Roberta DePompei from the University of Ohio brought her passion and expertise to educational professionals, community organizations and Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) team members to our fall Regional TBI training. The importance of developing social language, anatomy of the brain, and how to best support the family who lives with TBI were just a few of the many topics shared.

For more information on TBI, visit our site.

The Migrant Education program is looking forward to serving their preschool students and families this year by providing each child with a back pack filled with school supplies. To get the incoming students ready, the Migrant program will work with preschool students and their families to develop a learning plan that will ease the transition to their first year of school. The goal is to help make their learning experience a fun and rewarding one.  Jamie Benton is pictured here getting the back packs ready for their new home.

 “El Programa de Educación Migrante se adapta a los estudiantes de preescolar”

El programa de Educación para Migrantes está deseando servir a sus estudiantes y familias preescolares este año proveyendo a cada niño con una mochila llena de útiles escolares. Para que los estudiantes recién llegados estén listos, el programa migrante trabajará con los estudiantes de preescolar y sus familias para desarrollar un plan de aprendizaje que facilite la transición a su primer año de escuela. El objetivo es ayudar a que su experiencia de aprendizaje sea divertida y gratificante. Jamie Benton se muestra aquí para conseguir las mochilas listas para su nuevo hogar.

These teachers attended, ‘Ambitious Teaching’ a Math-in-Real-Life Cohort meeting.

In the photo they are working on a geometry assignment; trying to fold a square piece of paper and cut out polygons with a single cut. It actually involves a mathematical theorem that says every pattern (plane graph) of straight-line cuts can be made by folding and using one complete straight cut.

Teachers were feeling the disequilibrium that their students experience when they don’t understand how to solve a problem easily.

What is DACA?

DACA is short for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. It was started by President Obama in 2012. DACA allowed some undocumented people who came to the U.S. as children to work and stay for 2 years. They could get a social security card too. In many states they could get a driver’s license. People with DACA could renew it for two years at a time. DACA did not lead to a green card or help their family members get legal status.

Information about DACA

On September 5th, 2017, the Trump Administration announced the end of DACA. The government stopped accepting new DACA applications. It is still accepting some renewal applications. The deadline for those renewal applications is October 5th, 2017.

For more information, visit www.hdesd.org/services/migrant-education/

Dave Burke, assistant superintendent for the ESD, welcomed the Administrative Leadership Team (ALT) on Thursday, August 24 with a packed agenda. The ALT consists of supervisors and program managers who oversee the 20+ programs under the ESD umbrella. The retreat focused on collecting powerful feedback, processing innovative ideas and prioritizing organizational culture. In the photo, Karina Smith, (left) Migrant Education Program Coordinator collaborates with Geraldine Casimiro, Oregon Mexico Education Program/Language Interpreter Coordinator.

Better Together would like to introduce you their 2017-2018 AmeriCorps VISTA team. We are so excited they are here bringing their talents to support youth success in the region!

Photo: Front row (L-R)
Shenika Cumberbatch is our STEM Partnership VISTA from Orlando, Florida. She will be supporting the Central Oregon STEM Hub at the HDESD with a focus on community engagement.

Jenny Huang is our College Engagement VISTA from Boise, Idaho. She is working on building systems that focus on college transitions in Prineville and La Pine.

Jordan Trivette is our AmeriCorps VISTA Leader from Boone, North Carolina, who started in March after serving a year as an AmeriCorps VISTA with the NC Migrant Education Program.

Tim McCleary, our YouthCareerConnect VISTA from Fairbanks, Alaska is returning for a 2nd year of service, focusing on connecting youth to meaningful internships and careers and helping develop the Volunteer Central Oregon website.

Back Row: (L-R)
Clarissa Hinshaw is our Mentor Programs VISTA from Heyworth, Illinois. She is based at Big Brother Big Sisters in Bend with a focus on developing and implementing school based mentoring programs in middle schools in central Oregon.

Gina Beer is our Building Healthy Connections VISTA from Chapel Hill, North Carolina. She serves at the Family Resource Center in Bend with a focus on increasing FRC’s capacity to deliver parenting education/community engagement with families living in poverty.

McKaelie Wolfe is our Teen Programs VISTA from Newberg, Oregon. She is based at “The Zone” an after school program for teens at the Jefferson County Middle School in Madras with a focus on capacity building, fundraising and program development.

Not pictured:
Melanie Acevedo is our Community Engagement VISTA from West Springfield, Massachusetts. She supports the 8+9 project, which focuses on the transition between middle and high school, with capacity building, program development, and community engagement.

Katie Stewart is our Latino Success Initiative VISTA from Sisters, Oregon. Her efforts support the Latino Success Initiative—which is tasked with building capacity to engage and encourage increased opportunities and resources for low-income Latino students and families.

Welcome VISTA team members…we are glad you are here!