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

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

“The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do” ~ Kobe Bryant

TO DOs

• Sub Notebooks: Beginning a new quarter is a good time to review your sub notebook, having it up to date sets our Guest Teachers up for success. One way to do this is to ensure your sub notebook is accurate. Please click here for all the documents that are expected to be in these notebooks.
• Scrub Ins: Feb. 13th. Please consider supporting our colleagues by joining in the learning that happens from observing and collaborating with each other during our Scrub Ins.
• 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 INFO

• 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

This year, we’ve increased the number of student receiving academic support as a stand alone class period. Below are the results of Joe’s 7th graders. 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.

AVID

During SIW we were fortunate to see how our electives teachers are embedding AVID into their instructional practices. Focused notes and WICOR (writing, inquiry, collaboration, organization, reading) strategies were evident. It was exciting and inspiring to see student work and hear about all the connections that are supported for students when adults use the same language and supports!

BITS AND BOBS

• Please make sure to bring your computer to our Staff Meeting on Tuesday. We will spend some time on our computers doing our Mid-Year SLGG review.
• Here is a link to our district Strategic Investment Plan.
• Here is a link to our district Inclusive Schools Initiative.
• Construction: We are getting secure fencing. This is set to begin in the next 4 weeks. There will be utility folks out marking where water lines are etc. This fence will come off the side of the building by the Science wing door and run down the length of our school, enclosing the patio and basketball courts and end at the fence that is currently going around the big field.
• February is Black History Month – and a great opportunity for us to shine a light on a group of people who are often not discussed (outside of slavery) in terms of what they have contributed to US history. Here are some resources to generate ideas (or simply take and use) over the course of the next four weeks (and beyond).
• We are excited to introduce some new school swag for our HDMS families!  You can view the items available by clicking on the link below.  We will keep the window for purchasing open until February 26^th and you can expect to receive your purchases before spring break!   HDMS Store
• Here is the final draft of our MS 8th Grade Celebration agreement. We will communicate this home several times as well as explicitly share with 8th graders over the next few months. The goal is that all our 8th graders will attend our celebration. If we are in a place were we feel the need to ‘un invite’ a student, we will work with Mrs. Tat, as 8th grade counselor, as well as our ICCL folks to make sure Paul and I are hearing from many other sources before we make the final call.
• Sustainability Tip handout

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

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

Forget all the reasons why it won’t work and believe the one reason why it will.

TO DOs

• Sub Notebooks: Beginning a new quarter is a good time to review your sub notebook, having it up to date sets our Guest Teachers up for success. One way to do this is to ensure your sub notebook is accurate. Please click here for all the documents that are expected to be in these notebooks.
• Review safety team meeting notes found here.  
• 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 a 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

PBIS INFO

• Student store was a great success!! We already have ten groups of kids looking for places to enjoy their pizza during lunch on 2/7, with more likely to be submitted; the PBIS team will be contacting teachers who these students requested to host. This is completely optional, so feel free to say no or ignore the email if you are unable to host students. Keep handing out those Diamondbucks!!!

ADVISORY INFO

• 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. 
• Prior to each week please try and review the lesson before advisory so that you remember to collect any materials needed from 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

One of the things that we’ve discussed but not addressed in detail is that the reason “why” student misbehave is because the expectations of a given situation are greater than a student’s skill level. If you are curious as to a list of lagging skills that often cause a student’s challenging behavior, then here is a link.

We probably won’t spend any time this year reviewing and talking about this list of lagging skills, but it is something that we’ll be using behind the scenes to better craft student intervention and supports.

BITS AND BOBS

• Excellence and Equity: Here is the link with the full report from the listening sessions that happened throughout our district this year with a variety of groups of stakeholders. We will spend some time digging through this information as a staff in the coming months.
• Tardy information: The master tardy list continues to be updated on a weekly basis. See the link on the sidebar of the blog for more information including charts and graphs on different tabs.
• 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 would be done every Friday.  
  • We are working on a plan to have Green Team students help remind teachers so we can have school-wide “Phantom Power down Fridays!!”
  • Here is some information about energy use in the district and where all schools are in the ENERGY STAR ranking across the district.  Also included in the update is a link to a survey about energy management.  The district’s sustainability coordinator is hoping to get a few hundred to take the survey and get a better pool of information to work from.

