CALL
TO ACTION
● COLLEGE GEAR DAY IS THIS MONDAY, OCTOBER 22
This Monday is our annual College
Gear Day. I hope that we get a great
turnout of our staff that will be wearing a t-shirt, sweatshirt or some sort of
gear from the college that they attended in celebration of the beginning of
College Application Week for our seniors. The day will hopefully have a
motivating effect on our seniors who are beginning to work on their college
applications and get our 9th, 10th and 11th
graders thinking about the college process.
● MARKING PERIOD 2 STARTS THIS MONDAY, OCTOBER 22
This Monday, October 22 represents
the beginning of the second marking period.
Explain to your students that student grades are cumulative, meaning
that all grades count during a given term.
Grades do not start over with the second marking period and there are
not separate grades for each marking period.
Second marking period grades are a combination of the first and second
marking periods. Third marking period
grades and the grades that go on a student’s transcript and seen by colleges are
a combination of the first, second and third marking periods.
● FALL PARENT VISITATION DAYS THIS THURSDAY & FRIDAY
Thank you once again for being supportive of our Family Visitation
Days this Thursday, October 25 and Friday, October 26. During these Family
Visitation Days, HSFI parents will be able to observe their children in
action. We will make sure the parents that attend understand that this is
not a day to conference with you and have them go through an orientation on the
behavioral expectations for the day. We
understand that you are voluntarily agreeing to participate in these visits, so
THANK YOU! If you do not wish to
participate, please reach out to me directly.
We will be sending you updates next week leading up to the actual
‘Visitation Days’ about which parents that have signed up
● PROTECT YOUR VALUABLES IN YOUR CLASSROOMS
Make sure your wallets and cell
phones are locked away in a secure location.
FASHION
DOLLAR FRIDAY GEAR WINNER
Congratulations to CHRISTINA VEGA who is our Fashion Dollar Friday Gear winner for this past
week. We encourage all staff to show off
their HSFI spirit by wearing HSFI gear every Friday. If you do wear spirit gear, please sign that
you wore the gear on the sheet that will be located next to the sign-in sheet
in the mailbox room.
GRADES
DUE THIS WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24 AT 9:00 AM
□ Grades will be due on Wednesday,
October 24, 2018. Please submit all grades
BY 9:00 AM SHARP!
□ Please log into STARS Classroom
BEFORE the due date to ensure your login/class lists display appropriately
□ ****** Please go to the following website: https://www.nycenet.edu/starsclassroom
You will log in using your DOE
login and password
□ After clicking on your class:
LOOK ON THE DROPDOWN MENU ON THE TOP
RIGHT TO MAKE SURE YOU ARE IN THE 1st MARKING PERIOD AND
MAKE SURE TO COMPLETE ALL THE PAGES.
□ Acceptable Whole Number Grades
are 65 and above in all numeric increments; The ONLY failing grade is a 55. All students in the 1st marking
period should receive numerical grades except for SOARR Academy classes. For
late admitted students, use code NL.
□ If you are entering a comment
CODE, you must click “[+] Common Core-aligned
Comment Codes” and enter the code in the boxes BELOW the larger text box.
□ YOU MUST CLICK SAVE
□ **NOTE: Grade Changes may be
completed by the teacher online in
STARS CLASSROOM up until 10 /29//2018.
After the deadline, teachers must submit change forms with supporting
documentation and get approval from Principal Blank.
□ ***If you have any questions,
please consult with your Department Supervisor.
