Letter to families

Here is a link to the letter that was sent from the district to families regarding grading for middle and high school students.

Distance Learning Site – Need Teacher Links

We have created an HDMS Distance learning website.  The goal of the site is to have one location for HDMS students and families to access information during distance learning.  We are requesting that all teachers create a page with information for their class.  This can be as basic as this example.  If you create this page in a Google doc (which is probably the simplest), please ensure that you’ve set the sharing to “On – anyone with the link” can view it.  Please send your link to Nole to be added to the website by 4/22. If you need help with this process, please reach out to Nole on email or call/text him at 541.610.4861.  

Lastly, this entire site was created quickly and typed in by hand, so there are certain to be misclicks and/or spelling errors.  Please let Nole know if you find anything that needs editing or if you have important, school-wide remote learning information you’d like added.

ODE Grading Guidelines

Districts have received the Oregon Department of Education’s (ODE) guidance regarding grading for high school students in grades 9-11. This guidance mandates that all courses taken during the spring will be graded Pass/Incomplete, based on students’ work up to March 13th and progress made during distance learning for the remainder of the academic year. Middle schools will grade students with Pass/No Grade.

Parents no longer have the option to request that their child be graded on the normal A-F scale between now and the end of the year in either in HS or MS.

HDMS Grading Agreements

We’ve created a google doc explaining the standards by which we grade students for the remainder of the year.  Please refer to it as you enter assignments into Synergy.

Classroom Clean Out Sign Up

Please use this link to see more details regarding classroom clean out and to sign up for a day/time that works for you.  Everyone has editing rights on this document to be able to add your name in your desired date, so please be careful not to delete other things inadvertently.  If, for any reason, you are unable to clean out your classroom please contact Wendy & Paul.

Remote Learning Tools

• More tech tips from Koop: Click here for Koop’s video for tips on Quicktime Player, a utility that can record you, your screen or your iPad.  Plus is it already install on every Mac.”
  • Koop has generously offered to host a quick tech Q & A for our staff on Monday at 2pm. He’ll send out a reminder with a link to his WebEx room on Monday.
• Please consider reviewing the follow link Remote Learning Tools page our district instructional team has created them. If you see something missing that you think would be helpful, please reach out to one of the members listed at the bottom of the page.

Social Media

1. We are seeing an uptick in digital communication and many schools and staff creating new social media accounts. Quick reminder that staff members who wish to create a professional social media account need to check in with Alandra Johnson. She has some important guidelines and tips to share about using social media while representing our schools. Send an email to [email protected] (She is also glad to hear from those who have already created accounts and now want to make them official.)
2. RESOURCES FOR FAMILIES: When sharing community resources with families, be sure to use our district pages, which are updated, vetted and approved (many are also translated).

COVID 19

District Guidance document I’ll try to highlight when updates occur and what they deal with. Here is your first update:

• Under #5…A new document, an FAQ from SPED has been added as a separate document.
• Under # 1 and #2…docs have been pulled out about high school grading and graduation.  No replacements yet with updated content.
• Under #7…Some content about how to access Google Voice when using your personal phone to mask your number and set up another number.  Included is a link about that.
• Under #8… Athletics has been updated to indicate OSAA has cancelled all spring sports and refunds are being processed.

HDMS Spending

• As we have done in the past, our department spending will use a May 1 cut off date. If you need to know your current balance of available dollars, please get in touch with Kerri.

Non Contact Students

We have reduced the number of students that we’ve been unable to reach to 5. Please continue to access the <Student With Notes> tab of the HDMS Remote Learning Student Tracking Sheet for up-to-date information on students that we are working closely with. I highlight the newest entries in light blue for easy reference.

We are awaiting district instructions on how to proceed with these families.

Engagement Tracking April 8 – 22

By next Wednesday, April 22, we’d ask you to once again go to our Engagement Tracking document and select “No Contact” for students who have not engaged with you at all during the past 2 weeks. If a student is communicating with you but not turning any assignments, please do not mark “No Contact”, instead, reserve that designation for students who have been invisible for the past 2 weeks. Please refer to our Grading Agreements for our overall philosophy of student support.

Excellence in Education

The district has decided to cancel the Excellence in Education event this year. I will hold on to the nominations that I have already received and we will consider them for next years event.

Reminders

ICCL Office Hours: Optional, drop-in ICCL meetings are continuing.  Our next session is on Tuesday 4/21 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: Daily at 3pm

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

We will be keeping a weekly “live” document with notes of the celebrations and Q & As that were shared out during the admin office hour sessions.  

Next week:

• 4/20-4/24 Admin WebEx office hours notes found here
  • This document will be updated throughout the week

Previous weeks:

• 4/13-4/17 Admin WebEx office hours notes found here
• 4/6-4/10 Admin WebEx office hours notes found here 
• 3/31-4/3 Admin WebEx office hours notes found here

Article

Consider reading this article [link updated]. Give yourself grace, allow time and space to reflect.

