Principals, please submit yourCalendar of non-contract days to Stephen or Katie TODAY (or when you first read this). Assistant principals and deans will submit one to their building leader. All admin will also start completing time cards for your leave (these are due by Sunday). There is information about the timesheet on the Staff Portal in the Payroll page.
First Aid Reports from Stephanie Bent. Please check this document to see if you need staff trained in First Aid. Schools listed in red are required to train more staff.
Green Team Admin (From HR): We need each site to identify an administrator point person for Green Team related matters. Please fill out your admin in the MS lead or HS lead spreadsheets under the Green Team tab.
From Departments
From Lisa Keown (CTE TOSA):
The annual CTE Fly-Up Day is just around the corner on March 3rd! This exciting event gives 8th-grade students a firsthand look at high school Career and Technical Education (CTE) programs and electives through ~20-minute rotations featuring fun hands-on activities. The format will be the same as in years past, with students bussed to their area high schools, arriving between 9:45–10:00 and leaving at 12:00. It’s a great opportunity for students to explore technical skills, creative pursuits, and other options to spark their curiosity and excitement as they plan for their high school experience.
Event Details
Date: March, 3rd, 2025
Time: 9:45/10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Location: The high school 8th graders will attend next year.
Just a reminder that FAN does not coordinate Christmas/holiday gift needs for families. This has been the case for over 10 years. FAN resources are maxed out prioritizing basic needs (utilities/heat, rent, clothing, hygiene supplies, food, etc). There are many community-based organizations that do support religious or holiday-based requests like Christmas gifts, such as Salvation Army, Giving Plate, etc. Here, here, and here are a few sample resources.
What is the ask of you and your staff:
If you have a family seeking support with Christmas gifts or holiday resources: Please refer them to those community-based agencies, not your FAN Advocate.
If you have individuals wanting to donate holiday gifts and toys to families in need: Please refer them to those organizations, who are collecting and distributing toys and holiday donations.
If your students/staff want to be directly involved in supporting FAN’s work: Organize a “Winter Weather Drive” to gather desperately-needed winter clothes for our students and families in need, not just for those who celebrate Christmas. Thank you!
From Lisa, the Deputy Superintendent. We look forward to seeing everyone at Perseverance Hall on Wednesday (12/11) from 3-4:30. During our time, we will be dropping into little snippets of the book, Thriving Leaders, while also eating and being merry. Please don your best/worst ugly/creative sweater too. Yes, it’s a competition- prizes await.
You do not need to bring your book this time, but please:
Wear your sweater to the meeting
Think about an object that represents your leadership journey (before the meeting)
Think about all of the teams/groups you supervise and their differing needs (before the meeting)
Middle School only
Please share this linked message with your staff regarding our middle school schedule work. Note: there is one piece of info highlighted in yellow you need to edit.
Calendar
12/10: High School Horizontal – 8:00 – Mountain View
12/11: Administrator Professional Development – 3:00 – Bend High (Wear a sweater!)
12/19: Middle School Horizontal – 3:00 – Cascade
Where in the World
Thank you for all the entries! Keep ’em coming.
This week we are highlighting Monica Hanson’s happy place! Monica wrote: My happy place is Sand Harbor Beach in North Lake Tahoe. It is so beautiful and my family would go up there every summer. It’s where I feel most at peace and truly euphoric.
We need your assistance in ensuring that all staff members have completed their required SafeSchools training, which was due on October 31. Please take a moment to review your roster to identify any employees who have not yet fulfilled this requirement.
These trainings are a vital part of our commitment to employee awareness and understanding of expectations across sensitive subject areas. Your follow-up plays a crucial role in reinforcing this awareness.
If you need help accessing or reviewing your rosters, please reach out to HR-Tech for support.
For any other questions or concerns, feel free to email me directly.
Thank you for your prompt attention to this important matter.
Notification sent to families by December 6 (repeat):
From Dave:
OSAS Testing Annual Notices and Opt-Out Forms
The Bend-La Pine website has been updated with the 2024-25 fillable PDF annual notice and opt-out forms that we are required to share with families. There are separate notices and opt-out forms for ELA/Math testing (grades 3-8 & 11) and the SEED survey (grades 3-11). Please share these resources through your commonly used channels (e.g., School newsletters, parent emails) and have copies available for parents to pick up in the office by the applicable dates listed below.
Consistent with the requirements of ORS 329.479, ODE has developed an annual notice (available through ODE’s Test Administration webpage) that describes these assessments, identifies the timeframe when the assessment will most likely be administered, and identifies an adult student’s or parent’s right to excuse the student from testing. Districts and public charter schools must provide parents with the ODE-developed annual notice at the beginning of each school year. In addition, districts and public charter schools must provide parents with separate notice at least 30 days prior to administering the statewide summative assessments in Math and ELA using the ODE-provided 30-day notice and opt-out form (also available through ODE’s Test Administration webpage), or a district-created form that exactly reproduces the language of the ODE-provided form. School districts and public charter schools must use the language of the 30-day notice and opt-out form provided by ODE to communicate with all parents about state testing requirements and their right to opt out for high school students by January 5, 2025, and for students in Grades 3-8 by March 2, 2025.
From Departments
From Paul in Operations:
School Building/Site Modification Proposals Form
Administrators are to follow the steps on this form if someone on your staff is considering a project that impacts your school facilities by altering/modifying an existing building or by adding a new structure to your site. Reach out to your Level Leader and COO if you have any questions.
Inclement Weather Department Information
The following departments want to remind administrators about snow day tasks:
Transportation: Snow Routes can be accessed at this link
Custodial:
Snow maps exist at each site with the custodian/principal. Those snow maps contains the three priorities:
Front entrance
Bus loop
Back entrance
Ice melt is applied on asphalt ONLY
Basalt (good traction and does not damage the concrete) is applied and kept on the sidewalk throughout the winter season to retain traction and is intentionally not cleared off
Custodians report to work regardless of school closure decision
From Kinsey – Policy, Advocacy, and Office of DEI:
Immigration/Undocumented community members:
If you receive inquiries about our practices related to immigration enforcement or undocumented individuals, here is the English version of our FAQ document (Spanish and Chinese versions available as well). This is intended to be an FYI/talking points for you. You are welcome to share this document with staff for the same purpose, and/or make copies available for students or families who ask.
I have received questions about what a school should do if someone (ex: an immigration official) approaches the office asking for student, staff, or family information related to immigration status. First of all, this is extremely unlikely to occur. If this happens, please contact me immediately before providing or confirming any information. You can say, “I need to confirm district policy and procedure for this request before I am approved to share any information.”
Thank you for sharing this with your office team, so they feel informed on the response required in this very unlikely scenario.
Calendar
November 25-29: Thanksgiving Break
December 3rd: Admin/ICCL Training 4:15 – Location TBD
Where in the World
Didn’t have a submission this week again. If you haven’t submitted a picture yet, please do! Instead, here is a picture of a visitor I had this morning. We live in a pretty cool place.
