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THURSDAY
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MARCH
13
*Regular Bell Schedule
*PBIS Behavior Team Meeting –
Per. 3 –
Room
821
*PBIS Committee Meeting - Period 6 –
Room
821
DEPARTMENT
INTERVISITATIONS
PM Supervisor:
B McGuinness (Rm. 329)
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14
*Regular Bell Schedule
*Aca / CTE Committee Meeting –
Per. 2 Room 821
PM Supervisor:
S Rau (Rm. 829)
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15
*OP Bell Schedule
EXTENDED TIME FOR
STUDENTS TO COMPLETE NYC DOE SURVEY
END OF FIRST MARKING
PERIOD
PM Supervisor:
A Rodrigues (Rm. 515)
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16
*Regular Bell Schedule
PARENT VISITATION DAY
#1
PM Supervisor:
S Kohm (Rm. 531)
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17
*Regular Bell Schedule
PARENT VISITATION DAY
#2
GRADES DUE
PM Supervisor:
D Silva (Rm. 125)
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THE
ANSWER IS IN THE ROOM
Here are some
highlights of the best practices shared after the last round of
intervisitations; all are focused on scaffolding and the use of
socio-emotional practices in class.
In the Science
department, Ms. Pinto and the Earth Science focus group, created a handout
using TWR to analyze an article on Ice Cap Cannibalism.
In the Math
department, Ms. Garcia and Mr. Kilpatrick created a TWR activity to review
statistical measures in the Algebra classes.
In the CTE department
Ms. Allen used a graphic organizer to scaffold her student's work process.
In the English
Department Ms. McGoldrick does a socio-emotional check in every week with an
activity called "What's Up Wednesday".
To see these
activities and more join the HSFI Google+ Page found here. https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/108340703393557258737
*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
PLEASE COMPLETE NYC DOE SURVEY
Teachers, counselors
and paraprofessionals please take a few minutes this week 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.
The link to the
survey is below, but you must have the unique access code from the postcard to
proceed:
If you lose your postcard with the unique access
code, you need to call the following phone number: 1-800-690-8603. Thank you!
PBIS
CALL TO ACTION
● MARKING PERIOD 1 WINDING DOWN – GOOD TIME FOR NATIONAL HONOR SOCIETY
HOMEWORK HELP REFERRALS
The end of the first marking
period ends on Wednesday. Parent-Teacher
conferences are March 23 & 24. Start
to contact the parents of at-risk students to let them know that their children
are not doing well. It is always disconcerting
for parents to find out that their kids failed for the first time when they see
their report cards. This would be an
excellent time for National Honor Society Homework Help referrals – we will be
holding the HW help in the Room 201 computer lab / not the Charles Nolan Room. Earlier this week
you received flyers about our National Honor Society HW Help – please display
these posters prominently in your classroom or door. This is an
under-utilized resource for our students and we hope the marketing campaign
will encourage students to get this extra help. I encourage you to refer
at-risk students to these NHS HW Help sessions – I know we have plenty of
students that need this extra support.
● PUT OUR SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNINGF INTO ACTION
Just as we starting to use the Mood
Meter in our staff meetings, if you are comfortable you should using the Mood
Meter or some sort of social-emotional check-in with your students. Don’t just go right into the French
Revolution, geometric proof or draping activity – take a couple of minutes to
find out how your students are feeling and get them into the pleasantness /
energy quadrant that fits your lesson.
● REINFORCE POSITIVE BEHAVIOR WITH FASHION DOLLARS
Every staff member should be
positively rewarding deserving students in every class or every office
visit. We continue to have a “hoarding”
problem with our FD tokens that we are trying to combat – for now, rely on FashionSoarrs.
SPEAKERS NEEDED FOR NEXT WEEK’S CAREER DAY
We are in need of
additional speakers for our annual Career Day on Friday, March 24 which is the
morning of Parent-Teacher Conferences afternoon. If you know anyone from
the world of fashion, the arts and/or business and might be interested in
speaking to our students, please try to convince them to present at our Career
Day. The logistics of Career Day are two 45-minute presentations that
includes time for questions and answers beginning at 9:45 am – the first bloc
of time is 9:45 am – 10:30 am and then 10:30 am – 11:15 am. We have a
breakfast reception for our speakers at 9:00 am with our Advisory Board in
appreciation of their efforts. Students will report to OP at 9:00 am and
then eventually move onto the presentations they sign up for. Your
responsibility that morning will be to monitor one presentation to make sure
our students are behaving the correct way towards our speakers.
If you think you
have someone interested in Career Day, get in touch with Ms. Anika Carter – she
is in Room 819 / extension 8194 / via email ACarter15@schools.nyc.gov or ACarter15@hsfi.us. Once you make the connection with Ms. Carter, she will
take it from there. Thank you!
IMPORTANT
INSTRUCTIONAL REMINDERS
● WRITING REVOLUTION
TWR
reminders: 9th & 10th Grade ELA, Math, Science and Social Studies teachers
The next deadline to submit TWR work is by 4 PM on Wednesday, March 15th.
Please submit recent teacher-created tasks with anticipated responses with a focus on Quick
Outline, including Topic Sentence and supporting detail. (Math- continued sentence work).
Teacher-created activities with anticipated responses:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BzXw4_YK-LbuSnJmd1FGbklZRmc
The next deadline to submit TWR work is by 4 PM on Wednesday, March 15th.
