Weekly News and Notes

Greetings,

A few reminders:

Grades must be input by Tuesday. Let us know if you have any issues or concerns.

The mandatory parent meeting has been rescheduled for Monday, February 11.

Study Halls for Second Semester

I'm sure there has been a great deal of confusion, based on the calls and emails I have received, but I assure you that study halls for second semester are not all that complicated.

First, if you are not seeing your roster, make sure you are looking at the study that meets second semester, not first semester. Students have been advised to report to the study that is on their schedule - though the room number may change on a daily basis. Teachers indicated that was better for them, and so we obliged that with the schedule. However, be patient as students learn which study meets where on a given day.

Secondly, if you are missing students at the beginning, please wait for Mary to have changed attendance based on who has signed in at the library. If a student is not present, and there is no indication that the student is in the library, please process this as a cut. There were very few of these first semester; hopefully, the change will not create more confusion with the students.

Finally, please check your schedules. It is possible that you have a hall, computer lab, or lunch duty where a study was last semester. The coverage for those areas is listed below:

LUNCH DUTY:

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
	D Period Burch Collins Lynch	E Period J. Rojee Petrarca Amaral	F Period Bryan Christie Lynch	G Period Murphy Infanger Jacobs	A Period Infanger Trottier Foucre	B Period Pacelli Webster Aigler	C Period Trottier Mackenzie

COMPUTER LAB:

DAY 1	DAY 2	DAY 3	DAY 4	DAY 5	DAY 6	DAY 7
A  CLOSED	B  COUTU	C  CLOSED	D  CLOSED	E  AMARAL	F   BRYAN	G CLOSED
B   AMARAL	C   GUILFOIL	D  JACOBS	E  KIRBY	F   LYNCH	G JACOBS	A WEBSTER
C COYLE	D  CLOSED	E  TROTTIER	F CLOSED	G CLOSED	A NASSIFF	B J.ROJEE
D WEBSTER	E CLOSED	F INFANGER	G CLOSED	A CLOSED	B CLOSED	C CLOSED
E CLOSED	F LYNCH	G CLOSED	A NASSIFF	B A.ROJEE	C CLOSED	D CLOSED
F GUILFOIL	G CLOSED	A CLOSED	B CLOSED	C SHIRE-SWIFT	D LYNCH	E AMARAL

Hall DUTY:

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
A		---	Nassiff			Murphy
B	J. Rojee		---	N. Amaral			Brodeur
C		Trottier		---	Coyle
D				Infanger	---
E	Infanger	Brodeur		Petrarca	Murphy	---
F		N. Brandon					---
G	-	Pacelli

To read this chart, the period is listed down the left and the day on the top. For example, Jay Rojee has hall duty on day 1 during period B. Dave Murphy would have hall duty during period E, day 5. Hopefully that makes sense.


SENIOR PRIVILEGES

A link to FAQ's on the Senior Privileges can be found here. We met with the Class of 2013 today, and the students were obviously receptive!


Teacher Eval Process

Earlier this week we held a meeting for any teacher in a developing educator/non-professional status cycle to explain formative conferences and where the road will be going from here. We plan on scheduling a similar meeting come March/April with the professional status teachers coming to the end of the year one of their two-year plans. Please see Doug, Dot, or Mike with any questions or concerns about your SMART goals, any of the individual indicators, competencies, etc. We are all in this together!

MCAS is Coming!

Just a reminder that MCAS will be administered on March 19, 21, and 22 for English Language Arts. No doubt there are some of you who are planning long, long range, particularly for your sophomores. For some reason, there is no test on the 20th - not sure why the state has given the day off in between!


Weekly video:

Lest we take ourselves too seriously, I had to share this one. After all, as the video quotes, "The person upon whose capable shoulders rests the responsiblity for their education is that unsung hero: the teacher." Pay careful attention to the depiction of the students and the narration - my favorite part may be the teacher's desk drawer and the lunch behavior! It's hard to make out at the beginning, but it looks like this was made in 1953!

Infographic of the week:

This chart here explains the difference between differentiated and personalized learning:

Article of the Week:

Awesome piece from The Atlantic on the need for parents to allow students to fail.