Stowe High School
Week in Review
“Be passionate and move forward with gusto every single hour of every single day until you reach your goal.” -Ava Duvernay
February 19, 2021
Wow, the February break has arrived! We are so grateful for our faculty and staff. Their dedication, patience, flexibility, and support has been phenomenal in ensuring our students are engaged in different learning opportunities in-person and remotely. These past two weeks certainly required even more patience, flexibility, and creativity as we navigated school closure and a snow day. We are also grateful for our students and families for working with us during these transitions. Your support and patience is so appreciated and helpful.
As we look forward to our break, please continue to practice and reinforce safe and healthy behaviors. The individual choices that you make can have a great impact on the health of our school communities. By following the guidelines of wearing masks when you go out, maintaining a 6-foot distance from others, avoiding crowded places, washing your hands, and staying home if you are sick, we can continue to keep ourselves and others safe. For more detailed information, please refer to these resources on non-essential travel, quarantine requirements, COVID symptoms, and testing sites.
MUSIC NEWS:
The Winter Virtual Concert showing last Friday was spectacular. Congratulations to the LSUU Music Teachers, Grace Chris, Andy Gagnon, Daniel Bruce, and, of course, all of our talented students. Job Well Done!!!
Student Leadership Planning for Spring Events
Learning to solder in STEAM
YEARBOOK NEWS
Hello Families! To ensure that your student takes home the Stowe High School yearbook, visit this link and order it today! 2021Yearbook Sales Link
Thank you!
-Your Yearbook Team
Upcoming Events:
Monday, February 22-Tuesday, March 2: February Break
Wednesday, March 3: School Opens - We will have our regular Wednesday virtual schedule. All students are expected to meet with their advisory Wednesday morning followed by office hours.
School Counseling News:
The National Association for College Admissions Counseling (NACAC) is hosting a variety of different college fairs in the coming months. Please click here to learn more and sign up!
GMTCC virtual tour for 2021-2022 video
SAT Exam- All 11th grade students will have an opportunity to take the SAT at Stowe High School on Tuesday, April 13th. Students received a letter and registration form link to complete by March 1st. 11th grade students can access the form with their LSUU email account.
ACT Exam- We will be offering the ACT at Stowe High School. The date for this exam is still pending at this time.
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Opportunity:
Dear LSUU Parent/Guardian,
Lamoille South Supervisory Union is beginning a project aimed to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion. The LSUU administrative team has asked us to engage families and students in focus group conversations about their experiences in LSUU schools. The goal of these focus group conversations is to collect evidence of the lived experiences of LSUU students and families through an equity, diversity, and inclusion lens. We will then use what we learn from the focus groups to make specific policy recommendations to the district about ways to work towards their goals of equity, diversity, and inclusion for all students while keeping our participants anonymous.
Although committed to equity and anti-racist work, as two white academic women, we recognize the limitations in our own perspectives due to our social identities and backgrounds. As such, we are seeking parents who identify as BIPOC, LGBTQ+, dis/abled, new Americans, or other identities that have been marginalized to join us as project partners. We will also be looking to engage a few high schoolers as project partners.
We’re writing to ask if you or your high schooler would be interested in becoming a project partner with us in this work. Project partners will participate in an orientation to the focus group method, review the focus group protocols, and co-conduct focus group interviews. Project partners may also choose to continue with data analysis, coding, and confirming results. Project partners will be paid an honorarium between $100-$300 depending on the time commitment.
If you are interested in joining us in this work, please email Kathleen.Brinegar@NorthernVermont.edu and Hannah.Miller@NorthernVermont.edu to let us know. We will be in touch to schedule a time to share more details with you about your possible role as a project partner, and answer any questions you have about joining us.
Sincerely,
Dr. Kathleen Brinegar (she/her), Northern Vermont University
Dr. Hannah Miller (she/her), Northern Vermont University
Family Resources:
The United Way of Lamoille County maintains an uber-comprehensive list of all the resources around the area: food, mental health, housing, employment, substance misuse and recovery, domestic violence, and much more. If you have any questions about what is available locally and on a state level, head to the UWLC website first.
Lamoille Area Youth Council Kickoff Event
Live Your Why- Healthy Lamoille Valley
The Everyone Eats program offers free, delicious frozen meals at these locations in Lamoille County:
Lamoille Community Food Share (197 Harrel St, Morristown): Monday-Saturday, 9-11:30
Wolcott United Method Church (4023 VT Route 15): Fridays, 3:30-5:30
Lamoille Health Family Medicine, Morrisville (formerly Morrisville Family Health Care): take from freezer in waiting room during open hours.
Copley Hospital: Available for patients during appointments and on Tuesdays 3-5; call ahead 802-851-8894
No pre-registration needed, and all the food is made by local restaurants.
Questions: ereid@capstonevt.org
The Dads’ Group is a great place to connect with other Dads, share successes and challenges and have some fun.
Every Tuesday 8-9PM on Zoom.
Contact Rob Cary at rcary@LRCVT.org or (802) 730-3000 for the link to the Zoom meeting.
Please share this video with any father who may want to be part of this supportive group.
Virtual Vaccine COVID Information Session
Do you have questions about the COVID Vaccine? Or do you know someone who might appreciate more information? Get answers from Dr. Melissa Volansky in a live, virtual presentation and Q&A:
Tuesday, February 23, at noon
Send questions in advance to hancel@lamoillehealthpartners.org
Log on at noon on 2/23:
Meeting ID: 978 1752 8562
Passcode: 495791
Phone: (301) 715-8592
Vaccination, Quarantine & Testing
The state continues to increase vaccine access. Those 70 and up may make appointments for vaccination starting tomorrow:
20 Walgreens locations now are participating in the Federal Retail Pharmacy Program.
Kinney Drugs, Home Health and Hospice, and Copley Hospital are among other vaccination providers, in addition to the Department of Health clinics.
Sign up for appointments at all sites by clicking here or calling 855-722-7878. Do not call the Health Department or your doctor for an appointment.
Seniors who need help can call Central Vermont Council on Aging 1-800-642-5119.
People who have been fully vaccinated and are exposed to someone with COVID-19 do not need to quarantine, as long as:
They are fully vaccinated (have had two doses of the COVID-19 vaccine).
More than two weeks and less than three months have passed since they received the second dose of the vaccine.
They have not had any COVID-19 symptoms since the exposure.
Get tested to help keep track of the virus in the state. Click here if you have no symptoms to make an appointment. If you have symptoms, call your provider.
Take this survey to help researchers understand how Vermonters and visitors are understanding and responding to Vermont’s COVID-19 guidelines. Complete the online survey and be entered to win one of ten $25 gift cards.
Racial Equity
Racial Equity Alliance of Lamoille (REAL) invites you to build a safe, equitable, antiracist community. Learn more about what they do and how to join a group here. BIPOC Affinity Space meeting:
February 27th from 1-3pm.
Racism and the Economy: Focus on Housing
March 1st, 2-4 PM
Presented by Federal Reserve Bank
Structural racism in our housing markets and its impact on economic outcomes for all Americans.
Historical and contemporary context of how racism, racial exclusion, and predatory inclusion have limited housing opportunities and wealth-building for communities of color, as well as policy proposals for dismantling the deep inequities in housing market valuation, mortgage lending, and patterns of housing development.
Workforce Development
Vermont Untapped: Expand your Workforce through Open Hiring Best Practices
Wednesday, February 24, at 1PM
Identify pathways to discovering untapped workforce potential in our state, and learn best practices around recruiting and retaining employees that commonly struggle to find and keep work because of criminal history, language barriers, recovery from substance use disorder, limited education or qualifications, lack of work experience, and/or low or no job skills. Click here to learn more.
Homelessness
The Lamoille Area currently has 73 households on the Coordinated Entry list for housing. Of these:
67 are eligible for a housing voucher or subsidized. Only four of those households could afford a fair market unit without those forms of support.
There are 6 households not eligible for any type of voucher or subsidy, which means they'll be homeless indefinitely until something else is created for them.
25 of the households require long-term case management/voucher sponsorship.
There are 13 youth experiencing homelessness.
To end homelessness in Lamoille, we would need:
52 additional vouchers or subsidized units,
Two additional case managers that can do long-term sponsorships,
Two additional case managers that can provide short term case management and sponsorship,
58 single bedroom apartments,
9 two bedroom apartments,
Three 3 bedroom apartments.
Parents and educators
Healthy Lamoille Valley needs community feedback around preventing and reducing youth substance misuse in the Lamoille Valley. Participants in the survey can win a gift card. Click here for the survey.
Conscious Parenting presentation:
February 16th, 2021
6:00-7:30PM
Led by Green Mountain Conscious Parenting Coach Suzy Blais.
Explore common parenting myths and how they may be negatively impacting your child's growth and the overall wellbeing of your family.
Practical Positive Co-Parenting:
March 30th, 2021
6:00-7:30PM
Led by Life/Parent Coach Dustin Bruley
Strategies and tools to improve (and in some cases rescue) your relationship with your co-parent (whether or not that’s your current partner).
Parents of children with a disability or special health need are asked to share their experiences accessing childcare or early education. The information they share through this survey will be used to inform system improvement recommendations to the state of Vermont.
Snow Days will be School Days:
As the colder weather approaches and we already saw snow this week, we need to plan for the possibility of school closings due to inclement weather and unsafe road conditions. In the event we need to call for a snow day, we have developed a remote learning plan so that students can continue with their coursework. When we have a snow day, we will follow our current schedule . For example, if we need to call a snow day on a Tuesday, the students that were scheduled for in-person will have their classes remotely via Google Meet. Students who were already scheduled for a remote day will continue with the plan that was outlined by their teachers for remote learning.
QR Code for Health Screening
Health screening stations in the main lobby.
Numbered parking spaces outside
Technology News:
Schoology: The Parent View in Schoology presentation is designed to help families understand and navigate Schoology.