"FOCUSED"

WE ARE...GREAT BY CHOICE!"

FEBRUARY 1st - FEBRUARY 5th 

WELCOME BACK TEAM!!

I hope you enjoyed this surprise snow break, had time to rest and energize, spend time with family and are ready to begin the second half of the school year!!

• THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU to our AMAZING Maintenance Team!! They have been hard at work since MONDAY, 1/25, ensuring the school grounds were safe for staff and students upon our return. WE APPRECIATE ALL OF YOUR HARD WORK! Make sure you thank our maintenance team when you see them!!

• It's NATIONAL SCHOOL COUNSELORS WEEK!! The Guidance Department and our Professional School Counselors are the nucleus of our school - WE CANT DO WHAT WE DO WITHOUT THEIR HARD WORK! Ladies...Thank you for your dedication and commitment to the students of Central High School! Know that we appreciate you!! Make sure you thank our Professional School Counselors this week!!

It is a well known fact: The number one predictor of success in college and careers, is he ability to effectively read and effectively comprehend complex text. Therefore, as we move towards "FOCUS,"we must ensure:

• 50-75% of all units/lessons must center around a complex text(students reading, discussing, and writing)
• provide students with necessary scaffolding to comprehend complex text
• model and expect student to annotate to develop a deeper understanding of the content
• create text dependent questions to help students develop a deeper understanding of the content
• frequent writing , citing textual evidence, to support arguments

• We will strictly enforce the uniform policy.  Please check uniforms during the first 5 minutes of each class. Scholars MUST be in uniform every day, in all classes. If a scholar is out of uniform, please send him/her, with a pass, to the ISS Room. Again, please do not allow scholars to sit in your class out of uniform. REMINDER: Have scholars unzip and unbutton jackets and sweaters to ensure they are wearing the correct uniform shirt. Shirts MUST have collars. Army green/brown bottoms are NOT a part of the uniform.

• Cell phones, ear buds, and/or ear phones MUST be turned off and out of sight during instructional time (unless used for instructional purposes). We MUST "sweat the small stuff" consistently across the entire school.

• Please use the Google Doc LVL 1 Form to document minor scholar behaviors, and scholars with attendance concerns.  Send the LVL 1 form to all appropriate staff members. Remember,  three LVL 1 referrals, that show interventions attempted, must be submitted prior to submitting a Google Doc Discipline Referral.

• Please limit all hall passes.  We must enforce our expectation that instructional time is the priority, and all scholars MUST be in the classroom to learn. You know who your "hall pass" scholars are.  Please DO NOT issue passes, with the exception of true emergencies. Additionally, passes should NOT be issued during the first and last 15 minutes of each class period, or after 2:00pm.

MONDAY, 2/1 "B" DAY

• Faculty Meeting @ 2:45pm
•  First Generation College Bound - FAFSA Night 2 @ 6:30pm

TUESDAY, 2/2 "A" Day

• PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT (ALL PLANNING PERIODS) 
  

• Boys BB @ Crossland JV(5:30pm), V (7:15pm)

WEDNESDAY, 2/3 "B" DAY

• Instructional Planning (TBD)
  

• IEP Meetings (All day)

• World Languages Collaborative Planning(Period 1)
• World Languages Collaborative Planning(Period 5)
• 9th Grade PDP Meeting @ 2:30pm
• Safe and Supportive Meeting @ 2:45p
• Administrative Meeting @ 3:30pm
• Girls BB @ Annapolis (5:30pm), V (7:00pm)

 THURSDAY, 2/4 "A" DAY

• Instructional Planning (TBD)

• Math Collaborative Planning (2nd period)
• English Collaborative Planning (3rd period)
• Social Studies Collaborative Planning (4th period)
• French Immersion Collaborative Planning(4th period)
• Science Collaborative Planning (5th period)

FRIDAY, 2/5 "B" DAY

• World Languages 3rd Quarter Instructional Planning - 12:00pm - 2:15pm
  

• Boys BB @  CHS vs. Gwynn Park @ 6:00pm
• Girls BB @ CHS vs. CMIT @ 7:30pm