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Orting School District weekly communication for the entire staff for the week of Nov. 3, 2014
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November
3rd—PTA General Meeting
4th—Election Day
4th—PTR Veteran’s Assembly/4th even-
ing performance
5th– OMS Fall Dance
5th—Vision & Hearing Screening
6th—School Board Meeting 5pm
7th—Veteran’s Day Assembly @ OMS &
OPS
7th—Vision & Hearing Screening
10th-11th—No School Veteran’s Day
13th– OPS Picture Retakes
14th—PTA Family Dance
17th-21st—OMS Red Ribbon Week
20th—Vision & Hearing Screening
25th—End of 1st trimester
30th—Payday!
Upcoming Calendar
Congratulations to Orting High
School Students and Staff for
achieving a 3rd consecutive
School of Distinction Award...Go
Cards!
All Orting
schools are hon-
oring our Veter-
ans with Assem-
blies at PTR on
the 4th, OPS
and OMS on the 7th and OHS on
the 14th. PTR will also be host-
Michelle Curry, Superintendent
Orting School District
Volume , Issue November 3, 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:
ing an evening performance to-
morrow in the PAC starting at
7pm honoring our Veterans. On
November 10 and 11 teachers
and students will not have
school, I hope you take a mo-
ment during that time to reflect
on the sacrifices our Veteran’s
have made to ensure our coun-
try’s freedom as well as enjoy a
much deserved days off.
Follow me on
@OrtingSupt
@OrtingSupt
NEW Links for Staff @Marci Shepard
NEW M. F. T. Requests Maintenance. Facility. Trips.
Orting School District
#344
Emergency Messages signup for alerts
OSD Teaching Learning &
Leading
Ideas & Resources
Storming the Sound for more information
...click here
Page 2 Volume , Issue
Around the district
For Staff
Newly designed—
Links for Staff
New addition-
Resources for Staff
All ideas & resources links and docu-
ments appearing in the Key can be
found on this page, the list will be
ongoing and updated every week.
WSIPC requires 3
Saturdays during the
course of a year for
downtime so that
they can install updates to the system.
Downtimes begin on Saturday at 12:01
am and end no later than 9:00 pm.
This downtime affects Student/Fiscal/
Teacher/Family and Student Access
Modules.
Downtimes for the 2014-15 School
year are:
November 8th, 2014
March 14, 2015
July 11, 2015
In this months newsletter...
Next Generation Science Stand-
ards for States by States.
Upcoming Workshops for NGSS
Awareness and Implementation
Other Learning Opportunities
For newsletter...Click here
5 Facts about Smarter Bal-
anced Assessments
1. In Washington, the new Smarter Balanced tests will replace the math, reading and writing portions of the MSP students in grades 3-8. The science portion of the MSP (tested in grades 5 and 8) will remain the same. Stu-dents will not take the new Smarter Balanced tests in
grades K-2, 9, 10 or 12.
2. 11th graders will take the high school level of the new Smarter Balanced tests, but meeting standard on the tests is not a graduation require-
ment until the Class of 2019.
3. There are three components in the Smarter Balanced sys-tem: Digital Library, Interim Assessments and Summative Assessments. Washington schools will have access to all
of these.
4. “Interim” assessments are op-tional. They are flexible, non-secure periodic assessments to be offered at teachers’ and schools’ discretion throughout the school year. These computer-based tests will provide mean-ingful feedback that teachers can use to help students suc-
ceed.
5. Available this fall, the Smarter Balanced Digital Library will pro-vide resources that support K-12 educators with the four attributes of formative assessment: Clarify Intended Learning, Elicit Evi-dence, Interpret Evidence, and Act on Evidence. Through the li-brary teachers will have access to searchable database of 1000’s of vetted high-quality grade and sub-ject specific, Common Core aligned Education Resources. In addition to this educator-contributed content, the library will contain two-types of interac-tive, multimedia modules built by experts: Subject- and grade-specific Exemplar Instructional Modules that model the formative assessment process in the context of the Common Core State Stand-ards and Professional Learning Modules on Assessment Literacy designed to help educators deep-en their understanding of the formative assessment process in
daily instruction.