Please send the following communication out regarding parent contacting staff in your next parent communication.
Emailing Your Student’s Teachers
Dear Families,
We know how important communication is for supporting your student’s success. We encourage you to reach out to your student’s teachers anytime you have questions, need updates, or want to share information. For a quick and easy way to contact your student’s teachers, follow these steps in ParentVUE:
Log in to ParentVUE.
Click on the “Class Schedule” button within your student’s account.
Look to the right side of the screen, where you’ll see your student’s teachers listed in blue.
Click on a teacher’s name, and an email form will open, allowing you to initiate a direct message to that teacher.
This tool makes it easy to stay connected, and our teachers are here to support you. Whether you have questions, feedback, or just want to touch base, please don’t hesitate to reach out.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Watch the webinar by January 5:
From Dave:
YouthTruth Survey
This year we will be giving the YouthTruth survey to staff, families, and secondary students. The survey window is January 6 – January 31. Please find a few minutes to watch this short kick off webinar (you can watch it on 1.25 or 1.5 speed).
Elissa, our YouthTruth representative will be emailing school on Monday, November 18 with instruction for accessing the Survey Implementation Guide. I will follow up with additional information and resources as we get closer to the survey window. Thank you.
The Bend-La Pine website has been updated with the 2024-25 fillable PDF annual notice and opt-out forms that we are required to share with families. There are separate notices and opt-out forms for ELA/Math testing (grades 3-8 & 11) and the SEED survey (grades 3-11). Please share these resources through your commonly used channels (e.g., School newsletters, parent emails) and have copies available for parents to pick up in the office by the applicable dates listed below.
Consistent with the requirements of ORS 329.479, ODE has developed an annual notice (available through ODE’s Test Administration webpage) that describes these assessments, identifies the timeframe when the assessment will most likely be administered, and identifies an adult student’s or parent’s right to excuse the student from testing. Districts and public charter schools must provide parents with the ODE-developed annual notice at the beginning of each school year. In addition, districts and public charter schools must provide parents with separate notice at least 30 days prior to administering the statewide summative assessments in Math and ELA using the ODE-provided 30-day notice and opt-out form (also available through ODE’s Test Administration webpage), or a district-created form that exactly reproduces the language of the ODE-provided form. School districts and public charter schools must use the language of the 30-day notice and opt-out form provided by ODE to communicate with all parents about state testing requirements and their right to opt out for high school students by January 5, 2025, and for students in Grades 3-8 by March 2, 2025.
Notification sent to families at least 5 days prior to administering the SEED survey:
From Dave:
ODE SEED Survey
Oregon law (House Bill 2656) requires each school district to make the SEED Survey available to students in grades 3-11. Parents or guardians may decline, either verbally or in writing, to have their student participate in the SEED Survey. Schools will provide parents with notice of administration and the process for declining participation at least 5 days prior to administering the SEED Survey. Students may also decline, at any time, either verbally or in writing to participate. Students may also decline to answer individual questions on the SEED survey.
From Departments
From Scott in IT
Synergy Mail Issue and Resolution
The latest update to our student information system included a change in Synergy Mail, which removed the ability for recipients (families) to reply directly to the sender (teacher). This change was intentional by the vendor but was not communicated to any IT teams or any of their 6,500 school customers nationwide. As a result, we were delayed in communicating the issue and providing a solution.
As of today, November 14th, our BLS IT team has implemented an in-house fix that restores the direct reply functionality for recipients of messages sent via Synergy Mail. We understand that this issue may have disrupted important communication between teachers and families. Please let me know if there is anything my team or I can do to support you in reestablishing communication.
When does a student’s comment to a peer or text on a t-shirt invoke our policies around sexual harassment, bias, bullying or intimidation, and when is it something permissible or protected? What if a student is using a hand gesture that is known to be a communication of hate or oppression? How do you balance intent vs impact, political speech, and a culture of dignity and belonging focused on learning? If you have a tricky situation, need some policy guidance, or just want a thought partner, please reach out! If you’d be interested in a collaborative conversation with other building administrators on how to navigate these incidents right now, please email me so I can gauge interest and need.
As a reminder, please respond promptly to any complaints or bias incidents reported, including circling back with the reporter at the conclusion of your response. This is a powerful way to show your commitment to the wellbeing and dignity of each member of your school community.
Latino Family Night:
Please drop by our 7th annual district-wide Latino Family Night if you are able (invitation here–feel free to share). The Woodburn High School mariachi band will perform (pictured here), and there will be dinner, partners, games, and fun!
It’s that time of year again. November 21st is College and Career Day in Bend-La Pine Schools. As with last year, we are looking to draw attention to the multitude of pathways available to students after they graduate high school. This is a K-12 day! We want all students to be dreaming about what options they have after they leave our schools.
Here are a few things you could do at your site to make the day a success. It would be great if classrooms or advisories could look to do something for just 10-15 minutes this day.
Dress as a professional
Encourage students and staff to dress up as someone from a career they are interested in. Remember there are a lot of great careers out there!
Wear college colors
Encourage students to wear the colors of a favorite college. Remember, college can mean community college, trade school, 4-year university, etc. Be careful with wording here as college brand clothing can be expensive and prevent students from feeling like they can participate. Colors are more inclusionary.
Consider incorporating videos or lessons bringing awareness to careers and colleges.
Our 6-12 sites could lean into some of the activities in SchooLinks. All secondary students have required activities to complete through BLS School Counseling curriculum and to complete their Educational Plan and Profile, so this would be a perfect opportunity to complete one of these required activities. Consider onboarding all your students if you haven’t already done so. Students are required to take a “Find your Path” assessment when first logging in that will jumpstart the college and career exploration process.
Wayfinder also has some great resources, especially their integration with Roadtrip Nation and their Future Ready Collection K-12. For middle school, these have been added for the week of November 18th as potential advisory lessons in our scope and sequence.
Here is a great website from the State of Oregon called Career Journeys. There are amazing short videos, lesson plans and other activities any teacher could do.
Consider inviting parents from the community in to talk about their careers.
This could be done in a variety of ways from assemblies, to advisory, to lunch. You could also ask parents to submit a short video of them talking about their jobs and stitch them together for students. Remember our visitor and volunteer requirements if you decide to invite parents in.
We hope you’ll join in the celebration. Please send pictures of your participation to Becca Burda.
Calendar
November 19: HS Assistant Principals work session – 8:00-10:00 @ BTA
November 21: College and Career Day! Send pictures to Becca
November 21: MS Horizontal – 3:00-5:00 @ Pilot Butte MS
November 25-29: Thanksgiving Break
Where in the World
Didn’t have a submission this week, so I am sharing this celebratory picture of our Administrator of the Year, Scott Olszewski:
Survey for future Admin/ICCL sessions: Please share the following survey with your staff.
