Month: December 2023

December 14, 2023 (AKA last blog of 2023)

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“And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.”
~Rainer Maria Rilke

Do Now:

  • Mark your calendars with our leadership learning opportunities now, so you can schedule around them. All administrators should be in attendance during Horizontal, ICCL, and District Admin PD unless an unusual event occurs.
  • Plan to bring your School Design Plan and calendar with you to our January Horizontal at Miller Elementary (Tuesday when we return!!).
  • Plan for your office staff (all of them) to be away from 1-2:30 on January 17, March 6, April 17, and May 22. Please make a plan for your office to be covered in some way then which may include EA coverage.
  • Get ready for all things YouthTruth as we begin again in January. Use this Cheat Sheet to get rolling!

Reminders:

New Notes:

Ed Network Day: The SIW plan for Educator Network Day on January 10th from 1:45-3:15 will be lead by Admin/ICCL and will be dedicated to introducing and planning for the changes to the Oregon Math Standards. Please share this plan with your staff. To help your team prepare, Here are the slides from Kerry.  Included in the presentation are a couple slides at the beginning to help you prepare the END.  Reach out to Kerry Morton or Julie Walker with any questions.

Translation/Interpretation: For any translation or interpretation requests that you’ll need completed/filled by the first week in January, please ensure you submit the request to Linguist Link before Friday, December 15th to avoid incurring additional costs you may be responsible for. For example, if you plan to send a family newsletter or email between Jan 2-5, please submit that document to translation before winter break. Please share this reminder with your staff.

Black History Month Save-the-Date: Our Black Family & Student Union is organizing a kick-off event to launch February’s Black History Month. The event will take place Wednesday, January 31st. Mark you calendar!  

Also, please consider inviting the Equity Coaches to a staff meeting, SIW, ICCL meeting, or PLC gatherings in January to connect with your teachers about their plans for thoughtfully incorporating Black History Month themes into their instruction.  

New to Sharezies: There is a new formal observation form that you might use as you complete these that includes the rubric areas that are of focus this year. Feedback is welcome as you try it out! Jessica Scott has added all new info in the TAG Folder including the video of the last meeting if you missed it. Silver Rail has added the December to Remember staff activity outline. Finally, Pine Ridge also has some Solution-Focused Circles videos that might help with problem-solving tricky situations with students or others. Please reach out to Nichole if you are interested.

From Culture of Care Coaches: Parents may be interested in some of these events from the Parent Learning Series.

Raptor Student Safe: Raptor Student Safe is a new platform to enter, collaborate, and track data round NSSI (non suicidal self injury), suicidal ideation (suicide risk screens) and behavioral safety (threat) assessments for school teams.

At the January 10 Educator Network Day, the Student Services Team will train school counselors, school psychologists, student success coordinators and nurses on how to enter NSSI and suicide risk screens into this system. After this END training, school risk screening teams will enter these screens into this system moving forward and will be better able to collaborate and track student safety concerns in their buildings. 

All building administrators have access to their school site(s). Here is the BLS Raptor/StudentSafe Navigation Walkthrough document. Please make sure that you can log in to Raptor StudentSafe (using your district email address, no password required). Any technology issues or related problems, please contact our district Suicide Prevention Coordinator, Jamie Gunter at [email protected]. 

From Special Programs: Just a reminder that there are few organizations who can operate or observe within our buildings. Here is the Administrative Rule related to visitors in our schools: https://www.bend.k12.or.us/application/files/8216/9332/8866/KK-AR_final_8.11.23.pdf Overall, this practice operates out of this regulation because there are many individuals who ask for this type of access. Because it is a disruption to learning, it reduces our ability to ensure confidentiality, and it is very difficult to manage the credibility of differing credentials that are often associated with these requests, we only allow this type of practice when there is a formal MOU with an organization, such as the one we have with Deschutes County. We are happy to partner with outside providers when the parent provides an ROI and would be happy to have them be part of team meetings or get the insight of the different adults with whom the child works; however, this should not happen as observations when school is in session. 

From Cascade: Please share this flyer with your families in TAG. It outlines Cascade’s TAG info night on January 10th.

