Eighth-grader Lillian Beegle considers herself artistic. She likes to write and she has an interest in the digital arts. So when an aptitude test pointed her in a different direction, she was surprised.
“I was like ‘Wait, these are my aptitudes?’ I didn’t expect to be connected to the medical field.”
Beegle is among eighth-graders at Henley Middle School who piloted a new aptitude test this year that aims to connect their strengths and skills to future careers.
Address: 227 Pine St., Rogue River, OR 97537
Contact Name: Rhonda Renee Schock
Phone: 541-787-5437
Email: great-beginnings@hotmail.com
Provider Type: Family Child Care / Home-based Preschool
Program curriculum is primarily offered in: English
Classroom staff can communicate with your child in: English, limited Spanish and ASL
* Participating Preschool Promise programs are inclusive and open to all children regardless of their primary language. Preschool Promise programs may need to reach out to Preschool Promise coaches for tools and resources to help them support communication in other languages
Program can offer verbal and written communication in the following languages: English
*Program staff may need to use translation tools and/or services to provide communication in other languages to families if needed
Transportation is available: No
Preschool Promise Operating Hours:
Does this site offer extended care hours? Yes
Program is currently listed with the Oregon Department of Human Services (ODHS) aka “DHS Listed” and able to accept Employment Related Day Care (ERDC) subsidies? Yes
Preschool Promise Program Year:
Description: We are a play based program with highly qualified staff and a QRIS/SPARK 5* rating. Our program offers early childhood learning experiences that are built into the routines of our day, are child directed, following the Creative Curriculum studies as we weave our way through their interests and the natural rhythms of our seasons. We are proud of the extensive child based outdoor area we have created for our littles that features an outdoor classroom, Mud Kitchen, Neighborhood Garden, Sensory Garden, Large Climbing Structure Water Wall and a plethora or riding apparatus’. We welcome all cultures and learning styles putting a strong emphasis on supporting families and community. It is our strong belief that play is the foundation in the house of higher education. Great Beginnings is where loving and learning go heart to heart and hand in hand.
Program utilizes social-emotional learning (SEL) curriculum or approach (example: Conscious Discipline, Second Step, etc.): Yes
Experience or specialized trainings: SPARK 5*, Class trained, Outdoor Education Certified, Over 35 years in the field
Other services provided: Family events, Kaleidoscope Play Groups, Summer Care, All food provided.
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On behalf of the Oregon Department of Education, Southern Oregon Education Service District (SOESD) is proud to announce the selection of Lois MacMillan of Grants Pass High School, as a 2022 Oregon Regional Teacher of the Year. MacMillan will be honored virtually in the coming month and will be awarded a check for $500.
SOESD convened a virtual Blue Ribbon Panel made up of diverse and unbiased panel members who represented the geographic region of Jackson, Josephine, and Klamath counties. The panel, who reviewed many applications from a larger set of nominations, found that Lois had the highest average rubric score of all candidates. The panelists made these observations during their deliberations:
The Oregon Teacher of the Year Program started in 1955, and is managed by the Oregon Department of Education. Anyone can nominate a candidate for the recognition, but teachers may not nominate themselves. Once selected, the Oregon Teacher of the Year is also a candidate to apply for the National Teacher of the Year recognition. The selected teacher serves as the face and voice of exemplary educators across the state of Oregon, and engages and inspires other teachers and community leaders as a representative of the profession.
Oregon Department of Education chose in 2018-19 to expand the selection process for the nominees. The goal of the expansion is to honor teachers in every region of the state. Education Service Districts across Oregon reviewed applications submitted from their geographic region and facilitated a Blue Ribbon Panel and review process to identify winners in their regions. Thirteen winners will go on to be considered for Oregon Teacher of the Year, which will be decided in September.
