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
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:
All OMS staff members
who can count to 39
Billie Farrar for signing
on for more lunch duty.
Larien for helping with
homework club
Lindsay for taking on
morning Supervision with
Jovarnna.
Kevin G and Jason for
their consistent and
timely meeting Minutes
for their teams.
A slip of the foot you may
soon recover, but a slip of
the tongue you may never
get over.
Benjamin Franklin
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M I D D L E S C H O O L
Kicking off the New Year 2010
CULTURE CHARACTER COMPETENCY
Maintain or increase Maintain or increase By the end of the 2009-2010
student, staff, and parent student, staff, and parent school year, 100% of our
ratings in student safety, ratings in students, staff students will read at grade
meeting academic needs, and and parents reporting a level and or make at least one
student achievement through respectful school year’s growth and /or meet
relationships between environment their individual learning
students and teachers. plan (IEP, 504, etc.) goals.
“Sharpening your Saw” for Student Achievement
Teaching Is...Learning Is Teaching is introducing, providing and
mediating experiences.
(part 1) by Bill Page (Bill’s Website) Teaching is helping students make sense out of
their experiences and helping them to
Teaching is I. harmonize, analyze, synthesize, discuss,
Teaching is what I am. What we learn is what
compare, contrast and discover personal
meaning in their totality of experiences. If the
we experience. I cannot say, “Now I am experiences I provide are not meaningful; if
teaching; now I am not.” Whatever I am doing
or not doing is teacher; kids are experiencing
they do not make sense; or if they are age,
interest or time appropriate, if they don’t mesh
me. If I roll my eyes and sigh, give a disgusted with out-of-school experiences no “learning”
look, or if I smile as a response, that is what my will take place. (Expect that he/she might learn
students are learning. If I say, “I will not begin that he/she is confused or bored, and perhaps
until everyone is ready.” or I write on the board, how he/she behaves when feeling confused or
that is what they are learning. bored.)
My students learn just as much from me when I Teaching is a communication procedure
walk out in the middle of their class as they
would learn if I stayed. Of course, what they It is my responsibility to communicate history to
will learn is something quite different. What my history students. If they fail to learn history,
they learn is that I would rather be out than in, it is I who failed, not they. if half of the class
or if they post a sentry at the door, they won’t fails, then I have failed to adequately
get caught out of their seats when I return. They communicate with that half. As a professional
are learning how the class behaves when I am teacher, I have provided experiences by which
out of the room. They are learning who the they learn the material. If those experiences are
“snitches” and “goody, goodies” are. On my not helpful, it is my obligation to find new, more
return, they will learn how I react, when I am appropriate experiences. If I go to the doctor
upset; or what I do about misbehavior that with the flu and he gives me penicillin and it
occurs in my absence. So long as I am in their doesn’t work, either he mis-diagnosed or he
presence or so long as I am responsible for mis-prescribed, and he certainly would not label
them, they are “experiencing me.” What I do or me a “bad patient.” or tell my Mother on me.
fail to do is what they are learning.
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Upcoming Events Teaching Is.. (cont)

Welcome Back to 2010! If a TV commercial fails to sell the advertised
January 2010 product, sponsors don’t say, “it’s a great
4 Black Day commercial. It’s just stupid p[people who watch
4 OMS Tech Committee Meeting in the program; we will have to upgrade our
Book Room after school listeners.” Or “It’s a clever commercial; it is just
5 Orange Day over their heads, so we’ll have to do six
6 Black Day commercials for ‘readiness.’” What they do is fire
6 OMS Staff Meeting Orchestra the commercial writers. You don’t fir (or flunk)
Room (3:30) the audience! It is the writers who have the
7 Orange Day obligation of the communication.
8 Black Day OMS Student Council Students Out Shopping
Teaching is taking responsibility for kids’ for some local families
learning
OMS Weekly Update (Bus Duty, Co-
Curricular) - Lynda G (NO DUTY ;-) ) Did you Know?
Our job is to teach the kids we have; not those we
BUS Map For OMS used to have; not those we would like to have; not You can review the OMS Goal Report with all
those who are like us when we were in school; types of data for your enjoyment? Go to the
Check OMS Orange Black Calendar not the kids who have parental support; the kids OMS Moodle Site to view them
for meetings and events and the OMS we have now--all of them. Our job is not to tell
Field Trip Calendar OMS Field Trip that they won’t learn, or haven’t learned. It’s not
Calendar to tell why they didn’t learn or what their
problems are. It is to teach them. It is teachers
Reminders who pass or fail not the kids.

Tech Survey for OSD - Please take
it!
Mileage Reimbursement
Beginning 1/1/10 the mileage
reimbursement rate will decrease to .
50 cents per mile. Mileage
reimbursement prior to 1/1/10 .55
cents per mile. Be sure to double
check dates for your reimbursement
and use the correct reimbursement
rate.
OMS Belief Statements
OREGON MIDDLE SCHOOL It is not a matter of subject knowledge,
BELIEF STATEMENTS teaching strategies, pedagogy, lesson plans or
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.
Teaching is the act of being one’s self
It is one’s state of being, of existing as a total
human being, one who becomes a part of the
lives and experiences of students. It is being an
authentic person whose holistic, identifying,
knowable and observable characteristics are in
interaction with other peoples lives. Teaching
is modeling, behaving, imitating, following,
and living as perceived or acted upon by all
those in mutual, reciprocal relationships.
Conversely:
Teaching is NOT something anyone DOES Do you know who this is? One of our former
students (currently a freshmen at OHS).
to someone else
OMS Vision
presenting. By my definition, a person with OREGON MIDDLE
teaching qualification and certification, who SCHOOL VISION
knows and uses such practices, walks and talks Individualizing learning for parents, students
as a teacher, is not a teacher, unless or until his and staff
or her “students” perceive worthiness, Navigating toward excellence
importance, or personal meaning in the Sharing responsibility for success of all
experiences resulting as part of the encounter students
and interaction with that person. Producing positive, collaborative energy
Including ALL
Reflecting and collaborating for continuous
improvement
Engaging students in rigorous learning

Resource Links for OMS Staff

RESOURCE LINKS
OMS Staff Only Page on our
Oregonsd.org site
OMS Staff Collaboration Site
OMS online DB (Refocus, etc)
OMS PBIS Site
OMS Literacy Site
OMS PLC Site
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CALENDAR GOOGLE
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OMS Orange Black and Other Calendar Video Use Permission Form
OMS Field Trip Calendar
FORMS
NEW Sub Evaluation Form
OMS Field Trip Request Form
Guest Speaker Request Form OMS Team Minutes Interactive
Team Meeting form (Google Doc) Form - fill in fields and click submit on
bottom of Staff Page
OMS Committee Meeting Template SUBSCRIPTION SERVICES
OMS Protocol Documentation Form to OregonMidSchool Twitter
Facilitate positive dialog (PDF)
OMS E-Newsletter
OMS Protocol Documentation form
(Word format)
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