Knox Middle School

September 2024

Knox Newsletter

Hello Knox Students and Parents!!

September 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 8:15 am. 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.

Follow us on Instagram:

@knox_middle

Please take some time to click on all of the links and to read the information below.

Teacher Professional Learning:

Our teachers are continuing collecting baseline data 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 October is: Courage. "You Matter and You Have Power Over Your Choices"

Please also mark your calendar for these important events in September:

Looking Forward:

10/3- Food Pantry and Parent Circle- 8:15 room 15
10/4- School is closed
10/9 Wellness Dogs
10/10-6th Grade TKF Assembly
10/11- P1 Pep Rally
10/14- Chavez Elementary 5th Grade Visits
10/15- 8th Grade Vision Screening
10/15- Baker Elementary 5th Grade Visits
10/16-Balboa Elementary 5th Grade Visits
10/17- Food Pantry 1:10pm- Drive thru
10/21- SSC-Meeting ID: 858 9340 8876
10/21-Red Ribbon Spirit Week
10/23- Wellness dogs on campus
10/24- 8th Graders to Courthouse Tour downtown
10/25- +MVMNT Fun Friday (LOP event)
10/25- Brag Tag party- Courage
10/28- Encanto 5th Grade Visits (choice/dual language)
10/28- SGT-Meeting ID: 858 9340 8876
10/29- Nye 5th Grade Visits
10/31- Halloween- NO COSTUMES ALLOWED. ALL CANDY SHOULD BE LEFT HOME
11/1-End of Progress Period 2 grading period (new lop list published following week)

Minimum Days-

10/3
10/10
10/17
10/24
10/31

1:40pm dismissal

Tutoring in room 202-1:45-2:45

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:

10/12
10/19
10/26

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

knox@arc-experience.com

1098 S. 49th St.

San Diego, CA 92113

Sincerely,

Principal Potter, AP Hirsch, and the Knox team.