A) There will be a
Faculty Meeting
after Banked Time on Tuesday, November 5.
B)
3rd Grading Period FALL 2019:
Grades will be due on Thursday, November 7 at 4pm. Please submit grades in MISIS and turn in signed verification forms into the Counseling office. If you are having trouble printing out verification forms, please see Ms. Sanchez or Ms. Bedolla in the Counseling office.
C)
ILT Thursday 11-7-2019
On Thursday, November 7 during ILT we will review and revise our PD calendar, discuss observations and Master Schedule.
D)
City Year-Planned Interventions
Starting November 11, Monday, City Year will be starting their planned interventions and will start to pull students during 8th period to support with student gaps and learning. Schedules will be provided to teachers that have students in City Year.
E) The
School Site Council
will meet after school on Monday, November 4, in the Parent Center.
F)
Parents:
Grade Level Parent Meetings are starting next week! Please encourage students to attend:
Class of 2021:
TUESDAY, November 5
, from 9:00--11:00 AM and 5:00--7:00 PM
Parents on
Tuesday 5, 2019
we will be conducting our Parent Classroom Walk-Throughs in the History department classes during
2nd Period
from
9:00am-10:00am
. During our classroom visits, parents will have the opportunity to observe for 10 minutes in each classroom and will look for evidence of a SOAR Board (Standards, Objective, Agenda, and Reflection), 3C1: Standards Based Learning Activities, and a Class Ambassador. Parent classroom walk-through is an opportunity to engage our parents in dialogue and give them examples of what learning looks like in our classrooms. All parents are invited to participate and we will be meeting in the Parent Center at 8:45am.
Parents join us on
Saturday, November 16, 2019 from 8:30am-1:00pm
for the Partnership for Los Angeles Schools South LA Parent College Event. Parent College is a free event for families. Join us for classes that will give you the tools to help your child succeed in school and be college ready.
G)The
11th grade ELA PLC
will have pull-out Unit Planning on Tuesday, November 5, and Wednesday, November 6. Thank you Mr. Johnson, Ms. Cano, Ms. Ascencio, and Mr. Aghevli for your continued advocacy, work ethic, and collaboration for 11th grade students.
H) The
ELA department
will have a
full-day pull-out PD
on Friday, November 8, in order to calibrate and score the Long-Form Writing assignments for 12th grade, 10th grade, 9th grade, and ELD students. All participating teachers are invited back to Santee on Saturday, November 9, to continue to score any essays that were not completed on Friday.
I)
New Cell Phone Policy:
Teachers, thank you for helping to spread the word about the start of our new cell phone policy. Flyers and posters have been created to help promote the new policy. We need to continue to let students know what the policy is and that the policy will be in full effect starting the first day of second semester. Reminder that the new policy prohibits cell phone use in the classroom. If you need assistance with technology that can be used in the class, please see Ms. M. Miller and she can assist you. She will be offering various enrichment Professional Developments to assist you with this.
J) The
TUPE Drug and Alcohol program
will be working with Ms. Felix and Mr. Keys to facilitate two programs here on campus. If you have students that you think will benefit from being apart of this program, please send them an email or drop a note in their box. If you would like more information about the program, please see either of them.
K)
Office Hours:
Office Hours have begun. Please notify your students of the day and hour that you will be available. Tutor X time will be compensated 1 hour a week per teacher.
Door sheets are done and will be posted this week.
Lastly, if you have chosen lunch time, please still adhere to the objective of office hours which is to support any Falcon with academic support and to answer any questions they may have.
All teachers who offer office hours are to turn in their office hours at the end of each month.
L)
City Year Tutoring
City Year tutoring has begun in the student cafeteria from 3pm-5pm. Please encourage students to attend tutoring for extra help. Any student may attend.
M)
AVID:
Teachers please have your students log in and vote for the AVID t-shirt design.
N)
Attendance:
This week we celebrated the 50th day of school. We gave out candy to our on time students and churros to all our students with perfect attendance.
Thank you to the Science department for having 100% attendance submittal. Great job Falcons!
We need to continue reminding our students the importance of being in school and in class. Remember 96% or higher attendance rate for every student.
Please continue to use the PSA online referral form if you have a concern regarding any students attendance. The PSA's will respond to the referral in a timely manner.
O)
Attention 9
th
and 10
th
Grade Students!!:
On Wednesday November 20,2019 and Thursday November 21, 2019
Vision to Learn
will be on our campus to conduct Vision Screenings from 8:00am-2:55pm.
