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MONDAY
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TUESDAY
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WEDNESDAY
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THURSDAY
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FRIDAY
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MARCH
28
*Regular Bell Schedule
*Action Research
PM Supervisor:
M Frank (Rm. 121)
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29
*Regular Bell Schedule
*Aca/CTE Meeting
Period
8 –
Room
844
PM Supervisor:
A Rodrigues (Rm. 515)
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30
*Regular Bell Schedule
PM Supervisor:
S Rau (Rm. 731 or 829)
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31
*Regular
Bell Schedule
*PBIS Behavior Team Meeting
Period
2 –
Room
821
PM Supervisor:
G Raschilla (Rm. 149)
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APRIL 1
TEACHER SURVEY DEADLINE
*Regular Bell Schedule
PM Supervisor:
R Bernstein (Rm. 127)
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HSFI @ 67% STAFF
SURVEY PARTICIPATION – THIS FRIDAY IS THE DEADLINE
We
are at a 67% staff participation rate with the DOE Learning Environment staff
survey – our goal is 100%. Please take a few minutes this week to complete
the anonymous survey online. This
Friday, April 1, is the deadline to complete the survey.
The link to the survey is below but
you must have the unique access code from the postcard to proceed:
If you do not have your postcard and need your unique
access code, please call the Survey Hotline at 1-800-690-8603.
PBIS
CALL TO ACTION
● LATENESS PLAN
Our Lateness plan will continue
this week – this past Tuesday we held 57 students after they came late to 1st
period – make sure you back up our plan by
encouraging your students to get to school on time and #1 - Bubble in
lateness for students late to class on the blue and white attendance sheets
#2 - Have activities and
assessments set up at the beginning of class to motivate students to get to
class on time – THIS IS ESPECIALLY CRITICAL FOR 1ST & 2ND
PERIOD CLASSES
#3 - Use Fashion Dollars to
positively reward students who are on time – remember, the students who are
late will see the on time students getting rewarded and want to get those
rewards
● HOW TO FILL OUT A NATIONAL HONOR SOCIETY GUIDANCE REFERRAL
#1
- Teacher writes a referral in Jupiter Grades – You make the referral to the AP
Guidance (Ms. Bernstein)
#2
- On the referral, you write NHS and the subject the student needs help in
#3
– You as the teacher should inform the student that you referred them to NHS
tutoring
#4
– Ms. Bernstein (AP Guidance) sends the referral to Mr. S. Rau / Mr. Rau will create
an invitation for the student and then distribute the invite to the student
through their teacher
COOL THINGS GOING ON
@ HSFI
● HSFI Selected for Advanced Placement Computer Science for 2016-17
Thanks to the efforts of Mr. Stampone, HSFI has been chosen from a
competitive selection process to participate in a group of schools that will
teach Advanced Placement Computer Science beginning next school year. AP Computer Science will be a wonderful addition
to our impressive list of challenging academic classes that we have added to
our school.
HELP
NEEDED
● Chaperones Needed for Student Dance
Chaperones are still
needed for the April 2 dance at the school. Please email Coordinator of
Student Activities / AP Steve Rau – SRau@schools.nyc.gov if they you interested
in helping out.
SAVE THE DATES!
SING
Musical Program – April 15 & April 16
International
Center of Photography (ICP) Opening / Wednesday, April 20
Senior
Art Show Opening / Friday, May 6
Public
Fashion Show / Friday, May 13 and Saturday, May 14
Industry
Fashion Show / Wednesday, May 18
STAFF MEMBERS WHO SOARR
Thank
you to MS. DRABMAN, MR. RODRIGUEZ, MS. LaTANZA, MS. DYE, MS.
MEDINA, MS. BROADBELT & MS. SELLECK for admirably representing our incredible
teaching staff during the visit of 15 Superintendents to HSFI two weeks
ago. The school received glowing
feedback about the learning environment in these classrooms and around the
school.
Thank
you to MS. CHRISTINA VEGA for her incredible efforts in pulling the SING
production together from scratch – this is a tremendous accomplishment that has
brought performing arts front and center to HSFI. Showtime is April 15 & 16 – please plan
to attend one of these shows – bring family and friends – and encourage our
students to support their classmates and the school.
Thank
you to all of our teachers involved in the Writing Revolution professional
development that has gone on throughout the month of March - MS. SIDERIS, MS. ANZALONE, MR. TRAPANI, MS. VARRICHIO, MS. CASTRO, MS.
DE LA ROSA, MS. BARNABEE, MS. PINTO, MR. LEE, MR. HURLEY, MS. BERROA, MS.
THOMAS, MS. CHUNG, MS. McHUGH & MS. MOORE.
The
goal is to unify across disciplines how we teach writing at HSFI
Thank
you to all the HSFI staff members who signed up for next year’s planning teams
of ICT teacher team development; social-emotional skills development &
organizational skills development - MR. ANDRES RODRIGUEZ, MS. PADRON,
MS. CISSE, MS. CHUNG, MS. Y. ALVAREZ, MS. PAGLIARO, MR. VILLALONA, MS. DYE, MS.