HDMS HIGHLIGHTS

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

“No! Don’t eat the samples we are going to look at under the microscope. You don’t know what was on the tray before it!” ~ Mr. Prud’homme (6th grade Science) 🙂

TO DOs

• Review safety team meeting notes found here.  
• 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 a 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

PBIS INFO

• Keeping giving out those Diamondbucks rewarding students for doing the right thing here at HDMS. 
  • Positively reinforcing behaviors we expect to see in students is tightly correlated with a safe environment and a positive school-wide culture. 
  • We are continuing to draw student names for weekly prizes as well as having the student store this Wednesday (1/29).  Please talk up the cool items available at the upcoming student store (e.g. pizza party for 150 Diamondbucks) with your students; direct students to the display case near the bus entrance for examples of items that will be at the Diamondback store and their cost. 

ADVISORY INFO

• 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. 
• Prior to each week please try and review the lesson before advisory so that you remember to collect any materials needed from 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

Thanks to Brettney and Elissa for leading an interactive and informative session on Wednesday! They are soliciting teacher feedback to help the Culture of Care team craft our next session.

“Whether a kid is sulking, pouting, whining, withdrawing, refusing to talk, crying, spitting, screaming, swearing, running out of the classroom, kicking, hitting, destroying property, or worse, you won’t know what to do about the challenging behavior until you understand why it’s occurring (lagging skills) and pinpoint the specific situations in which it occurs (unsolved problems). Lagging skills are the why of challenging behavior. Unsolved problems tell us when the behavior is occurring.”
― Ross W. Greene, Lost at School: Why Our Kids with Behavioral Challenges are Falling Through the Cracks and How We Can Help Them

HDMS HIGHLIGHTS

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

“Empathy is seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another and feeling with the heart of another.” ~ Alfred Adler

TO DOs

• Look at the HDMS calendar for any updates or events happening in the upcoming week
• Like last year, we would like you input and ideas on your teaching assignment. Please complete this form so we have this information as we move forward through the master scheduling process.
• 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 a 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 for 1.22.2020

• Finish MLK lesson, end of semester study hall, grade check, AVID Binder Check.

PBIS INFORMATION

• Keeping giving out those Diamondbucks rewarding students for doing the right thing here at HDMS. Our next staff auction is scheduled for 1/22! We are continuing to draw student names for weekly prizes as well as having the student store the last Wednesday of the month. Please continue to talk up these opportunities with your students, and thanks to the PBIS team for their hard work!

CONTINUED CULTURE OF CARE PD

Here is a 4 minute video of school experiences when implementing Collaborative Problem Solving.

Unfortunately, when comparing our out of school suspensions between last year and this year, we’ve almost doubled the number of students who have been suspended (64 vs 33) from the first day of school until mid-January.

AVID CONTINUED PD

• Collaborative Study Groups article link here

BITS AND BOBS

• If you are requesting that a student be your aide, please have them pick up a TA Request slip from Veronica in the Counseling office. The student will need to get teacher and parent signatures before they return the form back to their counselor for consideration.
• Second semester schedule changes will be processed through our SRC and Counseling staff. Students interested in changes will need to see either their case manager or counselor before Jan 30th. Changes that they deem worthy will be brought to a meeting with Wendy/Paul at 10 am on the 1/31 work day. Changes that are approved will then be processed by Gina on the 31st.
• Choice Option High Schools. Here is the link This link contains a Keynote presentation and brochures in both Spanish and English. This information is being shared by Ms Tat through 8th grade advisories. This link is on our Counseling Dept. webpage.
• Here is a link to next year’s calendar… Bend area and South County schools. The MS conference schedule will be a little different next year, I will learn more about this adjustment once I meet with Jim at the end of this month.
• The 2020 cycle of the Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching (PAEMST) is in full swing. Nominations can be submitted on our website, www.paemst.org. The nomination deadline is March 1, 2020. If you want to highlight one or more outstanding math or science teacher(s), please consider nominating them!

HDMS HIGHLIGHTS

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

• Look at the HDMS calendar for any updates or events happening in the upcoming week
• Click below to see the notes from our SIW work team meetings held on 1.8.2020
  • Culture of Care https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1mo6NtpWRnrb2XjxHQHiSOh1788u8c_Ef?usp=sharing
  • Here is a link to the PBIS meeting notes
  • Here is a link to the Advisory meeting notes
  • https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_pVBU8oTbzXH_wkTUtvVmRIfdw3eI_q41XSIFtZECFU/edit?ts=5e179209 AVID meeting notes
  • Equity meeting notes https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1YEPY3Dac_J0FmhDb317IjaJqh3XbzNdq

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.

• Our 4th Annual Latino Family Night is coming up in a few weeks – Jan. 28, 5:30pm @ MVHS – and you are all invited! Here is a flyer in Spanish and English that you can post and share.

