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...