A busy week ahead, reflections from last Thursday....

Every week is going to be a super busy one from now until the end of the school year!

·         On Monday, the final Performance Based Assessments and presentations for students seeking the first-ever CTE recognition diploma being offered by the Department of Education will be done by Mr. Souza’s classes.  Students will be presenting their research and personal reflections about their learning before a panel of judges from the community. 

·         On Monday, the JROTC cadets/program will be visited by Battalion personnel from the mainland and Oahu; our health and biology classes will hear a special presentation from FBI agents from Oahu about some new ‘designer’ drugs that young people/students are getting involved with

·         Tuesday – JROTC and health students will be participating in the mass casualty triage drill at the airport

·         Wednesday evening is the Year End Student Recognition event starting at 5:30 pm in the gym

·         Friday – Senior Luau takes place on the front lawn.  If you’re interested in purchasing tickets, please contact Mrs. Davalos

It was a great honor to be awarded the Masayuki Tokioka Award last Thursday night; it’s recognition of the hard work that our entire team of teachers and staff have put in over the years to ensure that Waimea students are on track to be college, career, and community ready when they leave us.  The money is cool too!!  We’ll use it to run our Summer Bridge program for incoming 9^th graders again (free!!) and coordinate with KCC for other Early College credit options for our students here on campus.  I’d like to share my favorite picture from that evening…. It’s with two of my grandchildren, Hunter and Hailey.  They’re being there to celebrate the award was the highlight of the night for me.

Earlier that same day, my husband and I attended the Governor’s Review & Awards Ceremony to celebrate JROTC’s 100^th anniversary in Hawaii.  Our own cadet Battalion Commander, Devon Hartsell, received special recognition that day… I was so proud of him!

Have a great week everyone.

Mrs. Anguay  J

Announcements:

This week’s schedule: n  Monday – 8 am, JROTC review by Battalion personnel from the mainland/Oahu n  Monday – all day in LRC, guest speaker for Matsuyama (pd. 1-4), Freitag (pd. 1-3), Keiko (pd. 4-7), Barber (pd. 5-6) n  Monday -- CORE meeting at 1 pm n  Tuesday – 10:30 – 11:30 am, Tunnel 6 brass band concert at band room for ukulele/music students n  Tuesday – Health/JROTC students at Kauai Mass Casualty Triage drill; list to be sent out by Major and Mrs. Freitag n  Tuesday – extended faculty meeting.  Suicide prevention presentation by Ms. Guillet and final 3 WASC Focus groups to present to rest of faculty (O’Day, Camara, Freitag groups) n  Tuesday – Anguay out for principal meeting; Thursday – Asahi out for VP meeting n  Wednesday – Hookipa visitation by Oahu staff n  Wednesday -- 5:30 pm, Year-end Student Recognition at gym; invitations being sent out via email, call outs n  Thursday – Asahi/Kobayashi out for VP/AD meeting n  Friday – Building and Construction students to KCC with Mr. Uyehara n  Friday -- Senior Luau on the front lawn; tickets available from Mrs. Davalos

final PBA presentations – Monday with Mr. Souza’s culinary students in the LRC, beginning at 3 pm

Next week’s scheduled activities/meetings/events: ·         Sunday – WAFF scholarship dinner, 6 pm ·         Tuesday – 1:45 pm, faculty meeting ·         Thursday – all day ART team meeting in the LRC ·         Friday – visit by Island Scholar representative ·         Friday – 8:30 KCC registrar and counselor on campus ·         Friday – ELL year end dinner 5 – 9 pm ·         Friday – May Day Program, 6:30 pm ·         Saturday – HSTE Slam! at Kapaa High School

Scheduled Meetings:

Date	Time	Location	What meeting?	Who attends?
Monday 4/25	1 pm	CORE meeting	LRC small conference room	All CORE members
Tuesday 4/26	1:45 to 3:45 pm	EXTENDED faculty meeting	LRC	All teachers; please bring laptops
Thursday 4/27	2:00 pm	On own	Department meetings	All teachers; DH submit attendance and agenda items/discussion to Baker and upload to matrix VOTE on new bell schedule please

Campus Supervision:

