Updates, Reminders, Department Info and Rants…
Restorative Practices Training opportunities – If you are new to our district and/or have not yet been trained in Restorative Practice, your Culture of Care Team is here to help! We are happy to announce our Restorative Practices professional development offerings for the new school year! Registration is open and links are included HERE. Space is limited so sign up soon! Please contact Amber McGill if you have any questions ([email protected]).
From Eric Powell, Student Services – We have scheduled a monthly work session for Assistant Principals and Deans focused on student management. You will want to keep this Restorative Practices and Student Management Resource Guide easily accessible as we continue to think about how we support ALL students in our schools. Here is the link for BLS Principals, VPs, and Deans to utilize to register for the training: October 5 & 26 IIRP Training Registration
From Rachel Mavis – If you are not familiar with our Office Staff webpage, please review and bookmark. This is a great Go To for information we send out to your office staff. We have a page a position with the latest and greatest communication. There is a link on the Staff Portal – BLS Office Staff. We are in the process of updating each page with training information that has been posted in Performance Matters.
All of our NEW staff trainings and our Back-To -School Meetings are scheduled in Performance Matters for August. They are structured so that the Monday staff start their contract year, we have a Synergy Navigation class scheduled at 8:00 am. The days following that same week are the Synergy classes required for their job duties.
Training is required before they are granted access to the job specific areas in Synergy. Accuracy of state reporting, and essential student information is depended on the data input your staff is tasked with.
Again from Rachel Mavis re: New Registrars – This year, we have a lot of new staff such as 7 NEW Registrars. Trainings require many hrs. For example, new registrars need at least 5 hrs of basics to start. It is imperative that your new staff attend the sessions we have scheduled. Our district has grown quite a bit, and with the demands of August, we will not be able to come out to sites to train one on one.
Back to School Workshops/Meetings are also scheduled. These are VERY important for your office staff to come together and learn about new features and new processes. These meetings are integral to each group as they share ideas, learn from each other and make connections with others in the district. Your office staff have unique positions in your buildings. By meeting others in the district who share common job duties, helps your staff throughout the year.
If you have any questions, please reach out to Deby Bryson, [email protected] or Rachel Mavis [email protected]
From Lora – We are excited to share updated start and end times for the 2022-23 school year. Thanks to our team’s great recruitment efforts and our transportation department’s work, we were able to hire more than 20 new bus drivers. This enables us to transition back to two start times, one for middle and high schools and one for elementary schools. Start and end times for 2022-23:
- Elementary: 7:45 a.m. to 2:15 p.m.
- Middle school: 8:45 a.m. to 3:45 p.m.
- Three Rivers School: 8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
- High school: 8:45 a.m. to 3:45 p.m. (Drop at 8:15-8:30)
- High School Choice Schools 9:00-3:20 (Drop at 8:50)
- HS Staff work day is 8:00-4:00
Schools will continue to release 90 minutes early on Wednesdays for professional development.
From Scott Bojanowski – This past school year, the school board of directors adopted updated language to BLS Policy GBJ-BP Weapons in Schools, making it unlawful to have firearms on school property, even for concealed carry licensed individuals.
Oregon law requires the district to post signs notifying the public of the district’s policy enforcing the law. The superintendent’s office has directed that signs be put up on our property and next to our visitor management systems notifying individuals of the policy and law. Representatives from the district custodial office will be coming by your schools over the next couple of weeks to post these signs in your schools. Please direct any questions you have regarding the posting of these signs to the safety department.
Let’s show some school spirit – Schools are being asked to watch the welcome back WebEx presentation together. There will be a competition on who can show the most school spirit on this day. Send your pics to Marta Broberg.
The Red Zone – Things to do or share
From HR – Plan to set aside one hour during inservice week for AED, glucagon, epi-pen, high heat and seizure trainings. Building admin are to coordinate with their nurses when the one hour training will occur. This will be a slide deck with a voice over, ready for you to share with staff.
Office Hours – To accommodate our working parents, please work with your office staff to offer at late office hours at least once a week. This will really help those families that need to drop registration information off or complete a registration packet in person. Please advertise this time on your website and post it on your front entrance.
PE Information – as promised here is the link from Jenny White re: PE information. Within the presentation is a link to the spreadsheet of activities. As a reminder, if you have activities please email them to Jenny so they can be added to the list. If you have any questions on this requirement please reach out to me or to Tammy.
From the Teaching and Learning Team – Please encourage your teachers to join us for the Innovative Teaching and Learning Conference on August 24th and 25th at Pacific Crest Middle School. Check out the Innovative Flyer to find out about the keynote speakers and the amazing educators who will be sharing their practice with us. All administrators are required to attend both keynote sessions AND the leadership session with Bettina Love on August 25.
- STEM Camp available at Miller Elementary for school-aged children
- One OSU Fall Credit will be available
- Sign up to attend via Performance Matters
- Lunch will be provided
Staff meeting expectations – We have been asked that schools have a regularly scheduled time set aside for staff meetings each week. Tammy and I will talk to you more about this when we meet with you. If you need more information on this expectation sooner rather than later just call.
Calendar
- Monthly checklist
- Here is the beginning of the year certified work schedule for 22-23
- 2022-23 PD Calendar – Here is the Professional Development calendar for 22-23 to help you track the required trainings. August 1 – Summer School begins
- August 15–Title 1 Retreat–Principals, Office Managers and teachers @ Open Space Event Studio from 12:30-3:30. Lunch included.
- August 15 and 16 – Reunification Training all day @ Caldera: Safety Admin Reps required from some schools – we already emailed those who are impacted.
- August 17: Safety Day – mandatory that the administrator in charge of safety attends. Each school is asked to identify one administrator who will oversee safety at your school. The Safety Administrator will also lead the school safety team in a monthly meeting AND attend safety PD as a building rep.
- August 17 and 18 – Taking it Up Training – optional – registration required
- August 24 and 25 – Innovation Conference @ PCMS – Administrators required to attend keynote both days–you are welcome to attend other sessions as well
- August 29 – new teacher day
- August 29 – Sept 2 – Pre-service week. Here is the plan for the August pre-service week.
- September 7, 8 and 9 – First Week of School
And Finally (a little inspiration) …
This final part of the Weekly Update will take up a few minutes of your time but I promise it’s worth it. BELIEVE!