Week of April 11
Thank a volunteer in your classroom this week. It is volunteer appreciation week.
Hello Shining Stars,
Last week the Carrying Forward Seminar trained many staff members to begin to see race in their classrooms. We now have an entire classroom teacher staff trained in this work. Our specialists are mostly trained as well. The classified staff is +50% trained including most EA’s. It is our goal to have the entire staff trained by next Spring, including office staff, cafeteria, and custodial staff. This is good news. I am extremely proud of our staff and their willingness to step up and engage in these conversations and anti-racist initiatives. With that said, our work has just begun in the area of race. Each day we must push ourselves to be aware and interrupt things we see in our community that we feel needs to change. In order to do that we have to be comfortable to communicate with each other and support each other in this work.
Here are some items of the week:
• TalentEd Tasks Reminder – I’ve sent emails to individual licensed staff members who are missing or overdue on required items in TalentEd. Every licensed employee, regardless of where you are in the evaluation cycle, whether you’re Temp, Probationary, Contract Year-1 or Year-2, will need complete the End-of-Cycle Goals Reflection and schedule a time to meet with me. I have already had about 8 of these meetings. This form, like the start of the year Self Evaluation form, is something I don’t have access to see, but only see whether you completed it or not. I would encourage teachers to begin working on the End-of-Cycle Goals Reflection sooner than later. You can add Easy CBM Data as soon as it is complete and submit. Please let me know if you have any questions on any of this or need any help with TalentEd.
Book lovers seek treasure in annual Eugene library fundraiser: A big thanks to Joy Marshall, Edith Gomez, and Aline Baissic for their hard work collecting books for our library from the Friends of Eugene Book Fair. This last weekend when the Friends of Eugene Library held this book sale, they allowed us to collect as many leftover books as we could find to add to our library for free. This is a very generous gift for us and invaluable to support our circulation. A big thank you is in order to Edith, Aline and Joy for supporting our library.
Brian Davies/ Register Guard
• Care Team Referrals – The Student Care Team will be meeting soon, which means referrals to the team are due Friday next week. The Care Team can help with a wide variety of stations. The DHS Self Sufficiency Program staff can also provide us with updates for any reports we’ve made. Linked here is the 4J Release Form (PDF or DOC) if you can obtain a parent or guardian signature, but you can also refer “hypothetical” student or family situations. Let me know if you have any questions about potential referrals, but if it’s a situation that’s on your mind, it’s probably a worth referring to the team.
• 2016-2017 and 2017-2018 School Calendars – In my 16 years in 4J, this is the first time I’ve seen the district put out the school calendar for the next TWO years, with the 2016-2017 and 2017-2018 School Calendars! As a building, this will certainly help us in planning out our Professional Development plan for the next 3-years. It will also help families in our community know really far ahead of time when there is no school.
A rendering of our media center design.
Eugene School Board approves $22.7 million construction bid for new River Road school-
Well, it’s official! We have a contract to build. Read this Register Guard article for more details. The design is ready to go and we have a contractor ready to begin building our new building. I do not have details on the start date but it will definitely begin before April is over. Dexter Rummel is the site manager who works with the contractor and communicates with us about these details. He and I will be in contact next week to give you the latest information on this exciting new development.
• Schedule of Events for the Week
April 11 (M)
National Library Week
National Volunteer Week (AKA Volunteer Appreciation Week)
9:00-2:40, Visitors from Guanajuato
9:00-9:30, Joel in informal observations.
9:30-10:00, Joel and Aline Meet about Parent Involvement.
11:45-12:15, Joel in an Informal Observation
12:30-1:00, Joel in an Informal Observation
2:30-5:00, Joel to Elementary Principals’ Meeting (Ed Center)
April 12 (T)
7:30-8:00, Summative Meeting
8:00-2:45, DATA TEAM IIPM
9:30-1:00, LCC Dental Clinic Visit
10:15-11:00ish- Cafecito with Parents (Joel and Alicia) in FRC.
3:00-4:00, PLT Meeting
4:00-5:00, Joel Meets with Aline about 2016 -2017 Master Schedule
6:00-7:00, Grupo de Padres
April 13 (W)
8:00-4:00, Karen and Joel out at OLN Conference until 4:00 PM
9:00-1:30, Nikita Brougher’s Class on Field Trip to JC School House and Emerald Park.
1:45-2:45, PLC Time in the Library- Math Assessment Focus except for 3rd Grade ELD Meeting
4:00-5:00, Joel Hosts North Region Principal’s Meeting (El Camino del Río Library)
April 14 (H)
7:30-8:00, Summative Meeting
12:00-12:20, Fire Drill
3:00-4:00, Karen’s Baby Shower
April 15 (F)
9:00-11:00, Joel at Culturally Relevant Parent Curriculum Planning Meeting at Ed Center
ATTENTION:
2:00-2:15, School Wide Recess- All teachers EAs and Students on the Playground for 15 minutes. This is a reward for fundraising.
April 16 (S)
9:00-12:30, North Region Kindergarten Orientation (NEHS)
10:30-12:00, 4J Future Chefs Competition (Sheldon HS)
April 18 (M)
8:30- Summative Meeting
11:00, Summative Meeting
3:00-4:00, Site Council- EEF Grant Writing Session and Parent Involvement Report
6:30-7:30, Superintendent Meeting w/North Region Families (NEHS)
April 19 (T)
9:00-11:00, Immersion Task Force Meeting
12:00-1:00 PM Flores Dunk Tank Reward for Fundraising (1st Grade only Invited)
2:30-3:30, Title Visit from Tasha Katsuda
2:45-4:45, Staffing Meeting (Library)
6:00-7:30, ACE Awards (Hult Center)
April 20 (W)
Wednesday Collaboration Time- Math Assessment Focus except 2nd grade ELD Planning Meeting
April 21 (H)
Life Touch Group Photo Day
LCC Dental Clinic Visit #2
3:45-5:15, Kindergarten Teacher Monthly Meeting (River Road)
3:00-4:00, Furniture Meeting Library
April 22 (F)
Joel out to do Teacher Effectiveness Write Ups
2nd Grade Zoo Trip (Out All Day)
Earth Day
Upcoming Community Events:
180 Prince Lucien Cambell (PLC) Hall
This is designed for kids! Invite families to go.
Cuentos para Dormir (Bedtime stories by deported parents) is an original book series of children’s books written by deported Mexican parents living in Tijuana, BC, Mexico. The have reached national and international attention for their uniqueness and their purpose. The books were written during the spring and summer of 2015 and were published in late 2015. There are 7 books in the series and the Department of Education Studies has acquired two sets of the books. The UO is the first university in the nation to have these books.
Lecture by Sophia Sobko, the teacher who helped the parents from DREAMers Moms USA/Tijuana with the writing process and the publishing of the books. In addition, the parents will be broadcast in from Tijuana, Mexico to discuss their books and to discuss issues of deportation and family separation. There will be a binational book reading with students from the Colegio de la Frontera Norte and the DREAMers Moms organization. In addition, a set of books will be given to UO libraries for check out.
Have a good week, everyone!
Joel
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