Kellogg Middle School News

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Happy Monday Kellogg Community and welcome back! We are excited to see your students this week.

This is the final week of the third quarter of the school year. Students have a four day week, as Friday April 3rd is a grading day and then Monday April 6th is a teacher planning day.

Each year organizations develop and implement organizational improvement plans. As most organizations are a learning organization, schools too are a learning organization that develop and implement yearly improvement plans. The purpose of the improvement plan is to improve student outcomes by learning about our impact on student learning. Portland Public Schools has an improvement plan and from that each school develops theirs. Kellogg Middle School's improvement plan includes three goals, aligned to the PPS DSCIP. Our first goal is to increase student regular attendance by 6%. Our regular attendance last year was 62%, our improvement goal for this year is to increase that number to 68%.

Right now our year to date attendance is steady at about 90%, and our attendance for the prior five day attendance dropped to 84%. We have about 64% of our students achieving regular-acceptable attendance and about 24% of our students experiencing chronic absenteeism. Given our improvement goal of 68%, we are well below that value.

In prior newsletters we have presented justification and value for student regular attendance at school. Now that we are through the cold and flu season, and are passed spring break, we will need to recommit to our goal of getting all of our students to school each day to ensure our students have an equitable opportunity for their academic and social development as young people.

As I shared in the past couple of newsletters, we are in the planning phase for our first annual Kellogg Community Multicultural Fair. The event will be held at Kellogg Middle School on May 27th from 6:00-7:30 pm. The event will include performances on our stage in the gym, cultural displays from students around the building and community affinity group connections in our cafe. We will have food from affinity groups and vendors as well as ample opportunities to connect with community resources as we lean into the summer months. If you are interested in participating please contact Dr. Carpenter (dcarpenter@pps.net). All are welcome! Even if you can't participate, mark your calendar. We want all families to come and celebrate our community together.

The Oregon Statewide Summative Assessment in ELA and Math are coming soon (Annual Notice). We are organizing our teams of teachers in preparation for these exams. Our tentative week of assessment is May 11-15 for ELA and Math.

As we look forward through this week we have included some news and resources. In this edition of the Kellogg Community News, please find the following big topics:

• Key Dates and Events,
• Multicultural Fair Information,
• Library Updates,
• Community Supply Requests,
• Requested Feedback about Standards-based grading,
• Yearbooks,
• ROAR Store,
• Counseling Corner,
• PTSA Information and Events,
• SUN School Events and Happenings,
• A Message from REAP,
• PIL sign up,

• School traffic circulation maps and asks from families,
• Bus routes,
• A message from the office staff,
• and much more...

Thank you families for being active in our community.

Sincerely,

Dr. Dan Carpenter

Principal

Kellogg Middle School

The Reading Rats represented Kellogg at the Regional Oregon Battle of the Books Tournament held at Benson High School on March 14. They came in 11th place in the Sweet Sixteen bracket only to lose to Ockely Green Middle School. Thank you to all who participated in OBOB!

From left to right:Autumn Fulton, Vivian Oteiza, Elise Nussbaum, Grey Goss, Eleanor McElwee

Thanks to everyone who supported the Spring Scholastic Book Fair. Start saving up for the BOGO Fair at the end of the school year! See you there!

Did you know…

The OMSI Teen Tech Center is FREE for all teens.

Teen Tech Center | OMSI

They have amazing opportunities, and the center is staffed with an educator plus volunteers to support projects.

We are excited to grow our Cooking and Baking Club and are looking for donations to help our students get hands-on in the kitchen! If you have any extra kitchen utensils or small appliances you no longer use (mixing bowls, measuring cups, whisks, spatulas, muffin tins, hand mixers, etc.), we would be incredibly grateful for your support. Gently used items are welcome. Thank you for helping us create fun, engaging learning experiences for our students!

As we begin to plan for next year, we would like to gather input from students and families about standards-based grading. We have put together this short feedback form for families that we would appreciate your family voice in completing.

Thank you so much for your time and thoughtful responses about standards based grading here at Kellogg.

If you have pictures from school events like dances, athletic events, etc. to submit for the yearbook, please send them to alcruz@pps.net by April 24!

This year we will be designing yearbooks through Treering. You can order your yearbook online directly through Treering, and you will be able to customize 2 free pages for your student's yearbook until 4/2/2026!

