Harrison Park Post

I have been watching a string of emails over the course of the afternoon in regards to outdoor masking and the changes beginning March 11th. All I am going to say is these have been highly confusing. Beginning tomorrow masks optional outdoors. Messaging will go out to families this evening.  As students go to their lunch recesses staff will encourage them to put it in a pocket or  continue to wear it with the mask pulled down under their chin. I will make an announcement tomorrow morning in regards to this. This is an option and some students may choose to wear a mask. Please reiterate this to your students. In the event they come in from recess having lost their mask, please have them put one on immediately upon return to your room. Do not have them wait outside before entering or send them to the office (we are often short staffed in here during lunches).  If you do not have any masks in your room please email Shannon. We have asked parents to send extras with their stu...

Read Across America Week Monday the 28th Crazy Hat Day Kindergarten Connect @ 6:00 (Virtual) Tuesday the 1st Dress Like Your Favorite Superhero Day  FIT Assessment 8:00-3:50 Staff Meeting @ 3:30 Thai Fresh Lunch/Dinner Day Wednesday the 2nd Twin Day Fire Drill @ 12:20 Leah & Emily in Virtual Training 1:30-4:30 Thursday the 3rd Crazy Sock Day Friday the 4th Favorite Book Character Day Lunch Service- DaRosa, Brandt-Lazar, Cardwell and Schulze (Last Week) I was able to complete staffing on Friday and submitted at 3:00. I made attempts to reach out to anyone who will be impacted and will continue to email and touch base on assignments for next year. At this point if I have not talked to you then major changes are not in your horizon. I apologize for my lack of support this past week as we moved through this process. Between the SEGC work, facilities planning, staffing, evaluations there just isn't enough time in the day. I know you all feel the same way right now in your classroom...

 It was a bit of an exciting morning. I know I hit a few accidents and slick spots on the way in. My family had a two hour delay and then their districts called it a day. I admit I am very jealous. Anyway, for staff arriving by 8:45 there is no need to put in for time as we anticipated people arriving late. For those arriving after 8:45 please submit for the time you were out. For example if you arrived at 9:15 it would be .5 hours.  Staffing is almost there....I am now on to balancing glitches. Some more work this evening and hopefully tomorrow I can work with some experts to balance out. Thank you for your patience this week as this is worked on.  Next week is Read Across America Week!  This is a super fun event to celebrate a love of reading, and I hope that you and your classes will all participate!  I am putting together a spirit week for the event, as well as some reading incentives.   Classroom teachers: I will be puttin...

There was some confusion about ESL monitoring forms. Theresa is getting forms out now. We ask that these are returned as quickly as possible. They should not take more than about 2-3 minutes to fill out. We would like to send them off Monday. Next Tuesday the 1st is our FIT Assessment (Fidelity of Implementation through the MTSS office) . There will be a district team coming in for the entire day. They will be visiting some classrooms, interviewing PFSP and instructional staff, parents and students. We just finished up the schedule for this and will provide more details in the Weekly Forecast. Next Tuesday's staff meeting will be allotted for OSAS Testing and Review. Please make sure you have completed the first training for this . We provided a staff meeting for this purpose and it should be completed at this time. The exception would be some K-2 Homeroom Teachers. Please be on the look out for an email from Theresa in regards to this. The last 10 minutes 4:50 will be for PAT. ...

Darn it I missed the 2/22/22 memo. When the 3rd grade teacher I live with had a red and black tutu laying on the table last night I had to ask. If you did anything exciting in your rooms please share!  We had a lot of positions uncovered today, but we made it through. Just as an FYI the district office folk are only picking up one, possibly two jobs a week. The priority is given to schools with multiple unfilled absences and homeroom teachers only. I realize multiple emails a day on the status of coverage can be a bit much, but I want to ensure staff is aware when we will lack the ability to respond or support students and teachers.  Not much else to report tonight. 