From Sustainability: Please share this info about Forest Classroom with your teachers in grades K-2 that is coming up on February 8th from 9-3:30. Subs are covered by the Children’s Forest. Register here:  https://forms.gle/vmer5ZAwNpzqCmPm9

From Curriculum, Instruction and Systems: Here is an activity in Wayfinder that is a fun activity to get staff moving and laughing. Direct Link to the PDF. Directions on how to find the lesson in Wayfinder

From HR: Please see separate e-mail from Paul regarding the process for Temporary and Probationary year three employees at this time of year.

From TLC: December 13th Elementary TLC Update The update for this week is the shortest of the year and only includes: report card info, Wayfinder, and movement info. Have a wonderful and safe Winter Break! Reach out to your elementary support staff for any needs or supports.

Holiday SOP: With the winter break upon us, it is time to remind staff about the Holiday shutdowns in schools. HVAC will be set to unoccupied mode in schools which means the temperatures will be set to 58 in the buildings. Please remind staff to shut down electronics, empty all mini-fridges and unplug them, close blinds, and turn down lights. The Raptor computers remain on for updates, but the screens can be turned off. The Standard Operating Procedures can be found here.

The Good of the Green Team: BLS has green team leaders in all but 5 schools this year and they are doing amazing work. Here are a few updates. Summit High students partnered with Miller to collect usable toys and are hosting a gift give for families at Bear Creek. Northstar, Ensworth, and Buckingham students completed waste audits to get baseline data for waste reduction efforts. Amity Creek is starting the 2024 school year with plates. BSH put waste stations throughout the school and Caldera Green team is inspiring students and staff to bring reusables to their pancake breakfast. The High School Green Leadership Coalitions wants to remind you all to have a great holiday and to reduce waste in how we wrap presents.

From IT: Parents can take an active role in how and how often school issued iPads are used while at home. Sending the following information home may be beneficial before the long winter holiday. There are two device monitoring applications available for Bend-La Pine families. The application descriptions and set up instructions are linked below. 

  1. Apple Screentime   Screentime is simply a group of features found in the settings menu on most all Apple devices.  Using Screentime is probably the easiest method to start for most families. Screentime allows parents to restrict applications and set time limits for device use.  Just remind parents to to turn off their “secret” passcode before the student returns to school!
  2. JAMF parent This application is installed on the parent’s phone and has a few alternative features that are not available in the screentime settings. It is important to note that any restrictions applied in JAMF parent will not function during normal school hours (7:30AM-4:30PM) Monday through Friday.

From Tammy and Lisa:

Planning for subs? We are still having difficulties with subs in buildings and principals are starting to want to use sub days for teams to plan together. When you are planning, please consult our Admin Calendar (linked at the top of this page and HERE). Please try to avoid the days colored in mauve as these are also days when several people are out in our district requiring subs already. Planning for teams to meet on other days will increase your likelihood of success when trying to secure subs.

Important Dates

  • Dec. 18-January 1: Winter Break—See you all back in 2024!
  • Jan. 2, 3:00-5:00 Elementary Leadership, at Miller Elementary
  • Jan. 10. Educator Network Day, in your buildings from 1:45-3:15
  • Jan. 15 No School in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Jan. 17: Office staff meeting 1:15-2:15 (plan for them to be away from 1-2:30)
  • Jan. 23, 3:00-5:00 Elementary Leadership, at Buckingham Elementary
  • Jan 31, All Admin PD at Perseverance Hall, 3:00-4:30

And finally…

As Tammy gets ready to travel to London today, I thought I’d put out the idea of a quick staff challenge using the site https://www.geoguessr.com/. It’s an app too. In the computer version, individuals can go to the site, choose Classic Maps> World and play a 5 minute game. The challenge is to use google earth to look around and guess where in the world you are. The end guess shows how long you took to guess (max 5 min or 360 seconds) and how many miles you are from the actual location. You could have people compete and the person with the lowest combined time (in seconds) plus miles away would be the winner. I am obsessed with the app version and have come within one mile of the location on one occasion! Happy guessing!

December 7, 2023

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Do Now:

  • Please share this document with teachers on how to mark a lesson/activity complete in Wayfinder. Checking it off is part of a successful implementation to the program. In doing this, you will be able to see how the implementation is going in your schools as well.
  • Schedule a time between now and January for your DEI ICCL member to present to staff (see below for details)
  • Make sure to include us (Tammy and Lisa) in your staff/family newsletters. We are loving reading all about what is going on (and you have all been busy!)
  • Mark your calendars with our Horizontal and ICCL/Admin meetings now, so you can schedule around them. Click on the 23-24 admin calendar above for all the dates.

