6A | SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2020 | SIUSLAW NEWS
Local woman awarded Philanthropic Educational Scholarship
Recently, Philanthropic
Educational Organization
(PEO) educational schol-
arship candidate Sheena
Moore received the Ore-
gon Scholarship and was
sponsored by Florence
Chapter FQ.
Moore is a graduate of
Mapleton High School and
attended Lane Community
College before transferring
to University of Oregon.
She was active for about
five years with the Last
Resort Players. While at-
tending college, she was a
member of the university
choir.
Mapleton graduate Sheena Moore was awarded a
PEO Scholarship by the Florence Chapter FQ.
Most recently, Moore
was the director of the
Music in Motion summer
camp this year in Florence.
Moore completed her
studies at the University of
Oregon in Music Educa-
tion in 2019.
She currently teaches
kindergarten through 2nd
grade at Yaquina View El-
ementary, as well as grades
3 through 5 at Sam Case
School in Newport.
PEO is one of the old-
est women’s organizations
in North America. It was
founded in 1869 by sev-
en young women and has
grown to almost 6,000
local chapters with more
than 225,000 active mem-
bers in the United States
and Canada.
The organization exists
to be a source of encour-
agement and support for
women to realize their
potential in whatever
worthwhile endeavor they
choose. It supports women
both through friendships
and through education-
al scholarships, grants,
awards, loans and steward-
ship of Cottey College.
Florence chapters FQ
and DY have a combined
membership of more than
60 members who actively
work to raise funds and se-
cure educational grants for
women.
To learn more about
PEO scholarships, contact
Kay Craig of the Chapter
FQ Education Committee
at 541-997-8585 or visit
peooregon.org or peoint-
ernational.org.
Responsive Instructional
Leadership and Improve-
ment; and Standard 5,
Communication and Com-
munity Relations.
Next, Adams will create
the survey and Sneddon
and Vice Chair Paul Burns,
with guidance from the rest
of the board, will create a
list of no more than 50 par-
ticipants.
According to Adams, the
evaluation process is “not
just about dialogue with
between the board and the
superintendent, but it’s also
communication between
the board and the commu-
nity, showing the progress
that the superintendent
and the district are making
towards the goals that you
as elected officials have set
for the organization.”
In the rest of the meet-
ing, school district staff
and administration sub-
mitted reports and gave an
update on facilities mainte-
nance. In addition, retiring
specialist Bobbi Spencer,
from Early Childhood
Cares, was honored with a
special proclamation.
The board took action
by appointing Megan
Messmer to the Budget
Committee in the position
she previously held. There
is still one opening on
the committee. Interested
people can view the infor-
mation at www.siuslaw.
k12.or.us/o/Siuslaw%20
School%20District/page/
budget-committee-open-
ings.
There was also one pub-
lic comment submitted
by Siuslaw Middle School
Language Arts Teacher
Hilary Roach. Board poli-
cy is to not take action on
public comment, but the
statement was registered
and included in the meet-
ing materials listed on siu-
slaw.k12.or.us.
In a letter she read,
Roach askes the Siuslaw
School Board to “uphold
educator rights to decorate
their virtual backgrounds,
virtual classrooms or phys-
ical classroom spaces with
posters or other material
that promotes equity and
inclusiveness of marginal-
ized groups.”
Twenty-six teachers have
signed a petition in sup-
port of the request.
The Nov. 18 meeting
concluded with a brief ex-
ecutive session.
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by keeping the cohorts in
check across the board.”
In addition, limited
in-person
instruction
“winds up being a supple-
ment to what we’re doing,
but it’s not a replacement
for distance learning at all,”
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Grzeskowiak said. “Part of
the reason that this is al-
lowed is that there are so
many things that we simply
cannot do on the comput-
er. There are things that
are hands-on and other
methods that just have to
happen in the classroom,
in the lab, in the shop and
as close to face-to-face as
we’re going to get in this
environment with masks
and all that sort of stuff.”
ODE recommends that
schools consider both eq-
uity and a methodical and
cautious approach as they
bring students back for
limited in-person instruc-
tion.
“We’ll be starting with
students that are struggling
academically or with atten-
dance and trying to rebuild
some of those connections,
to really anchor them and
get them back onto campus
and get them involved and
reinvigorated,” Grzeskowi-
ak said.
This month, Siuslaw
School District held two
community forums with
parents and families to go
over the metric changes.
“We’ve already started
the survey process with
families to look at what
kind of needs students
have,” the superintendent
said. “It’s a good stress test
for getting back to campus.
Making sure that, in small
groups, people are able to
practice the regular proto-
cols for being together in
groups. You know, hand
washing, sanitizing, six-
foot distancing, making
sure you wear your mask
or face shield, depending
on the situation, and kind
of living in our current
coronavirus status.”
Later in the regular ses-
sion of the school board,
Director Dianna Pimlott
said, “I just wanted to ex-
press my appreciation for
the community forums. I
thought that there was a
great turnout. There were
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wonderful questions, and
our administrative team
did an excellent job of
presenting our current sit-
uation and responding to
community questions.”
Grzeskowiak
finished
his presentation with a re-
minder that returning to
in-person instruction is
dependent on the greater
community and the case
rate in Lane County.
“It’s going to boil down
to how well people manage
themselves in the public to
bring this down,” he said.
“If (COVID-19) is still
spreading in the communi-
ty, it’s going to be students
bringing it themselves
because they’re catching
it at home, or it’s going to
be adults that work in the
schools that catch it outside
and bring it back.”
He also cautioned against
in-person gatherings, cit-
ing rising COVID-19 cases
in Canada after it held its
Thanksgiving Holiday on
Oct. 11.
“At the end of October,
they had a major spike be-
cause of lots of large gath-
erings and people very
close to each other. So, they
had a spike and, some-
how, they’re on an upward
trajectory similar to what
we’re seeing around a lot
of the U.S.,” Grzeskowiak
said.
He added that safety
would always be the main
concern for reopening the
schools.
“Looking at schools in
India and the U.K., and ac-
tually looking at our own
data from our summer
programs for pre-K here
in Oregon, what’s done in
schools for physical dis-
tancing, and masks and hy-
giene, is much more effec-
tive. The transmission rates
are much lower than in the
general community,” Grz-
eskowiak said. “When you
get in and get running and
have established protocols
and programs, it works.”
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After some clarifying
questions from the school
board, the work session
concluded and Board Pres-
ident Bob Sneddon opened
the regular session.
The bulk of the meeting
was spent on determining
metrics with which to eval-
uate the district’s superin-
tendent. This will be done
through a survey conduct-
ed by Oregon School Board
Association in January and
sent out to targeted com-
munity and staff members.
A summary of the survey
results will be provided to
the board at the conclusion
of the process. The sum-
mary will highlight areas of
strength and note any areas
for targeted focus and/or
improvement.
OSBA Board Develop-
ment Specialist Vincent
Adams reviewed details of
the Targeted Feedback Sur-
vey and its process.
He also worked with the
board to identify which
standards and evaluation
goals will be used in the
survey. Board members
selected the following stan-
dards: Standard 2, Ethics
and Professional Norms;
Standard 4, Culturally
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