Sunday, September 18, 2016

WEEKLY BULLETIN for Week Beginning 9.19.16


MONDAY
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
SEPTEMBER 19

*OP Bell Schedule Distribution of Program Cards

PM Supervisor:
B McGuinness (Rm. 329)


20

*Regular Bell Schedule
*PBIS Behavior Team Meeting – Period 2 (Room 821)
PM Supervisor:
J Tallone (Rm. 201)
21

*Regular Bell Schedule
*School Leadership Team – 4:00 pm
*Parents Association Meeting – 6:00 pm

STUDENT CLUB FAIR

PM Supervisor:
K Boulamaali (Rm. 703)
22

*Regular Bell Schedule

STUDENT CLUB FAIR

PM Supervisor:
S Kohm (Rm. 531)
23

*Regular Bell Schedule

PM Supervisor:
R Bernstein (Rm. 127)

PBIS CALL TO ACTION
MARKET THE STUDENT CLUB FAIR
The student club fair is on Wednesday and Thursday – encourage your students, especially 9th graders, to attend.  Many times students make their connections to the school through these clubs.

MAKE SURE YOU REFER STUDENTS
We cannot help students out, if we do not know if they are having problems – fill out referrals as necessary including academic ones which will refer to the National Honor Society tutoring.  We hope to begin this service by the beginning of October.  HELP NEEDED: We need staff supervisors for these NHS tutoring sessions for Period 9 & 10– Per Session Posting #501

USE OF STUDENT ACTIVITIES FORM
The ‘Attendance for Student Activities’ link is now operational – when students go to a sports practice, attend tutoring, or do service for you – LET US KNOW through this form located on the Staff Homepage – we need to know these students are headed in the right direction just as much as we need to know they are going in the wrong direction.


OPERATIONAL NEED TO KNOW
CHECK YOUR DOE & HSFI EMAILS EVERYDAY

GET COMFORTABLE WITH THE HSFI STAFF HOMEPAGE
What can you do on the Staff Homepage? Submit a student referral / Apply for Per Session / Get to FashionSoarrs.com & Jupiter Grades / Get Access to School Opening Materials / Choose a Committee to Join & much more…

LUNCH APPLICATION COLLECTION
Thank you for your help with the collection of lunch applications.  There are 884 students left! Your efforts will help us secure important funding for our school. Please remind all your students and parents that you are in touch with to complete the online form at https://www.myschoolapps.com/.  A hard copy of the lunch form can be found in department offices, the Main office and in the Dean’s office.  Any hard copy that you receive should be turned in to Ms. Pam Rodriguez in the Dean’s office, or placed in Mr. Andre Rodrigues’s mailbox or in his office in Room 515.  You should have or will soon receive a customized list of your 3rd period students whose applications are still outstanding. Please follow up with those students individually.  Thank you again for your cooperation and attention to this important matter.

STUDENT / STAFF COMPUTER LOG-IN SUPPORT
Mr. Abdallah is available if anyone is having a problem with their Log in on the HSFI school computer network. If a student is having difficulty, please just send them to Mr. Abdallah in room 615 or room 704 period 5 and 6 for swift resolution. They will be sent back with resolution and a pass stating the time they left and from where. He is usually in Room 615 before 1st period and after school. You can call to check at extension 6151 or period 5 and 6 at extension 7041.  Keep in mind the following:
NOTE: All 9th grade students that were signed up for this school by Sept 1, 2016 have an account. For ninth grade students:
▪ 1st initial lastname and last four digits of their osis number.
▪ If they have two last names on their program it is 1st initial two last names and last four digits of osis number.
New system for Grade 9 only will be implemented each year until we have included 10th, 11th and 12th graders included.
Example: john Smith  id# 123456789
Username: jsmith6789
Password: 123456789
Example: john Jamison Smith  id# 123456789
Username: jjamisonsmith6789
Password: 123456789
10th, 11th & 12th graders’ username should match up to their HSFI account username and password is 9 digit osis number.
▪ 1st initial lastname
▪ If they have two last names on their program it is 1st initial two last names


