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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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JANUARY
23
*Regular Bell Schedule
DEPARTMENT MEETINGS
PM Supervisor:
B McGuinness (Rm. 329)
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24
*REGENTS
PM Supervisor:
S Rau (Rm. 829)
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25
*REGENTS
PM Supervisor:
K Boulamaali (Rm. 703)
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26
*REGENTS
GRADES DUE BY 4pm
PM Supervisor:
N Moore (Rm. 228)
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27
*REGENTS
PM Supervisor:
D Silva (Rm. 125)
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HSFI @ SUNRISE
Enjoy
this photo of the sun rising at HSFI taken by Ms. Russell – thank you Ms.
Russell for sharing!
THE ANSWER IS IN THE ROOM
Each week, Mr. Kearns and Ms. Paz will work with
colleagues from all over the building to share out instructional best practices
with one another. Each week will focus
on a different instructional topic connected to our Problem of Practice.
Here are some
highlights of the best practices shared after the last round of
intervisitations; all are focused on The Writing Revolution.
In the Science department, Ms. Castro created a combination of
a fragment/sentence activity as well as a scrambled sentences activity to
emphasize students' knowledge of earthquakes.
In the Math department, Mr. Kilpatrick and Ms. Garcia created a
TWR review activity for the end of the marking period, which also incorporates
an error analysis involving the mood meter.
In the English Department, Ms. Bohner created
sentence expansion/combining activities for her students to demonstrate
knowledge of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime.
To see these
activities and more join the HSFI Google+ Page found here:
*If any staff member
would like to share a lesson, activity, or best practice,
send it to Ms. Paz at SPaz@schools.nyc.gov or Mr. Kearns at kkearns@schools.nyc.gov
IMPORTANT
REGENTS REMINDERS
BE AN ACTIVE PROCTOR
As you well know,
Regents/RCT exams begin on Tuesday, January 24. These are high stakes
exams for our students so we need to be at the top of our game with our
proctoring – in the classrooms, on reserve and the hallways. It would be a HUGE help if you could
remind all students throughout the week about not having cell phone and
electronic equipment on them when they are taking their tests and to place
these devices in their lockers.
REGENTS
ROOM READINESS
The following
classrooms will be utilized during the administration of the NYS Regents next
week:
Second Floor: 225, 229
Third Floor: 319, 321, 323, 325,
327
Seventh Floor: 702, 722, 723, 725,
726, 740, 742, 743
Ninth Floor: 902, 906, 921, 923,
925, 940
Teachers who don't
teach in these rooms can leave their rooms intact.
It is critical that you have your
classroom ‘Regents Ready’ by the end of the school day on Monday, January
23. Before a
test can be given in any room, teachers must prepare the rooms to the following
specifications - Please assist all proctors by preparing your classrooms:
● Desks must be
arranged in straight rows.
● Teachers must clear
desks and shelves under the desks of all books, papers, and other materials.
● Teachers must
completely cover or remove all charts or remove maps pertinent any subject
matter being tested. Teachers must remove all board work.
IMPORTANT
INSTRUCTIONAL REMINDERS
● 3rd MARKING PERIOD DIRECTIONS
Please look over the
attached documents outlining the end of 3rd marking period instructions. Grades are due on Thursday, January 26th
at 4:00pm.
● HOMEWORK POLICY IN EFFECT FOR SPRING TERM
We are all set with our HW policy to begin the
Spring 2017 term. The current draft was sent to you via email. In addition to your feedback, the policy has
been developed and approved by our Academic & Career and Technical
Education committee, Student Government, the Parents’ Association & the
School Leadership Team. The policy will be emailed to all students and
families – we will make sure students get a copy of the policy before the
Spring term begins. Make sure your HW policies align to the school-wide
policy for the Spring term. We will continually reflect on the policy and
make changes as necessary.
● TECHNOLOGY UPDATES
SMART
BOARD SOFTWARE TO INSTALL AT HOME
You
received an email from Mr. Tallone about installing Smart Board software on
your home devices - on the staff homepage are the instructions to installing
smart note software on your home computer. Please follow the instructions and
let Mr. Tallone know if you have any problems. Do not under any
circumstances download the file at school. It will slow down the
network and cause schoolwide problems.
