QUOTE OF THE WEEK

“Goodwill is the mightiest practical force in the universe” ~ Charles Fletcher Dole

TO DOS

• Mid year SLGG review: Sorry for the confusion Tuesday morning around this. As you review your SLGGs mid year, please email me if you are making any adjustments or running into any concerns with the data you are planning on gathering and allow me to support. If I don’t hear from you, I will assume you are on track with what you need to gather and complete for your SLGGs in a meaningful way by early June. See me with questions or concerns.
• Click here to see the dates this Spring when we will be doing SBAC.
• Classroom Grants from the Ed Foundation: Please see the email sent from Andrea Wilson with details, forms and next steps if you are interested.
• Click below to see the notes from our SIW work teams
  • Culture of Care https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1mo6NtpWRnrb2XjxHQHiSOh1788u8c_Ef?usp=sharing
  • PBIS meeting notes Here is the link
  • Advisory meeting notes Here is a link
  • AVID meeting notes https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_pVBU8oTbzXH_wkTUtvVmRIfdw3eI_q41XSIFtZECFU/edit?ts=5e179209
  • Equity meeting notes https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1YEPY3Dac_J0FmhDb317IjaJqh3XbzNdq

ADVISORY DETAILS

• Please find the link below detailing the College and Career lessons that will take place in advisory in the next six weeks. Each lesson is grade specific.
• https://docs.google.com/document/d/1G6x7K7DSrvZjSrY85xd4oY8d616BkyyQR47y8KWwsXY/edit?usp=sharing
• In addition, to this link a grade specific power point will be available on Google classroom. Please also note that depending on the weekly lesson additional material will be placed on Google classroom and/or in your mailbox. 
• Please feel free to contact Brettney or Joe if you have any questions or need any clarification on the material.

CULTURE OF CARE

Last week, we highlighted our 7th graders study skill class results and this week we celebrate Lynne’s work with our 8th grader study skills class. If you have one of these students, take a moment to praise their improvement and set a new goal for the second semester grade in your class.

HOODS:  My rule of thumb on addressing students wearing hoods is to politely remind the student once. If I see it again, I then let them know that I’m filling out an observation form. This past week, a lunch detention was assigned to a student after I warned him early in the morning and then saw him wearing the hood again in the afternoon. The next morning, he sent me the following email.

Hey Mr.Dean this is Hunter and I think that it’s unfair I have lunch
detention for one day the reason I had my hood up was because me and my
girlfriend had an argument that day and I was sad and wasn’t feeling well and I feel like I shouldn’t have lunch detention be I wasn’t in the right mindset for school and I’m sorry I know I wasn’t supposed to wear hoods  but like I
said I wasn’t right that day but I’m better now and I just want a fresh start
and to not have to go to lunch detention today because it won’t happen again.

Whether or not his story about the girlfriend was true or not, I replied to
him, I’ll take you off lunch detention today because you expressed yourself
in such a thoughtful and respectful way.  I trust that this won’t
happen again.

I’ll take the risk that he was indeed sorry because I value that our HDMS
staff are trying to teach students appropriate ways to interact with adults
when they don’t agree with them. Even if he is caught wearing his hood again (and that is likely since I’ve identified him so publicly in this blog), it was worth reinforcing positive behaviors when we see them.

PBIS update:  Please continue to flood this system by passing out Diamondbucks whenever you “catch” students doing the right thing.  We are continuing our weekly drawings and our next student store is scheduled for 2/26.  Please encourage students to check out the display case near the bus entrance to see the cost of items that will be for sale.  A huge thank you to staff members willing to host students who purchased a pizza party during lunch on 2/14!!!

AVID

• During SIW on the 19th after we de-brief our Scrub In experience we will hear more details about what makes a strong AVID candidate and then have time to make recommendations.

BITS AND BOBS

• An event you may find interesting. The Adult Programming team at the Deschutes Public Library is hosting a free program that will cover the inclusion of tribal history in Oregon schools.  The event will be held at the East Bend Library on Saturday, March 14th at 3:00 p.m.   Here is the link for the event.

• Sustainability: One way we can improve is to completely power down classroom presentation stations by simply turning off the switch on the cart’s power strip to avoid phantom power use.  Ideally, we’d do this every day, but at minimum, it should be done every Friday.
  • Green Team students (from Joe’s study skills class) will help remind staff every Friday during 7th period by brining each classroom teacher a laminated Phantom Friday reminder flyer.  Please return this flyer to Albano or Kennedy’s box.  Let’s aim for school-wide “Phantom Power down Fridays!!”

HDMS HIGHLIGHTS