CUFFIE, MS. VARRICHIO, MS. CHAVEZ, MS. MATINALE, MS. JOHNSTON, MS. KLEPACKI,
MS. LOOSER, MS. BALLIN, MS. MARTINEZ, MS. FERLAZZO, MS. WEISS, MS. DAMIAN, MR.
LIU & MR. STAMPONE.
Thank
you to MS. ARCAMAY for taking the lead on a Photoshop project with
her Graphics & Illustration students where HSFI staff will be visually
represented to the school community.
Thank
you to MS. STAMBOULY & MS. COLLINS for developing and
organizing a poster contest with the Graphics & Illustration students
centered on the school’s dress code and keeping the school clean – we will
showcase the winning posters around the school.
Thank you to MS. KLEPACKI for the dress code poster
idea which came from her daughter’s school.
Thank
you to MR. STAMPONE for successfully taking the lead in the school’s
efforts to bring Advanced Placement Computer Science to HSFI. Mr. Stampone with the support of Ms. Frank
wrote the application that got us acceptance into this cohort of schools.
Thank
you to MS. BALMIR for her work in organizing our annual partnership
with Kleinfeld Bridal which allows our students an amazing opportunity with this
famous industry partner.
Thank
you to MS. DAVID & MR. EGAN for organizing an Alumni
Basketball Game for Friday, May 20 – having coached the Boys Basketball team
for a decade, this will be a special event that will mean a tremendous amount
to our basketball tradition.
Thank
you to MS. MELENCIANO for leading our GetSchooled.com efforts to bring
another celebrity visit to HSFI – we were able to place top ten in the country!
VTODs
FOR THE WEEK
Monday, March 28
Flaunt (v) to show off: The eccentric
billionaire would flaunt his wealth every chance he got, perhaps due to his
humble beginnings.
Tuesday, March 29
Flout (v) to show scorn or contempt
for. Larry flouts the speed limit in every state when it suits his schedule.
“Victims described a sense of lawlessness that evening as criminals flouted the
law even with police present.”
Wednesday, March 30
Wary (adj.) cautious, guarded, openly
distrustful. The customer became wary when the salesperson said he would
personally guarantee the TV set for fifty years! The government is wary of repeating confrontations
that turned violent.
Thursday, March 31
Weary (adj.) tired and worn;
fatigued: After four hours of studying,
I want to rest my weary eyes. (v) To
make (someone) very tired. These constant
complaints are wearying me.
Friday, April 1
Canvas (n). A strong, rough cloth used
as a surface for painting and to make such items as bags, shoes, and tents. The
museum found that three of the painter’s canvases were too damaged to repair.
LIBRARY
NEWS & NOTES
● National Poetry Month
Educators are invited to an
afternoon at the NYPL's Celeste Auditorium on Saturday, April 2nd at 2pm celebrating National
Poetry Month. We will be focusing on ways to make poetry accessible to students
using the public library's resources. NYC educators are eligible for 1
hour PD credit if registered in advance. Please register at: http://www.nypl.org/events/programs/2016/04/02/libsalon-poetry-month-celebration
● Gentrification Book Discussion
Gentrification is an important
issue for all New Yorkers! Ed Hamilton's book The Chintz Age explores
this in our era @ The New York Public Library's Mullenberg Library 209 West
23rd Street May 12 5:30-6:30 Community Room
Summary from
Amazon: Fiction. Just as Soylent Green is people, so THE CHINTZ AGE is now.
Everything is cheaper and chintzier than in the past, from consumer products to
culture itself. Our great cities, and, in particular, New York, are being
transformed as we speak, as rising rents squeeze out the artists and bohemians
who honed and burnished the city's glittering cutting edge. So should we look
backward in teary-eyed nostalgia for the glorious past, or grit our teeth and
move forward, accepting the inevitability of change in order to carve out a
place for ourselves in this Brave New New York? This book of gritty urban fairy
tales represents a heartfelt prayer for the future of the arts in New York, as
well as a blueprint for a moral and spiritual resistance to the forces of
cultural philistinism.
NYC
STEM INSTITUTE / COMPUTER SCIENCE OPPORTUNITIES
The following
opportunities are open to all educators who want
to incorporate STEM (Science, Technology, and Engineering & Math) and Computer
Science in their teaching! Some of these
courses work for teachers of all licenses – Math, Science, CTE, Social Studies
– it would be wonderful to get STEM embedded into our curriculum.
The NYC STEM
Institute is doubling in size this year with the addition of a Computer
Science (CS) Track. The CS track will
span the Spring from April 26-28 and Summer from July 12-14 Institutes at
Stuyvesant High School. The following
sessions will help high school teachers engage students in CS education through
hands-on problem based inquiry. Information on Registration,
which closes on April 8, can be found at http://schools.nyc.gov/Academics/Science/SpringSTEMInstitute.htm.