Reminders:

New Notes:

From Jennifer: Re: Update on where to put DHS and Suicide Risk Screen paper work:

Filing Guidance (DHS & Suicide Screens) 

o    There has been some confusion with building administrators and support staff on where to “hold” forms after a completed suicide risk screener or DHS report. Here are some reminders:

o    Suicide Risk Screener with Safety Plan: Notification goes to principal, written form stays with the person who completed the screener and safety plan – typically counselor/psych/SSC. A copy should be sent by the staff member that completed the process  to April Jorgenson via BLSend or district mail. 

o    DHS Reports:  Written form goes to the working file of principal (or designee) and a copy is sent to April Jorgenson via BLSend or district mail.

o    The written record of both the DHS form or Suicide Risk Screener/ Safety Plan should never be placed in the student’s cumulative folder

Office Manager/Staff Meeting Change: Office Managers have spoken and we have heard! After conversations the Level Leaders had with Janet and Marta regarding the feedback they have received about the monthly Office Manager meetings, the format will be changing, to include the whole office staff at your sites. There is so much information that really should be heard by the whole office and it will build the collaboration and support of one another to hear it together.

We all sat down to look at the calendar from now to the end of the year to plan out the dates, which we know are important, as it will be leaving your office needing to be covered by someone else in your building on these Wednsdays (timesheet someone, admin cover, etc.). We are giving you those new dates now, but know that Janet and Marta will share them out again in a future email. We just wanted you to be aware of the change that is coming and not to be caught off guard when it happens. While Office Managers get this blog, the rest of the office staff may not, so please let them know as well.

The new dates are as follows: 1/17, 3/6, 4/17, and May 22. The elementary teams will be meeting from 1:15-2:15 and the secondary teams will be meeting from 2:30-3:30. Locations will be determined at a later date and will be communicated.

OSU–Outdoor School Survey–You can get paid $25! OSU manages the Outdoor School grants for the state and they need information from the districts they support. We are one of those districts and they have received very few surveys from BLS. They are seeking some input through this survey on the following topics:

  • Roles and time you invest in coordinating and reporting on outdoor school
  • Suggestions for how OSU’s Outdoor School team could make your job easier
  • Strategies and lessons learned that might be helpful to others new to coordinating and reporting on outdoor school

Let’s help them out and take the survey—it will pay off—literally!! The survey takes about 15 minutes, and you’ll get a $25 gift card!

From Julie in Curriculum, Instruction, and Systems: Please share with your staff, these direct Links to Partner Up activities in Wayfinder: Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th

The SIW plan for Educator Network Day on January 10th from 1:45-3:15 will be lead by Admin/ICCL and will be dedicated to introducing and planning for the changes to the Oregon Math Standards. Please share this plan with your staff.

New to Sharezies: Check out this link to a form being created to support formal observations. It has been created based on conversations with some of you and you may find it helpful to document pre conversation, observation notes, and the post observation conversation.

From Scott in IT: Greetings! We have a couple of items to share as we look toward winter break.

Signing into Synergy: This is the final reminder regarding a change of process for staff who sign into Synergy Mobile applications. From now on, be sure you choose  “Sign In with BLS” whenever you are given the option.

The regular Username and Password fields will no longer provide access beginning this coming weekend.

Video streaming tips for classroom AV: Now that all our schools have Apple TV’s available in their classrooms, there has been some confusion about how best to stream video.   Apple TVs use  “Apple Airplay” to share what is on your computer with your classroom projector or flat panel TV. It is a very handy service that allows teachers to project wirelessly.  However, Apple Airplay does not support most video streaming services such as Netflix, Hulu or Amazon Prime.   It is important to note that this is a function of Apple Airplay that protects image quality and unintended buffering (delays).  NO, this is not a district setting that can be enabled or changed 😊.   On the rare occasion that video streaming is necessary in the classroom, teachers must use the HDMI cord and dongle that was originally provided with every classroom AV system. 

Does your classroom have a ceiling mounted projector? Be sure to unplug your HDMI cord from the wall plate and store it when not in use.  Wall plates are easily damaged by feet and vacuums.  Not to mention, they will cost your school $500 to replace if damaged! 

From Dave Here is a “Cheat sheet” to help schools with survey implementation. Among the many things included in here are links to YouthTruth’s standard parental notification and opt-out form in English and Spanish.

