Dear KT Community:

Thank you to those who have updated their contact info in PowerSchool and set up an account. Please note - we will not be printing and mailing progress reports and reports cards, instead, they will be available for viewing in PowerSchool. We strongly encourage all families to create an account so you can monitor your students grades, attendance and progress in classes. An email was sent from PowerSchool with a link to update your contact info, and all families received an email with a unique access code to set up an account. If you have any questions or if you need these emails resent, please email Daniel Fothergill for assistance: powerschool@jpkeefehs.org. We will have a table at Curriculum Night to provide PowerSchool assistance to families.

Save the date for KT Curriculum Night - Thursday, September 28th at 6PM. This night allows you to follow your students schedule, meet their teachers and hear important class and school information. These are not individual conferences, those are scheduled for later in the year. Families will receive more information on Curriculum Night in the next week. We look forward to seeing you there!

Attention grade 12 students and families - graduation will be here soon and I want to pass along some dates to reserve.

Senior Awards Night: May 22, 2024 at 6PM (Students receiving an award will receive an invitation)

Graduation rehearsal: May 28, 2024 at 12:00PM at Keefe Tech (Required for all graduating seniors)

Graduation: May 29, 2024 at 6PM (Rain date, June 1st) at the Warren Conference Center in Ashland. All graduating seniors will receive 6 tickets, and all guests need a ticket to enter.

One last reminder for students and families - students need to be in school on time. If your student drives or if you are dropping them off, they need to be in academic classes at 7:40 and CTE class at 7:30AM. Thanks in advance for your assistance.

Have a great weekend!

Dr. Snow

If your child is going to be absent you are connecting with Melissa Sabo - 508.416.2259 / mksabo@jpkeefehs.org

Interested in Japanese language and culture? Join Japanese club! Our first meeting will

be next Monday, September 18th after school in room 204. We will be having snacks

and an origami party to start off the year!

Have you heard about how much fun SkillsUSA is? Come check it out at our first

chapter meeting next Monday, September 18th at 2:05pm in room 323. All are

welcome. If you have any questions, please see Mrs. Graham in room 323 or Mrs. Roy

in room 325.

Want to try your hand at chess, join a D&D campaign, or try a new board or card game?

Join games club! Our first meeting will be Tuesday, September 19th after school in room

204. Hope to see you there!

The first meeting of the Drama club will meet next Tuesday, September 19th, right after

school in room 201.

Mark your calendars, The Art Club starts next Thursday, September 21st, with Mrs.

Hargrove in the DVC program room! All are welcome.

Project Adventure will be hosting its annual apple picking trip to Honey Pot Farms

Thursday, September 28th from 2:15 – 4:30 pm. Come and join us as we pick

fresh apples and eat warm apple cider donuts, on this afternoon of fun! Please see Mr.

Paul in Horticulture or Mr. Sylvestre in the Metals shop for a permission slip.

Monday, September 25th - no school

Thursday, September 28th - Curriculum Night from 6-8PM - SAVE THE DATE!

Instructions to access PowerSchool parent/guardian account for Keefe Tech:

• The PowerSchool Parent Portal URL is: https://keefetech.powerschool.com/public/

• Access codes and passwords needed to set up parent/guardian accounts were originally sent home via email. If you need them again, please contact support at powerschool@jpkeefehs.org. Please provide your student’s name, grade, and student ID# if known/possible.

• Your username should be set to your full email address.

• Examples of special characters, when setting your password, are: !@#$*

• If you forget your Username or Password click the “Forgot Username or Password” link to have an email sent to reset it.

• If you aren’t receiving the Reset Password email, contact powerschool@jpkeefehs.org for further assistance.
  
  

Do you need to add another student to your PowerSchool parent account?

In your parent portal navigate to Account Preferences, then select the Students tab. Click on the Add button located on the right side of the screen. Enter your student’s name, access ID and Password, and your relationship to your student, then click OK. You should now see your 2nd student in your account. If you do not have the Access codes to add your student, contact powerschool@jpkeefehs.org too.

The PowerSchool app (on iPhone and Droid phone) works for students using their Keefe Tech email address now. The same PowerSchool app (on iPhone and Droid phone) works for parents/guardians to view their children as long as they have setup a registered account with PowerSchool.

All Keefe Tech students can download the PowerSchool app from the App Store, type in District code: CQJG and use the same Keefe email credentials to access their school information. Please work with your students at home if they need assistance accessing, email powerschool@jpkeefehs.org or have students visit 319A for further assistance from the Keefe Tech technology team.

If you do not have a smartphone, you can access your current grades and other information in PowerSchool via most internet browsers.

To access PowerSchool at KeefeTech, you will need to follow these steps:

1. Open an internet browser on your computer.

2. Type https://keefetech.powerschool.com/student into the address bar.

3. Type the student ID (email address) and Password (Google password). It is advisable that you keep your username and password secure and not share it with anyone else.

4. View the information.

5. Remember to log off when you are finished.

PARENT PORTAL HIGHLIGHTS

• The Grades and Attendance tab will allow you to check assignments and scores by clicking on the blue percentage across from a class.
• Email the teacher a question or concern by simply clicking the blue teacher's name link.
• Announcements can be viewed daily
• The parent portal is an excellent tool for monitoring your child's academic success. Log in and familiarize yourself with its capabilities. If you have any questions regarding the use of PowerSchool please contact the school office at 508-416-2100.