THIS WEEK’S CALENDAR:
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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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OCTOBER 22
*Regular Bell Schedule
COLLEGE GEAR DAY (begins
College Application Week)
Beginning of Marking
Period 2
Disrupting Inequity
Professional Learning
PM Supervisor:
G
Raschilla (Rm. 143)
|
23
*Regular Bell Schedule
12th Grade
Assembly
Period 3
PM Supervisor:
S
Rau (Rm. 829)
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24
*Regular Bell Schedule
GRADES DUE BY 9:00 AM
PM Supervisor:
D Silva (Rm. 125)
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25
*Regular Bell Schedule
FAMILY VISITATION DAY
PM Supervisor:
S Kohm (Rm. 531)
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26
*Regular Bell Schedule
FAMILY VISITATION DAY
PM Supervisor:
B
McGuinness (Rm. 329)
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NEXT WEEK’S CALENDAR:
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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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OCTOBER 29
*Regular Bell Schedule
The Writing Revolution
Professional Learning
PM Supervisor:
M
Frank (Rm. 121)
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30
*Regular Bell Schedule
PM Supervisor:
K
Boulamaali (Rm. 703)
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31
*Regular Bell Schedule
PM Supervisor:
N Moore (Rm. 228)
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NOVEMBER 1
*Regular Bell Schedule
PM Supervisor:
B McGuinness (Rm. 329)
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2
*Regular Bell Schedule
PLC Reflection Form Due
Student Town Halls
Periods 4-7
PM Supervisor:
S
Rau (Rm. 829)
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RACE
& EQUITY WORK – PROFESSIONAL LEARNING THIS MONDAY
Aligned to our school belief that
emotions matter at HSFI, this school year we will be spending a considerable
amount of effort examining the impact of race on our community and how we feel
about one another and ourselves. To this
end, part of our professional learning cycle will be focused on the research
around the impact of race on schools.
This professional learning will begin this Monday during Periods 2, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 in Room
821. All staff, regardless of title,
should come to one of these sessions.
REMINDER: Our race and equity instructional
rounds with Harvard University is scheduled for November 14, 15 & 16.
UPDATED
PARENT CONTACT LIST
Here is the most updated spreadsheet for students’ contact information. The spreadsheet has three different tabs of contact
information;
1) Primary phone
2) Email
3) Cell phone number
This list will be updated each week through our School Messenger
system. If you have trouble contacting a parent or have additional contact information,
please reach out to Assistant Principal Danielle Silva at DSilva@hsfi.us
Here is the link to the spreadsheet:
STUDENT ACTIVITIES
□ Chaperones are needed for November 3rd
Dance
□ Spirit Week is from October 29th to
November 3rd
□ There will be a sign-in sheet for those staff
members wearing Fashion Gear. We will start Fashion Gear Fridays again and have
staff raffles for FLY GEAR
□ KEEPING TRACK OF STUDENT ACTIVITY / COMMUNICATING WITH
STUDENTS ABOUT SCHOOL ACTIVITIES
In our effort to understand how ALL our students are doing, we
need to know how much students are participating in activities around the
building – this includes:
TUTORING / CLUBS & ACTIVITIES / PSAL SPORTS – PRACTICES &
GAMES / ESL ACADEMY / MAKE-UP LABS / NATIONAL HONOR SOCIETY PEER TUTORING /
USING THE COMPUTER LABS
Use this link to keep track of student attendance in these
activities - https://sites.google.com/a/hsfi.us/hsfi-staff-portal/attendance-for-student-activities
Doing this is mandatory if you oversee these
activities and needs to be done every time you meet with students. You
must be signed in to your own hsfi.us account when you do this. Contact
Shannon Kohm with questions at skohm@school.nyc.gov, or ext. 5311
Communication
Please make sure that you communicate with
our students about anything going on in the school – a club meeting, sports
game or program opportunity – you can do this by including it in our Daily
Announcements email / Jupiter message – here is the procedure for submitting
this information:
(1) Go to the HSFI Staff Home page - https://sites.google.com/a/hsfi.us/hsfi-staff-portal/home?pli=1
(2) From there use the Announcement
form link on the left hand side of the page - all announcements should be
requested by 3:00 pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
IMPORTANT
INSTRUCTIONAL REMINDERS
● OUR INSTRUCTIONAL FOCUS FOR 2018-19 & BEYOND
□ Every student feels
cared for
□ Every student feels
challenged
● NEW SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING RESOURCES
Our SEL coordinators wanted to
share with you an amazing new SEL resource:
On this website, you will find
resources that include short SEL centered activities that you can incorporate
into your everyday lessons. Once on the
homepage, go under Resources - Educators.
On that page chose "Explore our
social and emotional (SEL) activities". Once you are there, you can choose which
emotion words you want to focus on for that lesson. You can also find great
resources to build your lessons around.
