6/17/19

Please Email Liz Garcia a summer contact number...



IMPORTANT INFO FROM MAXIEL...

In order for the final exam to show up under the E2 term and calculate correctly into the overall final grade, it must have the due date of 6/19/2019 – 6/25/2019.  Any other due date will cause the final exam to be counted as a regular test in the R3 term and not calculate correctly as 10% of the final grade.

FYI...  SENIOR GRADES HAVE BEEN STORED. If you still have a lot of changes to make please NOTIFY MAXIEL ASAP.
Final Exam Info

Official directions will be sent out by Mr. Bucci, but I am posting this here so you can have it handy...  I will update this if any changes are made...

• All staff and students report directly to their assigned testing rooms.
• A link will be sent to you for daily attendance:
• Proctors should begin 1st exam by 8:15am and end by 10:00 am (1 ½ hours).
• The 2nd exam should begin by 10:10am to allow ample time to complete by 12 noon
• Student dismissal is at 12:15 pm.
• The Test Center Helpline is ext: 3590 and located in the C-Media Center. 
• Students have received their test room assignments via the online Student Site.
• Students who have double Math, Science or Elective classes - info for their exam days and details will be posted on the student site. 
• Students were asked to bring their own pencil and scratch paper if needed.
• Only SN students are allowed to use calculators. Ext: 2038 for help.
• Important: Final grade failure forms should be submitted using this link: https://goo.gl/forms/sfEBQ4gfj0TLgP992    (Once this form is complete, students will receive an email informing them of the failure along with a failure notice to print and present at the Summer School registration. A follow-up phone call/email will be sent to their parent/guardian.)
• Final Grades are due at the end of the day on Friday, June 21.

GOOGLE CLASSROOM EXAMS
Those who are using Google Classroom for exams, please shut the exam assignments off after the exam day.  This will force the students to come to campus for their make-up.  If you leave it open, I will not know that they made up the exam and it will sit there - I don't want you to have to grade it in the summer!


Textbooks

Before the end of the week, please store all class sets of textbooks in cabinets in your classrooms and post an inventory list on the front of the cabinet. No textbooks should be on window sills, under desks or on top of file cabinets. 



SENIOR CLASS PICNIC 

The senior class picnic will be held at PCTI Monday, June 17th from 9:00 am until 1:30 pm.  All seniors who are graduating will report to the auditorium at 8:15 am.  A brief presentation about the day and the graduation practices will be held.  All graduating seniors will then proceed to the field when dismissed.

Details:

• Only graduating seniors will be able to attend.
• Relaxing but appropriate attire is required for the picnic
• Any senior - as of May 1 - who is suspended for fighting, substance abuse, assault, or causes a severe disruption in the school, will be excluded from the event. This is the first senior privilege that will be revoked.  Additional infractions will result in loss of walking at graduation.
• There is no cost for the event.
• Every senior must bring their ID.  Attendance will be taken before entering the auditorium. 
• Yearbooks and senior gear will be distributed at the picnic.
• A DJ will be at the event providing entertainment.
• Students may not leave the designated area we have procured.  No exceptions. No negotiating on this.
• The event will be chaperoned by PCTI staff.
• No outside guests, family, friends, or alumni may attend the event.
• Each senior will be given $15.00 in food vouchers.  These vouchers will be used for the food truck vendors who will be on site.  Any additional food can be purchased with your own money.

Student Obligations

Textbooks and Novels

All academic textbook collections should be completed as of June 19.  
Please return all academic textbooks to their appropriate storage locations.  

All academic textbook obligations (replacement cost of text, fines assessed for damages, etc.) must be entered into PowerSchool by June 25.  For seniors, all entries must be made by June 19.  

Each teacher must utilize the PowerSchool Obligation recording system when issuing an obligation:

• Log on to Power Teacher.
• Select the backpack for the appropriate class.
• Select the student whom you wish to enter an obligation.
• Select the “Obligation” option from the “Select screens” box.
• Select “Add” and complete the necessary fields.
• Select submit at the bottom of the page in order to record the obligation.
• To select another student, click the student’s first name. This will bring you directly to that student’s obligation page.
• The cost of the textbook, novel, or PE lock must be included in order to enter and validate the student’s obligation. Please see your supervisor for your textbook. Novel, or PE lock price list.  

Senior Obligations
Any graduating senior with outstanding obligations will not receive their diploma on graduation night.   Obligations will be posted by June 19.  A textbook pricelist is posted on the ELA Department Page under "department resources" - Textbook Pricelist.


