It was a HUGE Success!
Huge shoutout to Student Senator, Anabel R. for coordinating this year's Advisory Olympics. Despite the little bit of rain in the beginning, the event was perfect! All of the advisories and their advising teachers participated in activities where they had to use their Learning Outcome skills to win in each event.
Parent Participation Opportunities this Month!
30 hours of Parent Participation may seem like a lot, but it goes by really fast and its easier than you think. We want our parents to be involved in their child's education and we also want to be partners with you for the best possible outcome for all of our students. This is why we ask ALL of our families to volunteer and.or donate to fulfill 30 hours of participation time per year. For the month of September, here's how you can earn your time.
- Join the PTSA - you get 1 hour per family member who joins!
- Attend Back to School Night - 2 hour for 1.5 hours of your time
- Attend the PTSA Meeting - 1 hour
- Donate to Stock the Staffroom - 1 hour for every $10 (please provide receipts)
- Come and observe your student in class (we welcome parents to come and see what their child is doing in classes) - time equivalent
- Parent/Teacher meetings - if you have a meeting with any school personnel, be sure to document it, it counts!
- Refer a student, if they enroll at New Tech, you get ALL 30 hours!
Each time you donate your time or resources to the school, be sure you complete our Parent Participation form in the front office so we can count your time!
Help us out if you can!
Every month, Principal Martin decorates the staff room in a monthly theme. This month's theme is Apples because September is National Apple Month! We want to make sure our teachers have a nice, clean, fully stocked staff lounge so they can power through each day with our students.
Teachers only get 30 minutes lunch breaks, and 3 minute passing periods. This makes it really tough to go off campus for food.
To help out, we ask our parents to donate items to stock the staff room. If you donate, please be sure to bring your receipts so we can credit your participation time.
We are always in need of the following items:
- K-Pod coffee pods for our Keurig Machines
- Coffee Creamers
- Bottled Water
- LaCroux (or similar) seltzer water
- Diet Soda (favorites are Mt Dew and Dr. Pepper)
- Individually wrapped snacks (chips, nuts, crackers, etc)
Thank you in advance for helping us take care of our teachers and staff!
Starts in September!
Each week for the rest of the school year, we will select one Timberwolf to be the Student of the Week! Throughout the week, teachers and school staff will nominate students who they think have shown exemplary or improved in our Learning Outcomes. On Friday, of all the nominated students, one lucky student will be selected randomly as the Student of the Week. The student of the week also earns a prize!
Attending School EVERYDAY is so Important!
In the 2020-21 school year, at least 10.1 million students nationwide were chronically absent. We estimate chronic absence has more than doubled from the more than 8 million students, pre-Covid-19, who were missing so many days of school that they were academically at risk. Chronic absence — missing 10 percent or more of school days due to absence for any reason—excused, unexcused absences and suspensions—can translate into students having difficulty learning to read by the third-grade, achieving in middle school, and graduating from high school.