Staff picking up items

• We will not be returning to the building for teaching this year, many folks are interested in gathering items and closing up classrooms. If you need materials for instruction, please gather them as you need (make sure to let Tim know so that he isn’t sanitizing your room when you plan on gathering your items).
• Due to Bond projects that will be starting at HDMS this summer we will need to organize, move, box or cover items in classrooms. I am waiting for the guidelines/expectations for teachers and custodial staff…once I have this we will work to ensure that everyone can get into their rooms and prepare them for the summer projects, more to come in next weeks blog hopefully.

Content team meetings

Wendy, Paul and Nole are available to join your content team PLC WebEx meetings should you ask. If your team wants to celebrate some successes, is struggling with an issue or needs something clarified, please don’t hesitate to send us a link to the meeting and the date/time you’d like us to join. We are here to serve.

HR Info

• All of the requested personal days from March 16th through March 30^th were automatically cancelled.  There is a HR link on the district COVID guidance form posted in last weeks blog, after reading that and you still have questions with your personal and/or sick days please reach out to HR for answers.

Tech Tips

Approving YouTube Videos

Teachers can now approve YouTube videos for their students to view! Yes, you heard me right. When you …Click here to read full story

Koop created this video with helpful WebEx tips. Thanks Koop!

Student Google Classroom

Posted April 8 for all students. Thanks Brettney for creating the doc!

Here is a template for all students to use to fill in your personal schedule! Use the first tab as your template and make a copy of it to your notability, see the second tab for an example.

Note: all the information you need to complete the template can be found from your teachers e-mails or posts on their google classroom.

If you have any questions regarding copying and downloading this template please reach out to [email protected] or your grade level counselor.

¡Aquí hay un plantilla que todos los estudiantes pueden usar para completar su horario personal! Usen la primera pestaña como su modelo y hagan una copia a su notoriedad (notability), vean la segunda pestaña para ver un ejemplo.

Nota: toda la información que necesitas para completar la plantilla se puede encontrar en los correos electrónicos o publicaciones de tus maestros en tu Google Classroom.

Si tienes alguna pregunta sobre la copia y descarga de esta plantilla, comuníquate con [email protected] o con tu consejero.

Student Feedback

Students have expressed some confusion over what is “required” or “optional” for teacher WebEx meetings, Office Hours and other learning activities. Please be as transparent and clear as possible when communicating with students.

Non Engagement Tracking

Thank you for taking the time to track students who have not accessed any of your learning opportunities.  We are no longer accepting updates to that spreadsheet. Please continue to track student engagement as we will ask you to fill out a new form on April 23 which is a few weeks into the fourth quarter.

The  statistics show that 84% of our students attended at least 4 of their 6 classes (excluding PE) within the first week of Remote Learning.  That is extraordinary and a reflection of your hard work and dedication communicating and reaching out to your students!!! 

The full stats of our RTI pyramid is as follows:

Of the 5% who missed 5 or more classes, we were already working with two percent of those families with internet, food, clothing and other needs.   That left 27 students whom we had no contact with. Our counselors and SRC teachers are working diligently to connect with those families to serve their needs and get those students engaged in remote learning.  Here are the 27 as of Thursday afternoon:

We encourage staff to view the HDMS Remote Learning Tracking sheet regularly for updated information on our student’s needs.  

Once we’ve reached the 27 students and their families, our support staff will then connect and serve the students with 4 missed classes to make sure their needs are being met.   

Please know that we are asking our most needy students to engage in at least 2 core classes.  Some students/families have many other stressors that they are dealing with and we don’t want to add too much of a burden to their already chaotic lives.  Every time you are able to engage with one of these students, take a moment to celebrate it with them and express how happy you are for even their smallest engagement in remote learning.

Our support staff doing this essential work is Cathy, Joe, Lynne, Jon, Jennifer, Trish, Honza, Asha, Liz, Brettney and our Super Hero FAN advocate Jamie Neill.  Thanks Team.

Paper Packet Students

I’ve added a tab to our Remote Tracking Sheet so you can quickly and easily see which students are requesting paper pencil packets to be submitted to Wendy/Paul by noon Tuesday of each week.

If you see a student listed but have confirmed that they NOW have internet and don’t need paper copies anymore (internet is being added to HDMS student homes on a daily basis),  please contact that student’s case manager or counselor and they will remove the Paper Packet designation in the database for that student.

Phone Conferencing Via WebEx  

While some students don’t have internet at home, most all of them have access to a smartphone. Those students can attend your WebEx by calling into it.  They can hear all of the conversations but not view what is happening on the video screens. Here are easy to follow instructions to provide calling-in information to your students.   https://www.loom.com/share/e16e6503d3af4984871dff4a5941c920

As another OPTION: you may choose to reach out to a small subset of your non internet students (3-4) for a weekly phone conference with you using WebEx. This is an optional idea and if you try it, please give us feedback on how it went. 

