Resurrection Weekly Update #13
The Way to Stay in Touch with All Things Res: 11/13 - 11/17
The Principal's Corner
What a semester! We are making great progress and the momentum is trending in positive direction! With the intensity of every great action, it is east for us to forget how far we have come....As a point of celebration, since the start of the school
+ our faculty have engaged in over 20 hours of direct professional development on UbD, not counting all of the independent work!
+our curriculum coordinators have spent over 12 hours of time in collaboration with leadership on various aspects of teaching and learning in ADDITION to their work at the department level and their teaching assignments.
+an entire athletic season has come and gone and we have a team competing for State
+our students have participated in over 20 field trips, guest speakers including an elected official, workshops, and seminars, liturgical activities and retreats OUTSIDE of their typical day
+we hosted a local TV morning show
+faculty have completed over 50 hours of approved PACE credits
+our student services department has completed over 500 hours of direct service via counseling, advising, group sessions, and workshops in general counseling, academic advising, and college planning.
We still have five weeks to go....I CANNOT wait to see how strong we finish!
As it becomes colder and darker sooner and the end of the semester grind starts to wear on you, please reflect on the quote, below, in the Spiritual reflections section.
What I am (still) working on....
1. STREAM integration and a connection to a university partnership is ready for outside review! We are in the final stages of the program design!
2. College advising process for future 9th and 10th grade students continues to develop.
3. Mother Celine Scholars programming is underway.
4. UbD part two, which started Wednesday, is coming along.
5. Datawise evaluation and possible roll out.
6. Many, many, many other things :)
THINK big....START small...GO FOR the early win!
Amen,
Mr. P
What's Happening at Res This Week
Also on Thursday, Ms. Oberschmied will be taking the History of Chicago students into the city to visit the Chicago History Museum, Macy's and the Chicago Cultural Center. To see a list of the students attending this trip, please click HERE. Have a great learning experience!
Daily Breakdown
Saturday November 11th - State Volleyball Game (Championship or 3rd Place Game)
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Monday November 13th - Red Day
- IC All School Shadow Day
Tuesday November 14th - White Day
- Activity 2: Activity Schedule
Wednesday November 15th - Red Day
- Noon Dismissal
- Faculty PD: Agenda released next week
Thursday November 16th - White Day
- Freshmen Service Meeting #4: Seminar B
- History of Chicago Field Trip: 8:30 am - 2:30 pm FT ROSTER
- Fall Play (Nov 16th - Nov 19th)
- Young Women's Writing Festival: 3:30 - 6:30 pm
Friday November 17th - Red Day
- Guided DIY Face Library Event: Seminar A & B in the Library
- Fall Play (Nov 16th - Nov 19th)
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Monday November 20th - White Day
Tuesday November 21st - Red Day
- Activity 3: Activity Schedule
November 22nd - 26th - THANKSGIVING BREAK
Shoutouts!
Outstanding happenings around the building:
1. Mr. Longo for the Chamber performance on Monday.
2. Ms. Kancler and Mr. Longo for the music performance during the Nov. 1 liturgy
3. Ms. Lenihan for all of her support with assessment modifications
4. Ms. Fumic for her classroom debate on Athenian Democracy
5. Ms. McGrath for her AWESOME tile mosaic of the Pillar of Hope. Please, go and see it outside of her classroom.
6. Ms. Blondin for supporting her students this week in becoming more comfortable with Math XL.
7. Ms. Groszek for all interesting and creative communications with Math.
8. Ms. Salerno and Ms. Lennon for their interesting contributions to this Wednesday's PD.
9. Ms. Pridgen for introducing her students to Magical Realism in AP Spanish.
10. Dr. Leider for all of her support and contributions to our STREAM Proposal.
11. ALL FACULTY for the completion of their FIRST UBD Unit! I am excited and proud of all this great work!
Instruction & Technology Updates
Hapara Tips for Success
Teacher Dashboard works by tracking a student's Google username. So what happens when a student is logged into multiple devices on our network? Confusion. If this occurs, a teacher may be unsure of what they are seeing because they may be looking at the screen of someone else on a different device in the building. Hapara will notify you when a student is logged into multiple devices and will allow you to toggle between the different devices. When you see this message, please inform the student so that they can log out of a devices they are not using (which can be a security concern). Students can log out of multiple devices by doing the following:
Go to their 'Inbox' in Google Mail and go down to the bottom of the page where it says 'Details' in the lower right-hand corner of the screen. They will see a hyperlink that can and should be clicked. This will take them to a page that will show their account activity. On this screen they will see a button that says "Sign out all other web sessions". Once clicked, they should be good to go! Please ensure that anytime you are using "Focused Browsing", you make sure that students are not logged in to multiple devices.
To learn more about this topic, please click HERE.
Educational Video of the Week
The greatest life lesson ever taught in a matter of 10 minutes by an extraordinary man! Must watch!
Jeffrey Wright is well known around his high school in Louisville, Ky., for his antics as a physics teacher, which include exploding pumpkins, hovercraft and a scary experiment that involves a bed of nails, a cinder block and a sledgehammer.
But it is a simple lecture — one without props or fireballs — that leaves the greatest impression on his students each year. The talk is about Mr. Wright’s son and the meaning of life, love and family.
