WEEKLY BULLETIN for Week Beginning 1.6.20

CALL TO ACTION

Every week, I will share with you a ‘Call To Action’ around our school goals that will help drive our work for that week.

HSFI ‘CARED FOR’ GOAL – RELATIONSHIPS & REALNESS

● HAVE AN AWESOME 2019!!!

Health & Happiness to the entire HSFI Community!!! Spread the positive feelings to our students!!!

HSFI ‘CHALLENGED’ GOAL – RIGOR & RELEVANCE

● TWO WEEKS LEFT IN THE FALL TERM

We are in the homestretch of the Fall term with two weeks of classes until Regents.  Make sure students understand that the grades they receive at the end of January are the grades that colleges and universities will see.  Encourage students to take advantage of staff tutoring and tutoring from our National Honor Society students.

29^th 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 29^th Annual Career Day will take place on Friday, March 20, 2020 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 presentations - 40 minute each.  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 by using the following link: https://forms.gle/DgTwivmbLpWEGzDw9

The deadline for sign-ups is Friday, February 14, 2020. 

Thank you!

SING PERFORMANCES ON JANUARY 16 & 17

Our SING performances coordinated by Ms. Vega are coming up soon and it would be great to get a big crowd to support the performing arts at HSFI.  There will be two performances:

□ Thursday, January 16^th at 4:30 pm

□ Friday, January 17^th at 7:00 pm

PROPOSED CHANGES TO THE SCHOOL’S GRADING POLICY

Last week, we sent out proposed changes to our school’s grading policy.  The topics included:

Minimum Grades on Assignments

Attendance at Regents / CTE / Advanced Placement Exams

Percentage Breakdown of HSFI Grading Policy

Factoring Regents / Career & Technical Education culminating examinations into a Course’s Final Grade

Minimum Number of Grades within Each Grading Category

We had a large number of staff members that attended our town halls this past Friday comment on these proposed changes.  If you did not get a chance to attend the town halls and would still like to comment on the proposed changes, below is a Google form to share your comments.  You can comment on one or all of the proposed changes.  Thank you.

https://forms.gle/UnZHbrn5pwCDvhKZA

TRANSITIONING TO OUR NEW WEBSITE

We are finally transitioning to our new website! Please use this time to take one last glance at our current website – www.fashionhighschool.net and backup any information you might need.

Our marketing team is working with a third party to link our old URL https://fashionhighschool.net/ to our new one https://www.hsfi.nyc/ 

In the meantime, we will keep you posted -- this transition should be completed within the next week or so. 

THIS WEEK’S CALENDAR:

MONDAY	TUESDAY	WEDNESDAY	THURSDAY	FRIDAY
JANUARY 6 *First Monday Bell Schedule Professional Learning Communities & Department Activities Meet ICT Planning Week / No Focus Groups PM Supervisor: G Raschilla Rm. 143-Ext. 1431	7 *Regular Bell Schedule PM Supervisor: S Kohm Rm. 515-Ext. 5151 PM Counselor: A San Jorge Rm. 329–Ext. 3291	8 *Regular Bell Schedule PM Supervisor: K Boulamaali Rm. 703-Ext. 7031 PM Counselor: A Padron Rm. 101–Ext. 1011	9 *Regular Bell Schedule PM Supervisor: D Silva Rm. 125-Ext. 1251 PM Counselor: J Duke Rm. 101–Ext. 1014	10 *Regular Bell Schedule Staff Town Halls Periods 4-7 Room 819 PM Supervisor: M Frank Rm. 121-Ext. 1216 PM Counselor: J Weiss Rm. 101–Ext. 1019

REMAINDER OF JANUARY CALENDAR:

MONDAY	TUESDAY	WEDNESDAY	THURSDAY	FRIDAY
JANUARY 13 *Regular Bell Schedule Department Meetings on Regents Testing PM Supervisor: S Kohm Rm. 515-Ext. 5151 PM Counselor: W Sia Rm. 101–Ext. 1018	14 *Regular Bell Schedule PM Supervisor: D Smirti Rm. 127-Ext. 1272 PM Counselor: J Duke Rm. 101–Ext. 1014	15 *Regular Bell Schedule PM Supervisor: J Tallone Rm. 201-Ext. 2012 PM Counselor: J Weiss Rm. 329–Ext. 1019	16 *Regular Bell Schedule SING Performance 4:00 pm PM Supervisor: N Moore Rm. 228-Ext. 2281 PM Counselor: A Padron Rm. 101–Ext. 1011	17 *Regular Bell Schedule SING Performance 7:00 pm Student Town Halls Periods 4-7 Room 819 End of Marking Period 3 PM Supervisor: G Raschilla Rm. 143-Ext. 1431 PM Counselor: A San Jorge Rm. 329–Ext. 3291

