{"id":37,"date":"2023-08-10T23:38:51","date_gmt":"2023-08-10T23:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/tammy.doty\/?p=37"},"modified":"2023-08-15T03:02:58","modified_gmt":"2023-08-15T03:02:58","slug":"august-10-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/tammy.doty\/2023\/08\/10\/august-10-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"August 10, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/tammy.doty\/files\/2023\/08\/IMG_5749-1024x764.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-100\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life!&#8221;&#8212;amy poehler<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We absolutely had to reuse that quote again after the amount of time and connection that was had by you amazing people these last few days.  Lisa, Julie, and I had a &#8220;debrief&#8221; yesterday afternoon when all was said and done.  Our conversation was around feeling more <strong>inspired<\/strong>, better <strong>connected<\/strong>, <strong>supported <\/strong>by you all, more <strong>prepared<\/strong>, and <strong>hopeful<\/strong> for a great start to the year!   Now that all our brains are full and gears are turning, let&#8217;s go keep the main thing the main thing&#8212;-belonging and high quality instruction! <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">FYI<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Summer Care Institute with the HDESD: <\/strong>Our Culture of Care coaches invite you and your teams to join any or all of the Care Institute offerings next week. <a href=\"https:\/\/cultureofcareoregon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/2023-Summer-Institute.pdf\"><strong>Take a look and follow the links<\/strong><\/a> to register. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Task Force Team Members: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1tb6q8sBUezjHRfKqtW4fr7plaq3L6YAV\/view?usp=sharing\"><strong>HERE<\/strong><\/a> is the list of team-members on the task force. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Office Managers Meeting <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/16NH6XPjGJRVhdF__s0WucjShEt4laJrE\/view?usp=drive_link\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/16NH6XPjGJRVhdF__s0WucjShEt4laJrE\/view?usp=drive_link\"><strong>Powerpoint<\/strong>&#8211;<\/a>-in case you were wondering what was covered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>PBIS Presentation <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/presentation\/d\/1gu45p-kUdeHly_stD4Q0Q9FXQcJZAdAB9Gmvwx_yqIA\/copy\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/presentation\/d\/1gu45p-kUdeHly_stD4Q0Q9FXQcJZAdAB9Gmvwx_yqIA\/copy\">Slides<\/a><\/strong>&#8211;it will force a copy and you can use it as you wish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>August 9 Launch<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/presentation\/d\/1qvj90G-yxdH3S_e0JLnG0Kot1nd6Xm9wScywOBIY1e0\/edit?usp=sharing\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/presentation\/d\/1qvj90G-yxdH3S_e0JLnG0Kot1nd6Xm9wScywOBIY1e0\/edit?usp=sharing\"> Slides<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1TCh2ShSzDJDuJi6qbUp6UUO8GAuFqshC\/view?usp=drive_link\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1TCh2ShSzDJDuJi6qbUp6UUO8GAuFqshC\/view?usp=drive_link\">Program from Launch<\/a>.<\/strong> This has an updated roster, updated calendar, includes the color descriptions for &#8220;what color is your personality&#8221;, and we eliminated all the note pages.  We didn&#8217;t mention the last two pages were just a couple of resources for you to have around community building and self-care.  <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Reminders and Asks<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>From Lora regarding the role of Media Managers:  <\/strong>  Here is a <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1lJvCECvMsgTfKKTMukwblWofdGRhQO1t\/view?usp=drive_link\">link to a document <\/a>outlining the guidelines for our media managers.  Please let us know if you have any questions or want to discuss any ideas around how you used them in your school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>From Lora:<\/strong>&nbsp;Just a friendly reminder that is in violation of Oregon law to require or even ask K-12 students to provide or pay for ANY supplies required for their \u201cfree and appropriate public education.\u201d Here are the exceptions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Instrument rental<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>PE uniforms<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>(applies only to elective classes) Materials for projects that the student will keep (i.e. jewelry). Students cannot be prohibited from taking the class if they don\u2019t pay a materials fee, they just can\u2019t keep the projects.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For the law\/policy geeks, here is the law:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/oregon.public.law\/statutes\/ors_339.155\">https:\/\/oregon.public.law\/statutes\/ors_339.155<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>From Doug Pigman, Executive Director of Facilities, regarding summer maintenance:   <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Welcome back Administrators!&nbsp; We hope you had a restful summer, and you had an opportunity to do something fun.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We wanted to send out a recap email to&nbsp;provide an update&nbsp;on the current state of our Outside Services crew. Knowing that we have struggled in the past to get the&nbsp;needed&nbsp;summer help,&nbsp;&nbsp;we posted the positions mid-February in an attempt to get our posting out before&nbsp;the&nbsp;competition. We were looking to hire and onboard 13 temporary&nbsp;summer staff but received very little response. At that time, the job openings were posted, and the projects and workload had been identified, but&nbsp;by mid-June, we had only one (1) additional summer staff member on board. By late July, we had only four (4) additional summer staff onboarded, however, during this time, we were then five (5) permanent staff down, putting our team at a deficit of one (-1). As a result of being extremely short-handed, our staff has been working overtime in an attempt to keep up as much as possible, but everyone can clearly see it is not humanly possible with this much of a staffing shortage. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our permanent employees, who would normally be committed to summer projects, have now had to switch to mowing and maintaining the grounds the best they can. The normal areas where attention has been historically focused, such as weeding, parking lot sweeping, sidewalk edging and other normal summer tasks, were simply out of our control to fully maintain. Field lining is set to begin next week; therefore, we will need to move employees from the mow crew to complete field lining on time, which means we will have even fewer employees maintaining grounds at this time.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Outside Services crew takes great pride in their work and would like to have everything finished for the returning students this fall. &nbsp;If there are specific projects you may have requested to be completed this summer and it has not been done, our team requests your patience as&nbsp;we are working to the best of our ability.