October 20th-24th– OPS Book Fair 21st –24th Parent Teacher Conferences 27th-30th—6th Grade Camp 28th—Taproot Theater PTR 31st—End of 1st Quarter 31st Payday! 31st— PTA Trunk or Treat at PTR 5pm 31st—PTR Walkathon 31st—Happy Halloween! November 4th—PTR Veteran’s Assembly/4th even- ing performance 5th– OMS Fall Dance 7th—Veteran’s Day Assembly 10th-11th—No School Veteran’s Day 17th-21st—OMS Red Ribbon Week 25th—End of 1st trimester Upcoming Calendar Staff, This month is Disa- bility History and Awareness Month. Activity suggestions: Elementary School Students: Art Contest—How I Can Include My Friends with Disabilities? Middle School Students: Essay Con- test—Electronic Curb Cut Effect: How an Invention Created for the Need of a Person with a Disability has Benefitted Society. High School Students: Essay Con- test—why is it Important to Look at Employment, Building Design, and Inventions when Talking About Ac- cessibility for Everyone? Disability Etiquette Resources and websites Primer on People Frist Lan- guage...click here Disability is Natural website...click here Michelle Curry, Superintendent Orting School District Volume , Issue October 20, 2014 Key Communicator Preparing all students for college, careers and life. INSIDE THIS ISSUE: Superintendent’s Message Calendar Schools, Sports & Around the district Departments HR postings & Information IMPORTANT LINKS: @OrtingSupt @Marci Shepard NEW Links for Staff Orting School District #344 NEW M. F. T. Requests Maintenance. Facility. Trips. OSD Teaching Learning & Leading Emergency Messages signup for alerts Mobility International USA ...click here The Arc...click here Easter Seals Disability Eti- quette... click here OSPI Special Education Update for Octo- ber...click here Evening Conference Schedules OHS-Thurs. 23rd 5:30pm OMS-Wed. 22nd 5:30pm OPS–Tues. 21st PTR-evening conferences per teach- er Follow me on @OrtingSupt
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October
20th-24th– OPS Book Fair
21st –24th Parent Teacher Conferences
27th-30th—6th Grade Camp
28th—Taproot Theater PTR
31st—End of 1st Quarter
31st Payday!
31st— PTA Trunk or Treat at PTR 5pm
31st—PTR Walkathon
31st—Happy Halloween!
November
4th—PTR Veteran’s Assembly/4th even-
ing performance
5th– OMS Fall Dance
7th—Veteran’s Day Assembly
10th-11th—No School Veteran’s Day
17th-21st—OMS Red Ribbon Week
25th—End of 1st trimester
Upcoming Calendar
Staff,
This month is Disa-
bility History and
Awareness Month.
Activity suggestions:
Elementary School Students: Art
Contest—How I Can Include My
Friends with Disabilities?
Middle School Students: Essay Con-
test—Electronic Curb Cut Effect:
How an Invention Created for the
Need of a Person with a Disability
has Benefitted Society.
High School Students: Essay Con-
test—why is it Important to Look at
Employment, Building Design, and
Inventions when Talking About Ac-
cessibility for Everyone?
Disability Etiquette Resources and
websites
Primer on People Frist Lan-
guage...click here
Disability is Natural website...click
here
Michelle Curry, Superintendent
Orting School District
Volume , Issue October 20, 2014
Key Communicator Preparing all students for college, careers and life.
INS ID E TH IS I S SUE :
Superintendent’s Message
Calendar
Schools, Sports & Around the district
Departments
HR postings & Information
IMPORTANT L INKS:
@OrtingSupt
@Marci Shepard NEW Links for Staff
Orting School District
#344
NEW M. F. T. Requests Maintenance. Facility. Trips.
How Teacher Voice Matters: Tell Us What You Think About
Common Core
Puget Sound Educa-tional Service District is administer-ing The Teacher Practice Networks Annual Survey to better understand what kinds of supports are helping teachers to implement new state standards, referred to as the Com-mon Core or the Washington State
Learning Standards.
Teachers are invited to complete the online survey here by October
24th.
Your feedback will help the Puget Sound Educational Service District as well as the national Teacher Practice Networks community to improve and extend our work. Thank you for your time and for your valuable feedback!
We want to take a moment to thank all our par-ents, our special education teach-ers, our related service providers, and our school principal for attending our first of the year “Special Service Parent Meet-ing” Thursday on Oct 9th, 2014. The most powerful and informative part of the night was hearing from 4 parents of special needs children. Each parent spoke about their experience attending their child’s very first IEP meet-ing. Let’s just say, there wasn’t a dry-eye in the house after listening to each parent’s share! Since then, we re-ceived very positive feedback about our
Special Education Parent Night.
After the meeting, two parents have offered to spear-head a support group for “First time IEP parents” for our Orting School District. The purpose of the parent group is to support ”First time IEP parents.” They have walked the walk and they have talked the talk as parents of a child with a disability and we are here to support you. We will keep you informed as we have more development of the “Parent Sup-port Initiative”. We thank you all for attending! Please be watching your email for the next Special Service Par-ent. John Clough
Hello my name is Shannon Dooley (the one on the far left) and I have hijacked Miller's computer. For those of you who don't know me, I am a junior at OHS. The OHS Service Club is going to Nicaragua in July 2015 to build a school and
help the local community. The cost of the trip per student is about $4,000, making the total cost around $40,000. All of the students going on the trip, including me, have been working diligently to raise money for the trip. This is a
once in a lifetime opportunity for all of us, as well as for OHS.
Currently we are selling t-shirts specially designed by our group for those that would like to support us. Each t-shirt is $12 and each student will receive $6 per shirt they sell. Thank you for your support and generosity!
∙ If you would like to purchase a shirt please reply back the following information: Name, Color,
Size, Number of Shirts, and Building Location.
∙ Shirts will be delivered on November 3rd and payment can be made then.
∙ Color Choice: White, Charcoal, Purple, Grey
I now return the computer back to Mr. Miller,
Shannon Dooley
President OHS Service Tour Club
Alert—we interrupt this Key Communicator to bring you this Special Announcement!
Benefit Information
Open
Classified Substitutes
Bus Drivers, Custodial, Food
Service, Health Techs, Para
Educators, Clerical, Monitors,
Maintenance
Certificated Substitutes
Teachers
Para Educator-LAP program
(2) positions...apply
Para Educator–Special Edu-
cation (2) positions ...apply
Job Alert signup for automatic
notification, don’t miss newly
posted positions.
Please remember the job posting
(TalentEd) website and the district
website are separate, you will
need to login to the TalentEd for
positions.
Follow link
Human Resources
Orting School District
Orting School District is an equal opportunity employer.
For more information on Job
Postings go to
Employment/HR Follow the Link
For all Employees
Orting School District will be hosting a representative from
Legal Shield.
On October 28, 2014 from 1-4pm and October 30, 2014 from 11am-3pm, the representative will be at the Central Office to answer questions and enroll employees
who are interested.
See the attached for more infor-mation on the products and ser-vices they provide. This is a vol-untary benefit and a payroll de-duction is available. Additional information can be found under