MONDAY	TUESDAY	WEDNESDAY	THURSDAY	FRIDAY
JANUARY 20 *NO SCHOOL MLK JR. DAY	21 *REGENTS	22 *REGENTS	23 *REGENTS	24 *REGENTS

ATTENDANCE FOR STUDENT ACTIVITIES

Teachers are responsible for recording all student attendance at extracurricular activities such as clubs, tutoring etc. 

Please note, we have changed the process for recording students’ attendance.  You will now use the data dashboard to record student attendance (Teacher Tools-->Student Activity Attendance). Students will no longer be individually logging in for activities.

https://hsfi-data-dashboard.herokuapp.com/afterschool

Best Practices:

A hard copy/back up of student signatures is not required, but may be helpful.

When logging student attendance through the Data Dashboard, teachers should click "submit" once at the conclusion of the activity to avoid multiple submissions.

Contact Shannon Kohm with questions at skohm@school.nyc.gov, or ext. 5151

IMPORTANT INSTRUCTIONAL REMINDERS

● OUR INSTRUCTIONAL FOCUS FOR 2019-20 & BEYOND

□ Every student feels cared for

□ Every student feels challenged

● PROFESSIONAL LEARNING COMMUNITIES / INTERVISITATIONS

PLCs meet on Monday 1/6. PLC Intervisitations will take place between 1/7 and 1/31.

● PSAT / SAT DAY IN MARCH IS NOW A NON-INSTRUCTIONAL DAY

Wednesday, March 4 which is PSAT/SAT Day is now a non-instructional day – 9^th and 12^th graders will not be required to come to school – just 10^th and 11^th graders who are taking the exams will be in attendance.

● IMPORTANT INFORMATION TO SUPPORT OUR STUDENTS WITH SPECIAL NEEDS

We in room 329 would like to provide you with some new and exciting updates regarding accessing information for SWD. Within the HSFI Dashboard SWD have a blue circular icon next to their name. When you select this icon, it will direct you to SESIS where you an access your students IEP and important information about the way they learn. In addition, 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. The information you are required to complete on the teacher 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. Thank you in advance for participating in meetings! 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. We are working to gain access for those who need it. In the interim you are invited to stop by 329 to speak with Ms. Smith-Brown and review a hard copy of their IEP(s).

If you have not already done so, please come to room 329 and sign the Chapter 408 binder As always, feel free to reach out to Ms. McGuinness (ex. 3289) with any questions you may have regarding Special Education and services. Thank you for your continued support of our students

● MARKING PERIOD DATES / GRADING POLICY REQUIREMENTS FOR # OF ASSIGNMENTS

□ Marking Period 3 Ends January 17

From the HSFI Grading Policy:

Examinations, essays, and semester projects comprise 40% to 60% of the final grade.

A minimum of four (4) classroom examinations / essays or semester projects are required for all students in each class during each semester.  All examinations will be aligned with the New York State Next Generation Learning Standards.  The frequency and specific value of examinations are established by department guidelines and rubrics for all students.  One significant assignment / exam is required within each marking period of the school year.

● 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

□ 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 1^st 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 7^th 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

DATA DASHBOARD CORNER

We thank Mr. Stampone for all his efforts to get staff all the student information they need!

The bookmark to the HSFI Student Data Dashboard is: https://hsfi-data-dashboard.herokuapp.com/

Keep teachers and counselors in the know about a particular student by logging teacher notes. Teacher notes are viewable on your dashboard homepage and a full list under Students -> Teacher Notes https://hsfi-data-dashboard.herokuapp.com/teachernotes This is a great place to drop in any parent engagement you might have done that other staff members would benefit from knowing. On an individual student's page you could download all the teacher notes written about them which could make for a great log of assistance/outreach if needed. Write some teacher notes today because knowledge is power

The attendance form for student activities has transitioned from Google Forms to the Data Dashboard. You'll find the electronic attendance sheet under Teacher Tools -> Student Activity Attendance https://hsfi-data-dashboard.herokuapp.com/afterschool Submit this form just once at the end of your activity and select all the names of all the students that attended. Each submission will create a digital record of the attendance sheet which makes for documentation for Per Session as well as inserts the activities and dates into each student's dashboard page. You can see what a student has participated in by scrolling down to Student After School Activities. Looking forward to seeing just how involved our students are! If there are any after school activities that were left out in error from this initial list, please let Mr. Stampone know.