From Tammy and Lisa:

Here are the slides from the ICCL/Admin training this last week.

Here is a great one-pager on Family Engagement (ideas and measures) that Steve shared with us this week. Check it out!

Thanks for all your engagement this last Tuesday at our ICCL/Admin training. The school design work continues! Remember, you can continue to refine and adjust your plan as you learn about being more specific with the tasks and making measurable goals. This document is a great place to start in planning out your PD during school discretionary SIW days. Remember, those days are important to providing PD for your staff as we continue to grow and refine our skills. Until the day all students are at 100%, we will continually have learning to do. Our Instructional Coaches are amazing resources to reach out to to discuss next steps for your staff learning.

Important Dates

  • Dec 9, 10, 11, 13, 14 : Dates that Tammy will be at bargaining–Lisa is on call if need be
  • Dec 12 (3:30): TAG Meeting- Meeting Link Here
  • Dec 15: Tammy out
  • Dec. 18-January 1: Winter Break—See you all back in 2024!
  • Jan. 2, 3:00-5:00 Elementary Leadership, at Miller Elementary
  • Jan. 10. Educator Network Day, in your buildings from 1:45-3:15
  • Jan. 15 No School in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Jan. 23, 3:00-5:00 Elementary Leadership, at Buckingham Elementary
  • Jan 31, All Admin PD at Perseverance Hall, 3:00-4:30

And finally…

November 30, 2023

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If you are looking for a quick and easy staff spark, try out the idea below. La Pine had this going before break and Amanda has since found some good ones for December online. Happy swapping!

Do Now:

  • SLGGs are due tomorrow! Here is a link summarizing the SLGG uploading into UKG.
  • For our ICCL/Admin training on Tuesday, please print 8 copies of the Goals and Activities Page of your School Design Plan to bring with you. During our time together, you will share your goals with other schools as well as how you arrived at the activities you have chosen. Schools will share ideas and give feedback to one another which may cause you to make changes or add new activities to your list.
  • Complete your SIF Budget (down to $0) if you haven’t already!
  • Schedule a time between now and January for your DEI ICCL member to present to staff (see below for details)
  • Make sure to include us (Tammy and Lisa) in your staff/family newsletters.

Reminders:

New Notes:

From Dave re: State Assessments: Below is information regarding Oregon’s state testing notices and forms that we are required to provide to families. One change this year is the SEED survey is required to be made available to all students in grades 3-11. There is a SEED notice and opt-out form that is separate from the OSAS notice and form. You will see that the opt-out process is much more relaxed for SEED. At a minimum I would recommend posting documents on your school’s website and providing a link in a newsletter.  

  • OSAS 30-Day Notice and Opt-Out Forms for 2023-24: Per ORS 329.479, “At least 30 days prior to the administration of statewide summative assessments, a school district or public charter school must send to parents and adult students a notice about the statewide summative assessments.” This statute also requires ODE to “establish a form to excuse a student from taking a statewide summative assessment.” Based on the 2023-24 testing windows, districts and public charter schools must distribute the 30-Day Notice on or before March 4, 2024 for grades 3-8.
  • Forms: ODE has updated the combined 30-Day Notice and Opt-Out Forms in English, Spanish, and 12 additional languages for the 2023-24 academic year. All forms are published as both fillable and non-fillable PDFs within the “Forms” menu on the Test Administration page. Additional information is available in section 5.3 of the Oregon Test Administration Manual (TAM). The TAM and forms and many other resources are available here. https://www.oregon.gov/ode/educator-resources/assessment/Pages/Assessment-Administration.aspx
  • SEED Survey, Notice, and Opt-Out Form for 2023-24: In 2020-21, 2021-22, and 2022-23, schools and districts chose whether to offer the SEED Survey to their students. Beginning in 2023-24, in compliance with HB 2656, districts must make the SEED survey available to all students in grades 3-11 who are enrolled in Oregon public schools or programs. SEED notification and opt-out forms must be shared at least 5 days prior to administering the survey.
    • The SEED Survey gathers data from students statewide, in grades 3-11. The content of the survey varies by grade level. The survey measures student perceptions in four core constructs: • Access to learning resources • Opportunity to learn • Self-efficacy • Sense of belonging. More information on the SEED survey can be found on the SEED survey webpage.

