Open House/Title 1 Parent Meeting - Wednesday, August 19, 2015

We had a great visit with the Superintendent, Deputy Superintendent, and Kauai Superintendent Arakaki yesterday.  They ate lunch in the cafe and visited several classrooms to check out what students and teachers were doing; they stopped by the LRC to see the seven new computer carts that we're getting ready to deploy with  Chromebooks and ipads as part of our Future Ready implementation plan.  Here's a picture of Mr. Nishihira's rocketry students with our visitors.

This week Wednesday is Open House.  We have a few things going on before the actual Title 1 Parent Meeting begins at 5:55 pm; please come and join us and meet your son or daughter's teachers.

Have a good week everyone!

Mrs. Anguay

Announcements:

1.       No faculty or data meetings this week – time being given back to teachers because of Open House and parents visiting on Wednesday 8/19.  Please be here that afternoon/evening and be available in your classrooms to speak with parents.  See schedule below.

2.       Visitors on campus this week – Senator Kouchi on Monday 8/17 at 10 am; BOE Board Member Mrs. Maggie Cox on Thursday 8/20.  I’m trying to confirm the time she’ll be here as she would like to walk through and see some classes.  We’ll let you know if she will be visiting your class.

3.       Tuesday – B. Souza, Erdmann, Ibara, Toma, Klein, Baker – at WCMS for SLO training

4.       TAUG final make up – Tuesday during Advisory in Baker’s room (S104).  Please send any student who missed the original/make up session from your PERIOD 5 class with a pass to Anguay.

5.       Achieve3000 training on Wednesday – please see Mr. Baker’s email to see when you are scheduled to attend/sub goes to your class to cover  your period

6.       Thursday – Math teachers with Wes Yuu; will be in individual classrooms

7.       Thursday 7 pm – Positive Coaching for Coaches and Student-Athletes.  At gym and Band Room.

OPEN HOUSE SCHEDULE:

Time	What’s happening
4:30 pm	Book Fair opens in the LRC.  Hosted by National Honor Society students and advisor, Mrs. Ishida.  Stop by and check out the selection of books available for purchase
5:00 pm	Session #1 of Achieve3000 in S104.  Our representative from Achieve will be here to do two informational sessions this evening with parents and to help parents sign up for their accounts.  If you haven’t attended a session before, please stop by to learn about an important program that all students at WHS participate in
5:30 pm	Sign in for parents opens up at the band room JROTC students will be doing parent surveys with ipads all evening.  Please take a few minutes to help us gather data from our stakeholders
5:55 pm	Presentation begins – sharing of our Title 1 status, data, changes at WHS
6:15 pm	Dismissal to visit classrooms or Session #2 of Achieve3000 in S104 Parents continue to complete surveys with JROTC cadets as they walk around
6:55 pm	Ring bell for grade level meetings – announcement over PA
7:00 pm	Grade level parent meetings with counselors and admin: ·         9th grade meeting in band room ·         10th grade meeting in S101 (O’Day’s room) ·         11th grade meeting in cafeteria *** 12th grade parent meeting scheduled for August 27, 2015 @ 6:30 pm, band room

Scheduled Meetings:

Date	Time	Location	What meeting?	Who attends?
Mon 8/17	1 pm	Baker’s room	CORE team	SSC, Counselors, Admin, SRO, Mokihana
Wed 8/19	All day	Baker’s room	Achieve3000 training	Teachers assigned as per Baker’s memo
Wed 8/19			Open House	Teachers, counselors, admin

Campus Supervision:

Assigned Date of Supervision	Aug 17, 18, 19	Aug 20
Assigned campus area	Team 5	Team 6
·         Upper campus (preschool/J/I)	Nishihira Rose	Moises Muraoka
·         library	K. Souza	Evens
·         front lawn/outside cafe	Sagawa-Pananganan	Matsuyama
·         S/T/U courtyard	Phillips	Kellogg
·         AR room (ELA teachers)	Freitag	Erdmann

Correction to email sent out to parents re: Open House on August 19, 2015

My apologies parents..... the email sent out to parents this morning has incorrect times for next Wednesday's Open House.  Here's the schedule for the evening; hope to see you there!

