CALL
TO ACTION
● SUPPORT A GROWTH MINDSET EVERYDAY
As a school community
we need to help our students increase their grit, determination and persistence
in meeting academic challenges on the road to college. It is up to us to reinforce a Growth Mindset
in our daily interaction with students. We can do this by...
...praising effort and
persistence over easy success (Wow! I see you worked really hard at
this" is better than "Wow! You're so smart."
...recognizing
that the brains and talent one has are just starting points
...reinforcing that
practice contributes to success--mistakes are OK if they are used to learn and
improve
HSFI
STAFF SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL LEARNING CHARTER CHECK-IN
As we hit the mid-way point of the school year,
we wanted to do a check-in of how we are doing with respect to our Staff
Social-Emotional Learning Charter.
Our school goal is that everyone feels cared
for and challenged – that is everyone – staff and students.
At the beginning of the school year, a large
majority of the staff signed a copy of the Staff Social-Emotional Learning
Charter that is hung up in both the mailbox and copy rooms. The charter
lists the emotions we want to feel at HSFI and what we are going to do to feel
that way.
Please complete this very BRIEF survey
(could take less than 1 minute) to evaluate how we are doing in living up to
these words. The survey asks you for each emotion of the charter to rate how often you feel these emotions at HSFI using the
scale of (1) Never; (2) Rarely; (3) Sometimes; (4) Frequently; (5)
Always. The survey is ANONYMOUS. There is also an optional
section to give feedback and suggestions as to what should be added or
removed. We want to make sure to change things where needed and always
look to do better.
Here is the link – again, the
survey is BRIEF and ANONYMOUS.
Thank you!
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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JANUARY 28
STAFF DEVELOPMENT DAY
No students in Attendance
All teachers on a 8:40am – 3:30pm Schedule
Full Staff Meeting at 8:45 am in Room 829
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29
*Regular Bell Schedule
SPRING TERM BEGINS
Students Report at 9:15
am to their OP
Classes Begin
3rd Period
PM Supervisor:
S Rau (Rm. 829)
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30
*Regular Bell Schedule
PM Supervisor:
A Rodrigues (Rm. 515)
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31
*OP Bell Schedule
MetroCard Distribution
PM Supervisor:
S Kohm (Rm. 531)
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FEBRUARY 1
*Regular Bell Schedule
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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FEBRUARY 4
*Regular Bell Schedule
Mindfulness Professional Learning
PM Supervisor:
M Frank (Rm. 121)
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5
*NO SCHOOL
LUNAR NEW YEAR
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6
*Regular Bell Schedule
12th Grade Assembly
Periods 2 & 3
11th Grade Assembly
Periods 5 & 6
PM Supervisor:
J Tallone (Rm. 201)
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7
*Regular Bell Schedule
PM Supervisor:
N Moore (Rm. 228)
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8
*Regular Bell Schedule
Student Town Halls
Periods 4-7
Room 821
PM Supervisor:
K Boulamaali (Rm. 703)
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MONDAY, JANUARY 28 – STAFF DEVELOPMENT DAY
We begin the Spring term on Monday with a Staff
Development Day.
All teaching staff are on a 8:40 am to 3:30 pm
schedule. All other titles should follow their normal schedules.
Here is the schedule for the day:
8:45 am – 9:45
am: Full Staff Meeting in Room 829
10:00 am – 3:30
pm: Department Activities / CTE Exam Grading / ELA, SS,
Science, Spanish have Writing Revolution sessions
2:00
pm
Special Education department meeting
Writing Revolution PD
Location:
RM 821
Session 1- 10:00- 10:45 am (English and some Science teachers)
Session 2-- 11:00 - 11:45 am (Social Studies and some Science teachers)
Topic: TWR strategies to help student revise their writing
Participants should bring:
(1) The White TWR book
(2) EITHER: any piece of student writing from a sentence to a paragraph to an essay OR: An assignment that asks a student to answer in a sentence, a paragraph or an essay.
Session 1- 10:00- 10:45 am (English and some Science teachers)
Session 2-- 11:00 - 11:45 am (Social Studies and some Science teachers)
Topic: TWR strategies to help student revise their writing
Participants should bring:
(1) The White TWR book
(2) EITHER: any piece of student writing from a sentence to a paragraph to an essay OR: An assignment that asks a student to answer in a sentence, a paragraph or an essay.