Sports!
OHS Sports this week! Click on the Cardinal
Page 3 Volume , Issue
What’s happening in the Schools!
OMS Sports this week! Click on the Falcon 2014-2015 Calendar!
Follow the link
OHS Calendar—clubs & activities
Halloween Festivities
Slideshow!
Orting Holiday Giving 2014
Please join the Orting Food Bank, the Orting School District, the Orting Community Network, and the community at large in supporting families in
our midst who need a lift this Holiday Season.
There are a few ways you can support a local family/ student during the
holidays:
1) Sponsor a family with a Holiday meal and/or Christmas gifts
2) Give food and/or cash/check donations to "Orting Food Bank Holiday 2014"
3) Select individual gift(s) Tag from a “giving gift box” to purchase
1) Sponsor a family:
If you would like to sponsor a family in our community with gifts and/or food, please contact Jeanie Pestinger,
Community Volunteer. Jeannie is heading up the gift giving/sponsorships for families and is collaborating
with many businesses and charitable organizations in our community.
Jeannie Pestinger / 253 988-6816 / [email protected]
2) Give Food (or Cash/Check):
Holiday food items can be dropped off directly at the Orting Food Bank. Cash/Check donations can be dropped
off at participating businesses or the Orting Food Bank.
Please make checks payable to: Orting Food Bank Holiday 2014
P.O. Box 1877, 224 Washington Avenue SE, Orting, Wa 98360 Phone—360-893-0095
Email—[email protected]
3) Buy a gift:
Before Thanksgiving the FCCLA Club from Orting High School will place a “Giving Box” in each participating
business in town. The Giving box will have “tags” for an individual child with age, gift idea and/or clothing sizes. You can take a gift tag, purchase the item(s) and return the item(s) to the Giving box with the Tag (or tag number) attached, unwrapped – (donation of wrapping paper/bows/trim appreciated), no later than De-cember 10th. Items donated will be picked up on December 12th for distribution to families prior to the holi-
day.
4) If you know someone in Orting in need of Holiday Assistance: Please Contact:
Orting Food Bank-above / Jeannie Pestinger– 253 988-6816 / Maurine Lewis 253 606-5360
Please contact your School Counselor until November 1st after that – above contacts
Benefit Information
Open
Classified Substitutes
Certificated Substitutes
FOOD SERVICE WORKER (OHS) -
2.5 hrs per day….apply
FOOD SERVICE WORKER (PTR) -
2.5 hrs per day ...apply
MONITOR / INSTRUCTIONAL
ASSISTANT ...apply
OCCUPATIONAL INFOR-
MATION ASSISTANT II ...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
Benefit Questions
Orting School District will be hosting a representative from Legal Shield on Nov. 13 from 2-
5pm at the Central Office.
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
on our website...click here
PEBB Benefits for OEA, Admin, Exempt open enrollment Nov.1-30, 2014 follow link for guide, enrollment/change application
and rates...click here
Questions? Contact Julie Mondry
Contact Job Postings
Carrie Joy
360.893.6500 x229
Hiring/Application Process
Substitute Online
Classified questions
Contact Julie Mondry
Certificated questions
Contact Terry VanZanten
Substitute Online
Apply for a Job
Benefits
Links
Business & Finance
Department
Brianne King—Director of Finance
and Operations
360-893-6500 x223
Debbie Yanez—Accounts Payable
Purchasing
360-893-6500 x224
Robin Bessey—Accountant
360-893-6500 x237
The finance department will pro-
vide monthly financial re-
ports….follow the link
FYI Driving district vehicles requires
a driver abstract contact Barb Wool-
ery at
Need something repaired?
Submit a maintenance request
linked here
OSD Code 65961984
Tech Problem?
Submit help request linked here
Technology
Transportation
Maintenance Departs
