Good afternoon and happy Friday staff! I hope the week has gone well, and that rotation B has also gone as smoothly as possible. My guess is that many of you are being inundated with rumors and speculation about a return to having all students push back in. I have spoken to a few of you, but I do not have much, if any, intel beyond what you may have heard. What I do know, is that next week ODE will update the RSSL guidance and that will have a lot to do with shaping what spring looks like for districts across the state. Such guidance, as has been reported on, could include reducing the distance required for classroom seating and other interactions as well as overall square footage requirements for physical spaces. I hope that I will have more to report on this front headed into break.
In the meantime, I hope everyone will get out and enjoy the sunshine this weekend, and that we can recharge for our last week of rotation B headed into break!
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CALENDAR ITEMS:
- Sunday 3/14
- Spring forward (set your clocks!)
- Monday 3/15
- Virtual track meet (check in with Potts if you can help)
- Tuesday 3/16
- Virtual track meet (check with Potts if you can help)
- Wednesday 3/17
- All staff check in at 1:30 to review conference planning (In my WebEx room)
- SIW (grade level teams) at 2:00
- Thursday 3/18
- Stancliff out AM
- Monday 3/22 – Friday 3/27
- Spring Break
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Staff To-Do’s:
- Please review the plan for the advisory schedule in the email that Mary sent
- Please review the list of your advisory students (if you have advisory) that received multiple NGs
- Please plan to connect by phone with families to see what support they or the student may need and gauge how the feel the current rotation is going.
- For all families, we will have the first of our three SLGG related communications be focused conference information, and we will provide a script advisory teachers can work from for an email.
On the Radar . . .
Many of you have been inquiring about conference details. This is rapidly taking shape, and we will have a general information share prior to SIW on 1:30 on Wednesday in my WebEx room.
We still do not have any clarity over the testing standoff between the state and the federal government, but we will likely still have to send out some communication to families. When we do, that won’t necessarily be a signal that we are moving ahead.
Please use as much discretion as possible when referring to student information in an email. If information needs to be shared that includes a more than one piece of student information (name, assessment info, IEP information, other identifiable info) then this should not be sent via regular email. Generally, if any private information is needed to be shared we should be using BLS Send.
Initial enrollment numbers are out for fall of 2021. These numbers may flux depending on BLO enrollment, but as of right now we are looking at: 240 for 6th, 226 for 7th, and 192 for 8th.
Instructional technology has rebranded as BLS EdTech to avoid confusion with IT department, and here is their latest post.
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Shout Outs . . .
. . . to our team, which has been extremely generous in helping out when folks when guest teachers have not been available. Thank you so much for supporting one another!
Birthday love goes to . . . Shelby Paulson (3/13)!