Harrison Park Post

 Be aware tomorrow is April Fools Day...and a Friday. Please take a moment to check out your overhead screen. We recently had one fall off the wall and I just want everyone to take a look at theirs to ensure it looks secure. If there is an issue please send an email to Shannon and Tino.  We are able to welcome parent volunteers into our classrooms. They need to be checked through the volunteer system and vaccinated to be in classrooms.  Julia Brim-Edwards was here for almost two hours. She was excited to see kids working in several of the classrooms she visited. We hope to have her return soon.  I have still not caught up on emails.....I am trying! 

 Interviews are complete! Thank you for your patience this week as this pulled us offline quite a bit.  Tomorrow school board member, Julia Brim-Edwards will be visiting around 9:30. I am not sure how long she plans on staying. We will be visiting classrooms and taking a look at whatever else she would to see.  THANK YOU to Donna Morden and Cheryl DeGroot who organized an expectation review for our 3rd graders in cafeteria today. I was able to join them for this review and appreciate their solutions based approach.  I have MANY emails to sort through from this week. I will try to carve out some time tomorrow for this. I am sorry if you are waiting for a reply. I am going to throw the towel in for the night!

If you are interested in working this summer in the Summer Acceleration Program please let me know.  I am being asked to share potential names with the district.  A reminder that by April 20th all Harrison Park staff will need to be signed up and ready to roll with the new Duo System:  Duo 2-Step Authentication slide deck My.PPS and Duo Two-Step Authentication webpage My.PPS and Duo Introductory Video The AVID program is excited to announce a potential classroom film mini-unit for all AVID 6-12 classes as well as an open invitation to an all-PPS staff evening screening and panel discussion with the filmmakers. The Film screening will be on Thursday, April 7 at 5 pm with a panel discussion with the filmmakers at 6 pm. Click here for details. We will be working quickly to begin identifying students for Summer Acceleration. Be ready to share input as we begin to begin this process. Ramadan begins April 2nd (this Saturday). Please ensure you are aware of your students who m...

Middle School teachers an invite to Harrison Park Virtual Foundations meeting @ 3:30 tomorrow. The focus of this will be the district's middle school redesign  work. All teaching staff working with middle school students, who do not have a job a like, should attend this session as this will be in lieu of our staff meeting. This meeting may run until 5:00. PFSP staff who work with middle school you are welcome to attend. If you would like to do so please let me know and we can make arrangements for extended hours if they apply.  PAT staff if you are not aware of where you should be reporting tomorrow please reach out to Emily, Theresa or me. It is my understanding there are Job a Likes for: ESL, DLI, Arts, PE, K-5 classroom teachers and Special Education staff.  Thank you for your patience today as Emily and I were largely unavailable. We had a total of seven interviews today. Tomorrow is a bit lighter with only three. I am excited to get into some classrooms and see kids!...

 Monday the 28th Tuesday the 29th Staff Meeting @ 3:30 (Many Job Alikes!) Wednesday the 30th Leah & Emily @ training (virtual) 1:30-4:30 Thursday the 31st Julia Brim-Edwards Visit @ 9:30 SEGC Meeting @ 6:00 Friday the 1st Lunch Service- Swan, Hall, Manley, Jarvis It is a late edition of the Weekly Forecast. I admit to drawing out the break until late this afternoon. In reality, I chose to sleep in a bit and then had to drive home from Pendleton and am just now getting back to focus on gearing up for the week ahead. I hope you all had a restful, adventurous and productive break (choose the best adjective....the best breaks include all three in my opinion).  We are now heading into the part of the year that seems to be on fast forward. The next few months will speed by. We will state testing and the end of the last quarter are looming. Please buckle up and embrace the next few months....we can do it! Please take a moment to review your specials schedule and lunch/recess sch...

ONE MORE DAY. WE CAN DO IT! Please be sure to take a deep breath, your patience pill, and get ready for what may be a turbulent day. Remember many of our students will be anxious about the break and the lack of structure. Give them extra love! I hope you all have the Spring Break of your choosing...rest, adventure, catching up...whatever your heart desires.  If you are needing to come to the building during the break please text me in advance. The district is discouraging staff from coming into the building over the break. Your badges will still work, but we have been asked to have staff run their by administration first.  We will have parents in the building for our first in person coffee tomorrow. We will be using the library for this purpose.  THANK YOU to our amazing Nutrition Services staff for their quick work today hosting our visitors. Nga, Mirna, Chelsea and Brandy and Tino who made sure we were good to go. We had some folks from the USDA, Oregon Agriculture Depa...

