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Welcome back2023-2024! 

Welcome back to school! 

We are so excited to have everyone back in school! We are deeply committed to keeping each child and staff member healthy and safe! COVID-19 guidelines have significantly changed for this year, as the public health emergency ended in May of this year. Please take a look at Oregon Health Authority (OHA) and the Oregon Department of Education (ODE) for specific information. 

Here are the changes to expect: 

• COVID-19 is no longer a reportable disease and no longer requires five days of isolation. This means that someone who has tested positive for COVID-19 does not have to report their positive test to the local public health authority. Schools also no longer have to report positive COVID-19 tests to their local public health authority.
• People who are ill with COVID-19 should stay home until they are fever-free for 24 hours and their symptoms are improving. A five-day isolation period is no longer recommended for individuals infected with COVID-19. Individuals with COVID-19 should also avoid contact with people at increased risk for severe disease and consider masking for 10 days to reduce the spread of the disease. For more information on when students and staff should stay home from school when sick, please see OHA and ODE’s updated symptom-based exclusion chart.
• Effective June 17, 2023, our teachers, staff and volunteers will no longer be required to provide proof of COVID-19 vaccination or have a medical or religious exception on file in order to work or volunteer in our schools. Being up to date on COVID-19 vaccines continues to offer significant protection against serious illness and hospitalization. 

Help us keep your child in school by talking to them about HAND WASHING! It is extremely important to know the proper way to wash our hands. 

Please keep students home when they are ill, see “When Should A Child Stay Home/be sent Home From School?” flyer below.

Thank you! 
​Betsy Brooks, RN
Updated 8/21/2023

Important!   
​Eddyville charter school immunization rates posted below!

School Exclusion Day was February 15, 2023, and we are proud to announce that not one student was excluded!! Thank you so much for helping us keep our student and staff population safe! -Betsy Brooks, RN Updated 5/12/23

School Counselor: Ishah Roads-Pultz, LPC
I grew up locally in Tidewater and graduated from Waldport High School in 1994. In between high school and college, I did a lot of traveling the world and figuring out life. I think one thing that led me to my current career is my love of experiencing the lives of others whether it be through my own experiences or through listening to others’.
I received a Bachelor’s of Social Science from Portland State University. I attended graduate school at George Fox University, commuting to Portland several times a week from the coast.
 In 2011 I graduated with a Master’s degree in Counseling. After graduate school I opened a private practice in Newport, and worked at the Olalla Center for Children and Families in Toledo.
I currently live in Toledo with my family- Steve, Khira, Madelynn, our Newfoundland Mocha Bleu, and cats Davey Jones, Loco, and Ezra.
I feel a special connection to this school, and I have developed many positive relationships with the students and their families over the years. My children started attending ECS in elementary and I grew to love and value the small school/family feel.  Several years back I worked very very part time here as the counselor, and I have watched the staff and culture at ECS continue to transform into an amazing and supportive school family
 I REALLY AM SO LUCKY!!!! to be able to work full-time now at Eddyville.-Ishah Roads-Pultz, LPC

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School Nurse: Betsy Brooks, RN
As an attendee at Siletz Schools from 1986-1994, and a 1998 graduate of Toledo High School, I am no stranger to small school life. I likely would have graduated from Siletz, but there was no high school in Siletz at that time! In 1999, I married my high school sweetheart, and we now have four children-Conner, 19, Anthony, 16, Sandy, 12 and Lilly, 9.  We live in Toledo with our two dogs, Billy and Paddy; cats, Buddy, Snow White, and a few strays we feed, and six chickens. 
After graduating from nursing school at Linn-Benton community college in 2004, I started my nursing career with the Lincoln County School District as a contracted nurse (only one year, and part time) and worked at Coastal Pediatrics (off and on for about five years) as a staff nurse as well. From there, I began working with the Lincoln County Health Department (LCHD) as a family planning nurse, which eventually lead me to work in school-based health centers throughout the county. In 2015, I went back to working with the Lincoln county school district as the nurse for Toledo, Lincoln City, Siletz and Eddyville schools. When Lincoln City began to require more time, another nurse was hired and I acquired Waldport schools in its place. During the years I worked for the school district, I worked with families, children and staff to make sure students with medical ailments were properly taken care of. I taught staff members in my schools how to care for various medically fragile students, and I taught sexual education for the entire school district! All this running around became tiring, so when Eddyville Charter School opened up a position for a nurse in October,  I jumped at the chance! 
As the nurse exclusively for Eddyville Charter School, I am working hard to expand health services for our students right here at school! I’m currently working with the LCHD to see what we can offer. I have also started teaching health for grades K-8, with an occasional appearance in the high school health class. This spring I will be teaching Yoga to staff members, and hope to teach students starting this Fall! Fun fact-my own mother taught yoga to High School Eagles a few years back!

I am proud to be a part of this school and community! Go Eagles!!--Betsy Brooks, RN