Remote Learning Norms

This slideshow re: HDMS universal remote learning norms and expectations will be posted to the HDMS student Google classroom as well as the HDMS website. We are in the process of getting this document translated to Spanish.

Reminders:

Sharing Resources/Ideas: Please continue to reference and add remote learning ideas/resources to this document.

ICCL Office Hours: Optional, drop-in ICCL meetings are taking place on Friday, 4/10, Thursday, 4/16, and Tuesday 4/21 from 2:00-3:00pm. We will capture the discussion and update the meeting notes using this document.

Admin Office Hours Daily at 3pm

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

We will be keeping a weekly “live” document with notes of the celebrations and Q & As that were shared out during the admin office hour sessions.  

• Next week:
• 4/13-4/17 Admin WebEx office hours notes found here
  • This document will be updated throughout the week

• Previous weeks:
• 4/6-4/10 Admin WebEx office hours notes found here 
• 3/31-4/3 Admin WebEx office hours notes found here

COVID-19 Guidance

Here a link with our districts guidance after reviewing the direction from ODE.

ICCL Connections

Here is the link to the ICCL liaison teams. If you have a celebration, resources other staff may find useful, and/or questions/next steps that you’d like to surface, please email your point person directly. In addition to the daily admin office hours at 3pm, the ICCL point people will hold ICCL office hours for drop-in on Friday, 4/10 and Thursday, 4/16 from 2:00-3:00pm. Nole’s WebEx link will be how you can join the meeting. This is completely optional. This is simply an opportunity for us to offer our support!

Student Tracking

As a reminder, we’ve created a tracking form to capture students in need of internet, clothing, food, etc. You may check the HDMS Remote Learning Student Tracking document.  Skip to the second tab which is the list of students that we are working with.  
Special thanks to Clarissa, Jane, Liz and Jamie for their work with these families!
If you become aware of a need:

1. Check to see the tracking form to see if we are already connected to the family
2. Email Wendy, Paul, Nole and Jamie the student and the specific need
3. Paul will enter the information into the tracking sheet initially
4. Jamie, Liz or another appropriate staff member will work with family to assist them and then enter the status in the tracking form

Non Engaged Students

VERY IMPORTANT: We’ve been asked to track any student whom we’ve had no contact with since April 1.

If a student has not engaged in your distance learning activities despite you reaching out to them via email or a phone call, we need you to fill out the appropriate spot on this google spreadsheet before Wednesday at noon. Here is quick instructional video of how to input data on the spreadsheet.

We will welfare check-in with the student/family to make sure they are okay.

Quarter 3 & 4

Because there will no Spring parent-teacher conferences, Quarter 3 will be extended to Friday, April 10th. Qtr 4 will start on Monday, April 13. This announcement has been posted in google classroom for all students.

Please grade students in Quarter 3 with either a Pass or No Grade (NG).

Teachers can view their fourth quarter class lists in Synergy and students can view them (if applicable) in studentVUE.

No Internet – Hard Copy Packets

Teachers, if a student doesn’t have internet, please email Wendy/Paul copies of documents that you’d like photocopied by Tuesday at noon.

We will have the school open Wednesdays from 8am-2pm where students/families can enter the secure vestibule to claim the envelope. Any unclaimed envelopes will be mailed via USPS on Thursday.

Print Shop staff is monitoring orders remotely and staff will come in and continue to print them as needed. Orders are delivered to sites as well as mail through our normal distribution system. If staff have any questions on particular print shop orders they can email Brian @  [email protected]

Admin Office Hour Notes

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

We will be keeping a weekly “live” document with notes of the celebrations and Q & As that were shared out during the admin office hour sessions.  

• 3/31-4/3 Admin WebEx office hours notes found here
• 4/6-4/10 Admin WebEx office hours notes found here 
  • This document will be updated throughout the week

WebEx Resources

I wanted to follow-up with you regarding a couple of questions that were asked about last week:

1) Are there Webex student guidelines?
Yes. They can be found on this page, and they will be shared with you as part of the BLS Guidelines that you’ll receive later this afternoon. (They’ll be in folder #7 – Student Connectivity).

2) Are there any instructions for temporarily “expelling” a student from a Webex?
Yes. This is in a few spots. Here are written instructions, here is a video, and here is a short video (54 sec).

Here are 2 short tutorials. One is about how to record and access your recordings in WebEx and the other one demonstrates how you can airplay your iPad onto your laptop during a WebEx.

Recording in WebEx

iPad Screen Share with WebEx

Email Headings

Reminder: When sending an email to family/student, please HDMS and course title (e.g. ELA 7, Math 8) in the subject line.