Link to the Work Permit Google Form for students: Work Permit Google Form

Reach out for more info how to help:
Jacinthe Benstrong-Twohig, KT Booster Club President
Jacinthe2019@icloud.com

Ms. Fauller's Algebra 2 Freshman successfully escaped the room while practicing solving inequalities!

Ms. Fanuele’s grade 11 students were actively engaged in creating their own Kamon as an extension activity following their learning this week! Excellent job!

Great integration and collaboration between Ms. Avery and Mr. Beling!

Ms. Avery’s students finished up the academic week with lots of smiles!

A-Week Culinary Arts students prepared Apple Crisp with Maple Creme Fraiche for the Natick Community Organic Farm's annual Harvest Dinner. We peeled and diced over 90 pounds of Macintosh apples! Culinary is also donating a gift certificate for a luncheon in our student-run East Side Room restaurant to the NCOF harvest auction. We love opportunities for collaboration in our communities!

DVC students in action!

Cosmetology student learned the benefits that apples and apple cider vinegar have on your hair! We did treatments on our hair and then enjoyed the famous fall fruit!

Junior and sophomore ECE&T created a STEAM zoom utilizing only select materials!

Junior ECE&T manuscript presentations!

FFA girls off to the Big E!

When you have a Carpentry program that can put new floors in the school restaurant! Refresh for the East Side Room is on its way!

Add/drop deadline to modify your schedule is Friday, September 29th! Guidance will be unable to accommodate schedule changes after this date. Please keep in mind that we made a huge transition to Powerschool this summer and we thank you for your understanding and patience!

Grade 9 students and families - our grade 9 students will be participating in Signs of Suicide (SOS) in their Grade 9 Health and Wellness classes beginning the week of September 26th. Our Clinical and School Counseling team will be leading the sessions and working with students. Specific information will be shared with families directly in our blackboard messaging system once contacts are updated.

Seniors who are planning to apply to 4-year colleges and universities should be working on their college applications, completing necessary essays and making sure they have connected with teachers about recommendations. Students should make an appointment with their School Counselor to review. Deadlines come up quick and we want to make sure they everyone is on track. Counselors are planning to put together some group workshops and different ways to get information our to seniors that are as user friendly as possible - say tuned!

Important Changes with the FAFSA/Financial Aid process for the Class of 2024:

The 2024-2025 FAFSA will be delayed due to the new changes in the implementation of the Simplified FAFSA form. The 2024-2025 FAFSA application will become available in December 2023 (previous years it was on October 1st). Some of the new changes to the FAFSA include: fewer questions (decreasing from 108 to 46) and the ability to list more colleges. Students planning on attending college after high school should start learning about the new FAFSA program. Students/parents can learn more about financial aid and the financial aid process right now by visiting: https://studentaid.gov/ or https://www.mefa.org/types-of-financial-aid.

Juniors who are interested in taking in the PSAT - the sign up is below! We are offering this exam on October 24, 25 and 26th and will break up students into 3 different days. This is the first year the exam is online, so we are requiring a hard deadline for students to register of Friday, September 22 by 2PM.

School Counselor Caseloads and additional contact information are below:

• Fill out this counselor request form online
• Stop by the counseling office to fill out an appointment request
• Email your School Counselor
• Call your School Counselor

Family Resource:

The McLean School Consultation Service is excited to announce our second annual “Leaders in Youth Mental Health Series.” For the 2023-2024 academic year, McLean will be hosting 7 free parent webinars presented by McLean clinical experts. The topics will focus on childhood suicidality/self-harm, childhood irritability, pediatric anxiety disorders and OCD, navigating the mental health system for youth in crisis, supporting non-binary and transgender youth, and partnering with schools for youth services and supports.

Dear parents and guardians,

Welcome to the 2023 and 2024 school year. The counseling department has many mental health programs in store for your child this year. For freshmen this month we will teach Signs of Suicide, an evidence based curriculum that helps students to understand the signs of depression and suicidality in themselves and their friends and then how to share critical information with a trusted adult.

Teaching this course is timely as September is Suicide Prevention Awareness Month. The troubling pattern of increased suicide rates continues to rise across the country, with youth of color and LGBTQ+ most affected, and all against the backdrop of teens reporting high levels of hopelessness, sadness, lonliness, and suicidal ideation, according to a recent report by the American Psychological Association (APA).

Another report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) looking at suicidal behaviors from 2011 to 2021 shows that 13% of high school girls (and 20% for LGBTQ+ youth) had attempted suicide and 30% (and 45% for LGBTQ+) had seriusly considered it.

Visit https://www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/data/yrbs/yrbs_data_summary_and_trends.htm to read more trends from the CDC's youth risk behavior survey.

Another resource is the Mayo Clinic's video on how to talk to your child about suicide at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BByqa7bhto and also see the APA's pamphlet (attached) offering advice on how to talk to teens about suicide.

As always please reach out to your child's school counselor if you have concerns about their safety. We can offer resources and supports both inside and outside of school

Thank you,

Julia Fairclough LICSW, SAC

Adjustment Counselor

We will keep adding to this album all season, keep up with your favorite KT teams!

Cheerleaders took a few minutes out of practice Tuesday to make personalized pom pom tags! We have a really big team year and are excited to show off our new routines at the fall pep rally!

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Location: 750 Winter Street, Framingham, MA, United States
Phone: 508-416-2100
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