To Do:
YouthTruth Data processing and sharing needs to be completed by April 30.
This look like:
*Process with all staff (including classified team members!): Develop a plan to review YouthTruth data that informs improvement planning during an BD SIW or a staff meeting
*Process with students: Review top two highest and lowest areas and collect/process feedback from students for improvement planning!
*Share with families: Share top two highest and lowest areas in communications with your families (digital newsletter?). Bonus points for collecting feedback for improvement planning!
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From TLC:
AR UPDATES: Informational Meetings for Rollout of New Policies for MS and HS counselors and administrators
Please take a look at the updated Grading and Credit AR that was approved last month.
This update includes several important changes that will directly affect our work with students, specifically regarding:
- High School Credit for Middle School Students
- Procedures for Dropping a Class
- Awarding Credit for Courses Taken More Than Once
- Extended Parameters for Weighted Grades
- Driver’s Ed Credit
- Courses from Non-District High Schools or Post-Secondary Institutions
Katie Legace, Jess Calbreath, and Jennifer will be hosting two separate virtual office hours to discuss these changes and how we will implement them. It is expected that every counselor and the administrator overseeing counseling attends at least one of these sessions.
Tuesday March 18: 8:10-9:00 am or,
Friday March 21: 8:10-9:00 am
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From Departments
From Scott and Kayla
Campus Monitors are required to attend two days of training on Tuesday, April 22 & Wednesday, April 23. The training is focused on Department of Public Safety Standards and Training Unarmed Security Professional Certification. Be sure your CM’s are freed up to attend this training.
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From Kinsey – Policy, Advocacy, and Office of DEI:
Congratulations:
Be sure to celebrate the folks in your building who won our recent community engagement contest opportunities, and include kudos to all your staff who participated! Winners, participants, photos of submissions, and more are here.
Complaints:
Before spring break: Please go into your Dashboard and ensure you have followed up on all complaints or bias incidents logged there. You should ensure there is documentation on your findings and follow-up actions/communications.
Please always circle back with the reporting individual to let them know you received and handled their submission, and to share whatever outcomes you can (respecting confidentiality, of course). This last step continues to be a frustration of students, feeling like they’re not hearing ‘anything’ from their school on incidents or complaints they report. Whether that’s true or not, it never hurts to double-check that we’re closing communication loops!
Budgets:
As you prepare your budget for next year, be sure to include dollars to purchase all school supplies required by your teachers, as well as dollars to cover the fines/fees being assessed to any McKinney-Vento-qualifying student (see policy here—this will be a very minor impact on your budget, but is significant to our families experiencing houselessness).
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From Superintendent’s Office
Calendar
- March 18: HS AP Requests DUE on this sheet – HS ONLY!
- March 18 OR March 21: 8:10-9:00 am Virtual Meeting – Update on Grades and Credit AR Every counselor AND the MS/HS administrator overseeing counselors attends one session
- March 21: Certified and Support Staff Excellence in Education nominations due
- March 21: EVE Survey completion DUE
- March 21: BLSO closes enrollment for all students on a semester schedule.
- March 24-28: Spring Break
- April 4: BLSO closes enrollment for all students on a trimester schedule. (Exceptions can be made for graduating seniors.)
- April 8: MS and HS work session 8:00-10:00 @HDMS
- April 9: All Administrator Professional Development 3:00-4:30 @ BSHS Perseverance Hall
- April 11: This is the last day for semester based students to drop a class and earn a W. Any class kept open after April 11th will earn a letter grade which includes a Fail. (9 weeks from the start of the semester.)
- April 14: Personal Finance Training (required for HS teachers teaching the course) @Ed Center, Room 203 8-4.
- April 22: HS Administrator work session
- April 22 and 23: All day training for Campus Monitors – mandatory
- April 30: Deadline to share/process YouthTruth Data with staff, students and families
Where in the World
In this week’s Where in the World, we are highlighting Dave VanLoo, Director of School Improvement. Dave shares, “my family and adventure bring me joy. In this picture we are exploring a remote slot canyon in Escalante, Utah.” Stunning image!
