• Phase 2 Enrollment & Program Balancing Implementation Update 3/14/2023

    3/14/2023

    This weekly memo provides an update regarding the Phase 2 enrollment & program balancing implementation work for the weeks of 2/27/2023-3/6/2023.

    Facilities
    The Facilities team met with our architects and Bridger principal, Kristy Mize, on 3/8/2023 to continue working through space planning and configurations. The meeting focused on what the most effective and efficient staff locations would be and discussed the different building modifications we have planned. 

    Assistant Superintendent Dr. Esther Omogbehin walked with Kristy and several special education (SPED) staff on 3/10/2023 about proposed SPED spaces. Dr. Omogbehin called to let Facilities know about some potential changes to the program for certain spaces.  Before we proceed to make any changes to what we discussed with the architect on 3/8/23, we want to make sure there is alignment from all parties.  

    Engagement
    Community building events within and across school sites are underway. In this document, you can find a log of all community building activities. We will update this page as school teams report on activities. Below are new community building events for this update period: 

    Date

    School

    Name of Event

    Attendees

    Who Attended

    Notifications

    Translations and Interpreters

    2/1

    Woodstock

    Woodstock Community Coffee Conversation

    3

    Parents, guardians, or other family

    Letters home to families, School Messenger, E-mail

    Mandarin, Cantonese

    2/7

    Mt Tabor

    Welcome to Kellogg Info Night

    48

    Students, Parents, guardians, or other family, administration, School Counselor, community partner

    Letters home to families, School Messenger, Remind, E-mail

    Spanish

    2/15

    Lent

    Lent Open House

    85

    Students, Parents, guardians, or other family, Teachers, paraeducators, or substitutes, administration, Central Office staff, RESJ partners

    Letters home to families, Fliers at school, School Messenger, E-mail

    Spanish, Chinese

    2/15

    Creston

    Principal Liddle Comes to Creston PTA Night

    40

    Students, Parents, guardians, or other family, Teachers, paraeducators, or substitutes, administration

    Fliers at school, School Messenger

    Spanish, Vietnamese

    2/15

    Bridger

    Bridger Community Open House

    150

    Students, Parents, guardians, or other family, Teachers, paraeducators, or substitutes, administration, Central Office staff, RESJ partners

    Letters home to families, Fliers at school, School Messenger, E-mail, Phone banking

    Spanish, Chinese, Russian

    2/15

    Lent

    SEGC Lent Open House

    151

    Students, Parents, guardians, or other family, Teachers, paraeducators, or substitutes, administration, Central Office staff

    Letters home to families, Fliers at school, School Messenger, Remind, E-mail

    Spanish, Vietnamese, Russian, Chinese

    2/21

    Kellogg

    DLI Open House

    150

    Students, Parents, guardians, or other family, administration

    Fliers at school, E-mail, Messages & Flyers sent to feeders school for dispersal to their families

    Spanish

    Communications
    School specific FAQ had two additional entries regarding:

    • Bridger Capacity
    • Lent Title 1 process

    Budget
    We are working with our budget team to ensure funds are disbursed to the correct accounts. Chartfields for tracking community building events have been created. 

    Childcare
    Childcare concerns are tentatively resolved for schools impacted by the SEGC changes.             The schools are Lent, Marysville, Clark building (Harrison Park) and Bridger. We will finalize details once we have more accurate enrollment numbers. This should happen relatively soon.

    Enrollment & Transfer
    To date, we have received 8 transfer requests into Bridger-Creative Science that qualify for neighborhood guarantees:  2 each at Grades 1,2,3 and 4.  The deadline to submit a request for guaranteed transfer is 3/17/2023.

    Curriculum
    The Instructional Resource Center is currently gathering site specific curriculum data and will be reaching out to principals for site visits in the next few weeks. Principals, in collaboration with their library staff, can start looking at discarding/recycling obsolete materials from their sites now.

    Library Services

    Met with Clark Ide (OSM) to discuss plans for the Harrison Park Library Space, including the re-working of the current Media/Novel Set Storage Room.