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October 7, 2018

Good afternoon-

I hope everyone had a wonderful Family Reconnect Weekend!  I am looking forward to a fun Spirit/Homecoming week. I hope to see many of you at the bbq/tailgate on Friday night.  Faculty eat free so see one of us for a ticket and bring your family to enjoy the fun.

Faculty meeting is Thursday, October 10 at 2:50pm.  We look forward to introducing Jennifer Cutler, our new Director of Counseling and Social-Emotional Learning.  We will also be joined by MPY (Middlesex Partnerships for Youth) for our annual bullying training.  

If you haven't had a chance to check out the message from Chad yet, please do so ASAP.  We are hoping to pull together a diverse team of teachers interested in innovation!
Do you have innovative ideas, or interest in learning about innovation in education? Do you need someone to share these ideas and discussions with? Then our new Innovation Team may be just for you. Please read the attached newsletter and complete the survey so we can find out who wants to be involved in this new team. There are no commitments, just opportunity.


Looking forward to talking with you,

Chad

Reminders from Student Council/Josh! 
Homecoming is next week, and here's everything you need to know.  Please read carefully, because there are lots of "things" that I need from people!

Homecoming Dress-Up Days: - Please feel free to participate in the following dress up days (it's always more fun when teachers dress-up!)
Tuesday, October 9th - Pajama Day
Wednesday, October 10th - USA Day
Thursday, October 11th - Jersey Day (wear a sports jersey, I suppose, or anything sports-related?)
Friday, October 12th - Class Color Day

Homecoming Court - Nominations due by 5pm on Wednesday, October 10th - Teachers are being asked to nominate the most "spirited" students for the Homecoming court.  Use your own definition of "spirited" -- most involved in the school, most involved in class, participate the best in the dress-up-days, just a great kid, etc.  The Homecoming court ballots will be chosen based on your nominations.  I will send out a google form next Monday night (and then again on Tuesday and Wednesday).  Please help me out with this!  Nominations will close at 5pm on Wednesday, October 10th (and my board will go through them that night and choose the finalists.)  All finalists will get a letter Thursday morning so they know they've nominated and will have the opportunity to take themselves off the ballot if they're not comfortable being recognized like this.  All faculty / staff / administration who votes will get a chocolate thank-you from me in their mailbox after they nominate student!!  (Please help!)

Homecoming Court Elections - Friday, October 12th - There will be a very short (2 minute) Homeroom on Friday, October 12th at the start of the day for voting to take place.  Ballots will be in your box first thing on Friday morning the 12th.  After the voting, hold onto the ballots and a member of the Student Council will pick them up.

I would love some help counting the ballots during the day on Friday, October 12th (C Day).  Please let me know if you'd be willing to help.

Homecoming Rally - Friday, October 12th - 1:50 - 2:45pm - Thank you to everyone who has volunteered for our annual chair-race.  If you're participating, please make sure you go to the Google Doc (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hvkHFuXtW67Q2Y3K9yFk-EXSGOCGRjw0OM0WKQG_Y6o/edit) and add in the name of your chair-pusher by Tuesday, October 9th.  I'm still looking for one more participant (so we'll have four even teams).  Please let me know if I can add you to the list -- the first person I hear from will get the spot.  Schedule for the day is here!

In addition, once again, if you are a club advisor and would like a member of your club to give a quick update on what your club has already done this year or any upcoming events, please add it into the Google Doc at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dw2axzir4d3TapZpdwuuETJ-4ZJfMSbGG29w-LNaE4Q/edit by Tuesday, October 9th.

Homecoming Tailgate Barbecue - Friday, October 12th - 5pm - 7pm - Come bring your family and join us for our "tailgate" barbecue in the small parking lot by the stadium.  Faculty members are free (you'll get a coupon from Kelley or one of the deans -- thank you, Kelley!) and the cost is $5/person for additional family members.  There will be burgers (veggie burgers available), hot dogs, chips, and dessert.  There will also be games. 

Homecoming Football Game - Friday, October 12th - 7pm - Come support AHS at the Homecoming Football Game against Westwood.

Homecoming Dance - Saturday, October 13th - 7pm - 9:30pm - Thank you to everyone who has agreed to chaperone.  (I'll send out more details next week).  We're still looking for a few more people.  The Student Council has been going around "inviting" all members of the faculty, but there are few people they weren't able to find (so you didn't get a personal invitation...   but you have one waiting for you!)  Please let me know if you'd like to help.  It's a lot of fun (and I'd really appreciate the help.)

I'm sure I'm forgetting something, but hopefully this takes care of most of the week!


A reminder that we will administer the Metrowest Adolescent Health Survey once again on Tuesday, October 30th.  The schedule was sent by Erin and is linked here as well.


Attached is a letter from Secretary Peyser regarding Fall 2018 STEM Week that is being held the week of October 22nd

I've been thinking a lot this year about keeping things positive and focusing on what every student at AHS can not (rather than what they can't do....)
This article resonated with the thought of not comparing groups.  

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