Time	What’s happening
4:30 pm	Book Fair opens in the LRC.  Hosted by National Honor Society students and advisor, Mrs. Ishida.  Stop by and check out the selection of books available for purchase
5:00 pm	Session #1 of Achieve3000 in S104.  Our representative from Achieve will be here to do two informational sessions this evening with parents and to help parents sign up for their accounts.  If you haven’t attended a session before, please stop by to learn about an important program that all students at WHS participate in
5:30 pm	Sign in for parents opens up at the band room JROTC students will be doing parent surveys with ipads all evening.  Please take a few minutes to help us gather data from our stakeholders
5:55 pm	Presentation begins – sharing of our Title 1 status, data, changes at WHS
6:15 pm	Dismissal to visit classrooms or Session #2 of Achieve3000 in S104 Parents continue to complete surveys with JROTC cadets as they walk around
6:55 pm	Ring bell for grade level meetings – announcement over PA
7:00 pm	Grade level parent meetings with counselors and admin: ·         9th grade meeting in band room ·         10th grade meeting in S101 (O’Day’s room) ·         11th grade meeting in cafeteria *** 12th grade parent meeting scheduled for August 27, 2015 @ 6:30 pm, band room

A visit from Superintendent Matayoshi and Deputy Schatz this week....

The first full week of school ended on an upbeat note for all with an Opening Assembly that recognized our new staff and freshmen class officers and celebrated student achievement at Waimea HS.  Students were treated to a live band performance by Still Watah and ice cream sandwiches provided by the PTSA.  Then that evening, our Big Blue football team defeated visiting Kaimuku High School 13-0 at Hanapepe Stadium!  Click on the link below check out pictures of both events and a short video on our Facebook page, The Waimea High School.  Please bookmark the site and visit us often to learn more about what's going on at school.

FB- The Waimea High School

At this week’s faculty meeting, teachers will share out their ‘big topics’ and skills being taught by grade level and content area…. The idea is that we will find opportunities to extend/leverage learning from one class into another.  I’d like teachers to begin thinking about developing student projects and performance tasks that are based upon common threads.  The idea is to continue to build students’ literacy – reading, writing, and math --- in all of their classes.  Literacy is not something that only English teachers work on; it’s something we’re all responsible for ensuring happens on campus.

This week is also our math teachers’ first professional development day with consultant Wes Yuu.  He’s working with WCMS teachers too so we can ensure that we are on the same page from grades 6-12 and students have a seamless transition from middle to high school.

Finally, this week Friday Superintendent Matayoshi and Deputy Superintendent Schatz will be visiting WHS from 11:30 – 1 pm.  They’ll have lunch on campus and then spend some time walking through classes and seeing the various programs and great projects we have going on at WHS.

Here’s the weekly bulletin …. Have a great week everyone!

Mrs. Anguay J

Announcements:

1.       Please send all students who were absent and missed last week’s TAUG presentation and quiz to the LRC on TUESDAY during ADVISORY…. I will do presentation with them and administer the quiz.  Be sure to send students to me with a pass.

2.       I’m going to share out the draft of section one of our Future Ready final plan with everyone this week – I’ll let you know via school Gmail.  If you have time, please review it and add your comments.

3.       Please be sure to let students know that the Superintendent and Deputy will be here on campus Friday from lunch until the end of period 3.  They’ll be visiting/walking through a variety of classes and will want to talk to teachers and students.

