November 2023 Report

Below is the Oregon City School District reporting on the Strategic Plan efforts as of November 3rd, 2023.

Robust Systems of Belonging and Well-being

GOAL 1: By 2027, each and every student will receive support for behavior and academics to access grade level experiences and success.

  • Intervention-team lead participated in a half day training in August. 

  • All principals led a training session with their staff in August and reviewed their own data. 

  • Intervention Team website- forms and processes updated, individual schools forms and processes updated for clear system focused on data  

  • In October at a principals meeting- principal progress was evaluated one-by-one and support provided as needed. 

  • I-team leads meet monthly for support and monitoring of implementation.

  • Half day training occurred in August with all PBIS team leads and one school administrator. 

  • Shawn Fletcher, PBIS TOSA, attending meetings at the schools and also leading monthly collaboration meetings..  Each school has monthly meetings. 

  • All teachers taught targeted lessons to their students regarding “Safe, Respectful, Responsible and Kind” the first two weeks of school.  These lessons include look like/sounds like descriptors.

GOAL 2: By 2027, we will identify, develop and leverage community partnerships to support student wellness.

  • Updated and shared referral forms for students and families for McKinney Vento and school social workers

  • Building internal systems for collaboration and continuation of services and working with new hires in these positions to clarify job duties. 

  • A community resource page has also been added to our website listing various resources available within our community.

  • Meet with specialist staff bimonthly to work to clarify job tasks and updated forms for access for resources. 

GOAL 3: By 2027, all students will report a sense of belonging and be able to identify one trusted adult, and/or describe a school-related community to which they belong.

  • Pilot activity started at Tumwata, OCLSA, and Gaffney Lane that identified at least one adult connection with each student. 

  • Those without an identified adult connection will be assigned to an adult for intentional connection, participation in club, or other activity. 

  • Looking at tech based systems to document student- adult connections. 

  • Trained leads for Attendance Teams (one per school) for a half day in August on systems to pull attendance concerns and monitor students over time.  Working on consistent use of outreach: calls, letters, recognition of improvement, partnering with families. 

  • Each school hosts attendance team meetings at least monthly; checking in with principals to monitor efforts. In a principal meeting, checked in with the principals 1:1 to provide support. 

  • Meeting with Clackamas ESD  and Clackamas Community College regarding collaboration, support, and resources to develop  a Grow Your Own program in OCSD. 

  • Candy Lane Principal, Jacinta Ortiz is currently working with neighboring districts/counties to learn about efforts and successes for recruitment and retention of bilingual, and diverse educators.  

  • Through partnerships with MCREN, Dianna Grindea is moving into a new role supporting these efforts and more