Week of September 17

Fellow ranchers,

I hope each of you, including your friends and relatives, are safe from this weekend's storm.  Let's allow this to serve as a reminder that we should be well versed on all safety procedures at our school. Please make sure all procedures have been reviewed in each of your classes. (Notice the schoolwide drill coming up this week) 

I have been in a few PLCs this past week, and those PLCs demonstrated a great start to the year, especially to understanding the process behind an effective PLC. Thank you. If you are still unsure about the process behind an effective PLC, please meet with Ms. Shaw immediately. 

Kudos to the staff who are being very creative on their PDPs and are exploring ways to not only improve their own instruction, but exploring ways to enhance their colleagues' instruction as well. There are great things happening on the campus of SWHS!!!  I love the team approach and the positive mindset!

Administration will start meeting with you to discuss your PDP goals. Your evaluation cycle will start shortly thereafter. Please makes sure you have goals 1 and 2 complete and are currently awaiting feedback on goal 3. 

If you are a club advisor, please make sure your club is already planning a service project for each semester. Please make sure it is meaningful and can be tied to the campus of SWHS.  Also, the Crop Walk is Sun. Sept 23 and is the biggest fundraising event to help Open Door ministries in High Point. Mrs. Davis needs your kids.  You do not have to come, but you are welcome 😊.  Please refer to Mrs. Davis' email for proper paperwork.   Please share with all of your club members that they can earn 2 hours of SL by attending and participating.  If they sign up by the Thursday before the walk they MIGHT get a t-shirt.  If you don’t have time to make copies of the forms, tell your members to come to D126 and Mrs. Davis will have copies of this form outside her door.  Questions? Just email Mrs. Davis- this is a fun and family friendly event.

Interim reports have been moved to Thursday to allow you all to get your grades in and make contacts to the home. Please remember to contact parents for any Ds and Fs, or any As that drop to a C. A valid contact is when you get confirmation of your efforts in communicating. Are there concerns about attendance, behavior? Again, make sure you reach the home for support.

"We are Southwest" apparel is now on sale until September 27th. Feel free to navigate to the www.NCscreenPrintingAndEmbroidery.com website and click on the SWHS logo to place your order. If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to Coach Black. 

As it relates to athletic schedules, please visit the SWHS Athletics page at www.cowboysports.org.

Monday, September 17
4:00 PM Womens Varsity Golf Conference Meet @ Maple Chase Away
4:30 PM Womens Varsity Tennis Ben L. Smith High School Away
4:45 PM Mens Middle School Soccer Mendenhall Middle School Home
5:00 PM Womens Junior Varsity Volleyball Wheatmore High School Away
5:30 PM Mens Junior Varsity Soccer North Forsyth High School Home
6:30 PM Womens Varsity Volleyball Wheatmore High School Away
7:00 PM Mens Varsity Soccer North Forsyth High School Home
7:00 PM Mens Junior Varsity Football Northwest Senior High School Away
7:00 PM Womens Junior Varsity Cheerleading Northwest Senior High School Away 

Tuesday, September 18
2:20 PM Tornado Drill
4:30 PM Womens Varsity Tennis Grimsley High School Away
5:00 PM Womens Junior Varsity Volleyball Cancelled- Ben L. Smith High School Away
5:30 PM Mens Junior Varsity Soccer Ben L. Smith High School Away
5:45 PM Mens Middle School Football OPEN DATE Home
6:00 PM Womens Varsity Volleyball Ben L. Smith High School Away
7:00 PM Mens Varsity Soccer Ben L. Smith High School Away

Wednesday, September 19
Workday for teachers - no school for students 
1:00 PM Womens Varsity Golf Guilford County Invitational @ Bryan Park Away
5:00 PM Coed Varsity Cross Country Conference Match @ SWGHS Home

Thursday, September 20
Interim reports distributed to all students
4:30 PM Celebration of Excellence - Page High School
4:30 PM Womens Varsity Tennis Wheatmore High School Home
5:00 PM Womens Junior Varsity Volleyball Parkland High School Home
5:30 PM Mens Junior Varsity Soccer Parkland High School Home
6:30 PM Womens Varsity Volleyball Parkland High School Home
7:00 PM Mens Varsity Soccer Parkland High School Home
7:00 PM Mens Junior Varsity Football Parkland High School Away
7:00 PM Womens Junior Varsity Cheerleading Parkland High School Away

Friday, September 21
7:30 PM Mens Varsity Football Parkland High School Home
7:30 PM Womens Varsity Cheerleading Parkland High School Home

COMING UP...