Yearbooks can be ordered here until April 17. You have the option of ordering a soft cover as we've had in previous years or a hard cover for a little bit extra!

The ROAR Store has moved to its new location with new and improved items and lots of student excitement. The store is now being managed by Student Council. Please encourage your student to ask for ROAR tickets (our currency). Students earn ROAR tickets by upholding our ROAR values here at Kellogg. Our ROAR values are all about getting our students to operate in a respectful way, by being open-minded, by being their authentic self and by being a responsible citizen.

The Store is open Wednesday and Friday during lunch times with new and improved items for students to select from, including big ticket items that are more about an experience than a trinket they can lose. We are excited to get students reactions to the new items available at our new grand opening.

8th grade: Holly Vaughn-Edmonds: hvedmonds@pps.net

If you are interested in checking out Mt. Scott Learning Center for your child to consider in high school, plan to attend its Open House on Thursday, April 28 from 6-8 pm. The address is 6148 SE Holgate.

Kellogg PTSA will be selling vouchers for hanging flower baskets and gift cards from Tony’s Garden Center from April 6 - May 3. The link for purchases will be in next week’s ROAR newsletter, and on our website and Facebook page. These make amazing Mother’s Day gifts! Vouchers and gift cards will be available for pickup May 7-8, and when you go pick out your flower basket, you also get 10% off the rest of your purchase.

We are currently in need of the following items, and donations can be left at the Kellogg office during school hours:

• Shelf stable milk, dairy and plant-based
• Canned fruit
• Spam
• Cooking oil
• Canned vegetables
• Nut butters
• Cake mix, frosting, and candles
• Condiments - ketchup, mustard, mayonnaise, soy sauce, salad dressing, other condiments

Our beautiful students will bring home 3 blue bags. They can be shared with loved ones. Please fill them with cans and bottles to drop off from Apr. 16 to Apr. 25 for Earth Week 20% match. We appreciate your diligence from the bottom of our hearts

• Cristina Flores, SUN Site Manager (available Monday through Friday, 10am to 6pm)
• Antares Argueta, SUN Extended Day Assistant (available Monday and Tuesday, 12 to 6pm)

We provide wrap around services, such as resource navigation, program planning, after school and tutoring support, and more. If you are in need of utility assistance, food assistance, mental health referrals, etc, we would be more than happy to assist you! Please contact Cristina at floresc@latnet.org or at 503-839-0672 for questions.

As a reminder, if you have already filled out a SUN Latino Network registration form this school year, you do not need to fill it out again for our spring classes. All we need to know is what classes your student would like to sign up for!

To sign up for our lunch time and after school clubs, follow these steps:

1. Complete and submit our class selection form (available in English and in Spanish). You can either turn in a paper copy to the main office or email it to floresc@latnet.org

2. If you have NOT filled out a SUN Latino Network registration form this school year, you can sign up using these links for our English or Spanish forms.

3. And you’re done! We will be reaching out to confirm your student’s enrollment by this April 6th.
   

REAP is a leadership building education extension organization that works as a community partner in the Kellogg space. REAP has two amazing colleagues working with students throughout the day, Ms. Altynai and Ms. Abeni.

Congratulations to the Franklin Grey 8th grade boys’ basketball team for winning both the PIL tournament and Oregon State Basketball tournament over the past two weekends!

Franklin won all three games and defeated Grant in the PIL Championship game with a last-second three-pointer to win the title by a score of 66-65.

The following weekend, they won all four games and defeated West Linn in the Oregon State Championship game by a score of 48-45. Franklin Grey concluded their season on a fourteen-game winning streak.

Ash Carpenter and LaTavion James represented Kellogg Middle School on the championship squad.

The safety of our students and staff are our first priority! If a school official is directing traffic, please pay close attention to their instructions. Parents should not enter into the school parking lot from 9:00-9:20 am and from 3:45-4:10. Thank you for your attention to safety on our campus.

The Kellogg School traffic circulation maps outline the planned flow of vehicular and pedestrian traffic around our campus during drop-off, pick-up, and other times when school-related traffic is high. The map is designed to help parents, students, school staff, and drivers understand the most efficient and safe routes for entering, exiting, and navigating within the school premises.