In an effort to best plan our future professional development, please take a moment to fill out our Standards Based Grading PD Request survey. This survey is a follow up from the survey many of you filled out after the August 28th training at Pacific Crest.
From the Departments:
From Lisa (also emailed on 10/31):
Hi everyone,
We are about to begin our optional Admin PD trainings based on a variety of topics that you indicated in September that were of interest for you. These trainings will be delivered on Thursdays, either in the morning from 8-10 or in the afternoon from 2-4. These are voluntary- but you must sign up by the Friday before at 12 to confirm. That way, if no one signs up, the presenter doesn’t have to create an entire training for no customers. You will be notified about the location in an e-mail from your presenter the Monday of your training week.
Please sign up using the link next to each training (by the Friday before the training) and remember, this is our first attempt at this. We look forward to providing some just-in-time to match your needs. If you have ideas for topics or other information that you’d like me to know, please contact me directly. I am always interested in feedback and how we can help you feel the most prepared for the work you are doing each day. Thanks in advance for jumping in alongside us!
I hope the 2024-2025 school year has started smoothly and successfully for your team and students. Patrick Cook-Deegan, Founder + CEO of Wayfinder who lives in Bend would be honored to spend some time at your school. His goal is to deepen his understanding of how the Wayfinder product and implementation is impacting your school community.
He is eager to learn firsthand about what’s working well and where there may be areas for improvement. Patrick would welcome conversations with anyone on your team—whether a principal, counselor, teacher, or even a student—who can provide authentic insights on both the strengths and challenges of the Wayfinder experience.
Attached is a sign-up sheet for Patrick’s visit. Please select a date and time that works best with your school schedule.
Please don’t hesitate to reach out with any questions.
We have been engaged with the HDESD regarding the difficulty with filling substitute EA needs. The HDESD have been very helpful, and we developed several strategies that you should know.
1. The HDESD has increase the hourly wage for classified/EA subs based on the vacancy and job type. Formerly, all classified/EA subs were paid $17 per hour. This will be accompanied by a new Enhanced Recruitment Efforts which will involveSocial Media Campaigns, Inter-District Parent Communication, and Community Outreach.
EA I – $18/hour
EA II – $20/hour
EA III – $20/hour
Alternative Ed
Behavior Support
Inclusion
Regular Instruction
Student Success
ELL
Office Staff
2. Cross-Role Flexibility:
We have granted the HDESD the authority to automatically place licensed substitutes (paid at the higher licensed rate) in the EA 2 and EA 3 category (see above) if a sub request is still unfilled the day before the vacancy. This will remainder in place until the end of the year. If the request id for a long-term sub, then a licensed sub can fill an EA 2 or EA 3 position for 1 week at a time, while a non-licensed sub is recruited.
3. Incentive pay structure for high-demand days:
We are currently working on an incentive pay structure for the 30 most high demand days of the year. Non-licensed subs that accept sub positions on these days will receive a $25 bonus for the day. Further, we are under current discussion to extend and modify this as needed.
The HDESD will send up monthly reports so we can monitor if these measures are increasing our sub fill rates. Thanks for your patience and understanding.
It’s that time of year again. November 21st is College and Career Day in Bend-La Pine Schools. As with last year, we are looking to draw attention to the multitude of pathways available to students after they graduate high school. This is a K-12 day! We want all students to be dreaming about what options they have after they leave our schools.
Here are a few things you could do at your site to make the day a success. It would be great if classrooms or advisories could look to do something for just 10-15 minutes this day.
Dress as a professional
Encourage students and staff to dress up as someone from a career they are interested in. Remember there are a lot of great careers out there!
Wear college colors
Encourage students to wear the colors of a favorite college. Remember, college can mean community college, trade school, 4-year university, etc. Be careful with wording here as college brand clothing can be expensive and prevent students from feeling like they can participate. Colors are more inclusionary.
Consider incorporating videos or lessons bringing awareness to careers and colleges.
Our 6-12 sites could lean into some of the activities in SchooLinks. All secondary students have required activities to complete through BLS School Counseling curriculum and to complete their Educational Plan and Profile, so this would be a perfect opportunity to complete one of these required activities. Consider onboarding all your students if you haven’t already done so. Students are required to take a “Find your Path” assessment when first logging in that will jumpstart the college and career exploration process.
Wayfinder also has some great resources, especially their integration with Roadtrip Nation and their Future Ready Collection K-12. For middle school, these have been added for the week of November 18th as potential advisory lessons in our scope and sequence.
Here is a great website from the State of Oregon called Career Journeys. There are amazing short videos, lesson plans and other activities any teacher could do.
Consider inviting parents from the community in to talk about their careers.
This could be done in a variety of ways from assemblies, to advisory, to lunch. You could also ask parents to submit a short video of them talking about their jobs and stitch them together for students. Remember our visitor and volunteer requirements if you decide to invite parents in.
We hope you’ll join in the celebration. Please send pictures of your participation to Becca Burda.
Middle School Only
November Meetings: If you haven’t already done so, please sign up for a November visit with Stephen. Just one time this month. Please choose a date over the course of the month. Here is my Calendly link or you can use Outlook directly.
Calendar
November 11: Veterans Day
November 19: HS Assistant Principals work session – 8:00-10:00 @ BTA
November 21: MS Horizontal – 3:00-5:00 @ Pilot Butte MS
November 25-29: Thanksgiving Break
Where in the World
This week we are highlighting Gabe Pagano, Principal at Cascade Middle School. Gabe says, “I love spending time on a river with family and friends. Most of the time, I do not fall out of the boat! 5:00am, an overnight river trip, making a pot of coffee, with my binoculars in hand.”
Check-in with Health Teachers, Counselors, Sources of Strength Teams, and School Newsletters – Coordinated Suicide Prevention Efforts in Nov and Dec
We are aiming to coordinate a multi-pronged approach to prevent student suicides over the holiday breaks. Please check-in with these individuals or support your Public Health Specialist to organize a School Health Team meeting to coordinate these efforts.
Sources of Strength Peer Leaders (by way of your buildings trained Adult Advisors) – Promote crisis helplines and engage peers in identifying who they can go to for help over breaks and what Strengths they can use to cope with challenges over breaks. See the full message here.
Counselors – Coordinate with Health teachers so that there’s a clear way to identify, assess, and connect students who need mental health support to help resources. Counselors may need your help to protect their time so that they’re able to follow up with students who need help before holiday breaks.
School Newsletters – Include two suicide prevention messages in your school newsletters: one in November before break and one in December before break. These messages will also go out in the district Family Spotlight and will be forwarded from your Public Health Specialist to you (or the person you’ve designated to compile your school newsletters) with a request to publish them.