CS01 - Bootstrap:
Programming & Algebra (Teach AY 16-17) (Grade: 8 to 10) Bootstrap is a curricular
module that teaches students to program their own video games using purely
algebraic concepts. The class is compact and flexible, requiring roughly 20-25
hours of instructional time. Each lesson is aligned to National and NY State
standards for mathematics, allowing teachers to use existing classroom time to
integrate Bootstrap SPECIAL REQUIREMENT: This program is intended for teachers
of Algebra 1.
CS05 - Creative Web
Development & Programming (Grade: 8 to 12) Code/Interactive is offering Creative Web
Development & Programming, which introduces educators to HTML, CSS, and
JavaScript using a robust curriculum that includes elements of design,
entrepreneurship, and critical thinking skill development. Educators learn how
to build web site projects using HTML, are introduced to programming concepts
with Scratch, a block-based programming language, and finally they learn
JavaScript with a series of projects and lessons. While they learn fundamental
professional skills, educators complete entrepreneurship activities, including
designing their own technology solutions to real-world problems using design
thinking challenges. Participating teachers are provided with a full
student-facing curriculum and all materials necessary to successfully deliver
the course to students.
CS06 - Education in
Computer Science & Entrepreneurship (Grade: 9 to 12) Iridescent’s
Technovation’s program builds a young woman’s sense of self-efficacy, so that
she can solve hard problems & start new things - using technology. Girls
from all around the world learn to program a mobile app to solve a problem in
their own community and to launch their startups through this 12 week program.
We will provide professional development to teachers in Android-App Inventor
mobile app- programming and entrepreneurship. While the global competition is
for girls only, the curriculum is appropriate for mixed-gender classrooms.
CS09 - Programming
Fundamentals for STEM Educators (Grade: 9 to 12) Leading technology training provider
General Assembly provides this workshop, which will enable teachers to
introduce students to programming fundamentals, expose them to careers in tech,
and empower them with the basics of the JavaScript, HTML, and CSS programming
languages. The course is specifically designed to empower high school teachers
to introduce students to these subjects. No previous experience with
programming is required.
CS10 - Project Code:
Computer Science x Biology (Grade: 9 to 12) Project Code, a division of Urban Arts
Partnership, implements an arts-based approach to computer science education by
using videogame and animation design to stimulate student engagement in STEM
learning. In this session, participants will acquire classroom-tested methods
for teaching high school biology by integrating games and animations created
with Scratch. Students first modify pre-developed games that model
difficult-to-visualize aspects of biological systems (e.g. diffusion, osmosis,
and cell organelles). After growing proficient with Scratch, students work to
create original games about the various systems of the human body, thereby
achieving increased competency in both biology and computer science. SPECIAL
REQUIREMENT: Must be Living Environment or biology-related electives teacher
CS13 - Visualize
Ecosystems with Data & Hands-on Projects (Grade: 9 to 12) This session will
be led by the Beam Center and provides first-hand experience in running
computer simulations of climate change and ecosystem dynamics. Data
visualizations about the competition for shared resources, natural selection,
climate change or the spread of disease within ecosystems can be created and
adapted on the fly using simple computational models and NetLogo programming.
In addition, you will create a physical computing project-- a 3-D tactile
ecosystem using Lilypad and conductive thread-- to more fully demonstrate the
concepts to students. The workshop will feature design thinking, programming,
fabrication and science content with an engaging hands-on activity centered on
sustainability and environmental science. SPECIAL REQUIREMENT: None
CS14 - Processing:
Coding & Visual Arts (Grade: 8 to 12) Hello world! In this workshop, participants
become comfortable with basic principles of Computer Science by learning Processing,
a language designed “for learning how to code within the context of the visual
arts.” After participating in this course, you will have tools and experience
to integrate Processing into your visual art curriculum as an exciting new
medium. This session is led by NYC educators and the NYCDOE Software
Engineering Program. SPECIAL REQUIREMENT: Intended for Arts Teachers
CS15 - Robots,
Microcontrollers & Computing for STEM Education (Grade: 9 to
12) Hands-on exercises in Robotics will help students visualize and practice
science and math concepts that they otherwise find difficult or abstract. Since
many STEM principles are inherently incorporated into performing simple tasks
with robots, these exercises can illustrate connections between STEM disciplines
and real-world applications. Through exploration, guided training and hands-on
projects followed by discussion, participants will be exposed to robot design
principles and core concepts of robotics and associated programming languages
led by staff from the NYU Tandon School of Engineering. Practical ways to
implement robotics in science and math classrooms will be demonstrated.
Additional sessions
for other grade levels and STEM content areas are also available. Seehttp://schools.nyc.gov/Academics/Science/SpringSTEMInstitute.htm for more
information or contact us at stem@schools.nyc.gov with any questions about the STEM Institute.
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