● EVALUATIVE OBSERVATIONS CONTINUE THIS WEEK
Evaluative Observations continue this week and will take place the
weeks of October 22 & 29
● TUTORING FROM OUR NATIONAL HONOR SOCIETY STUDENTS IS AVAILABLE
National Honor Society tutoring has begun after school in the room
201 Computer Lab. The tutoring will take
place daily during both 9th and 10 periods.
National Honor Society junior and senior tutors can assist students
with English, Math, Science and History.
● FIRST MONDAY PROFESSIONAL LEARNING COMMUNITIES – INTERVISITATIONS
BEGIN
Thank
you for your participation in the first PLC. A reminder to visit your team
member and fill out the reflection form by November 2 – here is the link to record
your brief reflections on your group's strategy:
● PARENT ENGAGEMENT RESPONSIBILITIES
Keep in mind the main ways that we maintain high levels of Parent
Engagement:
#1 - Keeping Jupiter up-to-date so that students and parents know
where students stand in your class
#2 – You are contractually required to set aside 1 specific period
set aside for Parent Engagement where you make calls and emails to families of
at-risk students. If a student is
failing, you need to make verbal contact with that family
#3 - Check your DOE Email everyday - Not HSFI email – you should forward
your HSFI emails to your DOE email. If a
parent emails you, they should expect a response in a timely manner
● IMPORTANT HOMEWORK REMINDERS
#1 – Please follow our policy of ‘No New HW Wednesdays’
#2 – Do not give a HW assignment unless you will be giving
meaningful feedback back to students – a check or score at the top of a paper
does not mean much to students. This is
especially true for honors and Advanced Placement courses where the amount and
difficulty of readings and assignments is high
● IMPORTANT REMINDERS FROM THE SPECIAL EDUCATION OFFICE
We in
room 329 wanted to provide everyone with a reminder regarding students with
IEPs and SESIS as well as the sections of the IEP, which you may find most
helpful when planning your instruction. While reviewing the IEP you may notice
your Teacher Form responses or information you shared during the meeting- this
is a great example of how your insight helps us to create an authentic, student
specific IEP. In addition to asking a special educator, you can easily
determine which students in your class have IEP's by reviewing your class
roster. Students who are placed in ICT classes have the letter at the end of
their official (ex-45P) and our Self-contained students will continue to have
the letter at the beginning of their official class. Students within our D75
Inclusion Program will have an L as the first letter of their official class
and at this time will not appear when you log-in to SESIS. Teachers who work
with these students will now have access through SESIS.
This year we will continue to distribute an electronic standards-based Teachers Form. The information you are required to complete on this form is subject specific and your insight will better help us in determine the needs of our students with IEPs. The Teacher Form in conjunction with your participation at the IEP meeting (if you are invited) are two critical elements we need in order to best serve our students. We try to plan our IEP and Triennial meetings with teacher schedules in mind, however there are times when families are only available at specific times and a coverage will be requested for your class.
Our monthly SIT meeting addresses concerns surrounding Special Education (placement, initials, etc.) and is announced in advance in the Weekly Notes. All are welcome and encouraged to attend. If you are interested in becoming a regular member just let me know. Please feel free to stop by room 329 if you have any questions and thank you for your continued support of our students.
This year we will continue to distribute an electronic standards-based Teachers Form. The information you are required to complete on this form is subject specific and your insight will better help us in determine the needs of our students with IEPs. The Teacher Form in conjunction with your participation at the IEP meeting (if you are invited) are two critical elements we need in order to best serve our students. We try to plan our IEP and Triennial meetings with teacher schedules in mind, however there are times when families are only available at specific times and a coverage will be requested for your class.
Our monthly SIT meeting addresses concerns surrounding Special Education (placement, initials, etc.) and is announced in advance in the Weekly Notes. All are welcome and encouraged to attend. If you are interested in becoming a regular member just let me know. Please feel free to stop by room 329 if you have any questions and thank you for your continued support of our students.
● GUIDELINES TO MAINTAIN SCHOOL CLIMATE
□
Pass needed to go anywhere outside of your classroom / specific Falcon
Health Center pass
□
No passes first 10 minutes of class (unless emergency)
□
No passes last 10 minutes of class (unless emergency)
□
Electronic Equipment for educational purposes allowed / all other
purposes should be a referral / Leave confiscating to supervisors and deans /
NO CHARGING PHONES
WHERE CAN
STUDENTS GO WHEN NOT IN CLASS?
