Reminders:

• Lunch tutoring- please continue to use the yellow passes for tutoring during lunch time. If you need more passes, please email Ms. Charles and we will have some delivered to you or see Ms. Hurley or Ms. Janavaras for more. Lunch tutoring is only on TUESDAYS and THURSDAY and students are only permitted to take grab & go lunches to the classroom.
• TELPAS Testing still ongoing this week- please check rosters daily and send students to testing rooms. Click on the second tab "TESTING SCHEDULE"- https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1cV2vMSmxr0kIRVJycME3DtK-YGAARXHzp07hYKPLors/edit?usp=sharing
• In no way, at any time, should you permit students into your classroom who do not belong and are not on your roster. Please notify admin if this continues to be a problem.
• SAT School Day on Wednesday for Juniors- please see email from Ms. Felder.
• Third Nine-Weeks grades are due on FRIDAY by 4:30PM- minimum of 16 grades (13 formative, 3 summative- no single test grade should result in student failing.) Grading guidelines link- https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TAK22_-Q8pxS1RpwtiuLOY5wuFP6Q6x9/view?usp=sharing

Playoff Game Information Below:

• WHEN: Tuesday, March 3 @ 7:00 PM
• WHO: Southside Cardinals vs Harlan Hawks
• WHERE: Northside Sports Gym
• ADMISSION: $3 for students, $5 for adults
• PASSES ACCEPTED: 28-5A, TGCA, THSCA, TABS, THSADA, Staff IDs

WE WILL NOT HAVE A PEP RALLY AND WILL RESUME REGULAR BELL SCHEDULE ON TUESDAY!

Monday:

• Counselor Dept. Meeting, 2:30-4

Tuesday:

• Baseball vs SW @ 7
  
• Boys Soccer vs Somerset @ 7
• Boys basketball playoff game (details above) @ 7

Wednesday:

• SAT School Day for JUNIORS

Thursday:

• Telpas Reviewing meeting (all day)

Friday:

• Girls Soccer vs Floresville @ 6:30
• Softball vs EP Winn @ 7

SPRING BREAK: March 8-14!

If you would like to share your events with the campus, please email details or flyers to Mrs. Charles to post on the newsletter and TV monitors in the commons.

In case you missed it, last week News 4 broadcasted a special segment on Cardinal senior, Robert Posada. See more at the link below-

https://news4sanantonio.com/features/go-public/southside-high-school-senior-finds-safety-and-hope-in-classroom

Pictured here is the Welding I team that built a wood stove out of scrap materials and put it to the test making delicious burgers to celebrate! The students are Martin Gutierrez, Xavier Gutierrez, Caleb Cervantes, and Jurgen Kuhn.

Pictured here is the second group of Love Mugs from the Art II Ceramics class! Great work, Cardinals!

Congrats to Senior Christopher Camarillo for signing his letter of intent with Oklahoma Panhandle State University! The Cardinal family wishes the best for Christopher as he moves on to play football at the next level! See pictures below-

Seven High School students competed in the annual Fair. This year, we have a team win financial award ($75.00) from one of the sponsors. This team also won 2nd place and have an opportunity to participate at State-level competition at Texas A&M University, College Station.

We had a 5th place finish in Behavioral & Social Sciences and a 4th place winner in Medicine and Health. This is a challenging competition since our students were up against private school, STEM Academies (mostly from San Antonio), Magnet Schools, and Home-schooled participants, ranging from Brownsville to El Paso.

Please help us in congratulating our students:

Kathy Pesina & Ana Martinez

Brian Duran

Alexis Zamarripa & Mallory Ortiz

Angelyk Martinez & Delia Rodriguez

On Saturday February 15, students from Mrs. Robinson's AP Art class competed in the VASE Regional Art contest at East Central High School. Juniors Larrina Perez and Sandy Rojo both received gold medals for their artwork, the highest award. Senior Sarah Valle received gold medals for two different pieces of Art.

In addition, Sandy Rojo's pencil color of Lindt's Lindor Truffles (pictured to the right) was advanced to the State level. Her artwork will be judged at the State event in San Marcos on April 24.

Attached are pictures of the 4 award winners. WAY TO GO, CARDINALS!!!

Presented to you by http://www.theteachertoolkit.com/

Accountable Discussions empowers students to draw up arguments based on evidence. Students learn how to respect the views of their peers while strengthening their communication skills. They get practice in being good conversationalists, participating in conversations in a polite manner.

How to Use

1. Introduce

Conduct a class discussion by defining accountable talk. Explain that in a learning discussion, each contributor to the conversation is held accountable to give reasons and evidence for opinions.

2. Practice

Call on some student volunteers to read accountable discussion cards about a concept you have just studied. Prepare these cards in advance to contain the accountable sentence stems (see templates provided), such as “I believe ____ because ____” and “I agree with ______ because ______.” Afterwards, ask the students, “What evidence of accountable talk were we good at? How could we improve?” Pass out the list of accountable talk sentence stems.

3. Ask

Pose an open-ended question and guide students in an accountable talk discussion. After letting students discuss, highlight some positive ways they used accountable talk along with areas to improve.

When to Use

Use Accountable Discussion sentence stems at any point in the lesson to structure meaningful conversation:

• Before introducing new material to tap into prior knowledge
• After watching a film clip to gauge a reaction
• During a read-aloud to get students thinking about a thought-provoking question
• When debating a current event or issue that’s important to students
• When discussing any concept in which students should “explain” or “prove” their thinking

Variations

Small Group Accountable Talk

Break students into groups of 3-4 and provide them with sentence stem cards that they draw at random to formulate conversations. Ask students to record the sentence stem(s) and their completed idea(s) in their notebooks or journals to hold them accountable for the conversation.

Let us know if you use this strategy in class and how it worked for you!

Check out all of the great stuff our technology department has put together to make our campus lives a little easier when dealing with technology!

https://sites.google.com/southsideisd.org/staff/technology-sisd

The Attendance Correction Form needs to only be completed for 2nd period attendance. For all other periods, Skyward allows you to make updates live; therefore, no form required.

Email Mrs. Charles!

Email: osana.charles@southsideisd.org
Website: https://sites.google.com/southsideisd.org/shsfacultyhandbook/faculty-handbook
Location: 19190 U.S. 281, San Antonio, TX, USA
Phone: (210) 882-1606