Video to consider

Thanks to Brad for sharing this funny, relevant, and inspiring video: Kid Superintendent. I encourage you to start your time diving into this blog post with a smile by watching this four minute video and allowing the message to seep into your mindset. Remember: “We need you here!”

To Dos

• Please review our HDMS Work Teams here. Thanks to those who already signed up! It is an expectation that all staff sign up to be a participant in one of these five groups, so your voice can continue to support guiding our school.
• Optional – If you would like to be a part of the District Focused Work Team, review them here and sign up if you’d like to participate.
• If you are interested in supporting HDMS as a Canvas Coach, please email Wendy by 9/8.
• Please pick up your copy of the HDMS Planner, in your box, so that you can use it and model your use for all our students, since they will have one as well.
• Not Light, But Fire – Please pick up your copy of Matthew Kay’s book by the mail boxes. We are working on the details for a book club for interested staff, stay tuned for more details.
• Staff shirts – We will pay for them, I just want you to select your size using this form [link updated].

Student support teams 20/21

• Counseling Team:
  • 6th-Lynne Tat
  • 7th- Cathy Tash
    • Brettney Bryant while Cathy is out on 3 week medical leave
  • 8th- Joe Albano
• SRC Team:
  • 6th- Jennifer Lashley
  • 7th- Megan Logan
  • 8th- Trish Havlin

Attendance

Here is a document that outlines the Attendance Requirements in CDL/Hybrid.

Technology Information

CANVAS

• As you know, a requirement during Comprehensive Distance Learning is to record and post any lesson (launch at a minimum) you deliver on that day. You may choose to do this either as a pre-recorded video or by recording the lesson when you teach live during a WebEx class.
  • After consulting with legal counsel, student voice, student image, and student name are ALLOWED to be recorded and uploaded/shared within your Canvas classroom. So you may, if you choose, record the first lesson launch you deliver live in Webex (using your laptop’s screen recording application), save that recording to your desktop, and then upload to your Canvas classroom.
• Here is an update on Canvas-related news.
  • We will share the district developed “Canvas Ready” module as soon as it is shared with us (likely early next week); this module will be delivered to students through their advisory. The HDMS advisory team is currently solidifying details for how we will deliver this info to students.

GOOGLE VOICE

• Here are some instructions on how to set up Google Voice. There are also these instructions that describe how to enable call forwarding with your school phone. Either/both of these processes will need to be done individually, as there will not be a district process that will occur to make it happen globally. Additionally, you are able to make a call from your personal phone and disguise your number by first dialing *67 (followed by the phone number you are calling). It is our understanding that staff can use Google Voice for texting families should you choose to.

RESOURCES

• The instructional technology team’s Remote Learning Tools webpage is continually updated and is full of helpful CDL tech info.
• If you are new to BLS or need general tech info (eg: laptop, printers, doc cams, etc.), be sure to check out the BLS Tech 101 website.
• HDMS’s district assigned technology coach is Christie McCormick. Reach out to them re: instructional technology support.
• If you need general tech support, enter a ticket here or call 541.355.1200. Susan Kirkpatrick is our site IT tech.

Protocols

• Here is an UPDATE regarding the distribution and collection of materials (between home and school). This document highlights changes that have been made from previous versions.

• If a staff member feels ill after entering a school site, they are to isolate themselves within the building and immediately call Wendy.
  • I will text Tami Pike, Health Services Supervisor with the following information:
    • This is Wendy and I have a staff member feeling ill.   Please call me.  The staff member can be reached at [insert phone number].
    • Tami will call me and advise about our next steps.

Bits and Bobs

• Optional, drop in office hours during CDL:
  • Admin team office hours in Wendy’s WebEx Room
    • This week: Friday (9/4) at 11:30am
    • Starting the week of 9/14: Tuesdays & Thursdays from 8:00-8:45am
  • ICCL hosted office hours in Houslet’s WebEx room every Wednesday from 8:00-8:45am

• HDMS Student Handbook 20/21: Here is a link to the draft handbook; all HDMS staff has been given rights to comment on this document. If you’d like, feel free to make suggestions using the commenting tool. Staff has until 9/8 to provide input. Once we have a finalized document, we will publish it on HDMS website. A huge shout out to Brettney for working diligently to create the first draft of the updated the student handbook!

• Our ICCL Team is currently creating modules to use during Advisory. More to come. FYI: Students will receive instruction on our Virtual Learning Expectations document during advisory.

• Synergy – Gina is working on balancing classes. This is proving to be more difficult than years past due to families removing students to do online learning. So just know that class list will be ever changing up until the 14th.

• Thanks for everyone’s positivity, flexibility, and enthusiasm during our Welcome Back activities on Tuesday. Click here to view the slide show.

• The “hot links” section on the right hand side of the blog has been updated for 20/21 school year. Please refer back to it often; we will add additional “hot links” as the year progresses.
  • An important “hot link” we added is the HDMS Teacher CDL Schedule. This internal schedule syncs with our community facing CDL schedule while also providing staff with more specific details/expectations regarding office hours, SIW, prep times, and Wednesday activities for students.

• Conversational Spanish Class – to sign up for the class, please log into Performance Matters, select the Calendar icon at the top.  Chose the first class date, then pick your class option.  This will take you to “View Learning Opportunity.”  Select the “Section” tab and hit register. (See a recent email from Stephanie Bent for different levels of course)

• The following is clarification of the workdays for classified EA positions prior to Sept. 14. During the week of Sept. 1 – 4, all classified (who aren’t on the clock yet) have one day of work to report in for. During the week of Sept. 7 – 11, classified EA (those who haven’t reported to work yet) folks have three days of work – specifically Wednesday – Friday.

Reminders

• Please continue to consider the needs of our Spanish speaking students and families. As you know, the challenges of navigating the language barrier is exacerbated during CDL. Be sure to utilize our Spanish Speaking Family Liaison Liz Vargas and partner with our ELL team of Wiebe and Aleksey. Links for translation/interrupter requests can be found under the “hot links” on the right hand side of the blog.

• During distance learning, please send all behavioral and/or social emotional concerns via email to all of the following: the student’s grade level counselor and the admin team (McCulloch, Kennedy, and Petersen).

Lasting thought:

Know that YOU are the right person for this job, in this time, for OUR students!! We are here to support and are in this together!