Principal Updates
FOR STAFF
Theres and Justin for a great job setting up testing!
Denise for continuing to do a great job with senior boards
All of our teachers for their great work on testing, hall monitoring, senior boards, and generally being good people to work with.
Dave, Jeffery and Katie for great tech support this week.
Clark, Kwami and Tiffany for representing us well at Jazz fest!
All of you planning and taking good field trips this Spring!
Statistics
Grades (updated 3/4)
A's - 436
B's - 261
C's - 162
D's - 115
F's - 386
Attendance Rate (3/1)
9th grade 87.4%
10th grade 84.46%
11th grade 84.24%
12th grade 78.1%
Average GPA of our student body (3/1)
2.998
Advising Expectations
Check-in with students about how they are doing once a week at a minimum.
Grade and attendance checks every week.
Conferences with parents twice a year
Support graduation requirements - Community Service, Job shadows, Internships, Senior Projects.
Support pathway and course registration each year.
Support kids in training for safety drills.
Keep advisees in your room during advising.
Staff Updates
HS FAC on Friday the 26th at the Tavern at St. Michaels. I will get the appetizers. Thank you so much for all your great work this week! 4:30-???
Agenda for Monday 4/22
8-9:45 - K-12 Meeting in MS Gym
10-12 - Department Meetings
Afternoon - PLC and ELO meetings
WIth all the testing this week, we did not get MTSS setup for this week.
Agenda for Monday 5/6
8-9:45 - K-12 Meeting in MS Gym
10-11 - HS Staff Meeting in Library
11-12 - Department Meetings
Afternoon - PLC and ELO meetings
The upstairs restrooms by the fifth grade and English rooms are for Elementary only due to some poor behavior by high school students. Please help us send students to the other restrooms.
Prom on April 20
Advising assignments for next year
First Priority is staff requests - students you know, matches that are intentional
Second priority is house/family groups
Third priority is the student preference form
Please update the MTSS sheet with new students who could use some extra support to be successful. Also, please remove any that are doing better now. The link is below.
Advisors - Please send Amy a grade change as seniors get done with their experiential learning requirements.
Leadership Team Notes
4/10/24 Meeting
Celebration
Department Check-ins
Cell Phones discussion -
Survey to allow for feedback from all staff
lockers for those who want it
Recommendation from leadership is to have one consistent cell phone policy/procedure for all classes. (no phones other than curricular uses based on teacher discretion)
Part of the dip in academic achievement is due to prolific phone use. Research seems very clear about phones being a detriment to focus and engagement.
Communication Update
Wondering about getting some standardized use of Google Classroom to help build consistency for students. ELO in May? Summer? Start of next year?
Leadership notes on Principal update page
Liked the Director updates weekly
Testing
Email to students
Justin will re-send it to staff and students and get it on the TV
End of Year stuff
Grade deadline - Notify parents and administrators and counselors of seniors in danger of failing before May 17. Grades for seniors due May 22. All other grades June 5th by noon. (notify counselors of underclassmen needing credit recovery by June 3)
Seniors last day - May 22
Graduation and Grad. Practice
Ceremony 9am on 5/25
Practice 4pm on 5/24 (music and speeches before that)
Senior Awards - May 13th @ 6:30pm
Brainstorming ways to try to add more meaning.
Maybe some ways to share a sentence or two about why the senior was outstanding.
Creative award names with some description
Departments present a handful of awards as a department
Senior Boards Feedback
Need to clarify a lot about extended internship requirements
Use a day in the Fall to talk about senior projects clarification with staff/advisors
Share with teachers what the expectations are in projects and different parts of the project.
Make sure to get experiential learning requirements on the senior checklist.
Helpful Links:
Link to MTSS sheet for students who are struggling.