HRHS Faculty Newsletter
Nov. 19-23
This Week's Calendar
Day 7
Tuesday 11/20:
Day 6
Wednesday 11/21:
Day 5
Half Day
Thursday 11/22:
No School
Friday 11/23:
No School
For Your Information & Action:
Extra-Curricular Applications: All extracurricular advisors should have submitted an application for their proposed activity, even if they don't expect or want to be paid for the position. This is important because we need to hold students accountable for their academic grades and their eligibility for the activity. Without knowing what activities are taking place, it is challenging for this to happen.
Holiday Party: The holiday party is December 7, 3-6pm, at JJ's in Florence. It is $20 until Tuesday, and after that will cost $25. RSVP to Alesia or Sue B.
Feedback From Staff Survey
Thank you to everyone who responded to the staff survey. In an effort to be transparent around our own goals as an admin team, we wanted to share some of the feedback and questions we received.
Can you share some of the data around discipline and attendance?
- Office detentions: 10
- Lunch detentions for excessive tardies: 16
- Suspensions: 7
- Senior licenses revoked: 9 total, 5 currently revoked
What are the next steps after an observation?
- Our goal is to provide written feedback (in your mailbox or email) within three school days of an observation.
I appreciate the shout-outs but do not want other students and staff to feel left out.
- Please send shout-outs for your colleagues AND nominations for students of the week to Lauren by Friday each week! The shout outs and students of the week are a combination of admin and staff praise, and the more the merrier!
It is hard to search for specific items from the newsletter, and it takes too many clicks to read it.
- Problem solved! The newsletter will now be sent in this new format where you should be able to read it in your email or in the web browser.
Admin Next Steps:
- Ensure that we are providing feedback within a reasonable time after observations.
- Provide meeting/PD agendas ahead of time rather than the day of.
Thank you for your honest and thoughtful feedback!
Staff Shout Outs!
Thank you to Terry Barut and Kim Bush for meeting to review the new MCAS and create a plan to support our sophomores with this new set of tests.
Responsibility and Perseverance:
- Jon Letendre has stepped up to help the entire 7th grade get started on their science fair projects.
- Judy Thrasher deserves a shout out for stepping in and helping the science department until a permanent substitute is brought in to teach 7th grade science. She does everything she is asked to do without hesitation and braved the cold during the field trip on Thursday.
- Thank you to Liz Sormanti and Starr Adams who both spent multiple days over the past two weeks to proctor MCAS re-takes.
- Shout out to Cindy Streker for being so diligent with after school bus supervision!
- Thanks to Scott Gove for working so hard to organize new go-buckets for all staff!
- Thank you to Amy Scully for finding relevant and meaningful data for program leaders to review.
Collaboration and Engagement:
- Shout out to Team Everest for planning a great field trip outside despite the cold weather.
- Thank you to Kim Bush and Kelly Carpenter for being so flexible with homecoming and setting up a snow date so quickly.
- Congratulations to Sue Tracy and Billy Broaddus for an awesome performance by our cross country teams at Western Mass last weekend! Good luck to the boys on Sunday!
- Thank you to Sarah Buckley for covering on the field trip and literally running back to her next class!
Respect and Compassion:
- Carol Hanrahan has gone out of her way to support an 8th grader during a tough transition. She has set up a lunch group for him and reached out to an older student who will help mentor the 8th grade student. Thank you Carol!
- Thank you to Julie Abel who has gone out of her way to support one of the students who she drives home daily.
- Thank you Janet Baron and Carol Hanrahan for volunteering to support a student with medical needs in the nurses' office.