Activities for the week:
Monday: Late Start Collaboration day
Tuesday:
Wednesday: Student Senate, Per. 5 in S8: Mark your Senator "here" for attendance and then send to S8
Club Drive Student Lunch in the Black Circle: Tell all your students about it please!
Thursday: Girls Golf and Tennis: Go Wolf Pack athletes!
Friday: Football at Santana, 7:00 p.m.: Mayor's Cup Pep Rally at Lunch in the Pit: Come out and support the Wolf Pack as they defend their Championship Cup run! Girls Volleyball at Bonita Vista--good luck girls!
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Finance Office: Janelle Malueg is taking a teaching position at El Capitan starting Monday, Aug. 29 and has kindly offered to continue to work part time for us the next two weeks while we are posting her position. She will be on campus 12:00-3:30 p.m. We will get information out to students and parents to let them know of these new hours as well. Congrats Janelle...we will miss you!
Assistant Principal Office: Joann DuFloth will be joining us as our newest administrator coming from Valhalla H.S. teaching science, being the Literacy Coordinator and the Health Science Pathway Coordinator. With over 22 years in the classroom, Joann's various teacher leadership roles make her a great fit for WHHS! We are still working on her full-time transition since finding a qualified Science teacher is a bit of a challenge right now.
September 8: Back to School Night (Open House): 6:00-8:00 p.m. Parents will be following their student schedules and teachers will have about 10 mins. with each parent group. Period 3 will have extended time to show the "Welcome Back to School Video" from the Principal, PTSA President Alicia Haddix, and Foundation President Keshav Damoor (class of 2000).
September 13 -14: UNITY DAYS for SOPHOMORES: 10th Graders with last names A-L will be in the GYM on September 14 and M-Z on September 15 as they go through this amazing experience. All faculty and staff are invited to participate! Teachers of Sophomores particularly are asked to do one of the days. Substitutes are provided and we need about 15-18 adults each day to ensure one per small group of students. Please let Ginny Bell know if you need a sub. April Baker is the Admin coordinating this event if you have any questions....
September 19-23: HOMECOMING WEEK, GAME and DANCE: Get ready for another wonderful HOMECOMING WEEK with a terrific football game FRIDAY September 23 and Dance Saturday, September 24 in our GYM.
We encourage all faculty and staff to bring your families and enjoy our game Friday night! The stands will be packed as alumni join us to root on our Wolf Pack young men against Serra HS.
English Learners: An update from our Coordinator Barb Ruggles:
EL Academic Intervention Request: If you have English Learners and you need additional support for and with your student(s), please check out this link. Barbra can then follow up with you.
There is a great training, "Engaging LTEL's in the Mainstream Classroom". This professional development will provide strategies for use in the mainstream classroom. It's a great refresher of SDAIE strategies and more. Here are the dates...to sign up, please contact the English Learner Programs (a.k.a. the International New Comers office) or Barb Ruggles for more information.
Cohort 1: Thurs. Sept. 29, 8:00-3:00 -- IR
Cohort 1: Thurs. Dec. 1, 8:00-3:00 -- IR
Cohort 2: Thurs. Jan. 19, 8:00-3:00 -- Comp. Lab
Cohort 2: Thurs. Apr. 27, 8:00-3:00 -- IR
Saturday Scholars: If you would like to offer a unique or interesting idea for Saturday Scholars, please see this link...we are looking for teachers who want to staff one, two or more Saturdays with your passion, hobby or content area expertise for students to benefit! They make up attendance time but more importantly, get additional academic help and maybe find a new interest!
With our new Title I funds, we are able to E-X-P-A-N-D our tutoring offerings! If you are interested in staffing tutoring before or after your contractual day--Period 1, 7 or after school, please let your Department Chair know. Tutoring is funded at $44 an hour and many of our students can benefit from this additional support! Once we know your Department tutoring schedule, we will post it to our handout and publicize it. You would need to keep a sign in sheet for students and complete a time-sheet with Ginny for hours worked, turned in the last working day of the month (no "saving up" of time-sheets). Please make sure you work with your Chair--we cannot take "surprise" tutoring time to stay within our site budget and Title I approved spending allocations.
College Going Promotion...Don't forget your Personalized Door Sign..here is Ashley Worth's Template again and example as well as Robin's. We are seeing them all over campus and students ARE talking about them!!
Shameless Call out for Participants...follow up with April Baker and Tom Vanderhyde
- Camp LEAD and UNITY DAYS (Sept. 13-14)
April Baker, Admin Liaison;
Tom Vanderhyde, Teacher Leader, Camp LEAD
- Oct. 20-22
- Staff training Oct. 13
- Dec. 8-10
- Staff training: Dec. 1
- Feb. 2-4
- Staff training: Jan. 26
- March / April: 30-1
- Staff training: March 23
- April 27-29
- Staff Training: April 20
In support of understanding students with special needs, a teacher recommended this documentary,
SPECTRUM OF HOPE is the story of 10 musical theater students, their families, and their teachers as they journey from their special needs school in New York City's Lower East Side to the Junior Theater Festival in Atlanta, Georgia. It is a beautiful moment in all of their lives - a celebration of the power of arts education, musical theater, and what can be accomplished when students are allowed to flourish on their own terms.
Parent Permission Slips are in the mail room on the ledge in front of mailboxes or your can print it here. Each Peer Tutor or T.A. must have one on file. You collect it and give to Pam Crenshaw in Guidance office for filing.
