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February 14, 2022

Good morning-

Happy Valentine's Day (which I am sure will mean lots of flowers, gifts, and candy in your classrooms) and last week before vacation. I am so grateful for the support and care you all showed me this past week.  Thank you so much for the thoughtfulness. Scott, Anna and I appreciate you all so much, 

As a reminder, this is the last week for you to enter course recommendations. X-block is a great opportunity to schedule students to discuss your recommendations. Department meetings are scheduled for this week. Please let us know if you'd like one of us to join your meeting for anything.  

Class meetings are being held this week to review the course recommendation process with students. The meetings will be held during X-block. We will dismiss each class with about 5 minutes left of 2nd period. Hopefully we can be efficient and move through the information quickly. I will apologize now for possibly taking up some time in 3rd period if needed. 
2/14- junior class meeting
2/15- sophomore class meeting
2/16- freshman class meeting

I have approved a few fundraisers recently that I should not have allowed. As a reminder, the wellness policy does not allow groups to sell candy or any food during school, especially during lunch. I am out of practice at reminding you of this! Moving forward, please do not propose any fundraisers that involve selling food during the school day. Thanks!

Recently, we received grant funding to join JED High School, a public health, systematic approach that helps schools to assess and strengthen their policies, programs, and systems to equitably support emotional well-being and suicide prevention for all students. 

JED High School is an 18 to 24-month program designed to help schools assess and enhance their efforts in the following key areas: developing life skills, promoting social connectedness and positive school climate, increasing help-seeking behaviors, recognizing and responding to students at risk, promoting well-being and access to mental health services, following crisis management procedures, and creating a safe environment.

The first part of the program is to develop an interdisciplinary team whose members represent the entire high school community. The team helps to establish our baseline data and is comprised of faculty members, students, parents, and other interested community members. If you are willing to participate, please complete this interest form. We need representation across departments as well as clubs & activities. 

Have a wonderful week!

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