November 03, 2021

Tell PPS Leaders What You Need to Make This Year Manageable: Upcoming Listening Sessions

PAT is organizing listening sessions with our PPS School Board members and PPS leaders, so they can hear directly from you. We are holding 2 more listening sessions, and invite all PAT members to sign up to speak or to attend to listen:

Thursday, November 4th, 5:00-6:00 PM
Monday, November 8th, 5:00-6:00 PM

Please come share your thoughts on the following questions:

What examples from your personal experiences best illustrate the demands on educators this school year?
What immediate solutions could we implement to make this year manageable?
What long-term solutions can we work toward together to make sure a career as an educator can be fulfilling and sustainable?

All Listening sessions will be held on Zoom. Comments will be limited to 3 minutes or less, to allow many voices to be heard. Read more here.

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President's Message: Staffing Crisis Could Get Worse Without Action

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Last week, I addressed the PPS School Board to convey the seriousness of the workload and staffing crisis we are facing in our schools, across the District, and across the country. In addition to our regular responsibilities, this year educators are grappling with increased...

Evaluation Update

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As a reminder, PAT and PPS HR agreed to push back the deadline for goal-setting to November 15th. The rest of the evaluation timeline remains unchanged. Early in October the Oregon Department of Education (ODE) announced new flexibility for Oregon’s educator evaluations for the...