Child Abuse Reporting

There has been some media coverage around the potential for abuse of youth to increase during this time of stay at home isolation. Because students are not coming to school, the number of referrals for abuse has already seen a large drop in Deschutes County. Reminder all staff are still mandatory reporters. Use this link to the reporting form in the Portal; as always, feel free reach out to the student’s grade level counselor and/or Wendy/Paul if you need support in this area.

SEL Professional Development

There is PD available online (occurring on April 14) that focuses on how schools might make SEL work at sites.

HDMS Remote Learning Resources

If you have remote learning suggestions, resources, and/or links that you think other HDMS staff would find useful, please consider adding them to this document. The goal of this is to provide an on-going list in one location that staff can refer back to while reducing the number of all staff emails.

QUOTE OF THE WEEK:

Please consider this: Humans around our globe are under great stress right now, some more than others…so at times like this it is imperative that we engage with kindness, grace and humanity. Toward ourselves and others.

“Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best of our own students. What better book can there be than the book of humanity?” ~ Cesar Chavez

TO DOS:

• When sending an email to family/student, please put school initials (e.g. HDMS) and course title (e.g. ELA 7, Math 8) in the subject line. This will help alleviate some of the anxiety around learning from home.
• If you become concerned about a students health, well-being or engagement in remote learning, please fill out an Observation Form as usual.  Most of the fields are not needed so feel free to skip over them.
  • We have another database to track student concerns to make sure that a staff member is responding to their needs.  You can view the other database here.  It is also linked on the right hand side of the blog.

• As we are all being potentially overloaded right now with information from a variety of sources. I encourage us all to work to complete the below items by Friday.
  • Connect with our students
  • Share a brief over view with your students of what learning in your class will look like for the next week or so.
  • Connect with your content team and set up regular meetings (daily, weekly) to process and support. Work smarter, not harder.

BITS AND BOBS

• The following was posted in the Student Google Classroom:

If you need help with iPad passcodes, please email Mrs. Anderson at [email protected] If you are having other iPad issues or question, please call 541-355-8700.

• I plan to hold Admin office hours daily on Web Ex at 3:00 pm
  • https://bendk12.webex.com/meet/wendy.mcculloch
  • Everyone is invited, attendance is not required.
    • Paul/Nole will take meeting notes which will be posted on the blog for those not attending the virtual office hours.
    • When joining a WebEx meeting, consider the following to help the meeting run smoothly and be productive:
      • Mute your sound when you’re not speaking (this avoids background noise bleeding into the meeting)
        • Have the chat open and type questions/comments to avoid talking over others

• Other ways that I am working to be available to support to folks. Email or call (541.598.5993)
• Here is the Google doc with office hours that can support staff in coordination.
• If families are having issues or question specific to iPads…please have them call 541-355-8700.
• Here is the document that was complied from all of the meetings I had yesterday and today. My hope with this document is to capture questions, answer them and support transparent communication so that everyone has the same information.
• In order to support our all of our families, please continue to use LinguistLinks (linked under “Other Docs” on the right side of the blog) for document translations that aren’t urgent. For shorter messages you are sending home for parents, you can email Veronica so that she can translate them.
• Oregon Extended Closure Guide can be viewed here
• Here is a document outlining distance learning for all.
• Here is a document that could support tracking which students are engaging with the remote learning.
• Here is our staff classroom extension list.

WebEx Information

Webex helpful hints in the link below

• https://app.sparkmailapp.com/web-share/lddwQKlE2SXoe8ig5MC0z3iH9tlfDeM1E_KJRYxj

• https://www.webex.com/webexremoteessentials.html#webex-meetings

Virtual Learning/Teaching Live + Recorded Classes:

• https://help.webex.com/landing/onlineclasses/upcomingClass/Working-Remotely#Getting-Started-with-Virtual-Education

Transition to Virtual Learning/Teaching Resources:

• https://www.webex.com/webexremoteedu.html

As of today, schools are closed until April 28th. We are not attempting to recreate school remotely. School and learning just look differently right now. Essential staff will be working beginning March 30. The best way to contact us is through email.

Please reach out to me via email or cell phone (541.598.5993) if I can be of service and support to you during these uncertain times. Internet access for you at home is an example of something I’d like to support with if this is a need for you.

CALL FORWARDING Below is a link that will lead you through the steps on connecting your work phone to your cell phone. Since the Call Forwarding feature requires that a physical button be pushed on your classroom/office phone, email Paul and he will do this for you. Include in the email the phone number you want your HDMS phone to transfer to. There are privacy supports in the link below if you want to call students and families but not have your home/mobile number appear on the other device. https://blogs.bend.k12.or.us/instructionaltechnology/phone-text/

Below is the info that will be sent out bilingually this weekend to families.

