AHS Faculty/staff news

I hope you are all ready for a good week! Thank you so much for your participation in our PD sessions. Your passion and commitment to students is amazing to watch. We've all seen this before but it's worth sharing again:  Rita Pierson: Every Kid Needs a Champion  Be a champion to your students this year.  I am excited to announce a personnel change (yes, Friday afternoon was eventful): Matt Banks will now be our 0.6 Spanish long-term substitute, covering Emily's maternity leave.  We will be re-opening the search for an ELL ESP so please bear with us as classes you might have expected support in are not covered. All teachers should check your mailbox Monday morning. Even if you have already picked up schedules, there may have been changes due to our last minute personnel changes. Some new schedules are being printed tomorrow morning and will be in your boxes by 8:15am. Students will go to homeroom to get a paper copy of their schedule and health/information forms. We...

Welcome back! Whether you feel like this:                             Or like this:                 I am looking forward to seeing all of you and heading into what will hopefully be an easier and more joyful school year. Last week we enjoyed time with students at the Student Leadership Summit, Peer Leader training, Class of 2024 Welcome/orientation, and New Student Orientation. Students are excited to be back but they are also nervous. They shared insightful thoughts on learning over the past 18 months and their hopes for moving forward as an educational system.  We will spend our faculty meeting/professional development time over Thursday and Friday reconnecting with each other and discussing how we can continue to create learning opportunities that are focused on student strengths and equity. Our Thursday and Friday morning meetings will be in the AHS auditorium....

Good afternoon and happy August! I hope you have found time to rest and rejuvenate this summer. I know it has been nice to have some real downtime without the stress and worry of last summer. There are still some unknowns about this year but I am excited for a year with some normalcy.  That being said, normal does not mean going back to how things were. I look forward to this being a year of growth and change as we take what we learned from the last 16+ months and incorporate it into new ways of teaching and learning.  The building is coming along thanks to the hard work of our custodial staff, including some students! One young woman told me she is so grateful to have spent the summer cleaning the building because it feels so good to help her school community. I loved that! Our PD days this year will focus on relearning and rebuilding. We will go back to our core values and vision of the graduate, think about our "why?", continue our work in diversity, equity, and inclusion,...