Public Service Announcements-
Get Us To Green - featuring our very own Sarah Walch
Get Us To Green - featuring our very own Morgan Cottle
Dear Parents,
Our Parent Portal is ready! Your username is your email address. Click the link at the bottom of this message to set your password.
When you login to Tyler SIS you will be able to register returning students and view student information. We will be adding more options to the portal in coming weeks.
To access the portal using a web browser please visit the URL below:
1. https://sdm.sisk12.com/ORRR360x3/login
2. Click Parent on the navigation bar
3. Enter your unique username and password.
4. Once you have successfully logged on, use the menu bar at the top to select your child and the area you would like to view
You can also use the Tyler SIS Student 360 mobile app available on Apple iTunes and Google Play.
If you have any questions, the school secretaries will be available from 8/3/20 to answer your calls.
November 20, 2020 Community Update
November 2020 Community Update PDF
Dear Community,
I have two important items to share with you today:
Additional details about the new ODE/OHA metrics for school re-opening and how our county is doing:
Using the links above, you can find both the new metrics for re-opening and the most current data showing how counties in Oregon are doing with COVID-19 cases.
The new metrics are more lenient than the original metrics Oregon received over the summer. Unfortunately, Jackson County has a cases per 100,000 number of 421.6 which places us in the Red Zone of the new metric model. Because of this, we are not allowed to bring students back on site at this time. Even with these new metrics, it would appear we are still a ways off before we can get our COVID-19 infection rate low enough to go back to green and bring all of our learners back on campus full-time.
We continue to be very grateful for all the students and families working hard to make the most of their learning opportunities through the COVID-19 pandemic.
Sincerely,
Patrick Lee
Superintendent
Rogue River School District #35
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October 21, 2020 Community Update
Dear Community,
In my communication to you in early August, I notified you that we would be committing to Comprehensive Distance Learning (CDL) in month long increments. Each month we would update our community on whether or not the metrics in Jackson County would allow schools to bring students back.
For any public school in Oregon to allow all K-3 students back on site, we must be under 30 cases per week per 100,000 people in our county and have a test positivity rate under 5%, both for three consecutive weeks. Unfortunately, the number of positive cases in Jackson County has continually exceeded the benchmark of 30 positive tests per 100,000 people for the last two months. Last week it was reported by Jackson County Public Health at 62.4 per 100,000 people.
As such, I am announcing that we will continue with Comprehensive Distance Learning (CDL) through the month of November. On or before November 17th, we will make a determination whether or not we can bring our youngest learners back on site for the month of December.
Our county continues to be a long ways off from meeting the required metrics for bringing grades 4-12 back. As a reminder, that metric is fewer than 10 cases per week per 100,000 people and a test positivity rate below 5%, both for three consecutive weeks.
We continue to try our hardest to make the best of a challenging situation. Thank you for all you are doing to support your student and your schools in the Rogue River School District.
Patrick Lee
Superintendent
Rogue River School District #35
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The Rogue River School District wishes to express its condolences to the family and friends of “Grandma Helen”, Helen Consiglio. There is a wonderful retrospective in the 10.14.2020 Rogue River Press that highlights how involved and impactful Helen was in our school community. We encourage you to read it and celebrate the amazing and generous life that she lived.
On behalf of the Rogue River School District, we say “thank you,” and “goodbye” to an amazing person.
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September 16, 2020 COMMUNITY UPDATE
Dear Community,
In my communication to you in early August, I notified you that we would be committing to Comprehensive Distance Learning (CDL) in month long increments. Each month we would check the positive case numbers in Jackson County and determine if we would be eligible to open up the following month.
To allow K-3 students back on site in Jackson County, we must have three consecutive weeks of not being over 66 cases per week and have a test positivity rate under 5%. Unfortunately, the number of positive cases in Jackson County has continually exceeded the benchmark of 66 cases per week for the last several weeks. The test positivity rate was also too high in the most recent reporting week.
