Key comm dec 15 2014

December

15th-19th—OHS Winter Spirit Week!

16th—OHS Financial Aid Workshop

16th—PTR Paradosi Ballet Assembly

16th—OHS ASVAB testing for 11 & 12

grades

17th– OHS Band Winter Concert

17th—OHS Food Drive ends

22nd-2nd—Winter Break

31st—Payday!

January

5th—First Day back from Winter Break

19th—End of 1st Semester/2nd Quarter

19th—Martin Luther King Jr—No School

23rd—End of 1st Semester

26th—In-service No School for Students

30th—Payday

Upcoming Calendar

Dear Staff,

From December 2013 to December 2014 our website received 350,000 visits. Devices used by

visitors - desktop computers at 51%, cellphones 39% and tablets at 10%. Mobile device use is

nearly half of our site access which makes the OSD Mobile app useful for families. Weekly

average visits amount to 8,400. Below are the most popular links on our district and school

homepages -

Facebook and Twitter extend our external communication with the highest single post reach of

4,200 people earlier this year. Twitter connects with 150 impressions weekly. OHS and OMS

make use of Twitter, OMS more recently. OHS posts a daily bulletin to Facebook.

Additional tools, School Messenger (email), School Alert Messaging (All Call System), Orting

Online News, Tacoma News Tribune and electronic signs. PTR uses the Remind app, texting

information to families that signup. Include on the list, school, classroom newsletters and

flyers in the myriad ways that we communicate to families.

Internally, staff meetings, email and our weekly Key Communicator keep staff informed. The

new format for the Key Communicator is now sent as an electronic newsletter providing gen-

eral statistics not available to us in the previous pdf format. Advantages of an electronic

newsletter are access from anywhere, previous issues, saves paper, enlarged view, links to

external content, and reads like a magazine. Tutorials outline signup and navigating the app

allowing you to print and view past issues. Publications on average receive 200 reads with 4

minutes average read time and links accessed about 50 times. Secretaries and Supervisors will

continue to print hard copies for those staff without computer access. Give it a try!

Best Regards,

Michelle

OSD Home OHS Home OMS Home PTR Home OPS Home

#1 Calendar #1 Calendar #1 Calen-dar

#1 Calendar #1 Calendar

#2 OHS #2 Dailey Bulletin #2 Menus #2 Menus #2 Menus

#3 Employ/HR

#3 OHS Photo Albums & Menus

#3 Report an Absence

#3 Report an Absence & Online Payments

#4 Teacher Dir.

Michelle Curry, Superintendent

Orting School District

Volume , Issue December 8, 2014

Key Communicator Preparing all students for college, careers and life.

INS ID E TH IS I S SUE :

Superintendent’s Message

Calendar

Schools, Sports & Around the district

Departments

HR postings &

Information

IMPORTANT L INKS:

Follow me on

@OrtingSupt

@OrtingSupt

NEW Links for Staff @Marci Shepard

NEW M. F. T. Requests Maintenance. Facility. Trips.

Orting School District

#344

Emergency Messages signup for alerts

OSD Teaching Learning &

Leading

Click for Video

Ideas & Resources

FREE

Character Education in a Digital World Presented by Mike Ribble, district technology director Tuesday, Dec. 16 at 4 p.m. Eastern

Time ...REGISTER

Northeast Pierce Resource Guide

download

Page 2 Volume , Issue

For Staff

Joining the Team…

Sandra Wells, OHS Career Center

Specialist

Welcome to the

District!

Dear Colleague:

Secretary Arne Duncan and U.S. Attorney General Eric H. Holder today announced the release of a Correctional Education Guidance Package to help states and local agencies strengthen the quality of education services provided to Ameri-ca’s estimated 60,000 young people in confinement every day. This guidance package builds on recommendations in the My Brother’s Keeper Task Force report released in May to “reform the juvenile and criminal justice systems to reduce unnecessary interactions for youth and to enforce the rights of incar-

cerated youth to a quality education.”

The guidance package includes the fol-

lowing components:

A Dear Colleague Letter on the Civil Rights of Students in Juvenile Justice Residential Facilities clarifying how the federal civil rights laws that prohibit race, color, national origin, sex, reli-gion, and disability discrimination against students in traditional public schools also apply to educational ser-vices and supports provided to youth in

juvenile justice residential facilities.

A set of Guiding Principles for Providing High-Quality Education in Juvenile Jus-tice Secure Care Settings outlines five principles and supporting core activities to improve education practices or im-plement new ones. Authored jointly by the U.S. departments of Education and Justice, the guide is meant to help agencies and facilities serving youth in

General & Special Education

Conferences 2015

Seattle WA—March 4-6, 2015

19.5 Contact Hours—6.5hrs/day OSPI

Clock Hours Brochure ...download

Opportunities

New School Alert System

On December 31, the Live Tip Hot-

line will be replaced with

SafeSchools Alert System. All links

on the website will be changed over

to the new system. The system is

in place for anyone to be report

General Tips, Harassment, Intimida-

tion and Bullying also Safety Con-

cerns. Please encourage families to

use the links available on all

homepages of our website.

correctional education provide educa-tion services comparable to those avail-

able to students in community schools.

