WEEKLY BULLETIN for Week Beginning 1.11.16

MONDAY	TUESDAY	WEDNESDAY	THURSDAY	FRIDAY
JANUARY 11 *Regular Bell    Schedule * Department Meetings / PD	12 *Regular Bell Schedule	13 *Regular Bell    Schedule	14 *Regular Bell Schedule	15 *Regular Bell Schedule * PBIS Behavior Team Meeting  (Pd 7) Room 821

PBIS CALL TO ACTION

● Any student in danger of failing your class should have been referred by now – whether through a ‘Guidance Referral’ or the ‘Student At-Risk Form’ – the purpose of these referrals is to maintain communication between the classroom and guidance services. 

● Moving forward for the Spring term, at-risk students must be referred at least once a Marking Period using your weekly contractually mandated ‘Parent Engagement’ time

● National Honor Society tutoring attendance has decreased dramatically – this is a wasted resource – there are hundreds of students that could benefit from NHS Tutoring – we need these referrals to get our students invites to these sessions

COOL THINGS GOING ON AT HSFI

● SING Auditions Are Beginning This Week…SO EXCITING!!!!!

● HSFI Featured on Mentoring Partnership of New York Video

The staff mentoring of our at-risk students has been featured by our community partner as a model school for our mentoring program - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6ZBRXW6wMs&feature=youtu.be

● HSFI Instagram – FashionHighNYC - in Full Operation!

Our very own Rebecca Eisenberg (formerly Levine) from the English department will working with her students to continually update the school Instagram – follow us @ FashionHighNYC

Details to follow about how you can get the amazing work you and your students are doing inside and outside the classroom to Ms. Eisenberg & FashionHighNYC

● All 3^rd period teachers handed in ALL blue sheets two days in a row this past week!  In the Attendance World, this is HUGE!!!!!

OPERATIONAL NEED TO KNOW

● Students Must Have Passes When You Give Them Permission to Leave the Classroom

The Deans’ office is conducting hallway sweeps to maintain our school environment as the semester winds down – students MUST have a pass if they are leaving your classroom!

● Club Activities Cancelled for Tuesday, January 21

All after school club activities are cancelled on this date due to a DOE Event – the following academic related activities are still ON: SOARR Academy / Regents tutoring / NHS Tutoring / ESL Academy / Make-up Labs / After School Computer Labs / Library & Any Scheduled PSAL game (no practice)

● Teacher’s Choice DEADLINE

January 15th is the deadline for all participants to submit a Teacher's Choice Accountability Form and proof of eligible purchases (i.e. original receipts and/or invoices).  Completed forms should be submitted to Linda Herzog, payroll office, any time between January 4-15, 2016.

For more detailed information, forms and guidelines see the Teacher's Choice page:

www.schools.nyc.gov/teacherschoice

If you have questions, see Linda Herzog, email teacherschoice@schools.nyc.gov, or call 718-935-4000

 

STAFF MEMBERS WHO SOARR

Thank you to MS. EISENBERG (formerly Levine) for taking ownership of our school’s Instagram account – this can be a great tool for the way the outside world sees HSFI including prospective students and possible corporate partners.

Thank you to MS. RIVIERE & DR. HABIBIAN for going beyond the call of duty in the Deans’ office as they sweep the hallways and resolve conflict on a daily basis.

Thank you to MR. DUKE, MS. WEISS & MR. RASCHILLA for going way beyond the call of duty in helping one of our boys in severe distress this past week.

Thank you to MS. WEISS & MS. PADRON for stepping up to lead a Fashion Dollars collection drive on Fashion Dollar Fridays – we need to combat Fashion Dollar hoarding so we have these tokens to give out to our deserving students.

Thank you to MS. CHAVEZ, MS. BALMIR, MS. DAMIAN, MR. RUSSELL, MS. KLEPACKI, MS. SERRANO, MR. RASCHILLA, MS. BOULAMAALI, MR. RAU, MS. HOW, MS. MOORE & MR. RODRIGUES for coming into school this past Saturday for admissions testing of our prospective HSFI students – the next generation of HSFI!

VTODs FOR THE WEEK

Plac, Plais: please, soothe

Monday January 11 

placate (v) to soothe, calm or pacify, gain the good will of.  One resignation by an unpopular general is unlikely to placate protesters who demand the end of strict military rule. 

Tuesday January 12

complacent (adj. pleased or self- satisfied with  present conditions and refusing to plan ahead.  There's a danger of becoming complacent if you win a few games. The strong economy made some people complacent and unprepared for the epic downturn that faced them. 

Wednesday January 13

placebo (n)  A placebo is a tablet, liquid, or other form of medication that actually contains no active ingredients. The ‘placebo effect’ refers to the fact that a patient’s health might improve after taking what he or she thinks is an effective drug but is, instead, a placebo.

Thursday January 14

placidly  (adv.) calmly, peacefully, tranquilly. She closed her eyes and lay placidly on her towel while the children yelled and threw sand on each other.

Friday January  15

complaisant (adj.) describes an inclination or a tendency to please others and willingly give in to the requests of others. Our friend is so complaisant that we don’t know if she wants to see the film or play we select or she just wants to please us. (Note difference in meaning between near homonyms: complacent and complaisant.)

DISCIPLINE DATA FROM 12/11/15 – 12/23/15

Below are the registered concerns submitted by staff members through Jupiter Grades and through the hand-written referral process:

INFRACTION CATEGORY	INCIDENTS JAN. 4 – 7	INCIDENTS DEC. 11 - 23	CHANGE
	4 SCHOOL DAYS	9 SCHOOL DAYS
ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT	15	25	-10
DISRESPECT / DISRUPTION	15	25	-10
DRESS CODE	1	1	No Change
THEFT	2	4	-2
BULLYING	0	2	-2
LEAVE BUILDING	0	0	No Change
FIGHTING	0	0	No Change
VANDALISM	0	0	No Change
SELLING FOOD	0	0	No Change
SCHOLASTIC DISHONESTY	0	3	-3

YEAR-TO-DATE ATTENDANCE / SUSPENSION DATA CURRENT SCHOOL POPULATION: 1789 Students
WEEKLY ATTENDANCE RATE				88.3 % [Attendance Last Week:91.3%]
LATENESS UPDATE	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
Last Week	xxxxx	582	587	592	559
Week of 12/21 – 12/23	xxxxx	560	347	xxxxx	xxxxx
PRINCIPAL’S SUSPENSION [Suspension is the School’s Choice after progressive discipline]				13  [0 New Suspensions]
SUPERINTENDENT SUSPENSION [Suspension is Mandatory for high level infraction from Discipline Code]				0 [0 New Suspensions]

LIBRARY NEWS & NOTES FROM MS. DAHILL

● Social Studies in Action: At the 1/7/16 Chelsea Community Board #4’s meeting it was wonderful to see two of Ms. Fraga-Zwibel’s students attending. Shout out to seniors Destiny Martinez and Anna Nunez!

●One interesting recommendation that Community Board is researching resurrecting via the Transportation Committee the 23^rd Street trolley which ran from 1872-1936!

● All Community Boards in NYC are looking for Youth Leaders. The first meeting of the Youth Council is 1/19/16 from 4:30-6:30 / Location: 163 West 125th Street at the State Office Building which is Gale Brewer’s Manhattan Borough President’s Office.

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