• 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

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

“Strength lies in differences, not in similarities” ~ Stephen Covey

TO DOs

• Look at the HDMS calendar for any updates or events happening in the upcoming week
• Click below to see the notes from our 4 SIW Work Teams.
  • Culture of Care https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1mo6NtpWRnrb2XjxHQHiSOh1788u8c_Ef?usp=sharing
  • PBIS team meeting notes can be found here. 
  • Advisory team meeting notes can be found here. 
  • AVID https://docs.google.com/document/d/12-JQy8i1CstjGpwwNOXhXaxF6mV2KdULuj_BezTzNiM/edit?usp=sharing
  • Equity https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1YEPY3Dac_J0FmhDb317IjaJqh3XbzNdq

CONTINUED CULTURE OF CARE PD

FAQ – Why do we have to fill out more information on the Form this year as compared to last year?

The primary reason that we’ve added field in the Observation Forms this year is to better understand the conditions in which a student is exhibiting problematic behavior.  When looking at multiple form entries for our T3 kiddos, we begin to get a more complete picture of what may trigger their avoidant behavior.  

Psychological tools like a Functional Behavior Assessment (FBA) allow school personnel to better understand, track and modify challenging student behavior.  FBAs inform Behavior Intervention Plans (BIPs).

We don’t have the resources to do FBAs and create BIPs for all our T3 students so the information that you provide on the forms allow our Coordinated Care Team (admin, dean, behavioral EA, SRC and counseling staff) to engage in more effective collaborative conversations with students and create plans to address their school struggles.  

Here are some examples of how the added Observation Form fields have aided our Plan B work with students this year:

• BF – Evidence revealed that the had a hard time transitioning from lunch into his LA class. We saw this evidence through observation the observation forms, there were 5 observations forms entered for BF regarding his disruptive behavior in LA between the dates of 9/4-10/12. He now has a 5 minute relaxation break in the Den before going to LA. Since this intervention BF has a recorded 2 observation forms regarding disruptive behavior in class between the dates of 10/12-12/17. 

• FSS- Through observation forms, evidence revealed that FSS was frequently absent, and/or truant. Between 9/4-10/3 FSS was attending class periods 60% of the time, meaning they were missing 40% of class periods. FSS was referred to the Den on 10/2. Since the Den, between 10/2-12/2, FSS is regularly attending classes 86% of the time, meaning missing 14% of class periods. FSS has gained back 26% of his education. 

• DW – Evidence indicated that he was avoiding class by going to the bathroom for extended periods of time during some classes.  We removed his ability to go to the restroom unless accompanied by an adult. He is no longer disappearing from classes for extended periods of time. 

Last year, we only got information about students’ inappropriate behavior (disrespectful, disruptive, not following directions…).  Now, we know the class period, the time frame, the academic task, the grouping…. and this enables us to more effectively work with the student to try some supports/interventions that will reduce the problematic behavior.

AVID CONTINUED PD

COLLABORATION Students demonstrate a strong sense of mutual respect and support, engaging in rigorous discourse and building on each other’s thoughts. Collaborative activities are structured and graded to promote inclusion, equity and participation from each student.

ADVISORY INFO for Wed. 1.8.2020

• Re-review the First Step App
• Digital Citizenship “Privacy and Security” 
  • This link has the lesson documents (English & Spanish) separated by grade level
  • This link has lesson plan descriptions and lesson quizzes (sign in using your gapps account)

BITS AND BOBS

• If you are interested in promoting our students become involved in a regional spelling bee here is some information about this and a contact to learn even more: Jodi Lawrence Turner, editor with The Bulletin, is hoping we might partner with them as they would like to organize a spelling bee for students in Bend / Central Oregon. They are looking to start with grades 6-8 and would like to have the first round of competition in February 2020. From there, the competition would move to the county and state levels. If you or one of your staff would like to speak with Jodi to learn more – her office # 541-383-0308 and cell # 509-953-2957.
• I had shared some information with you in a previous blog post regarding upcoming parent Connect Workshops (how parents might talk with their teen(s) regarding drug/alcohol use). I previously share an English version of the flyer and promised a Spanish version when it was available. Here is the Spanish version.
• If you have access to Newsela, and would like a training to ensure you are aware of all the tools and resources it has, please reach out to Scott McDonald or John Craft.
• With Winter break coming, this is a great time to consider waste and energy reduction. All classrooms should do their part to unplug cords, power down devices and reduce the trash as much as possible over the holidays.

