WEEKLY BULLETIN for Week Beginning 3.7.16

MONDAY	TUESDAY	WEDNESDAY	THURSDAY	FRIDAY
MARCH 7 *First Monday Bell Schedule PLCs Meet immediately after 9th Period *PBIS Committee Meeting  (Period 6)- Room 821 *New HSFI Staff Meeting 3:15 pm – 4:00 pm Room 821 PM Supervisor: S Kohm  (Rm. 531)	8 *Regular Bell Schedule PM Supervisor: A Rodrigues (Rm. 515)	9 *OP Bell Schedule Distribution of Report Cards PM Supervisor: G How  (Rm. 329)	10 *Regular Bell Schedule *Parent/Teacher Conferences 5:30 pm – 8:00 pm PM Supervisor: G Raschilla (Rm. 149)	11 *Career Day Schedule *Parent/Teacher Conferences 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm PM Supervisor: D Silva (Rm. 201)

PBIS CALL TO ACTION

● Our Lateness plan begins this week on Tuesday for Period 2 – please encourage your students to get to school on time

● Talk up Career Day – encourage your students to take advantage of this amazing opportunity – remind them to dress appropriately and be ready with questions for their speakers

● Parent-Teacher Conferences are Thursday and Friday - reach out to parents you need to see so they can adjust their schedules including child care, in order to attend the conferences

● GUIDANCE REMINDERS

#1 - When filling out referrals you should only check off AP Guidance or AP Security.  Ms. Bernstein (AP Guidance) will make sure the referral gets to the correct counselor / Mr. Raschilla (AP Security) will assign the referral to the correct Dean

#2 - Referral Guidelines – remember the protocol for letting HSFI staff know about at-risk students:

(a) At-Risk Referral form

(b) If the issues persist within a given marking period, fill out a Guidance Referral

(c) Start fresh at the beginning of the 2^nd Marking Period – go back to the At-Risk Referral form

PLEASE REMEMBER THE NATIONAL HONOR SOCIETY TUTORING REFERRALS

COOL THINGS GOING ON @ HSFI

● HSFI Annual Career Day on Friday

Thanks to your referrals and our Advisory Board, we have 50 professionals from all 4 of our majors scheduled to present on Friday morning to our students.  This annual event is a tremendous opportunity for our students to hear the journeys of these professionals and will hopefully inspire them to succeed in the same manner.

● Dental Services Have Begun at the Falcon Health Center

This past week we had the first day with the Dental staff on site with students already being seen for appointments.

● 93% Enrollment of HSFI Students at the Falcon Health Center

It is wonderful to see that so many of our students are taking advantage of these QUALITY & FREE services at the Health Center.  I am so proud of how we look out for our students in every possible way – academically, socially and their health care.

OPERATIONAL NEED TO KNOW

● First Monday Schedule

Just a reminder that this coming Monday, March 7 is First Monday. Our remaining First Mondays are April 4 and May 2.

▪ All Para-Professionals, report to Ms. How in RM 329

▪ All Physical Education teachers, report to Ms. Sostre in the Third Floor Gymnasium

▪ All CTE Teachers, report to Ms. Boulamaali in RM 844

▪ All English, Math, Science, Social Studies and Spanish Teachers and all Guidance Counselors, please report to your PLC Assignment.  Remember to bring a copy of your CCSS Monthly Assessment and Target Student/s work.

▪ We will be having a ‘New Staff to HSFI’ meeting in Room 821 starting at 3:15 pm

● Parent-Teacher Conferences are Thursday and Friday

Thursday’s conferences are 5:30 pm – 8:00 pm / Friday’s conferences are 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm

● Student Activities File

This excel file of Student Activities is attached to the Weekly Bulletin email

SAVE THE DATES!

SING Musical Program – April 15 & April 16

International Center of Photography 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 THE ENTIRE STAFF for making the administration of the SAT and PSAT go so smoothly – this includes proctors, reserve proctors, hall proctors, staff members who took students on college trips, the staff members helping out in the auditorium, the assistant principals for patrolling the hallways and arranging for a great presentation in the auditorium. Some special shouts in making this administration work so well includes:

Thank you to MS. BERNSTEIN & MR. EGAN  for running the entire operation – a huge and overwhelming undertaking!

Thank you to ALL OUR SAT / PSAT PROCTORS for their efforts - they had to leap through extra hoops of watching a long training video and administering a complicated exam for the first time.

Thank you to MS. WEISS, MS. McKEON & MS. TROTTA for making sure the 9^th graders were scheduled to go on great college trips, organizing the trips and the sign-ups.

Thank you to MS. HOW for helping with reserve proctors, hall proctors and extended time rooms.

