Drake Direct
New Year's Newsletter 2019
Open House 1.24.19
Current Drake Parents, please visit classrooms at 6:30.
Incoming 9th grade, please come to the gym at 6:30.
Thursday, Jan 24, 2019, 06:30 PM
1327 Sir Francis Drake Boulevard, San Anselmo, CA, USA
Small Learning Communities: Time to Study...
This article is the second in a Drake Direct series. Please use this link for the first article from December 5, 2018.
We have started the Drake Innovation Team that is comprised of 8 teachers, one classified staff and one administrator to discuss how we can re-imagine our approach. In this work, we recognize the important role of stakeholder input. To this end, we are organizing a series of input meetings with our students, parents and recent graduates to learn from all of you what has been the experience and what do we need to move forward. You will hear about these as we move into spring.
We will continue to remind people, that we are not planning on having any significant change for the 2019-20 school year. We understand that this work will take some time AND we want to provide planning time as we move into a new model. We are, however, going to have smaller changes in response to personnel decisions, as we do every year. For next school year, we will be offering a new option for students who do not want to be involved in a formal SLC and opt into a smaller configuration that will be more traditional in structure. This option will be one of the four choices students will have when they register on January 31st. Every year we have a few people request this option, so we will see how many students are interested in this approach to SLCs. More information will be provided at the registration event.
The SLC structure and culture is a major part of the Drake experience. We recognize this and will continue to study and learn from what we have, imagine what could be best for all students and communicate along this journey to you all. Please continue to email questions and thoughts to Liz Seabury, Principal . lseabury@tamdistrict.org
Summer Opportunity Faire 2-6-19
Winter Formal 1-25-19
10,000 Degrees Applications Due 2/15/19
2019-2020 COURSE SIGN-UPS are NOW!
We need all students to make their course selections carefully and seriously in February and confirm these courses in April. After April, we need to move into schedule creation and all student selections are final. Thank you for recognizing your role in this process and for making this process benefit each student's success.
The Drake Buccaneer: A call for help!
Student Blood Drive
ASB is partnering with the Vitalant blood donation center to host a student blood drive on February 5th from 9-2 p.m. Anyone who is at least 16 years of age is eligible to donate and can do so by signing up here and using the sponsor code DRAKE. Students under 18 must bring a signed minor eligibility form with them to sign up. If you sign up online, you can do it all on the website.
There are very specific eligibility requirements that are often overlooked in terms of donating blood. Specific requirements can be found here.
Parent/ Community Equity Meeting
CSF/Honor Crew Applications Due 2-14-19
Sir Francis Drake High School
Email: lseabury@tamdistrict.org
Website: tamdistrict.org/drake
Location: 1327 Sir Francis Drake Boulevard, San Anselmo, CA, USA
Phone: 415-458-3411
Twitter: @drakehighschool