It has become an annual event at Louisville Male Traditional High School (now coed, despite its name), and it has been captured in a short documentary, “Wright’s Law,” which recently won a gold medal in multimedia in the national College Photographer of the Year competition, run by the University of Missouri.
Information for InSerivce on 11/15/2017
Assessment and classroom learning
1. Solidify understanding of traditional vs. UbD classroom environments
2. Create individual understandings of the seven practices for effective learning
3. Discuss and review integration of data for our self-designed units.
During our time together, we will review an article, "Guiding Questions for “Seven Practices of Effective Learning”, with small group discussion and activity. We will also compare a traditional classroom and classroom for understanding via a self-assessment and large group activity.
To prepare, please read "Guiding Questions for “Seven Practices of Effective Learning” and print this self-assessment and bring it with you to the meeting.
From the Dean of Students
Vaping
A teenage girl rolls down her window as she drives out the exit of the Res parking lot. She slips her hand out the window and flicks the ashes off her cigarette. The car zips onto Oriole and away she goes, satisfying that craving for nicotine. Ten or so years ago, it would not be unheard of to see this. But today, adolescents have a new way of satisfying the urge.
According to the Office of Smoking Health with the Center of Disease Control, 16 percent of teenagers vaped in 2015, using e-cigarettes to inhale the vapors of heated liquids that contained nicotine. One in four teens and 1 in 14 middle school students used some form of tobacco product. So when studies show that use of cigarettes is on the decline, we cannot confuse that with the use of tobacco. Vaping, which is considered as tobacco use, has become very attractive to teens.
Unfortunately, teens think this is much safer than smoking the traditional cigarette. But they couldn't be more wrong. The particles and gases in vaping liquid can damage the lungs, brain, heart and immune system. And from the study the Office of Smoking Health conducted from 2011 to 2015, another significant statistic: teens who vape are three times more likely to later smoke cigarettes than those teens who do not vape.
What really surprised me is that one of these little pods or containers of the liquid that is heated to produce the vapors -- those little bottles -- have enough nicotine to kill an adult. Nicotine is highly toxic. So when this highly toxic substance is described as fruit medley or passion peach flavor, it is no wonder teens think this stuff is benign. I am not alone in being surprised about vaping facts. Parents I have talked to are just as surprised.
Despite our state's law forbidding the sale of e-cigarettes and related paraphernalia to minors, teens can find on-line vendors who unquestioningly sell to them.
Instead of finding packages of cigarettes in their lockers or backpacks, I am much more likely to find e-cigarettes or vaping pens that look like flash drives. I have been wandering in and out of washrooms, but teachers have been very helpful by referring students who are either in the process of vaping or discussing it through Google Chat. This year, two students have served in-school suspensions for possession of vaping pens and pods.
Vaping is a trend that deans at other Chicago-area Catholic schools are encountering, as well, which we recently discussed at a dean meeting. One point we discussed was how they can look like a writing utensil or flash drive at a casual glance. During the deans' discussion about vaping, we talked about how vaping materials are easy to conceal and carry in pencil cases, and students can slip off to a washroom or even use them at the back of a classroom.
Our tobacco policy was updated over the summer to reflect this change in nicotine delivery systems.The City of Chicago ordinance was cited in our policy. See our tobacco policy on page 21 of the 2017-18 Student/Parent Handbook.
Say Hello to Dennis Uniforms
Next year's freshmen will wear Dennis uniforms consisting of a dark grey skirt and either a red or black polo. For warmth they will have the option of a lighter grey sweater or a black fleece. Dennis School Uniforms supplies uniforms for many schools in our area and many of our students wore a Dennis uniform while in grammar school.
Students have options with their polo choice
The polo, whether black or red, can be either the short female sleeve/cut, or the traditional men's style. Girls were split on the color, some preferring the red over black and amazingly, many girls wanted the polo style that ND boys have. We are hoping that having the option on style helps the girls feel comfortable in their uniform.
Fleece
Soft and warm, the students liked this fleece option, as well as the grey sweater. The big perk about this fleece was the zippered pockets.
Spiritual Reflections
PRAYER FOR GRACES THROUGH THE INTERCESSION OF St. John Paul II:
O Blessed Trinity, we thank you
for having graced the Church with
Saint John Paul II and for allowing
the tenderness of your fatherly care,
the glory of the Cross of Christ
and the splendor of the Spirit of love
to shine through him.
Trusting fully in your infinite mercy
and in the maternal intercession of Mary,
he has given us a living image of
Jesus the Good Shepherd.
He has shown us that holiness
is the necessary measure of ordinary
Christian life and is the way of
achieving eternal communion with you.
Grant us, by his intercession,
and according to your will,
the graces we implore,
through Christ our Lord. Amen.
Happy Birthday!
Brad Czernik - November 14th
Kathleen Heneghan - November 12th
Nancy Giustino - November 13th
About Us
Mission
Resurrection College Prep High School is a Catholic Christian community dedicated to the education of young women, and to the development of their God–given talents. Convinced of God’s unconditional love and nourished by the Risen Lord Jesus Christ, we are committed to the spiritual, ethical, intellectual, physical and social growth of our students.
Email: Resurrection@reshs.org
Website: www.reshs.org
Location: 7500 W Talcott Ave, Chicago, IL, United States
Phone: 773-775-6616
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