Alpharetta High School
Week of November 7th
Upcoming Dates
November 3 - Band Cluster Concert
November 7 – AHS Professional Day - See schedule below
November 8 - Load 12 week grades by 2; verify by 4
November 8 – District Teacher Work Day and faculty meeting - See schedule below
November 9 - School Governance Meeting
November 10 - Grade Reports disseminated
November 16 - Balance Night
November 17 - Fire Drill (end of Anchor Time)
November 21 - 25 - Thanksgiving Holidays
December 5 or 6 - Faculty Meeting
December 5 – Winter Chorus Concert
December 8 – Anchor Time Ends
December 8 – Recovery Deadline
December 8 – Winter Orchestra Concert
December 12 – 16 – Georgia Milestones EOC
December 12 – Winter Band Concert
December 13 - School Governance Meeting
December 16 – Fire drill – end of day 3:45
December 20, 21, 22 – Final Exams for first semester (Early Release days)
December 22 – Last day of First Semester
AHS says goodbye to this year's French exchange students
AHS band traveled to FL for a national competition and made its mark - top ten!
AHS drama - 2nd place and best actress awards at One Act competition
health Benefits deadline is friday!
Changes to the medical plans entered at SHBP do NOT update in real time into Employee Express.
Benefits receives a file from SHBP after OE has ended to update all changes to medical coverage.
Open Enrollment will end at 11:59 PM on Friday, 11/4/16. The call center at 800-610-1863 will be staffed until 6:00 PM on that date. Benefits will be in the office until 5:00 PM. Call volume from now through Friday is extremely high, so be aware.
Employees whose dependents were removed due to the verification audit will need to re-elect coverage on those dependents, and prepare to verify them when requested.
If you don’t want to make a change to your medical, dental, vision, STD, life, or ID theft coverages, you do not need to do anything. Flexible Spending MUST be re-elected every year.
You do not have to answer the tobacco surcharge question to avoid a default into surcharged status.
www.myfultonbenefits.com Green button is information (the EBC-Employee Benefits Center), Purple takes you to the SHBP site, Blue goes to Employee Express.
Feedback on 2nd IG session needed
Our IG facilitators are planning the next session and want your feedback. Please take a few minutes and offer your insights:
#2 in the State! Congratulations, Varsity Volleyball!
AHS faculty supporting cheerleading and volleyball on Saturday
AHS Competition Cheerleading is rocking it!
New Fulton County Travel Process
FCS employees will begin using a new online travel request form on November 1, making requests for "duty leave" easier, streamlined and more convenient. The form will be located on the employee portal in the My Tool Kit (click the Duty/Leave icon). To access it today, click here.
This video tutorial demonstrates how you will use the new electronic procurement form and process for purchasing products or services costing more than $10,000. Contact Alisa Morningstar at morningstarc@fultonschools.org.
Ms. Viaforia meets and mentors Hispanic girls each week
Dangerous Driving Program in Health classes
Student-created carnival games in AMDM (math)
November 7 and 8 schedules
November 7:
8:00ish - ALL-Treats from Great Harvest Bread company set up in teacher mailroom
8:00 - 12:30 - PLC meetings, individual planning and learning
8:30 - 9:30 - New Teacher Meeting, rm. 2321
8:30 - 11:30 - IRR teacher training, media center
12:30 - 1:30 - Lunch
2:00 - 3:30 - ALL - IG sessions - Same locations
4:00 - 6:00 - Stars and Strikes faculty fun
November 8:
9:00 - 10:00 - Faculty Meeting, media center
10:00 - 12:00 - Individual work time or department/PLC meeting time
12:00 - 1:00 - Lunch
1:00 - 3:00 - IRR working meeting
2:00 - 3:00 - Free Smoothies from Smoothie King in the main hallway
Upcoming County Professional Days
Professional Development Days are planned for January 6 and March 13. Links to the spreadsheets for both Professional Development Days are below:
- January 6 Session Spreadsheet
- March 13 Session Spreadsheet
For each spreadsheet, the first worksheet has all of the required sessions. For the majority of required sessions, teachers do not need to register in Edivate. The second worksheet has all of the optional sessions. Teachers need to register for optional sessions. The catalog that the course can be found in is included on the spreadsheet. These sessions are available until they are full.
