Congratulations to our new Deputy Superintendent! We are so lucky to have you championing leadership and the support of all students in Bend-La Pine Schools! (and I’m not just saying it because she will be my boss–ha-ha–it’s true!). We are proud of you Lisa!
Do Now:
All the things
Reminders:
- 504 Training option for Administrators from CASE: LINK HERE!
- Curriculum checklists: Consider attaching these to your school’s checkout list so that everyone has what they need as they start the year in the fall. The documents live here: Curriculum Checklists Folder.
- Youth Truth. By May 29, meet with your ICCL teams to synthesize the information you get from the posters at the data walks, and decide what you want to focus on. Write the 2 areas of focus and link them in your School Design Plans under the Annual Plan Review Tab in the mid-year location. Thank you!
- Roger White support: Want to help? Click this link. or Venmo Patrick to help with a bike for Roger!
- TLC Update: May 15th Elementary TLC Update
- Inservice Week Certified work calendar for 24-25. (note–we will be talking about some required training for Instructional EAs on the 29th and 30th, that may influence your PD time. We’ll go over this at our May 28 Horizontal
- Dibels Testing Dates: Here is the schedule. (make 12 stations, let them test all K-5 kids, clear schedules and make testing the priority)
- From Culture of Care: Check out our latest news and workshop offerings!
- ICCL Hiring: Please refer to this document on ICCL posting/hiring.
New Notes:
From Julie Walker, Curriculum and Instruction: Please share with your classified staff
Are you interested in helping to check-in, unpack and label our new Elementary Language Arts Curriculum? If so, we are hiring 7 internal classified employees to work for 2+ weeks from July 29th-August 9th. If you would like to apply to be a part of this team follow these steps:
- login to UKG
- Go to 3 bars at top
- click on my info
- click on my career
- click on search for jobs
- search for “Language Arts Materials Distribution”
- click on Apply Now
Please reach out to Julie Walker with any questions you have.
Wonders Recycling–PDF of the two pages below is here. It needs to be printed and posted in important locations in your school. You can also send it to staff as a pdf. Let’s work on our sustainable practices in BLS as we get ready to transition to a new curriculum!
From Jenny White, Life and Career Readiness: Planning and Prioritizing Collections in Wayfinder: Enhance students’ organizational and time management skills with this collection of activities and lessons. Through planning templates, prioritization exercises, and goal-setting strategies, students will learn how to effectively manage their tasks, responsibilities, and commitments. These resources promote efficiency, accountability, and a balanced approach to academic and personal life.
Directions on how to find the collections on Wayfinder
Direct Links: Kindergarten. 1 – 2. 3 – 5
From Scott in IT: CHANGE IN i-PAD information. A majority of schools were slated for either a complete swap of their student iPads or were going to be receiving replacements for 6th and 7th gen iPads. This swap is currently on hold. A purchase is still anticipated, but the timeline has changed. The determining factors for this delay are:
**Moving to the next generation of iPad involves investment in peripheral technology that is greater than anticipated – namely keyboard and headphone adaptors.
**Logistical and instructional considerations that may impact school locations that actually need to swap devices.
At this time, plan on your roll-in to continue as planned outside of any devices being retired. iPads will need to be stored like in years past by student last name, next year’s teacher, etc. The Tier 1 website will reflect these changes as soon as possible. Please reach out to your building’s IT Client Services tech, a fellow Tier 1 or Roy Fuller for help or idea’s for rolling in. For a quick reference see below for all Elementary iPads:
o K-4th grade iPads will stay with the current student
o 5th grade will roll down to incoming KG
We will continue to remove any 6th gen iPads that have issues or swap any 6th or 7th gen iPad for a student who needs a newer device for OCR support as we’ve always done. High Schools will continue to receive 9th gens as replacements to keep device types consistent.
From Nick Shein in the Business Office: As we approach the end of the year, we wanted to get some quick accounting information and reminders out to you all. Please review, and reach out to Nick Shein ([email protected]) if you have any questions or concerns.
- Budgets: A recap of the typical funds available to you can be found here in case you are looking for other budgets to charge expenses too. It is perfectly acceptable to move allowable expenses out of your discretionary budgets and into some of these other funds as a way to balance your budgets or to preserve the spending flexibility that your discretionary budgets provide (ie discretionary can be spent on the widest variety of items).
- Carry Overs: With the reductions planned for next year, we are allowing a carry over of 20% in your school discretionary and athletics budgets this year. That is up from the typical 10%.
- Petty cash: If you have petty cash, please make sure it is counted and reconciled before you close your school for the summer.
Guidance on Gift Cards:
- For Staff: Gift cards for staff CANNOT be purchased with District funds at any time or for any reason. You may, however, purchase gift cards with your personal funds (your own pocket) and give them to staff so long as the value is less than the gift threshold of $50
- For Students: Gift cards CAN be purchased with District funds for students as prizes or incentives. The value must be $10 or less, and the cards must only be valid for stores that do not sell alcohol, tobacco or other items inappropriate for students. You must keep an inventory of the cards if purchasing in bulk. The exception is Title–please do not buy any gift cards with Title funds.
- For FAN: Your FAN advocates cannot accept gift cards to be used for FAN families, so your school should not solicit gift cards for FAN. Your PTOs are separate entities and, though inadvisable, CAN do a gift card drive for FAN if they really want too. However, the PTO must maintain ownership of the cards and will ultimately have to donate the cards to the FAN Foundation instead of your advocate ( https://familyaccessnetwork.org/).
From Tammy and Lisa:
The Levy The failure of the levy was a disappointing moment this week and we would be remiss not to acknowledge that. Dr. Cook said it well when he stated, “While this news is undoubtedly disheartening, I want to assure you that we will regroup and navigate this funding challenge together. Our commitment to providing a high-quality education for all our students remains steadfast, and we will continue to advocate vigorously for the resources we need.” We believe that! Now more than ever, we need to come together in a unified message that the state of Oregon needs to better support schools, where future of Oregon is currently seated.
HERE is a link to the state-wide video that Steve and other Superintendents put together regarding the 25-27 biennium and was discussed during the training on Wednesday.
School Administrator Performance Evaluation: Whoa! We just found out that you all are evaluating yourself on 71 domains/standards! Stop the presses–pause your self-evals if you haven’t done them yet. Let us talk with HR tomorrow to see if we can clean that up. It should only be about 10 domains—It looks like all the “look fors” for each domain got entered as tasks—that is not right. Stay tuned!
Reminder: Our next Horizontal meeting is the day we get back from break. It will be at Rosland Elementary and will still start at 3:00. Please plan accordingly to get there on time.
School Counselor Celebrations, May 30 in the board room. We are looking forward to seeing every school represented who currently have counselors and hoping that even those who do not, will come see the great work that our counselors are doing, knowing that next year, all elementary schools will have some level of counseling. What a celebration! Hats off to Jennifer Hauth, for her steadfast work in making this happen for our students.
Important Dates
- May 28: Horizontal Meeting @ Rosland 3:00-5:00 (Please add in travel time, as we will be starting on time)
- May 30: School Counselor Celebration in board room 8-9:30
- June 1: Pride @ Drake Park (BLS Family Advisory hosting a booth)
- June 6: GSA in the Park: 10-1 at Troy Field/Ed Center
- June 6: TAG Night at Juniper 5-6 pm
- June 15-16: Juneteenth Community Celebration in Drake Park
- June 20: 11:30 am Admin end of year celebration
- June 21: Last Horizontal meeting/celebration of the year 2:00-4:00, location TBD!
And finally…
