Who has voted? So far, 14 percent of Deschutes County voters have returned their ballots for the May 21 primary election, which includes measure 9-167, the Learning Levy for Bend-La Pine Schools.
Election Day is just one week from today! If you haven’t voted yet, now is the time to mark and return your ballot. You can mail it or drop it off at one of the county’s ballot drop boxes, located here: deschutes.org/clerk/page/ballot-drop-box-locations
If you need more information about the 5-year Learning Levy, please visit bls.fyi/levy.
Do Now:
Please add one last effort to your families to encourage everyone to vote. The levy page has information about the levy as well as videos that you may want to share with others to increase information access. LEVY VIDEO
For those of you who have a reader board at your site, please put up a levy message to stay up between now Tuesday, Election Day. Thank you!
Please meet with your 5th grade teachers and take this survey by Wednesday regarding Camp Tamarack. We need your input to move forward. Thanks!
By now you should have shared YouthTruth information with staff and are likely processing with ICCL members. If you haven’t already, make a plan to share information with families. HERE is an example from Juniper that may come in handy when you design your share with families. Dan used Canva to make this. Thanks for sharing!
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.
iPad Roll-in: Refer to last week’s blog for direction on this.
Lewis and Clark Admin Cohort: If you know of anyone who is interested in starting their administrative (Principal) licensure program this next fall please share the flyer below with them. Flier for more information.
Packing Up Wonders: Please refrain from boxing any hardbound books as we are finalizing a specialized box for shipment to a recycling facility in Vancouver. If books are already boxed, please leave them as is until the next steps are finalized. Soft-cover books and paper product manipulatives can be recycled in the large blue co-mingle bins or go home with students. Please start this process early so as to not overload the carts.
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!
From Scott in IT: Bend-La Pine Schools IT is rolling out a security change to staff Macs that you may need to be aware of if you have installed personal software on your Mac.
If you run into any issues with this process, you can contact the IT Help Desk at ext. 1200 or open an IT support ticket at https://help.bend.k12.or.us.
From Kinsey: Can you please take a moment to share here your feedback related to our Admin PD session this week? Thank you for taking the time to share your perspective!
Here are the policies referenced during our scenario work at the Admin PD session this week, in case any of them piqued your interest:
Have a suggestion for a policy update or revision? Share it here!
Regarding your team’s bias incident data analysis: I’d recommend saving somewhere the link to your level/school’s data, for use next fall as you prepare staff to teach the bias lessons. If your team would like to further discuss your data (or your response or record-keeping processes), please reach out.
From Special Programs: Administrators and Supervisors, Good News our pool posting(s) for our Inclusion EA positions for 24-25 school year are now posted on our website. Please direct any interested candidates to these postings (this would include any temporary Inclusion EA’s who are interested in returning). There are three postings, one for Bend Area, one for South County, and one temporary.
Snow Days & Time Off Approvals: Please remind your staff whose snow make-up day(s) time off was approved to enter them into UKG
ICCL Hiring: Please refer to this document on ICCL posting/hiring.
School Administrator Performance Evaluation Bug: We’ve encountered some problems with Domain 9, Standard 6 populating correctly. If that domain/standard appears on your self-reflection or summative evaluation, please skip it for 2023/24.
From HR part II: Summative Evaluations – Due by June 30th
We are entering into the final stretch of the performance evaluation process for 2023/24. Please refer to the self-reflection videos for information on how to interact with the ratings and submit summative evaluations forms in UKG. It is an expectation that you meet with the people that you supervise to discuss their evaluation before Finalizing it.
If you have an employee of concern, please be sure that your summative evaluation captures the areas of deficiency that you’ve discussed with them. In addition, add to your summative evaluation comment box if you are moving them to Focused Performance Review for 2024/25.
Drop an Outlook calendar invite to Paul if you have an employee of concern that you wish to discuss.
HR will have a virtual training for anyone who would like a refresher on how to complete Summative Evaluations on Thursday, May 16 at 11 am. Use this link for the meeting (Join the meeting now). If you can’t make this session and would like us to schedule another one next week, please email [email protected] with your desire for an additional session.
Resources
Here is an instruction video to share with your staff on how to complete self-reflections
Here is an instructional video for admin on how to review, submit and finalize self-reflections
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.
June 15-16: Juneteenth Community Celebration in Drake Park
June 20: 11:30 am Admin end of year celebration
TBD: Last Horizontal meeting/celebration of the year will be rescheduled! Stay tuned!
And finally…
Give some extra kuddos to our Speech and Language Pathologists this month! May is a time to celebrate their often unseen, but so important work! Thank you SLPs!
