O R E G O N
OREGON MIDDLE SCHOOL
Citizenship, Attitude, Responsibility, Excellence
The mission of Oregon Middle School is to develop conscientious citizens, foster positive
attitudes, respect and appreciate individuals, and achieve academic excellence.
OMS 2009-2010 Goals (4Cs)
COMMUNITY
Increase parent feeling of
involvement through the
continued development of the
5-to-8 Group. Maintain or
improve communication with
parents and community
members
Panther “props” to:
Mary Kay Bishop - Coordinating
Helping Hands for Haiti - OMS Raised
$2037 (with help from JD Piano and Next
Generation) District raised $12,051.13
Jon Curkovic and Kerri
Modjeski - Leadership Lab for OHS
and OMS Students
Roxie Butterfield - congratulations
on passing her nursing board exam!
IN THIS ISSUE
Goals Vision Mission p.1 & 2
“Sharpening your Skill Saw” Success
Through Long Winter Months &
Marshall Memo Weekly Quotes
Panther “props” p.1
Upcoming Events p.2
Reminders p.2
Did You Know? p.2
Resource Links p.2
PBIS Data p.3 (data base down)
A child comes home from his
first day at school. His Mother
asks, "Well, what did you learn
today?"
The kid replies, "Not
enough. They want me to come
back tomorrow."
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M I D D L E S C H O O L
CULTURE CHARACTER COMPETENCY
Maintain or increase student, Maintain or increase student, By the end of the 2009-2010
staff, and parent ratings in staff, and parent ratings in school year, 100% of our
student safety, meeting academic students, staff and parents students will read at grade level
needs, and student achievement reporting a respectful school and or make at least one year’s
through relationships between environment growth and /or meet their
students and teachers. individual learning plan (IEP,
504, etc.) goals.
Sharpening your Skill Saw
Success Through the Long
Winter Months
Jason Klohr -NMSA (Nat’l Middle School
Association)
March 2009
Often, these late winter months can be a
time fraught with student discipline issues
(It's cold outside, so they need to get their
energy out in your classroom.) and a time
when students and teachers get bogged
down, exhausted, and are simply trying to Janell Thom-Schneider at OHS
survive until spring break. Freshmen Orientation
Businesses adopt various philosophies and
ideas to ensure success and teamwork in each other's successes, and we work
their offices. Middle schools can take some through each other's failures—together. We
of those ideas and use them for the same don't place blame on each other.
success. Here are four tools teachers and
staff can use to encourage each other and Trust: Middle school teams must trust
help each other shine during the down each other. This means a willingness to
times. admit mistakes and weaknesses to each
other. Once these are out in the open, we
Teamwork: As a middle school team and can appreciate each other, learn from each
community of teachers, we should look at other's mistakes (and successes), and offer
all results as a team. Middle school assistance to teammates who are
teachers are not really individuals, per se; struggling.
instead, we use a team approach. We enjoy
Check out the NEW ONLINE
Behavior Intervention form AND
Common Area Documentation
Slip (which can be used for positive
reinforcement too)
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Upcoming Events Keys to Educating Young Adults (cont)

