Resilience

2020 seemed to be a time of many firsts; making for interesting memories for all of us.  The word RESILIENCE comes to mind when I think about last year.  Resilience is defined by Webster's Dictionary as the ability to recover or adjust easily to misfortune and change.  Learning to teach remotely with no warning, balance in-person and remote students, teach from a cart, incorporate digital tools for learning, build relationships virtually, etc.. . . all of these are examples of resiliency.  I am proud to work with such a strong faculty and staff that exhibit these traits daily and model for our students how to be resilient even during trying times.   

Simon Sinek says, "The goal is not to be perfect by the end.  The goal is to be better today."    My hope for 2021 is not to have a perfect year, but to strive to take one step forward each day.  With the resilience we learned in 2020, I know the best is yet to come.  

Important Information: 

PLC Meeting:   We will have PLC team meetings this Wednesday.  To help ensure small groups so we can spread out and a focused agenda we will use the following schedule: 

           Island Team:  8:30 a.m. 

          English & Social Studies Teams:   9:30 a.m.

          Math & Science Teams: 10:30 a.m. 

         Special Education Team: 12:30 a.m.  

All meetings will be held in the high school library.  Please bring your computers.

Missing Work:  If you have students that are missing work at the end of the semester, please fill out this link by the end of the day Monday.  Our goal would be to get students in on Wednesday that may still have assignments out from last semester.  If you have students that you will not get work from them in time for grades to finalize, you can let Phil or I know and we can put an Incomplete in the gradebook for you.  The Incomplete has to be added on our end.   

Link: https://forms.gle/pyyyBTVPfoxBVShP7

Grades:  Grades are due on January 6th at 11:59 p.m. and report cards will come out on January 8th.  

Struggling Students: We know some of you may have students you are concerned about moving on to the 2nd semester of the school year.  Please let Jody or Dana know about these students so we can see if a schedule change needs to be made.  Due to the hybrid schedule, it make take the whole week to take care of schedule changes.  Hopefully there will not be many!  

Reporting Topics:  Please remember to check your reporting topic percentages for the 3rd quarter. Let Phil or Jody know of any changes that need to be made.   

COVID Reminders:  As we return back to school, please remember to spread students out as much as possible in your classrooms.  Students facing the same direction 6 feet apart is ideal.  Please keep reminding students to wear masks. It is also important to spread out as faculty and staff as well!  All of you are essential to keeping school in session!