Team -
During this week’s NHS end of year ceremony Kate shared each Senior’s favorite moment of their Harwood experience.
What a beautiful testament to the way WE collectively create rigorous and robust learning opportunities for our students!
Taking a Flex block on Hip Hop with Mr. Ibson.
Taking personal finance - the best class I ever took.
Youth Leadership Flex block - while teaching this class I learned how to advocate for myself, others and their learning.
Talking to everyone in AP Lit and reading books outside my comfort zone.
Global studies my 9th grade year - it made me feel home every morning.
Mrs. Turley’s AP Chemistry class helped me realize the effort you put into something is what you get out of it.
Harwood assemblies that celebrate our community.
The freedom and creativity of the Harwood music program which shaped and hugely impacted my experience at Harwood.
Pottery junior year with Wendy Rand.
Having a mentor like Mr. Sargent during COVID was invaluable - his mentorship and kindness is something I will never forget.
And for more - check out the VPR segments by Harwood seniors for even more humbling and powerful moments from Adam Porterfield, Arianna Clark, Xavier Brookens and Ellie Hammond.
With overwhelming gratitude,
Meg, Laurie and Duane
Calendar:
LAST WEEK OF SCHOOL (grades 7-11):
Monday 6/12 | Tuesday 6/13 | Wednesday 6/14 | Thursday 6/15 |
Gold Day | Black Day | Gold Day | High School Modified Black Day 8:40 - 8:50 TA 8:55 - 10:00 Awards Assembly 10:05 - 10:50 Block 5 10:55 - 11:40 Block 6 11:45 - 12:30 Block 7 12:30 lunch to go/dismissal! | Middle School Modified Black Day 8:40 - 9:00 TA 9:00 - 10:00 Team game rotation 10:05 - 10:50 Specials C 10:55 - 12:00 Core 12:00 lunch in the MS 12:30 dismissal! |
Appreciations:
Staff Member | Appreciations |
Krista, Nathaniel and Wendy | For starting a new Harwood tradition of the Plaid award & putting on such a beautiful Art show that was attended by the masses. |
Sarah Ibson | For all your coordination of Middle School day of service |
Dana, Peter & Rob | For the way you clearly ensured one Sr. in particular was seen this week and advocated and supported so they could attend Six Flags. |
Rachael Potts | For the planning and execution of an amazing Six Flags trip for our Senior class. |
Jen D., Christina, Duane, Katie K | For the time and effort to make the Mentor/Mentee trip happen! |
Safe - seen, heard, respected & understood:
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Student Support Services
| UPDATE: NO DETENTIONS NEXT WEEK - We will not be holding after school detentions during the last week of school. If you have a concern, behavior, or issue you would like support around, please STILL write a log entry and our student support team members will follow up (if needed). Thank you all for your partnership on all of this, this school year!
Student Support Collective Student Voice Collective |
TA update 
| DESSA Debrief! - data is now available and should be on your slideshow if you haven’t done the debrief already… (DESSA Data link)
Next Tuesday- Belonging Circle: In order to share out the data we have gathered with students that has been shared with faculty the Student Support Collective has created a Circle discussion. The guiding question: This guiding document has the information and circle questions to guide your process with students. ******Please take notes from the discussion using this form*******
TA SLIDESHOWS |
Rigorous & Robust Academic Program:
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Staff Meeting
 | Objectives: It’s our final UDL workshop! The plan is to share out and reflect on UDL work from this year, and to look to next year and how this work can be continued.
Staff Meeting Calendar Where: UDL Workshop Groups (same as last time, find your groups and locations here) When: 3:30 - 4:30 Staff Meeting Agenda |
Schedule
| Thanks to Lisa Therrien you should all have your 23-24’ schedules!
Rising 10-12th grade students will be receiving their schedules next week in TA. You’ll find them in your mailbox in advance with directions.
*As always, please note they are only set at jello stage (there is plenty of wiggle room still!) |
Finalizing Scores in JumpRope 
| All non-senior grades (including finalizing middle school scores) will be due by 3:30 on Monday 6/19.
Here is the JumpRope grading slideshow - please go through this slide-by-slide while completing your grades in JumpRope!
If you run into any issues or have questions, reach out to Jess Deane! |
Awards Assembly (grades 9-11) 
| Quick reminder on details for the grades 9-11 awards assembly on the last day of school (6/15):
All students 9-11 will attend the awards assembly, except any students prebooked to an ELO for a course-related need. All teachers will attend the assembly, except any teacher who has pre booked students for a course-related need. Currently in Adaptive Scheduler, there are no ELO sessions on Thursday 6/15. If you need an ELO session created so that you can pre book students for a course-related need, email me as soon as possible.
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| June 15th - 23rd final inservice plan
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Positive school climate and culture:
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| Kudos to HU staff! The conversations you are having with students about planning for life after high school ARE MAKING A DIFFERENCE! FAFSA completion rates were just released and 13% more students filed FAFSAs in 2023 compared to 2022.
This year 57% of the senior class of 133 students have filed a FAFSA by 5/26/23. Last year, 44% of the senior class of 116 students filed a FAFSA by 5/26/22. MORE families taking the steps to make higher education more affordable is DEFINITELY something worth celebrating. Kudos to all of the staff at HU who contributed to this positive change! |
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