As always, if you have any questions, comments, concerns or suggestions for the dashboard, please contact Mr. Stampone (dstampone@hsfi.us) with your feedback. 

IMPORTANT FASHIONSOARRS.COM UPDATES

Mr. Egan has created a staff instructions guide – here is the link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Pmez0aYrAfIxeFEQFawx8rtpV0jh8jFEGwwhgF2j8QI/edit?usp=sharing

Mr. Egan has created two videos to support staff use of FashionSoarrs – they are on Technology page of the staff portal as well: https://sites.google.com/a/hsfi.us/hsfi-staff-portal/technology

OPERATIONAL NEED TO KNOW

● SUB CENTRAL - REGULAR HOURS

Teachers:  When calling in absences to Sub Central, please state your regular hours.  This will let subs know for which session to report.

(The system is set at 8:02 - 3:42, covering pds. 1 - 9.)

● EXTERIOR CONSTRUCTION

Crews are working on the outside of floors 5 thru 9. Rooms 19s thru 29s.

Work begins at 4pm.   Although this is an outside project, the workers will need access to these rooms.  

Staff who use these rooms should before 4pm:

□ Lock up any personal items and valuables.  

□ Clean up the classroom as much as possible, do not leave papers out or other items.   

□ Shut all windows. 

□ After school activities should be relocated to another room.  

Finally, staff using rooms in the area of the work should also shut all windows and relocate after school activities to another room if work is too loud.    

● CHECK YOUR DOE & HSFI EMAILS EVERYDAY

The expectation is that ALL STAFF check your DOE emails daily – not your HSFI email - responsible for follow-up items sent to your email

BEST PRACTICE: Forward your HSFI emails to your DOE email

● HSFI STAFF HOMEPAGE LINK - https://sites.google.com/a/hsfi.us/hsfi-staff-portal/

● SUPPLY REQUESTS

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeKQ2M7fZ3XNtCJB6FRxLTR-Y8-Snw2jgUFqVKGzpxhupmZZA/viewform

● TECHNOLOGY REQUESTS

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf2WT0fizVk9Ttdn9MPeocvT-0K7qDL5NHRKva3dcLQsjl1HA/viewform

Spreadsheet that shows the Status of Technology Requests

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1JMJrDp1Ig7CMiRh1gEOWD2rD6PzlmGdEgKWlmBBWIwo/edit#gid=1833053321

Reviewed means that the Technology dept. is aware of the situation / looked at the ticket.

In Progress means the Technology dept. working on it

On hold means that the Technology dept. is either waiting for the NYC Department of Education or currently no solution

Done is for closed tickets

Any red status bar means that the Technology dept. had not seen this ticket yet.

● CUSTODIAN REQUESTS

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.

Spreadsheet that shows the Status of Custodian Requests

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xWhZel2F2yaXRZF8z0N_GX-hBzjWxuoRBq3ZcA1W7FQ/edit?usp=sharing

● RESERVE A FACILITY IN THE SCHOOL BUILDING REQUESTS

https://www.fashionhighschool.net/apps/facilities/

● TEACHER'S CHOICE - August 1 - January 12

Guidelines/information on the DOE Info/Hub. 

Funds will be distributed to staff in November payroll.  $250 for teachers

Save your receipts for eligible classroom purchases made between August 1 - January 12.

More info to come later.   

● ELEVATORS

▪ You will receive an email in the morning about the status of the elevators

▪ After 9:15 am, staff should just use the teacher elevators – after this staff should not be using the student elevators.  Remember, we have 3 Elevators for 150 adults and they have 3 Elevators for 1700+ students

▪ Do not give Elevator Passes (or Keys) to Students (CTE Exceptions)

▪ Under NO CIRCUMSTANCES are staff to speak about students in an elevator (Positive or Negative)

▪ Politely Ask students for Elevator Passes

If they do not have one, politely ask them to leave / Just hold the door until they leave

▪ Enforce READINESS Grades – rewarded for being in their seats ready to work when the music stops playing

● TRANSIT DELAYS / MEDICAL ABSENCES

Please turn in your notes.  Without official back up, your absence or delay cannot be recorded as such.

