Quote to consider:
“None of us, including me, ever do great things. But we can all do small things, with great love, and together we can do something wonderful.” – Mother Teresa
To Dos:
FROM THE SAFETY TEAM: The next fire drill will be Tuesday, November 16th during the beginning of 7th period middle of 5th period (approx 2:05pm). Before the fire drill, please review safety procedures with your 7th period class using this slideshow.
As was shared at 9/28’s staff meeting, the language around our safety protocols has recently been updated. Here is a link to the updated HDMS emergency procedures. Please replace the old version with the updated version in your sub notebook. We will be distributing new posters with the new terms very soon. Here is a digital copy of the SRP posters (English, Spanish).
Having up-to-date class rosters is very important for guest teachers and in the case of an emergency. It is also best practice to have an up-to-date copy of your class lists with your red/green emergency cards to help with taking attendance during an emergency. With the beginning of a new quarter, this is a good time to make sure you have updated your class lists in your sub folder and to attach a copy to your red and green safety cards.
FULL SRP TRAINING: The district now needs to provide the full one-hour Standard Response Protocols (SRPs) training to new employees and any staff that may have missed the full training this fall, or anyone that just wants the full training as a refresher.
As a reminder, the updated SRPs are: Lockout, Secure, Evacuate, Shelter, and Hold.
Any new hires since January 2021 need to attend one of the training dates below, between now and May 2022. These training dates are in PD Place on the portal for sign-up and they will receive one hour of professional development for attending.
All new hires (as of January 2021) need to sign up for one of the following trainings:
WHEN: Choose one of the following dates: 12/8, 1/12, 2/9, 3/9, 4/6, 5/11
WHEN: 3:00-4:00, one hour in-person
WHERE: Ed Center room 314
UNDERSTANDING EQUITY pt. 1 EXIT TICKET: Please provide feedback on the info shared in last Tuesday’s staff meeting by completing this quick exit ticket survey. Your feedback will help Amber from the HDESD plan for part two, which will be shared at our next staff meeting on 11.30.21. For your reference, here is the slide deck Amber presented.
CIVIL RIGHTS TRAINING FOLLOW UP: For your reference, here is the Civil Rights Training slideshow Kinsey Martin and Steve Herron shared with us on 10/26. (*note: slides 25-29 contain images that may be disturbing).
Through our Excellence and Equity listening sessions in 2019, we gathered incredibly valuable information about our students and families: who they are, and what their experience is like in our district. However, we don’t have this same level of information on one key district group: our employees. We care deeply about who you are and what it’s like for you to work in our organization. Getting a better sense of this will help us ensure our staff have the same civil rights’ protections as our students and families, and that we have supports in place for you. You are invited to share your identity, experiences, and perspective with us via this brief survey (please complete no later than 11/19).
The survey:
- is entirely anonymous;
- will take less than 10 minutes;
- is intended for all Bend-La Pine employees (certified, classified, administrative, and confidential); and
- will only be used to gather district-wide trends about our workforce and to identify areas we can better support our most valued resource: you!
Bits and Bobs:
CO- AND EXTRA-CURRICULAR EVENT DETAILS: Click here for details and two forms from Julianne Repman and the district office re: requesting approval for any extracurricular or co-curricular event tied to school curriculum or OSAA athletics’ gatherings (not to include games and practices) for students in grades 6-12, such as: Choir, Orchestra, Band, Theater, Speech and Debate, Culinary, FFA, VICA, DECA, parent athletics orientation nights, end of season awards events, or similar. These forms will be required for any event taking place after Friday, Nov. 5.
FROM BLS HR pt. 1:
- Staff remain obligated to wear a well-fitting, appropriate mask or face covering when at district sites, unless they are actively eating (and distanced from others) or in a private, fully enclosed workspace.
- All district staff are required to report illness to their supervisor, particularly COVID-19 primary symptoms, exposure, a positive test result, or a directive to quarantine or isolate.
- Click here for more in-depth information and the planned response for non-compliance from Chief Human Resources Officer Steve Herron.
FROM BLS HR pt. 2: Over the past 12 months, HR has welcomed several new confidential staff members, supervisors and directors. To provide better service, we’ve also shifted some roles/responsibilities within our department. To assist you and your staff in knowing how to best direct your HR questions, we’ve created HR email groups so that you no longer need to remember the individual(s) responsible for a specific task and can easily connect with the most appropriate HR department.
In your email “To” cell, if you begin to type “hr-” and select the search directory, then you’ll see the list of possible HR email groups. We’ve created a HR reference google doc to capture the new email groups, the tasks/responsibilities within each department, staff members’ names and their phone extensions. If you ‘Star’ it within google drive or bookmark the page, you’ll have it for easy reference. This is a live document, and we’ll update it regularly.
Reminders:
ADVISORY: Please continue to follow the advisory scope and sequence (spreadsheet linked in the “hot links”) ensuring that you are leading your students through the “must-do” content and activities. At HDMS, advisory is an important component of how we’re educating the “whole student” by providing all HDMS students with robust content, social-emotional learning, and creating a sense of community and belonging. Thanks to Lynne’s leadership and the team’s hard work in creating and compiling the advisory activities.
Please provide feedback to the advisory team by completing this survey by Wednesday (11/17). And, as always, the team welcomes your input and contributions to the advisory planning. Consider joining the next team meeting: Monday (11/29) at 8:30am in the Media Center.
INTERPRETING/TRANSLATING: Please continue to use Linguist Link for all your translation (written) and interpreting (spoken) needs. For further training on using this resource, click here. The site is linked in the hot links section of the blog and has three options:
- Document translation
- Scheduling an interpreter
- Urgent, on-call interpreting (follow these directions; the district point person is Donna Connet)
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