A Dear Colleague Letter on the Individ-uals with Disabilities Education Act for Students with Disabilities in Correction-al Facilities from Education’s Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services to clarify state and public agency obligations to ensure the provi-sion of a free appropriate public educa-tion to eligible students with disabili-

ties in correctional facilities.

A Dear Colleague Letter on Access to Federal Pell Grants for Students in Ju-venile Justice Facilities clarifies the extent to which confined youth may be eligible for the Federal Pell Grant Pro-gram and is accompanied by a fact sheet for students and a detailed set of questions and answers for institutions

of higher education.

This guidance package is part of a num-ber of notable actions from ED and DOJ, who are working together to help communities reduce the number of youth entering the justice system and to ensure that those who have entered the system return to their communities with dignity, skills, and viable educa-tion and employment opportunities. For more information go to www.ed.gov/

correctionaled.

Thank you,

Office for Civil Rights

U.S. Department of Education

YOU Need to know! The ESD recently shared infor-

mation regarding the use of pri-

vate subscriptions which is not in

accordance with the private sub-

scriptions terms of use agreement

necessitating the removal of ac-

cess from the OSD network. As we contin-

ue to identify potential legal conflicts using

streaming services information will be

communicated to staff.

New for 2015!

Reimbursement for mileage will increase to 57.5 cents per mile as

of January 1, 2015.

Sports & more!

Twitter—@Ortingcardinals

OHS Sports this week! Click on the Cardinal

Page 3 Volume , Issue

What’s happening in the Schools!

Twitter— @OMSFalcons

OMS Sports this week! Click on the Falcon

2014-2015 Calendar!

Follow the link

OHS Calendar—clubs & activities

4 More Days

until Winter Break!

OHS Students of the Month for October!

Benefit Information

Open

Classified Substitutes

Certificated Substitutes

SPECIAL EDUCATION-EARLY

CHILDHOOD PRESCHOOL

TEACHER .5 FTE (Open Until

Filled) ...apply

Job Alert signup for automatic

notification, don’t miss newly

posted positions.

Please remember the job posting

(TalentEd) website and the district

website are separate, you will

need to login to the TalentEd for

positions.

Follow link

Human Resources

Orting School District

Orting School District is an equal opportunity employer.

For more information on Job

Postings go to

Employment/HR Follow the Link

For all Employees Section 125 – Flex Medical/Dependent Care Open Enrollment –

Deadline is December 31, 2014

An American Fidelity Representative

will be onsite to assist you.

MONDAY 15th PTARMIGAN RIDGE 8:00-11:30

ORTING MIDDLE 12:00-4:00

TUESDAY 16th ORTING HIGH 7:30-10:30 ORTING PRIMARY 11:00-2:00

DISTRICT OFFICE 2:00-4:00

Please see the flyer for more de-

tails...download

Questions contact Julie.

Benefits & Payroll Julie Mondry [email protected]

360.893.6500 x225

Contact Job Postings

Carrie Joy

[email protected]

360.893.6500 x229

Hiring/Application Process

Substitute Online

Classified questions

Contact Julie Mondry

Certificated questions

Contact Terry VanZanten

Substitute Online

Apply for a Job

Benefits

Links

Business & Finance

Department

Brianne King—Director of Finance

and Operations

[email protected]

360.893.6500 x223 Monthly financial reports….follow the link

Debbie Yanez—Accounts Payable

Purchasing

[email protected]

360.893.6500 x224

Paige Scroger—AP/Payroll Specialist

[email protected]

360.893.6500 x224

Robin Bessey—Accountant

[email protected]

360.893.6500 x237

John Clough, Dir. of Special Educa-

tion email 360.893.6500 x233

Colleen Almousawi, Special Services

Secretary email 360.893.6500 x234

Barb Coty, email 360.893.6500 x270

Dajana McNabb, RN BSN

email 360.893.6500 x241

Deanna Wulff, RN BSN

email 360.893.6500 x240

JoAnne Petredis, Food Service Supervi-

sor email 360.893.3405

Submit driver abstract to -

Barb Woolery, Transportation Supervisor

email 360.893.2302 x227

Submit a maintenance request here

Richard Arnett, Maintenance Supervisor

email 360.893.2302 x230

Submit Tech help request here

Jason Rudolph, Directory of Technology

email

Food Service, Transportation,

Technology & Maintenance

Departments

Teaching, Learning and

Assessment

Dr. Marci Shepard, Assistant Superinten-

dent email 360.893.6500 x226

Special Services