HDMS HIGHLIGHTS

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

“Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth” ~ Muhammad Ali

TO DOs

• Look at the HDMS calendar for any updates or events happening in the upcoming week
• Click below to see updated notes from our 4 SIW Work Teams.
  • Culture of Care https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1mo6NtpWRnrb2XjxHQHiSOh1788u8c_Ef?usp=sharing
  • PBIS team meeting notes can be found here.  NEXT MEETING: 1/9 at 8:00am in Bedell’s room; all are welcome.
  • Advisory team meeting notes can be found here.  NEXT MEETING: 1/10 at 8:00am in the foods room; all are welcome. 
  • AVID https://docs.google.com/document/d/12-JQy8i1CstjGpwwNOXhXaxF6mV2KdULuj_BezTzNiM/edit?usp=sharing
  • Equity https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1YEPY3Dac_J0FmhDb317IjaJqh3XbzNdq

CONTINUED CULTURE OF CAREPD

Quick Review – Plan A vs Plan C

Most of the time, teachers are entering a:

• Plan A – You addressed the matter yourself
• Plan C – You didn’t have time to address the matter or you choose not to engage with the student about this situation

One required field that is very important is:  Would you like a member of the Coordinated Care Team to follow up with the student? *  

A “Yes” will result in a CCT Response Form with administrative actions.  A “No” indicates that this is just a FYI and that no admin response is requested.

Observation Entry Time Saving Tips

1.  Don’t fill out the form immediately when  you send a student out of your room. Instead, send an email to Wendy/Paul/Nole (all three!) that a student is on his/her way to the office and that an Observation Form will follow.  Fill out the form before the end of the day (ideally) but please no later than 24 hours.
2. Instead of filling out multiple forms with the same information (like kids being disrespectful to a guest teacher).  Fill out one form and include all of the other students names in the narrative text. Nole/Paul will copy and paste the entry for the other students.
3. Most of the data entry fields are NOT required.  Although the drop down questions about when an incident occurred helps us a lot, if the time it takes to answer these questions frustrates you then skip them.

AVID CONTINUED PD

HDMS HIGHLIGHTS

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

We are…Strong. Bold. Courageous. Loved. Motivated. Healthy. Intelligent. Creative. Enough. Confident. Special. Beautiful. Fearless. Focused. Disciplined. Wanted. Peaceful. Capable. Grateful.

TO DOs

• Please take this 4 question survey. The themes will support reflection and give guidance to me for our best next steps. 
• Please return your RSVP to Kerri for the Winter Staff Gathering ASAP
• Look at the HDMS calendar for any updates or events happening in the upcoming week.
• Click below to see updated notes from our 4 SIW Work Teams.
  • Culture of Care https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1mo6NtpWRnrb2XjxHQHiSOh1788u8c_Ef?usp=sharing
  • PBIS/Advisory Here are the note
  • AVID https://docs.google.com/document/d/12-JQy8i1CstjGpwwNOXhXaxF6mV2KdULuj_BezTzNiM/edit?usp=sharing
  • Equity https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1YEPY3Dac_J0FmhDb317IjaJqh3XbzNdq

ADVISORY UPDATE

• The Advisory lesson for Wednesday, December 11 is addressing the Social-Emotional Learning standard of “Self-Management”. 
  • 6th grade the topic is neatness and organization. 
  • 7th grade is routines.
  • 8th grade is about the connection between effort and results, input/output.  Materials will be provided.

AVID CONTINUED PD

The power of using AVID at the secondary level is the ability to impact students in the AVID Elective class and all students throughout the entire school. AVID can have an effect on the entire school by providing classroom activities, teaching practices, and academic behaviors that can be incorporated into all classrooms to improve engagement and success for all students.

BITS AND BOBS

• BLS and Deschutes County are teaming up to provide four free parent workshops (the same workshop, offered four times) starting in January. The Connect Workshop is a 2-hour training aimed at providing parents with skills to navigate conversations with their child(ren) around the topics of marijuana, alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs. Please share this flyer freely with our school community. You will notice that childcare is provided for two of these workshops, and one will be facilitated in Spanish. Additionally, I’ll share a Spanish version of this flyer as soon as I receive it (being translated now).

• Another training that will be offered this year (and some of you havE attended previously) is Youth Mental Health First Aid. This training will be held on Friday, February 21^st, 2020 from 7:30-4:30. This training is appropriate for front office staff, teachers, coaches, extra-curricular advisors, FAN advocates, building admin, and essentially anyone that works at the schools that does not have a background in mental health. Here is a registration page for the training, which includes a description: https://22120blpsymhfa.eventbrite.com.