As such, we will continue with Comprehensive Distance Learning (CDL) through the month of October. By October 20th, we will make a determination whether or not we can bring our youngest learners back on site for the month of November, or whether we will continue with CDL.
Our county continues to be a long ways off from meeting the required metrics for bringing grades 4-12 back. As a reminder, that metric is three consecutive weeks with fewer than 22 cases in Jackson County and a test positivity rate below 5%.
We continue to look forward to the day when we can bring all of our students back on campus.
Sincerely,
Patrick Lee
Superintendent
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SEPTEMBER 11, 2020 COMMUNITY UPDATE
Dear Community,
The past week has been traumatic and devastating for our region. Thousands of people have been displaced and have lost their homes. Like you, my heart goes out to all those who have experienced loss or trauma from these fires. I can’t fathom what the school leaders and educators in the Phoenix -Talent School District are facing right now. I can’t comprehend the loss and shock that those who have lost homes or loved ones are feeling.
At the RRSD, we have had several of our staff impacted directly by the fire. Many of you, if not most of you, have been indirectly impacted through loved ones or friends who may have experienced the loss of a home or worse. The stress caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, Distance Learning, the devastation to the Rogue Valley, the ongoing fires and threats, and now the smoke is all taking its toll on each of us. Amidst all of that, I am still hearing great stories of staff members giving incredible efforts to reach and teach our students, help each other, and to help our neighbors. I hear and see the same from our community members.
Thank you to those who are doing so much to give and support. You are an amazing community.
So that you know, the RRSD has offered our facilities to the Red Cross and Jackson County Emergency Management for use as shelters or support stations. They have gratefully declined for now, preferring to keep everyone in one central location at the Expo. Several from the district office have reached out to our neighboring districts offering help in any form or way we can. Our neighbors are overwhelmed right now, but they are grateful for our offers. If you wish to help, you can offer supplies or money to the Red Cross, Salvation Army, United Way, or other preferred support organizations.
As we contemplate the difficulties that continue to stack up in this crazy year, I reflect on a message I shared with my staff during the all district welcome back meeting in August. “Please take care of yourselves and your loved ones and do the very best you can to have Grace, Patience, Kindness, Gratefulness, Respect, and Unity.” I believe that if we hold fast to these ideals, we will improve ourselves and our situations, and model for our young people the right way to respond to even the greatest of difficulties.
My deepest sympathies to those who have experienced a loss. My sincerest thanks to those of you who are helping and supporting others in this tragic time.
Sincerely,
Patrick Lee
Superintendent
Rogue River School District
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Dear Community,
There is much distress, discussion, and debate around the topic of racism in our country today. Current events are shining a bright light across our nation, exposing a problem that continues to exist. Because of the importance of this topic in our current time, I feel it important to affirm to our community that The Rogue River School District stands against racism of any kind.
The Rogue River School District is committed to loving and respecting each and every student that walks through its doors, regardless of the color of their skin or any other perceived label, descriptor, or identifier that may apply. We state this so that our students and our community will have no doubt as to our stance.
Respectfully,
Patrick Lee
Superintendent
Rogue River School District
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TEACHER APPRECIATION
In the smoothest of times, teachers display their professionalism and commitment in a myriad of ways. They work hard, inspire, challenge, and go above and beyond to help our students. These are anything but the smoothest of times. In these times of challenge and opportunity, great teachers do all of the above and go even further with their efforts to be flexible, committed, and relentless in their desire to help our student body. From what I have heard, the teachers of the RRSD are doing a tremendous job.
Thank you for having the intelligence, commitment, and flexibility to learn in just a few days how to change the way you teach. I hope your students and families appreciate you as much as I do for all that you have done to try and make this transition an opportunity to show just how committed you are to building relationships and connections with our students.
Thank you for all you do!
Teachers are heroes!
Patrick Lee
Superintendent
Rogue River School District
