In recognition of Women’s History Month, Monmouth Medical Center Southern Campus, will host a virtual program featuring a panel of diverse female healthcare professionals. All youth in grades 5 -12 are invited to log in for what will be an inspirational and empowering career exploration event. Students will also have the opportunity to interact with our panelists and ask questions. Registration Required: https://bit.ly/3gAUAcE. Attached are the event flyers along with the links to social media posts below in both English and Spanish.

Congratulations to our Indoor Color Guard for their performance this past weekend Monroe Township High School. We placed 6th in the SRAA Division with a score of 67.2 - almost 5 points higher than our last show a few weeks ago! We are proud of you!

"Our mission as a team is to cultivate a community of educators, students and members of our community who strive for educational equity and culturally responsive classrooms and teaching practices. We are dedicated to learn from and relate respectfully with people of our own culture as well as those from other cultures."

Our students worked VERY hard on creating an activity period that is completely run by our Equity Team and were really excited to present it to the school on Friday. The students created the idea, filmed, edited and scripted the video played to our student body on inclusivity. Teachers engaged their students in meaningful discussions and prepared cultural links as part of the activity.

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Students who are interested in attending vocational school next year should speak to their guidance counselor about visiting a vocational school program to gain first hand knowledge about the program. Student visitation week is March 29th - April 1st. The 8th Annual Spring College Fair is on Wednesday, April 6th at HSE from 5pm-8pm. See flyer for registration information. Spring 2022 College Fair flyer. The registration deadline for the May 7th SAT is 4/8/22. Register at www.collegeboard.org. Please be sure to turn in your community service hours no later than Wednesday, May 4th for those hours to be totaled for this year's Spirit of the Raider Award. As a reminder, students who receive 40 hours or more of logged hours of community service each high school academic year (June to May) will be invited to attend the Community Service Breakfast. New scholarships are available on the HSE Guidance website. Check out the multitude of new scholarships recently added!

We met after school on Tuesday and completed several tasks in support of our goal to refine our physical environment to reflect school values. We are promoting pro-social behavior, a welcoming and family environment, inclusivity, high expectations, safety and purpose! In support, we hung up staff degree certificates (where they attended college and characteristics they value in successful students), identified signage for the building, created a parent information bulletin board, created stairwell stickers that depict school values, and created a Google Classroom along with flier templates for our clubs and organizations. Great job kids!

Please be sure to turn in your community service hours no later than Wednesday, May 4th for those hours to be totaled for this year's Spirit of the Raider Award. As a reminder, students who receive 40 hours or more of logged hours of community service each high school academic year (June to May) will be invited to attend the Community Service Breakfast. This event honors those civic-minded students where they receive the Spirit of the Raider Award.

Future seniors who log 160 hours or more of community service receive a cord to wear for graduation. Due to the limitations brought on by COVID-19, only the current senior class of 2022, may log 140 hours in total for all 4 academic years to be eligible for their community service cord.

Students can receive a log card at the front of the Guidance Office. Log cards can be turned into the volunteer box in the Guidance Department. If you have any questions, please see Ms. Bush.

Our Military Support Club has a new Instagram account and once a month we have a "Throwback Thursday" posting of former students who served in the military. We would like to expand this to our HS East staff as well. For those staff members who are interested they can add their information the following process:

1. Go to the TR School District website
2. Go to "Our Schools" and open the dropdown menu to "High School East".
3. Scroll down the "High School East Home of the Raiders" page. Look under the "Navigation" menu until you come to "Military Alumni" and activate that button.
4. Scroll down until you see "Military Alumni Form" and activate that button.
5. Fill out the form with the proper information and list /STAFF at the end of your name. It is required that you enter a year for "Toms River High School East graduation year"; enter any year to advance and submit your information.

Mrs. Janine Hatton was recognized as our Employee of the Week! Mrs. Hatton teaches Marketing I and II and is our Spirit Club, FBLA and one of our Student Council Advisors. Mrs. Hatton brings an unbridled passion and commitment to East every day. She loves her job and her students! I appreciate Mrs. Hatton's enthusiasm as it is so contagious! Keep up the great work Mrs. Hatton!