Dear Colleagues,

Great news from Zack Scott: "On Monday, students and staff members will be able to use Chromebooks throughout our schools with other devices being reconnected in the coming weeks." Hopefully we are on the road to resuming normal operations, but before we do, I want to express my appreciation for your dedication and professionalism. You may have noticed that the admin team began walkthroughs last week. The overwhelming feedback I received was that our faculty adjusted their practice to meet the moment, and teaching and learning continued. The pedagogical tools you selected provided opportunities for deep student engagement, discussion, and learning. Thank you for your creativity, agility, and commitment to meeting the moment. It is a privilege to work with you.

Respectfully,

Gail

An obituary will be forthcoming. Until then, Richard has shared the following:

There will be a wake at Boyle Funeral Home, 142 Centerville Rd., Warwick, RI, on Thursday, September 26th from 4pm-8pm.

The funeral will be on Saturday, September 28th at 10am in the Hope High School auditorium. The admin team will send flowers on behalf of the school.

With the Internet returning, please remember to take attendance every class period. This will be extremely important, especially as safety drills resume.

I know that we have a standing list of folks who perform breakfast duty, and a list of folks who volunteered for detention, but I've been asked to post for the duties. I'll send a separate email. With the Internet returning, the admin team will regroup and start assigning detentions based on referrals.

Right before the Internet went down, English and math teachers responded to a few questions about their preparedness to facilitate the iReady diagnostic. Understandably since we have never used this platform at the high school level, almost all respondents said they felt unprepared to administer the assessment. Now that the Internet is back, please review the support Ms. Jimenez offered in the email she sent just before we lost connectivity. Once you have a chance to review, please reach out to Coach Jimenez for ELA support and Coach Benavides for math support.

from Coach Jimenez...

Good afternoon, All;

I have invited you to join my Google Classroom/Coach Jimenez, to keep updates.

There you will find the links to iReady demonstration - which would be useful to show your ninth graders - and a practice/simulator to explain how to take the test.

I have also attached the links below along with a picture of login information.

Demo

Diagnostic simulator

Simulator login Copy of IMG_2204.jpg

If you need any help with STAR Logins or iReady settings, let me know via email message.

Thanks

Nikki 🙂

Please review the guidelines linked below. If you have questions or concerns, please contact Coach Jimenez or Coach Benavides.

I don't have an adjusted assessment calendar yet, but if you teach English or math to 9th and 10th grade students, please prepare to administer the STAR assessment. If you need support, please contact Coach Jimenez for English or Coach Benavides for math.

If you are being evaluated this year, you will receive an email from the admin team inviting you to a beginning of year conference. Invitations will go out by Tuesday afternoon.

Our first attendance team meeting will take place Monday from 2:40 pm-3:40 pm in room 126. All are welcome to attend. This is an unpaid meeting.

PCTA is hosting an annual college fair. Our juniors and seniors are invited to attend from 11-12:15.

Please follow the Naviance guidelines for Advisory. Here's the timeline.

CPT will resume as planned on Thursday. Please meet in room 001 in the basement according to the schedule below. If you have 6th period coverage or a regular coverage for that time on Thursday, you are excused from attending. The slide deck is here. We will revisit the Fundamental Five.

Period 1 8-8:45

Period 2 9:15-10

Period 3 10:30-11:15

Period 4 12:15-1

Period 5 1:30-2:15

If you haven't done so yet, please remember to access, read, and provide your digital signature to all of the compliance forms. The forms are in our Frontline accounts. I have provided the 3 steps to access them below.

The JROTC sponsored blood drive is taking place on October 2nd in the gymnatorium.