Please remember that teachers are expected to attend all required sessions. Teachers who do not have a required session may attend an optional session, school based PD or work at their home school.
Registration Instructions:
- Log into the Employee Portal
- Locate the Edivate icon in My Apps
- Click on View All Catalogs (or Click here) in the Catalog card
- Select the indicated catalog
- Choose the course title (click on the word TITLE in the grey bar to sort alphabetically)
- Click icon
- The course will no longer show under Catalog. Instead, it will be under the Transcript tab
If you later decide not to attend, please return to Edivate and remove the class from your transcript so someone else may take that seat.
Thanksgiving Feast at AHS!
The Alpharetta High School Nutrition Staff
Invites you to celebrate the season with a Thanksgiving Feast!
Festivities will take place on
Thursday, November 10th, 2016.
Lunch hours are: 11-11:30 and 12:50-1:20pm.
Teachers $3.35
(Yes, we will actually have Turkey and all the fixings!)
November 8th - Staff Parking will be limited due to voting
Superhero Womack family
Pollye and Katrina's baby chick
Jeanette's Mickey and Minnie combo
November Birthdays
Yaritza Ferrer De Valero 1
Cari MacDonell 1
Penni Johnson 5
Danita Chiclana 6
Shelby Smith 6
Amy Binder 9
Maureen Bergeron 10
Christy Jolle 10
Shane Sweet 10
Jaime Duran 12
Christine Lauer 16
Shannon Kersey 27
Susan Fisher 28
Flavia's superheroes!
Laura Smith and Princess Sammy
Lynne Loudy's grandpuppy
Quote for the week
Mr. Davies's class testing on surfaces and Mr. Davies trying out photo filters
AHS students have fun at Special Olympics
Mr. Dice joins the AMDM Carnival
Retirement Seminar - 11/9
If retirement may be in the near future, it pays to understand how your retirement benefits really work. In an effort to provide you with some tools to prepare you to meet your financial goals and plan for your retirement, VALIC is pleased to offer an educational workshop on Social Security and your TRS Geogia Retirement. This seminar discusses the role of Social Security in retirement planning, ways to maximize benefits and the importance of leveraging other sources for retirement income to supplement Social Security benefits.
In this seminar, you will learn about:
- Your TRS Benefits
- The cost of retirement
- Social Security benefits
- Bridging a possible income gap
This seminar will be on Wednesday, November 9th from 5:30pm-7:30pm at Alpharetta High School, 3595 Webb Bridge Road, Alpharetta, GA 30005. We will be located in the Media Center. Please be prompt! This event is hosted by VALIC Financial Advisor, Joyce Krinsky, (770) 395-4706 or cell: (770) 715-7508, joyce.krinsky@valic.com.
Please click on the link below to register for each individual that will be attending:
https://my.valic.com/seminarregistration/availableseminars.aspx?regcode=FCBSAN11AA
Coach Nichols's niece and nephew
Scheifflee crew
Mauve Hubbard and friend
Raider "Balance Days" for 2016-17 - mark your calendars!
We want to create a community filled with more balanced lives. The School Governance Council proposed a solution, and the Instructional Leadership Team agreed; thus, we have declared two nights a semester during the 2016-17 school year as "Balance Days."
November 16th
February 15th
March 15th
The nights above are Wednesday nights the week of the 17th (to celebrate the class of 2017), and on these nights there will not be any homework assigned, no assessments will occur the next day, and no AHS meetings will be scheduled.
The idea is that Raiders will go home right after school and work to create balance in their lives. Staff members and students alike will take a night off. Club sponsors and coaches and directors may hold meetings and practices and games as needed. We feel students release stress through these extracurricular activities.
Please plan to enjoy yourself and work your assessments around these dates this year.