From Departments
From Kinsey – Policy, Advocacy, & Equity:
Post-Election Resources:
As the presidential elections wrap up, we should anticipate and prepare to support the strong reactions, emotions, and conversations our staff, students, and families will experience. As leaders, it is our responsibility to ensure our staff are informed, equipped, and supported regarding 1) the expectations for navigating this significant moment in time in a professional manner, 2) the resources available to them as employees, and 3) the strategies for supporting students through their own processing.
Here is a message for staff—I highly recommended you send this to your staff soon. You are welcome to copy and paste this message verbatim, modify it to reflect your voice/style, or send something else. Just don’t be silent on this topic!
Equity Stance Brochures:
I am going to re-print the brochure versions of our district Equity Stance. (You received one at our August administrator launch.) If you would like some for your school (ICCL team? PTA? A stack for the staff lounge?), please let me know by Nov 8th how many you need.
Holidays:
Here is our policy on religion and holidays in schools. Here is our “Do not schedule” dates document. Here is a team reflection and guidance tool on holidays. Consider reviewing these at an ICCL meeting, and/or sharing with all staff.
Did you see the latest Family Spotlight? The newsletter is solely devoted to safety and includes a message from Dr. Cook, resources for safe firearm storage, information about SafeOregon, crisis and care resources, details about our latest safety improvements and more. It can be a go-to resource when families have questions about safety in our district. Bookmark the October 30 Family Spotlight and have it at the ready!
Probationary and temporary certified staff: 6 observations (Goals, 2 formals and 3 minis)
Attached you will find two documents to help you initiate the process with your staff. Staff should be receiving notifications regarding goal setting in UKG. There will be an option for you to review their goals once they have been completed in UKG. You should also be working toward completing one (1) formal observation by the end of November and a second formal observation by end of January (both to be completed in UKG).
Please note that you will also be completing your mini (3) observations throughout the year in UKG.
Contract staff ON & OFF evaluation cycle year: 3 observations
One goal setting (by December 1)
Two instructional/non-instructional mini-observations (by May 15)
Contract staff ON evaluation cycle year (in addition to above):
Self-Evaluation (by May 15)
Summative Evaluation (by June 15)
There will be additional information coming to you, as we plan to have ongoing instruction on how to complete all the necessary steps timely, and how we can support you in UKG.
Again, I appreciate your grace and patience as we work through the development and refinement of the evaluation process. I know this information is coming out late and creating a crunch, but we are focused on having this information out to you all much sooner next year.
Please let me know if you have any additional questions.
Building leaders are to pause any program expansion proposals (academic, athletic and extra duty) that will impact your site/facility until further notice. We are in the process of creating internal procedures that will identify that necessary steps that will need to be taken in order to ensure compliance with regulations (i.e. Title IX, permitting, accounting), district policies, contracts and address departmental impacts.
Scott and Kayla will be out of town next week, November 4th through November 7th at a conference. We will continue to monitor our emails, cell phones, and text messages to support as best as we can while out of the office. If you have any emergencies that require immediate attention, please reach out to our Chief Operations Officer, Paul Dean for immediate support.
We are happy to announce that we are not staffed at 8 School Resource Officers in the district. Our newest SRO is Officer James Ragland, who will be working out of Pilot Butte Middle School. Please use the updated SRO point of contact roster to see who your current SRO is for your school, and to reach out to any members of the SRO team for support.
Middle School Only
November Meetings: Time to sign up for a November visit. Just one time this month. Please choose a date over the course of the month. FYI: Stephen will be out November 6-8 at a conference. Here is my Calendly link or you can use Outlook directly.
High School Only
Thank you for welcoming our Internship Coordinators, Sarah, who serves LPHS and Renee, who serves our Bend schools, to your building! Please support them in onboarding our juniors and seniors into internship opportunities.
Calendar:
November 5: MS and HS Administrator work session – 8:00-10:00 @ Cascade MS
November 6-8: Katie and Stephen at Synergy Conference
November 7: New Course Proposals Due
November 11: Veterans Day
November 19: HS Assistant Principals work session – 8:00-10:00 @ BTA
November 21: MS Horizontal – 3:00-5:00 @ Pilot Butte MS
November 23-27: Thanksgiving Break
December 10: HS Administrators and Counselors work session – 8:00-10:00 @MVHS
December 23 – January 3: Winter Break
January 3 – Choice Options Schools/Area Change Requests open for 25-26 school year
Where in the World
This week we are highlighting Chris Boyd, Principal at Caldera High School. Chris shared, “while my normal happy place is disappearing in the woods on a remote hike, floating a river, or climbing a local volcano on skis in the snow, dancing with my Central Oregon Stars was so much fun.
My dance crew is near and dear to my heart. Love my dance peeps! We helped raised 107K for the Sparrow Foundation in Central Oregon.” Check out the Fresh Funky Fly Girls and a Boy!
Help us celebrate the veterans throughout Bend-La Pine Schools on Monday, November 11! We would love to say “thank you for your service” on social media and include faces throughout the district. If you have a veteran (or more than one) in your building or department, please ask them if they would like to be included in a social media “thank you.” If the answer is yes, take their photo and email it to [email protected], along with the staff member’s name.
Accessing OSAS test scores and ODE Individual Student Reports (ISRs) in Synergy
Please share the following information with any staff who may need it, particularly teachers who may want to discuss OSAS during conferences.
We have been working for some time to enhance access to OSAS state test results across multiple Synergy applications. Here is a folder with brief instructions for staff, parents, and students to access OSAS state test scores in a variety of ways. All these groups can view and download the one-page ISRs that ODE creates each year. Teachers also can view lists of OSAS scores for their classes in TeacherVue. ISRs from spring 2024 testing have been loaded in English and Spanish ISRs should be there next week. Whether Spanish ISRs are loaded for a student is based on the ‘resolved’ language in Synergy.
ODE requires schools to report OSAS results to parents annually. In the past this process has been time and resource intensive and involved downloading, printing, and sorting thousands of pieces of paper. With ISRs available in both ParentVue and StudentVue, users can now access OSAS results on-demand in Synergy. This will significantly reduce the number of printed copies that end up in trash or recycling. Schools still should plan to print an ISR for any parents who request it and may continue to print ISRs as makes sense.
During conferences, teachers who want to use ISRs now have the option to quickly pull them up in real time and display them on any screens that are available to them.
Please reach out to Dave VanLoo with any questions about accessing OSAS results in Synergy.
From the Departments:
From Kinsey – Policy, Advocacy, & Equity (repeat):
Upcoming events and key dates:
Please mark your calendars for these events:
Reminder: 3 years’ worth of Holidays/”Do Not Schedule”Dates
District-wide 7th annual Latino Family Night:
Thursday, November 21st 5:30-7:30pm at MVHS
The Woodburn High School student mariachi band will be performing! Come grab some dinner, check out their performance, and connect with families, students, and staff for some games and fun!
Invitation here. Family Liaisons and Latino Family Advisory members will provide you with some copies, but feel free to share in staff and family newsletters.
