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Wednesday, October 10, 2018 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
Fire District
selects safety
manager
The Sisters-Camp
Sherman Rural Fire
Protection District has hired
Doug Green as a part-time
Community Risk and Fire
Safety Manager.
Green is a long-time
Sisters resident and has
worked for the City of Bend
Fire Department for the past
20 years. He has degrees
in land-use planning from
Oregon State University and
has also completed a degree
in fire science.
His responsibilities will
include plan review and the
district’s fire marshal duties.
Green currently works
as an inspector for the City
of Bend and processes all
plan reviews and inspections
of projects and construc-
tion within the Bend Fire
Department’s jurisdiction.
In addition, he filled the role
of the wildfire mitigation
manager for Bend Fire and
DCRFPD #2.
Doug and his wife, Karla,
have two children, both of
whom attend Sisters High
School. During his free time,
he enjoys skiing, whitewater
rafting, backpacking, surfing
and traveling with his family
to warm and sandy locations.
Sisters-Camp Sherman
Fire District Fire Chief Roger
Johnson said, “We are very
fortunate to have someone
with Doug’s experience and
connection to Sisters Country
in this important position.”
Green will primarily work
Wednesdays in Sisters and
will be available other days
and times on an appointment
basis.
BAGLIEN: Principal
worked previously
in Chicago
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the abundance of interest in
the schools by the commu-
nity, nor the kind and friendly
ways people are here. It’s been
pretty awesome. I’m super-
impressed by everyone who is
involved with the schools.”
The school year started
off in a new way, with a
full month of homeroom.
According to Baglien, inten-
sive homeroom enables edu-
cators to build relationships,
establish expectations, and
gather data on where the stu-
dents are academically. It
also helps incorporate student
choice and interests into their
education.
Safety is of the utmost
importance to me —
mental wellbeing and
actual, physical safety.
— Alison Baglien
A top priority for Baglien
is safety. “A school should be
a safe place for all kids,” she
stated. “Safety is of the utmost
importance to me — mental
wellbeing and actual, physi-
cal safety.” The homeroom
approach allowed educators
to lay the groundwork for
PBIS, a Positive Behavior
Intervention Support system
that will continue throughout
the year.
“The high school has all
of their students complete a
health and wellness survey,”
Baglien elaborated. “One of
the things that really stood
out was 50 percent of the stu-
dents indicating that they’ve
experienced depression or
anxiety prior to or during their
freshman year, which tells me
there’s a lot of work for us
to start doing at the middle-
school level.”
Baglien hopes SMS faculty
and staff can help students
navigate these issues, “to
make them better prepared for
what the world is throwing at
them now, so we can see that
number go down.” Baglien
noted that it’s “real hard to
teach a kid who is thinking
about something that hap-
pened at home or a peer con-
flict, so until we better address
some of those root causes,
we can’t get to the teaching
piece.”
Social-emotional learning
and character development
have been brought back into
the school’s weekly teach-
ings. “Working with wellness
and how we treat one another?
We have to make them more
intentional,” Baglien said.
In addition to preparing stu-
dents to learn, Baglien consid-
ers these to be “21st-century
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that students will need no mat-
ter where they go in life.”
Baglien hopes all students
feel welcomed and cared for at
Sisters Middle School. “What
type of learner you are, what
your beliefs are, what your
academic levels are like, who
your friends are—regardless
of any of that, we are here to
provide a well-rounded edu-
cation for all students in all
developmental areas.”
Providing special educa-
tion, behavior intervention
services, and enrichment
opportunities for advanced
students in a small district can
“prove to be really difficult
with funding,” said Baglien,
who is still new to how educa-
tion is paid for in Oregon. “I
hate bringing the money piece
into it because it’s only one
part.”
Baglien identified the most
essential part as “the wonder-
ful, dedicated, knowledge-
able faculty that we have,
that does an incredible job
with pretty limited means.”
Another part is the Sisters
schools’ unique relationship
with community, including the
celebrated Americana Project,
a music and arts collabora-
tion with Sisters Folk Festival
and Creative Educational
Resources.
“One of the things I’m
really looking at for the year
is: where is the reciprocity
between the schools and the
community partnerships?”
Baglien said. “There is so
much done for the schools.
What are the students doing
in return, for the community?
I want us to be returning that
same level of investment.”
Baglien hopes to bring sta-
bility to the middle school.
“I’m so thankful that parents
continue—after three years of
three different principals—to
want to be involved,” she said.
“I plan on staying longer than
a year. I’m about a slow build.
I’d rather things be done really
well than with rash reactions
and putting on Band-Aids. I
think we’ve put on Band-Aids
for far too long. It’s time to rip
a lot of them off and to really
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