Thank you to MR. LIU & MR. KILPATRICK for taking care of calculator set up for the SAT.

Thank you to MS. INCE for coordinating all of the student with disabilities testing requirements.

Thank you to MS. MOORE & MR. KILPATRICK for bubbling in their classes released for PSAT/SAT day.

Thank you to MS. JOSEPH for bubbling in over 400 attendance sheets released from class.

Thank you to MS. McHUGH for working on transition IEPs for a New York State Education Department review.  HSFI had one of thirteen IEPS citywide submitted for state review that was compliant with New York State regulations for transition services for our ISS students.  MS. McHUGH does amazing work as our Transition Coordinator !

Thank you to MR. CARRANZA, MS. BALMIR, MS. BROADBELT, MS. STAMBOULY, MS. RICCI & MS. CHAVEZ  for opening up their classrooms for our Assistant Principal instructional rounds that began this past week for the first time.

Thank you to MS. BOHNER, MS. PAZ & MS. BALMIR for opening up their classrooms for a group of Aspiring Principals that observed their classes.

Thank you to MS. MARTINEZ & MR. RAPPA for collaborating on an amazing fruit fly lab with our Advanced Placement biology students.

Thank you to MR. HURLEY, MR. LEE & MS. DE LA ROSA for their Science tutoring efforts.

Thank you to MS. CONAGHAN, MR. HURLEY, MR. DAWSON & MS. JOHNSTON for their development of Common Core work across the Science department.

Thank you to MS. McHUGH & MR. ROBINSON for working on developing the TOP program to provide valuable work experience opportunities for ISS students.

Thank you to MR. SIA for delivering SOARR academy programs to over 100 students this past week.

Thank you to MR. DUKE & MR. JONES for organizing and starting to run the boys groups for the spring semester.

VTODs FOR THE WEEK

Monday, March 7

Epigraph (adj.)   1. An engraved inscription on a statue or building. The epigraph on Grant’s Tomb has the General’s famous words, “Let us have peace.”  2. A quotation often borrowed from another writer and set at the beginning of a book or one of its sections to suggest its theme or mood.  In The Godfather, the novelist, Mario Puzo has an epigraph from the French writer, Balzac: “Behind every great fortune there is a crime.”

Tuesday, March 8

Dissolution (n) a separation into component parts; disintegration.  In 1970 Paul McCartney filed a lawsuit in London's High Court for the dissolution of The Beatles' partnership. He has overseen the dissolution of Haiti’s Parliament; a move that critics say was a power grab.

Wednesday, March 9

Disillusion (v) disenchant, lose naive faith and trust. Tompkins had grown disillusioned about the negative impact that his clothing company was having on the environment. We were disillusioned when we saw how the famous actor behaved in real life.

Thursday, March 10

Censor 1. (n)  A person authorized to delete or suppress material considered morally offensive or politically dangerous. The censors bleeped fifteen words in the interview before the broadcast.

2 (v) to delete or suppress material considered morally offensive or politically dangerous. Hitler’s Propaganda Minister, Joseph Goebbels, censored all opposition to Hitler and the Nazi Party.

Friday, March 11

Sensor (n) A sensor is something that interprets stimulation. The lights are turned on by a movement sensor. Image sensors are used in digital cameras.

DISCIPLINE DATA FROM 2/27/16 – 3/3/16

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

INFRACTION CATEGORY	INCIDENTS FEB. 27–MARCH 3	INCIDENTS FEB. 12 - 25	CHANGE
	5 SCHOOL DAYS	5 SCHOOL DAYS
ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT	8	6	+2
DISRESPECT / DISRUPTION	7	2	+5
DRESS CODE	0	1	-1
THEFT	0	1	-1
BULLYING	0	0	No Change
LEAVE BUILDING	0	0	No Change
FIGHTING	0	2	-2
VANDALISM	0	0	No Change
SELLING FOOD	0	0	No Change
SCHOLASTIC DISHONESTY	0	0	No Change

YEAR-TO-DATE ATTENDANCE / SUSPENSION DATA CURRENT SCHOOL POPULATION: 1758 Students
WEEKLY ATTENDANCE RATE				86.5 % [Attendance Last Week: 90 %]
LATENESS UPDATE	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
Last Week	567	xxxxx	xxxxx	439	474
Week of 2/22 – 2/26	xxxxx	457	571	xxxxx	411
PRINCIPAL’S SUSPENSION [Suspension is the School’s Choice after progressive discipline]				17  [0 New Suspensions]
SUPERINTENDENT SUSPENSION [Suspension is Mandatory for high level infraction from Discipline Code]				1 [0 New Suspensions]

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