Monday the 21st President's Day-No School Tuesday the 22nd No Staff Meeting Wednesday the 23rd Thursday the 24th Friday the 25th  Staffing Due PLCs will meet this week at their regular times Lunch Service - DaRosa, Brandt-Lazar, Cardwell, Schulze I hope you have all enjoyed the three day weekend on some level. I hunkered down and worked on staffing throughout the weekend.  I will be reaching out to people individually in regards to assignments for next year. Please know this is one of the most difficult tasks for me personally. It would be easy to look at the positions as simply a slot I fill, but I know each shift or move means potential stress and upheaval in someone's daily life. I also want to ensure as much support as possible for our staff and students. While we did not receive significant cuts, we do have some areas of loss. Please be mindful of discussion with your peers around staffing, etc. My goal is to retain as much of our staff as possible and sometimes...

YIKES. I left work around 5:00 and delivered some items to a student and then came home and got to work on staffing and just realized I had not sent this! Sorry. It was a bit wild today. Tomorrow is a full moon I believe. Hold on.  Please see the attached letter regarding TNTP:  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Kq3ItrH8vmKzcpfQ5HIR7YNoELBn7d7u/edit?rtpof=true&sd=true K-5 ESL  - starting next week K-5 ESL will be pulling students to practice, then test ELPA. There will not be ESL support in classrooms until after spring break.  Headphones - We have some extra headphones for student use. If you need some please email Theresa with a number. These will be prioritized for Lexia and Dreambox usage but, we likely have enough for anyone needing.  Middle School Teachers - Watch your email tomorrow. Theresa will be emailing lists of students who need to test during 2nd period by the end of homeroom. This is the last day she'll have a make up session. Students will...

Thank you for your time today. Please be sure to fill out the survey since time was provided!  PFSP staff you should have received an email from Panorama for the Successful Schools Survey as well. Please identify 30 minutes in the next week to take this survey. Take a look at your schedule and see where you can potentially fit it in. If you can not find 30 minutes during the day please see me so we can determine a time where your other duties/student facing services can be adjusted to make this happen.  We have a MAP make up session tomorrow at 1:30. If you are sending students make sure they are on this form so I add them to the session ahead of time. Send them with headphones and Chromebooks (and badges if it's for fluency). This was sent out to specific teachers but I am putting it here too. If you have a question please reach out to Theresa! https://docs.google.com/ spreadsheets/d/ 13VdmRi9ZpR4V345_ 8FPtCQP88Nci6gWhwFiSKk_kw8E/ edit#gid=0 I'm expecting 40ish kids, grades 2...

Whew. Friendship/Valentine's/Whatever you want to call it is over. I hope things went well in your rooms. I know there was some energy in the air! The HP Canvas main page has been redesigned so if you had it bookmarked you will need to bookmark the newly designed one.  There is now a button on our school Canvas Page for Stage 2-3 Referral Form. This should be used when you have a situation that warrants a stage 2/3 only.  Tomorrow's staff meeting will be online/virtual. We will send the link out later in the afternoon. Please note that there is time to complete your Successful Schools Survey. This may have arrived in your mailbox already. Keep your eyes peeled.  Remember to pick up snacks for your classroom! There are a lot of leftovers in the cafeteria 

Monday the 14th Tuesday the 15th Safety Meeting @ 8:00 Staff Meeting @ 3:30 Wednesday the 16th Thursday the 17th SEGC Meeting 6-9 Friday the 18th Middle School Honor Roll Dessert Hour Lunch Service- Please note changes. DaRosa, Brandt-Lazar, Cardwell, Schulze This is the last week of MAP testing. Please remind students of any makeup or "finishing" sessions they may be scheduled for. We will begin looking at the results and using information to help us determine how we can support student learning and grown.  Please click on the link below for a  survey   that should take less than 5 minutes-   please reply by 2/21! Grow Portland mid-year teacher survey Candy Grams went out on Friday. Please distribute to your homeroom students tomorrow. K-5 teachers you are welcome to wait until the end of the day to do this. Thank you to Conni, Shannon and the leadership class for taking this on. I know it means a lot to students. I also want to thank our PTA for their wor...

