Week 9/30/19

Back to School Night - October 3 

Back to School night is for parents and guardians of grade 9 students only.

1. Instructors who have grade 9 courses or grade 9 students on their roster(s) will attend
Back to School Night. These instructors will be dismissed on October 3 at 1:16 as
planned and return at 5:30 pm.

2. Instructors who do not have grade 9 courses or grade 9 students on their roster(s) will
remain on campus on October 3 until 3:00 pm. These instructors will use the two-hour
time frame to work on SGOs, PGPs, and any other departmental initiatives that the
supervisor has outlined.

3. Guidance Counselors and Child Study Team who are members of the Class of 2023
Advisory Team will attend Back to School Night and assist parents with schedules.


1. Students will be dismissed at 1:06 pm.
2. Faculty will be dismissed at 1:16 pm.
3. All required faculty are expected to arrive back to campus and signed in by 5:30 pm.
4. Back to School Night will begin at 6:30 pm.
5. For our new teachers: Some parents may be eager to have conversations about their child or a specific academic issue. Back to School Night is not the time for personal consultations or issue-specific discussions. Politely request parents to email you to set up another date and
time to meet.

The schedule for class visits is as follows:

Period Start/End Travel

1. 6:30 pm 6:38 pm 5 minutes
2. 6:43 pm 6:51 pm 5 minutes
3. 6:56 pm 7:04 pm 5 minutes
4. 7:09 pm 7:17 pm 5 minutes
5. 7:22 pm 7:30 pm 5 minutes
6. 7:35 pm 7:43 pm 5 minutes
7. 7:48 pm 7:56 pm 5 minutes
8. 8:01 pm 8:09 pm 5 minutes
9. 8:14 pm 8:22 pm


*Physical Education and Health classes will be held in the Auditorium.

Zero Period duty is still needed on Thursday.  However, because we will not have a period 9 that day, Freshmen instructors with a zero period will need to stay until 1:06. 

Teachers who do not have Freshmen and have a zero period can leave at 2:15.


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Active Shooter Drill

We will have another active shooter drill sometime in October.  The IT department is working on correcting some of the issues with the electronic doors.  Everyone did a great job getting students secured.  In the next drill, we need to focus on attempting to get the students out of view from the doors.  This can be quite challenging in the "old F-wing" rooms so just do your best to corral the students into the corner as best as you can. Please ask students to take off their backpacks so we can fit as many of them as possible into the corner and out of view.