CHS Staff Bulletin
January 7th, 2019
Enjoying the Break
I sincerely hope that you are having a wonderful break. I have been enjoying my time with my family and staying away from school as much as possible. Being that I am a 12 month employee I had to come in for a few days, but I also plan to use some vacation time to get away and go visit family in the Reno/Lake Tahoe area. That begins tomorrow. This will be the last Staff Bulletin until January 14th. I hope you are resting and reading this at the end of the break and not in the middle.
I have been reminded recently in several instances that we constantly need to be graceful with others and with ourselves. We all deserve personal freedom from beliefs and agreements that we have made with ourselves and others that are creating limitation and unhappiness in our lives. It reminds me of the Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz.
- "Be impeccable with your word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love..."
- "Don't make assumptions. Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life..."
- "Don't take anything personally. Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won't be the victim of needless suffering..."
- "Always do your best. Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
Kindly,
gb
In The Know
Professional Development January 7th - I wanted to provide a short description about PD offerings for January 7th, as this format for PD is new. This district PD day is intended to provide teachers choice to attend sessions that best meet their professional goals, needs, and interests, while balancing time to come together to continue work on content specific focus areas. While the PD signup program is brand new and may present some technical issues that we will continue to work through, we are very excited to finally have a program that allows us to offer a choice model, to track trainings, certifications, and PDUs, and more. It is very important to sign up for sessions as this provides us information about waitlists and how we might adapt to make sure that day meets the needs of our teachers and staff. Please let me know if you have any technical difficulties, I'm happy to try and help trouble shoot.
Copies This Year vs. Last Year
Copies - This Year vs. Last Year
Total pages this year 879,272
Total pages this time last year 637,488
Total cost this year $11,430.54
Total cost this time last year $8,816.64
Churchill Winter Video Assembly
Looking Forward
Monday, 1/7 — NO SCHOOL (Professional Development)
7:45 am — FOG Mtg
District PD Sessions at Churchill may use the following rooms:
library
cafeteria
auditorium
STEM 105
STEM 118
C8
J9
J24
J25
H3/H4
Tuesday, 1/8 — CLASSES RESUME
3:45 pm — Curriculum Council
Wednesday, 1/9
Fire Drill (4th period)
3:45 pm — Operations
Thursday, 1/10
BLOOD DRIVE
7:30 am — PBIS
3:45 pm — Equity Team
Friday, 1/11
NO ADVISORY SCHEDULE (canceled)3:45 pm —Staff Meeting
Next Week...
1/14–1/25 SCHOOL CHOICE
1/15, 10:00 am — School Choice Tour
1/15, 16, 4:00 pm — FAFSA Workshop
1/16, 6:30 pm — Lancer Pageant Parent Meeting*
1/16, 7:00 pm — School Choice: IHS at Churchill 8th Grade Night
1/17, 10:00 am — School Choice Presentation
1/17, 5:30 pm — Grad Party Planning Meeting*
1/18, Martin Luther King, Jr. Assembly
*Community-sponsored event. Churchill High School and Eugene School District 4J do not provide financial, administrative, or clerical support for this event. Liability is the responsibility of the organizers of the event.
Kudos
Congratulations to all of the students who have been nominated for the Eugene Area Chamber of Commerce’s annual Future First Citizen award. Their hard work and dedication have led to this, and we are honored to have such wonderful students representing our city. Our Nominee for Future First Citizen from Churchill High School is Jack Blackburn. Congratulations on an honor well deserved.
Jill Reents & Robin Francisco - Thank you so much for your last minute help with after school announcements and letting me use some office assistants to get LEAP packets back to students. You two rock! - Mary Beth
Bill Krei - Thank you for letting me use your classroom for the LCC Placement testing. And thank you for pitching in and being so caring about our students' pathway in the Engineering Academy.
- Mary Beth
Helen Haberman - Recycling I just wanted to mention what a terrific service it is to have recycling at CHS. Your students are always polite when they enter my office to collect the recycling bin. Thank you for continuing this service I know it's a lot to manage.
Debbie Levy - I really appreciate your coming in to my Design Thinking Class today! After you left, students were really using the database and links to add to their brainstorms/info gathering!
I particularly enjoyed using the Educators Reference Complete database - the send to Google Drive function is super cool! I even discovered that after I moved the folder created by the database and then sent more stuff, the database found the folder where I moved it...- Don Squires
Renee Neil - Thank you for your hard work with our leadership students. Your dedication and commitment to keeping student culture and climate at CHS alive and thriving is well noted. You have put hours of hard work into fostering the student and staff climate. I believe that this is some of the most important work that we do. Thank you. I am proud of what you have offered.
Churchill High School
Excellence for Every Lancer Every Day!
Churchill Pride Runs Deep!
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Location: 1850 Bailey Hill Road, Eugene, OR, USA
Phone: 541-790-5100
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