MAC Survey Day: This will happen sometime the week of Nov 11. Please make sure your FAN Advocate can get in front of staff ahead of that week, to introduce themselves and remind about procedures. Also, thank you for prioritizing your own time to claim an activity that day if at all possible. Without you doing that, we can’t afford to have FAN Advocates in our schools (eek).
LGBTQIA2S+ Alliance principal conversation:
Our Alliance group would love to connect with principals (or an administrator from each school) for some conversation and to learn about what you’re proud of at your school, as far as LGBTQ student/family supports, resources, and experiences they can seek out.
Please plan to join us Tuesday, January 21st. (I’ll remind you later—just mark you calendar 🙂)
Reminder: 3 years’ worth of Holidays/”Do Not Schedule”Dates
Middle School Only
YouTube Access for K-8 Students – Trial of “Allow List” Solution
As you know, we are currently blocking all YouTube content for students in grades K-8. Starting next week, we will be implementing a trial of an “allow list” solution, which will enable students to access a curated set of videos. At present, nearly 1,000 YouTube videos necessary for the SchoolLinks curriculum have been added to this allow list.
Why is this important? If this trial proves successful, we can explore expanding the allow list to include additional teacher-requested YouTube content.
We understand that limiting access to non-essential YouTube content remains a high priority for our staff, and this allow list solution is designed to support that goal without diverting from it.
High School Only
From Stephanie Bent: We have created a school TAG report for the high school level. If you would like access to your school’s report, please contact Stephanie and she will share the document with you.
Support our Internship Specialists!
Through our contract with East Cascade Works, we have partnered with COIC to hire two Internship Specialists this year. Sarah Cochran oversees the district program and focuses her time developing internships with youth in La Pine. Renee Skjersaa facilitates internships with our six high schools in Bend.
Their goal is to interface with businesses in Bend and La Pine to connect students with job shadows and internships. We do have the ability to pay students for internships through a grant recently secured with COIC.
Sarah and Renee have both passed the volunteer background check and have non-staff badges, so they do not need to check in through the Raptor kiosk. They are approved be in our schools regularly to connect with our students and will be working out of our Future Centers. We are grateful to have Sarah and Renee working on behalf of our students! Please read on to learn more about them:
“Sarah Cochran, YCC Program Coordinator and La Pine Internship Specialist, is a Green Bay Packers fan who loves rescue dogs and has 25 years of classroom teaching experience. She is happy to continue working with staff and students through the unique partnership COIC has with the Central OR school districts. Specifically, she is excited to continue working with the Bend La Pine School District, supporting youth and serving as another resource in their development and quest to learn more about themselves. Finding meaningful and local work-based experiences for our collective youth, whether these are job shadows, internships, or working on a resume, Sarah believes it is a real privilege to connect with BLP students and support other COIC/Youth Career Connect staff in our region.
Renee Skjersaa, YCC Bend Internship Specialist, is an avid dog enthusiast who enjoys outdoor beauty of Central OR and has over 20 years of classroom teaching experience. She is new to COIC/Youth Career Connect as of just less than a month ago! Renee brings enthusiasm to learning about the many layers involved with creating a work-based experience for students to access and has been actively pursuing local business opportunities to bring to BLP’s youth. She looks forward to helping students gain a better understanding of what it takes to put their best foot forward when seeking either a first job, or preparing for an interview, and then landing a great work-based experience! Being back in the schools and supporting youth is something that excites Renee about her role with YCC and you will find her bustling about the 6 Bend high schools Monday-Thursday.”
Calendar
October 29-31: Middle School Conferences
November 5: MS and HS Administrator work session – 8:00-10:00 @ Cascade MS
November 7: New Course Proposals Due
November 11: Veterans Day
November 19: HS Assistant Principals work session – 8:00-10:00 @ BTA
November 21: MS Horizontal – 3:00-5:00 @ Pilot Butte MS
Where in the World
This week we are highlighting Leah Boon, Dean of Students at Cascade. Leah states that her place is Hood River/The Gorge. “You can’t beat the beauty! Isn’t it weird how you don’t truly appreciate a place’s beauty growing up but later can’t get enough?”
Last call for any feedback on content as we update the attendance policy. Reminders from our conversation at your recent horizontal meeting:
The draft linked above includes all language from both OSBA’s sample and our current version. We’ll weave them into one coherent policy, but we left all the language from both in order for you to review and give input on preferences regarding any/all of it.
Please share with relevant office staff and ask for their insights.
Feedback we’re looking for:
Anything in this language that contradicts our preferred practices, or anything missing that we should add to capture current processes working well in your buildings;
Requests for training or procedural support related to this policy topic;
Please don’t make specific red-line edits—I’m just looking for your general thoughts on what’s helpful for you to codify in policy.
Send your team’s feedback to Kinsey via email or phone call, by October 25
Related to attendance: We’ll be offering an admin PD group to dig into best practices for home visits. More on that soon!
Upcoming events and key dates:
Please mark your calendars for these events:
District-wide 7th annual Latino Family Night:
Thursday, November 21st 5:30-7:30pm at MVHS
The Woodburn High School student mariachi band will be performing! Come grab some dinner, check out their performance, and connect with families, students, and staff for some games and fun!
Invitation here. Family Liaisons and Latino Family Advisory members will provide you with some copies, but feel free to share in staff and family newsletters.
MAC Survey Day: This will happen sometime the week of Nov 11. Please make sure your FAN Advocate can get in front of staff ahead of that week, to introduce themselves and remind about procedures. Also, thank you for prioritizing your own time to claim an activity that day if at all possible. Without you doing that, we can’t afford to have FAN Advocates in our schools (eek).
LGBTQIA2S+ Alliance principal conversation:
Our Alliance group would love to connect with principals (or an administrator from each school) for some conversation and to learn about what you’re proud of at your school, as far as LGBTQ student/family supports, resources, and experiences they can seek out.
Please plan to join us Tuesday, January 21st. (I’ll remind you later—just mark you calendar 🙂)
Reminder: 3 years’ worth of Holidays/”Do Not Schedule”Dates
Please review the updated AQI protocols on our staff portal. We have updated the AQI map resources for administrators to use to make real-time decisions on AQI readings near your schools. We will now be using the EPA Air Now Smoke and Fire Map or the Watch Duty AQI Smoke and Fire Map applications that provide real-time AQI readings.
We will also be forming a stakeholder committee to review the AQI thresholds for cancellation of outdoor recess, sports, and activities. We will use the feedback from that committee to make future decisions and potential updates to our AQI threshold levels.
The public facing district website AQI page will be updated with this information in the next few days.
Departments
From Becca in Communications:
Celebrate a successful start to the school year at Educators’ Night Out at the High Desert Museum!
