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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

This photo was taken in Japan and portraits Mr. Tatsuya Omi, our Japanese intern teacher that will be joining us in April and some of the students that went on the trip to Japan during Spring break with Mr. King, our Japanese teacher and Donna Howard, our principal.

I hope you all had an incredible weekend. The weather was magnificent. Friday afternoon, we drove to Medford to see our daughter and family. This is always a great time as 4 and 5 year old Grandchildren make everything fun. I am always intrigue with their creative minds as a simple stick can become an airplane, gun, or a magic wand. All things are possible when you are four. Saturday evening, my son-in-law gave me a book he had just finished reading. He told me it was a quick read so I should be able to finish it in a couple hours. The book was titled, The Janitor: How an Unexpected Friendship Transformed a CEO and His Company by Todd Hopkins and Ray Hilbert. The book was a quick read, however, I hope its content will stay with me much long. The ideas and thoughts are so powerful, so I will be sharing them with you over the next six Mondays.

You have all heard the directives before yet they are worth hearing again, again and again.

The first directive is Recharge versus discharge.

In the work we do, we discharge are energy from the moment we walk in the school door until we finish grading that last paper at night. Day in and day out we spend enormous amount of energy teaching and supporting learning. To truly be effective we must all recharge and have something to give. Others have called it “refilling our bucket, taking care of one self.” To be in good health and have the stamina to teach and support our students we must be well charge.

Finals Week
Wednesday , March 12
Period 2 and 4
Thursday,March 13
Periods 1, 3, and 5·

To support preparation of finals this week, all library computers have been reserved for academic work and focus. If you have students working on a project requiring research or work processing, Inform students that library is reserved for that purpose.

Events of the Week:
Monday, March 10 Prepare for Finals
Ad Council 2:30 – 5:00
Aspire Recognition – Ruth Burleson has planned a special event to recognize the Aspire Mentors and their work to support students as they apply for scholarships and colleges.

Tuesday, March 11
Prepare for Finals

Wednesday, March 12 Finals
Period 2 and 4
ISC Board meeting COCC library at 5:00pm

Thursday, March 13
Finals, Period 1, 3 and 5
End of trimester
Success Academy 8th Grade Parent Information Night – RHS-HH at 7:00pm.

Friday, March 14
Teacher Workday. No classes for students

Have a wonderful week. Remember to recharge.

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

Our next String Ensemble concert will be Tuesday, March 4th at 8:00 pm.  It will take place on the stage of the RHS Hartman Campus.  In this concert we will be featuring some of our talented lower strings players, and of course we’ll end the evening with an electrifying full ensemble performance!

We hope to see you there!

Thank you,

Amy Mitchell, String Ensemble Teacher

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The Book – Sweetblood
Author – Pete Hautman

This is a story about a girl who is a diabetic who believe that the she is a vampire base on the stuff. She’s a gothic girl who is trying to live her life the way she wants to, even through her mother is being overly-protective of her. She meets this guy online and things start to change pretty quick. She starts partying, her health is endanger, her grades start slipping, etc. Luckily, she doesn’t get mixed in with drugs. But I would recommend this book to anyone who wants something a little different.