□
Before 1st Period – Cafeteria, Student Computer Lab (Room 201),
Hallways
□
Once Period 1 begins – students cannot be in the hallways – can go to the
Cafeteria, Student Computer Lab, Classroom under teacher supervision
□
Lunch Periods (4-7) – Cafeteria, Student Lounge, Library (except 7th
period), Student Computer Lab, Classroom under teacher supervision
□
Students waiting for afterschool activities - Student Computer Lab,
Library, Classroom under teacher supervision
YOU CANNOT ALLOW A STUDENT TO STAY IN YOUR CLASSROOM / OFFICE WHEN YOU
ARE NOT THERE – ASK THEM TO LEAVE & COME BACK
OPERATIONAL
NEED TO KNOW
● CHECK YOUR DOE & HSFI EMAILS EVERYDAY
● HSFI STAFF HOMEPAGE LINK - https://sites.google.com/a/hsfi.us/hsfi-staff-portal/
● BULLETIN BOARDS
Due to falling signs and excessive tape, we have
decided that the best place for school announcements is on the bulletin boards
in between the elevators on both sides of each floor. Any current work on those
boards will be relocated to another board.
□ If you have materials to place on these bulletin boards,
please provide this signage to Ms. ArcaMay in room 819. To streamline this process, all materials you
want posted around the building should be submitted to room 819. Any materials that are placed on the boards
without approval will be removed.
□ We will help make signs for your club, team or
activity that is aligned to all the marketing material we are using – to make
this request, please fill out the link found below 2 weeks prior to the due date
in which you need it by.
● ATTENDANCE OFFICE INFORMATION
□ There are a lot of attendance mistakes involving students’
absences. You are marking students present when they have a doctor's note
excusing them for the day and you are signing the note. A parent was
brought into the office by Mr. Blank and the student is marked present in her
History class (only class to mark her present). Student was absent the
whole day. There are a lot of these errors. It is very time
consuming to change the attendance because it must be done by the
class.
□ Jupiter
Grades sends a text to parents when they are absent or late 20 minutes
after you hit done. If you change the attendance after you hit done the
parent is still going to get the text they were absent or late. I
get a lot of phone calls from parents.
□ Confirmation Sheets were due. Please return any and all
that you have
● TEACHER NAME SIGNS
You may have noticed new signs
displayed on your doors. This year we are making it a priority to beautify our
school. The schedules placed on your doors will help students and colleagues
identify when you are in your classrooms. This small gesture will help students
clear out the hallways faster, and get to where they need to be. With that
said, please do not remove schedules off doors. If you share a room with a
staff member, no matter how small the time that they teach in your room, they
deserve to be identified as one and the teacher in that room. The check marks
are changeable with dry erase markers.
If you are missing a schedule or need a name correction please fill out the following form:
If you are missing a schedule or need a name correction please fill out the following form:
● HEALTH BENEFITS TRANSFER PERIOD
2018 Health Benefits Transfer Period -
October 1 - October 31
Submit an application to: Change
carrier, add/drop optional rider, add/drop dependents
Health Benefits Buy-Out Waiver Program -
September 24 - October 31
Incentive to waive benefits if covered by
a non-city health plan.
Forms and additional information on
the DOE HR Connect website.
● TEACHER'S CHOICE
Make purchases August 1, 2018 - January
13, 2019. Keep receipts for eligible purchases.
Funding same as previous year:
Teachers allocated $250.00
November 30 - Initial distribution of
funds via regular paycheck.
More information available on
DOE Employee Hub.
● DOE PARKING PERMITS
School-based DOE parking permits
expire on November 1. You should inform your CSA, UFT and DC 37 staff to
renew parking permits through the DOE’s parking permit application self-service portal beginning September 17
through October 10 (note that the portal works best in Google Chrome).