Thursday, October 24, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
New this year – join us for a special presentation for school administrators! We’ll share about upcoming grant opportunities and projects. Administrators will also have their own opportunity to win a raffle (we’ll even give you more tickets for each educator from your school you bring with you!)
Delicious snacks from the one of the best chefs in Central Oregon – Luckey’s Woodsman
Fabulous door prizes from local businesses like Bar Rio, Bend Pet Express, Greg’s Grill, Mountain Supply, and so many more!
Horizontals: Based on your feedback we will be moving to one two-hour meeting a month on a Thursday from 3-5 starting in November. Additionally, the majority preferred walkthroughs for our additional time together. Stephen will be updating calendars and reaching out with details soon.
High School only
Upshift: Just a reminder to enter your data!
Calendar
October 22: HS Principal work session – 8:00-10:00 @ Summit HS
October 23: All Administrators Training – EWS training @ 3:00-4:30 BSHS Perseverance Hall
October 24: MS Horizontal – 3:00 @ Pacific Crest
October 29-31: Middle School Conferences
November 5: MS and HS Administrator work session – 8:00-10:00 @ Cascade MS
November 7: New Course Proposals Due
November 19: HS Assistant Principals work session – 8:00-10:00 @ BTA
Where in the world
This week we are highlighting Matt Kitchen, Assistant Principal at Mountain View High School and his Happy Place! Matt shared: my happy place is on the water. Fishing, boating, or just watching. But the honest answer is that my happy place is who I am with. This is a picture of me and my girls at a camp this past spring. Being with people that I love and enjoy is my happy place.
From Lisa in the Superintendent’s Office (repeat):
Consider applying to be on the district’s administrator advisory team. See this week’s Staff Spotlight for more specific information. The deadline is October 16.
From Jennifer in Student Services: Jennifer has created goal setting documents for School Counselors and Student Success Certified staff to be used as part of the evaluation process. These documents have been shared with staff and district coaches will use PLC time this month to support certified staff in the usage of these goal setting documents. Staff can save this document as a PDF and uploaded it directly to UKG. We will set aside time at our next PLC to review and begin work on these documents.
From Sean in Student Services: Please look at our practice guidance for those staff that teach suicide prevention standards. This document has been reviewed and shared with health teachers and school counselors. Thanks
Please ensure you coordinate and submit requests for interpreters ASAP. Your Language Specialist and Family Liaison can help advise and coordinate this with your office team.
Policy training resources:
Thanks for attending the policy training this week! Here is follow-up–please share with your staff and PTA/Booster Club leaders:
As you wrap up the teaching of those lessons across all classrooms in the upcoming days, can you please share a celebration with Kinsey about something that your building did well with these lessons? Did you have a teacher successfully incorporate student voice? A team who was creative with implementation? Presence from the equity coaches that was helpful? Please let me know what your school did well!
To ensure the safety, quality, and compatibility of our technology, ALL tech-related purchases must be approved and processed through our IT department.
If the answer is “yes” to any of these questions, the purchase must go through IT:
Is it a computer, tablet, or related device?
• Does it connect to or charge one of our devices?
Does it connect to our networks or get installed on a device?
Why is this important?
While it may be tempting to purchase cheaper options from websites like Amazon, our district maintains strict standards to ensure all devices are safe, reliable, and compatible with our systems. Unsafe or substandard devices can:
Pose risks such as electrical shock or fire
Introduce security threats like malware
Fail to work properly within our network environment
Bookmark our Staff Portal for quick access to updates and staff resources
A great way to keep up on employee news, announcements, resources and tools is to check our STAFF PORTAL regularly. We are posting updates to the Portal almost every day.
We encourage all staff to bookmark the Portal on your browser. Better yet, you can designate it as one of your browser startup pages so it’s always right there. Here’s how to do that using Google Chrome:
1. In your Chrome browser window, click on the three vertical dots (for “More”) in the top right corner
2. Go down the list to “Settings” and click that
3. On the left, click “On startup”
4. Select “Open a specific page or set of pages” then “Add a new page”
5. Paste the site URL into the window and hit “Add” The URL for our Staff Portal is this: https://bendlapine.sharepoint.com/
You can add other startup pages as well, such as our District website (https://www.bend.k12.or.us/district) and your school website.
The “Quick Links” on the Staff Portal is a go-to resource for many of us. And keep an eye on the featured news items, which provides a mix of local news headlines and timely information we are sharing with you and our community.
Middle School Only
Quarter Classes: Be sure you are providing an extra half day of grading time to your teachers who have quarter classes.
High School Only
Financial Aid Night: Our BLS Financial Aid Information Night is coming up! We will have one event in Bend at MVHS and one in La Pine the following week at LPHS.
****Once again, there there will be a separate Spanish Speaking Financial Aid night later this fall that is planned in conjunction with Kinsey and her team. This is noted in the communication linked above****
Calendar
October 14: TAG Admin/ICCL Meeting – 3:45 – 5:45 – Board Room
October 22: HS Principal work session – 8:00-10:00 @ Summit HS
October 24: MS Horizontal – 3:00 @ Pacific Crest
October 29-31: Middle School Conferences
November 5: MS and HS Administrator work session – 8:00-10:00 @ Cascade MS
November 7: New Course Proposals Due
Where in the World
This week we are highlighting Dave McKae, Dean at High Desert and his Happy Place! Dave shared: Ever since we took our boys on their first vacation, we were itching to go back and visit our family roots in Scotland. We spent a year planning and part of the trip included driving to the Cairngorms to go on a hike with reindeer! Fun fact: that’s less than one year of growth on its head as they lose and regrow new antlers each year. Planning big trips and taking our kids on new adventures is something that brings us great joy.
Our first Educator Network Day of the year is this Wednesday, October 9. Administrators are required to attend and support two of the four sessions. Please ensure attendance is taken at the session. Here is the LINK for information. Here is the LINK to taking attendance.
Consider applying to be on the district’s administrator advisory team. See this week’s Staff Spotlight for more specific information. The deadline is October 16.
Reminders/Action items:
From Jessica Houser in the Business Office:
This is a reminder that the deadline for submitting information regarding employees who missed work due to being in a level two or three evacuation zone between September 9th and 17th is tomorrow, Friday, October 4th at 12pm.
If you have not filled out the Google From, please do so at your earliest convenance to ensure we have all the necessary information. Your input is important for us to determine the next steps for those affected. There is no need for your employees to submit additional forms at this time.
Reminder: All staff will receive a link to our annual cybersecurity training and are required to complete this mandatory training by November 30. It will take approximately 30 minutes to complete and is crucial in helping to protect both personal and district data from cyberattacks. Principals, plan to provide one staff meeting between now and November for staff to complete this training.
Lesson Design Cycle (LDC): (LDC sites only) As a reminder, we’ve flushed out the LDC calendar for first and second semester. Dates can also be found here. The sites that have opted into this practice need to work to identify staff for participation. Here is the interest form. We are limited to 8 folks per session so it will come down to one or two teachers from participating sites. Please reach out to Dean, Katie, or Stephen with questions.
