Procedures
This is required when submitting a timesheet for extra hours.
What is pre-approval?
This new policy describes expectations for use of tools like Google Translate.
What is Artificial Intelligence?
This tool qualifies families for financial aid with sports and activities fees, costs for exams, and other fees and charges.
What is the Family Income Survey?
These team members provide partnership and coaching for their General Education colleagues to ensure specialized instruction for language learners.
Who are ELL/Language Specialists?
Contact these two leaders if you have a family who might be interested in a bilingual program model.
Who are Steph Boni and Kolina Watt-García?
What is supervisor approval?
This policy requires the district to provide supports for families to engage in their children's education and in the school community.
What is the Family Engagement policy?
Use this when you need something translated and returned to you by tomorrow afternoon.
What is Linguist Link?
This program is designed to support youth and their families who are new to our community and country, and ensure a pathway to graduation.
What is the Newcomer Program?
This team offers proactive resources and responsive facilitation to increase dignity and belonging, and to decrease incidents of bias, in our schools.
Who are the Advocacy Coaches? (formerly known as Equity Coaches)
Do this if a parent tells you they continually don't receive communications in their language.
What is submit a complaint?
This regulation requires specialized language instruction supports for ELL students, and language access for their families.
What is the Bilingual Education regulation?
This is an excellent way to connect with students or families who are hard to reach or who don't often show up for school or scheduled meetings.
What is a home visit?
This team provides culturally-responsive services to engage families, build trust and communication, and increase cultural awareness in our schools.
Who are the Family Liaisons?
This team is funded in large part by Medicaid, and supports families with accessing medical services, food, clothing, supplies, and utilities supports.
Who are the FAN Advocates?
Contact this person to purchase supplies or materials.
Who is Dalia?
This policy now requires multiple contacts to the family before a student is 10-day inactivated.
What is the Compulsory Attendance policy?
Do this if a family wants to volunteer but their background check isn't going through due to lack of a SNN.
What is contact your Family Liaison?
Reach out here if you have a student you believe is experiencing houselessness.
What is mckinney-vento@bend.k12.or.us?
This is both a location and a team of people, who greet new families and provide a warm and inclusive intake into our schools.
What is the Welcome Center?
Do this if you have a concern about a member of the department.
What is...it depends?
This law prohibits you from sharing personal student information with colleagues unless they legitimately need to know.
What is FERPA?
These are locations available to all youth ages 0-18 for healthcare, including behavioral health.
What are School-Based Health Clinics?
This is a new role this year, designed to support the specific mental health and wellbeing needs of our recent-arriver students.
What is the Newcomer Support Specialist?
These are opportunities to build connections, communication, and relationships within and across teams and community.
What are our Team Social Events?!!!!!