Welcome to our internal staff blog! If you have any information for faculty or staff, please let me know. Here is a link to the agenda from our Back to School days so you can easily access the information any time. I hope you found the three days as positive and upbeat as I did!
Activities for the Week--ASB "Back to School" Spirit Week
Monday: Late start collab day / Wear Freshman Class color Yellow
Tuesday: "Back to School Outfit" day
Wednesday: West Hills Wednesday--wear BLUE / West Hills Wear every Wednesday
Thursday: Wear your class color (free choice to identify with any grade you like)
Friday: College day or ASB Sports Gear Day...Good time to check in on your AVID Door sign...
All Activities for the week are online on our school website.....
Faculty update:
Rachel Samuelsz, part-time Choir teacher, accepted a full time position at Hoover High School. We wish her well in her new district and school. Mr. Adam Pezdek, new music teacher replacing Courtney Pate, will be teaching the Choir assignment in addition to Marching Band and concert band. Thank you Adam!
Monday Reminders from Admin and Guidance:
Please welcome every student in your class. You may have a class with 39 or more--please keep them and do not send to Guidance. We are balancing sections constantly and need to start school to see which students are actually attending or not. This will take this week to finalize. We HOPE we have more students showing up than we know of.
Send / Tell students to go to Guidance who have a "gap" in their schedule during the "gap" period. Guidance will also see students who have earned credit in a course but are enrolled in it again (unless they are trying to raise a "D" to a "C" for college eligibility) or who have less than 5 periods scheduled. Mark the student "present" for attendance before they leave a class if they are on your roster.
Our Bell Schedule is located online. Please take a moment and post all important start and end times and dates to YOUR schedule.
"Back to School Night" is Thursday, September 8 from 6-8 p.m. We will send home more information via our Period 3 classes for students. More information to follow for staff coming out soon.
School Site Council:
Nominations are now open for three certificated teachers and one classified member to serve on SSC. This is a legally required group of representative stake holders who approve our School Site Plan created by Department Chairs, Coordinators, teachers, classified staff and with input from parents and students via our PTSA. We meet once a month, meeting time determined by those serving on the Council.
Please consider serving on this important council. You may nominate yourself simply by emailing or talking with Ginny Bell. Nominations are open through Friday, August 26.
Please help WHHS be the best it can be--we need YOU!
By 2020, 65% of all jobs will require post-secondary education. Employers are demanding highly trained, competent and skilled workers in a wide array of industries. That’s why the Grossmont Union High School District and Grossmont-Cuyamaca Community College District have joined forces to set all GUHSD students up for success. Students in the Class of 2019 and beyond from these east county high schools are automatically considered Higher Edge Scholars and will be able to participate in exciting new programs that will begin to be offered to students in the 2016/17 academic year. Students that fulfill the requirements of the Higher Edge Promise Scholarship criteria will be rewarded with FREE college for their first 30 units at either Grossmont or Cuyamaca Colleges.
Instructional Corner:
Common Core discussion video: Carol Jago: This is the short video on why higher level thinking skills are more critical to our democracy today than ever before.
Read more about Webb's DOK and applying it in your classroom by clicking on the chart.
Have a GREAT week! GO WOLF PACK!!
