Knox Newsletter
March flew by quickly at Knox. Our students closed out the month with an incredible STEM week!!
State testing begins April 14th. Please make sure your student is completing iReady "My Path" on their laptop every night for Math and English to prepare for testing. If your student has a broken laptop, they need to visit the library before testing begins.
Getting Ready For State Testing Starts Monday:
- Arrive early to eat breakfast
- Bring your fully charged laptop and your charger
- Bring your reading book
- Try the practice test at home linked here
Read more about High Reliability here
Our students continue to do an amazing job demonstrating the Knox Pillars and the Bulldog Way. They have taken on incredible leadership roles in their clubs, as ASB, as Circle Leaders and in their classrooms.
We are looking forward to some of our other amazing events coming up:
- Spring Student-led Conferences
- Game truck event for most iReady math progress.
- State Testing
- Moana the Musical
- Our Spring VAPA concert
- Fun Friday and Saturday School Enrichment
- May is filled with field trips that include: The SD Zoo, Sea World, Safari Park, YMCA, Bowling, etc.
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 93%, 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:
GRADE CHECK DAY IS COMING!! May 5th 2pm- Students must be passing all of their classes
Save the date for Promotion- 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:
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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 currently working on identifying Tier 3 important academic vocabulary that needs to be taught for each of our master schedule courses, in order for students to demonstrate proficiency.
Knox is the only school in SDUSD that is certified as a High Reliability Level 1,2, 3 and 4 school.
Learn more about Marzano and high reliability schools here.
Student Incentives:
- Students that grow the most in Achieve 3000 each month (top 3) earn a burrito.
- +MVMNT student of the month (6,7,8) get gift cards and great prizes!
- 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 April is Positive Behavior. "You Matter and You Have Power Over Your Choices"
Please also mark your calendar for these important events in April:
Looking Forward:
- 4/9-LOP list published
- 4/9-SSC
- 4/7- Fitnessgram PE testing begins
- 4/10- Student-led Conferences- 8:15 Check in, Conference is 8:30-9:00 in all Advisory rooms
- 4/17- State testing begins.
- 4/18- Game truck iReady Math incentive
- 4/24- Food Pantry 1:10
- 4/25- +MVMNT Fun Friday
Minimum Days-
- All state testing days are short days with 1:40 pm dismissal
- 4/14
- 4/15
- 4/16
- 4/17
- 4/21
- 4/22
- 4/23
- 4/24
- 4/28
- 4/28
- 4/30
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:
- 4/12
- 4/19
- 4/26
- Clears 4 tardies
- Clears 1 full day absences
- 8:00-12:00
- Breakfast and lunch provided
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.