The following types of parking permits are available to staff in the above
unions, if there are DOT-designated, on-street parking spaces at their school:
On-Street
(OS) Parking: CSA members
On-Street
General (OSG) Parking: UFT and DC 37 members
Itinerant
On-Street (OSI) Parking: CSA and UFT members
Once your staff submits their
renewal applications through the portal, the DOE will deliver parking permits
to your school on November 1. The DOE parking permits may only be
distributed after you have collected the expired parking permits from your
staff. You should note that On-Street (OS) and On-Street General (OSG) parking
permits are school-specific (i.e., both the OS and OSG parking permits will
specify the school name and the designated streets for
parking); school-based staff who work at more than one school will be
issued an Itinerant On-Street (OSI) permit to be used at assigned schools with
available DOT-designated, street-parking spaces. You should also note that
there will not be an increase in the number of parking spaces available at
school sites as a result of issuing DOE parking permits. Therefore, all
DOT-designated, street-parking spaces will be available on a first-come,
first-served basis.
For questions, email DOEParkingPermits@schools.nyc.gov.
● SMARTBOARD SURVEY
If you have a Smart Board in your
classroom, please fill out this brief survey so we know the condition of the
Smart Board - https://goo.gl/forms/uYjdJEgzpY9Ms1Oz2
This is not a service request just
give us the current status of the Smartboard in the room. We are always looking to add more Smart
Boards to classrooms, but there are budget constraints. We want to make sure the existing Smart
Boards are working.
● AIR CONDITIONER SURVEY
If you have an Air Conditioner(s)
in your classroom or office, please fill out this brief survey so we know the
condition of the AC(s) – we are fully aware that there are some spaces that
need ACs and we are working on rectifying this - https://goo.gl/forms/FB5hThN9PlkYKT6W2
This is not a custodial request
just give us the current status of the AC in the room.
● TECHNOLOGY REQUESTS
Technology Request: https://goo.gl/forms/NNtcC01LZSyB8VJ03
Depending on the severity of the
request. Expect a one to two days before fixing or notification of the
issue.
● CUSTODIAN REQUESTS
Custodian Request: https://goo.gl/forms/sQGqPAoqGeI86H132
Depending on the severity of the
request. Expect a one to two days before fixing or notification of the
issue.
● EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS
Here
are the links to the Emergency Preparedness videos. This series of safety videos are useful tools
that demonstrate how Building Response Teams operate, and how school buildings
use the General Response Protocols during an emergency. Please take the time to
watch the following videos to ensure that you are well equipped in the event of
an emergency.
Full Safety Preparedness
video: Vimeo.com/nycschools/safetypreparedness
Assembly Card video: Vimeo.com/nycschools/assemblycard
Lock Down video: Vimeo.com/nycschools/lockdown
Evacuate video: Vimeo.com/nycschools/evacuate
Shelter In video: Vimeo.com/nycschools/shelterin
● CANNOT LEAVE STUDENTS UNATTENDED
You cannot leave students unattended anywhere in the
building – a classroom or office, the Auditorium or Cafeteria – if you have to
leave a particular area, ask the students to leave with you.
● PROTOCOLS FOR RESPONDING TO CLASSROOM
INCIDENTS
In the event of an incident in your classroom that creates disruption
(student is defiant and / or uncooperative) but is NOT A THREAT to
student and/or staff safety, the following protocol should be followed:
□ Classroom management,
i.e., using your skills as an educator to move on from the situation, followed
by
□ A phone call to your
Supervisor informing them of the incident and the steps you have taken to
address the matter, followed by
□ A referral to the
Peace Center and/or the Guidance Department via Google Docs., followed by
□ Outreach to parents,
informing them of their child’s misbehavior, and request for family support to
correct the matter.
In the event of an incident in your classroom that involves an immediate
THREAT to student and/or staff safety, the following protocol should be
followed:
□ A phone call to the Peace Center (x1491 or x1431) informing
available staff of the incident and requesting assistance, followed by
□ A phone call to School Safety (x1341) informing them of the
location and nature of the incident and requesting assistance, followed by
□ A call to your Supervisor informing them of the incident and the
steps you have taken to address it.
CLASS TRIP REMINDERS
As we start the school year, I wanted to share
with staff the field trip guidelines that we put into place last year.
All of us should plan to adhere to these guidelines – for staff planning the
trips and staff receiving the trip requests. The only exception that we
ask of everyone is to be flexible with last minute trips that are brought to us
by our Advisory Board and industry partners – too often they share with us the
details in a last minute fashion. Thank you in advance for the
cooperation!