NOTABLE
SPRING TERM DATES
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Monday, February 18 – Friday, February 22
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Mid-Winter Break – No School
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Wednesday, March 6
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Marking Period 1 Ends
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Thursday, March 7
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Parent-Teacher Conferences Night
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Friday, March 8
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Career Day & Parent-Teacher Conferences Afternoon
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Thursday, March 14 & Friday, March 15
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Family Visitation Days
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Wednesday, March 27
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PSAT / SAT Day
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Friday, March 28
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Last Day of Cycle A Classes
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Thursday, April 18
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Marking Period 2 Ends
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Friday, April 19 – Friday, April 26
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Spring Break – No School
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Monday, May 6 – Tuesday, May 14
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Advanced Placement Exams
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Monday, June 3
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Administration of New Global History Regents Exam
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Thursday, June 6
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Staff Professional Development Day
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Monday, June 17
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Last Day of Classes – Marking Period 3 Ends
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Tuesday, June 18 – Tuesday, June 25
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Regents Exams
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Monday, June 24
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HSFI Graduation – 3:00 pm at the United Palace
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Wednesday, June 26
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Last Day of School for Students and Teachers
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CAREER
& TECHNICAL SPRING SHOWCASE EVENTS CALENDAR
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Friday, March 8
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HSFI Advisory Board ‘Career Day’
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Wednesday, April 17
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International Center of Photography Exhibit Opening
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Friday, May 3
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Senior Graphics & Illustration Art Show
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Wednesday, May 15
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Annual Fashion Show Feeder Show to Middle School Students
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Friday, May 17
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Annual Fashion Show - PUBLIC
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To Be Determined
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Annual Fashion Show – INDUSTRY SHOW
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To Be Determined
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Kleinfeld Bridal Culminating Event
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28th
ANNUAL CAREER DAY @ HSFI – WE ARE LOOKING FOR PRESENTERS
It is almost that time of the year
again and Career Day is quickly approaching. Our 28th Annual
Career Day will take place on Friday,
March 8, 2019 from 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM. Industry leaders are
invited to participate in a morning designed to connect our students to
prominent people in the world of fashion, retail, and media. Our goal is
to help our students broaden their horizons and give them an inside look at an
array of careers to promote success beyond fashion industries.
The format for Career Day is as
follows: students register for two forty minute presentations. The first
presentation is scheduled to run from 9:40AM till 10:20AM; the second from 10:30AM till 11:10AM. There
will be between 25 – 35 students per presentation.
Please reach out to your
industry contacts to see who would like to be part of our Career Day - presenters
can sign up in two different ways:
(1) Complete and return
the attached Career Day Volunteer form that will be emailed to you this week or
(2) Have them signup using
the following link: https://goo.gl/forms/tJruQrDmI9aOco5r2
The deadline for sign-ups is Friday, February 15, 2019.
Ms.
Carter is the point person for Career Day – if you have any questions, please contact
her in Room 819 / ACarter@hsfi.us
/ ext. 8194
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
□ 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
● IMPORTANT SPECIAL EDUCATION REMINDERS FOR THE SPRING TERM
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 .
We in the Office of SWD wanted to provide some additional insight to our Teacher Form. This form helps us to address students’ academic needs, assess their progress in/with the general education curriculum and justify services through the IEP. Your voice and input is incredibly valuable in creating this legal document, which is unique to each child. Attending meetings is also important as it is a requirement to have a general education teacher at an IEP present. Please understand we try to work around teacher schedules, when scheduling however, there are times when this does not align to a parent/family members schedule.
We are in the middle of making small revisions to our Teacher Form and would appreciate your feedback regarding the current one. If there is any information, you would like to share, please email or stop by and see Ms. McGuinness in room 329
We in the Office of SWD wanted to provide some additional insight to our Teacher Form. This form helps us to address students’ academic needs, assess their progress in/with the general education curriculum and justify services through the IEP. Your voice and input is incredibly valuable in creating this legal document, which is unique to each child. Attending meetings is also important as it is a requirement to have a general education teacher at an IEP present. Please understand we try to work around teacher schedules, when scheduling however, there are times when this does not align to a parent/family members schedule.