Tomorrow the United States Department of Agriculture Undersecretary will be joining us for lunch. We will host a few visitors from USDA and ODE/Oregon Dept. of Agriculture. I am sure some district people will also join on the visit. They will arrive around 10:45 and be here until close to noon. This visit was shared with us today so THANK YOU to our kitchen staff for making things happen fast.  We have been working with the ESL team to make some adjustments to schedules. We are using student needs as our guide, along with teacher input. The ESL team member working with you will contact you directly in regards how to how services will look in your class.  I will be sending out some information to duty staff tomorrow to help determine the winners of the pickle party. What is a pickle party? Basically, a huge jar of pickles will be brought to your class and we will eat said pickles together (with the principal). Again, the focus was on the classroom who has had solid recess behav...

K, 1st, and 3rd have health screening tomorrow. The schedule (here) has changed due to some confusion. Please check for your time. Monica also sent this out to affected teachers.  Here is the link to the Equity (Asynchronous) Staff Meeting . Please follow the directions inside and submit when done. - Thank you Equity team for your work on this.  Tomorrow morning there will be a Middle School Redesign meeting. Send the following students at 8:45. Passes will be provided.  6th = Queenie, Daynna, Isaiah H. 7th = Jayda G, Jayden L, Nikki, Henry 8th = Lucia, Addie, Dominic, Meho Leah will be out in the AM tomorrow. 

I will be out tomorrow for a medical procedure. I will be available for emails/texts until about 9:00 and will be offline until after noon. I am not sure where things will stand after that.  Students and staff must continue to wear masks in the health room (per OARs). If you are sending a student to the health room please ask them to take a mask, if they have opted out of wearing one. Masks are available at the door before entry, but sending them down with one if possible would be best.  If you are interested in potentially providing this opportunity for a student please reach out to Kim Jarvis or myself. The thirty-seventh Oregon Writing Festival will again be held virtually this year on Saturday, May 7, 2022.  This event has showcased the writing of more than 35,500 students (grades 4-12) from school districts across Oregon and has been an exciting event for students and teachers for thirty-six years.  The event will be 2 ½ hours long, with these starting times: Gr...

Monday the 14th Lock Down Drill @ 10:00 Tuesday the 15th Leah out of the Building (Medical) Staff Meeting- Equity Asynchronous Wednesday the 16th Leah or Emily out of the building AM  Middle School Redesign Group in the Building 8:30-10:30 ILCT @ 3:30 Thursday the 17th Leah & Emily @ Leadership (Virtual 1:30-5:15) Friday the 18th Principal's Coffee 9:00-10:15 Lunch Service- DaRosa, Cardwell, Brandt-Lazar, Schulze Harrison Park is one of a handful of schools who will have WiFi updates. This new system will be turned on tomorrow, Monday the 14th. This information was sent out last week, but I am including it here. This may impact usage tomorrow.  WHAT IS HAPPENING AND WHY Our existing PPS-Wifi network configuration is out of date with the advancement of IT networking technology. Replacing it with the new PPS-Wireless configuration will improve network speeds, provide increased security and prevent unauthorized devices accessing PPS networks. More details HERE .   WHAT I...

I chose to share a Morning News in order to provide you all with more time to possibly share some information with students before next week. Again, the turn around on this is tight and we are still waiting on SOPs as of 3:30. Please see the mail I am forwarding directly after this with the slide presentations for mask changes. Thank you Lindsay, Stacey and Ana! These can be shared with your students tomorrow to help with discussion around masking changes coming on Monday. A reminder that tomorrow we will have the TNTP group here to do some observations, meetings and check ins. They will be here from approximately 8:45-2:15.  The winner of the PFSP/Classified Blazer Tickets for Saturday night's game is......Nga Nguyen! I will get the tickets to you tomorrow.   EPIC FAIL. I was not aware that this is National School Social Worker Week. This is our first year with a Social Worker and gosh darn it, I missed it. THANK YOU to Lindsay Alex for your work and being a Seedfolk for...

 Masks: As indoor masking technically becomes optional next week please have a conversation with your homeroom class this week to set up the conditions in which: no matter what a child or family chooses to do, we create and maintain a caring community that does not ridicule those who wear or choose not to wear masks.  Helping children with sentence stems they can use if they feel uncomfortable such as I want to play with you but my family wants masking. Would you mind putting on your mask for a few minutes so we can (insert activity)? I need to stay around people who are masked so I’m going over (name the place). The child wanting masking will likely need to be the one who moves somewhere else, since masking is technically optional This topic may bring up political views and we must remain unbiased. Staff members also have this option. In the event conversations begin to lean towards controversy or politics please reiterate that everyone has a right to their opinion and while ...

Emily and I have Leadership (virtually) tomorrow beginning at 2:00. Depending on the pulse of the building I may leave a bit before and get home as I have solid meetings from 2:00-9:00 and would like to hunker down there.   We have received COVID test kits to send home with students as a resource over Spring Break.  These will be distributed next Friday. I am currently listening to the COVID Update meeting. I was able to look over our concerns and solutions from yesterday and will be sending a longer email out in regards to this tomorrow. Continue to send questions my way.  I hope some of you were able to enjoy some pizza from Atlas in support of our PTA. On that note (pun intended) thank you Joel for thinking outside the box and having your 5th period class share their talent with us at the end of the day.  PFSP/Classified staff be sure to get your golden ticket turned in tomorrow. I will pick a winner at the end of the day. Homeroom teachers please let your cl...

