Horace Mann News and Notes
January 5th
Course Description Booklet
Counselors are almost set to begin in classrooms. Thank you Jenny and Jill for sharing the "blitz" info for staff as they share course information with students. The more we can share with our students the better choices they will make.
Bully Activity
January 18th we will watch the first half of Bully in the library.
January 20th Opportunity to watch the second half.
January 25th Second opportunity to watch second half of Bully.
We will also share discussion items and then pair staff together for pre-load actitvity.
February 7th Looking at running early release schedule and then show the movie to kids from 12:40-2:35.
We will also plan post movie activities.
8th Grade Orientation
This is to showcase our electives and help them understand choices in their scheduling process.
Please confirm with Linda and I who will represent
Art
Music
Business
Tech Ed
F & CE
Spanish
Math
?Special Ed
Anyone I'm missing. Thank you all!
Second Semester Oriole Time
Amy, Jeff and Dan-please touch base about math supports for students for second semester.
Other staff-please share with me any updates you'd like to review for Oriole enrichment or reteaching or support.
thank you all for your help!
Attendance
First hour students who are late call home as well.
Orange Moments
Thank you to Student Council for our Secret Santas!
Welcome back to Jenny Stahl!!
Thank you to Jill, JIm, MIke G, Kurt and Karen for being on our District Orange team!
Thank you to Linda Will for all your work on the course description booklet.
Thank you to PLC teams for your work and your updates!
Thank you to Liz Legler for support!
ACT
The Work Keys assessment is March 1st.
We will plan to only have juniors here on the 28th and a late start for others on the 1st.
Next year
Students would be advised to take this course their junior year but could also take it their sophomore or senior year.
Jill and Jenny would work with Doug to infuse ACP into the course. We are also looking at a culminating project