us when you will be having your kindergarten orientation event. Thanks!
From Scott McDonald -Please encourage your staff involved with Master Scheduling to attend our upcoming “Scheduling Boot Camp”. Especially
If there are members of your scheduling team who are new to the process, or perhaps they need a refresher.
For any questions, please reach out to Rachel Mavis.
From Kerry Morton – A Math Curriculum Review Team member will be reaching out to you soon, if they haven’t already, to schedule a time to present and gather feedback from your staff on the core beliefs. Please plan to schedule 20-30 minutes which will include time to read the core beliefs and provide feedback. This needs to be completed by May 5th.
Additionally, please put this note in your communication with families as soon as possible: “Bend-La Pine Schools is reviewing the Mathematics curriculum for K-5 classrooms. The committee of 24 elementary educators has met regularly this year to review standards, systems, and instructional practices. To guide this work, the committee developed Elementary Mathematics Core Beliefs. Families are invited to review the core beliefs and provide feedback by May 5. Read the draft core beliefs here and share your thoughts here.”
From Ryan Kelling – We are very excited for the 2023 Educator Job Fair, which will be held at Eagle Crest on Thursday, March 23 from 1:00 – 6:00. We are offering a remote component this year in an attempt to attract a wider range of candidates. There is a spot on the sign-up sheet to indicate if you are interested in meeting with candidates via WebEx. Tammie Parker or I will follow up as the event gets closer to those who indicated that they are interested in helping our efforts to reach a wider range of candidates by participating in the remote interviews.
Here is the sign-up sheet. Please sign up by Friday – March 17th
Some nuts and bolts for the day:
- We have two shifts this year, 12:00 – 3:30 and 2:30 – 6:00
- Lunch will be provided at 12:00 for the first shift and 2:30 for the second shift
- Interviews will be 15 minutes long
- Questions and rating forms and rubrics will be provided
- The first interviews will be scheduled at 1:00, the final interviews will be scheduled at 5:50
- Please bring a fully-charged laptop
- NO OUTSIDE FOOD OR DRINK PERMITTED (apologize for the ALL CAPS, but Eagle Crest has been very insistent that we emphasize this. Water stations will be set up at the event)
Please, let me know what questions you have and thank you in advance for participating.
Calendar
- March 21, 22, 23 – Skip out for tech conference with tech team
- March 23–Central Oregon Educator job fair—new venue—Eaglecrest
- March 27-31–Spring Break!
- April 17 – transfer interviews – see info above
And Finally…
Looking to keep the Irish theme going all weekend? Check out the Derry Girls on Netflix.