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January 16, 2023

Good evening-

I hope you had a wonderful weekend and enjoyed the extra day. I will see you tomorrow at 8am for the kickoff to the PD day in the auditorium. 

It seems not everyone got this message, I apologize. Exams will remain weighted at 5% of a full year course this year. Please check your weights in iPass to make sure they are:
    Full year class: 22.5%, 22.5%, 5%, 22.5%, 22.5%, 5%
    Half year class: 45%, 45%, 10%

The Class of 2027 will be in the building on Thursday, January 26. They will arrive at about 1pm and will tour the building with peer leaders and a staff member. The groups love to stop into classrooms to say hi!

We are going to run regular x-blocks this week. Please check that you have created activities for those three days and remind students to check their sign-up's during first block on Wednesday. 

There will be no X-block on Monday the 23rd (students will remain in 2nd block). Regular x-blocks will resume again on Tuesday the 31st. 

The Course Registration process for 2023-2024 will start next week when the window opens for teachers. The Program of Studies will be finalized this week and we will start the rollover process
Please start talking to your students about your recommendations.

For your planning purposes, we will be scheduling class meetings as follows the week of February 13, during X block:
11th grade- February 13
10th grade- February 14
  9th grade- February 15

I have heard from some of you regarding ideas/changes you'd like to see the cafeteria make so that we don't need to consider a schedule change to four lunches. I will find time to sit with your union rep and nutriton services to talk through some of the ideas. Please know they have made several changes/adjustments already. Stay tuned for more information and a chance to provide input/ask questions. 

Have a wonderful week!!

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