The mission of West Hills High School is to graduate critical thinkers and problem-solvers who contribute positively to society as productive, responsible citizens.
Activities for the week:
Monday: Labor Day-- no school.. ENJOY the day!
Tuesday: Regular Day
Wednesday: Regular Day: Back to School night -- see information below for "the plan"
Thursday: Regular Day
Friday: Regular Day
Thank you for all the good wishes--I am doing well and on the slow road to recovery. I look forward to my return and was THRILLED to see the MIGHTY WOLF PACK on KUSI Friday morning...it only got BETTER with the big WIN over Santana Friday night to keep the Mayor's Cup in the PACK! Congrats to Coach Ash, his entire coaching staff and all the athletes for their victory! I am just bummed I couldn't be there to see it myself! Looking forward to my return and I know WHHS is in good hands with the rest of the Admin team and Pat Price!
Wednesday, September 6 is Back to School night with parents. Here is the plan for the night. We ask all Period 3 teachers to show a welcome video to the parents and students and to keep a count of the total number of parents in attendance for our records. Be on the look out for the link coming via email..thank you!
Monday, September 11: All School PLC time with WASC: All faculty and staff members please join your WASC Focus group leaders in your assigned rooms. New to school or can't remember the name of your Focus Group? Please see this document (look at "All Combined" tab at the bottom of the screen; not the small arrows so you can look to the right for this tab). See below for more information...
Tuesday and Wednesday, September 12 & 13: Unity Days with Sophomores
Friday, September 22: Minimum day--end of grading period
Tuesday, September 26: Unique opportunity with Santee Fire Department--9/11 Museum Ladder Firetruck on campus for viewing by students via their Social Science classes. This is an actual firetruck that was at the World Trade Center on 9/11 now traveling the country to bring artifacts and information to the public. We thank the Santee Fire Department for reaching out to us so our students and school community could visit this moving museum.
Tuesday, September 26: Unique opportunity with Santee Fire Department--9/11 Museum Ladder Firetruck on campus for viewing by students via their Social Science classes. This is an actual firetruck that was at the World Trade Center on 9/11 now traveling the country to bring artifacts and information to the public. We thank the Santee Fire Department for reaching out to us so our students and school community could visit this moving museum.
Wednesday, Oct. 11: PSAT testing all 10th and 11th graders: Minimum Day
Sunday, March 18-21,2018: WASC Visiting Team on Campus
Hello. Thank you for your work in our WASC Focus Groups. I want to welcome the new staff that have joined us! Our WASC Visiting Team will be on our campus March 18-21, 2018 and we are well underway with our report.
Monday, September 11 is our all faculty and staff WASC work PLC time. We ask that you attend your group meeting promptly at 7:45 in the rooms noted below. Please bring your laptop or share with a partner in your group. For WASC, we need to sign in at each meeting.
Instruction: meet in SS-3
Curriculum: meets in E10
Data & Accountability: meets in E1
School Culture & Student Support: meets in SS6
Department Chairs and Leadership: Please rotate through the other groups to see if they need your input for their section since our section has our areas of strengths and growth already.
If you are new to our campus or you forgot which group you were working with, please see this document , look at the bottom tabs, note the small arrows and click to the right, then look for "Combined Roster" and your name.
We are working on finishing our evidence and moving on to our areas of strengths and growths. Remember, all of our work in our shared Google classroom.
Once we have our draft Areas of Strengths and Growth for each Focus group, we will ask everyone to read through all of them and give feedback via your department chair so we may refine them and then create our Action Plan. Then the Action Plan will be shared back out to the entire Faculty and Staff, along with School Site Council, PTSA and Student Senate to get any feedback from those stakeholders and then we will present a final draft for community review.
Do you know about subscription-based online databases that are available to GUHSD students and teachers?
You are always welcome to promote and use online databases independently with your classes. In addition, our librarian Suzanne Sannwald is also happy to collaborate with you regarding use of these resources and with research-related assignments and projects, in general.