4.       Please check the campus supervision schedule and be visible during morning recess.  Thanks!

Scheduled Meetings:

Date	Time	Location	What meeting?	Who attends?
8/10	1:02 pm	Baker’s	CORE Team	Student Support personnel
8/11	1:45-3:45 pm	LRC	EXTENDED faculty meeting and CTE ‘field trip’	All teachers, counselors
8/11	6 pm	Waimea NC	WAFF	Anyone interested in joining WAFF and helping support WHS
8/13	12:20 - 2:15 pm	Baker’s	Department Head	DH, SSC, Baker, Admin
8/13	1:45 pm	On own	Department – teachers prep for Open House on 8/19, complete electronic gradebooks and input class rosters for programs	All teachers
8/14	7:45 – 2:45 pm	Baker’s	Math PD with Wes Yuu	All math teachers, Baker, Admin

Campus Supervision:

Assigned Date of Supervision	August 10,11	August 12, 13, 14
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

Hello everyone!

This week VP Asahi and I will be going on MTV3 to talk to students about two very important and serious topics -- Chapter 19 and the new statewide Technology Acceptable Use Guidelines (TAUG) for HIDOE owned digital devices and network or internet.  I’m going to imbed the TAUG PowerPoint presentation and the actual document sent home below for you to review so everyone is clear about student and parent responsibilities.  In the packet of forms your student brought home last Friday is the TAUG – please be sure to read it very carefully and then sign and return the Agreement Form (green). Without this signed form on file, your student will not be able to use any school electronic devices or the internet.  If you have any questions about this, please contact me at school.

TAUG #1 PowerPoint

TAUG #2 PowerPoint

TAUG document

Here’s the weekly announcement; have a great week everyone.

Mrs. Anguay  

Weekly bulletin –

Announcements:

1.       Marilyn, Craig and I have created a schedule that should allow us to get into each classroom once a week this year—our goal.  Please hold us accountable for this!

2.       Tuesday/Wednesday: Please keep advisory students in for admin addressing Tech Policy/quiz (Tuesday) and Chapter 19 (Wednesday).  I am sharing the power points of the Tech Policy material and quiz (with answers at the end) students need to take/pass with each of you.  Please have the quiz queued up on your projector ready to go over with your students AFTER I’m done on MTV3.  They should write their responses on a full size sheet of paper; that needs to be turned in before they leave as evidence they passed.  They are allowed one wrong answer but they need to go back and make the correction on their paper.  Please hold your advisory quizzes until ALL of your students have passed the test and then submit to Mahina.

3.       Tuesday 5:30 pm – R101.  PTSA meeting.  All are encouraged to attend

4.       Anguay off campus – Monday morning, Wednesday morning, Thursday afternoon

5.       Friday: Welcome Back Assembly.  Modified afternoon assembly schedule – Liko to distribute

6.       Friday 7 pm, Hanapepe Stadium.  Preseason FB game v. Kaimuki HS…. Come out and support our team!

Scheduled Meetings:

Date	Time	Location	What meeting?	Who attends?
Tues 8/4	1:45 P	LRC	Faculty Meeting (regular)	All teachers/counselors
Thur 8/6	1:00 P	Anguay office	DVR and WHS SpEd staff	Brandon, Nalani
Thur 8/6	1:45-2:20 P	DH to determine	Department – to complete preparations for 8/11 faculty presentations	All teachers
Fri 8/7	8 am	Baker’s	AcFin review	Cherie, Ann, Baker, Darlene

Campus Supervision:

Assigned Date of Supervision	Aug 3	Aug 4, 5, 6	Aug 7
Assigned campus area	Team 1	Team 2	Team 3
·         Upper campus (preschool/J/I)	Camara Super	Harding Herbig	Acoba Messer
·         library	Saligumba	Barber	Klein
·         front lawn/outside cafe	Naumu	Rita	Uyehara
·         S/T/U courtyard	Broyles	O’Day	Davalos
·         AR room (ELA teachers)	Ibara	B. Souza	Mitsis

Week 1 on the way!

WHS staff members have been enjoying  a great opening to this school year.  We've had several meetings so far and I'd like to highlight some important information for our stakeholders.

Last Friday, teachers spent a day working on furthering our collective knowledge and proficiency with assessments, Common Core Standards, learning objectives and targets with our consultant Tom Schimmer.  This is  the third time Mr. Schimmer has come to work with us and each time we build on what we learned earlier.