Our circulation maps also include nearby Park and Walk locations. These are sites near the school where families can park or students can be dropped off and walk the remainder of the distance to the school site, reducing car traffic in front of the school and allowing you to skip waiting in the drop-off line while students start the day with healthy physical activity, arriving at school more ready to learn. Some Park and Walk locations are at nearby parks, while others encourage families to use on-street parking within the school neighborhood.

Please utilize Park and Walk locations and avoid dropping off and picking up students at the front of the school along 69th Avenue or in the parking lot.

Action Item

• See image below or click here for Kellogg's circulation map.

Change Effective Date: 1/7/26
Impacted Route(s)*: 269-A
Change Described:

• Add stop: SE 58th Av @ SE Raymond St
• Remove stop: SE Gladstone St @ SE 26th Av, SE Division St @ SE 28th Av, SE Harrison St @ SE 43rd Av

*Note: -A means AM, -P means PM and -AP means both AM and PM.

Please call PPS Transportation Services at 503-916-6901 or email at transportation@pps.net if you have any questions.

If you are uncertain about how to check on your student's grades, missing work and or class work progress, here is a quick how to resource that might be able to help.

We are grateful that the PPS school community is using the SafeOregon tip line to report incidents that affect students' well-being and ability to learn in a safe environment. Just last year, there were over 300 tips that were submitted anonymously. We are responsible for keeping SafeOregon's contact information for our buildings accurate at all times so that school leaders can be alerted promptly. Please remember to reach out to Andrew Gerlach (agerlach@pps.net) whenever there is a staffing change to building leadership. Please save the SafeOregon number in your phone: 844-472-3367 This will allow you to identify their number when they need to call you if an urgent tip has been submitted in connection to your school.

During the 2025-2026 school year ...

• School officially starts at 9:15 AM and dismisses at 4:00 PM.

Throughout the school year there are Staff Meeting Days and Early Release Days.

• On Staff Meeting Days, school officially starts at 9:30 AM and dismisses at 4:00 PM.
• On Early Release Days, school officially starts at 9:15 AM and dismisses at 1:45 PM.

Click here for the 2025-2026 District calendar.

• Staff Meeting Days are noted with **.
• Early Release Days are noted with a clock icon.

At Kellogg we are proud of our schoolwide expectations as they provide our students with safe, structured, and productive learning environments. Please take the time to review some of our expectations below.

Cell Phones and Technology Devices

Cell phones and all personal technologies (e.g. apple watches, gaming devices, wireless headphones, Bluetooth speakers, etc.) are expected to be off and away during the school day. Students are expected to keep cell phones and technology devices turned off and put away in their lockers. Personal technologies and cell phones should not be on student's person in the hallways, restrooms, and at lunch recess. If a student is spotted with a cell phone or technology device, it will be immediately confiscated and taken to the front office. Students with repeated cell phone or technology violations to this expectation will be placed on individualized cell phone and technology plan.

Bags and Backpacks

In alignment with many other middle schools in the District, all bags and backpacks must be stored in lockers during the school day. Backpacks clutter classroom spaces and items are frequently lost or stolen unless they are stored safely in a locker. Students will use their binders to carry their learning materials throughout the school day.

Learning Logs

To help students stay organized and keep track of important dates and deadlines, students will be issued a Learning Log. Be sure to check your student's Learning Log regularly to stay up-to-date with your student's assignments, tests, and other announcements. Learnings Logs will also serve as the student's hall pass when students leave the classroom during non-transition times. It is critical that students do not lose their Learning Log.

Toys and Valuable Items

Students should leave all toys, valuable items, and any item that can cause safety concerns or distractions at home. Leaving these items at home will ensure items are not lost or stolen.

Closed Campus

Kellogg is a closed campus. All visitors must check-in at the front office. Students must be signed out and picked up by a parent or guardian with ID before 3:45 in order to leave campus before dismissal time. Additionally, our school will not accept DoorDash, Uber Eats, or other deliveries to students. Parents and guardians are welcome to drop off lunch items for their students at any time.

Student safety, student well-being, and student learning is our top priority. If you ever need to speak to a teacher, counselor, administrator, or any staff member, please call the front office or e-mail the individual directly to schedule a meeting. Unannounced meetings are often difficult to accommodate as school staff have busy and tight schedules. In particular, before school, after school, and lunch times are the busiest times in schools as most staff members are on duty to ensure student safety. Thank you for your support and understanding!