Tomorrow we will have burritos and tacos available for our PFSP/Classified Staff in the Conference Room. The hope is to have it ready for you by 11:15. We will make an announcement when everything is good to go.  A reminder that tomorrow is our PTA sponsored Atlas Pizza fundraiser. 20% of their profits will go towards PTA projects. I tried to put in an order for tomorrow, but they do not open until 4:00...looks like dinner. Their address is 3570 SE Division St.. Website is altalaspizzapdx.com, phone number is 503.232.3004. This fundraiser is not good on GrubHub, Door Dash, orders.  Remind your students to submit Caught Being Kind forms so we can continue to encourage kindness at HP.  If staff would like to nominate someone you can either fill out a form or email Stacey Freeman with a student name- I don't need any other info.  Watch for names on the kindness tree by the office and the grade level who demonstrates the most kindness will earn a treat at the e...

PFSP staff we hoped you were able to grab breakfast today. At some point tomorrow a golden ticket will be placed in your box. This ticket is your entry into a drawing for Blazer tickets for this Saturday night. One lucky winner will get two tickets to the game.   Tomorrow's Staff Meeting will begin promptly at 3:30 and will take place in the library. Here is a brief agenda: Announcements Assignment/Exit Ticket Mask Discussion/Update Release to work on the following: Updating kid chat documents, updating classroom management plans and making needed adjustments.  SIT will meet in Mary's room 174D: Stahlecker- 4:00, Wood- 4:10, Foreman- 4:30, Schulze 4:45. Google form to fill out at the end of PD time. Link to be shared tomorrow.   Here  you can find the March TechSmart newsletter. 

Classified Employee Appreciation Week Monday the 7th PFSP/Classified Employee Light Breakfast @ 8:15 in Conference Room Tuesday the 8th State AVID Site Visit 8-11:30 Staff Meeting @ 3:30 Kinder Connect In Person Event @ 6:00 Wednesday the 9th PFSP/Classified Employee Lunch 11:15-1:30 in Conference Room Equity @ 3:30 Modern Band Performance @ 3:00 Pizza Fundraiser for PTA @ Atlas Pizza (3570 SE Division St) Order must be made in person, by phone or on their website. Grubhub/DoorDash etc. orders will not count towards the fundraiser. Thursday the 10th Leah & Emily Leadership (Virtual 2-5) SEGC Meeting 6-9 Friday the 11th TNTP Visit 8:30-2:15 Lunch Service- Swan, Hall, Manley, Jarvis I hope been solid. My husband, daughter and I were able to head to Pendleton, to visit my son, after her IEP meeting on Friday afternoon. She has come so far over the last few years and even got a B+ on her recent statistics test. I will take those small victories.   I wanted to take a momen...

My apologies for the late entry. I had a district meeting until 7:30 (I am still here) and just realized I had not set it out yet! Happy Friday. If you completed the OSAS training and put your signed test assurance in Theresa's mailbox, watch your email for your login information. This will come from Cambium. If you don't get that email, you can also go to osasportal.org and use the "forgot password" function a few days after turning in the test assurance form.  I heard tomorrow there may be a lot of strange characters in the building and a bunch of crazy crayons. If you are partaking of the festivities please meet in the lobby at 8:35. Thank you to staff who made this week a bit more exciting. 

Tomorrow is crazy sock day. Start digging in your sock drawers Thank you to those or you who were able to support the 8th grade fundraiser yesterday. I had leftovers for lunch today! Nice work on the fire drill today. We blocked one exit to help us practice and even had it during a lunch/recess to make it that much "extra". Things went well. Thank you to Sarah for thinking ahead and being proactive. Well done team! Emily and I were in a training this afternoon. I am going to work on catching up on several emails tonight, but I think that is it for now. 

Thank you for participating in our FIT Assessment today. We appreciate those of you who were asked to participate.    Please support our 8th graders if you can. You can order ahead at: https://thaifreshpdx.com/ I have spotted this today:  Click on the link for School Safety Lessons (K-5): Slide 20 of this resource is a new template for teaching the routine for the updated outdoor mask option beginning March 1. The notes for slide 20 include prompts for conversations with students regarding this new option. This resource can also be found on the MTSS Climate-Tier 1 webpage. Again, I will be taking a look at how recesses go to determine our next steps. Thursday Grow Portland and our PTA will be holding a mini garden clean up. The weather is looking meh. They will begin @ 3:30. Even helping to support for half an hour would be appreciated.  Fire drill tomorrow at 12:20. This will be during 4th/5th recess and lunch. We will be blocking an exit to help us practice...