HUMS staff week of January 28, 2019

ITEMS:

1.  Schedule notes for this week.  Have a great (hopefully full) week! 

• NAEP testing will take place for grade 8 on Monday, January 28.  Please see Liz for any needed information.  Thank you Liz for all of your hard work on this assessment.  
• Staff meeting this week will be time for teachers to work on ELOx offerings.  If a brief whole faculty meeting is necessary, this will be announced prior to Tuesday.  
• Our next HUMS staff meeting will be held on February 5th  The agenda will be ready for view next Monday.  
• The corn hole boards are out and ready to be used.  Let's touch base at our Feb 5th staff meeting regarding our competition. 
• Assembly crew Amalia, Abby and Pacie will attempt to get to each TA to discuss the idea of creating a school video to the song of September, by Earth, Wind and Fire.  See the link here for more information: 
• Link here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/14HNhaypTDkU_hoy5LqZK-zGoee7YEVIfnmRhmieI95Y/edit#heading=h.wigstxiv7saw

February Meetings

February 5 - TA Meeting (HUMS meeting)

February 12 - Shared Staff Meeting

February 19 - Learning Communities

February 21 - LT/DH Meeting

• Duane will be out of the office on Monday morning until 11:30, attending the Roland workshop in Waterbury.  

2.  ELOx update - Please read the following (found in the link)  in preparation for tomorrow's TA
Link here:  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hY2IUSaev6NbnM6aVEelFaLzCqubl6p6MIVgNWLi5hE/edit

3.  We never know where students may end up..   take a look a this letter:

A Letter from a Disappointed Mother

In 1890, Winston Churchill was a 15-year-old student at Harrow, an elite British boarding school, and not doing very well. On June 12th, his mother, Jennie Churchill, wrote him a letter:

Dearest Winston,

I have much to say to you, I’m afraid not of a pleasant nature. You know darling how I hate to find fault with you, but I can’t help myself this time… Your report which I enclose is as you will see a very bad one. You work in such a fitful inharmonious way, that you are bound to come out last – look at your place in the form! Yr father & I are both more disappointed than we can say, that you are not able to go up to yr preliminary exam: I daresay you have 1000 excuses for not doing so – but there the fact remains…

Dearest Winston you make me very unhappy – I had built up such hopes about you & felt so proud of you – & now all is gone. My only consolation is that your conduct is good and you are an affectionate son – but your work is an insult to your intelligence. If you would only trace out a plan of action for yourself & carry it out & be determined to do so – I am sure you could accomplish anything you wished. It is that thoughtlessness of yours which is your greatest enemy…

I will say no more now – but Winston you are old enough to see how serious this is to you – & how the next year or two & the use you make of them, will affect your whole life – stop & think it out for yourself & take a good pull before it is too late. You know dearest boy that I will always help you all I can.

Your loving but distressed mother.

“A Letter from Winston Churchill’s Disappointed Mother” by David Lough in The Atlantic, October 2018, https://bit.ly/2CTjT6x, from My Darling Winston: Letters Between Winston Churchill and His Mother, edited by David Lough (Pegasus, 2018)