Many of you have been asking about dates for the “Full” CPI trainings and refresher options for this fall. A few things to note:
These trainings are for those that need to be trained to implement holds in a restraint/seclusion scenario. You should have a team of folks at you building with this level of training.
These trainings are different than the “De-escalation only” trainings that are being offered for secondary staff and in-house for elementary staff. All CPI trainings will count toward you buildings 1:50 ratio required by SB 283
You can still use this CPI trained spreadsheet to see who has the “full” training in your building. Note: at this time, any person listed on the spreadsheet has the full training w/holds
Folks can sign up for the “full” courses in UKG. They are titled “CPI initial” and “CPI refresher”
Remember to pick a date between 11/4 and 11/22 to administer the survey to all of your 8th and 11th graders. Then, plan to send parent notifications out a couple of weeks before that date. Here is a folder containing all the information and resources schools need to administer the SHS, including survey links, parent notification/opt-out forms, survey previews, and instructions for teachers proctoring the survey. Let me know what questions you have or what support you may need. Thanks.
From Jenn in Student Services: School Counselors, Student Success, and Principals
I hope the school year is going well! On October 9th, we will be adding an additional Student Safe training before Educator Network Day (END) at 2:45 pm. For the week of October 7th, please work with your building admin to adjust your prep and case management time accordingly over the course of next week to allow for you to leave the building early, including travel time. Caldera will have dismissal at 2:15 so please plan to arrive by 2:10 pm.
2:15 – 2:45 Student Safe Training in Caldera Auditorium
2:45 – 4:00 SIW/END Caldera Auditorium
Timesheets are available for elementary SSCs and counselors from 3:15 to 4 pm and it is optional for you to stay past your contract hours. SSIs, Jen Goodman has communicated a separate plan with you about your training for the day. Please reach out with any questions.
Digital Citizenship week is October 14-18, an annual campaign to promote healthy, balanced, and positive approach to media and tech use among young people. Here are some handy resources.
Our BLS Financial Aid Information Night is coming up in two weeks! We will have one event in Bend at MVHS and one in La Pine the following week at LPHS.
****Once again, there there will be a separate Spanish Speaking Financial Aid night later this fall that is planned in conjunction with Kinsey and her team. This is noted in the communication linked above****
We are excited to introduce Canopy, Bend-La Pine Schools new Employee Assistance Program (EAP) provider!
Canopy EAP services include mental health support, counseling, behavioral coaching, digital tools, and resources to help navigate life and work – from financial coaching to gym and pet insurance discounts – Canopy’s mission is to create happier and healthier lives for employees.
Canopy services are free, confidential, and available to ALL district employees and their family members.
Learn more about Canopy and how to access their services on our district’s Benefits website.
Middle School Only
Conferences: As a reminder, the schedule for conferences this fall is: Wednesday 10/23 – Teacher Work SIW (planning for Tuesday 10/29 conferences), Tuesday 10/29 – School day & evening conferences after school (4 hours), Wednesday 10/30 – Teacher work day (8 hours) and conferences in the evening (4 hours), Thursday 10/31 – all day conferences (8 hours), no evening conferences, Friday 11/1 – Non-work day.
Please let Stephen know if you have any questions.
Calendar
October 8: HS admin and counseling work session- 8:00-10:00 @ Ed Center in boardroom
October 9: Educator Network SIW Here is the LINK for information.
October 10: MS Horizontal – 3:00 – 4:30 – High Desert MS
October 14: TAG Admin/ICCL Meeting – 3:45 – 5:45 – Board Room
October 22: HS Principal work session – 8:00-10:00 @ Summit HS
November 5: MS and HS Administrator work session – 8:00-10:00 @ Cascade MS
November 7: New Course Proposals Due
Where in the World
This week we are highlighting Jessica Gambee and her Happy Place! Jessica shared: My happy place would be any summer adventure, particularly near or on the water. I love camping and exploring new places with my family. This is a picture of my kids paddle boarding on Elk Lake, in a rare moment of getting along.
1. Lesson Design Cycle (LDC): (LDC sites only) As a reminder, we’ve flushed out the LDC calendar for first and second semester. Dates can also be found here. The sites that have opted into this practice need to work to identify staff for participation. Here is the interest form. We are limited to 8 folks per session so it will come down to one or two teachers from participating sites. Please reach out to Dean, Katie, or Stephen with questions.
2. Admin/ICCL: Remind your ICCL team we are meeting from 4:15 to 6:15 at Caldera High School next Tuesday October 1st. Dean sent out a calendar invite for you to forward to your team. He also shared invites for our three other sessions. TAG ICCLs (MS only) do not need to attend this one.
3. Plan 30 minutes for staff to complete Cybersecurity training (from Scott):
October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month, and we’re excited to announce Cyber October! Throughout the month, our IT department will be sharing valuable resources to help improve your cyber hygiene and protect our school district from cyber threats.
Here’s what you can expect:
Weekly Tips and Tricks: Easy-to-follow advice to help safeguard your digital life.
Scam of the Week Announcements: Stay informed about the latest online threats.
Cybersecurity Best Practices: Strategies to keep your data and devices safe.
In addition, all staff will receive a link to our annual cybersecurity training. This mandatory training will take approximately 30 minutes to complete and is crucial in helping to protect both personal and district data from cyberattacks. The window to complete the training is October 1st through November 30th.
Look for these updates in your inbox each week. Together, we can strengthen our defenses against cyberattacks!
Thank you for your continued vigilance and support.
5. From Kinsey: Bias Incident student lessons (repeat):
The Bias Incident student lessons are ready ahead of schedule, and a handful of schools want them to review with teachers this week, so I’m sending now instead of in Friday blogs:
One hallmark of a thriving culture is that everyone knows how to identify, address, and repair harm when it happens in the community. This lesson provides the chance to have that conversation openly as a school community. Thank you for your active leadership in ensuring this is taught consistently across your building prior to Oct 25.
Consider forwarding this email to your ICCL team to support implementation. If you have questions or would like additional support, please reach out to me or any of the Equity Coaches (copied in this message). Thanks!
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24-25 Bias Incident Lessons:
Family Letter. Please hyperlink in the letter the lesson that corresponds to your grade level and send to families several days in advance of teaching the lesson.
Equity Coaches. This team is available to help your staff prepare or rehearse (they can attend your SIW or provide drop-in support before/after school), or co-teach with particular teachers open to partnership.
Required Lessons. This folder has the grade-specific required lesson for 24-25, as well as printable teacher notes for each lesson. This lesson takes about 60 minutes, or two 30-minute advisory periods.
Suggested Wayfinder Sequence. This sheet suggests Wayfinder lessons to create context and dialogue skills on which to anchor the Bias Incident Lesson.