February 2010
This Week CARE Review Cafeteria
8 Black Day - HB Reading Day
BUS - KC, DS, BE*
9 Orange Day - BUS - KC, DS, BE*
Safety Committee Meeting Book
Room 3:20
10 Black Day
EXTENDED HOMEBASE
INTERVENTION DAY
BET Meeting 3:20 Library
BUS - KC, DS, BE*
11 Orange Day -
First Response Team and NVCI
Hold Training for trained staff
(Mandatory Monthly refresher)
3:20 Book Room
BUS - RF, DS, BE*
12 Black Day - BUS- RF, DS, BE*
OMS Weekly Update (Bus Duty,
Co-Curricular) - Lynda G
BUS Map For OMS
Reminders
• Progress Reports Due Feb 19
• Fire Drills - be sure to shut your
classroom door when you leave
• Please review with your homebase
the weekly CARE Areas
• Teams be sure your are
documenting your Interventions for
Extended HB Wednesdays
• Sue Schultz Desktop Publishing
Class Click Here
OMS Belief Statements
OREGON MIDDLE SCHOOL
BELIEF STATEMENTS
We believe students will develop respect
for their community, environment, and
themselves.
We believe all staff, students, and
community will foster a positive attitude
and outlook.
We believe all staff, students and
community will be respectful and
responsible.
We believe all staff will model life-long
learning and engage students in high
levels of academic excellence.
Commitment: Every teacher should know
the school's mission and be committed to
achieving it. Each grade level is united in
the cause, unlike a high school, where
things are grouped more by subject and
discipline. We are a team of professional
educators working with each other, striving
for the success of our students. Being
committed to the school's mission as a team
is encouraging and rewarding.
Accountability: If teamwork, trust, and Bill Urban -
commitment have been established,
OHS Freshmen Orientation
accountability will not be difficult to
manage. Teams are better able to hold each
other accountable and can help each other
for my students to stop talking so that I
in weak areas. Holding each other might resume the very important business
accountable to the same standards (e.g., of performing. I learned that if I listened
academics, student discipline, dress code) is carefully, thoughtfully, generously, and
extremely important. This encourages and non-judgmentally, my students would
helps those who struggle with various issues delight me with the complexity of their
while keeping those who do not struggle thinking, the depth of their insight, the
happy, because they know everyone is on delicious wickedness of their humor, and
board and giving their best effort. with their compassion, their wisdom, and
their honesty.”
- Elaine Smokewood
Marshall Memo - Educational
Quotes of the Week
Did you Know?
“Regardless of how ‘good’ a faculty may consider
its school, for the parent whose child does not You can review the OMS Goal Report with all
learn, the school has failed the child – 100 types of data for your enjoyment? Go to the
percent.” OMS Moodle Site to view them
- Richard DuFour
NEW Online Behavior Intervention Form
“Asking ‘Does anyone have any questions?’ does New Online CAD form (For Positive too)
not work, and it’s a classic rookie mistake.
Students are not always the best judges of their
own learning.” OMS Vision
- Amanda Ripley
OREGON MIDDLE
“I keep six honest serving-men: SCHOOL VISION
(They taught me all I knew) Individualizing learning for parents, students
Their names are What and Where and When
and staff
And How and Why and Who.”
-Rudyard Kipling in Just So Stories (1902), Navigating toward excellence
quoted in “How the Scientist Got His Ideas: A Sharing responsibility for success of all
Just-So Story” by David Barash and Judith Eve students
Lipton in The Chronicle of Higher Education, Producing positive, collaborative energy
Jan. 8, 2010 (Vol. LVI, #17, p. B13) Including ALL
Reflecting and collaborating for continuous
“I became a teacher who actively listened. I had improvement
in the past often confused listening with waiting Engaging students in rigorous learning

Resource Links for OMS Staff

RESOURCE LINKS GOOGLE CALENDARS Sub Evaluation Form OMS Protocol Documentation form
OMS Staff Only Page OMS Orange Black and Other Calendar OMS Field Trip Request Form (Word format)
OMS Staff Collaboration Site OMS Field Trip Calendar Guest Speaker Request Form OMS Team Minutes Interactive
OMS online DB (Refocus, etc) FORMS Team Meeting form (Google Doc) Form - fill in fields and click submit on
OMS PBIS Site NEWOnline Behavior Intervention Video Use Permission Form bottom of Staff Page
OMS Literacy Site Form OMS Committee Meeting Template SUBSCRIPTION SERVICES
OMS PLC Site NEW ONLINE CADs OMS Protocol Documentation Form to OregonMidSchool Twitter
Facilitate positive dialog (PDF) OMS E-Newsletter
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Due to a technical error the custom database

holding our PBIS behavior data has been
corrupted. This was noticed on Thursday, 2-4-10.
Conversation with our tech department will
continue and I will be working to rebuild this
database as quickly as possible.
- Chris

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