Sunday, May 22, 2016

WEEKLY BULLETIN for Week Beginning 5.23.16


MONDAY
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
MAY 23

*Regular  Bell Schedule

PM Supervisor:
R Bernstein  (Rm. 127)
24

*Regular Bell Schedule
*Spring Festival
5th Floor Veranda
Afterschool

PM Supervisor:
A Rodrigues (Rm. 515)
25

*Regular Bell Schedule
*SLT Meeting
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
*PA Executive Board Meeting
5:00 pm -5:45 pm
*PA General Meeting
6:00 pm - 8:00pm

PM Supervisor:
G How (Rm. 329)
26

*Regular Bell Schedule
*PBIS Behavior Team Meeting Period 2 – Room 821

PM Supervisor:
J Tallone (Rm. 201)
27

*Regular Bell Schedule

SUMMER SCHOOL APPLICATIONS DUE

PM Supervisor:
D Silva (Rm. 125)


GLENN R. SEARS Scholarship
I am proud to announce that we are now accepting applications for the GLENN R. SEARS Scholarship.
This is the text of the email I sent to our seniors via Jupiter and their HSFI email – please encourage deserving seniors to apply for this scholarship.  We have received 16 applications thus far, but no ISS students – please encourage these students to apply.
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HSFI Seniors
I am pleased to announce that we are now accepting applications for the GLENN R. SEARS scholarship to be awarded before the end of the school year. Mr. Glenn Sears was a beloved member of the High School of Fashion Industries’ staff for 16 years. Mr. Sears enjoyed his work as a classroom paraprofessional assisting teachers and providing support to the students. He loved working in the school’s library where he helped to create a welcoming space for students to study and socialize. The Glenn R. Sears Scholarship Fund is being established to remember and continue Mr. Sears’s impact on his colleagues, students and the school by acknowledging the efforts of, and supporting each year, the continued learning of two deserving HSFI seniors – one of whom will be a Special Needs student –who will be pursuing either a college education or post-high school career training. Here is the scholarship application link:
Thank you!

PBIS CALL TO ACTION
3 WEEKS UNTIL REGENTS EXAMS
Not much time until the term and school year ends.  The weather is also getting nicer (finally) which does help our students’ focus.  Encourage students to finish up strong with graduation and summer school at stake!  You must communicate with the students themselves, parents, counselors and supervisors if students are at-risk of not passing classes and Regents.

REGENTS REVIEW
Encourage your students to attend Regents review after school and on the weekends.  These are high-stakes exams that are crucial to our students’ moving forward in their academic careers.

MAINTAINING SCHOOL TONE
As we enter the home stretch of the school year, it is critical that we need to be UNIFIED as a staff in enforcing our school rules to maintain our school tone.  Please be consistent and model the correct behaviors our students need in order to SOARR to college and career readiness.
NO FOOD IN CLASSROOMS – students can only eat in the student cafeteria & the student lounge - no food should in classrooms before, during or after school – no staff or students should be eating in any computer lab
DRESS CODE – every week there are zero dress code infractions which is certainly not reality– nobody is reporting these infractions via Jupiter Grades – please make these referrals, so we can follow up with these students and help set the proper tone and attire here at HSFI
PROPER USE OF HALL / HEALTH CENTER PASSES – students can only leave the classroom with a pass / students going to the Falcon Health Center must use that specific pass
ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT POLICY - electronic equipment are only allowed to be used in classrooms for instructional purposes – students must not be allowed to take out their phones during class and do not let students charge this equipment in your classrooms
ELEVATORS – students are not allowed on staff elevators unless they have their own elevator card / ask students to show their elevator passes when they are in those elevators

  
SUMMER SCHOOL AT HSFI
Summer School Staff Needed
We are holding summer school at HSFI and we would like to have as many HSFI staff working as possible.  Applications submitted after May 27, 2016 will be considered late and you will have difficulty in getting a position.  Here is the link:
Please let your supervisor know if you are applying for a summer school position.


OPERATIONAL NEED TO KNOW
HSFI Google Classroom Sign-up
About two-thirds of the staff has not yet signed up for the STAFF ONLY Google classroom.   We will begin sending out information for next year including per session applications via this portal.  All important information will be located in one place for next year.   Please join the HSFI Staff Only Google Classroom, before the end of the week.   You must be logged into your hsfi account to do this.  
The code is rm1tosf
If you do not know how to sign up, please ask you supervisor or a colleague.  Finally, if you need your HSFI password reset, please ask your supervisor to reset the password.

Free Access to Microsoft Office for DOE Employees
All New York City Department of Education (DOE) employees who have active @schools.nyc.gov email accounts can now download Microsoft Office on up to five computers and five mobile devices. The software, intended for download on personal computers and devices, includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook, Access (PC only), and Publisher (PC only). 
Please don’t download the software at school or work. The DOE will roll out Microsoft collaboration tools (OneDrive, Skype for Business) later this year after network infrastructure improvements are completed.

Attending Graduation for Staff at Distributed Scoring Sites
Please let your supervisor and Assistant Principal R. Bernstein know if you want to attend graduation AND you are assigned to a distributed grading site.  Once you get to the distributed grading site, identify the site supervisor that I need to contact in order to process this request – one member of the respective department at that distributed grading should email me and your supervisor with that name and contact information.