Information from Departments
From Dave VanLoo:
2024-25 District Assessment, Testing, & Surveys
Here are two updated support documents summarizing common standardized tests and surveys for the current school year. One is a schedule showing when different assessment activities occur. The other is a general overview of the purpose and logistics of these assessments. Both documents will continue to be updated throughout the year as is beneficial. Please reach out with any questions.
Starting in 2024, Oregon’s plan is for schools to administer the Student Health Survey (SHS) annually to all 6th, 8th, and 11th graders. Schools should pick a date between 11/4 and 11/22 to administer the survey, and plan to send parent notifications out a couple of weeks before that date. Here is a folder containing all the information and resources schools need to administer the SHS, including survey links, parent notification/opt-out forms, survey previews, and instructions for teachers proctoring the survey. Let me know what questions you have or what support you may need. Thanks.
New this year schools will have access to data within Synergy’s MTSS module. Over the past few months staff have been hard at work building the infrastructure to make these tools available. Within the next few weeks, we expect to make the Early Warning System (EWS) available to schools. EWS is a tool for identifying students who may need additional support in the areas of attendance, behavior/discipline, and academics. Later this year additional tools will become available. While this development is occurring, vast amounts of student data remain available in DART and in the OSAS portal (state testing data). Reach out to Dave if you have questions about accessing or interpreting these data.
From Nurse Michelle: OHA / ODE has changed the Communicable Disease Guidance for Schools guidelines this year for students and staff returning after having vomiting or diarrhea. They may now return to school after 24hrs of no vomiting or no diarrhea (this replaces the previous 48hr guideline)
Attached is a copy of the When to Keep Your Student Home. This information has been sent out to office managers
Here is the link to the full Communicable Disease Guidance packet
Several admin are hoping to use data from the Waypoint student assessment to design an SEL goal for their schools or to use with SLGG goals. Therefore, the new assessment window is open until November 15th.
Waypoints, the initial summative assessment for students will be live in Wayfinder from September 15th through Novermber15th. Summative Waypoints allow educators to measure student growth of Wayfinder’s six Core Skills across the school year. By administering the summative Waypoints assessments, educators can understand areas of strength and growth for individual students and the class to make informed, data-driven decisions about instruction. Here is the info on Waypoints, including the new Waypoints Implementation Guides to help teachers set up the reason we are assessing students as well as instructions. The final summative assessment for students will be open May 12th through June 13th for students.
Message from Jason & Ted (IT) and Eric (Student Services) about Synergy & Discipline Entry
We have learned that all incidents being inputted into Synergy as “Admin-Managed” are being labeled as “Major” in Synergy. Not every incident administrators input are going to be Major, so we needed to create a solution to this problem.
IT has generated a solution to this issue that is now LIVE in Synergy. Moving forward, you will notice the following options for you to select when entering incidents:
Staff-Managed
Minor Admin-Managed
Major Admin-Managed
Using these three options we can now correctly input incidents in alignment with our Student Code of Conduct:
Staff-Managed = Code of Conduct Response Level 1 (by Staff) [NOTE: Not all schools are utilizing Staff-Managed this year]
Minor Admin-Managed = Code of Conduct Response Level 2 (by Administrators)
Major Admin-Managed = Code of Conduct Response Level 3 or 4 (by Administrators)
Last call for SIOP+ Fall 2024! FLIER Sign-ups close on Friday, September 27th. Applicants will be notified on Monday September 30th if they are a part of the 20 teacher spaces available. Once notified, you will be instructed on how to set up your first sub request for this training.
See last week’s email blast (below) and the attached flyer. Thank you!!
SIOP+ Fall 2024 . . .
Are you interested in spending quality time with colleagues, increasing your strategies for equity, inclusion and student engagement, and the option to earn 3 graduate credits from OSU Cascades?
If so . . . then you will love SIOP+!
SIOP is a research-based instructional model that has been shown to boost content area learning for students who are acquiring English.
Did you know…that sheltered instruction is effective with ALL students, not just English language learners, and especially for students coming from high poverty backgrounds.
If interested . . download the attached flyer for dates and times. Teachers, TOSAS and Administrators are encouraged and welcome!
Many of you have been asking about dates for the “Full” CPI trainings and refresher options for this fall. A few things to note:
These trainings are for those that need to be trained to implement holds in a restraint/seclusion scenario. You should have a team of folks at you building with this level of training.
These trainings are different than the “De-escalation only” trainings that are being offered for secondary staff and in-house for elementary staff. All CPI trainings will count toward you buildings 1:50 ratio required by SB 283
You can still use this CPI trained spreadsheet to see who has the “full” training in your building. Note: at this time, any person listed on the spreadsheet has the full training w/holds
Folks can sign up for the “full” courses in UKG. They are titled “CPI initial” and “CPI refresher”
We are excited to bring together K-12 educators from Central Oregon to continue our learning, planning, and sharing on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its emerging role in our schools and districts.
Please save the date and plan to join us at:
Event: AI for Teaching and Leading
Date: Friday, October 11, 2024
Time: 8:30 a.m – 3:30 p.m.
Location: Ridgeview High School
This summit will feature sessions, keynote addresses, and team collaboration time on topics such as understanding the AI landscape, tools, and language; AI for teaching and learning; AI in STEM, CTE, and math; and more.
This free event is open to Central Oregon educators at all stages of their AI learning journey, with particular interest for district curriculum leaders, principals, teachers, and instructional coaches.
October Meetings: Time to sign up for October visits. Please choose two dates over the course of the month. Here is my Calendly link or you can use Outlook directly.
Staff Service Awards: If you have not already done so, please schedule a time with Stephen to have staff service awards presented.
Shout Out from Safety Team: The Safety Team has spent the first few weeks of school observing lockdown drills across the district. Shoutout to High Desert Middle School for doing an excellent job in their first lockdown drill of the school year! All staff participated in the drill and understood the importance of talking to students about making decisions in an emergency. Staff explained to students why they needed to remain quiet and found creative ways to get their class out of sight. The HDMS admin team invited the District Safety team, members of their school safety team, SROs, and other members of the Bend Police Department to participate and provide feedback.
October 8: HS admin and counseling work session- 8:00-10:00 @ Ed Center in boardroom
October 9: Educator Network SIW
October 10: MS Horizontal – 3:00 – 4:30 – High Desert MS
October 14: TAG Admin/ICCL Meeting – 3:45 – 5:45 – Board Room
Where in the World
This week we are highlighting Leslie Reif and her Happy Place! Leslie shared: “Our happy place is the Oregon Coast and visit there frequently. We have been watching our favorite 80’s & 90’s movies as a family. Goonies is one of our favs and we went on a Goonies Adventure last Spring Break. My kids were 7 & 9 and loved every minute of it! This is Cannon Beach from Ecola State Park.”
Share YOUR happy place next week! Email a picture and brief description to Katie or Stephen!
