Calendar:
02/03 - No School for students (Staff inservice)
02/16 - Rising 9th grade Family Transition Night
02/20 - 03/10 - Rwanda travel study
02/27 - 03/07 - No School - February Vacation
03/24 - No School
04/13 & 4/19 - Family/TA Conferences
Appreciations:
Staff Member | Appreciations |
Paul M., Gary, Andre, Andrew M. and Stephanie | Thank you to the kitchen team for doing an amazing job offering a variety of nutritious options every day. The meals are delicious and all the TLC that goes into them is greatly appreciated! |
Liz and Danielle | For your continued willingness to be at the front desk while Yvette is out. THANK YOU, THANK YOU, thank you! |
Allie | For your perseverance to ensure strong transitions for students who have 504 plans as they come to Harwood. |
Wendy M, Krista V, Sarah I, Jonah I, Matt H, Andrew R, Susannah C, Jeannie E, Chelsea T, Adam S, Paul K, Eve B, and Nathaniel F | For jumping in to facilitate our UDL workshops that will start next week! |
Harwood Hacks Choosing from a selection: Laminate a bunch of photos and have students choose the one they like the best and have them explain why. Or... have a basket full of talking pieces, content-related objects, stuffed animals, or nicknacks. Have a student choose the one they connect to and share why they chose it. Collect old date books, magazines, and calendars and have students cut out photos for check-ins. |
Safe - seen, heard, respected & understood:
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Student Support Services Health Office Updates | UMATTER: Please see the SLIDES from Umatter presentation on 1/23/23 Student Support Collective: We met this week with Starling and reviewed a larger SSC timeline and received feedback, questions, and wonders to improve and refine. We will be working on a timeline to present to Staff at our next staff meeting along with an agenda for staff dialogue, reflection, and feedback. Please see our SSC Agenda and Notes - If you have any questions or want to learn more related to the notes/agenda items, please contact our team using this Email: hu-collectivess@huusd.org. Student Leadership Collective: 43 Middle and High School Students met today for a double ELO for an information meeting. The meeting was facilitated by students, supported by Ellen and Melody. Please see the agenda from today’s (2/2) meeting. The first official SLC group meeting is tentatively scheduled for the week of 2/20/23. Running agenda will be linked weekly in this blog. Greetings! Have any extra mugs? In an effort to conserve cups, we are collecting mugs for tea in the health office. Here is some information about the winter blues as we are at the mid-point between solstices (winter and spring). This article lists out some health ways to keep your body and mind healthy this time of year. Pickle soup! What!?! Yes, Zupa Ogórkowa (Polish creamy pickle soup). I made this recipe for my family, it was thumbs up all around. If you are a pickle fan, I highly recommend. It’s best if made with good quality pickles. |
TA update | Please note an addition to TA programming for next week!!!!! TA this week will have some activities devoted to PS I Love You week that has been organized by OVX and the YEWS. This will require some flexibility on our part as some of the items needed are on order and will arrive sometime soon! We will be sending an email out to every TA teacher once we know specific dates and information for additional activities at least one day in advance. On Monday we are asking every TA to watch this video. Please follow up with your group about their response to the video and the idea of the PS I Love You campaign. Registration continues for grades 9 and 10 in TA. See your slideshow for specific resources and information for next week. Grade 11 students are meeting individually with their school counselor. If you have 11th graders, be sure to check in with your students to see how they are doing. TA SLIDESHOWS |
Rigorous & Robust Academic Program:
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Staff Meeting  | Objectives: We will dive into a specific UDL topics while considering how it can be applied to an upcoming unit or assessment. With an emphasis on learning together, we will have time and space to learn, discuss, and create collaboratively. Check out this doc for workshop groups and specific agendas. Thank you facilitators! Where: 3:30 - 4:30 When: Library |
Course Enrollment Form | Do you have folks who are on your Power School roster but not showing up in your class? Or are there folks in your class that are not on your Power School roster? Please let school counselors know by filling out this form. FYI- There may be some students who are not showing up for a class but are still on your rosters, even after filling out the course enrollment form.. These students may be expected to attend classes and may accrue unexcused absences. |
Our next inservice day is 2/03. Please find the schedule for the day here. |
Positive school climate and culture:
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Welcome to Sue Duprat who will be the interim Athletic Director for the remainder of this school year. Sue was Chris’ predecessor and was here from 2003 - 2017. She says, “As always, the door is always open, there will always be candy available, and Fridays are Vitamin D days - Vitamin Donuts…” “While not excited to be unretired, I'm really thrilled to be back to the only place, and the only job, that would make me unretire myself.” | |
Also welcome to Quintin Nunn who is our new daytime custodian! We’re so grateful to have you, Quintin! | |
Suicide Prevention Awareness/PS I Love You Week | As a reminder, Suicide Prevention Week (PS I Love You Week) starts Monday 02/06/2023 to 02/10/2023. This is put on by the Our Voices Exposed (OVX) and Youth Enriching Wellness (YEWS) Clubs that we both advise. We will be having some events throughout the week which will be happening during some TA days and during lunches. As well a video and quick presentation at assembly. The color for this week most importantly on Friday is for as many people as possible to wear purple in support of Suicide Prevention Week and PS I Love You week. Students brought the idea of having some additional wellness ELO options for that week. The students were wondering if all staff would consider providing one or two wellness ELO options for the week, to help provide support during the week to our students. Please let us know if you have any questions in regards to this. See full email sent this week with some wellness options for ELO’s for the week. If you are providing a wellness ELO, please add a note in any of your ELO blocks in the adaptive scheduler. Any questions please reach out to Skylar Bradley or Jen Dreimiller. Thank you all again for the support!! Video to show for Monday’s TA: http://psiloveyouday.net/ |
Hiring Update |
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Rwanda Travel Study Donations | Do you have any extra fabric, diverse children's books, or unused bars of soap? Harwood’s Rwanda Travel Study program is going to Rwanda for three weeks this February, and we want to bring your extra goods! While we are in Rwanda, our students practice ethnography by interviewing community members who work with local nonprofits. In return, we bring supplies that our partner organizations have requested. This year, A Friend Indeed is looking for fabric, unused bars of soap, and children's books. A Friend Indeed works to improve living conditions for single mothers, who are typically stigmatized in Rwandan society. One of their programs trains mothers to earn money by sewing clothing. Quilting cotton in increments of 1+ yards is preferred for clothing, and flannel can be used for menstrual pads. Please drop off diverse children’s books to Rachael Potts, unused bars of soap can be dropped off in the box in the main lobby, and please bring fabric to any of our chaperones by FRIDAY, 2/10. Thank you in advance! Tedin, Tara, Rachael, Paul, and Steve |
Reminder that lunch on Friday (inservice day) will be a POT LUCK. Here is the sign up sheet: Potluck Sign Up for February 3rd | |
Hello again from the HUUSD Social Emotional Learning Task Force. This January we are focusing on the theme of Relationship Skills. Last month we learned a bit about social awareness, this month we are learning about the action of interacting. Humans need to know how to communicate clearly and how to resolve conflicts in order to make and maintain relationships. Interacting, having reciprocity, giving one’s opinion respectfully and working as part of a group are all skills students use everyday. Here are a couple ideas about how to expand your practice this month:
We hope that some of these may be helpful and assist students in growing in their Relationship Skills. We appreciate all that you do to support this work! Best, The SELTF | |
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