October 7, 2019

Room of the week

Chad Eastman


When Chad moved into this room last year, he took some old scientific tools and put them on the walls.  The room looks great. 

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Thanks for a successful homecoming week!
A big thank you to everyone who made our homecoming week a big success.  A special thanks to our coaches and class advisers. A super huge thank you to Tera Stagg and Jessica Northrup.

Batman (our Grand Marshall) flew in from Gotham City!

Fabulous Freshmen

Swell Sophomores
Jovial Juniors
Super Seniors

Faculty Meeting on Tuesday
We'll meet in the library at 2:30.


Don't "click here" if you don't know where it's coming from!
I just received the email pictured below.  Just a friendly reminder to be very careful.  If you don't know the source, don't click the link.




Navigate Prepared Notes
There have been some questions/concerns about how we will use the Navigate Prepared program.  I don't have all the answers, so I emailed Dan Leakey, the Navigate rep.  Please check the file. You can comment or email me. Thanks.


National Geographic GeoChallenge
Click the link above if you'd like to know more about the National Geographic Geochallenge.  This might be a great project that coincides with our new "Green Team" that we started last year.  The Green Team is a collaborative effort between our school and interested community members. We'll soon be getting the results from the Impact Earth waste study that was done in coordination with the Green Team. Who knows, with the help of Impact Earth and a healthy grant award from Geochallenge, maybe we could make our school more green and tie it in with various classes.

From the Geochallenge page at National Geographic

New Staff & Student Opportunities section in the Master file
I get a lot of event notices, so I'm starting a new section of the links page on the master to store links to those.  Just click on the link pictured at the top, or simply scroll down while on that sheet.  I only have a few things in there now, but I'll add more as I get them.



Sexual Harassment Training

Below is the link for anyone who hasn't taken the training yet.  Please get it done soon if you haven't.

Here is the link for any staff person to take the NYS required Sexual Harassment Training. I am sending it to you and you can forward to staff in your departments.

Just a reminder that staff must take this training within 30 days of hire including substitutes.

https://southseneca-ny.safeschools.com/register/0f71ed8d

Steps to follow:
1- Send link to employee.
2- Employee then registers as self.
3- Employee will then take the training and print a certificate as proof of training.
4- Certificate is then forwarded to Supervisor then to Shelley Reynolds.

Regards,
Naomi Zuckerman
Business Administrator



Trauma Informed Education - show on PBS

A colleague shared this with me last week.  It aired on WCNY, and it's available on their website.  Please click on the title to find it.

This is airing on pbs now. It’s very good. The focus is on trauma and focusing on what happened to these students instead of the behaviors or symptoms. The trauma effects the students perceptions. They have trouble getting around the trauma and graduating.

Just wanted to share this short Connect NY broadcast, "Trauma Informed Education." I watched this last night and find it very interesting because it's something I've though about for some time. I'm particularly interested in pathways for success for these students. The Superintendent of  Rochester schools, appears in the video and was very compelling that this exists on many levels, including with himself, and that students can still find success.

Last week I heard a news broadcast that said 50% of students in the Syracuse district meet the definition of living in poverty. Poverty is among the contributors to family stress and repetitive trauma.


Cool Music Department website area:
Thanks to the music teachers for jazzing up the Music department section of the site!


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