http://blogs.4j.lane.edu/chinn/?p=12309
Hello Bolts,
Hope you enjoyed your extra hour of sleep and also enjoy your impending 4-day weekend.
Fifteen items of note for this week:
• Staffing Updates – Two staffing updates:
• New SPED EA, Dencie Mellor – Denice has been hired as our new SPED EA, which is an added position to our current SPED Team. Denice is currently a SPED EA at Chavez and before that worked in Springfield as a SPED EA and also a Behavior EA. With EA positions extremely hard to fill right now, Chavez is holding onto Denice until they hire a replacement, so she will mostly likely start with us in about three weeks.
• New 1st Grade Teacher, Megan Gullekson – Megan was supposed to have started this past week, but her principal ended up holding her through the end of the week, so this Monday should be her first day at Holt. She’ll set up her classroom this week, attend conferences with her students and current teacher, and will start teaching next week on Monday, November 14th.
• “Intentional Focus” Details – Linked here is Andy and Sabrina’s Email (along with some additional emails sent to principals) about the district shift to have TOSAs and admins helping in buildings more and what that will look like between now and winter break. TOSAs are now either covering unfilled sub jobs or were deployed to one of four schools determined to be high needs (Chavez, Gilham, Spring Creek, and McCornack). They also said they are pausing district led Friday PD, though between now and winter break there was only one district led PD and the rest were either holidays, work load relief days, building based, or staff choice. They’re also sending district admins to help cover for principals so we can get to observations and other instructional duties currently taking a backseat to student behaviors, though we don’t know yet who or when that will happen.
• Fall Conferences Updates & Reminders – Eleven Conference related items:
• Family Reports – Gloria is going to run the Synergy Family Reports for teachers, containing individual student info on attendance, benchmark testing, and state testing info.
• Helper Tasks During Conferences Sign-Up – If teachers could use any help with prep or other tasks, add your name and the task to the Helper Tasks During Conferences Spreadsheet. EAs can also add your name to the tasks you’d be willing to take on
• Conference Schedules to Office – Please give office staff a list of your conference dates and times. Parents often forget their times and call the office. You can export your times in Calendly by logging onto your account, clicking SCHEDULED EVENTS, and then clicking EXPORT to get a file you can email the office.
• Conference Confirmation Form – Geoff shared this earlier, but linked here is a Conference Confirmation Form to remind families of their conference time.
• REPEAT: Title 1 Compacts & Conferences – Make sure you have the Title 1 Compacts (English and Spanish) to go with students and families.
• REPEAT: Student Tech Contract (K-2 and 3-5) – Linked here and on the Holt Staff Dashboard is the K-2 Holt Student Technology Contract and the 3-5 Holt Student Technology Contract for teachers to review with students and then have students and parent/guardians sign the agreement.
• REPEAT: Language Link Phone Translations – See the 4J Language Link Phone Interpreting Service webpage for step-by-step directions how to do translations for in-person meetings, phone meetings, or Zoom meetings. The “cost center number” for Holt is 270.
• REPEAT: Staff Not in Conferences – Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday are regular work days for all staff who are not part of conferences and should work your regular hours at school. However, if you have pre-arranged trade time with me in order to not work any of these dates, email me your plan ahead of time.
• REPEAT: Allan Available to Attend Conferences – Teachers can let me know if you have any tricky conferences you’d like me to attend. Send me a date & time (and a Zoom link if it’s on Zoom) and I’ll be there!
• REPEAT: Resources for Families – Should any families request assistance with food, clothing, housing/rental assistance, hygine product, SNAP (food stamps) Benefits, Insurance, counseling, and such, please have them fill out the linked Helping Hand Online Form, the form below, or contact Holt Family Resource Coordinator, Felicia LaCuesta, at lacuesta_f@4j.lane.edu or call me (541)790-6174.
• Coffee Run TUESDAY! – The PBIS team is offering a Starbucks run Tuesday @ 3:00 – Here is the LINK. Order by Monday at 12:00. Pick up in the teacher’s lounge Tuesday @ 3:00. Venmo Darla @Darla-Humbert or bring cash Tuesday morning. Don’t have the funds? No prob – we gotcha covered – so just order. Here’s the MENU.
• Artist in Residence Beings, Nov. 14th – Not this week, but Monday next week our artist in residence begins; Alebrijes: Paper Sculptures inspired by the art of Oaxaca, Mexico w/Tom Miller. Linked here is the Artist in Residence Schedule.
• Holt Night Out – Bangers & Brews, Nov. 15th – Not this week but next week on Tuesday, November 15th is a Holt Night Out at Bangers & Brews, jsut across from Sheldon High School. Reminder your kids to drop by between 5:00-8:00pm and just mention Holt when ordering.
• Holt Spirit Day – Crazy Hair and Socks Day, Nov. 17th – Get kids pumped! The November Holt Spirit Day is a week from Friday and this time it’s Crazy Hair and Sock Day! Stay tuned for Spirit Assembly Details also happening this day.
• Med Administration Training, Friday, Nov. 18th – On our one Building Based Friday PD Day before winter break, each grade level team should send one rep to a med administration training being offered by our fabulous school nurse, Eden. Any staff interested may attend, but this is required for any field trip when there is a student who taks daily meds (usually around lunchtime). See the next items for additional details on working with the school nurse for field trips.