Monday, September 24
8:00 AM to... 11:00 AM Letter of Recommendation workshop - Feeling a little unsure about writing recommendation letters or need a refresher? Learn how to bring a student to life with a strong letter of recommendation. This workshop is offered in the College Advising Center, T5 at 8:15 am, 9:00 am, and 10:30 am. See you there!
6:00PM to 8:00PM PTSA Meeting - C132

Start with Hello Sandy Hook Promise Week

Monday, September 24^th: Sidewalk Chalk/Name Tags

            -Students will be greeted as they enter the school building with ‘Hello’ and other positive messages on the sidewalk. This will be done on both the front entrance of the school, and the sidewalk going to the student parking lot. Then students will be given a name tag so that during the day, students can greet each other by their names, and create a more positive community of unity.

Tuesday, September 25^th: Green Day!, Lunch Table Notes

            -Students will be asked to wear all green to support the main color of the Sandy Hook Promise. No mask, or face paint will be allowed. During lunches, students will find hello messages on their lunch tables. Students can pass positive messages on to others or keep it for themselves.

Wednesday, September 26^th: Showcase Day, Freshman Focus Classes

            -SAVE members will be visiting the Freshman Focus classes to teach a lesson on the Start with Hello Week. The lesson will encourage students to talk to students about anti-isolation and community building here at SW.

            -Students will have the opportunity to showcase their talents at the “Start with Hello” centered talent afterschool at our “Start with Hello Showcase.” Students can create artwork, poems, perform songs, skits, and etc.

Thursday, September 27^th: Cup Stacking Contest during Lunch

            -Students during lunches will approach the SAVE table and participate in a “Cup Stacking Contest” with a teams of students created with people they just met during their lunch. Winning teams will get prizes.

Friday, September 28^th: Elementary School Hello Parade, “Start With a Hello and a Smile”

            -Students will welcome elementary students at Southwest Elementary School.  During lunch that day, students will sign a pledge to agree to promote community and unity by trying to continue to say hello and include everyone in our community. 

Reminders:

- Make sure you are in connection with any parents about their child's grades especially since Parent Assist/PowerSchool will not be available until 9/11. 

Remember to reference CANVAS (or that important links page) for all pertinent information. If you find that a document is not located on CANVAS, please inquire with one of the Assistant Principals, Karen Meier or Tinisha Shaw.

- Mr. Hettenbach

AM SUPERVISION

Front Lobby to Attendance                 Butler

Attendance intersection                      Hurt (Ramey)

Outside Media Center                        Hagler

Inside Media Center                           Haith

Cafeteria Inside (late bus)                  Brady

Cafeteria inside                                  Kornegay

Cafeteria outside                                Richards

Student lot outside gym                      Szitas

Gravel lot behind cafeteria                 Brown

Card Swiping Student lot                    Bratton/Byrd
Card Swiping Front Door                    Vogel/Chambers/Miller

Academy gym (inside)                        Wright

Academy gym (hallway)                     Anderson

LUNCH

1^st Lunch

Teacher 1                                             A. Cook

Teacher 2                                             Wright

Teacher 3                                             Ridge
Teacher 4                                             Murphy

2^nd Lunch

Teacher 1                                             Brown

Teacher 2                                             Keveryn

Teacher 3                                             Rouson
Teacher 4                                             Szitas

3^rd Lunch

Teacher 1                                             Fry

Teacher 2                                             Middleton

Teacher 3                                             Vonsteen
Teacher 4                                             Vlazny

4^th Lunch

Teacher 1                                             J. Cox

Teacher 2                                             Frohne

Teacher 3                                             Wesney
Teacher 4                                             McDonald

Please assist us in keeping students seated until the bell rings. Also – if you have lunch supervision, you can dismiss your class 2 minutes (no earlier) in order to get to the cafeteria before the students arrive.

