Weekend Update 01.22.07

Harbor School Google Calendar:
http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=ba74p50iajqfmj5asceahigcic%40group.calendar.google.com

This Week: (week #2)
Monday 1/22
· Regular School Day
· Nate and Murray out AM for GIPEC meeting.
· 9th Grade Harbor Science at South Street Seaport for PCB’s with Section 3
· 11th Grade Harbor Arts at South Street Seaport for journaling/sketching
Tuesday 1/23
-English Final 10th Grade 8:45-10:25
-Global Regents 9 am -12 pm + extended time 12-1:30 pm
-Global Final Regents Practice 10th Grade 10:30-12:10
-ELA Regents Day I 1 pm – 4 pm + extended time 4 – 5:30 pm
Wednesday 1/24
-No Staff Meeting
-Spanish Regents 9 am – 12 pm
-ELA Regents Part II 1 pm – 4 pm + extended time 4 – 5:30 pm
Thursday 1/25
-Non-Regents Classes Grades Due
-Math A and B Final 8:45-10:25
-US History Regents 9-12 pm + 12-1:30 pm extended time
-US History Final Regents Practice 11th Grade 10:30-12:10
-US History Regents/Finals Grading 1-3:30pm (or beyond)
-Math A Regents 1 – 4pm + 4 – 5:30 extended time
Friday 1/26
· Harbor Corps and Student Council Retreat to Frost Valley
· Math A Regents Grading
· Living Environment and Chemistry Finals 8:45-10:25
· Earth Science Final 8:45-10:25
· Math B Regents 9 – 12 pm + 12 – 1:30 pm extended time
· Living Environment Regents 9 – 12 pm + 12 – 1:30 pm extended time

Upcoming Events:
1) 1/29 (Mon) – Regents Classes Grades Due 9am
2) 1/31 (Wed) – End of First Semester – No Students
3) 2/1 (Thurs) – Second Semester Begins
4) 2/6 (Tues) – Open House for 8th Graders 6:00-7:30pm
5) 2/7 (Wed) – Delegate Assembly @ UFT Headquarters 4:00-6:00pm
6) 2/14 (Wed) – Assembly from 9:30-10:45am.
7) 2/16 (Fri) to 2/25 (Sun) – February Break
8) 3/22 (Thurs) – Open School Night
9) 3/23 (Fri) – Open School Day
10) 5/9 (Wed) – Open School Night

Information:
1) Urban Memory Project: For those of you who know Rebecca Kruckoff – Read on!
Brooklyneyzed: A Walk Through Gentrified Times
Tuesday, January 30, 2007, 6 - 9pm
The Secondary School for Research
237 Seventh Avenue (between 4th and 5th Streets), Park Slope, Brooklyn
This exhibition examines current issues facing Brooklyn, specifically focusing on the Atlantic Yards controversy, the impending renovation of Coney Island, and the development of Park Slope, through student photographs and writing pieces.
2) UFT Responds to DOE Reorganization in terms of Tenure: “Mayor announces yet another major reorganization of schools: Scrapping the plan he unveiled just four years ago, Mayor Bloomberg announced yet another major overhaul of the city school system this week. This shake-up will not endanger the jobs of any UFT members. We have an intact contract through the rest of the Bloomberg administration that immunizes us by providing job security. In addition to the reorganization, the mayor said there would be a more rigorous tenure review for new teachers. His proposal does not affect teachers who already have tenure. As for probationary teachers, the union will fight to defend the integrity of the process by which they are evaluated. The UFT believes that there is a rigorous process already in place and using student test scores as part of the evaluative process would be both a violation of the contract and terrible public policy.”
3) Purchase Coach Bus Service in the FAMIS Portal: You can now check out coach bus service for extracurricular activities through the FAMIS portal. This new method will help you easily find the least expensive contracted vendor, reserve your buses, and send the purchase order to the vendor via email. For more information, visit the Office of Pupil Transportation’s coach bus website at www.opt-osfns.org/opt/contract/coach_list.asp.
4) Frost Valley: January 26-28, Murray and Jen will be taking student council and Harbor Corps to do leadership training and planning at a beautiful environmental education center in the Catskills. Anyone who would like to help chaperone is welcome—please talk to Murray or Jen.
5) Proctoring: Please see attached final proctoring schedule for the week. Noah will coordinate Regents exams with the Science Lab as the headquarters. Regents tests will be given in the 418 to 435 hallway. Regents Proctors should pick up and return test packets from Noah in the Lab. Semester Final Exams will be administered in the 401 to 410 hallway. Proctors should pick up and return test packets from Jen in Room 408. Please check email regularly this week for testing updates.
6) Reminder Regents (55-64): Teachers, if there are individual students who have a realistic chance to take a 55-64 Regents score to a 65 or above, please encourage them to walk-in for the Regents in Math A or English. In May and June we will offer Regents prep for select students in order to improve there scores, so for January Regents students should be encouraged who clearly will improve.
7) Reminder Scantron Machine: Nate has secured use of a new scantron machine which is owned by AUP. The machine currently resides in 414 where it will be tested, but will be returned to the 5th floor this week. We will have access to it for Finals and Regents exams. Please let Louie know if you need scantron sheets for your Finals.
8) Nate/Murray out Monday morning at a meeting on Governors Island. They will meet with Leslie Koch, the President of GIPEC.
9) Grades due. Grades for non-regents courses are due to Lily at 3pm on Thursday. Regents course grades are due on Monday 1/29 at 9am. Please respect these deadlines as our entire program for second semester depends on having them for programming purposes.
10) End of Semester Meeting Schedule. There is no staff meeting this week. Next week on Tuesday there will be a professional development presentation of the English Department's movie, followed by Department meetings. On Wednesday we will have Grade Team meetings and Advisory team meetings from 2:30 to 4:15. Thursday, the second semester will begin. There will also be individual guidance and financial aid meetings this week and next for 11th and 12th graders to make individual graduation action plans.
11) Hiring Update. We welcome Marilyn Payton to our staff as math teacher. On Monday Niulka Tavarez will begin as our parent coordinator. She will work in the main office until further notice. Nate and Jen will meet with her on Monday and send out to the staff a job description so that everyone is clear as to her roles and responsibilities.
12) Harbormania is coming (again!). The week of February 11-15 will be Harbormania, culminated by basketball games on Friday, Feb. 15. More information will be provided by Kima and administration.
13) Reminder: SQR in April. The Department of Education is conducting School Quality Reviews in every empowerment zone school this year. Our review will be in April. It will entail two and a half days of interviews with staff, parents, and students, and going over all of our achievement data (Regents, Class pass rates, etc.).