Do Now:
- ICCL Work: Please remember to have your whole staff fill out the “Implementation Practices” survey by Friday 2/16. Also, make sure your ICCL team has scheduled a date to review your building data and set next steps after February 27. Here is the Admin/ICCL slide deck where slide 11 focuses on how to review the data.
- Schedule in some self-care time this coming weekend! You deserve it!
Reminders:
- Time for a reminder refresh—need something? Check out this section from last week.
New Notes:
From Jenny White (SEL/LCR): This week the Wayfinder highlight is an activity around LOVE and JOY. Directions on how to find the activity in WAYFINDER
Kindergarten – The Reflection in Me
1 – 2 – Joy Garden
3 – 5 – The Importance of Love
From Curriculum, Instruction, and Systems (Julie Walker)
Here is the template we will be using for mid-year core effectiveness meetings. Please make a copy if it doesn’t force you to do so. Please reach out to your instructional coach, Julie Walker, Lindsley Gehrig or Kerry Morton for support.
From Lora for Admin PD: Next Wednesday, 2/21, beginning at 3:00 in Perseverance Hall at BSHS, we will be doing a deep dive into the new collective bargaining agreements with BEA and OSEA. It is important for you to review the highlights of the certified CBA ahead of time and record questions and concerns:
Highlights of certified CBA 23-27
From Tammy and Lisa:
Thank you!!!! From the bottom of our hearts, thank so so much for all of you who interviewed, who was on an interview team, or who left your school to support another school while their teams were out for the interviews. We could not have done it without you! What a gift to work with such an amazing group willing to pitch in where needed.
Staffing: We talked with Brad this week, trying to get a better understanding about what to expect with the upcoming staffing season and how the significant budget shortfall will impact your staffing plans. We all know there will be cuts and some of you will feel it more than others, due to the nature of some school enrollments growing and some enrollments shrinking. We will also feel a pretty significant cut in HU funding as well. Over the course of the next three weeks, Lisa and I are going to schedule joint site visits with the sole purpose of giving you time to talk to us about your schools, your hopes, the realities of potential cuts and thoughts you may have about supporting students differently. We’ll send out an “agenda” with the specific questions we’ll want you to have time to process before we come.
Just remember, that when things are hard, your rate of making it through the hardest days of your life is 100%. Can’t beat that! We’ll get through this too, side by side, one step at a time.
Important Dates
- Feb 16: Bear Creek Principal Hiring Day
- Feb 19: President’s Day—This is not a paid holiday, so use non-contract if you don’t work
- Feb 21: Admin PD at Perseverance Hall at BSH–3:00-6:00–with substantial snacks! (This will cover the new contract–you won’t want to miss this!)
- Feb 27: 3:00-5:00. Elementary Leadership, at North Star Elementary
- Mar. 1: Education Foundation Grants are due: www.blpedfoundation.org
And finally…
Did you know that Friday, February 16 is National “Do a Grouch a Favor Day”? What will you do for your favorite grouch in your life today?