VERY COOL THING @ HSFI
LUNCH APPLICATION COLLECTION
Make sure you check out this video – our amazing Fashion Design teacher and Alumni Association Director Belinda David, community associate extraordinaire Anika Carter and HSFI student Wendy Dias were featured on Bronxnet for their upcoming Garifuna Fashion Show this coming Saturday, September 24 that will benefit the HSFI Alumni Association and an infrastructure project in Honduras.  The Honduras project involves students not being able to attend school during flooding season – part of the money from the show will contribute to infrastructure system that can handle all this water.  Here is the link to the video:

SAVE THE DATE – SING IS BACK!!!
Make sure you block out December 16, 2016 – our second annual SING production will take place.  Performing arts is alive and well at HSFI!


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:


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


STAFF MEMBERS WHO SOARR
Thank you to MS. SIDERIS, MR. EGAN, MR. STAMPONE, MS. JOHNSTON, MS. PINTO, MS. GARCIA, MS. SCHLEIN, MR. RODRIGUES & MR. KOHM for attending a Google Apps for Education training in order to make our Response to Intervention system successful in Math, Social Studies and Science.

Thank you to MS. ADAMCZYK & MS. STAMBOULY for their efforts in getting our National Honor Society mentoring and tutoring program ready to go.

Thank you to all our staff that contributed to program changes running so smoothly including MS. VONGERICHTEN, MS. WEISS, MS. PADRON, MS. SAN JORGE, MR. SIA, MR. JONES, MR. DUKE, MR. LIU, MS. BERNSTEIN & MS. FRANK.  Thank you to MR. RAU for being behind the change to survey our current seniors last year (during 11th grade) on whether they wanted Science, Math or both Science & Math.  This change helped program changes go even more smoothly.

Thank you to MS. DAVID & MS. CARTER for representing the school so well during their appearance on Bronxnet TV (see above video clip) as they showcased this coming Saturday’s Garifuna HSFI Alumni Association Fashion Show.

Thank you to MS. CHRISTINA VEGA for leading our SING musical production efforts – we had a huge turnout for this past week’s informational meeting.

Thank you to MS. ALVAREZ & MR. LEE for their efforts as Science focus group leaders.
Thank you to MR. RAPPA for his work in initially setting up the Science labs.

Thank you to MS. NOBLE, MR. RUSSELL, MS. PARISSE & MS. DAMIAN for leading the CTE focus groups.

Thank you to MS. DAVID, MS. RIVIERE & MS. CHAVEZ for agreeing to be mentors for the new Fashion Design teachers.  They have been extremely supportive and helpful to the new teachers in their first few days of teaching.

Thank you to MS. CHIN for working tirelessly (and cheerfully!) to support our efforts on behalf of the students as she orders all the equipment and supplies we need to begin the school year!

Thank you to MS. DRABMAN for advocating for her students and connecting with the Special Education department to make them aware of a student who needed a resource for her class.

Thank you to MS. KUCKER for dedicating time to review special education student schedules.

Thank you to MS. RUSSELL for volunteering to work with new special education teachers to teach them SESIS.


VTODs FOR THE WEEK – COLLEGE TERMS
Monday, September 19
Grant: (n) A type of financial aid that doesn’t have to be repaid. Grants are often based on financial need.
Tuesday, September 20
EFC: Expected Family Contribution: (n) The amount students and their families are expected to pay toward college costs derived from a financial needs analysis, usually based on income and assets.
Wednesday, September 21 
Status: (n) A condition or state at a particular time. In general, full-time status for a college student is defined as enrollment in 12 or more course credits. 
Thursday, September 22                                                                                                                
Common Application: (n) A standard application form accepted by all colleges that are members of the Common Application association. You can fill out this application (The Common App) once and submit it to any one — or several — of the 700 -plus colleges that accept it.
Friday, September 23                                                                                                                         
Indirect Costs: (n) College costs that do not show up on the college bill and include books, supplies, travel, and personal expenses (laundry, entertainment, clothing, etc.). The amount spent on indirect costs will vary according to need and preference


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.



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