⏮ Trips must be approved 3 weeks in advance - No trips in January
& June
⏮ A Master Calendar of trips will be posted in the Weekly Bulletin
with a description of the trip and grade level
⏮ Teachers cannot veto student participation on trips, but
students must understand they are responsible for all makeup work / Do not
penalize students for missing class due to a school trip
CLASS
TRIPS THIS WEEK:
10/2218 – 9:00am – 12:15pm.
Ms. Chavez & Ms. Rojas are taking 56 students to Macy’s Herald
Square to explore & research merchandising.
10/23/18 – 8:30am – 10:30am.
Ms. Cisse is taking 22 students to Mood Fabrics for Inspiration,
research, & purchasing for Fashion Show design.
10/24/18 – 1:00pm – 4:30pm.
Ms. Levine is taking 60 students to the Friedman Theater to see
“The Nap”.
10/26/18 – 8:30am – 10:30am.
Ms. Cisse is taking 22 students to M & J Trimming for Inspiration,
research, & purchasing for Fashion Show design.
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 all the HSFI staff that have been shouting out their colleagues on a
daily basis through Basecamp – it is inspiring to read them and keep them
coming.
Here
are some additional SOARRing staff that are going beyond the call of duty for
HSFI!
Thank
you to MS. ABRAMYAN, MS. ABRASKIN, MS. ADAMCZYK, MS. BAILEY, MS.
CUFFIE, MS. DRABMAN, MS. BOHNER, MS. LEVINE, MS. DONLON, MS. DUCK, MS. HENEY,
MR. LACHOK, MS. LISSAUER, MS. MATINALE, MS. O’BRIEN, MR. MENDEZ, MR. ROBINSON,
MS. SEVERINO-NORTMAN, MS. SIDERIS, MS. VEGA & MR. WIEDA for their support during the administration of
the Race & Equity survey. As a school, we are spending a considerable
amount of effort examining the impact of race on our community and how race
makes us feel about one another and ourselves. Thank you for giving our
students the opportunity to express how they feel around this topic.
Thank
you to MS. BALMIR, MR. CARRANZA, MS. POWELL, MS. NEWPORT &
MS. COLLINS for opening
up their classroom to over 40 families during our weekly HSFI Open House.
Thank
you to MS. CHAVEZ, MS. VACCARO, MS. NEWPORT, MS. ROJAS & MS.
STAMBOULY for working
with prospective families during our HSFI Now- Portfolio Boot camp.
Thank
you to MS. CHAVEZ & MS. VEGA for working to ensure SWD's are provided
access to school events and activities.
Thank
you to MS. HUSTED, MS. SAN JORGE & MS. OBRIEN for
taking the time to participate in
this week’s MDR.
Thank
you to MS. BOHNER, MS. DAMIAN, MS. DRABMAN & MS. MOKIM for
starting up the after-school ENL
Academy and providing support to our English Language Learners.
Thank
you to MS. COLLINS for arranging and organizing for our students to participate in a
design challenge at NYU. As a result, NYU was highly impressed with our
students and are looking for them to apply there this year.
Thank
you to MS. VACCARO for planning and organizing the FLY Store inventory with the help
of MS. SERRANO, MS. DAMIAN, MS. VELEZ, MS. WEINREB & MS.
ZUBROVICH.
Thank
you to MS. CARTER & MS. IANNIELLO for helping with Alumni related clerical tasks.
VTODs
FOR THE WEEK
ELECTIONS
Theme
October
22: Monday
platform (N) A platform is the official
stance of a politician or a political group. The candidate ran on a platform
calling for improved education throughout the city and affordable access to
health care for everyone.
October
23: Tuesday
disenfranchise (v)1. deprive (someone) of the
right to vote. "The law disenfranchised some 3,000 voters on the basis of
a residence qualification." 2. deprived of power or of a right or
privilege. Many officials supported a measure that would disenfranchise poor
people from access to legal advice.
October
24: Wednesday
partisan
(n) 1 a person who
strongly supports a particular leader, group, or cause. Political partisans who
only see one side of a problem rarely arrive at a bipartisan or cooperative
solution. 2. (adj.) strongly supporting one leader, group, or cause over
another. “I don’t think that an
education policy that’s designed to get better outcomes for kids should ever be
a partisan issue.”
