Oregon Public Broadcasting is looking into neighborhood schools and transfer policies in Oregon’s schools – and we want to hear from parents and teachers and students.

What is the state of your neighborhood school?

If you’re a parent or a student, is your neighborhood school meeting your needs? Have you transferred or considered transferring?

If you’re a teacher or administrator, have you seen changes in your school or classroom as a result of transfers?

Tell us about your experience by checking out our online question form. You can find it here:

http://www.opb.org/neighborhoodschool

We treat everyone who responds as a confidential news sources. No personal information or responses will end up on the air or on the Web without your direct permission. And we never share your information outside of the newsroom, which means no marketing or requests for donations as a result of signing up.

Your answers will help guide our coverage of several upcoming mental health issues. As well, people who fill out our survey form become a part of the Public Insight Network. The Public Insight Network is a group of people throughout the state who share their knowledge and experience to help make OPB’s news coverage stronger.

Contact Scott Silver at OPB for more information:
503.977.7795 | ssilver@opb.org
www.opb.org/publicinsight

The PPS facilities survey will be available online until Sunday, Nov. 25.

Parents, students, community members, educators and school staff are
encouraged to share their opinions about facility needs in Portland Public
Schools by completing an online survey at www.reshape.pps.k12.or.us. The
survey is the same one participants filled out during community-wide
facility planning sessions on Nov. 6.

The survey asks respondents to rank their priorities for school
improvements, ranging from making basic repairs to creating schools that
better prepare students for 21st Century jobs. It seeks opinions on the
relative importance of improvements in security, energy efficiency and
sustainability, school grounds, technology and other enhancements. It
also asks respondents to discuss their vision for Portland schools, and to
rank the importance of sharing school buildings with other community uses.
Input from the Nov. 6 work session and online survey, combined with findings
from a facility review currently underway, will be folded into a set of
options the district will take back out to the community in January.

Please join us at Reflections Coffee House on Sunday, December 9th at 3 pm for our membership meeting. We’ll have Judy Elliott, Portland Public Schools Chief of Teaching and Learning with us to hear your thoughts and questions about the current state of the curriculum adoption process in PPS.

Since Judy is new to the district and joined PPS near the end of last year’s adoption process, she may not have ready answers to specific questions at the meeting itself. So to help kickstart the discussion, we invite you to share your questions now, either via email (send them to me: betsy@cppsportland.org) or as a public comment to this post. We’ll then forward them to Judy prior to the meeting on the 9th.

Reflections Coffee House
446 NE Killingsworth (just east of MLK)
Google Map

Background links:

Office of Teaching and Learning
Core Curriculum Materials Adoption

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Note: this meeting is open to all: current members, former members, or those interested in learning more about CPPS. If you care about public education in Portland, we invite you to join us!