• In order to pick up student materials the follow process will occur only on Wednesday April 1st. Parents will drive up. While parents are waiting in their car they will call the school and give their students name. Staff will search for students locker number, go and collect all belongings in the locker, place in a plastic bag, label and deliver to the vestibule. Musical instruments will be available for pick up at the back Band room door, only at specific times. Orchestra instruments from 9-11am, Band instruments from 12-2pm. Families will wait in their car and staff will bring out the plastic bags from lockers labeled with student name for kids to then come and retrieve the bag from the vestibule. Parents should allow 10 mins for this process to happen.

If staff need to come to the building to gather supplies etc, you can, we just ask that you respect social distancing, 6 feet apart. This will support our custodial staff continue to sterilize and clean our building. The fewer people that come through our doors, the cleaner/safer we will all be.

All staff report to work Monday, March 30 – remotely. (I will send out a WebEx invite for these content team meetings. click here for the entire schedule)

March 30th and 31st are remote staff work days to prepare two weeks of online learning for their students that will begin on April 1st. Here is a link for district direction on this. Here is another.

• Read this link to hear from our district with some F A Qs
• Read this link to hear about our expectations moving forward
• Here is a link for district Continuation Learning Plan.
• Here is a link for Remote Learning Tools.

• Our tech support person is Christie McCormick. Please reach out to her via email with any and all techy questions or concerns.
  • During this time, her responsibility will be to support classroom teachers in the creation of content, the delivery of remote instruction, and the communication with students and families.  From this point on each coach will view themself as an instructional coach who supports teachers across a variety of topics. 

• Quarter 4 will start as we had originally planned.  Friday April 10

• Starting April 1st, our focus will be providing learning opportunities to our students, expectations follow:
  • Communicate a learning plan to students and families
  • Hold regular virtual office hours (Webex, Google classroom, email) to answer questions and provide instruction or feedback.
  • Monitor who is participating in remote learning; reach out to and try to engage students who are not participating. (If after repeated attempts to engage them, students still aren’t accessing the learning, please send me their names and I will work on home visits, etc. to support them getting the access they may need)

• HDMS block schedule: Keeping in mind that students will be receiving numerous remote learning opportunities. We do not want to overwhelm or discourage students from engaging in these learning opportunities. HDMS will be working on a “block schedule”. (hot link above)

AVAILABLE FREE RESOURCES BELOW:

Reading Stories, Book 1: 92 high-interest stories with comprehension questions originally published by Educators Publishing Service, now open source marshallmemo.com/articles/Reading%201.pdf 

Reading Stories, Book 2: 94 high-interest stories with comprehension question, originally published by Educators Publishing Service, now open source marshallmemo.com/articles/Reading%202.pdf 

English: 36 Cumulative Units in Grammar, Writing Skills, and Word Analysis, Book A, originally published by Educators Publishing Service, now open source marshallmemo.com/articles/English%20Book%20A.pdf 

English: 36 Cumulative Units in Grammar, Writing Skills, and Word Analysis, Book B, originally published by Educators Publishing Service, now open source marshallmemo.com/articles/English%20Book%20B.pdf 

Math: 35 Cumulative Units in Concepts and Skills, Book A, originally published by Educators Publishing Service, now open source marshallmemo.com/articles/Math%20Book%20A.pdf 

Math: 35 Cumulative Units in Concepts and Skills, Book B, originally published by Educators Publishing Service, now open source marshallmemo.com/articles/Math%20Book%20B.pdf 

math resource

Teacher guides to the English and Math workbooks are available at www.marshallmemo.com

The Story of Life, from the Big Bang to You: Written for middle- and high-school students (with illustrations by Ingrid Johnson), this is a comprehensive history of the origins of the solar system, the Earth, and life on Earth (originally published by Holt, Rinehart, & Winston, the updated 2019 edition is open source) bit.ly/38ZI6ov

ELL links and resources:

• Newsletter link
• Language access plan link
• ELL teacher support plan link

WebEx Information

The district is working to offer ‘live’ tutorials as staff are reporting back to work next week. As soon as I have details on time and days I will update this information. We ask all staff to practice setting up a Webex meeting. (Watch this video) in preparation for HDMS content team online meetings on March 30th.
When you want to schedule a meeting:

• https://bendk12.webex.com/

WebEx quick start guide:

• https://www.webex.com/webexremoteessentials.html#webex-meetings

Virtual Learning/Teaching Live + Recorded Classes:

• https://help.webex.com/landing/onlineclasses/upcomingClass/Working-Remotely#Getting-Started-with-Virtual-Education

Transition to Virtual Learning/Teaching Resources:

• https://www.webex.com/webexremoteedu.html

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

“It is how we embrace the uncertainty in our lives that leads to great transformations of our souls”

TO DOs:

1.Read this link to hear from our district with some F A Qs

2. Read this link to hear about our expectations moving forward

3. Between March 30-April 3, ELL Specialists will contact all multilingual families, to gauge who needs delivery of materials out to homes/neighborhoods

4. I’m hearing great stories of teachers videoing read alouds and the like. Please review this link to learn best practice and notice that some titles are off limits

Essential staff will be in the building and working beginning March 30.