Assigned Date of Supervision	April 25	April 26, 27, 28	April 29
Assigned campus area	Team 4	Team 5	Team 6
●     Upper campus (preschool/J/I)	Shigematsu Pereira	Nishihira Rose	Moises Muraoka
●     library	Dickinson Daligcon	K. Souza	Evens
●     front lawn/outside cafe	Altomare	Sagawa-Pananganan	Matsuyama
●     S/T/U courtyard	Kajiwara	Phillips	Kellogg
●     AR room (ELA teachers)	Stengel	Freitag	Erdmann

WHS improvements in UH English and Math Enrollment

There's a nice article in today's Garden Island newspaper that talks about how more high school students on Kauai are taking college courses through the Early College, Running Start, or Jump Start programs. However, the reporter misinterpreted the data that was shared with her. Here's the slides that show Waimea High School's improvements... they're impressive. The slides show that from Fall 2013 to Fall 2015, WHS students have made great gains in the number of students who are qualifying/placing into UH English and Math college-level (100 or higher) courses and the corresponding drop in the number of students who need to take remedial courses. Click on the links below:

https://drive.google.com/…/0B6CRyLKWdLB7OGJLSE5neFZodTA/view

https://drive.google.com/…/0B6CRyLKWdLB7OXVEdGZmRDZ4QXc/view

Ahead of the college curve

Continuing with performance based assessments and presentations.....

We’re continuing our Performance Based Assessments and presentations for students seeking the first-ever CTE recognition diploma being offered by the Department of Education.  This week students from Ms. Evens’ and Mr. Souza’s classes will be presenting their research and personal reflections about their learning before a panel of judges from the community. 

This week we’re also completing our analysis of student growth data over the year.  We will use this information to fill our 11^th grade reading/writing workshop classes as well as our math workshop classes for 9^th and 10^th graders next year.  These will be elective classes that count towards graduation but will provide invaluable support for students who need a little extra help in making strides towards grade level proficiency.  We’re also using this data to determine which students may need summer school; counselors will be calling in students to speak with them individually about their options.  More information regarding summer school will be out within the next 2 weeks.

This week marks the halfway mark for quarter 4…. Please encourage your student to stay on top of each of his/her assignments and to be in classes daily, especially seniors! 

Have a great week everyone.

Mrs. Anguay  J

  

Announcements:

This week’s schedule: n  Monday – CORE meeting at 1 pm n  Monday -- STAR training available for any teacher during prep with Teri Jacobsen.  She can help you to interpret your students’ results and make curriculum changes.  See Darlene if you have any questions n  Monday 5:30 pm; Town meeting at Waimea Theatre.  West Complex schools presenting n  Tuesday – faculty meeting after school.  WE WILL BE EXAMINING STUDENT WORK SAMPLES AGAIN – BE PREPARED AND BRING HIGH/MEDIUM/LOW SAMPLES AND YOUR LESSON PLANS, RUBRICS, ETC. n  Thursday – Lo’i performance task exhibitions at LRC in afternoon n  Thursday – KCC advisory visit to STENGEL advisory class; please keep your students in n  Thursday – department meetings on own n  Thursday/Friday – Anguay off campus; back on campus after school Friday if you need to see me n  Friday – BRATS activity with feeder schools (list sent out by Mr. Pereira)

This week will be the final PBA presentations – Tuesday with Ms. Evens’ students; Wednesday with Mr. Souza’s.

Next week’s scheduled activities/meetings/events: ·         Monday – CORE meeting at 1 pm ·         Tuesday – 10:30 – 11:30 am, Tunnel 6 brass band at band room. ·         Tuesday – Health/JROTC students at Kauai Mass Casualty Triage drill; list to be sent out by Major and Mrs. Freitag ·         Tuesday – extended faculty meeting.  Suicide prevention presentation by Ms. Guillet and final 3 WASC Focus groups to present to rest of faculty ·         Tuesday – Anguay out for principal meeting; Thursday – Asahi out for VP meeting ·         Wednesday – 5:30 pm, Year-end Student Recognition at gym; invitations being sent out via email, call outs ·         Friday – Senior Luau on the front lawn

Scheduled Meetings:

