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April 14, 2025

Good afternoon-

I hope you had a nice weekend. As a reminder, I will be out of the building Monday through Wednesday attending a NEASC visit at Somerville High School. 

This Thursday is a curriculum/department meeting. Please plan accordingly. 

Please make sure your grades are entered and you have run and checked a Grade Verification for Term 3 by 8:15am on Tuesday, April. 

Safety update- 
The second evacuation/rally point for AHS will be Nikki Terrace. It is the first street when you take a right out of the Ashland High School exit. Students will walk with their English classes over the next two weeks to the cemetery and Nikki Terrace so they are informed of where to go in the event of an emergency. If you need to evacuate the building, you should make a decision on which location is safest for you and your students to evacuate to based on your location in the building and the location of a dangerous event. 

I have noticed, and several people have reached out with their own observations, that phones are becoming much more prevalent in the classroom. I hope after the April break, we can all reset and work together to enforce the agreed-upon policy. I encourage you to remind students that phones are not allowed during any instructional time, which includes study hall and x-block. We can evaluate this practice as a faculty at the end of the year, but for now, I am asking you all to commit to following the decision to have students put their phones in holders. 

With the exception of the English department, can you please email me directly if you use the Google Chrome extension Revision History? Thank you.

Here is a copy of the Final Exam Schedule Grades 9-11. Let us know if you have any questions.



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