Updates, Reminders, and Department Info…
From Jackie Mueller re: May walk and bike challenge – The May 11th event can be shared with teachers and parents. Parents can log trips and teachers should help gather data for the district about the # of students walking, biking, busing and carpooling. There is a Google form and any hand talleys. Any other data or posters can be sent to Jackie Wilson, Sustainability, Admin
- May 8 – 19 is the walk and bike challenge. If your school has some active commuters via walking or biking, this is a great way to get involved and eventually get rewards. Please share with staff so we can the carbon offsets through the month of May.
- Go to Get There Oregon
- Sign up – use your school email
- Check email and confirm account
- For the find and join a network, look for your school under Bend-La Pine – YOUR SCHOOL
- Start to log trips commuting via carpool, walking or biking
- The district will review the schools with the most trips logged in May in the hopes of getting you involved in a reward program like Caldera’s.
- Here are BLS current statistics for this school year to date:
- BLS is celebrating the May Walk + Roll Challenge on May 11th 2023, with support from Commute Options. K-8 BLS Students are encouraged to Walk or Roll to School (Park n’ Walks and Remote drop off locations are an excellent option for families that live outside of the walk zone), form walk to school groups together, and log their trip to win prizes. Participating students from the top 2 schools (highest amount of trips logged) will be entered into the raffle to win new Kick Scooters. Their trip can be logged at commuteoptions.org/walkroll. Additional details can be found here.
From Dave VanLoo – Oregon SEED Survey Information – Here is a brief update on Oregon’s Student Educational Equity Development (SEED) survey. As in previous years, SEED remains optional for 3rd-12th grade students, it takes about 15 minutes, and is delivered through the OSAS secure testing browser with the same menu of accessibility supports. SEED contains four domains: (1) Access to Learning Resources, (2) Opportunity to Learn, (3) Self-Efficacy Beliefs, and (4) Sense of Belonging. Two of these domains are content specific; that is, items measuring Opportunity to Learn and Self-Efficacy Beliefs are written to align with key academic expectations. Content areas are sampled by grade as follows:
- Reading/Language Arts Grades 3, 6, and 9
- Mathematics Grades 4, 7, and 10
- Science Grades 5, 8, and 11
- Native American Culture/History (OTL only) Grades 4-11
Additional information to help you determine whether your school (or even specific grade levels) might participate, including all survey questions, is available here https://www.oregon.gov/ode/educator-resources/assessment/Pages/Student_Educational_Equity_Development_Survey.aspx
Contact Dave VanLoo or Stephanie Bent with any questions.
UKG Project Update
From Paul Dean – Please reference UKG Job Requisition, Interview Prep, Applicant Screening and Hiring Tips as we enter into peak hiring season. We’ll share the recording of the WebEx from Wednesday next week but it was primarily an overview of the linked document.
The Red Zone – Things to definitely read, do, share, or put on your calendar
From Lora to Principals and LLC Members – This is a follow up to my announcement yesterday about an additional principals’ meeting this spring on Monday, May 22, in the boardroom:
- 3:00-3:30 is OPTIONAL. Dave is going to share a strategy for schools interested in focusing more directly on instructional practices in their school design work next year. The goal is to get feedback and learn what resources schools may need if they want to participate.
- 3:30-4:00 (ish) is mandatory. Steve will share additional information about budget and possible impacts on schools.
From Instructional Tech re: 5th Grade Step Up to Middle School – Please encourage your 5th grade teachers to take advantage of the Step Up to Middle School Canvas course for their students. Our instructional technology team will come to your school to get teachers ready to run this partially self-directed Canvas class with their students. Please check in with your 5th grade team and encourage them to sign-up for a 20 minute check-in if they haven’t already using this link.
From Jessica @ Juniper re: TAG – Here is the Juniper TAG Night Flyer. Please send this out to your newly identified TAG families so they can attend this informational night.
From Tami Pike – DON’T FORGET YOUR SCHOOL NURSE ON NATIONAL SCHOOL NURSE DAY!!
Calendar
- May 9 – CEL Cohort 1, Embedded Session at Pine Ridge 8:15-2:00
- May 10 – CEL Cohort 2, Embedded Session at Elk Meadow 8:15-2:00
- May 10 – National School Nurse Day
- May 11, 12 – Skip is out
- May 16 – Horizontal Meeting–3:00-4:30 Silver Rail
- May 29 – Memorial Day, no school
And Finally…
Being a principal is hard enough without having to deal with this. 🐻