1.10.2020

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QUOTE OF THE WEEK

“A peculiar behavioral habit at HDMS is the possession of joy!  Many thanks to the leadership for making HDMS a great place to educate”.

~anonymous HDMS staff member response to our 4 question survey

TO DOs

ADVISORY for 1.15.2020

  • MLK: I Have a Dream Lesson 
  • Copy of the speech will be posted to the HDMS Student Google Classroom so students can annotate the text in Notability.  

AVID CONTINUED PD

12 Career Ready Practices AVID College and Career: A Schoolwide Approach

(National Association of State Directors of Career Technical Education Consortium/National Career Technical Education Foundation, 2012)

  • 1. Act as a responsible and contributing citizen and employee.
  • 2. Apply appropriate academic and technical skills.
  • 3. Attend to personal health and financial well-being
  • 4. Communicate clearly, effectively, and with reason.
  • 5. Consider the environmental, social, and economic impacts of decisions.
  • 6. Demonstrate creativity and innovation.
  • 7. Employ valid and reliable research strategies.
  • 8. Utilize critical thinking to make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.
  • 9. Model integrity, ethical leadership, and effective management
  • 10. Plan education and career path aligned to personal goals.
  • 11. Use technology to enhance productivity
  • 12. Work productively in teams, while using cultural/global competence.

Collaborative Conversations

Here is a 3 and half minute video of a teacher with a younger student in a Collaborative Conversation. You’ll notice that even though the conversation bounces around from empathy to teacher concern to problem solving and backwards again, the student is doing most of the talking and the student-teacher relationship is being nurtured through the process.

BITS AND BOBS

  • DI Update: Exciting news—our family is growing! We are pleased to share with you that we are expanding Bend-La Pine Schools’ K-12 Dual Immersion Program to include another elementary host school. Beginning this fall, RE Jewell Elementary will offer one class of Dual Immersion kindergarten, which will grow up each grade from there. This expansion to a fourth site(and a second elementary school) will increase overall space in the DI program, maximize access for more neighborhoods, decrease strains on transportation services,and help us continue hiring amazing bilingual/bicultural staff members into the school district.Jewell’s principal Scott Edmundson says, “We are very excited to offer this wonderful program here.We think the skills, abilities, and confidence that the Dual Immersion model will develop in our Spanish-and English-speaking students will be invaluable to them as future-ready community members.”This message is just for your information—there is no impact on families currently enrolled and participating in the program,and we will continue to offer Dual Immersion at Bear Creek, High Desert, and the new high school (with Bend High during the transition). If you have questions, feel free to reach out. Welcome, Jewell Jaguars, to nuestra familia!

  • The Oregon Department of Education (ODE) is seeking educators interested in participating as item writers for the Oregon Summative Assessments in ELA and Mathematics. This commitment would include time for both onsite training and item review, as well as time for the independent development of items. Please complete the following application and submit by no later than Thursday, February 6, 2020. ODE will notify successful applicants for both ELA and math by Monday, February 10, 2020, of their inclusion in the project, along with information on the next steps.

  • I wanted to share with you (again) our district’s Inclement Weather Delay guidelines for this school year. This is one of those documents that would be good to review prior to needing to implement it.

  • As you likely are aware, Mid Oregon Credit Union and KTVZ sponsors the One Classroom at a Time awarding $500 with a KTVZ News story to share with the community and highlight great things happening in schools. They are currently looking for innovative and relevant classroom programs that we can feature.

  • I want to highlight (as there is only one person signed up as of earlier this week). There will be a Literacy Strategies Conference open to all/any classified employees on Jan. 31 (hosted at 3RVRS), taught by our district instructional coaches. Because this is a non-work day for most classified staff, those that attend will be paid. Here is a flyer with additional information.

HDMS HIGHLIGHTS

First Friday breakfast!
Joy in Action!