Last Minute Holiday HM Updates
Horace Mann High School
Polar Express and Ugly Christmas Sweater Day!!!
On Thursday, you are invited to participate in our Polar Express dress up day. Feel free to wear you polar fleece, your comfy polar express clothes! We will also serve hot cocoa before school in the commons area. $.50 per cup or free if you donate a food item.
This Friday we invite all staff and students to participate in our annual Ugly Christmas Sweater Day!! Who will have the ugliest sweater????
Reminders
New staff please make sure you complete your Oasys second student survey and put in your analysis info in Oasys. Let me know if you have any questions or need help!
All staff just a reminder to make sure our daily attendance us accurate. Please also make sure that when a credit card is checked out to turn receipts in right away when returning the credit card.
Scheduling
We have a few different schedules for the modified block. Please email any of us with any question you may have. I am also sending out a google form asking what support you need in the future for a new schedule and ways you will also be able to support others.
Course Description Booklet
Thank you all for continuing to meet with myself and the counselors to review our course description booklet and to make sure we are meeting students needs. We continue to have great conversations. Our plan is to have the booklet in students hands by the end of the semester and then after first semester to ask students to complete their scheduling sheet and to start to build our master schedule based on classes chosen and common planning time. If you are submitting changes please make sure I have them ASAP, latest date being January 15th.
Accommodations
As we continue to help students succeed and to hold them accountable several questions have come up. Yes it is alright to make accommodations for any student including giving verbal tests, modifying an assignment for a student, allowing a new student with a very low first quarter grade to go back and do things or have them do additional items with you to show competency, etc. Please also for special Ed students feel free to talk to the students case manager and feel free to think outside the box.
Holiday!
I again want to wish you all and your families a very Merry Christmas and a wonderful holiday. I hope you enjoy your time with friends, families, relaxing, eating, skiing or whatever you choose to do. Thank you for being a fantastic team to work for! Thank you for all of your support and dedication! I continue to be excited for our year and for our new adventures in scheduling and raising our report card! Thank you!