From Curriculum and Instruction:

  • Life and Career Readiness: Please share these resources in your staff memo. Wayfinder has some great resources for Community Connection. Click on this link to get the directions on how to access the resources in Wayfinder’s Collections and the direct links. 
  • Update on Language Arts Adoption: EL Education by Imagine Learning is our finalist (not yet adopted) for English Language Arts Curriculum. Currently, we have 28 teachers teaching modules and providing feedback on implementation and professional learning needs. In January we will recommend to the board and then have a month to collect additional feedback. We will go back to the board in February to present feedback and ask for board approval moving forward. 
  • Winter DIBELS Schedule (check your scheduled date)
  • Upcoming Professional Learning: Here are a few dates next week where classroom teachers may be out of the building for professional learning:
    • 12/4- Math Leadership Academy -12-4 at Miller Elementary (Teachers from North Star and Miller)
    • 12/5-Co-Learning Studio -ALL  day at Pine Ridge (only teachers at Pine Ridge)
    • 12/7- Literacy Lab for 1st and 3rd year new hires-12:00-3:15 (Teachers from across the district)
    • 12/4- Admin/ICCL meeting -3:15-5:15 -Jewell Cafeteria
    • 12/7- Kindergarten Innovation and Design Team meeting- 4:00-6:00. Boardroom
  • RGR Access for Administrators: All elementary administrators now have school-level administrator accounts created in Really Great Reading (RGR). This empowers you to take a closer look at classroom data for your school, making it easier to track and support student progress. To get started, follow these steps to access your school-level administrator account:
    • Navigate to the RGR login screen at https://playground.reallygreatreading.com/login/
    • Click the ‘Trouble logging in?’ link, which will allow you to create a password for your account
    • Enter your district email address and click OK
    • Open the email from Reading Playground that is immediately sent to you to find the access code and input it into the RGR login page
    • Follow the on-screen prompts to create your password
    • Once back on the RGR login screen, enter your email address and password to log-in

Medical Moment:

  • How to Register for CPR/First Aid Training/Renewal Course for BLS Staff
    • UKG > My Info (drop down menu, 3 stacked lines upper left side, above your initials) > My Career > My Learning > Access Learning (upper right side) > Training (top black menu bar) > Courses > First Aid (on right side) > Click on First Aid Link > Click on green Enroll Now button
    • Online Course: Once staff have registered for the CPR/First Aid course, staff will receive an email with a link for the online course portion of the training. (If you do not receive a link within the next business day, please check your junk email. If it is not in your junk email, please email Michelle Spetic at [email protected])
    • In-Person Skills Training: Once the online portion of the training is completed, staff will receive a Google form to sign up for the 20 minute in-person skills training.
    • Certification Card: Staff will receive an email with your CPR/First Aid certification card within 1-2 business days after completing the in-person skills class.
    • List of Certified CPR/First Aid Trained Staff at Your Site: Stephanie Bend sends out quarterly reports to all schools that include cpr/first aid certified school staff names.
  • OAR 581-022-2220 –Each school shall have, at a minimum, at least one staff member with a current first aid/CPR/AED card for every 60 students enrolled, as set by ORS 339.345, and 342.664 and who are trained annually on the district and building emergency plans. Emergency planning will include the presence of at least one staff member with a current first aid/CPR/AED card for every 60 students for school-sponsored activities where students are present. (This includes field trips.)

From the Office of DEI:

  • Upcoming Dates:
    • Thurs, Dec 7th: First night of Hanukkah.  Please avoid scheduling events this evening.  Also, there is a public Menorah lighting at the Old Mill the evening of Dec. 7th—details here.  Please consider attending and/or encouraging your staff to attend if interested in supporting this community celebration.  
    • Tues, Dec 12th: Our Lady of Guadalupe Feast Day.  This is a holiday celebrated by many within the Latino/Hispanic Catholic community in particular.  For your awareness and scheduling, this includes evening church activities that many of our families attend.  
  • Family Liaison Team: Here is the updated information about our team of linguistically- and/or culturally-specific Family Liaisons: English version, Spanish version.
  • DEI ICCL Representatives: Don’t forget to connect with your school’s DEI representative about presenting to your ICCL team between now and January sometime.  See Kinsey’s email for details or reach out if you’d like to connect!  