HDMS HIGHLIGHTS

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

“Find something you’re passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.” ~ Julia Child

TO DOs

• Look at the HDMS calendar for any updates or events happening in the upcoming week
• Safety team- Passing period fire drill scheduled for 12/3 after 6th period; safety team will share details during the 12/3 staff meeting.  The safety team is asking that teachers take one minute every class period on 12/3 to remind students of the protocol if there is fire alarm during passing period; while students will likely catch on that a drill during passing period is coming, we are not telling them the specific time.  
• New round of Scrub Ins coming. Check out this link to be reminded of the ‘why’ and see who is opening their classroom and teaching practice to support sharing ideas and growth.
• Quarter two duty assignments:  The quick link on the home page of the blog has been updated with quarter two duty assignments.  Thanks in advance for punctually being at your duty location; staff presence throughout the school is tightly correlated with school safety.  Please consider using this time to catch students doing the right thing and rewarding them with a Diamondbuck.  Also, thanks for continuing to sweep the hallways during the passing period prior to your prep each day! 
• Check out our new online HDMS staff store! (Thanks Gina!) Staff can order online yourselves. You can choose to have it shipped to your house or shipped to HDMS.
  • https://stores.inksoft.com/high_desert_middle_school_staff/shop/home
• Click below to see the notes from our 4 SIW Work Teams.
  • Culture of Care https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1mo6NtpWRnrb2XjxHQHiSOh1788u8c_Ef?usp=sharing
  • Advisory team meeting notes.   Next meeting: Friday, December 13th, 8:00-8:30am in foods room; all are welcome to attend.
  • PBIS- team meeting notes.   Next meeting: Thursday, December 5th, 8:00-8:30am in Bedell’s room; all are welcome to attend.
  • AVID https://docs.google.com/document/d/12-JQy8i1CstjGpwwNOXhXaxF6mV2KdULuj_BezTzNiM/edit?usp=sharing
  • Equity https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1YEPY3Dac_J0FmhDb317IjaJqh3XbzNdq

ADVISORY UPDATE

• 12/4: AVID binder checks; rubrics and documents will be in the Staff Google Classroom.  Details will be provided during the morning staff meeting on 12/3. 
• Talking points for our move to say our pledge in both Spanish and English.
  • Offers a more equitable representation of our Spanish-speaking community (in the range of 300 people on campus)
  • Gives an opportunity for our 160 Dual Immersion students to shine by being chosen to speak on the ‘all call’
  • Provides an opportunity for our 100 Spanish 1 students to improve and apply their skills (as they listen, speak and read along)

CONTINUED CULTURE OF CARE PD

The goal of the Empathy Step is to gather information from the child about his/her concern or perspective on the unsolved problem you’re discussing (preferably proactively). For many adults, this is the most difficult part of Plan B, as they often find that they are unsure of what to ask next. So here’s a brief summary of different strategies for “drilling” for information:

ASKING ABOUT WHY THE PROBLEM OCCURS UNDER SOME CONDITIONS AND NOT OTHERS

EXAMPLE: “You seem to be doing really well in your work group in math…but not so well in your work group in social studies…what’s getting in the way in social studies?”

ASKING THE CHILD WHAT S/HE’S THINKING IN THE MIDST OF THE UNSOLVED PROBLEM

Notice, this is different than asking the child what s/he is feeling, which doesn’t usually provide much information about the child’s concern or perspective on an unsolved problem.

EXAMPLE: “What were you thinking when Mrs. Thompson told the class to get to work on the science quiz?”

AVID CONTINUED PD

WICOR, incorporates teaching/learning methodologies in the critical areas of Writing to Learn, Inquiry, Collaboration, Organization, and Reading to Learn. 

WICOR provides a learning model that educators can use to guide students in comprehending concepts and articulating ideas at increasingly complex levels (scaffolding) within developmental, general education, and discipline-based texts. 

How are you incorporating these elements into your lessons?

• W = Writing
• I = Inquiry
• C = Collaboration
• O = Organization
• R = Reading

BITS AND BOBS

• During Wednesday whole school announcements on the PA, students will now be saying our pledge in Spanish as well as English. We will alternate which language we say first each week. Please see your ICCL, Paul or I and we can give you more background info if you want.
• Please be aware of how much you are using our copiers and printers.  Print Shop is the most cost efficient way to get printing done and ends up saving HDMS money!   Plan ahead and use Print Shop please!

HDMS HIGHLIGHTS