Madison Middle School

By barsotti_p 　https://blogs.4j.lane.edu/madisonstaff/2021/06/05/june-4-2021/

Hi Madison Family,

9 more days of school and 10 more work days!

Here’s what’s happening this week:

This Week’s Schedule:

Quick Links: Please make sure you’re signed into your 4J Google Account to access many of these links.

• SPED/Gen Ed Collaboration Log – Complete the full log at the beginning of each new math or ELA unit. Complete the last 2 questions weekly for students on IEPs who are not engaging or are not on track. 
• COVID Protocol Suggestion Box – Please add any suggestions or concerns there.
     

MADISON INFORMATION             

• Focus Slides
  • Monday – Canvas Self Check 
  • Tuesday – Mindfulness
  • Thursday – SEL Lollipop Moments and Leadership
  • Friday – Team-building – Zoomed in Picture Challenge

• Wednesday PD: We will talk about our SEL work.
  
• Site Council: Our Madison Site Council will be meeting for the first time, this week. Thank you to Karen, M.E., Jessica, Allison, Tim, Mary, and Rechelle for volunteering to serve on the team. Also, a big shout-out to Nancy Haight, our parent volunteer!
• Staff Shout-Outs: Consider giving someone a staff shout out! If you need absolutely anything, please don’t hesitate to connect with me. We didn’t have any shout out this week.
  • Ken, Audrey and Jason for representing us well and all being recognized with ACE nominations.
  • Shana for her love of books and wanting to share it.
  • Mary for working on the 8th grade slide show.

DISTRICT INFORMATION                  

• Masks and Vaccine Verification: You may have notices some of your colleagues are not wearing masks while there are no students in the building.  If you want to join and you have been vaccinated, you need to fill out the district survey.     
• District Admin Update: Buena Vista principal Melissa Ibarra will be the new temporary Co-Elementary Director (taking over for Brooke, who is taking over for Cydney as assistant sup, so these are all temporary appointments since Cyd is interim sup and has rights back to her old job) and also Language Immersion Administrator. Jeff Johnson will be the other Co-Elementary Director and will also oversee Federal Programs (Title 1), taking over for David Jacobsen, whose position has now been eliminated. The new principal at Buena Vista will be Stephanie Randall who is currently the AP at Willagillespie and Gilham. For next year, Gilham will have a full time AP and WillaG will get a Student Success Coordinator. Garrett Bridgens, the principal at Charlemagne, will move to ATA as their AP for personal reasons. Chris Benz, current Kennedy AP and tapped as Adams’s principal next year, is moving to Portland with his family. The openings at Charlemagne and Adams have already been posted as has the AP position for Gilham. 
  On a side note, Jaimee Massie has been named the principal of Harrison Elementary in South Lane so she will be leaving the district at the end of the school year.

A brief pause for your mindset moment. When you fall, get right back up again! But maybe not too soon, and maybe after the nice people who stopped to help have ensured you don’t have a concussion or any broken bones. Also, Howard’s security cameras are great as they let you share Erin’s embarrassing moments. (Click the link above for Erin’s newest entry into the Howard staff talent show. I call it “Weak Ankle Strikes Back.”)

PROFESSIONAL LEARNING AND OTHER INFORMATION

• Links for the district Anti-Racism PD: We did not do this PD because of the book group but I thought it was still good. The distict PD focused on detours, which are comments people might make that take a discussion about racism or anti-racism off course. Detours can also be reflected in attitudes or behaviors that signal avoidance or a wrong-turn into guilt, denial, or defensiveness. The video and the portion of the article we’ll be using will take about 25 minutes to watch and read. I wanted people to have those resources ahead of time. I’ll provide time during the session to do the reading, but it’s helpful if people have watched the video ahead of time.
  • Video: Jay Smooth: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Discussing Race (12 min)
  • Article: Detour Spotting for Anti-Racists by Jona Olsson
      
• Tulsa Massacre: This year marks the 100 year anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre. This event is new learning for me in the past few years as it’s never been part of traditional curriculum. Here’s a brief summary from tulsahistory.org.
  On the morning of May 30, 1921, a young black man named Dick Rowland was riding in the elevator in the Drexel Building at Third and Main with a white woman named Sarah Page. The details of what followed vary from person to person. Accounts of an incident circulated among the city’s white community during the day and became more exaggerated with each telling.Tulsa police arrested Rowland the following day and began an investigation. An inflammatory report in the May 31 edition of the Tulsa Tribune spurred a confrontation between black and white armed mobs around the courthouse where the sheriff and his men had barricaded the top floor to protect Rowland. Shots were fired and the outnumbered African Americans began retreating to the Greenwood District.In the early morning hours of June 1, 1921, Greenwood was looted and burned by white rioters. Governor Robertson declared martial law, and National Guard troops arrived in Tulsa. Guardsmen assisted firemen in putting out fires, took African Americans out of the hands of vigilantes and imprisoned all black Tulsans not already interned. Over 6,000 people were held at the Convention Hall and the Fairgrounds, some for as long as eight days.Twenty-four hours after the violence erupted, it ceased. In the wake of the violence, 35 city blocks lay in charred ruins, more than 800 people were treated for injuries and contemporary reports of deaths began at 36. Historians now believe as many as 300 people may have died.In order to understand the Tulsa Race Massacre it is important to understand the complexities of the times.  Dick Rowland, Sarah Page and an unknown gunman were the sparks that ignited a long smoldering fire. Jim Crow, jealousy, white supremacy, and land lust, all played roles in leading up to the destruction and loss of life on May 31 and June 1, 1921.  For more resources on teaching the Tulsa Massacre, the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial Commission has created a website with a lesson plans, first hand accounts, photographs, and film.

What’s Coming Next Week:  

I hope you have a wonderful week!

Peter and Gina