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:
Literacy Committee
Prep Work and planning for 3
Cups of Tea School Wide and
Community Involvement
Kevin Gasner
and Student Council for H2O
activity and Staff-Student
Basketball Game
Mark Lindsey
Finding students from SLC for
pictures and interviews with
the Oregon Observer
IN THIS ISSUE
Goals Vision Mission p.1 & 2
“Sharpening your Skill Saw” - Common
Core Standards and Positive Results with
PBIS
Panther “props” p.1
Upcoming Events p.2
Reminders p.2
Did You Know? p.2
Resource Links p.2
PBIS Data p.3
We know what we are,
but not what we may
be.
William Shakespeare
(quotationspage.com)
OMS Weekly Staff E-Newsletter 2010_04_05
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”
COMMON CORE
STANDARDS
Excerpt from 3/15/2010 DPI-ConnectED
As one of 48 states committed to the
Common Core State Standards project,
Wisconsin encourages educators,
professional organizations, and
community members to provide feedback
on the first public draft of the Common
Core State Standards for English language
arts and mathematics.
These standards were released March 10.
Feedback will be accepted via an on-line
survey through April 2.
The Council of Chief State School
Officers and the National Governors
Association are leading the initiative to
develop common academic standards
across states.
Once they are finalized, Wisconsin will • Work with consortia of other states to
review the standards with an eye to adoption. develop formative and benchmark
The next steps in implementing them would be: assessments.
• Collaboratively develop model curriculum,
The DPI has provided guidance about the
using the work done by Wisconsin's standards Common Core Standards project on its
writing teams in English language arts and Academic Standards webpage.
mathematics (in collaboration with Achieve
American Diploma Project and the
Partnership for 21st Century Skills), which Illinois PBIS Data Excerpt from End
will focus the standards for teaching and of Year FY09 Report
learning.
Spotlight Schools Maintain Academic
• Use the new academic standards in
developing the new state assessment system. Gains
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Upcoming Events
April 2010 - CARE Review Classroom Four PBIS schools in Berwyn South School
and Arrival Departure Expectations District 100, have been implementing PBIS for
5 Black Day - four years, and have observed aggregate Illinois
Everyone Reads Homebase Standards Achievement Test (ISAT) score gains.
BUS- Lindsay, Jason*, Wendy V The ISAT measures individual student
achievement relative to the Illinois Learning
6 Orange Day - Standards. Each of these schools received the
SLC CONFERENCES 2008 Spotlight School Award from the Illinois
BUS- Lindsay, Jason*, Wendy V State Board of Education. The Spotlight School
Award recognizes high poverty schools in which
7 Black Day high academic performance is closing the
EXTENDED HOMEBASE More achievement gap. The district has focused on
SLC Practice for students targeted professional development for teachers
OMS Staff MEETING and staff, with grade level teams receiving
iPod/MP3 Survey training in instructional strategies and problem-
BUS- Lindsay, Jason*, Wendy V solving. Each of these four schools has also
identified tiered instructional strategies for
8 Orange Day - reading in their buildings.
NVCI Hold Review
BUS-Lindsay, Jason*, Wendy V

9 Black Day -
BUS -Lindsay, Jason*, Wendy V

OMS Weekly Update (Bus Duty,

Co-Curricular) - Lynda G
BUS Map For OMS click here to see rest of excerpt

Reminders Instructional Time Gained for Fully Did you Know?

Board Paper on OSD Site Implementing Schools You can review the OMS Goal Report with all
Wiki Spaces types of data for your enjoyment? Go to the
On Ning OMS Moodle Site to view them
Office discipline referral (ODR) rates were
On Moodle OMS 0910 Committee Membership***
examined for elementary schools that completed
the Benchmarks of Quality (BoQ). This self-
OMS Belief Statements assessment tool measures the degree to which a iPod/MP3 Survey ends 10pm 4/6/2010
school is implementing the Tier 1/ universal level
OREGON MIDDLE SCHOOL of school-wide PBIS and is completed by school OMS Vision
BELIEF STATEMENTS teams annually. Per the graph below, the schools
OREGON MIDDLE
We believe students will develop respect at full implementation (total BoQ score of 70 or
for their community, environment, and above) had considerably more students with only SCHOOL VISION
themselves. zero or one ODRs all year, which translates to Individualizing learning for parents, students
We believe all staff, students, and more instructional time. To further illustrate the and staff
community will foster a positive attitude effect that full implementation has on Navigating toward excellence
and outlook. instructional time, the difference between the Sharing responsibility for success of all
We believe all staff, students and average total ODRs for both groups of schools students
community will be respectful and was used to conduct an instructional time gained Producing positive, collaborative energy
responsible. analysis. The data show that the partially Including ALL
We believe all staff will model life-long implementing schools could potentially gain five Reflecting and collaborating for continuous
learning and engage students in high full days of instructional time by moving to full improvement
levels of academic excellence. implementation. 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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OMS Data for Week
March 22-26, 2010
(reflects data entered as of 3/26/2010)
# Grade Actual # %
of Referring Resident Gender Level of of
Data Area Referrals Ethnicicy Team Team Actual Actual Students Students
7O=3 7M=1
8O= 8M=
Enc=6
REFOCUS ROOM Total=33 SPED=12
Reg=19 Black=3 Admin= 7O=11
SPED=13 White=30
SUB=4 7M=9
At-Risk=11 Hisp=
GT=4 Inidan= EA=1 8O=5 F=8 7=15
504=1 Asian= Student=6 8M=8 M=18 8=11 26 4.6%
Teacher=8
STAFF MAKING EA=1
REFOCUS REFERRALS SUB=2 F=10 22%
Total=13 Admin=2 M=3 13 (Staff)
Total=16
OFFICE REFERRALS Reg=11 Black=4 7O=5
(May include Duplicates from SPED=5 White=12
detentions, refocus room, ISS/ 7M=1
At-Risk=3 Hisp=
OSS) GT= Inidan= 8O=6 F=2 7=6
504= Asian= 8M=4 M=14 8=10 16 2.8%
7O= 27M=
8O= 8M=
Enc=
Total=2 SPED=
DETENTIONS Reg=2 Black= Admin= 7O=1
SPED= White=2
SUB= 7M=1
At-Risk= Hisp=
GT= Inidan= EA= 8O= F=2 7=1
504= Asian= Student= 8M= M=14 8=1 2 0.3%
7O=21
7M=28
HEALTH OFFICE 8O=30 F=58 7=41
Total=113 8M=34 M=32 8=49 90 16.1%
Total=2
Reg=1 Black=1 7O=
SPED=1 White=1
OSS At-Risk=2 Hisp=
7M=1
GT= Inidan= 8O= F= 7=2
504= Asian= Admin 8M=1 M=2 8= 2 0.3%
Total=8
Reg=6 Black=2 7O=2
SPED=2 White=6
ISS At-Risk=1 Hisp=
7M=
GT= Inidan= 8O=3 F=4 7=2
504= Asian= Admin 8M=3 M=4 8=6 8 1.4%
7O= 7M=
8O= 8M=
Total=15 Enc= 8
CADS Reg=9 Black=5 SPED= 7O=
SPED=6 White=10
PAWSitive 2 of 15 Admin=2 7M=1
At-Risk=3 Hisp=
GT=2 Inidan= SUB= EA=5 8O=7 F=2 7=1
504= Asian= Student= 8M=7 M=11 8=12 13 2.3%
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