Please submit recent teacher-created tasks with anticipated responses with a focus on Quick
Outline, including Topic Sentence and supporting detail. (Math- continued sentence work).
Teacher-created activities with anticipated responses:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BzXw4_YK-LbuSnJmd1FGbklZRmc
Target Student work (If you teach the *TWR Target Students)
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0BzXw4_YK-LbuTEJkZ2E4WkhOU0k?usp=sharing
● HOMEWORK POLICY – NO NEW HW ON WEDNESDAYS
Clarification for you and our
students – NO NEW HW ON WEDNESDAYS means that no new homework can be assigned
on Wednesdays. Assignments can be given
on Tuesdays (or other days) and due on Wednesdays. Please spread the word to students so they
are clear on the policy.
● COMPUTER LAB IS OPEN ALL THE TIME – ENCOURAGE STUDENTS TO USE IT
Our student computer lab
continues to be open from:
□ 7:30 am through the end of 2nd
Period
□ All lunch periods
□ From the end of 8th
Period to 5:00 pm
Encourage your students to take
advantage of this technology resource.
OPERATIONAL
NEED TO KNOW
● CHECK YOUR DOE & HSFI EMAILS EVERYDAY
● HSFI STAFF HOMEPAGE LINK - https://sites.google.com/a/hsfi.us/hsfi-staff-portal/
● ATTENDANCE OFFICE REMINDERS
□ Please return any re-printed attendance
sheets. They need to be returned by Monday March 13.
□ Confirmation sheets will be printed for
February the week of March 13. Please fill them out and return them in a
timely fashion.
□ We had two perfect Blue Sheet days.
It would be nice to have everyone's blue sheet on time every day.
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).
● UPCOMING STUDENT ACTIVITIES / HELP NEEDED
□ 11th
Grade Bowling Trip – March 17
We are trying to have
special student trips for every grade (not just seniors) – the 11th
graders will be going bowling on March 17, leaving the school at 10:00 am and
not returning to school.
□ Variety Show –
March 31
Staff are encouraged
to perform at the Variety Show – Ms. Broadbelt is recruiting for a lip sync
battle between students and staff
● MOVEMENT MONDAYS
Movement
Mondays Yoga! Monday, March 13th 4:15 PM in the Auditorium. Suggested donation
$10 Staff, $5 students -- all donations will go to the Air Conditioner fund!
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
The
SOARRing staff showcased below come from nominations from their supervisors and
their colleagues. You can nominate a
colleague by using the email: PBISDataTeam@hsfi.us
Please
include the reason why your colleague has SOARRed!
Thank
you to MS. PADRON for organizing and executing the 2nd
Annual Gay-Straight Alliance Summit. The
GSA Summit brought together LGBTQ students from four schools including HSFI –
listening to these students and their feeling of acceptance was a beautiful
thing!
Thank
you to MR. CARRANZA, MR. RUSSELL, MR. ABDALLAH, MS. STAMBOULY,
MS. STAMBOULY, MS. ZUBROVICH, MS. ARCAMAY & MS. COLLINS for preparing
artwork to be displayed within the student lounge.
Thank
you to MR. RODRIGUEZ for helping
a student get back on track by translating at meeting with a Spanish-speaking
parent.
Thank you to MS. BAILEY for raising awareness of International Women's Day by giving out ribbons to students as they walked into school.
Thank you to MS. BAILEY for raising awareness of International Women's Day by giving out ribbons to students as they walked into school.
Thank
you to MS. FEIL for connecting with another NYC high school to
help them with their plans to implement Peer Group Connection, our peer
mentoring program with our 9th graders.
Thank
you to MS. McKEON for beginning the recruitment process for our
next set of Youth Leaders. Thank you to
all the staff that recommended students for these positions.
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 - GOOD: from Congenial to Irreproachable
Monday, March 13
Ethical: (adj. morally good or correct;
an ethical lawyer or doctor does not try to take advantage of the client or
patient's unfortunate situation. Some
are worried that Fairtrade is stepping back from its role as a leading promoter
of ethical trade.
Tuesday, March 14
Altruistic: (adj.) showing unselfish
concern for the welfare of others. “To cultivate the altruistic spirit in your
child, it’s important to tell as well as show why giving back matters.” “Evolutionary biology suggests our natural
genetic instinct is to behave in an altruistic and supportive way if someone is
being attacked.”
Wednesday, March 15
Benevolent: (adj.) marked by doing well.
Benevolent individuals and organizations joined together to aid the victims of
Hurricane Matthew in Haiti.
(Benevolent: from the Latin bene for "well" and volent for “to
wish.")
Thursday, March 16
Irreproachable: (adj.) morally excellent; beyond reproach or blame. With her
reputation for being irreproachable, the executive might be the one to turn
around the corrupt and ill-run
organization. “I remember him
having an irreproachable character—honest and
just in all his dealings.”
Lexical
Arrays - BAD: from Defective to Grave
Friday, March 17
Defective: (adj.) faulty; not made
properly or not working properly: This computer is defective, and I want my
money back. The disease is caused by a
defective gene.
HSFI
ALUMNI ASSOCIATION SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS
From Ms. David, our HSFI Alumni
Association Director:
‘Congratulations to each of the
H.S.F.I. Alumni College Scholarship applicants (see below). You are ALL
winners. 1 student from each major and a DREAMER (an undocumented student) will
be awarded $500 each for their higher learning endeavors. Fashion community we
thank you for contributing to our events and activities to make this possible.
We are a purposeful Alumni Association.;
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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