Kailey Fisicaro
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Bend, OR, United States
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Bend-La Pine system provides mentorship, quicker path to higher salary
Several years ago, Bend-La Pine Schools began work on a new system for teacher training and compensation. Though still evolving, the system has begun to push teachers to focus on relevant professional improvement while providing enhanced mentorship and a quicker trip up the district salary ladder.The system, called PASS for Professional Advancement and Support System, currently includes about… → Read More
Bend Science Station construction underway
Construction of a new, 3,750-square-foot building for Bend Science Station is well underway on the OSU-Cascades campus in southwest Bend.Bend Science Station has offered laboratory-based science education for K-12 students and training for teachers in Central Oregon since 2002. Currently the science station is located at Central Oregon Community College’s Chandler Building on NW Trenton Avenue,… → Read More
Police seek help in finding 23-year-old Redmond domestic abuse suspect
Central Oregon law enforcement officers are seeking a domestic violence suspect who allegedly ran from an incident with a woman Tuesday at the Sleep Inn & Suites on NW Sixth Street in Redmond.Redmond Police received a report of a man and woman in a fight involving a knife at the hotel Tuesday, according to a release from Sgt. Eric Beckwith. Before police arrived, the suspect, Ivan Blu Harmon,… → Read More
Snow removal for Bend-La Pine Schools will look different this year
Ahead of what may well be another big winter, Bend-La Pine Schools leaders are thinking about snow removal, concentrating on being proactive versus reactive in their approach. The careful planning follows last year’s trials in clearing snow loads from roofs, which prompted one school board member to describe the district as getting “hammered” by the public.Depending on who you talk to, last… → Read More
OSU-Cascades, Deschutes County cut a deal for campus expansion
With a 2-to-1 vote of approval by the Deschutes County Commission on Monday, Oregon State University-Cascades will buy the county’s old demolition landfill in Bend for $1.OSU-Cascades’ existing 10-acre campus and the old pumice mine it owns sit adjacent to the 72-acre landfill property. The university plans to expand by building in the former mine and on the old landfill, which collected… → Read More
Classroom pets are out in Redmond
In an age of frequent lawsuits, something as seemingly simple as keeping a class pet has been cause for much debate, and a lesson in civil engagement for students in Redmond School District.When Superintendent Mike McIntosh heard of another Oregon school district being sued recently for an incident related to an animal, it prompted him to recall his own district policy on animals. For years,… → Read More
Lockout at Bend High resolved
A lockout at Bend High School Tuesday morning was resolved after about 45 minutes, according to Julianne Repman, Bend-La Pine Schools’ communications director.Lockouts, different from lockdowns, occur when there is a possible threat off campus.“It’s a precautionary measure to make sure students and staff are safe inside the school,” Repman said.The lockout was the result of a “non-criminal… → Read More
Two new board members for St. Charles
Two new members joined St. Charles Health System’s board of directors in August, replacing members who left in 2015 and 2016, according to a news release from the hospital system Monday.Sanaz Askari, a doctor with Cascade Internal Medicine Specialists, and Shawn DeGroot, president of Compliance Vitals, LLC, are the new board members.The addition of Askari and DeGroot to the board brings the… → Read More
Mountain View High on regular schedule after alleged shooting threat
Mountain View High School in Bend is on a regular schedule Tuesday and students are “in good spirits” following rumors of a shooting planned to take place there, according to its principal.A number of students came to their families, school staff and law enforcement Monday night to report “a statement made on social media about a rumored shooting” planned to take place at Mountain View,… → Read More
Behind the numbers: State testing in Central Oregon
As recently as the 2015-16 school year, the majority of La Pine School 11th-graders took the state standardized Smarter Balanced test. Last school year, zero did.Numbers alone aren’t enough to tell the story behind state standardized test results. It wasn’t that the school made changes to how they discuss the test. Instead, the steep drop-off in La Pine High’s participation rates suggest the… → Read More
New rules for Oregon Promise grant
When the class of 2017 graduated high school, the state Legislature had yet to decide new rules on who qualifies for the Oregon Promise grant.Now, educators are sure there are some Central Oregon students who were counting on the grant to pay for community college that didn’t get it because of the rule change — although it’s hard to say yet how many. The state grant, which pays for community… → Read More
Summit High finds orchestra teacher
To find a new orchestra teacher, all Summit High School needed to do was look in its own backyard.In late August, just a couple of weeks before school started, Summit High Principal Alice DeWittie still hadn’t found a replacement for the open position. This summer was the second in a row the high school struggled to find an orchestra teacher. It’s not uncommon for schools to have difficulty… → Read More
Pilot Butte boasts Oregon’s secondary librarian of the year
Pilot Butte Middle School’s librarian Shelby Paulson has been named Secondary School Librarian of the Year for Oregon by the Oregon Association of School Librarians.Paulson has been at Pilot Butte for four years and with Bend-La Pine Schools since 2008. She started as a media manager working in Buckingham Elementary School’s library.The award is the highest honor given by the Oregon Association… → Read More
Bend-La Pine’s new high school options up for discussion
Bend-La Pine Schools will take its next step toward planning small high school options in the school district when it asks for feedback from community members this week at a series of public meetings.The school district has four main high schools: Mountain View, Summit and Bend High in Bend and La Pine High School in La Pine. It also has an alternative school, Marshall High, in Bend.Other than… → Read More
More Madras freshmen on track
At Madras High School, the number of freshmen on track to graduate has surged.In the 2013-14 school year, less than half of freshmen had six credits by the end of the school year, or 25 percent of what a student needs to earn a diploma. In the 2014-15 school year, the number crept up to 50 percent. Then, in 2015-16, the year former Bend High School principals Mark Neffendorf and H.D. Weddel came… → Read More
Bend-La Pine on schedule with bond projects
Bend-La Pine Schools is making headway on projects to be paid for with the district’s biggest bond to date, passed in May.The school district is sticking to the draft timeline for bond projects it shared in April, before voters passed the $268.3 million bond, according to Mike Tiller, the district’s director of facilities and maintenance. While the district is on track, all of those projects are… → Read More
Temporary Highland gym won’t be ready for school’s start
When Bend-La Pine Schools accepted an offer from Mt. Bachelor ski area to borrow a temporary structure for use as a gym space at Highland Magnet at Kenwood School, it planned to use it at the start of school Sept. 6. After some holdups in building it, though, the school district will be lucky if it’s ready by the end of September.Passers-by on Newport Avenue might have noticed the white, circus… → Read More
Bend-La Pine Schools to open second charter school
When school begins next month, Central Oregon will have its first Montessori school with free tuition.As is the case for many charter schools in Oregon, it was no small task getting Desert Sky Montessori Charter School approved and off the ground. It will open with kindergarten through third-grade classes Sept. 6 in Bend.In Oregon, charter schools are privately run, publicly funded and sponsored… → Read More
Pilot Butte provided sweeping view of eclipse
If it weren’t for the eerie twilight that crept over Bend, a passerby oblivious to the total solar eclipse Monday morning might have thought the top of Pilot Butte was covered in sunbathers.With eyes turned to the sun in cardboard eclipse glasses, hundreds of people gathered atop the dormant volcano, many in lawn chairs, to watch the moon cover 99.6 percent of the sun. At the optimum viewing… → Read More
Skies are empty, highways are full and Bend is
Clouds and crowds. Predictions on those two things have been front and center in Central Oregon for months (and even years) leading up to Monday’s solar eclipse.As of Sunday, meteorologists and government officials could perhaps have allowed themselves a high five or two. Both groups’ predictions — for weather specialists, visibility and for officials, how to prepare for thousands of extra… → Read More