SOESD is proud of the amazing teachers in our three-county region, exemplified by MacMillan, who are focused on quality teaching, learning, and student achievement.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, pursuant to ORS 294.426, that a public meeting of the Budget Committee of Southern Oregon Education Service District, serving the school districts in Jackson, Josephine, and Klamath Counties, will be held on May 12, 2021, at 6:00 pm for the purpose of receiving the budget message and budget document of said district for the fiscal year 2021-2022 and to receive comment from the public on the budget. A second meeting of the budget committee is tentatively scheduled for May 19, 2021 at 6:00 pm and public comment on the budget will also be taken at this meeting.
Due to statewide restrictions and efforts to reduce the spread of COVID-19, the Budget Committee meeting will be held by video/audio conference. A copy of the proposed budget document and the link to join the meeting via video/audio conference will be available on or after May 7, 2021 at www.soesd.k12.or.us or obtained via email request to administration@soesd.k12.or.us. Public comment will be taken during the meeting.
The first notice of the budget committee meeting was published in the Medford Mail Tribune on April 18, 2021.
Scott Beveridge, Superintendent
Budget Officer
May 1, 2021
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, pursuant to ORS 294.426, that a public meeting of the Budget Committee of Southern Oregon Education Service District, serving the school districts in Jackson, Josephine, and Klamath Counties, will be held on May 12, 2021, at 6:00 pm for the purpose of receiving the budget message and budget document of said district for the fiscal year 2021-2022 and to receive comment from the public on the budget. A second meeting of the budget committee is tentatively scheduled for May 19, 2021 at 6:00 pm and public comment on the budget will also be taken at this meeting.
Due to statewide restrictions and efforts to reduce the spread of COVID-19, the Budget Committee meeting will be held by video/audio conference. A copy of the proposed budget document and the link to join the meeting via video/audio conference will be available on or after May 7, 2021 at www.soesd.k12.or.us or obtained via email request to administration@soesd.k12.or.us. Public comment will be taken during the meeting.
A second notice of the budget committee meeting will be posted on the Southern Oregon Education Service District website at: www.soesd.k12.or.us. This second notice will be posted on the website May 1, 2021.
Scott Beveridge, Superintendent
Budget Officer
Makes equitable investments in educational and child care programs to help Oregon children recover from challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic
(Salem, OR) — Today, Governor Kate Brown, Senate President Peter Courtney, and House Speaker Tina Kotek unveiled a restorative $250 million Summer Learning and Child Care package to help students and children learn, thrive, and have fun this summer. Combined with up to about $75 million in federal funds, both in district matching funds and funding for the Employment-Related Day Care Program, as much as $325 million will be invested in summer learning and child care programs.
This past year, Oregon’s children have been burdened by the educational, social, emotional, and mental health impacts of a worldwide pandemic, months of comprehensive distance learning, and more. The Summer Learning and Child Care package will create grants for enrichment activities, academic support, child care and early learning programs. Investments will be made equitably for Oregon’s Black, Indigenous, Tribal, Latino, Latina, and Latinx, Pacific Islander, and children of color, who have borne the disproportionate impact of the last year’s challenges.
CBIRT (Center on Brain Injury Research and Training) activities.
Calling all students interested in healthcare. Sign up for the RCC Fast Track to Healthcare Careers event, on March 18th (5:30-7:00 p.m.).
RCC’s SOHOPE department will be hosting the hour and a half event that will introduce students to some of our regional Healthcare partners from La Clinica, Providence Health Services, and RCC Allied Health instructor staff in 9 different healthcare career areas:
This Zoom meeting will allow students, and other community members, to interact with an Employer Panel, that will provide them with information on job opportunities and outlooks in healthcare, what employers are looking for, and company culture. For more information, I am including an agenda below, and the attached Flyer, with links to registration for the event.
School staff and students should be aware that this event is open to the community.
