Staff,
I hope this Round Up finds you resting during your weekend as we prepare to see our 10th and 12th graders join our 9th graders this week! With 3 grade levels arriving this week, this means we need to focus that much more on transitions in between classes, cleaning, dismissal staggering (3 bells) and more. Please refer to the operations manual, and if you can not find certain details, let an administrator know immediately. A gentle reminder that interims are e-mailed on Thursday so please have all your grades updated and synchronized.
This past week, Guilford County started vaccinating all of their employees. Hopefully most of you have taken advantage of this opportunity.
As Monday will soon be upon us once again, I continue my challenge to us focusing on welcoming the students, building relationships, setting the tone for EVERY class using the RANCH acronym, demonstrating and reinforcing the health and safety expectations, and of course, playing your role in the school wide culture change. Let's be at our supervision posts, redirecting when necessary, motivating our students and making this an inclusive environment for all. I look forward to seeing everyone in the halls, energized in the classrooms, and doing what you all do best
We are resilient, we are together, we will rise up!
We are Cowboy Strong!
We are…. SOUTHWEST
SWGHS Staff Operations Manual
Do you feel like there is something missing from this manual? Please e-mail any administrator of what it is and where the location should be. As we continue to build this, we are hoping this becomes the ultimate Staff Handbook. Thank you to everyone who has played a role in this development!
https://sites.google.com/mygcsnc.com/southwesthigh-spring2021/home
RANCH
Please deliver and facilitate discussion using the SWGHS RANCH powerpoint with in-person and remote students on Monday and Thursday. The information describes our school expectations and encourages students to think about them as it relates to health and safety in this pandemic. In addition to the powerpoint, feel free to use this Ranch Life poster. Let’s ensure that character counts at the Ranch!
If you have students or parents who approach you with
substance abuse concerns, please let me know. The Lifestyles class and
the Tobacco Education classes are still offered – but virtually – for students
and their parents. Students do not have to have been suspended to attend
these classes.
Also Student Support Services also puts out a newsletter with some information that may be useful to you and your students:
When students return to in-person/face-to-face (F2F) instruction, please follow the following attendance reporting procedures in PowerSchool.
In-Person (F2F) Students:
Teachers must take attendance for in-person students daily prior to the end of the class period. Any student who is absent should be marked as an Unexcused Absence (2A) or with an Excused Absence code.
In-Person (F2F) Students should be marked as 1R- Present Off-Site on their remote days.
Quarantined In-Person (F2F) Students:
In-person (F2F) students who have been exposed to/or have a confirmed case of COVID-19 will be asked to remain home for 14 days. The school nurse will notify school staff of students who need to be quarantined based on public health data. Public health and/or school staff should notify parents if students need to be quarantined. Public health officials are the only designees who can quarantine staff or students.
If the quarantined student:
· can work remotely, student should be provided work to be completed at home and assigned a 1R- Present Off-Site.
· is too ill to work from home, the student should be assigned a 1D – Quarantine.
Unless the teacher is sick, instruction continues to be provided during quarantine. If the teacher is sick, alternate plans are made to provide instruction to students while the teacher is unavailable.
Remote or Virtual Students:
Students who are learning remotely should be assigned the 1R - Present Off-Site. Attendance for these students should be taken and updated within the 10-day reporting window.
Social Emotional Learning
When students begin their return on February 22nd, we will NOT be allowed to have our own children in the building, UNLESS they are enrolled with us. On Wednesdays, as long as we do not have any student functions on these days, I will allow you to bring your non-SW children to the building. Please plan/ govern yourselves accordingly.
Dress Code
- Jeans with fabric underneath covering holes
- Joggers/Sweatpants/Athletic leggings acceptable
- Shorts/dresses not shorter than finger tips or top of knee
- No sagging pants
- No pajama pants/slippers
- Any t-shirts with no inappropriate language, symbols, alcohol/drug, political views (amongst other items), that can cause disruption, or is inappropriate to the education environment.
