Como Park Senior High Newsletter
November 22, 2024
Need a ride?
Our goal is to remove barriers that prevent parents/guardians from full participation in the academic life of their student(s). St. Paul Schools partners with Lyft to assure families can be involved in the following activities:
- Parent/Teacher Conferences
- Family Nights
- IEP Meetings
- Site Council
- Parent Meetings
- Open House
- School Event
For transportation questions or to schedule a ride, contact Jamie Hoffman at jamie.hoffman@spps.org.
FAMILY ENGAGEMENT MEETING
What: ALL PARENTS INVITED to learn more about Como, provide feedback, ask questions and express concerns
When: December 2, 2024 at 6:00 PM
Where: Room 1208
Agenda:
-SCIP (School Continuous Improvement Plan)
-Question of the Month/Parent Feedback/Quarter 1 Reflections
-Holidays and Adolescent Mental Health
-Credit Recovery
-Shoe Fundraiser
-Continuum Care Center/Next Meeting
Questions? Contact Jamie Hoffman at jamie.hoffman@spps.org or 651-744-5529
Hello Parent/Guardian,
Como Park Senior High School is excited to announce the release of a new feature for your Parent Portal! The Parent Absence Request tool is being piloted at a few schools in the district and we will be opening it for use. Soon, you’ll have the ability to submit a request that informs the school office in advance when your child is not going to be in school directly from the Infinite Campus Parent Portal. Examples include:
Child wakes up sick
Child has a doctor appointment
Child will miss school because of a family event
These requests are processed by the office staff and an attendance record is created on the student’s attendance record.
For Karen, Spanish, Somali, and Hmong, click here.
Resources to support examinees:
● ACT.org Information for Examinees
● MyACT
● SPPS: College and Career Readiness
- Free ACT test prep with Xello:
- ■ Open the Clever app or go to www.clever.com/in/SPPS.
- ■ Click 'Log in with Active Directory.
- ■ Enter your Active Directory username and password.
- ■ Click on the Xello app.
- ■ In the ‘Links & Resources’ section, select ‘Methodize’. The program will open in a new tab SPPS offers ACT without Writing. ACT with Writing is available at National ACT test centers
Districtwide Career Pathways Program at the 3M Advanced Training Center
Are you an SPPS student interested in taking college courses that match your interests and career goals? We invite you to review the course offerings and signup during your high school's course registration process. Students enrolled in this program are exploring high demand, high wage careers. They will spend mornings at their home high school and afternoons at the Districtwide Career Pathway Center, located on the campus of Saint Paul College, completing career-related college courses. Students need to meet the college eligibility requirement for the PSEO course(s) of interest.
*Note - Counselor's approval is needed for final enrollment into the program to ensure students can stay on-track to graduate.
Course Descriptions and Schedule: SPPS Districtwide Career Pathways Program
My name is Abdullahi Mohamed and I teach Somali Language at Como Senior.
Before joining Como staff, I taught ESL classes at Fridley Middle school for 2 school years. And even before that, for 20 years, I was teaching ESL ( English as Second Language ) at Sanford Middle School which comes under Minneapolis Public Schools.
I like to travel around the world. When at home , I spend my time reading , baking and cooking.
I speak Somali, Arabic, English and French languages.
After working all my past teaching years in middle school and as this is my first year teaching in a high school, I am really impressed with the maturity and responsibility of most of the Como students.
Ms. Hartzell and student council put on a Pie a staff Fundraiser. For $1, students voted on who they would like to see pied in the face with whipped cream. The following top earners were pied during seminar: Dr. Brown (principal), Carlos (support staff), Tim (security liaison), Ms. Pin (teacher), and Mr. Erickson (teacher). A fun Friday with good sportsmanship and lots of laughs. Click here for pics and video. 😊 🥧
Como Park ELL teacher, Traci Buckle, and students featured on Kare 11 News
To watch video, click here.
3DE Field Trip to St. Paul City Hall with Ramsey County
3DE is a program to inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy. This is accomplished through focusing on the skills and competencies students will need to be successful during and after high school across content areas. We also focus on connecting students with local and national business partners who can help support students in their growth of these skills and competencies using real world business situations and challenges.
185 freshmen attended the event at St. Paul City Hall. For this case we asked students to come up with a solution to the question: Which non-profit should Ramsey County collaborate with to build their talent pipeline? All students presented a solution in class and then our top 4 groups presented to Ramsey County employees. Our winning group was: Molly Zbacnik, Nijia Wheeler and Lilly Werner.
Here is a link to the slides detailing all of the students who received awards and recognition. 3DE Case 9.2 Winners
Cyber Patriot Round # 2 Competition. This past Saturday our CPSHS MCJROTC Cyber Patriot Team cadets participated in the second round of this year’s competition. Cyber Patriots is a program designed to develop future cyber security workers. During today’s competition, the team identified and rectified security mis-configurations in Windows 11, Linux and Windows Server machines. Great job cadets!
Would you like to know what is happening around the Como Park neighborhood? Click the link for the latest news and updates from your District 10 Como Community Council. View as a webpage.