We are in the middle of making small revisions to our Teacher Form and would appreciate your feedback regarding the current one. If there is any information, you would like to share, please email or stop by and see Ms. McGuinness in room 329
● 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
● GUIDELINES TO MAINTAIN SCHOOL CLIMATE
□
Pass needed to go anywhere outside of your classroom / specific Falcon
Health Center pass
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No passes first 10 minutes of class (unless emergency)
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No passes last 10 minutes of class (unless emergency)
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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
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Lunch Periods (4-7) – Cafeteria, Student Lounge, Library (except 7th
period), Student Computer Lab, Classroom under teacher supervision
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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/
● W-2 TAX FORMS
W-2 forms are available on the
Employee Self Service website: www.nyc.gov/ess
Will be delivered to schools on
January 31 along with payroll
● UNCLAIMED PRINTED PAY STUBS
Go to Payroll Portal and uncheck the
"print" request box if you do not want your printed stub. Every
pay period a large number of stubs which are delivered to the Payroll Office
are not picked up.
● TRANSIT DELAYS / MEDICAL ABSENCES
Please turn in your notes. Without
official back up, your absence or delay cannot be recorded as such.
● CHROMEBOOK INVENTORY
We ask all classroom teachers to do
an inventory of the Chromebooks in their classrooms every month – here is the
link for the inventory - https://goo.gl/forms/BxmBqwnaN6DKxOBr1
● TECHNOLOGY REQUESTS
Technology Request: https://goo.gl/forms/NNtcC01LZSyB8VJ03
The response spreadsheet with
write-ups of the status of the technology tickets has been updated – I think
you will find it more helpful.
● 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.
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 MR. EGAN for his efforts coordinating the Regents & CTE exams.
Thank
you to MS. GARCIA for stepping up to help lead
one of the Race & Equity teams.
Thank
you to MS. STAMBOULY, MS. DAMIAN, MS. WEINREB, MS. RICCI &
MS. VACCARO for helping
to organize the CTE NOCTI exams.
Thank
you to MR. CARRANZA for assisting with the Graphics & Illustration supplies
Thank
you to MS. ZUBROVICH for hosting the Adobe Photoshop workshop for students needing a
little extra support.
Thank
you to MR. RUSSELL for cleaning up the photo lab and equipment after the pipe broke right
above the lab and during a freezing weekend.
Thank
you to MS. ZUBROVICH, MS. DAMIAN, MS. SERRANO & MS. VACCARO for
working in the school store during
the Fall semester.
Thank
you to MS. STAMBOULY, MR. ABDALLAH, MS. BATTS, MS. CHAVEZ, MS.
ROJAS, MS. SEIFERT, MS. CISSE, MS. DAVID, MS. PARISSE, MS. JOHAR & MS.
YOUNGBLOOD for proctoring
the NOCTI exams.
Thank
you to MR. STAMPONE for helping to send out NOCTI tickets and reminders to students.
Thank
you to MS. YOUNGBLOOD for helping to enter in a colleague’s grades while she was
away dealing with a family emergency.
Thank
you to MS. INCE & MS. DYE for their assistance with testing
accommodations.
VTODs
FOR THE WEEK
Words
from the New York Times Vocabulary List
Tuesday,
January 29
Empathic (adj.) Showing an ability to
understand and share the feelings of another. A spokeswoman for the Belgian
police, said that officers treated migrants in “a very empathic and humane
way.” She knows that sometimes an empathic presence is more helpful than words.
(Empathic is used interchangeably with empathetic.)
Wednesday,
January 30
Apathetic (adj) Showing or feeling no
interest, enthusiasm, or concern. The first speaker on the panel said. “Most
people are apathetic about daily current affairs and politics.” She became active and engaged rather than apathetic,
as she grew older.
Thursday,
January 31
Altruistic
(adj.) Showing
unselfish concern for the welfare of others. He volunteered to become an
altruistic organ donor, meaning he donated without knowing any of the
participants. Researchers have found
that children tend to become more altruistic as their sense of empathy
develops.
Friday,
February 1
Egocentric (adj.) Self-centered;
narcissistic. The egocentric man never remembered his wife’s birthday but got
angry when she forgot his. “Not only are employees disenfranchised from most
policy decisions, they lack even the power to rebel against egocentric and
tyrannical supervisors
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.