I am still working to put together all the pieces of today's Team Response Incident. Please feel free to send input or suggestions. Because of the nature of this incident I can not go into details. I appreciate staff who kept the lobby cleared for a prolonged period and those people who were asked to support in various other ways.  We received staffing today and will begin working on this as much as possible. We will have a discussion about this on Tuesday.  If you have students who have planned breaks, safety plans, and anything else of this nature please be sure to include them in your sub plans. There have been a few situations, where guest teachers were not aware of students who needed escorts to restrooms etc. and problems arose as a result.  Tomorrow is Friday and it has been a long week. I know I am tired and have worked with some challenging student situations so I know many of you have as well. I am reminding myself of my personal triggers and trying my best to b...

Teachers please make sure any windows on your classroom doors are uncovered. We are seeing a lot of them that are covered up and as a result we can't see into them. There are a few situations where we may peek in to find a student and opening the door would result in more of a distraction.   Tomorrow afternoon Emily and I have our staffing meeting beginning at 3:00. Since I have a SEGC meeting directly after this I am going to make an effort to leave at 2:30 so I can make it home in time for my 5 and a half hours of meetings. Just an FYI.  We are seeing less activity on our SST (COVID reporting tool/screener). However, we know we are not done with things yet. I wanted to make sure you are all aware that hours have changed for the district testing site.  Effective Thursday, February 10, the site will run as follows: Days:  Monday & Wednesday Times:  7:30 to 9 a.m. There will be no testing this Friday February 11.  Please access the Oregon Health Aut...

Please see the attached forms in the original email in regards to some recent water testing and a faucet in the building that is not to be used until issues are rectified.  In the event you did not see the email in regard to the staffing survey here it is again:  https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSemoPmpZU7Hq48Ztm6HUG9ZVUBnZJdol_NK-EscKTBVhUPFzQ/viewform?usp=sf_link Yesterday we had a parent enter the back of the building near dismissal time. They went into a classroom to meet with a teacher. Please do not allow anyone to enter the building without district ID through the back of the building. All visitors, must check in through the front of the building. The office will not allow parents into classrooms without calling ahead to see if the teacher is available.  I know many of you are highlighting works of Black authors, scientists and other notables this month. This was sent out to you, but am ensuring you saw it here as well:  Learning for Justice offers a ...

 It was good to be back. I am hoping to get out and about more each day, but am being told to "take it easy". Feeling much better and got some answers today. Emily will be back tomorrow. Please see the attached COVID update. This potential exposure took place on Friday, but was not confirmed until late that evening. I was not aware of it until this morning.  Theresa sent out information in regards to tomorrow's training. I will send out a link to my survey tomorrow before the end of the day.  Enjoy the beautiful evening!

Counselor Appreciation Week! Monday the 7th Emily out of building Tuesday the 8th Staff Meeting 3:30-5:00  (Asynchronous) Wednesday the 9th Thursday the 10th SEGC Meeting 6-9 Friday the 11th Middle School Honor Roll Dessert Celebration @ 2:30 (invite only) Lunch Service- Kempster, Benson, Kunz, Jarvis (last week) I am absolutely enjoying the sun coming through the windows this morning (I need to get out there and clean them though). I hope you were able to enjoy the dry weather and sun. I am on the mend and will be back tomorrow. I had an MRI yesterday and hope to find out more tomorrow about what to expect in terms of healing. I am more mobile each day, but have a hard time sitting still and at the end of the day my knee is sore. I am grateful I will be able to return tomorrow, even if I will be a bit slow.  I want to make sure we all take some time this week to celebrate our school counselors Stacey Freeman and Ana Kennedy. They have done an amazing job helping our students...