For more information, contact Amy Lukens in the SOHOPE Program at ALukens@roguecc.edu
Agenda
| Rogue Community College Fast Track to Healthcare Careers- Meeting ID 951 0547 1164 | ||
| 5:30-5:40 | Greetings and Introductions | Lisa Parks |
| 5:40-6:10 | Employer Panel
-Current economic climate and career opportunities -Attributes of successful employees -Healthcare/Company Culture |
Industry Partners (Providence Health Systems, La Clinica, and additional partners) |
| 6:10-6:25 | Break Out Room #1 | RCC Programs-
Nursing Emergency Medical Services Dental Assisting Medical Assistant Medical Administrative Assistant Phlebotomy Pharmacy Tech Nursing Assistant Community Health Worker RCC Student Services WorkSource Rogue Valley |
| 6:30-6:45 | Break Out Room #2 |
Same as above |
| 6:45-7:00 | Closing | Lisa Parks |
Southern Oregon Education Service District (SOESD) will be dispersing $120,350 obtained in partnership with higher education partners from the Oregon Department of Education Grow Your Own (GYO) Grant for Teacher Pathway Partnership programs that encourage the growth and sustainability of educators in Oregon. The Teacher Pathway Partnership programs are intended to help recruit and retain teachers from diverse populations, as well as create conditions where the diversity of student demographics is reflected by the teachers in Oregon’s schools.
Oregon Educator Equity Reports have revealed that all students benefit from having high-achieving teachers with cultural backgrounds similar to their own. Given the persistent lag between the proportion of culturally and linguistically diverse students and the teachers who teach them, increasing the diversity of the teacher workforce is a primary goal for school districts and teacher preparation programs throughout the state.
One of the ways in which the grant will be utilized is to support Southern Oregon Paraprofessional Pathways. The paraprofessional program offers opportunities for instructional assistants already working within schools to complete their teacher preparation program while maintaining their paid employment within the schools. Because the paraprofessional workforce more closely reflects the demographics of the K-12 student population, supporting and incentivizing their entry into teacher preparation provides an opportunity to quickly diversify the teacher workforce and leverage their rich lived experience, demonstrated commitment, and skills in relating to students. By ensuring all program coursework is available evenings, weekends, and online, while employing a co-teaching model to fulfil student teaching requirements, the pathway enables appropriately placed instructional assistants to maintain their paid employment and positive impact on students from start to finish.
“To date in Southern Oregon, the culturally and linguistically diverse pipeline programs have graduated 77 students, 85% of whom have progressed to college, with nine either currently enrolled or progressing towards SOU’s teacher preparation program.
Additionally, the Klamath Falls and Coos Bay satellite programs have enabled 73 more candidates to transfer credits without relocating and complete their teacher preparation within the local communities in which they seek to teach,” says Aaron Cooke, SOESD Program Manager for Data & Analytics of the SOESD School Improvement Team.
While various special programs have contributed to increasing the percentage of candidates in Southern Oregon University (SOU) teacher preparation programs from 9% to 24% over four years, the number of Native American candidates has not kept pace. To address that gap, the GYO grant will help establish the role of Tribal Nations Liaisons to oversee outreach to tribal departments of education, and coordinate recruitment of Native American students and/or paraprofessionals enrolling in teacher preparation. Scholarships enabled through GYO funding will reduce financial barriers to entry while navigation coach positions will provide further opportunities for paid employment and leverage candidates’ lived experience to provide guidance and support for peer cohort members.
For candidates in remote and rural locations, SOU satellite programs build upon already articulated community college partnerships with Klamath Community College and Southwest Oregon Community College to enable candidates to “transfer without relocating.” Satellite candidates complete half their coursework and all clinical field experiences within their local communities, while in-person coursework at SOU is limited to one Saturday a month with subsidized accommodation available.
Local recipient Elidia Perez is excited for the future, made possible by the grant. “Being a recipient of the SOESD scholarship will help me further my career goals by helping me pay my tuition. This opportunity will enable me to complete my bachelor’s degree. I feel very fortunate and blessed. I greatly appreciate it and would like to thank SOESD for providing this opportunity,” says Perez.