FYI... These are the Directions for students

In order to pay your obligation(s) follow these steps:

• Go to K12 Payment Center
• If you or your parent(s) do not have an account set up, you or your parent(s) must create an account
• Your obligation fee and what the fee is for will be visible
• Pay your obligation via credit card or debit card
• Retain the email receipt that is sent to you
• Be informed that we will not be accepting any cash, check, or money order transactions for obligations due.  All obligations must be paid via K12 Payment Center.

SENIOR LAPTOP COLLECTION  - June 18

Details for returning them:

• Seniors must have their ID with them when they hand in their laptop.
• All seniors must hand in the laptop, charger, and bag.
• Seniors will report to the AUDITORIUM as follows:
• Last Name ​ A through D​ from​ 8:15 AM until 9:15 AM
• Last Name ​ E through H​ from ​ 9:30 AM until 10:30 AM
• Last Name​ I through L​ from ​ 10:45 AM until 11:45 AM
• Last Name ​ M through Q​ from ​ 12:15 PM until 1:15 PM
• Last Name ​ R through Z​ from ​ 1:30 PM until 2:45 PM

Obligations for damaged laptops:

1. Cracked Screen $50.00
2. Missing laptop $425.00
3. Missing Bag $10.00
4. Missing Charger $50.00

End of year check-out forms

These can be found on the portal - print them out and submit them either on Friday (if you are participating in graduation) or Monday.  The forms are at the bottom of the page.  FYI... The dates listed on the forms are a day off because they were not updated when we moved graduation... The link is listed below...

End of year forms

FANTASTIC THINGS

Please welcome Nicholas Alan Bennet.  8lbs 12oz & 21 inches.  CONGRATULATIONS TO THE BENNET FAMILY!!!!!

6/3/19

Senior Final Grades 

Due Monday, June 17^th 8am.

The official due date for all other grades is Monday, June 24^th @3pm (last day for teachers)- however, they will be stored on Tuesday, June 25^th in case there are any last-minute entries.

Because it’s the end of the year you will not have the normal 1-week grace period to enter your grades. Be mindful of this and regularly update your grade book in these next few weeks.

Summer Assignments will be loaded this week.  Dan Molczyk will directly link the folder on our website.  Thanks for getting this done!  

SN Instructors

I made a separate folder for the modified SN assignments - I will email those teachers directly about collaborating with the teachers in the prior grade levels - they will assign the modified summer reads to their students before the end of the year.  This will avoid confusion by not having the modified ones on the website.  The link for the modified assignments is  

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1d9QnBg2Dr7-yxLVqVYgJOvKNp_osmgfL?usp=sharing

The grade 11 modified assignment is loaded here so you can use that as a guide of how to label it - use the course number first, then the grade level... (Thanks ELA 3 peeps!)

Canvas Exams

All Canvas final exams should be loaded on the "Supervisor Page."  Yesenia in the IT department will be reviewing them to make sure all of the settings are correct and functioning.  After she reviews and approves them, I will send out an email that they are ready to be copied into your classes.  She will begin reviewing them tomorrow, so all grade levels using Canvas must have an exam loaded on the Supervisor page by 9am Wednesday (6/5/19).  Directions for how to import the exams into the Supervisor page are on the 5/20 blog...

Google Exams

*If you are using Google Classroom for your finals, you will proceed the way you have done in the past - just make sure all of your settings are correct and all information/directions are posted and CLEAR. 

Make sure that if you are asking students to submit essays to turnitin.com that those directions are clear and posted.  If you are using images or pictures for any reason, please make sure they are viewable when you load your test.  We Will Not Have Google Tech Staff in the Control room on exam days, so make sure your test is solid.  Please have another teacher review your test to confirm that it is ready to go.  The time to deal with issues is now, not on testing days...

IMPORTANT

I will have to issue and grade make-up exams after graduation.  I am not confident that everyone is using the same exam per grade level and since they have not all been loaded into the Final Exam Folder on Google, I am going to go "old school" here...

Everyone using Google Classroom for their exams MUST print your exam and drop off a hard copy in my office. The exam must have your name and grade level printed on it and there must be a key attached.  This will ensure that the students who have to make-up the exam get the correct copy.  I will send out an email on Friday to remind everyone to do this. 


Returning Novels-Reminder

When collecting novels from students, please make sure to issue obligations for books that are so damaged that we cannot re-issue them.  Please separate these books and mark them "for disposal."

Please follow this procedure - Please separate these books. Mark each one with the following information:  Mark them for disposal, indicate your name and the student name.  Please state whether you issued an obligation for the book. You can put this info on a post-it and attach it to each book that needs to be taken out of circulation.


Here is an example of a book that was recently returned.  Things like this - water damage, pages missing or ripped, etc., should be marked for disposal.