Please reach out to me via email or cell phone (541.598.5993) if I can be of service and support to you during these uncertain times.

Please continue to check email as I will update the blog and email all staff when new news comes our way. You will hear again from me Sunday March 29th with new news and next steps regarding our meeting remotely on March 30th.

If folks want to come to the building, you can, we just need to respect social distancing, 6 feet apart.

Starting April 1st, our focus will be providing supplemental learning opportunities to our students, expectation follow:

• Communicate a learning plan to students and families
• Hold regular virtual office hours (Webex – see below) to answer questions and provide instruction or feedback
• Monitor who is participating in remote learning; reach out to and try to engage students who are not participating. (If after repeated attempts to engage them, students still aren’t accessing the learning, please send me their names and I will work on home visits, etc. to support them getting the access they may need)

1. As of today, schools are closed until April 28th. We are not attempting to recreate school remotely! Our focus for staff from April 1st-28th is to provide supplemental learning opportunities for all students. Those supplemental learning opportunities “go live” on April 1st.

2. These supplemental learning opportunities should not be new learning – but should be designed to support or enhance learning that has already occurred.

3. All staff report to work Monday, March 30 – remotely. (I will send out a WebEx invite for this meeting)

4. March 30th and 31st are remote staff work days to prepare two weeks of online learning for their students that will begin on April 1st. Here is a link for district direction on this. Here is another resource.

a. Teachers will begin working on a two-week lesson plan during those 2 days. The instruction will be/must be different. Focus on assignments that connect with standards and all students can access.

b. Admin will work with non-teaching certified and classified on how they can support learning.

5. The focus is on supplemental learning opportunities:

· Communicate a daily learning plan to students and families

· Hold regular office hours to answer questions and provide instruction or feedback

· Monitor who is participating in remote learning; reach out to and try to engage students who are not participating

6. After school resumes, teachers will decide which supplementary learning activities will be included in course grades. (Teachers may think some things are so important that they want to give time/support for those who didn’t complete the assignments during the continuation of learning time.)

7. Keep in mind that students will be receiving numerous supplemental learning opportunities. We do not want to overwhelm or discourage students from engaging in these learning opportunities. HDMS will be working on a “block schedule” to support staff and students not being so overwhelmed- more info to follow

Webex Information

We ask all staff to practice setting up a Webex meeting. (Watch this video) in preparation for our HDMS online meeting on March 30th.

A few Webex resources:
•When you want to schedule a meeting: https://bendk12.webex.com/

• WebEx quick start guide:

https://www.webex.com/webexremoteessentials.html#webex-meetings

•Virtual Learning/Teaching Live + Recorded Classes:

https://help.webex.com/landing/onlineclasses/upcomingClass/Working-Remotely#Getting-Started-with-Virtual-Education

•Transition to Virtual Learning/Teaching Resources:

https://www.webex.com/webexremoteedu.html

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

“If we all do one random act of kindness daily, we just might set the world in the right direction.” ~ Martin Kornfield

TO DOS

• Excellence in Education: It is time to nominate amazing employees (certified and classified) who have demonstrated excellence during the 2019-2020 school year.Click here for the nomination form. Please submit to Wendy’s box by March 18th.
• Forecasting: Due to limited school days BSH is moving to online forecasting for our current 8th graders. If you teach 8th grade please fill out this Google Doc https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Eot_2shPEkVbX6fU3eBScpia45xCkf2UDA0WaS5sZek/edit?usp=sharing to place student in appropriate courses: Honors for ELA, SS, SCI, MATH, and world languages. 
• Please note:  All recommendations and online forecasting be complete by Friday, April 3rd. 

• Click below to see the notes from our 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 continue to check the advisory schedule link on the right hand side of the home page of the blog to see what lessons and activities are scheduled.  We will also continue to post needed materials for advisory to the Staff Google classroom.

PBIS

• Please continue to hand out Diamondbucks!  Our next student store is scheduled for Wednesday, 3/18; consider coming to the cafeteria to see the smiling faces of students spending their Diamondbucks.  Please encourage students to check out the display case near the library for the rotating items for sale and their prices.  Thanks to those teachers willing to host students during lunch on 3/13 to celebrate them doing the right thing with pizza!!  Our next staff drawing during the staff meeting on 3/31 will include some AMAZING prizes including two Hoodoo ski passes and the possibility to win a breakfast for your entire department delivered by the admin team; be sure to increase your chances of winning by passing out tons of Diamondbucks! 

