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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:

• I like the way Lois brought music into her curriculum
• Lois understands differentiated instruction and works to ensure every student works with every other student throughout the year
• Lois’s classroom is student-centered
• There is a depth in Lois’s responses that correlates with her experience
• Lois has been through the National Board Certification process and that shows in her reflective practice
• There is a sense of humility in Lois’s responses
• Lois has core values that she wishes to impart to her students and those core values will help her students become more resilient. This is something every teacher needs to know about and do.
• Lois has a career with momentum and one gets a sense in reading her application that the best is yet to come.

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.

Read the full press release.

Calling all students interested in healthcare. Sign up for the RCC Fast Track to Healthcare Careers event, on March 18^th (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:

• Nursing
• Dental Assistant
• Nursing Assistant
• Medical Assistant
• Phlebotomy
• Pharmacy Technician
• Emergency Medical Technician
• Medical Administrative Assistant
• Community Health Worker

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