Teacher 1 = Inside Cafeteria at Cashiers transitioning to old section of cafeteria

Teacher 2 = Outside serving line inside old section of cafeteria transitioning to large section of cafeteria

Teacher 3 = Outside line in hall transitioning to cafeteria exit

Teacher 4 = Float between both dining rooms

We are... Southwest!

Week of September 10

Fellow ranchers,

Another amazing week!  This past week, accountability results were released from the state on all public schools. Schools across the state can be designated as not having met expected growth, meeting expected growth, and exceeding expected growth. For the 4th year in a row, SWHS has EXCEEDED expected growth. We also increased in the areas of Graduation rate, ACT proficiency, Work keys proficiency and other areas. Please take a moment (or more) to celebrate your efforts on behalf of our students and community.  They are lucky to have you and on behalf of the administrative team, we are lucky to have you on the team. As we have already started to focus on this school year, I look forward to us taking on the challenges before us and continuing to grow our students. I'll have more specific information about the growth we have demonstrated and the challenges we need to address by the middle of the week.   Thank you again. 

Grading - Please make sure you are calling families on the students who have been demonstrating some difficulties early on.Even when Parent Assist starts back up in a week, let's not rely solely on the computer to communicate grades and absences. 

Teachers and Support Staff -  Please go to your NCED cloud/True North Logic accounts and complete the Self Assessment and the Orientation activities. This self assessment is in the PDP container. The Orientation is in the observation container

DO NOT start your PDP until we guide you on the School system/School wide goals.

As it relates to athletic schedules, please visit the SWHS Athletics page at www.cowboysports.org.

Monday, September 10
Underclassmen Picture Day
Monday Underclass Picture schedule (In the Coggins Gym)

Picture Day Schedule – MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Please note that staff members may take their pictures at any time, but to avoid competing with students, before school or during lunch would be best.

• Freshmen with the last name A-H: 8:45
• Freshmen with the last name I-P: 9:05
• Freshmen with the last name Q-Z: 9:25
• Sophomores with the last name A-H: 9:45
• Sophomores with the last name I-P: 10:05
• Sophomores with the last name Q-Z: 10:25
• Juniors with the last name A-H: 10:45
• Juniors with the last name I-P: 11:05
• Juniors with the last name Q-Z: 11:25

• Weaver students, late check-ins, staff during lunch: 11:45-2pm

4:00 PM Womens Varsity Golf Conference Meet @ Gillespie Park Away 
5:00 PM Womens Junior Varsity Volleyball Eastern Guilford High School Home 
6:30 PM Womens Varsity Volleyball Eastern Guilford High School Home

Tuesday, September 11
4:30 PM Womens Varsity Tennis Wheatmore High School Away 
4:45 PM Mens Middle School Soccer Northwest Middle School Home 
5:00 PM Womens Junior Varsity Volleyball High Point Central High School Away 
5:30 PM Mens Junior Varsity Soccer High Point Central High School Away 
6:30 PM Womens Varsity Volleyball High Point Central High School Away 
7:00 PM Mens Varsity Soccer High Point Central High School Away 

Wednesday, September 12
7:45-8:30 Leadership team Meeting -Media Center
4:00 PM Womens Varsity Golf Tri-Meet with Glenn/Ragsdale Away 
4:30 PM Womens Junior Varsity Tennis Mount Tabor High School Away 
5:00 PM Coed Varsity Cross Country Pre Conference Meet @ Ivy Redmond Home 

Thursday, September 13
4:30 PM Womens Varsity Tennis East Forsyth High School Home 
5:00 PM Womens Junior Varsity Volleyball North Forsyth High School Home 
5:30 PM Mens Junior Varsity Soccer North Forsyth High School Home 
6:30 PM Womens Varsity Volleyball North Forsyth High School Home 
7:00 PM Mens Varsity Soccer North Forsyth High School Home 
7:00 PM Mens Junior Varsity Football Northwest Senior High School Away 
7:00 PM Womens Junior Varsity Cheerleading Northwest Senior High School Away

Friday, September 14
ALL DAY PTSA Chic Fil A day - just mention SWHS so a portion of the proceeds goes back to the school
7:30 PM Mens Varsity Football Northwest Senior High School Home 
7:30 PM Womens Varsity Cheerleading Northwest Senior High School Home

COMING UP...