AVID

• Philosophical Chairs Overview: Philosophical Chairs is an inquiry-based strategy that is built on a prompt and to which contradictory positions exist; participants address these positions through deep, academic discourse in a structured, formal process.
• Why is Philosophical Chairs a critical component of AVID Schoolwide?
  • The Philosophical Chairs process provides students with opportunities to improve their verbal capabilities and fluency, in addition to developing their use of precise academic and content language. Additionally, students develop relational capacity as they take risks and share opinions with one another.

BITS AND BOBS

• Click here for the note from Shay.
• Sustainability:
  • We are trying to get feedback about the WE Reduce program. https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/9JZV67G
  • Climate Optimism Summit this Saturday the 14th. https://mailchi.mp/bend.k12.or.us/wereduceupdatemarch
• The following site was developed with both teachers and students in mind this TED-Ed site. If you enjoy combining videos into learning experiences (e.g. watch a 3 min. video that will provide context to an article that students will be reading) or if you want to provide real-world learning experiences by having students create and share their own TED-Talk, this might be a site that could support you further.

HDMS HIGHLIGHTS

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

“Some people arrive and make such a beautiful impact on your life, you can barely remember what life was like without them.” ~Anna Taylor

TO DOS

• Duty schedule update: Duty schedule for the remainder of the year has been updated!!  Check the right hand side of the home page of the blog for your two week time and location for duty.   Please add these dates to your sub notebook and your calendar.  Thanks in advance for being a positive presences for our students!!
• Please bring your laptop to our staff meeting Tuesday morning.
• Click below to see the notes from our 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

• On 3/11, most advisories will complete College & Career Readiness Lesson #6.  See notes and info from Joe and Brettney for more details.  8th grade group A advisories will start their first round of advisory competitions; the schedule is posted on the Staff Google Classroom.  See Joe or Nole if you need clarification.  8th grade group B advisories will finish College & Career Readiness Lesson #6 and administer the Child and Youth Resilience Measure student survey; QR codes are posted to Staff Google Classroom.  6th/7th grade advisories and 8th grade advisories in group A will complete the Child and Youth Resilience Measure survey on 3/18.

PBIS

• .PBIS team meeting notes from 3/5 can be found here

AVID

• Click here for a brief overview of Socratic Seminars

BITS AND BOBS

• For the 20/21 school year, only 8th graders will be able to be teacher/office aides. Please only hand out Golden TA Tickets to our current 7th graders.

HDMS HIGHLIGHTS

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

“It’s not where you are in life, it’s who you have by your side that matters.” ~ Unknown

So very grateful to have our incredible Classified staff by our side making a positive impact at HDMS everyday!

TO DOS

• Classified Week is next week. Admin has planned a few sweet treats for our amazing colleagues each day. Please encourage our students to share their thanks and gratitude for the support these folks provide!

• It is time to nominate amazing employees (certified and classified) who have demonstrated excellence during the 2019-2020 school year.
  • Click here for the nomination form. Please submit to Wendy’s box by March 13th.

• Click below to see the notes from our 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

CULTURE OF CARE – Q&A with Ross Greene

Parent: My 9-year old son has been diagnosed with oppositional defiant disorder (ODD). We are trying Plan B in our home, however your way of understanding children and collaboratively solving problems isn’t practiced in our local schools. It is very much Plan A and I’m concerned about not only my own son’s developmental/academic progress, but also the other children in the same boat. There is a lot of demanding respect, adhering to the rules, following directions, etc., but no one’s trying to identify my son’s concerns. At the principal/administrative level, it’s almost worse. My son’s reputation is that he’s the troublemaker. He doesn’t feel he can go to an authority figure about his concerns. Please help me! I want to advocate for him and for this process. It’s worth it!! Thank You!

Dr. Greene: You’re describing an all-too-familiar scenario. That’s why I wrote the book Lost at School. The question is whether there’s a way for you to diplomatically introduce my approach to the key players at your son’s school. You might want to think about which person at the school would be most receptive to the information. His teacher? The school principal? The guidance counselor or school psychologist? You’re looking for someone who’s open-minded and can guide you on how to best advocate on your son’s behalf. You may need an educational consultant or mental health professional to assist. But I’ve also devoted several segments of my web-based radio program for parents to the topic…you can listen by clicking here. Do let me know if there are other ways in which I can be helpful.

Parent: I’ve just started reading your book and while all of this makes sense and I am inclined to attempt to do this I have a nagging question. Our daughter was recently tested for ADHD and other things. They tested for poor impulse control and other cognitive issues and all the testing came back negative. The doctors found no difficulties with impulse control, no cognitive issues, and no mental or physical problems. The findings and conclusion was that my child knows what to do and how to handle situations but is simply defiant and chooses when to do it and when not to. In cases like this is Plan B the proper approach?

