Do Now:
- Please make a plan for Kindergarten Orientation. More info in Tammy and Lisa’s section.
Reminders:
- Job Fair: Please sign up for one shift at this link by Wednesday – March 20th. Job Fair will be April 4th from 1-6.
- End of Year Counselor Celebration: Please make sure you have scheduled at least one of your admin to be part of the counselor celebration from 8-9:30 on May 30th in the boardroom.
- End of Year Schedule: Now 6/5 will be an building discretion SIW and 6/12 will be a teacher-directed SIW. Please make sure all activities (even for those students who matriculate to a new level) are academic during our added days. This may mean that you need to move our celebrations to better send that message.
- Admin CPI VP target: Sign up HERE.
- TAG Testing Timeline: Please make sure these dates are on your radar and you have a plan for testing at your school.
- ECSE Information Update: Please review THIS GUIDANCE with your team as you make a plan for your site.
- Excellence in Educaiton: Please refer to Ryan’s e-mail about Excellence in Education Nominations. Due by March 24th!
New Notes:
From Jenny White:
- Wayfinder Activities of the week are focused on commitment and growth mindset. Kindergarten: Intro to Growth Mindset. 1st – 2nd: Drawing, Dancing, Dialogue. 3rd – 5th: Intro to Goal Setting
- Principals and leaders here is an idea you could use for your staff from Wayfinder. Believe. Video that is connected to the lesson: The Olympic Athlete that Teaches Kids About Life Hurdles. In a community circle or small table groups after watching the video teachers can share one thing that helps them believe or keep going when they are faced with hurdles.
TLC Update: March 6th Elementary TLC Update which includes:
- Restorative practices lessons from Wayfinder
- Movement moments
- Storyline Design course information
From Jennifer Hauth- StudentSafe Raptor Training: We have recently expanded our partnership with Raptor Visitor Management System to include one of their new products called StudentSafe. StudentSafe is platform to enter, collaborate, and track data round NSSI (non suicidal self injury), suicidal ideation (suicide risk screens). Eventually, we will use this platform for behavioral safety (threat) assessments for school teams as well. Stay tuned for more information this summer from Eric Powell.
On February 28th, all School Counselors, Nurses, School Psychs and Student Success Clinician/Coordinators were trained in the new platform and will be using this tool for all Suicide Risk Screens and NSSI going forward. School risk screening teams will enter these screens into this system moving forward and we will all be able to better collaborate and track student safety concerns in buildings going forward. You may have already received an alert in your inbox from a risk screen that has been completed in the last 10 days by one of your staff. The emails alerts will come from StudentSafe.
All building administrators have access to their school site(s) dashboards and data. 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 administrator or building team who would like more training, or for any technology issues or related problems, please contact our district Suicide Prevention Coordinator, Jamie Gunter ([email protected]).
From Paul in HR: This week office managers received information from HDESD about subs and a change to 4 hour sub positions. They will now need to be entered in as 3.99 in Red Rover and they were instructed to watch for this through the end of this year. Check in with your office manager about these new practices for your awareness and reach out if you have questions, reach out to Tammy or Lisa.
From Julie: Regarding….clarification on disposal of Wonders Materials….Information went out a couple of weeks ago communicating to teachers to go ahead and send home Wonders leveled readers. I strongly recommend teachers keep the leveled readers as additional reading materials in your classroom libraries. Additionally, I recommend keeping all of your Wonders and Wonderworks decodable readers as these are great resources!! Communication regarding anthologies will be communicated after Spring Break.
From Dr. Cook: Potential opportunity for fifth grade students in the area of science and space!
From Tami Pike: Clarification/Update to Overdose Emergency Kits
Information was included in your blogs last week on the Overdose Emergency Kits. Questions have come up regarding kit placement locations in school buildings. Currently, there are 2 doses of Narcan in every AED cabinet in our schools. The emergency kit cabinets received from OHA should be stored as follows:
Elementary Schools (each received 1 emergency kit cabinet)
- 1 overdose emergency kit cabinet mounted to the wall in the school nurse’s office.
- 1 box (2 doses) of Narcan to be placed in the orange front office first aid kit.
- All remaining extra Narcan doses received should be stored in the overdose emergency kit in the school nurse’s office.
Please inform your staff about the locations of the additional doses of Narcan. Many staff received Narcan training at the beginning of the school year by their school nurse. For additional Narcan training, please connect directly with your school nurse to arrange a training time.
From Tammy and Lisa:
Although we still do not have a finalized copy of the CBA for BEA, HERE is the tentative agreement that was shared with all members in order for them to ratify. As questions arise, please reach out for clarification. It will be several months before everything is crystal clear.
There are a couple of new tools in SHAREZIES in the area of Testing Tools. Check them out!
Per our contract: No later than the first week of April, building administrators will convene their Kindergarten staff to develop a plan for transitioning students into Kindergarten. It’s that time of year again when we begin to talk about Kindergarten Orientation Expectations so, by the end of next week, (March 15) please meet with your Kinder team to determine how you will meet the expectations outlined in the document above. All spring orientations will be in May. As soon as you have a plan for your site, please add your date and description to THIS DOCUMENT. Our district communications team will use this for to communicate to families all through April. And, we are tentatively planning to do our kindergarten roundup with the bus at parks on April 20th. More on this in future updates.
Important Dates
- March: Prep for Naglieri
- March 15: Kindergarten Orientation documentation due
- March 20: Admin PD at Perseverance Hall at Bend High 3:00-4:30
- March 20: Sign up for Job Fair due
- March 24: Excellence in Education Nominees are due!
- March 25-29: Spring Break—enter in UKG which days you will be taking as non-contract
- May 21: National Board Info Session 4:30-5:30 in board room
- April: Naglieri testing & SBAC for ELA
- April 2: Elementary Horizontal at Lava Ridge with Lava and High Lakes sharing!
- April 4: Central Oregon Job Fair
- May: SBAC for Math and Science
- May 30: School Counselor Celebration in board room 8-9:30
And finally…
