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April 1, 2025

Happy April!

I hope you had a wonderful long weekend. This is a quiet week but things are gearing up as we head towards the end of the year.

Thanks for your support during the craziness of MCAS and the seal of biliteracy testing as well as the junior/senior speaker. If you attended Stephen Hill's presentation and would like to share your thoughts/impressions, he would love to hear them. I will send him a few quotes this week. I am told the students were amazing and his message was well received. 

Term 3 ends next Wednesday, April 9. Please reach out to parents/caregivers as well as the counselor if you have a student you are worried. This is essential with any seniors. We are monitoring those that might be in danger of not graduating closely. 

Today, I will meet with approximately 50 students who were randomly selected to take the PISA2025 next Thursday, April 10. The list is a combination of 9th and 10 graders as the pool was any student born in 2009. You will have the final list of students participating early next week. The assessment will take the first three periods of the day.

Planning ahead, we have back-to-back meetings this month. The faculty meeting is on April 10, and department meetings are on April 17. I will be out of the building on a NEASC visit from April 14-16. Liaisons, we will not have a meeting on April 15. 


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