Date	Time	Location	What meeting?	Who attends?
Monday 4/18	After lunch	CORE meeting	LRC small conference room	All CORE members
Tuesday 4/19	1:45 to 2:45 pm	faculty meeting	LRC	All teachers; please bring laptops AND STUDENT WORK SAMPLES, RUBRICS, ETC.
Thursday 4/21	2:00 pm	On own	Department meetings	All teachers; DH submit attendance and agenda items/discussion to Baker and upload to matrix

Campus Supervision:

Assigned Date of Supervision	April 18, 19, 20	April 21, 22
Assigned campus area	Team 3	Team 4
●     Upper campus (preschool/J/I)	Acoba Messer	Shigematsu Pereira
●     library	Klein	Dickinson Daligcon
●     front lawn/outside cafe	Uyehara	Altomare
●     S/T/U courtyard	Davalos	Kajiwara
●     AR room (ELA teachers)	Mitsis	Stengel

Support our CTE students!

This year’s senior class will be the first ever to receive the new Department of Education’s CTE recognition diploma.  To earn one, students need to be a “completer” in their pathway, meaning they’ve completed the introductory class and a concentration class as well as successfully complete several additional tasks:

·         Pass an online test that measures their overall knowledge of their pathway,

·         Write a comprehensive paper and present it to a panel of judges, and

·         Pass their Performance Based Assessment, or PBA, in front of a panel of community judges who represent the business or career area.  The PBA requires students to complete a scenario – for example, the health pathway students needed to demonstrate that they can simulate an office visit – introducing him/herself and stating the purpose of the visit, following proper precautions through handwashing and glove-wearing, taking the patient’s temperature, blood pressure, and assessing the patient’s medical history and offering suggestions for current and future needs.  Students were asked to do this while taking into consideration the patient’s advanced health directives and the accompanying ethical and legal issues.

Over the next two weeks, approximately 32 Waimea HS students will be attempting to pass their PBA….. we’d like to wish each of them good luck!

Have a great week everyone!

Mrs. Anguay  J

Announcements:

This week’s schedule: n  Monday – CORE meeting, Principal Review of JROTC n  Tuesday – PBA day for all students seeking CTE diploma recognition (list to come out this week) n  Tuesday – Blood Drive taking place all day in Band Room n  Tuesday – extended faculty meeting from 1:45 – 3:45 pm n  Wednesday – inclusion meeting after school n  Thursday – KCC advisory visit to SHIGEMATSU advisory class; please keep your students in n  Saturday – EdCamp (the unconference) at Island School – learn more at edcampkauai.org

Students are working on their PBA assessments over the next few weeks; they should be letting you know if they’re going to be out of class.  They know they are responsible for all work missed

Next week’s scheduled activities/meetings/events: ·         Monday – CORE meeting ·         Monday -- STAR training available for any teacher during prep with Teri Jacobsen.  She can help you to interpret your students’ results and make curriculum changes.  See Darlene if you have any questions ·         Tuesday – faculty meeting after school.  WE WILL BE EXAMINING STUDENT WORK SAMPLES AGAIN – BE PREPARED AND BRING HIGH/MEDIUM/LOW SAMPLES AND YOUR LESSON PLANS, RUBRICS, ETC. ·         Thursday – Lo’i performance task exhibitions at LRC in afternoon ·         Thursday – KCC advisory visit to STENGEL advisory class; please keep your students in ·         Friday – BRATS activity with feeder schools

Scheduled Meetings:

Date	Time	Location	What meeting?	Who attends?
Monday 4/11	After lunch	CORE meeting	LRC small conference room	All CORE members
Tuesday 4/12	1:45 to 3:45 pm	Extended faculty meeting	LRC	All teachers; please bring laptops
Thursday 4/14	2:00 pm	On own	Department meetings	All teachers; DH submit attendance and agenda items/discussion to Baker and upload to matrix

Campus Supervision:

Assigned Date of Supervision	April 11, 12	April 13, 14, 15
Assigned campus area	Team 1	Team 2
●     Upper campus (preschool/J/I)	Camara Super	Harding Herbig
●     library	Saligumba	Barber
●     front lawn/outside cafe	Naumu	Rita
●     S/T/U courtyard	Broyles	O’Day
●     AR room (ELA teachers)	Ibara	B. Souza