To Do
Principals: Update your staffing plans.
From Departments
From TLC:
From Scott Maben, Communications
Update on ParentSquare rollout and training plan
On Wednesday of this week, we trained office managers on use of ParentSquare. Our family liaison team also attended this training. We learned more about how schools currently use School Messenger, including to message secondary students. This is helpful as we prepare for School Messenger to end on June 30 and we transition to use of ParentSquare as our primary family messaging and engagement tool.
Next week we will invite all district staff to activate their ParentSquare accounts. We are not ready for you (outside of our 5 South County pilot schools) to begin using ParentSquare to communicate with your families, but you will see some content we plan to share from the District level now through summer. Schools may begin using ParentSquare in August, and teachers will be able to use it once trained in early September.
Bringing families into the ParentSquare fold will take time, and we’d like to begin around the end of the school year. Parents will receive an invite to verify their accounts, set preferences, and download the ParentSquare app. We will schedule reminders to those who don’t respond to the initial invite. It’s important to know that even if a parent never responds to these invites, they will still receive our ParentSquare communications — as emails — but they won’t benefit from the full features of ParentSquare, such as setting their message preferences or using the handy mobile app.
We’re looking at dates when we can offer school administrators basic training on using ParentSquare and will communicate those details soon.
Our training opportunity for all teachers and any other staff who need to be ready to communicate with families will be the second day of in-service week:
PARENTSQUARE BASIC TRAINING
- Tuesday, Sept. 1, 10-11 a.m.
- Teams meeting (link to be shared later) with a trainer from ParentSquare
- Note that this will begin shortly after the Superintendent’s Welcome Back program at 8:30 a.m. You may want your team to remain together in the same space.
On Wednesday, Sept. 2, we will provide follow-up ParentSquare support opportunities at the District-led PD (elementary at Caldera, secondary at Pacific Crest).
After school starts, we would like to visit every school for drop-in sessions for staff who’d like to ask questions or get help using ParentSquare.
Please reach out if you have questions on any of this. Thanks!
From Rodger Moore, Director of Facility Operations
To help schools manage classroom relocations smoothly and minimize disruption to instruction, the district is developing a standardized process for both same-school and inter-school moves. The procedure is intended to outline clear responsibilities for administrators, teachers, custodial teams, maintenance, and IT staff to help ensure moves are coordinated efficiently. The district is currently testing our work order platform Hero HQ for submitting move requests and coordinating details such as scheduling, technology needs, furniture, and specialty equipment. Additional procedures, expectations, and implementation guidance will be communicated in an upcoming Level Leaders’ Blog once the workflow and support processes are finalized.
Large-scale moves, such as the Realms transition, will be exempt from this process.
From Gabe:
The weekly SMORE is light.
From Sara in Student Services:
Please read this week’s Special EDge to get more information about:
- Review End of Year Check-out Process
- Complete High Cost
- Paperwork Deadline – June 5!
- ESY Case Managers – Reach out to Sara Young with new students who qualify and continue to reach out to families you haven’t heard from
- Utilize the Student Services Launchpad
- Save the Date for upcoming events
MS Only
Ed Tech Training
Be on the look out for communication from the Ed Tech team about in-service training on tech tools including Jamf. Please coordinate a time for your staff in the fall.
Calendar
June 4: Graduation week begins!
June 11: Last day of school!
June 15: School Design Plan Showcase 9:00 – 11:00 p.m. @ CHS
June 15: End of Year Administrator Celebration (and lunch!) @ HDMS 11:30-1:00
June 16: HS Administrator Retreat 8-4 TBD
June 16: MS Horizontal on MAPS – 8:30 – 10:13 @ Ed Center
June 19: Juneteenth Holiday!
June 22: MS Principal Retreat – 9-1 @ Deschutes Central Library
Who in the world?
Congratulations to an Curfew who won the drawing this week!
He correctly identified the image as Dr. Karen Mapp, who led an outstanding session on family engagement last Thursday!
Dr. Mapp, a Senior Lecturer on Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, is a leading family and community engagement expert whose research and practice focus on cultivating partnerships among schools, families, and communities for enhancing student achievement and school performance.
Below is the image for this week. Send us your guess for this location by Monday, win the drawing, and Stephen or Katie will bring you your school appropriate beverage of choice:
