February 2025
Dear Parent(s)/Guardian(s),
Hello. I am Mike Gargiulo, the new Technology Education teacher at Walt Whitman High School. Over the last school year, I established the Basic Auto Care, Design & Drawing for Production (DDP), Small Engine Repair classes, and the new Technology Education electives at the high school. These new electives were made possible by your vote to extend the high school schedule to a nine-period day. I am excited to be a part of this wonderful opportunity. This school year will be the third offering of these courses.
Although I have only been at your school for a year, I am familiar with teaching high school. I have nineteen years of teaching experience and an additional fourteen years related experience in public school education. Throughout my career in education, I have had experience teaching students in grades six through twelve in different school districts on Long Island.
I look forward to working with your child this year.
Throughout this semester (and the school year), students will use a minds-on/hands-on approach to learning in our activity-based curriculum. I hope that each student will find something to love within the class. Two of the best parts about Technology Education classes are that the skills and lessons learned in class may be carried beyond the school walls and that exposure to technical content provides the basis for future study.
As part of my home-school communications plan, I will extensively use Parent Square, Google Classroom, and Infinite Campus to communicate with students and their parent(s)/guardian(s). I plan to regularly send messages to parents using Parent Square. Please take a moment from your busy day to review these important messages. Most documents will be distributed and returned using the features available within Google Classroom. Using Google Classroom saves a lot of paper, eliminates lost/misplaced papers, and it allows everyone to have records of assignments and their submission dates. The information located in Infinite Campus allows me to communicate each student's academic status in real time. You and your child must review my Google Site; these webpages contain information about each class, grading, extra help, and much more.
I am excited to be your child’s Technology Education teacher. If you have any questions or concerns about the website's content or any time throughout the semester, please email me at mgargiulo@shufsd.org or message me using Parent Square.
Sincerely,
Mike Gargiulo
PS Please understand that returning the physical copy of this letter, which was sent home with your child for signature, is your acknowledgment that you have reviewed this Google Site, which is located on the Walt Whitman High School website.
PSS, please click on this link for a full copy of the Introductory Letter sent home with the student for your signature.