GOOGLE APP WITH HOW TO VIDEOS
Below is a link to a new google app. It is used like an
extension in chrome and has tons of videos on how to use many google programs.
Use the link and add it to your hsfi account. (you must be logged into hsfi to
use it.) You can even download it at home. All of HSFI
current Tech guides are on connected to the app.
If you have questions, please speak to your supervisor.
Check out "Training for Google Apps": https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/training-for-google-apps/idkloemkmldbemijiamdiolojbffnjlh?utm_source=gmail
AIR
CONDITIONER CAMPAIGN MOMENTUM
Please keep up the momentum of
our Air Conditioner campaign – we have an amazing opportunity to reach our goal
with the anonymous donor that will match our donations
up to $50,000.
Let our students know
how important it is to take ownership of this campaign AND how unbearable it
gets in classrooms when it’s hot. $25
from each HSFI student who get us very close to the $50,000 goal.
We need to do our
part in spreading the word and getting donations whether you have an AC or do
not have an AC in your classroom or office – some people I have gotten to
donate include guys I play basketball with, the person who I purchase car
insurance from and quite a few members of the Bronx Science Graduating Class of
19__ (no need to identify the year).
Link to the GoFundMe
Campaign:
Link to the DNA Info
article on the AC Campaign:
OPERATIONAL
NEED TO KNOW
● CHECK YOUR DOE & HSFI EMAILS EVERYDAY
● HSFI STAFF HOMEPAGE LINK - https://sites.google.com/a/hsfi.us/hsfi-staff-portal/
● W-2 FORMS AVAILABILITY
W-2 FORMS will be delivered on January 31 along with
the Teacher's Payroll. Please pick up your W-2 in the Payroll Office.
● ATTENDANCE OFFICE REMINDERS
Please make sure to hand in all attendance
sheets(From Jan. 23 and last week) on Monday January 23.
Confirmation Sheets
will be generated for January by the end of the week. Please make sure to
fill them out.
● ARE THE CLOCKS WORKING IN YOUR ROOM?
Please take a minute
and fill out the form. We are meeting with the contractors who worked on
the new PA system and need to know if any of the new clocks are not working
● NEW ELEVATOR CARDS
Pick up your new elevator cards
from Ms. Ianniello in Room 819. Students
will be picking up their new elevator cards as well – make sure students
present their elevator cards. Here are
the rules they (and their parents) agreed to as part of their contracts:
□ You must show respectful
behavior to all other HSFI community members in the elevator
□ You, alone, can use the pass –
you are not allowed to bring a friend(s) with you onto the elevator
□ When you get on the elevator
(which will be color-coded), you need to show your pass to any staff member in
the elevator
□ If you lose your elevator pass,
the first replacement is free – after that you have to pay for a replacement
which will be $10
□ You must return your pass at
the end of the school year or when it expires (if it is a temporary pass)
□ You must submit a medical
letter from your doctor at the beginning of every school year
The consequences of breaking
these rules will be the following:
□ You will lose your elevator
pass privileges
□ For seniors, your cap and gown
for graduation will be held until it is returned
STUDENT ACTIVITIES
● WEBSITE LINK TO TAKE ATTENDANCE AT STUDENT ACTIVITIES
● WEBSITE LINK TO VIEW ATTENDANCE RECORDS
In
order to sort / filter the list, you must click on the temporary filter icon
which is located next to the printer icon (looks like a wine glass).
● CHAPERONES NEEDED FOR HOMECOMING DANCE ON
FEBRUARY 11
Fulfill your New Year’s
Resolution of Chaperoning a School Dance during 2017 J
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
VTODs
FOR THE WEEK
Our VTODs will now be lexical
arrays of terms that are connected in meaning but often reflect differences in
tone, mood, or levels of intensity. For example: peek, glance, scowl, stare, and glare.
LEXICAL
ARRAY: from ROTE to FATHOM
Monday, January 23
Fathom: (v) to comprehend a mystery or
problem; to understand what something means after thinking about it carefully.
Galileo insisted that inquiring minds could fathom the universe. What is
“difficult to fathom — is what happens in the minds of people living through an
age of upheaval.”
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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