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For your viewing pleasure,<a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1UaJbu_D6kqa9JlzpO7PF9z23U-GOks2b\/view?usp=drive_link\"> here is a copy of 2022 Bond projects<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>From Scott Maben, Communications:  <\/strong>Our Welcome Back virtual presentation for all district staff will be Tuesday, August 29, from 8:30 to 9:30 a.m. This will be a Microsoft Teams meeting. In the event it runs a little past 9:30, we advise not scheduling other staff activities before 10 a.m. that day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We encourage you to gather your building staff for a group viewing of our Welcome Back event\u2026 perhaps serving breakfast treats, creating a Bingo game, using a campfire theme. Have fun!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A \u201csave the date\u201d postcard was recently mailed home to all district employees and noted more information will be shared via email. We anticipate sending that email to all district no later than Monday, August 14. Our final agenda planning meeting will be this Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You may be asked why, post-pandemic, we are still holding this meeting virtually. It\u2019s about the logistics of gathering all staff in one location and the distance employees need to travel. The impact on the rest of the workday is especially challenging for our south county schools. We want to make it as easy and stress-free for all employees to join us for this one-hour kickoff to the school year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>From Eric Powell, Assistant Director of Student Services<\/strong> :  <strong>SIRC (Sexual Incident Response Committee) \/STAS (Student Threat Assessment System) Information<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">*Please review your SIRC\/STAS Level 1 Team for the school year (and add\/update names as needed):&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1FtXrDFPrUIsXqyf-VG_ZUnLQZZIRClr2d2mZVE18PXU\/edit?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2023-2024 SIRC\/STAS Teams Link<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">*Please sign up for one of the SIRC\/STAS trainings below to be prepared for the school year:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLScxyJDCvLwaYwy9-mWiYPqSYD9Cobk1HD5qp_DFofLtCbpmgQ\/viewform\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>2023-2024 Training Dates (STAS)<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSf7G-1vcBy2X9mvfP0vy1a6umTttqHq9SBnqnAYQvgHWT_Icg\/viewform\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>2023-2024 Training Dates (SIRC) &#8211;&nbsp;<\/em><em>Elementary<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSdcLqI1vzRCiIyvtveyGVqmxLzGFKP7ansfdTrAyAd2yMZ6qA\/viewform\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>2023-2024 Training Dates (SIRC) &#8211; Secondary<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">*Here is a link to our SIRC\/STAS 101 document (also linked in the &#8216;Resource Guide&#8217;) for you to reference as you think about threat assessment for the school year:&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/10nJdk1U8a2O4z-sNZmkjLxawV1sddt7UOsUrhn_l1ZM\/edit?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\">SIRC\/STAS 101<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>From Scott McDonald, Director of Instructional Technology <\/strong>Greetings, Your IT System Support team provides many important training opportunities for admin, office, and support staff at the start of the year. You can find a calendar of available offerings and support documentation on the&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/bendlapine.sharepoint.com\/sites\/SynergySupport\/SitePages\/School-Office-System-Support.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cOffice Staff Essentials\u201d<\/a>&nbsp;page in the staff portal. PLEASE make sure your office staff is both aware of the training calendar and that they are protected from schedule conflicts as much as possible. Our IT team is not available for make-up sessions. One-to-One support will need to be provided by staff in similar roles.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Any of these training sessions are open to administrators. Having multiple people in your building with operational knowledge of our systems is strongly encouraged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Staffing Plans<\/strong>: Keep on updating those plans! (Staffing Summary Tab\u2013update actual numbers in column E and section averages). Don\u2019t know what we are talking about? Not to worry, we\u2019ll provide some 1:1 support next week!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Inservice Week :<\/strong>&nbsp;Here is a reminder of the<a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1ZPIq6Q3E7fPniqUWyUYdDwNljJcJx938\/view?usp=sharing\">&nbsp;the guidelines<\/a>&nbsp;for inservice week, as you and your leadership teams plan and prepare for your launch to the school year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Important Dates!<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>August 11,&nbsp;<\/strong>Wayfinder training, virtual link sent to you from Jennifer Hauth. 9:00-10:00<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>August 14<\/strong>, 9:00-12:00: Title 1 Meeting in the Boardroom (Title schools only). You will want to bring school admins, office managers, and you are welcome to invite your title teachers (we can pay them) but will leave it up to you to invite depending on what they do. Please bring your computer too!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>August 21:<\/strong>&nbsp;8:00-12:00: Elementary Admin Horizontal, Board Room<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>August 28<\/strong>, 7:30-9:00: New Teacher Orientation Day at North Star Elementary<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>August 29<\/strong> 8:30-9:30+  District Virtual Welcome Back Event (see Scott&#8217;s notes above about the enthusiasm around it.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>August 30<\/strong>, all day: Districtwide Wayfinder and Really Great Reading Training for all<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>September 6, <\/strong>first day of school!  It is a full Wednesday.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Tammy: (541) 408-1382<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>Lisa: (541) 977-8183<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">and finally\u2026. this is my kind of baseball!<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"1 minute of Baseball Bloopers - T-ball is the funniest\" width=\"530\" height=\"298\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7es0QcxbLzk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life!&#8221;&#8212;amy poehler We absolutely had to reuse that quote again after the amount of time and connection that <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/tammy.doty\/2023\/08\/10\/august-10-2023\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  August 10, 2023<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":698,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/tammy.doty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/tammy.doty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/tammy.doty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/tammy.doty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/698"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/tammy.doty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/tammy.doty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/tammy.doty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions\/103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/tammy.doty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/tammy.doty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/tammy.doty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}