Alpharetta High School

December 20, 21, 22 – Final Exams for first semester (Early Release days)

December 22 – Last day of First Semester

January 5 - Teacher work day, lunch from yearbook noon and faculty meeting after lunch

January 5 - Grades loaded by 4 PM

January 6 - Grades verified by 4 PM

January 6 - Professional Learning day and AHS University

January 9 - First day of second semester

January 10 - School Governance Meeting

January 12 - Hard lock down, soft lock down, and fire drill - beginning of 5th period

January 12 - PSAT/Sophomore Night

January 16 - No school

January 17 - AHS PL Day - 1st IG group of second semester

January 17 - March 1 - ACCESS testing

January 19 - Special Programs Night

January 26 - HOPE Scholarship Night

January 27 - Winter Pep Rally

February 3 - Fire drill, time TBD

February 8 - Mr. AHS, auditorium, 7 PM

January 5th Work Day:

7:50 - 12:00 - work individually in rooms, collaborate with PLC, meet with department

12:00 - lunch sponsored by AHS Yearbook in the cafeteria

1:00 - January Faculty Meeting

2:00 - 3:50 - work individually in rooms, collaborate with PLC, meet with department

4:00 - upload all grades

January 6th Fulton County Professional Development Day:

7:50 - 3:50 - Off campus required or optional training for many (see spreadsheet in next section)

OR

7:50 - 8:30 - work individually in rooms, collaborate with PLC, meet with department

8:30 - 10:00 - AHS University PD sessions for those who are on campus (look for an email from Ginny Brown with session descriptions)

10:00 - 3:50 - work individually in rooms, collaborate with PLC, meet with department

4:00 - verify all grades

Just a friendly reminder that Fulton County Professional Development Days are planned for January 6 and March 13.

Links to the spreadsheets for both Professional Development Days are below: January 6 Session Spreadsheet March 13 Session Spreadsheet

For each spreadsheet, the first worksheet has all of the required sessions. For the majority of required sessions, teachers do not need to register in Edivate. The second worksheet has all of the optional sessions. Teachers need to register for optional sessions. The catalog that the course can be found in is included on the spreadsheet. These sessions are available until they are full.

Please remember that teachers are expected to attend all required sessions. Teachers who do not have a required session may attend an optional session, school based PD or work at their home school.

Registration Instructions:

§ Log into the Employee Portal

§ Locate the Edivate icon in My Apps

§ Click on View All Catalogs (or Click here) in the Catalog card

§ Select the indicated catalog

§ Choose the course title (click on the word TITLE in the grey bar to sort alphabetically)

§ Click icon

§ The course will no longer show under Catalog. Instead, it will be under the Transcript tab

If you later decide not to attend, please return to Edivate and remove the class from your transcript so someone else may take that seat.

If you are at AHS on these district PD days, we will offer AHS University sessions for our learning.

Please remember to check your Pay Checks to ensure your OE elections are correctly reflected. All new elections will show on the December checks, except 2017 FSA elections (they start in January) or new life insurance elections that have not yet been approved.

Due to the way SHBP processes elections, we have found several changes that did not come over on the OE file we get from them and upload, and we have no way of knowing.

Remember, information, phone numbers, and websites can be found 24/7/365 on the Employee Benefits Center. Go to www.myfultonbenefits.com, and click the GREEN button.

Biometric Screenings will be at Alpharetta High School again this year
Sign up info coming soon…

Screenings will be on the Teacher Workday

Monday March 13

8:00am-2:00pm

Cafeteria

Do you have an extra vacuum cleaner you aren't using? If so, please consider donating it to AHS! We are down to two working vacuum cleaners for the entire building and we thought we'd ask before we start purchasing them! Email Rebecca if you have one to donate - perkinsr@fultonschools.org

We have two custodians leaving in January for other opportunities. If you know someone who may be interested in a job, please let Rebecca and Jimmy know.

Tara Daas 2

Lisa Camp 5

Jane Mando 8

Trudy Whitehead 9

Clarenda Baugh 10

Mike Scheifflee 12

Jacob Nichols 14

Mike Nance 16

Bryan Wells 18

Keisha Iton Moore 20

Connie Morrow 20

Jeff Macko 21

Kendra Magill 21

Kirk Duncan 22

Elzbieta Kaczkowska 23

Brenda Hunter 24

Brendan Ramsey 29

“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes.

Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're Doing Something.

So that's my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made before. Don't freeze, don't stop, don't worry that it isn't good enough, or it isn't perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life.

Whatever it is you're scared of doing, Do it.

Make your mistakes, next year and forever.”
― Neil Gaiman

We want to create a community filled with more balanced lives. The School Governance Council proposed a solution, and the Instructional Leadership Team agreed; thus, we have declared two nights a semester during the 2016-17 school year as "Balance Days."

February 15th

March 15th

The nights above are Wednesday nights the week of the 17th (to celebrate the class of 2017), and on these nights there will not be any homework assigned, no assessments will occur the next day, and no AHS meetings will be scheduled.

The idea is that Raiders will go home right after school and work to create balance in their lives. Staff members and students alike will take a night off. Club sponsors and coaches and directors may hold meetings and practices and games as needed. We feel students release stress through these extracurricular activities.

Please plan to enjoy yourself and work your assessments around these dates this year.