- All shirts should have sleeves (no tank tops/muscle shirts) (Be understanding with female dress attire, i.e dresses….)
- Masks - We require students to refrain from wearing masks that can cause disruption to the education environment. Some suggestions for acceptable masks; designs with no words, plain in color, Sw logo, etc.
- Sweatshirts (even with hoods) are acceptable as a primary top – but hoods must stay down while in school
- No hats
- No midriffs, “topdriff”, “Backdriff”
- No transparent clothes
Please encourage your students to bring clear water bottles (since we have water bottle filling stations, Water fountains are closed off, and to encourage car riders as best possible to assist with the limited capacity for buses.
BELLS
I will NOT have the bells ring on Wednesdays. The “90 minute time frame” starts with the face to face come February 22nd with those who are in front of you.
The current bell schedule (with lunch bells forthcoming)… we all know this can change.
9:05 – Staff is in room
9:15 – Students allowed in building and right to gym/class
9:55 – 1st block starts
10:05 – late bell
11:30 – 1st block ends
11:35 – 2nd block starts
11:45 – late bell
1:25 – 2nd block ends
Lunch bells will be added within here (forthcoming)
1:30 - 3rd block starts
1:40 – late bell
2:55 - 3rd block ends
3:00 - 4th block starts
3:10 – late bell
4:25 - 4th block ends
Students MUST exit the campus (athletes are to go to their locations)
4:35 – staff may be dismissed
Note: Please make sure that we do not send students to the front office or attendance office to use the phone if they become sick in their class. Any student stating they do not feel well, must be escorted by an administrator. The administrator or administrative representative will escort the student to the isolation room due to a a process that must take place.
SUBSTITUTES
Please use the Substitute list below. If there are any issues with the sub saying they will not sub at this time, please let Mrs. Barnum know.
Access Frontline/AESOP using the instructions below:
Go to GCS web page.
- Click on Staff
- Then under Miscellaneous click on Frontline Education (formerly AESOP)
- Once you click on that link it should automatically sign you into AESOP
****If you are at home, you can use that same link but use your email user name and email password to sign in.
Do not use your phone number and the last 5 digits of your SSN. (That will not work)
As shared in the faculty meeting, Electronic versions of the 1st semester report card were sent out on Thursday, January 28th and to parents' and students' e-mail addresses (up to 5 e-mail addresses). If they did not receive this, please have them e-mail Mrs. Cline to ask her to update their e-mail address so they can receive all electronic information pertaining to their student. Clinek2@gcsnc.com The next e-mailing will occur this Thursday, March 4th. Please make sure your grades are updated and synced so information is up to date.
Teachers and Counselors of Juniors:
To help with communication of this information, please share this on your canvas pages and any other broadcast communication methods you use.
Please see additional information below and attached concerning the MyACT.org accounts students must create....
All students taking the ACT will create an account in MyACT.org to enter non-test information and select college or university score recipients. Students must also complete the non-test information on the answer folder on test day before beginning testing. MyACT.org is the only place where students will be able to indicate the schools that will receive their ACT score. This is a new procedure. If students do not plan to attend college, they should still complete the MyACT process to have access to their test scores online.
Resources Needed to Create a MyACT Account
Personalized copies of the Non-Test Instructions for Student form will contain personally identifiable information (PII) and must be picked up in person by the student or their parent/guardian in the front lobby at SWHS.
Timeline for Entering Information in MyACT.org.
The non-test information section in MyACT is expected to go live for students on February 20th; students may enter their MyACT information at that time. Students will not be able to enter their student code or select college score recipients in MyACT before February 20th.
Scholarships, FAFSA, and more! Please share the Counselors' newsletter!
CAREER and COLLEGE PROMISE
Career and College Promise offers North Carolina high school students the chance to
earn college credits at a community college campus. The program is
tuition-free for high school juniors and seniors (semester fees will be due). You must have a cumulative unweighted GPA of 2.8 or higher or passing test scores.
