Good Friday Morning Staff! I am thrilled to connect with you on the day before a much needed spring break. Two full rotations are in the books, and I just want to extend my thanks to everyone for doing their part to make it work as well is it could for our students and families. This post will be shorter than most with just a few reminders. My hope is that, in a few hours, your focus will quickly shift to whatever you have planned to make your spring break meaningful to you and your family!
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CALENDAR ITEMS:
- Monday, 3/29
- Return to rotation A schedule
- Fire Drill during advisory
- Tuesday, 3/30
- Fire Drill during advisory
- Wednesday, 3/31
- SIW (PLCs meet – menu of topics to follow)
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On the radar:
If you have reconsidered whether or not you would like to have a role in summer school initiatives and think you might like to participate, please fill out the survey here. It closes on 4/2.
In our SIW earlier in the month, I referenced an opportunity to have an informal equity listening session on Tuesday, 3/30 in the evening. With my candidacy for the position at Sisters still pending, I would like to hit pause for a moment, and will give you an update as soon as I can on rescheduling that opportunity.
TIME SENSITIVE OPPORTUNITY: If you are interested in joining Doug Reeves and his team at Creative-Leadership-Solutions as you work on a challenge, define a problem of practice, and test out interventions and ideas as you create an action research project, then sign up for the OSU-Cascades class. It is a 2-credit class that is offered in Spring 2021 (see the syllabus for dates and course requirements). Registration is currently open but will close on March 31st. To register for the class, complete the registration and application form and upload them to this google folder. If you have attended a BLS-OSU Cascades class in the last 12 months, then you do not need to complete the application form. There is an initial $35 application fee which will be billed by OSU-C once they receive your application. Additionally, we will compensate teachers for the five after school sessions (including May) and the time to prep for the May share out.
If you have any questions, please contact Michele Oakes ([email protected]).
Teachers, remember that we will hope to try and have scores entered for rotation B summatives by Friday, 4/2.
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SHOUT OUTS:
Thanks and congratulations to Karen’s work with Chinese culture club . . . and for Kelly Ye’s wonderfully creative and award-winning project!
Happy birthday shoutouts for break and the week after go to Jennifer Horn (3/20), Alisha Schmidt (3/21), Pat Roberts (3/30), Nicole Murphy (3/30), April McCarthy (4/1) . . . We hope you enjoy those Birthdays!