• Field Trip Update & Reminder – Two Field Trip Items:
• Field Trips & Missed Preps – HR is saying teachers do not get a make-up PE or Music classes due to field trips, so be aware of this when planning your trips.
• Notify Nurse Two Weeks in Advance – See Eden’s Email for details, but be sure to let our school nurse know of any upcoming field trips at least two weeks in advance. This is so you can coordinate plans to address allergies, epi-pens, seizure protocols, diabetes management, daily meds, etc.
• Classroom Blinds are to Kept Open – Classroom blinds need to be kept open during the school day. Door windows should also be uncovered. The exception to this is if there is a lockdown or lockdown drill.
• Holt Bolt Class Prizes – Winning classes have already been notified and are selecting their prizes, but below are the results for class prizes from Holt Bolt and who won a class prize of their choice. The winning classes in order were Rabourn, Harmon, Longoria, Lovato, Zluticky, Cobb, Parks, Reich based on these numbers. As of Wednesday, the final total is at the bottom is $21,000!
• Change to Unpaid Leave Process – HR Emailed principals that as a result of staffing shortages this year, when a principal signs their support a Leave Request for Unpaid Leave Form for a staff member (we don’t actually approve them, HR does), this year staff would need approval from HR and also Assistant Superintendent of Instruction, Brooke Wagner. This makes me suspect HR will be stingy about approving these, so be judicious about using your leaves.
• Tech Resources from Apple Learning Specialist – The Apple Specialist who was here last week wanted emailed some resources on Apple Classroom, a link to upcoming virtual support days in case you would like more help, and some other Apple resources.
Apple Classroom
Getting Started with Apple Classroom for Mac Teacher’s Guide – Safari weblink
https://www.apple.com/education/docs/getting-started-with-classroom-mac.pdfApple Classroom User Guide for Mac – Apple Support site (always up to date)
https://support.apple.com/guide/classroom/welcome/macApple Classroom User Guide for iPad – Apple Support site (always up to date)
https://support.apple.com/guide/classroom/welcome/ipadosGetting Started with Apple Classroom – Safari weblink
https://www.apple.com/education/docs/getting-started-with-classroom.pdfShared Numbers Document for Eugene 4J SD
https://www.icloud.com/numbers/03a5mXt4QEr4VegDZ5Ed0woNQ#Eugene-Fall_2022_Coaching_Support
See the tabs for each day to find the Webex link. Times are flexible.
• Friday, November 4, 2022 – Virtual
• Friday, November 18, 2022 – Virtual
• Monday, November 28, 2022 – Virtual
• Friday, December 16, 2022 – VirtualApple Resources
Apple Education Community — NEW!!!
https://education.apple.com
The Apple Teacher Learning Center has evolved into the Apple Education Community which launched in late August 2022. This is a place to connect with other educators across the world, share lesson ideas and resources, and ask questions.Apple Professional Learning Live
https://apple.co/apl
Explore helpful resources, practice new skills, and reflect on ways Apple technology can support great learning and teaching. Hosted by Apple Professional Learning Specialists, these free hands-on sessions are offered twice daily — Mondays and Thursdays — and run for approximately 60 minutes.Apple Professional Learning 1:1 Virtual Coaching
Feel free to request a 1:1 coaching session to help with any questions you may have on using Mac or iPad professionally and instructionally.
https://apple.co/askapl• 15 Inspiring and Informative Veterans Day Videos for Kids – This special day honors those who served in the Armed Forces, past and present. Commemorate the holiday with students by watching a few of these Veterans Day videos. See this WeAreTeachers Article for a collection of videos sorted by level.
• Schedule of Upcoming Events – See the Holt Staff Calendar for future events, but here are the events of note for the next two weeks:
November 7 (M)
Library Week #2 Classes
School Psychologist Week (PE/Music)
2nd Grade Staff Room Duty
2:45-3:30, Holiday Shopping Meeting (Library)
3:45-5:15, Allan to Elementary Principals’ Meeting (Ed Center)November 8 (T)
3:30-7:30, Conferences
5:30-6:10, Staff DinnerNovember 9 (W)
8:00-8:00, Conferences, No School
8:40-8:55, Allan to Conference
9:30, Allan Meeting w/New Elem Curriculum Admin (Office)
10:10-10:45, Allan to Conference
11:30-12:10, Staff Lunch
5:30-6:10, Staff DinnerNovember 10 (H)
Teacher Comp Day, No School
Regular Work Day for Classified StaffNovember 11 (F)
Veterans Day – No SchoolNovember 14 (M)
Library Week #1 Classes
3rd Grade Staff Room Duty
Artist in Residence Begins
Ruby Bridges Walk to School Day
4:00-5:30, Allan to Equity PD (Ed Center)November 15 (T)
2:45-3:30, Staff Meeting (Library)
5:00-8:00, Holt Night Out – Bangers & Brews (across from Sheldon HS)November 16 (W)
7:00-9:00, School Board Meeting (Zoom)November 17 (H)
2:45-3:30, Leadership Team Meeting (Library)
10:00-1:30, 4th Grade in the Garden
5:00-6:00, Site Council Meeting (Cafeteria)
6:00-7:00, PAHS (Parents at Holt School) Meeting (Cafeteria)November 18 (F)
Holt Spirit Day – Crazy Hair and Socks Day
8:15-8:45, School Spirit Assembly
1:25-2:25, Medication Administration Training (Library)
Good luck with conferences, everyone!
Allan