Students can earn:
· College credit transferable to all UNC System Institutions and many of NC’s Independent Colleges and Universities
· A credential, certificate or diploma in a technical career
Important Dates:
Summer 2021 Semester:
· March 15, 2021: Priority Deadline for Early Registration
· May 13, 2021: Deadline to submit new applications
· June 2, 2021: First Day of 8 week summer classes
· July 27, 2021: Last day of classes
Fall 2021 Semester:
· March 15, 2021: Priority Deadline for Early Registration
· July 15, 2021: Deadline to submit new applications
New Student Admissions Meetings
Admissions Sessions are required for all new students.
Because of COVID-19, the recorded Admissions Session below replaces the
required Admissions Meeting. Please submit a completed application packet
with all signatures after viewing the Admissions Session.
The Admissions Session includes information on the following:
· General Program Information
· Curriculum Pathways
· How to navigate the website to search for classes
· How to register for classes
· Q & A
It is important that you and your student watch the entire recording. Please right click on the link below to access the recorded meeting.
Recorded CCP Admissions Session
Once you and your student have viewed the Admissions Session:
1. Determine your Career and College Promise Pathway –
Write the Pathway name and Code on your Verification Form. Please refer
to the Dual Credit Allowances Document for information on how the high school
credits dual courses.
There are two types of Career and College Promise Pathways:
o College Transfer Pathways – GTCC offers seven different college transfer
pathways
o Career/Technical Education Pathways – GTCC offers numerous certificate and diploma programs.
Use the links below to learn more about them.
College Transfer Pathway
Career and Technical Education Pathway
2. Complete the Application Packet (forms are attached). (Signatures may be obtained by email.)
The Application Packet includes:
o GTCC Application for Admission – Student signature required on page 2. Please do not include the social security number on the application for admission.
o Verification of Student Eligibility Form – Please make sure that you have all signatures required and that you have included the pathway.
o Year-End High School Transcript – courses must be listed by grade level, signed and dated by principal and include a cumulative unweighted GPA.
Please send a copy of your latest transcript with the admissions packet. If you attend a public high school, you may request this through cfnc.org. Please provide your High School ID # on the Verification Form. If your transcript is in a sealed envelope, you may open it and scan it.
o Copy of Home School State Registration (if applicable)
o Consent to Release Form – to be completed by the student.
o Media Release Form – to be completed by the parent.
3. Scan your application packet and email the documents as attachments using the attach
button to ccp@gtcc.edu. Do not copy and paste the documents into the body of the email.
Once you have submitted your application packet:
o Please be checking the email listed on your application. If something is missing, you will be notified. After the application is processed, the applicant will receive an email with Titan Account Activation Instructions.
o After activating your Titan account, please log into your GTCC Titan Email and check it frequently. You will receive registration instructions around March 1, 2021. Applicants who apply after March 15, will receive registration instructions after their application is processed.
o Once you have registered for classes, you will be sent an email with instructions for our mandatory online CCP Orientation.
Please keep in mind that the purpose of CCP is for eligible high school students to earn college credits towards a college degree, diploma, or certificate.
Dual credit for high school graduation requirements is a bonus, but should not be what drives course selection. Courses in the CCP transfer pathways should be selected based on the published bachelor degree plan for the major at the university the student intends to transfer to after high school.
The Guilford Apprenticeship Partners program is still accepting applications. If you are an interested junior or senior, it’s not too late to apply!
GAP is a four year apprenticeship program with tracks in Manufacturing, Information Technology and Cybersecurity, Automotive, VAC/Electrical/Plumbing. It’s open to all juniors and seniors who meet the GAP requirements of good attendance and a minimum GPA of 2.5-2.8. For more information about the GAP program, visit gapnc.org or contact Mrs. Cook at cookm@gcsnc.com
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