● 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:

http://hsfifashionabletimes.blogspot.com/

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

JANUARY - Week 2 / syn; sym; syl:  together, with, same

Monday, January 6

Syndrome (n) a condition characterized by a set of associated symptoms. The doctor was treating several patients with respiratory distress syndrome. After being a hostage for a year, he showed signs of Stockholm syndrome such as developing positive emotions towards his captors and paranoia that rescuers are the enemy.

Tuesday, January 7

Synopsis (n) an outline; a summary; an abstract. First, the speaker gave us a synopsis of the main points in the lengthy report. For each title listed, there is a brief synopsis of the book.

Wednesday, January 8

Synergy (n) a combined action or operation. The creation of a whole greater than the simple sum of its parts. A synergy has developed among the different groups working on this project. The phone and cable companies are planning to work in synergy, so that they will be more popular to buyers.

Thursday, January 9

Syllogism (n) A syllogism is a form of logical reasoning that joins two or more premises to arrive at a conclusion. Here’s an example of a simple syllogism: “All birds lay eggs. A swan is a bird. Therefore, a swan lays eggs.”

Friday, January 10

Symposium (n) a meeting or conference for the public discussion of a topic, especially one in which the participants both form an audience and make presentations. At the student leadership symposium, we discussed local and global issues. The United Nations recently held a weeklong symposium on noise pollution and marine life.

STAFF MEMBERS WHO SOARR

Here are some SOARRing staff that are going beyond the call of duty for HSFI!

Thank you to all the staff that participated in our Staff Sing-A-Long on the last day of school before the break - MR. JONES, MS. WEISS, MS. McKEON, MS. RUSSELL, MS. TROTTA, MS. VEGA, MR. ROBINSON, MS. JOSEPH, MS. RODRIGUEZ, MS. VELEZ, MS. VARRICHIO, MR. CARRANZA, MS. SOSTRE, MS. SILVA & MS. McGUINNESS.  I apologize if I missed anyone!!!

Thank you to MS. VEGA for all her efforts in getting the SING performances ready for their upcoming dates on January 16 & 17.

Thank you to MS. BLAKE, MS. HENEY, MR. KEARNS, MS. MANEVICH & MR. WIEDA for providing English Regents tutoring and for working hard to prepare our juniors for success on the upcoming exam.

Thank you to MS. ARCAMAY for her assistance in creating and designing the first Equity Newsletter!

Thank you to MS. GARCIA, MS. HUSTED, MR. MATELUS & MR. LACHOK for their written contribution to the Equity Newsletter!

Thank you to MS. A. RUSSELL & MS. PADRON for recognizing a student in crisis and assisting them.

Thank you to MR. DUKE, MS. YOUNKMAN, MS. MUSARRA, MS. SIOSON, MS. SEVERINO-NORTMAN, MS. SAN JORGE, MS. INCE, MS. SANTOS, MR. LACHOK & MS. BOULAMAALI  for participating in IEP meetings.

Thank you to MS. CASTRO, MR. CLANCY, MS. LAROSA, MS. DYE & MS. HENEY for facilitating IEP meetings.

Thank you to MS. NEWPORT for securing a significant donation of skincare and hair care products for the school store that will get us into the spring.

Thank you to MS. TROTTA & MS. VELEZ for their constant support of the Main Office.

Thank you to MS. SERRANO for running the wellness professional development in the CTE department.

Thank you to MS. BONEY & MS. SMITH for creating new, fun, and rigorous food science elective cooking lab activities.

Thank you to everyone in the fashion design department for supporting the administration of the third NOCTI practical - MS. BATTS, MR. CENTENO, MS. CHAVEZ, MS. DAVID, MR. DIXON, MS. JOHAR, MS. PARISSE, MS. ROJAS, MS. SEIFERT, MS. YOUNKMAN, MR. JOCELYN, MS. KLEPACKI, MR. STAMPONE, MR. RUSSELL, MR. CARRANZA & MS. STAMBOULY.

Thank you to MS. ROJAS & MS. CARTER for facilitating at trip to Mori Lee for the Kleinfeld Bridal Design Finalists so that they could select their materials.

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.