October
25: Thursday
petition (n) a formal message requesting
something that is submitted to an authority. We presented a petition to the
legislature to change the law. if independent or non-major-party candidates
want to have their names on ballots, they must obtain nominating petitions with
a designated number of signatures.
October
26: Friday
absentee
ballot (n) A vote
submitted before an election by a voter not able to be present when the
election occurs. College students living outside their home state either can
mail in an absentee ballot or can register to vote in the state where they
attend school
LIBRARY NEWS & NOTES
FROM MS. DAHILL
#1 - Banned Book/Sophomore and Teen Read Week Freshman English
Thank you Sophomore and
Freshman English teachers for taking the time from your class schedule to bring
your classes to the library for our presentation with the NYPL YA librarians.
We checked out 2,261 independent reading books! Scavenger Hunt, Gaming, VIP
library cards and so much more. Thank you again!
#2 - VIP Library Cards
for HSFI students and staff: Fine Free Book borrowing and Fresh Start Slip @
HSFI and NYC public libraries.
Thank you for
registering for MyLibraryNYC, NYC DOE’s award winning program that connects
your school library to the public library systems in NYC. As a program
participant, your school community, teachers and students will receive:
• Use of an increased number and variety of text, multimedia and primary
sources to plan rigorous units and lessons –currently, there are over 8,000 Teacher Sets available via http://mylibrarynyc.org;
• FREE DELIVERY AND PICKUP OF TEACHER SETS to support instruction, classroom collections, and engaging titles for independent reading;
• Educator and Student accounts with enhanced borrowing privileges including fine-freeing borrowing from the public library systems and access to electronic databases and eBooks;
• Professional learning opportunities and support for the school librarian to provide enhanced library services for everyone in the school community;
• Opportunities to build a collaborative partnership with the local public library branch to provide programming services around reading and literacy;
• FREE DELIVERY AND PICKUP OF TEACHER SETS to support instruction, classroom collections, and engaging titles for independent reading;
• Educator and Student accounts with enhanced borrowing privileges including fine-freeing borrowing from the public library systems and access to electronic databases and eBooks;
• Professional learning opportunities and support for the school librarian to provide enhanced library services for everyone in the school community;
• Opportunities to build a collaborative partnership with the local public library branch to provide programming services around reading and literacy;
• Invitations to special events such as author talks, gaming
contests, exhibitions and more!
Professional Learning
Sign up for a half-day training today with a teacher partner for the
borough where your school is located:
October 23: Queens: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/back-to-school-smart-strategies-to-leverage-mylibrarynyc-queens-registration-49152356020
October 24: Brooklyn: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/back-to-school-smart-strategies-to-leverage-mylibrarynyc-brooklyn-registration-49152242681
November 1: Bronx: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/back-to-school-smart-strategies-to-leverage-mylibrarynyc-bronx-registration-49630968563
TEACHER ACCOUNT REGISTRATION
New Procedures for how to register for MyLibraryNYC educator
MyLibraryNYC PROMOTIONAL FLYER – HANG THIS IN YOUR SCHOOL, LIBRARY, and
OFFICE!
Teacher Handout: http://nycdoe.libguides.com/ld.php?content_id=38180639
Feel free
to contact the Library Services team or MyLibraryNYC personnel with any
questions, concerns, or feedback. We look forward to another exciting year
bringing innovation, resources, and support to your school community.
For
schools in the Bronx, Manhattan, and Staten Island: mylibrarynyc@nypl.org
For
schools in Brooklyn: mylibrarynyc@bklynlibrary.org
For
schools in Queens: mylibrarynyc@queenslibrary.org
NYC DOE
Department of Literacy, AIS, and Library Services: libraries@schools.nyc.gov
Melissa
Jacobs, NYC DOE Director of Library Services: mjacobs7@schools.nyc.gov
Leanne
Ellis, MyLibraryNYC Program Coordinator: lellis3@schools.nyc.gov
Edmodo
Please sign-up for
Edmodo to post questions about MyLibraryNYC and hear instant answers from the
public libraries and DOE Staff as well as posts about public library
programming.
Register at: http://nycsls.edmodo.com
Register as a teacher with the
School Code: sv10r9
Next, signup for the MyLibraryNYC
Group with the code: j4brv7
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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