5.1.2020

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Quote to consider

‘Invest in relationships. Life is hard. None of us has the strength to do it alone. We need people to encourage and inspire us so we can encourage and inspire others.” ~ Simon Sinek

Appreciation Week

As you know, May 4-8 is Teacher Appreciation Week, a time to celebrate our classroom teachers, counselors, school nurses, and other certified staff members. Whether we are serving in person or remotely, I know our staff members care deeply about our students!

Please consider sharing a quick video, drawing, or photo saying thanks on Bend-La Pine Schools’ fun new webpage and the district will share with our community to spread the love and support folks feeling celebrated and appreciated.  Share your stories here

Arming/Disarming the Alarm

Please see this document that provides directions on how to arm and disarm the building’s alarm system. This document has also been added as a quick link on the right side of the blog’s home page. Let Tim know if you have further questions.

Annual Handbook

This year, we are getting creative with the production of our annual Family Handbook and Calendar, which is mailed home to families before the start of each school year. For the 2020-21 calendar, we are inviting students to submit artwork and photographs to be featured. Alandra is sharing this opportunity district-wide, but we also would like to invite teachers to share this opportunity with students (elementary classroom teachers, art teachers, photography teachers, or anyone interested!).

The theme is #BLSproud. What makes you proud to be part of your school or your school district? Share a piece of artwork or a photograph that conveys that sentiment.

Deadline: May 25, 2020

Students can use this link to submit artwork.

Questions? Contact Alandra

Staffing:

Due to the current situation our district is not expecting any SIA dollars. This means we are unable to expand staffing like we had previous hoped. Below are a few updates to note:

  • Fred Kent has accepted a position teaching Science at BSH. Julie McCabe will continue to teach Science at HDMS.
  • Suzanne King is retiring. We will be able to post a World Languages position as soon as our district is out of a ‘hiring freeze’.
  • Martin Wardle has had a temp .33 to support SS and electives. This will be posted once the ‘hiring freeze’ is lifted.
  • I hope to post an EA Wellness Support position, this is the spot that Brettney has served in this year.
  • Coaching openings:
    • 2 Head coaches for Volleyball
    • 1 assistant coach for Volleyball
    • 1 assistant coach for Football

Student Engagement

We’ve updated our HDMS Remote Learning spreadsheet to reflect student engagement stats for April 8 – 22nd.  Overall, students are doing a great job connecting  with their teachers. 

Above is the percentage breakdown for our 854 students.

Our Support team of counselors, behavioral EA, SRC teachers/staff, Life Skills teacher/staff, ELL teachers, Latinx liaison and admin team will be reaching out to the most disconnected students to try and get them to re-engage.

Thank you for taking the extra time to log non-engaged students as this is one method for us to not let needy students slip through the cracks. Our next window will close on May 13th when we’ll ask you to enter data again.

We have now successfully connected with all HDMS students and/or families to verify their safety and well being.

Please continue to access the HDMS Remote Learning Student Tracking Sheet and use the tabs on the bottom to sift through different subsets of students.

Culture of Care- Virtual Yoga

The Culture of Care Team (thanks, Elissa!) would like to invite you to join a Zoom yoga class on Tuesdays & Thursdays led by the amazing Lynda Beauchamp (teacher at REALMS). If you are uncomfortable with other people seeing you practicing yoga, you can choose to keep your camera and still have the value of practicing with a “live” class. (Contact Morrison for more info.)

Here is the information:

Tuesdays at 4:30pm – Vinyasa
Thursdays at 4:30pm – Gentle Flow

Join URL: https://us04web.zoom.us/j/180595688?pwd=TEJyWUFXVUp5QnNDWDN4WHhtbDhKQT09

Password: 997974
Venmo: Lynda Beauchamp@Lynda-Beauchamp if you would like to make a donation. 

Virtual Spirit Week

Information re: next week’s virtual spirit week was posted in the HDMS student Google classroom. See that post and/or this flyer for more information.

Reminders:

PBIS: Our first distance learning student recognition video from the science and counseling teams has been posted to the HDMS student google classroom. Our next weekly PBIS coffee hour will be May 6th from 7:30-8:30pm in Nole’s WebEx room. We will draw one staff winner from the science and counseling teams at 8:00am- must be present to win! The social studies and ELL team’s nominations are due on this document on May 6th; we will either record their nomination video during the coffee hour or will have teachers record their own individual video and edit it together.

Distance learning website: We are hopeful that our new HDMS distance learning site is the go-to resource for answers to questions from students, families, and even staff! The site is now fully translated to Spanish; a HUGE thank you goes out to Veronica for her hard work in translated so much information. Reach out to Nole if you see anything on the site that needs to be edited or updated.

ICCL Office Hours: Optional, drop-in ICCL meetings are continuing.  Our next meeting is on Thursday, 5/7 from 2:00-3:00pm. We will capture the discussion and update the meeting notes using this document. We will meet in Nole’s WebEx virtual meeting room.

Admin Office Hours: Admin office hours are now held on Mondays and Thursdays from 3:00-4:00pm.

https://bendk12.webex.com/meet/wendy.mcculloch

We keep a weekly “live” document with notes that were shared out during the admin office hour sessions.  

Next week:

  • 5/4-5/8 Admin WebEx office hours notes found here
    • This document will be updated throughout the week

Previous weeks: