WEEKLY BULLETIN for Week Beginning 3.25.19

CALL TO ACTION

● DO YOUR PART IN KEEPING THE HALLWAYS CLEAR

HSFI Assistant Principals and Peace Teachers (formerly known as Deans) are conducting Hallway Sweeps that will cover every square foot of this building to maintain school climate.  The sweeps will take place Periods 2 through 9.  These sweeps are in addition to the patrols that our security agents execute daily.  Here is what you can do to do your part in maintaining school climate:

□ Please go out into the hallway to welcome students into your classroom in between classes

□ Once the music ends, close your door – do not lock the door - and begin class promptly.  For classes early in the day, please have tasks / assignments in place immediately when the music ends to promote students being on time as part of the Readiness portion of their grades

□ Have a protocol for monitoring student lateness (ex- Late Book)

□ A Pass is needed to go anywhere outside of your classroom / specific Falcon Health Center pass

□ No passes first 10 minutes of class (unless emergency)

□ No passes last 10 minutes of class (unless emergency)

YOU CANNOT ALLOW A STUDENT TO STAY IN YOUR CLASSROOM / OFFICE WHEN YOU ARE NOT THERE – ASK THEM TO LEAVE & COME BACK

Please make sure these actions are followed to do your part in maintaining school climate while our Assistant Principals and Peace Teachers sweep the halls and do their part.

● SECOND MARKING PERIOD IN FULL SWING

We are in full swing of the second marking period.  Speak to your students about the importance of the starting the marking period strong.  Make sure your students know where they stand in their classes and what needs to be done to continue their success or turn things around.  Students must know that the grades they receive in June will be seen by colleges and determine whether or not they go to summer school.

NYC DOE STAFF SURVEY UPDATE: 76% COMPLETION

I wanted to give you an update of responses to the NYC DOE Staff Survey – as of today 81 staff members have done their survey.

It would send a powerful statement if we achieved 100% participation.

Please do the survey as it is important that every voice is heard.  Please take a few minutes to complete the anonymous survey online.

I look carefully at the overall results to shape the direction of things like professional development and staff communication. 

Prospective HSFI parents and families and students look to the results to decide whether they should apply to our school or not. 

We have worked tremendously hard together to create a wonderful learning environment for our students and this is your chance to let them know. Thank you!

The link to the survey is below, but you must have the unique access code from the postcard to proceed:

https://www.schools.nyc.gov/about-us/reports/school-quality/nyc-school-survey

THIS WEEK’S CALENDAR:

MONDAY	TUESDAY	WEDNESDAY	THURSDAY	FRIDAY
MARCH 25 *Regular Bell Schedule Writing Revolution Professional Learning Room 821 PM Supervisor: M Frank (Rm. 121)	26 *Regular Bell Schedule PM Supervisor: S Rau (Rm. 829)	27 *Special Schedule PSAT / SAT DAY PM Supervisor: A Rodrigues (Rm. 515)	28 *Regular Bell Schedule PM Supervisor: S Kohm (Rm. 531)	29 *Regular Bell Schedule VARIETY SHOW PM Supervisor: B McGuinness (Rm. 329)

NEXT WEEK’S CALENDAR:

MONDAY	TUESDAY	WEDNESDAY	THURSDAY	FRIDAY
APRIL 1 *First Monday Bell Schedule Professional Learning Communities / Department Activities Meet PM Supervisor: G Raschilla (Rm. 143)	2 *Regular Bell Schedule 9th Grade Assembly Period 6 PM Supervisor: A Rodrigues (Rm. 515)	3 *Regular Bell Schedule PM Supervisor: D Silva (Rm. 125)	4 *Regular Bell Schedule PM Supervisor: N Moore (Rm. 228)	5 *Regular Bell Schedule Student Town Halls Room 821 Periods 4-7 PM Supervisor: K Boulamaali (Rm. 703)

WRITING REVOLUTION PROFESSIONAL LEARNING – MONDAY, MARCH 24

TWR PD for CTE, ELA, Science and Social Studies--This Monday 3/25. (Note: Any teacher can go to any period, but period 6 and 7 focuses on extended writing)
PD 2, 4, 5, 8 - Notetaking (*Bring student work: Appositives or other TWR)

Pd 6 (Social Studies department) Transitional Outline and MPO (* Bring any writing piece that includes transition or any unelaborated paragraph)

Pd 7 Transitional Outline and MPO (ELA Department) (* Bring any writing piece that includes transition or any unelaborated paragraph)

*Bringing TWR work from their self-selected target student

Also, Bring the white TWR book and a Chromebook if you want to work on it

NOTABLE SPRING TERM DATES

Wednesday, March 27	PSAT / SAT Day
Friday, March 29	Variety Show
Friday, March 28	Last Day of Cycle A Classes
Thursday, April 18	Marking Period 2 Ends
Friday, April 19 – Friday, April 26	Spring Break – No School
Monday, May 6 – Tuesday, May 14	Advanced Placement Exams
Monday, June 3	Administration of New Global History Regents Exam
Thursday, June 6	Staff Professional Development Day
Monday, June 17	Last Day of Classes – Marking Period 3 Ends
Tuesday, June 18 – Tuesday, June 25	Regents Exams
Monday, June 24	HSFI Graduation – 3:00 pm at the United Palace
Wednesday, June 26	Last Day of School for Students and Teachers

CAREER & TECHNICAL SPRING SHOWCASE EVENTS CALENDAR

Monday, April 15	Virtual Enterprises National Championship Competition
Wednesday, April 17	Virtual Enterprises Trade Show
Wednesday, May 1	International Center of Photography Exhibit Opening
Friday, May 3	Senior Graphics & Illustration Art Show
Wednesday, May 15	Annual Fashion Show Feeder Show to Middle School Students
Tuesday, Mat 14 or Wednesday, May 15	Annual Fashion Show – INDUSTRY SHOW
Friday, May 17	Annual Fashion Show - PUBLIC
To Be Determined	Kleinfeld Bridal Culminating Event

UPDATED PARENT CONTACT LIST

Here is the most updated spreadsheet for students’ contact information.  The spreadsheet has three different tabs of contact information;

1) Primary phone

2) Email

3) Cell phone number

This list will be updated each week through our School Messenger system. If you have trouble contacting a parent or have additional contact information, please reach out to Assistant Principal Danielle Silva at DSilva@hsfi.us

Here is the link to the spreadsheet:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11D016nO8gRf55ENWnkTBQIqmNN3Plq9b7lZk3rDnssM/edit#gid=2133520731

STUDENT ACTIVITIES

□ KEEPING TRACK OF STUDENT ACTIVITY / COMMUNICATING WITH STUDENTS ABOUT SCHOOL ACTIVITIES

In our effort to understand how ALL our students are doing, we need to know how much students are participating in activities around the building – this includes:

TUTORING / CLUBS & ACTIVITIES / PSAL SPORTS – PRACTICES & GAMES / ESL ACADEMY / MAKE-UP LABS / NATIONAL HONOR SOCIETY PEER TUTORING / USING THE COMPUTER LABS

Use this link to keep track of student attendance in these activities - https://sites.google.com/a/hsfi.us/hsfi-staff-portal/attendance-for-student-activities

Doing this is mandatory if you oversee these activities and needs to be done every time you meet with students.  You must be signed in to your own hsfi.us account when you do this.  Contact Shannon Kohm with questions at skohm@school.nyc.gov, or ext. 5311

Communication

Please make sure that you communicate with our students about anything going on in the school – a club meeting, sports game or program opportunity – you can do this by including it in our Daily Announcements email / Jupiter message – here is the procedure for submitting this information:

(1) Go to the HSFI Staff Home page - https://sites.google.com/a/hsfi.us/hsfi-staff-portal/home?pli=1 

(2) From there use the Announcement form link on the left hand side of the page - all announcements should be requested by 3:00 pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

IMPORTANT INSTRUCTIONAL REMINDERS

● OUR INSTRUCTIONAL FOCUS FOR 2018-19 & BEYOND

□ Every student feels cared for

□ Every student feels challenged

● HSFI STUDENT DASHBOARD UPDATES FROM MR. STAMPONE

Some more updates have been rolled out the HSFI Student Dashboard including a tweaked design change and some additional features

Remember that the dashboard is only accessible on the school network. It is hosted internally for data security reasons.

□ Find your particular students by visiting http://hsfiintranet/studentdash/teachers/ and finding your name. Note: Co-teacher pairs appear separately.

□ When you click into your page (for example, http://hsfiintranet/studentdash/teachers/stamponed.html), you'll find a table at the top that subdivides the list by course/section

□ Catch a preview of a tool being developed for students to check in with their progress to graduation. Here's an example for a current junior: http://hsfiintranet/studentdash/grad_tracker/221228661.html

□ Student daily attendance by period: On an individual student's page you can get a summary of their attendance numbers by course/section. There's a beta version column trying to measure how often that student is in school but did not attend your period. Note: It is not yet accurate for classes that meet every other day or for classes with a start date later than the first day of school. Will be updated with new data for the second semester soon

● PLC INTERVISITATIONS

The next round of PLC Intervisitations have to be completed by Friday, March 29, and the notes have to be entered by 4:00 pm.
Here's the form link:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScO6P1MOJmG7zwvcsg6Pbf5v3BtnIhIRIj0brEoKQPknZ5-jw/viewform?usp=sf_link

● 3^rd ROUND OF EVALUATIVE OBSERVATIONS BEGIN THIS TUESDAY, MARCH 12

□ 3^RD Round of Evaluative Observations – March 12 - 29

□ 4^TH Round of Evaluative Observations – April 15 – May 10 (this is a change from the original calendar)

● SPRING MARKING PERIODS

□ 2^nd Marking Period ends Thursday, April 18

□ 3^rd Marking Period ends Monday, June 17

● ANNUALIZATION GRADING POLICY CHANGES BY THE NYC DOE

The NYC Department of Education policy towards annualization has changed from last year.

□ Last year, if a student failed semester 1 of an annualized class, but passed semester 2, the student was given a grade of P for the 1st semester class on their transcript.

□ This year, that policy is no longer in place.  This came from NYCDOE academic policy last spring.  So we're annualized in terms of curriculum and students, but not on an annualized grading model.

This means that students will have to make up the failed class through SOARR Academy or through Summer School. 

● IMPORTANT SPECIAL EDUCATION REMINDERS FOR THE SPRING TERM

Teacher Form responses or information you shared during the meeting- this is a great example of how your insight helps us to create an authentic, student specific IEP. In addition to asking a special educator, you can easily determine which students in your class have IEP's by reviewing your class roster. Students who are placed in ICT classes have the letter at the end of their official (ex-45P) and our Self-contained students will continue to have the letter at the beginning of their official class. Students within our D75 Inclusion Program will have an L as the first letter of their official class.

We in the Office of SWD wanted to provide some additional insight to our Teacher Form. This form helps us to address students’ academic needs, assess their progress in/with the general education curriculum and justify services through the IEP. Your voice and input is incredibly valuable in creating this legal document, which is unique to each child. Attending meetings is also important, as it is a requirement to have a general education teacher at an IEP present. Please understand we try to work around teacher schedules, when scheduling however, there are times when this does not align to a parent/family members schedule.

● PARENT ENGAGEMENT RESPONSIBILITIES

Keep in mind the main ways that we maintain high levels of Parent Engagement:

#1 - Keeping Jupiter up-to-date so that students and parents know where students stand in your class

#2 – You are contractually required to set aside 1 specific period set aside for Parent Engagement where you make calls and emails to families of at-risk students.  If a student is failing, you need to make verbal contact with that family

#3 - Check your DOE Email everyday - Not HSFI email – you should forward your HSFI emails to your DOE email.  If a parent emails you, they should expect a response in a timely manner

● IMPORTANT HOMEWORK REMINDERS

#1 – Please follow our policy of ‘No New HW Wednesdays’

#2 – Do not give a HW assignment unless you will be giving meaningful feedback back to students – a check or score at the top of a paper does not mean much to students.  This is especially true for honors and Advanced Placement courses where the amount and difficulty of readings and assignments is high

● GUIDELINES TO MAINTAIN SCHOOL CLIMATE

□ Pass needed to go anywhere outside of your classroom / specific Falcon Health Center pass

□ No passes first 10 minutes of class (unless emergency)

□ No passes last 10 minutes of class (unless emergency)

□ Electronic Equipment for educational purposes allowed / all other purposes should be a referral / Leave confiscating to supervisors and deans / NO CHARGING PHONES

WHERE CAN STUDENTS GO WHEN NOT IN CLASS?

□ Before 1^st Period – Cafeteria, Student Computer Lab (Room 201), Hallways 

□ Once Period 1 begins – students cannot be in the hallways – can go to the Cafeteria, Student Computer Lab, Classroom under teacher supervision

□ Lunch Periods (4-7) – Cafeteria, Student Lounge, Library (except 7^th period), Student Computer Lab, Classroom under teacher supervision

□ Students waiting for afterschool activities - Student Computer Lab, Library, Classroom under teacher supervision

YOU CANNOT ALLOW A STUDENT TO STAY IN YOUR CLASSROOM / OFFICE WHEN YOU ARE NOT THERE – ASK THEM TO LEAVE & COME BACK

OPERATIONAL NEED TO KNOW

● CHECK YOUR DOE & HSFI EMAILS EVERYDAY

● HSFI STAFF HOMEPAGE LINK - https://sites.google.com/a/hsfi.us/hsfi-staff-portal/

● HEALTH BENEFITS SPECIAL TRANSFER PERIOD - April 1 - 30

If you are currently enrolled in a plan and wish to continue, you do not need to do anything.

Changes must be made online using Employee Self-Service (ESS) and will take effect July 1, 2019.

If you have questions, visit the HR Connect Web Portal to access full database of answers. 

● TRANSIT DELAYS / MEDICAL ABSENCES

Please turn in your notes.  Without official back up, your absence or delay cannot be recorded as such.

● TECHNOLOGY REQUESTS

Technology Request:   https://goo.gl/forms/NNtcC01LZSyB8VJ03

The response spreadsheet with write-ups of the status of the technology tickets has been updated – I think you will find it more helpful.

● CUSTODIAN REQUESTS

Custodian Request:   https://goo.gl/forms/sQGqPAoqGeI86H132

Depending on the severity of the request.  Expect a one to two days before fixing or notification of the issue.

● EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS

Here are the links to the Emergency Preparedness videos.  This series of safety videos are useful tools that demonstrate how Building Response Teams operate, and how school buildings use the General Response Protocols during an emergency. Please take the time to watch the following videos to ensure that you are well equipped in the event of an emergency.

Full Safety Preparedness video: Vimeo.com/nycschools/safetypreparedness

Assembly Card video: Vimeo.com/nycschools/assemblycard

Lock Down video: Vimeo.com/nycschools/lockdown

Evacuate video: Vimeo.com/nycschools/evacuate

Shelter In video: Vimeo.com/nycschools/shelterin

● CANNOT LEAVE STUDENTS UNATTENDED

You cannot leave students unattended anywhere in the building – a classroom or office, the Auditorium or Cafeteria – if you have to leave a particular area, ask the students to leave with you.

● PROTOCOLS FOR RESPONDING TO CLASSROOM INCIDENTS

In the event of an incident in your classroom that creates disruption (student is defiant and / or uncooperative) but is NOT A THREAT to student and/or staff safety, the following protocol should be followed:

□ Classroom management, i.e., using your skills as an educator to move on from the situation, followed by

□ A phone call to your Supervisor informing them of the incident and the steps you have taken to address the matter, followed by

□ A referral to the Peace Center and/or the Guidance Department via Google Docs., followed by

□ Outreach to parents, informing them of their child’s misbehavior, and request for family support to correct the matter.  

In the event of an incident in your classroom that involves an immediate THREAT to student and/or staff safety, the following protocol should be followed:

□ A phone call to the Peace Center (x1491 or x1431) informing available staff of the incident and requesting assistance, followed by

□ A phone call to School Safety (x1341) informing them of the location and nature of the incident and requesting assistance, followed by

□ A call to your Supervisor informing them of the incident and the steps you have taken to address it.

CLASS TRIP REMINDERS

As we start the school year, I wanted to share with staff the field trip guidelines that we put into place last year.  All of us should plan to adhere to these guidelines – for staff planning the trips and staff receiving the trip requests.  The only exception that we ask of everyone is to be flexible with last minute trips that are brought to us by our Advisory Board and industry partners – too often they share with us the details in a last minute fashion.  Thank you in advance for the cooperation!

⏮ Trips must be approved 3 weeks in advance - No trips in January & June

⏮ A Master Calendar of trips will be posted in the Weekly Bulletin with a description of the trip and grade level

⏮ Teachers cannot veto student participation on trips, but students must understand they are responsible for all makeup work / Do not penalize students for missing class due to a school trip

CLASS TRIPS THIS WEEK:

⏮ 3/29/2019 – 12:00PM – 3:30PM.  Mr. Russell is taking 25 students to the ICP Museum for a visit and tour.

WEEKLY PARENT COMMUNICATION

● FASHIONABLE TIMES BLOG

Just like we maintain a blog for staff, we maintain a weekly blog for HSFI Parents that includes a weekly message from me.  The link is:

http://hsfifashionabletimes.blogspot.com/

STUDENT INFORMATION RESOURCE

● NYC DOE STUDENT PROFILES

The NYC Department of Education has created a central location to access key student information – www.nycenet.edu/studentprofile

You have been emailed a one-page summary of this resource.  Here are the key categories of the ‘Student Profile’:

● Grades – current and historical report card grades

● Assessments - previous Regents scores

● Attendance - current and historical daily attendance including lateness

● Schedule – students’ current schedule

● Details – student biographical and demographic information including Special Education and English Language Learner (ELL) status

● Enrollment – enrollment history including all NYC schools attended

● Guardians – all the adults on the students’ biographical record including contact information and preferred language

VTODs FOR THE WEEK

SAT/ACT Vocabulary

Monday, March 25

Cumbersome (adj.) Difficult to do or manage and taking a lot of time and effort: Critics say that the process for amending the Constitution is cumbersome, but others defend it. “One type of bicycle rarely seen in Manhattan is a mountain bike — its knobby tires too cumbersome for Midtown traffic…” 

Tuesday, March 26

Burgeoning (adj.) Growing or developing quickly: A burgeoning tourist industry lifted the state’s economy. State and national funding falls far short of what is needed to deal with the burgeoning crisis of mental illness.

Thursday, March 28

Scope (n) The range of matters dealt with:  I am afraid that is outside the scope of my lecture, today.

2. The opportunity for activity: There is limited scope for further reducing the workforce.

Friday, March 29

Subsequent (adj.) Coming after something in time; following.  “He shared his doubts with the museum, and they collaborated on the subsequent detective work.” "The theory was developed subsequent to the earthquake of 1906.”

STAFF MEMBERS WHO SOARR

Thank you to all the HSFI staff that have been shouting out their colleagues on a daily basis through Basecamp – it is inspiring to read them and keep them coming.

Here are some additional SOARRing staff that are going beyond the call of duty for HSFI!

Thank you to MS. NEWPORT for executing another amazing set of windows with her Visual Merchandising students.

Thank you to MS. ARCAMAY for her work and support of Jemimah Jolimeau who won 3rd place in the Cooper Hewitt High School Directory Cover Design project. Her design will be featured on the Gifted & Talented directory for all NYC students next year.

Thank you to MR. EGAN for his effort in organizing PSAT/SAT Day.

Thank you to MR. RUSSELL for taking his students to the International Center of Photography Museum,

Thank you to MS. POWELL for writing and sharing the next unit in the Foundations of Art class,

Thank you to MS. ZUBROVICH for getting her students' work to the semi-finalist level of the PS Art show.

Thank you to MS. STAMBOULY for all her planning on the Senior Art Show.

Thank you to MS. COLLINS for all she does to ensure Graphics & Illustrations students have many different art related opportunities available to them inside and outside the school.

Thank you to MS. McKEON for organizing a Financial Aid presentation for our seniors to help them navigate the critical and complex path to paying for college and thanks to the Economics teachers for supporting the program through their classes.

Thank you to MS. ROJAS, MS. DAVID, MS. JOHAR & MS. CHAVEZ for opening their doors after school daily allowing student (often not their own students) time to work on any project in need of extra time and support.

Thank you to MS. SERRANO for running the crochet club where students were able to not only perfect their skills, but talk about everything that's going on this week.

Thank you to MS. PADRON & MS. VEGA for attending the student Equity Team meeting this week.

Thank you to MS. KONO for working with the CAT team to ensure students receive the appropriate Assistive Technology supports.

Thank you to MS. DAWSON & MS. ALVAREZ for constructing the freshman science pre-Regents assessment.

LIBRARY NEWS & NOTES by Judith Dahill, Librarian  

1.  Congratulations to freshman Channel Pena. She is the top READER @ HSFI. Since September she has checked out 325 books. Amazing academics. (Ms. Cuffie is her English teacher)

2. BIG READ: March 28 during 3rd period all staff are invited for coffee to meet the authors in the Charles Nolan Reading Room Fashion Library. Sponsored by our Follett Representative Julie Kieffer. Thanks to Thomas Knowlton, MyLibraryNYC partner for bringing these amazing authors to HSFI!!!

Y A A U T H O R S @HSFI

K O D Y  K E P L I N G E R  (team captain)

R A F I  M I T T L E F E L T

K. K. P E R E Z

S A M A T H A  S C H U T Z

M A R G A R E T  S T O H L

W I L L WA L T O N  

S C O T T W E S T E R F E L D

For information @ these authors teachingbooks.net a free DOE resource

3. Barbie Contest Judging on Friday 3/22/19 Please come to see our Barbie sketches. Judging will be done by Mr. Carranza, Fashion Design and former Barbie Magazine Illustration and Pata Llano 7th period. Please come to see the amazing sketches:

Amy Cruz (Ms. Johar); Keena Hall (Ms. Chavez); Vanessa Karen Gelito (Ms. Rojas); LingJing Chen (Ms. Balmir); Lawrence Ausan (Ms. David); Ammy Sanchez; Amaris Gonzalez (Ms. Rojas); Janet Li (Ms. David)

4. HSFI Denim display is up at Muhlenberg Branch of NYPL on 23rd Street. Thank you to Ms. David and Ms. Rojas for the denim designs from HSFI students for public presentation.  It has been a very successful display to Chelsea Community. Please stop by to visit it

ADDITIONS TO THE BLOG

If you are interested in adding something to the Weekly Bulletin Blog, please email Angela Ianniello – AIanniello@schools.nyc.gov – by Wednesday of that week.  Submissions emailed after this deadline will be placed in the following week’s Blog.