Common Core Testing on Wednesday, June 1
Only students taking the CC Trigonometry & Integrated Algebra Regents attend class on Wednesday, June 1.  We will be on a special testing schedule with a large majority of staff given proctoring assignments.  There will be no regular classes on this date.


SCHOOL CALENDAR
MONDAY
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
MAY 23
24
▪Visual Merchandising Written Exam
▪Fashion Merchandising Exam
▪Graphics and Illustration Adobe Exam
▪Student Government Spring Festival

25
▪Visual Merchandising Written Exam
▪Fashion Merchandising Exam

26
Graphics and Illustration Adobe Exam
27
Senior Trip to
Bear Mountain

30
NO SCHOOL

31
Graphics and Illustration Adobe Exam


JUNE 1
▪Common Core Testing – only students taking the CC Trigonometry & Integrated Algebra attend

2
Graphics and Illustration Adobe Exam

3
▪Senior Trip to
Dorney Park
▪Incoming Student Orientation – 6pm

6
7
Graphics and Illustration Adobe Exam

8
Student Awards Ceremony

9
▪Staff Development Day (No Students)
▪End of Year Staff Get Together

10
▪Incoming Student Orientation – 6pm

13
14
REGENTS

15
REGENTS

16
REGENTS

17
REGENTS


20
REGENTS

21
REGENTS

22
▪REGENTS
▪Graduation at Hunter College 9am
23
REGENTS Rating Day

24

27


28
Last Day of School for Students & Teachers

29
30
Last Day of School for all other staff



STAFF MEMBERS WHO SOARR
Thank you to MS. EISENBERG for opening up her classroom for our Assistant Principal instructional rounds that continued this past week.

Thank you to MR. RAU & MS. SAN JORGE for stepping up to serve as HSFI’s Coordinators of Student Activities – their efforts were capped off by an amazing Prom at Chelsea Piers this past Saturday night.

Thank you to MS. SAN JORGE, MS. CHAVEZ, MS. CARTER, MS. VEGA, MR. STAMPONE, MS. HOW, MS. WRIGHT, MS. BALMIR, MS. BROADBELT, DR. HABIBIAN, MS. VACCARO, MS. CUFFIE, MS. CISSE, MR. KILPATRICK & MS. HUAMAN for giving up their Saturday night to chaperones our senior prom.

Thank you to MS. HOW & MR. RAU for staying at the Prom until 3:20 am in the morning until every student was picked up from the Prom.

Thank you to MS. RICCI & MS. PARISSE for staying after school over the course of two weeks to cut, pin and sew 45 runners for the Prom tables – they looked amazing.

Thank you to MS. DAVID for organizing our Alumni Basketball Game this past Friday – it was wonderful to see so many alumni come back to play in this game.

Thank you to MS. RODRIGUEZ & MS. VELEZ for helping out with our attendance efforts.

Thank you to MS. FERLAZZO for pitching in to help the ESL teachers with NYSESLAT grading.



VTODs FOR THE WEEK
Monday, May 23
contemptuous (adj.) insulting, scornful, disrespectful, rude. The son was openly contemptuous of his father, showing not a shred of respect.  ‘She was intolerant and contemptuous of the majority of the human race.’
Tuesday, May 24
intensive (adj.)   Thorough, concentrated: ‘The student undertook an intensive Arabic course, designed to cover a great amount of material in a short time.’ The hospital’s intensive care unit provided my mother with expert care.
Wednesday, May 25
intense (adj.) 1.  having a very strong effect or felt strongly, The pain was so intense I couldn't sleep.  2. done with great effort. After years of intense study, she received her medical degree.
Thursday May 26
endemic (adj.) growing or existing in a certain place; common in a particular field or area. Polio is endemic in two countries: Pakistan and Afghanistan. About seventy- five percent of Madagascar’s species are endemic to that island nation and live nowhere else. 
Friday, May 27
epidemic (n):  A spreading among the people, (for example, a contagious disease or an addiction.)  Many states are facing a growing epidemic of opioid addiction and overdose deaths.  (Greek roots: epi meaning upon or among and demos meaning the people or country.)


DISCIPLINE DATA FROM 5/9/16 – 5/19/16
Below are the registered concerns submitted by staff members through Jupiter Grades and through the hand-written referral process:
INFRACTION CATEGORY
INCIDENTS MAY 9-19
INCIDENTS APRIL 22-MAY 5
CHANGE

9 SCHOOL DAYS
5 SCHOOL DAYS

ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT
20
20

No Change
DISRESPECT / DISRUPTION
22
10
+12

DRESS CODE
0
0
No Change
THEFT
4
3
+1
BULLYING
0
4
-4
LEAVE BUILDING
0
2
-2
FIGHTING
2
0
+2
VANDALISM
0
0
No Change
SELLING FOOD
0
0
No Change
SCHOLASTIC DISHONESTY
1

0

+1

YEAR-TO-DATE ATTENDANCE / SUSPENSION DATA
CURRENT SCHOOL POPULATION: 1746 Students
WEEKLY ATTENDANCE RATE

87.7 %
[Attendance Last Week: 88.4 %]
PRINCIPAL’S SUSPENSION
[Suspension is the School’s Choice after progressive discipline]
24
 [1 New Suspensions]
SUPERINTENDENT SUSPENSION
[Suspension is Mandatory for high level infraction from Discipline Code]
5
 [1 New Suspension]

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