Dr. Greene: Interesting question. I don’t know your daughter, so it’s hard for me to comment in a very specific way. But I can say that I’ve never come to the conclusion that a child was simply defiant and was choosing when and when not to meet behavioral expectations. Doing well is always preferable to not doing well. Sounds like you may have run into an evaluator who was wearing certain lenses. As with the parent above, I’d suggest you download the Assessment of Lagging Skills and Unsolved Problems (ALSUP) from The Paperwork section of this website and decide for yourself if your daughter is lacking skills that would make it hard for her to meet the demands that are being placed upon her at home and school. And you may also wish to consider seeking an independent evaluation.

PBIS

• The student store on Wednesday was a huge success!  Thanks to the PBIS team for their planning and hard work, and a special shout out to Koop, Betsy, Teri, and Trish for running the student store this month.  Please continue to reward students you catch doing the right thing with Diamondbucks; they clearly have value for students (so much so that a few students were recently caught stealing them to sell for real money 😬).  Also, feel free to consider being creative to add your own items to the store; last month Dunn and Waritz sold school pictures of themselves (with a candy reward for purchasers) and this month Shari and her art students created highly sought after art pieces.  The students loved these items!!!

Tardies: Tardy data continues to be updated; the link on the right hand side of the home page of the blog takes you to the constantly updating master tardy page (with charts and graphs!).  We continue to follow through with escalating accountability measures for any students appearing on the report. 

AVID

• Focused note-taking is the process of creating notes, then thinking about and beyond them, thinking about the notes as whole, and then applying them.
  • Why is focused note-taking a critical component of AVID Schoolwide? Focused note-taking empowers students to take charge of their learning. Taking notes is a life skill students must acquire to succeed in college and the world of work. Throughout their academic careers, students obtain information from a variety of sources, and they gather, process, wrestle with, think about, and ultimately solve problems and produce new knowledge using that information through the active process of focused note-taking.

HDMS HIGHLIGHTS

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

“Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results.” ~ Willie Nelson

TO DOS

• Monday, February 24th is our Winter MAC Survey Day. Please look for an email from our FAN advocate Jamie for details and ‘to dos’
• 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.
• Safety Team: meeting notes found here.  Please note that there is information and links with details for the Safety Team’s short term solution to exterior lineup locations while there is temporary fencing outside the science wing.  A fire drill is planned for 7th period on Tuesday (2/25).
• 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

CULTURE OF CARE Student Success’s 

• BM- BM has shown great success at school lately. Student was referred to the Den on 1/8/20 prior to referral student had 12 behavior referrals to the main office. Since Den referral and consistent morning check in and Plan B conversations student has had 2 referrals. Based on Referral student has increased their ability to maintain and regulate themselves at school (not rising to the level of a referral) 84% of the time. Student prior to referral had 10 recorded OSS, and since 1/8/20 they have had 0 recorded OSS. 
• RG- RG has been someone who has been closely monitored through the Den, and who has experienced a lot of Plan B’s with throughout the year. Something that the people have shared and have been noticing is RG’s ability to engage in a conversation about incidents and referrals that come through to the office. At the beginning of the year RG was unable to sit and have a conversation with an adult about any given situation, we would see rigid thinking and a fixed mindset without ability to own any part of their actions. In the past few months, we have had conversations with the student where they are able to engage in understanding of their own actions and ability to understand others perspective. 
• BM- First day of referral (2/20/20) for BM and his ability to come to class prepared and engage in the class. Student and I set up a plan to allow structure and scaffolding support to get to first period on time with required materials in hopes with see an impact throughout the rest of the day. Student has had 17 behavioral referrals (8 of which are related to lack of class engagement, not having materials, and being late). The first day the plan was implemented a teacher shared “MUCH better start this morning.  He even interacted with peers.” Student was also rated on ability to engage in class on a scale of 1-5 (1 being, wasn’t able to do anything in class and 5 being, able to participate in everything in class) Student received a 4 on the scale, was on time, and he had his materials. 

PBIS

• PBIS update:  Thanks for continuing to reward students with Diamondbucks whenever you “catch” students doing the right thing.  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. 

AVID

• Interactive Notebook Overview: Interactive Notebooks are organizational and learning tools for students that provide a structure for organizing classroom content information and processing the information. For students, Interactive Notebooks become a collection of evidence of learning, as well as a reference tool. For educators, Interactive Notebooks can be an efficient learning structure that helps students organize and archive their learning in all content areas. With the notebooks, students take greater responsibility for their learning as they process and apply their learning through creative means.

BITS AND BOBS

• We have a “Grow Our Own” incentive program here in our district, where support is given to current classified employees to pursue a credential/degree in a hard-to-fill position. Click the following link for information on how to attend the info session.
• Sustainability reminder: 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!!”
• Here is a statewide PD opportunity related to scoring test items from the Oregon Statewide Summative Assessment for your ELA and math teachers. share this link with any/all that may be interested.

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