To Do
Staffing allocations and templates have been shared with principals. We will review plans with principals the week of April 21.
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Reminder: Please share student, staff, and parent Youth Truth data with your stakeholders by April 30th.
From Departments
From Lisa in the Superintendent’s Office:
This year we have done a lot of work on policy and implementation discussion related to AI use in BLPS. This training is MANDATORY for all school admin and you may choose between 4 options (5/20, 6/10, 6/17). Please refer to the document below to sign up for a time. They are listed in Yellow.
As a reminder, Optional PD opportunities are available for all. As always, if you have an interest in a specific topic, please feel free to let me know so we can work on standing up some trainings. Have a great day. -L
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From Jennifer in Student Services:
Save the Date: Culture of Care Summer Institute is August 11th-15th. Location is TBD.
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From Paul in Operations:
Operations News
Please click on this Important Update On Fundraising for Capital Improvement Projects
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From Dean in TLC (also emailed):
It has long been the district’s goal to have curriculum ready for teachers on the first day of their contract in August. Each year we do our best to improve our process that will allow us to meet that goal, or at least move us closer. This year we continue to need your support. In order to move toward a more automated process for ordering instructional tools and materials specific to the courses certified staff will teach, each school will need to create an abridged option set in Synergy shortly after finalizing section allocation.
We are not requesting a full option set. Instead, we are asking you to create an option set that only contains one section per prep (for our purposes, a prep is the combination of a teacher and a course – for example, Jane Smith/Modern World History). You will not need to enter meeting days or rooms for these sections, and you will not need to enter both semesters of a yearlong course. All sections can go into period 1. Grade levels and credit do not matter. We simply need one section of a course in the option set for each person who will teach it. Please name this option set ‘Curriculum Option Set’ so that it is easily identifiable.
Last year, Mountain View did a test build of this curriculum option set based on 2023-24 section allocation, with the addition of newly approved and forecasted 2024-25 courses. At one section per teacher prep, i.e., one section of each course each person would teach, the process took just under two hours including double-checking for accuracy. Attached are brief instructions for creating the curriculum option set as quickly and easily as possible.
Building administrators have received their staff allocations. We are asking you to have your curriculum option set built by Friday, May 2. This should allow just over two weeks for building the curriculum option set. We are not asking for this option set to be 100% up to date all of the time. Even if some preps change in your final option set, the curriculum option set will be accurate enough to allow us to start ordering curriculum in May.
We realize this is an additional task at a time of year that can already feel overwhelming. Our hope is that this proves to be a fairly simple process for you. Our efforts now will better allow our secondary teachers to begin the school year as smoothly as possible, and for that we are grateful.
Please reach out to Kindra or myself if you have any questions.
High School Only
From Jennifer in Student Services
With the academic year drawing to a close, we wanted to take a moment to share some essential reminders and updates regarding our school counseling program expectations. It’s important that these points are communicated and completed by our students.
Calendar
- April 22: HS Administrator work session 8:00-10:00 @ Realms HS
- April 23: END for all teachers
- April 22 and 23: All day training for Campus Monitors – mandatory
- April 24: MS Horizontal 3:00 – 5:00 @ Sky View
- April 30: Deadline to share/process YouthTruth Data with staff, students and families
- May 1: HS only: HSS $ must be spent!
- May 7: District Safety Cadre Training @ 1:30 – mandatory for all safety admin leads
- May 20: HS Principal work session 8:00-10:00 @ BSHS Perseverance Hall
- May 31: HS only: Deadline by which Distracted Driving assembly or advisory lesson is completed.
- June 10: HS Principal work session 8:00-10:00 @ TBD
- May 20, June 10 and June 17: Mandatory AI training. Sign up for one session! Mandatory AI Training
Where in the World
No Where in the World this week as Word Press has a bug where it isn’t allowing pictures right now. We’ll be back next week!