• One thing that will be implemented this year is a support for students, Work Completion Detention, that we will run during advisory period.  Our pass/failure data shows that many of our students who do NOT complete their homework do NOT do well academically and lose credits which means they have to make them up during the summer (at a cost to parents...) or during the school year (at a cost to their free time...).  All students are expected to complete their assigned homework daily as part of GLO#1 -- Self Directed Learner -- which is also reflected on each student's report card.  If students do NOT complete their HW, they will have to fill out a slip which asks them to reflect on why they didn't do it and their plan to not let it happen again.  Then they report to the cafe during advisory where we have assigned one of our teachers to supervise.  Students who do not show up for assigned Work Completion Detention will be assigned to after school detention, so it's very important for everyone to understand that we expect all students to learn and to take their education seriously.

• GLO grades as mentioned above will still be part of each student's report card.  This year we will assess students on GLO#1 and GLO#6 - Effective and ethical users of technology as we are a Future Ready school and have greatly increased the number of devices on campus for student use.  On Tuesday August 4th, I'll go over the DOE Acceptable User of Internet Policy and the Digital Device User Policy with all students via a morning MTV3 broadcast.  All students will get the same message and will take a quiz to assess whether they understand the school and state expectations for internet and computer usage.  It's important to keep speaking to your students about their GLO grades as they do count -- students receive 3 grades from each teacher: an academic grade that reflects their progress towards the class' standards and 2 GLO grades of either a S (satisfactory) or U (unsatisfactory) for the two GLOs mentioned (#1 and #6).  Students who receive 3 or more U grades will be restricted from participating in extra curricular activities for two weeks -- until they clear grades and GLO.  We implemented GLO grades last year as part of our WASC recommendations for accreditation but we stress and support GLO grades because we're teaching our students valuable skills that they'll need to be successful adults after they leave WHS.

• Technology will be utilized much more this year by teachers and students as part of our school being in the Future Ready Pathway.  Teachers will be required to maintain an electronic grade book that will be shared with parents/students. Teachers are learning how to use Google Apps for Education (GAFE) and other apps and software to encourage collaboration and student-driven learning in their classes.  During our faculty meetings,we've been practicing using new resources and instructional strategies to help get each of our students college and career ready. Students learn very differently in the 21st century -- our task as a staff is to be sure that we're working to meet them there.

We will be hosting our Open House on Wednesday August 19th starting at 6 pm in the band room. We will also have a book fair in the cafeteria and a representative from Achieve3000 to share information about the program and offer suggestions on how parents can support their student at home.  More information will be forthcoming soon.... please save the date though so we can partner together and work to support each student at WHS,

Please check out the calendar to the right for the latest happenings at WHS.

Have a great week!

Mrs. Anguay  :)

Gearing up for a new school year

Aloha everyone!

We're busy getting ready for the new school year.

• Tomorrow is the last day of fee collections; Mrs. Duarte will resume collections after the first two weeks of school.  
• We've ordered the last of our mobile carts so that we can deploy our new Chromebooks in almost every core teacher's classroom. 
• Teachers have been coming in on their own time to set up their classrooms and curriculum for students; they have also been attending classes and professional development opportunities to sharpen their skills

Our 9th grade students and their English teachers will be piloting a new program at WHS with Leadership Kauai (LK) this year.  We want every student to understand that he/she is a leader, has the capacity to lead, and has a responsibility to find a place to lead at Waimea.  Our 9th grade teachers will have an orientation with LK staff before school starts to introduce them to the program and to find touch points between their curriculum, Common Core State Standards, and the SpringBoard curriculum that is used in English.  It's pretty exciting stuff!

Finally, for those of you who are Facebook, we have an official WHS page now.... so you can keep up with what's happening at school through our school website http://www2.waimeahighschool.org/, this blog, or through FB on The Waimea High School

Just a reminder -- 9th graders report to school on July 28th; all students report on the 29th.

Have a good week!

Mrs. Anguay