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Good Morning,  

“Leave a Legacy” is the sixth and final directive from The Janitor.  Everyday you come to work to teach and students come to learn.  In reality you give a gift of knowledge that will transcend high school. 

Many times this year, we’ve talked about building futures, “One World, One Dream, One Future”. Our future is the legacy you leave in the minds of the students who sit in your classrooms, come to your attendance window, swim at the pool or research in the library.  Our school will leave a legacy.   

Prom this Saturday was part of a legacy.  The event was exceptional.  It seemed that students had a great time and all things went very well.  Two of our students were honored as King and Queen.  Stephen Rigsby and Samantha Ryals were the honored guest.  Congratulations to the King Stephen and Queen Samantha. 

I want to thank Juanita Clarno for selling Prom ticket here at Hartman.  Her work honored the Hartman students and made it ease for them to purchase Prom tickets.   

Important Information: 
The posting for the Hartman administrative position closed on Friday, April 25th.  Interviews are to occur this week.      

Oregon’s stand on exit exams.  As you have read in Jon’s email, Oregon is very likely to require exit exams for high school graduation.  In the proposal students may have options other than a written exam to demonstrate proficiency. The ISC has assessment exam already in place so the addition of required exit exam should be of minimal impact.  I would encourage Denise Roberts and the new administrator to work closely with the State to accept IB exams.  The GA has implemented a Senior Project which could with development become a proficiency exam.   

Events Of the Week:

Monday, April 28  
Ad Council today,  agenda – School Improvement Plans for District schools and 2008-2009 Budget  

Athletics:   
SB home Mc Nary
Golf @ N Salem
BB @ Mc Nary 

Tuesday, April 29
2:30  SA meeting 

Athletics:
Tennis  home McKay  

Wednesday, April 30
MYP meeting  

Athletics:
SB  @  W. Salem
Track @ McKay
BB home W. Salem  

Thursday, May 1
2:30  Staff meeting  

Athletics
Tennis home  Summit  

Friday, May 2 – Teacher Work Day  

Athletics: SB  home N. Salem Track at Gresham Invitational  

May 3  BB @ No Salem  

Have a wonderful week, enjoy the teaching and learning the occurs in your classroom.

Donna Howard,Principal
International School of the Cascades
Redmond High School – Hartman Building

Good Morning,  I do hope you had a great weekend.  It was a good weekend to catch-up with oneself, spend quality time reading and with family.  As I look out over the calendar for the next few weeks, I realize we have only 7.5 weeks remaining in this school year.  The past seven months have gone so fast that I am sure the next 7.5 weeks will do the same.  It is my goal that we stay focused on curriculum and learning.   For several weeks now I have been sharing with you thoughts from the book, The Janitor but Hoskins and Hilbert. Directive 5 from the book is “Don’t spend; invest!”.  The concept supporting this directive is foundational in education.  Investing is to ensure that quality of learning is the fundamental foundation of what we do in school.  Our teaching, learning culture, and content is to be our focus.  The “glitz and glitter” and social fun events of school is great fun but can not come at the expense of loosing quality learning and teaching. Thus we must always use question the value of activities that take our attention away from curriculum.  As events are planned through the remainder of this year and into next, we need to ask, “Is this spending or investing on the learning of our students?”   Today we welcome Mr. Tatsuya Omi to our campus.  He will be an investment in the education of our students.  Mr. Omi will spend the next year with us to support teaching in the Japanese language classes, classes with international perspectives.   Accolades and Kudos:  I want to thank Ben Parsons for the outstanding organization of LHD and opportunities provided for students during the day.  A thanks to all of you for your flexibility as last minute changes were made to accommodate scheduling and student needs.  The “debriefing” sessions that I heard were  purposeful and thought provoking.  A second thanks to Renee Hamilton for organizing and supporting the MYP Personal Project night.  Many exceptional projects were displayed and presented.   

Events of the Week:  

Monday April 21 – Regular Schedule.
Please welcome Mr. Tatsuya Omi.  This is the first day of his year long adventure with us at Hartman.  Please come to the library Wednesday morning at 7:00AM to meet Tatsuya.  We will do an introduction and share coffee and donuts.  6:00  Talk of the Town,  Televised conversation with the district and community regarding the Bond measure and its structure.  You are invited to participate in this event.  

Athletics
M/W Golf @ Eagle Ridge
Baseball at McKay
Softball here with McKay  

Tuesday, April 22 – Regular Schedule            
Junior Day at the Career Center and Junior Information Night at RHS- main campus Career Center. 

Athletics:
M Golf @ Corvallis, 
Trysting Tree Softball @ So Salem  

Wednesday, April 23 -
Passport 1st period            
First Period Passport Class first 20 minutes of class.  Passport will be support the introduction of Mr. Omi to the Hartman student body and several leadership activities.             

5:30PM  RHS School Board meeting

Athletics:
M Golf @ Crescent Valley,
Trysting Tree Track home with Sprague  

Thursday, April 24            
S.K.I.D. Assembly – We will dismiss at 9:10 to walk to the football stadium.  Assembly will run through second period.  The bell schedule will run on a regular schedule.  

Athletics:
W Golf At Henley  

Friday, April 25 – Regular Schedule  
Tennis home Mt View BB @ SpragueSB @ Sprague  

Saturday, April 26 – Prom  

Have a wonderful week. 

Donna Howard,
Principal
International School of the Cascades
Redmond High School – Hartman Building

The 2nd annual High Desert Inter-Cultural Festival, A Day of Unity among Different Cultures presented by R.I.C.E. – Redmond Inter-Cultural Exchange was hosted in our building last Saturday April 12, 2008.

Visitors learned about other cultures and customs through displays of culturally-specific items, music, food, workshops and friendly conversation.

The following countries/cultures where represented: Colombia, Thailand, Germans from Russia, Paraguay, Venezuela, Hellenic Society, Panama, USA/Americana, Native American, Mexico, Costa Rica, Nicaragua (Condega), Philippines, Peru, Chile, Bolivia, Ecuador, Celtic Society, Japan, Ivory Coast of Africa and Guatemala.<

Other activities included:Musical performances, dance performances and instruction, Art including a Japanese calligraphy workshop, kids activities and multi-cultural story times provided by Deschutes Library, Cuban and African drumming workshops.

Students from the International School of the Cascades volunteered and it was a pleasure to see them mingling with the public and presenters and see everybody having a blast.

Mosaic Culture Day Pics