{"id":1842,"date":"2026-05-28T23:54:54","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T23:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/stephen.duval\/?p=1842"},"modified":"2026-05-28T23:54:54","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T23:54:54","slug":"the-secondary-blog-may-27-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/stephen.duval\/2026\/05\/28\/the-secondary-blog-may-27-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"The Secondary Blog, May 27, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

To Do<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Principals:<\/strong> Update<\/strong> your staffing plans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From Departments<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

From TLC:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From Scott Maben, Communications<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Update on ParentSquare rollout and training plan<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bringing families into the ParentSquare fold will take time, and we\u2019d 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\u2019t respond to the initial invite. It\u2019s important to know that even if a parent never responds to these invites, they will still receive our ParentSquare communications \u2014 as emails \u2014 but they won\u2019t benefit from the full features of ParentSquare, such as setting their message preferences or using the handy mobile app.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We\u2019re looking at dates when we can offer school administrators basic training on using ParentSquare and will communicate those details soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PARENTSQUARE BASIC TRAINING<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n