Knox Newsletter
October was a great month at Knox! Our students are working hard setting goals in all of their classes and tracking their progress toward mastery of the standards. Students are keeping track of their goal setting in their Student-led Conference Portfolios. Student-led conferences will be on December 12th at 8:00 am (check-in and welcome by the Counselors). Parents please mark your calendar for that day. Conferences will be held in all Advisory classrooms.
Attendance:
Great job to all of our students that have been working on clearing their absences during the weekend. As a reminder, End of Year activities are LOP events. Students need to clear their absences and tardies in Saturday School. We have some great incentives coming up for students with no uncleared tardies or absences. Knox currently has an attendance rate of 94%, which we are hoping to improve to 97%.
This year we have a reduction in office staff. Parents must report absences online through our Knox website. If you need to pick up your student from school for an appointment, please call ahead of time.
Report all absences on our website: https://knox.sandiegounified.org/ (parent menu)
8th Grade Promotion:
Save the date- May 27th at 4:30 pm (arrival and doors open) at Lincoln
Criteria coming soon for 8th grade students
Families will get 3 tickets to promotion (not including the 8th grade student)
Please see below for some more of our awesome activities from September at Knox.
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Please take some time to click on all of the links and to read the information below.
Teacher Professional Learning:
Our teachers are implementing their student goal-tracking and progress monitoring strategy #1 for their Action Research Projects related to Standards-based grading and learning. Our teachers work as teams to implement strategies for student reflections on learning, goal setting, progress tracking and more. Knox is on the path to being a Level 4 certified Marzano High-Reliability School.
Knox is the only school in SDUSD that is certified as a High Reliability Level 1,2, and 3 school.
Learn more about Marzano and high reliability schools here.
Student Incentives:
- Students that complete 4 articles in Achieve 3000 each month are entered into a raffle for a burrito
- 4 students each month with responsible attendance will win Belmont Park tickets.
- +MVMNT student of the month (6,7,8) get gift cards and great prizes like bikes!
- Brag tag party of the month- each teacher selects a student exhibiting the theme of the month and they are invited to a party. This month's theme for November is: Building Peace. "You Matter and You Have Power Over Your Choices"
Please also mark your calendar for these important events in November:
Looking Forward:
- 11/1-Progress 2 Grading Period Ends
- 11/4- Picture Day
- 11/7- Parent Circle and Food Pantry- 8:15
- 11/11-Veteran's Day- No School
- 11/18- Turkey Trot in PE
- 11/18 week-Knox Turkey Drive home visits
- 11/25-11/29- School Closed Thanksgiving Break
- 12/20- Semester 1 Ends-Final Semester Grades
Minimum Days-
- 11/7
- 11/14
- 11/21
- 11/28
1:40pm dismissal
Tutoring in room 15-1:45-2:45
No late bus
Students are encouraged to attend if they needed additional support with assignments. Please continue to check Power School. The progress reporting period ends at the end of the month.
Saturday School:
- 11/2
- 11/9
- 11/16
- Clears 4 tardies
- Clears 1 full day absences
- 8:00-12:00
LOP: Loss of Privileges
- Students must have no more than 10 tardies in the grading period
- No more than 2 absences
- Citizenship of at least 2.0
- No serious behaviors or suspensions
- Students on the LOP list may not participate in sports teams, dances, Pep Rallies, Fun Fridays, clubs, end of the year activities, certain field trips, etc.
- Students may appeal for 1 activity each year
Primetime Enrollment:
Site Coordinator | Knox Middle School
(619) 494-8652
1098 S. 49th St.
San Diego, CA 92113
Sincerely,
Principal Potter, AP Hirsch, and the Knox team.
