The Data Collections User Group Meeting is a function where various topics about data collections is discussed. There are currently 5 meetings scheduled at various locations. Douglas ESD  -  Monday, March 29 th    1:30 – 3:30 Southern Oregon ESD  -  Wednesday, March 31 st    1:30 – 3:30 Lane ESD  -  Thursday, April 1 st    1:30 – 3:30 High Desert ESD  -  Friday, April 2 nd    2:00 – 4:00 South Coast ESD  -  Monday,  April 5 th    1:30 -3:30 Topics for the first meeting will be basic and include: Finding the ODE District Site How to ... Read More..

This is the second time I’ve created this particular edition of High Notes. My hard drive crashed the other day and I didn’t realize I was supposed to be using Home Directory P to backup everything I created. As a result, every single document I’ve created since coming to the ESD and every single photo I’ve taken has vanished. The hard drive was sent to California to see if someone down there can retrieve the data so I remain hopeful. If you don’t understand the “P Drive” deal, which I obviously didn’t, be sure to ask someone. I had some pretty neat pictures of life around here and so... Read More..

At the August 6, 2009 Data Collection Meeting it was discussed that districts would be able to make changes in SSID to HSEntrySchlYrs field throughout school year 2009-10.  However, at the February 4,2010  Data Collection Meeting is was decided that the ability to change this field, unless the field is blank, will be restricted for editing effective immediately . Districts will no longer be able to edit/change the High School Entry School Year Field.  You must follow the five step appeal process.  Please refer to page 4 in the Clarification Regarding High School Entry Year document sent... Read More..

Anyone who has ever been a parent knows how difficult caring for a sick child can be. However, unless  you have been there, it is hard to imagine the enormous amount of stress incurred by caring for an infant who has suffered from a life threatening illness. Alissa Maddux has been there. When her daughter Cyaira was only16 months, she suffered from a bout of bacterial meningitis and then a stroke. Cyaira spent the next month and a half in the hospital and slowly recovered. After her discharge, Alissa was directly referred by the hospital to the DESD. Alissa had also already heard ... Read More..

It would be difficult to pinpoint the exact date when public education was founded in Douglas County. Early schools were rudimentary operations and there was no mandate requiring records of student attendance or achievement—let alone the actual existence of the schools themselves. But based upon historical trends among Oregon's settlers, once a community was founded, the schools emerged quickly. Pioneers, who looked sparingly at the provisions they could load on their wagons, placed a premium on the inclusion of books. Those books, carried thousands of miles across the country, formed t... Read More..