HR Moment:

  • Performance Module: Goals For Certified Staff
    • All certified staff were expected to submit goals through UKG by December 1.  If you haven’t engaged with your staff to complete this task, please do so the week of December 4th.
    • Classroom teachers are required to submit SLGG goals and their UKG form is organized as such
    • Everyone else is prompted to submit goals but are not asked to submit SLGGs
      • Jennifer Hauth has emailed a goal template for Student Success staff for them to copy, complete and upload to their UKG goal form
      • Josh Marks has provided a goal template for Speech staff to do the same.  All Speech teachers are now pointing to building administrators for performance related tasks (goals, mini/formal, self-reflection and summative evaluations) 
    • If a staff member has not been provided with a template from someone who oversees their program, then they are to follow the instructions within UKG to provide their own personal goals for the year
  • Upcoming optional virtual performance drop in sessions: Monday, 12/4,  from 10:00 am – 11:00 am (Click here to join the meeting)
  • IMPORTANT: Evaluation and Non Renewal Reminder
    • If you have a Probationary 3 or Temporary 3 staff member of concern, this is another reminder that you should have already entered into the Focused Performance Review process with that person AND emailed [email protected].  Here is another method of viewing the P3/T3 staff that you are responsible for.  

Care Solace and Winter Break Messaging: Some administrators have asked for accounts for Care Solace in the past but we are now creating accounts for All admin. This week you will receive an email from Care Solace asking you to create an account with a password. Currently, school counselors, student success, school psychologists and nurses are trained to do “warm handoffs” and to make referrals. If you would like to be trained, please let Jennifer know or one of your trained staff members can show you in a few minutes. Also, you will have access to the admin dashboard to see the reasons why students and staff at your school are seeking referrals for mental health support. Please continue to promote Care Solace (Spanish) via newsletters to families and staff often. 

Inclement Weather: HERE are the Inclement Weather Guidelines for the 2023-2024 school year, which detail the guidelines and procedures to be followed in the event of severe weather conditions. To stay informed and receive timely updates, please subscribe to BLConnect so that you can receive notifications via text. To learn more about how weather-related decisions are made, visit the BLS inclement weather page: https://www.bend.k12.or.us/district/news-events/alerts-updates

TLC Update: November 29th TLC Update about Wayfinder, movement, and reserving coding robots!

From IT: Google recently made a change to their sign in mechanism that better complies with federal CIPPA rules.  Beginning this week, they require school districts to verify any applications or websites that require students to sign in with Google. In readiness, our district performed this pre-verification work beginning last summer.  Because our primary methods for signing into applications are either Microsoft or Clever (for most student applications) our list for Google was very short. In fact, Google has never been our preferred sign in authentication provider for any application or service.  

In IT we anticipated that there would be users who would need direction to alternative log in methods. Unfortunately, there were two other factors that were more difficult for us to predict:

  1. Students and teachers were accessing our known licensed apps using Google regardless of the instructed preferred methods.  This is understandable, as there can be a bit of automatic reaction when you see “sign in with Google” vs lesser-known alternatives.
  2. There were a multitude of applications that were neither known by Instruction or IT in use in our schools. These applications were not pre-verified.

I hope that this helps many folks understand the situation and I would encourage you to review the preferred log in methods for essential applications that you use in your classroom or position. If this method is not known to you, reach out for support in the following order:

  1. Check with a colleague who also uses the application.
  2. Look for guidance from training materials or the Instructional Tools website.
  3. Reach out to an instructional coach or the IT Help Desk.

Finally, there are some limited examples where we may need to temporarily enable Google Sign On. If you feel you have something that requires immediate attention, please contact Scott McDonald.

New to Sharezies: Question Prompts to Generate Gratitude (Thanks Heidi!)

From Tammy and Lisa: Safety Net Family Night information will be coming soon so you can invite your 4th and 5th grade families. Look for it in next week’s blog!

Important Dates

  • Dec. 5, (3:15-5:15): Admin and ICCL Training, Jewell Elementary Cafeteria,
  • Dec 4, 5, 11, 13: Dates that Tammy will be at bargaining
  • Dec 12 (3:30): TAG Meeting- Meeting Link Here
  • Dec 15: Tammy out
  • Dec. 18-January 1: Winter Break—See you all back in 2024!

And finally…

If you need a way to wind down and remember all the great goodies you had last week with family, take a listen to chef and author Bryant Terry as he guides a visualization to connect with our ancestors by appreciating our families’ traditional foods. The exercise starts at 1:50 and ends at 8:00. Give a listen and maybe put the Happiness Break podcast on your list! (Click on the picture to get things rolling)