Harrison Park Post

As promised here is a copy of today's staff meeting Powerpoint.  https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1_GC5rIONFePOtgv8WZocQD2H7FtkIpxR/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=117829890836834948640&rtpof=true&sd=true Middle school students may be a little confused tomorrow by their new schedules. Let's be patient with them! Thank you everyone for your flexibility.  K-5 teachers Jill will be scheduling a time to sit down and talk with support needs, your classroom/students, etc in the next week or so. 

The Middle School will be holding an assembly tomorrow. Students will go with their 3rd period teacher @ 11:23. They will head to 4th period after the assembly.    K-5 report card envelopes were put in mailboxes today. Please send these home on Friday.  Staff meeting will begin at 3:30. I was in classes all day (I miss this). I will do my best to catch up on somethings this evening. 

Monday the 30th Multnomah County Library Lunar New Year  Presentation @ 1:00 (virtual) Tuesday the 31st Safety Team Meeting @ 9:15 Team Response Drill time TBD Middle School on "Friday" Schedule Staff Meeting @ 3:30 Wednesday the 1st First Day of New Third Term Schedules ILCT @ 8:00 Thursday the 2nd Friday the 3rd Attendance Meeting @ 7:55 Middle School Clubs Lunch Service- Jarvis, Steeves, Kempster I am off my regular Sunday schedule which involves coffee, a bit of reading and then laying out the work for the week. I was able to watch my niece play volleyball this morning and am just now getting home to start my Sunday work. I hope you had a productive Friday and are ready to launch into a new term and month. We are officially half way there! I am fairly certain I am forgetting a few things in this week's Forecast...I know the second I sent it I will remember.  Please be aware our Middle School students will be in a state of flux for the next two days. We are working on...

 Whew we survived a rough week. Everyone, seemed a bit out of sorts. I hope tomorrow allows people to take pause and do some resetting.  Thank you Joel and Cami for giving our kids the opportunity to perform last night. Families were excited to see the work classes have been doing. Thank you Brenda, Dan and Danelle for helping with crowd control.  As a reminder the office will be closed (I will have it open when I am in my office) tomorrow. Questions about grades can be emailed to Naima. As a reminder she is out next week. The secure the perimeter today was the result of a report of gunshots in the distance. We felt it was best to be proactive and called everyone in. We connected with Security Services and the Portland Police and they did some checks. They let us know they did not find anything of concern and we went back to business normal.  The fire drill went well. We were in and out in about 9 minutes. There were a few classes with some issues and we will speak t...

 Emily was expected to return on the 30th. I spoke with her today and she asked I share she is well and things are moving forward. One thing she has been dealing with some significant insomnia and they are making progress with this. She is being asked to remain off until this is under control. She is confident she will return the week of the 13th. She wanted to share she is coming back ;-) If you have any ESL Monitoring forms please turn them in to Naima tomorrow. I will be sending these to the district at the end of the day.  We will have a fire drill tomorrow. We will not be sharing the time as this is part of practicing...the unexpected.  I will be leaving around 2:30 tomorrow to go to the district office to receive staffing. I will be returning afterward for our Dance/Music performances.  Our middle school dancers and musicians will be performing tomorrow at 6:00. All are welcome to attend.  A reminder that office staff will be out at trainings tomorrow. I w...

PAT members thank you for your presence this afternoon at our meeting. If you were unable to log into the Successful Schools Survey I hope you took the time to accomplish a task at hand. Please be sure to complete the survey once your personal link is sent to you.  PFSP members I will email you directly, but would ask you take some time on Friday to complete the Successful Schools Survey. This was a link sent to you (search Panorama if you can not find it) it will say Request for Feedback. This email was sent out on January 23rd and provides a unique link for you. If you can not find this email please let me know.  Remember to turn in your extended hours to Shannon on a regular basis as opposed to holding on to them until the end of the month. 2nd-5th grade classes are invited to tomorrow's Performance Assembly (Dress Rehearsal). This takes place at 1:40. PLEASE review assembly expectations with your classes if you plan on attending. We will put out a list for 5th period teach...

My apologies for the tardiness of the Nightly News. I didn't send it before I left at 5:00. My family was headed to the Blazer game and I needed to feed them before they left. I planned on getting to work again after they took off and dozed off for a bit...I am sure you can all relate.  It was a busy day and kids were definitely in their feelings. I felt a general sense of emotion in the halls and saw plenty of kids out and about. There are a few items below to address this, but we do need to get a handle on the number of kids in the hall. As the year progresses this will become a larger issue and we need to nip it in the bud now.   I know many of our students had full weekends celebrating Lunar New Year and several reported situations to trusted adults.  Please continue to hold to your classroom norms and revisit expectations regularly. This is especially true coming back from the weekends.  I am supposed to attend Instructional Rounds tomorrow morning and plan...