Tuesday, September 18
Interim reports distributed to ALL students

Reminders:

- Make sure you are in connection with any parents about their child's grades especially since Parent Assist/PowerSchool will not be available until 9/11. 

Remember to reference CANVAS (or that important links page) for all pertinent information. If you find that a document is not located on CANVAS, please inquire with one of the Assistant Principals, Karen Meier or Tinisha Shaw.

- Mr. Hettenbach

AM SUPERVISION

Front Lobby to Attendance                 Davison

Attendance intersection                      Hurt (Ramey)

Outside Media Center                        Evans

Inside Media Center                           Wesney

Cafeteria Inside (late bus)                  Compton

Cafeteria inside                                  Hawkins

Cafeteria outside                                Duran

Student lot outside gym                      Stone

Gravel lot behind cafeteria                 Lasher

Card Swiping Student lot                    Bratton/Byrd
Card Swiping Front Door                    Vogel/Chambers/Miller

Academy gym (inside)                        Muse

Academy gym (hallway)                     Repko

LUNCH

1^st Lunch

Teacher 1                                             Caldwell

Teacher 2                                             Cooke

Teacher 3                                             Gaines
Teacher 4                                             Lovett

2^nd Lunch

Teacher 1                                             Boulton

Teacher 2                                             Hinson

Teacher 3                                             Hagler
Teacher 4                                             Spillman

3^rd Lunch

Teacher 1                                             Donovan

Teacher 2                                             Long

Teacher 3                                             Mode
Teacher 4                                             Talley

4^th Lunch

Teacher 1                                             Butler

Teacher 2                                             Ingram

Teacher 3                                             Philpott
Teacher 4                                             Littles-Thiam

Please assist us in keeping students seated until the bell rings. Also – if you have lunch supervision, you can dismiss your class 2 minutes (no earlier) in order to get to the cafeteria before the students arrive.

Teacher 1 = Inside Cafeteria at Cashiers transitioning to old section of cafeteria

Teacher 2 = Outside serving line inside old section of cafeteria transitioning to large section of cafeteria

Teacher 3 = Outside line in hall transitioning to cafeteria exit

Teacher 4 = Float between both dining rooms

We are... Southwest!

Week of September 3

Team, 

What a great first week!  Thank you for everything you have done to contribute to the first 5 days that I truly believe have been fabulous. Please enjoy the rest of your long weekend and I look forward to seeing you all on Tuesday! Reminder that we have our faculty meeting on Wednesday, September 5th form 8:00-8:30.

In addition to a great start on our campus, finding out that the efforts of our staff, students, and community being recognized at the State of the Community for Greensboro as the Hubert Humphrey Improvement Funds Award winner for the first time ever at Southwest Guilford High School is something we all should be proud of. The request for funds was written to assist us with issues surrounding the gap. More information is forthcoming. 

Multiple links can be found embedded in this blog for your pleasure. 

WFMY News video and article
GCS Press Release
YouTube

Thank you to everyone who has come by and visited not only myself, but the admin team and Ms. Shaw to discuss student enrollment in classes, particularly Honors and AP classes. We all know by now that we should be operating in "crisis mode" when it comes to looking at the gap particularly in higher level classes between the majority and minority. The issue is that we have some  "qualified" minority students who belong in either Honors or AP classes and they are feeling discouraged after being in classes during only our first few days of school. We are losing out on MANY students who are more than capable in Honors and AP. Let's be cautious that we don't discourage rather than encourage.

Dress Code is in full effect. Great job enforcing the dress code during the first week!

As a reminder, students arriving before 8:10 should either report to the freshmen gym if they are 9th graders or wait in the front atrium if they are upperclassmen. Obviously there are exceptions to this such as being in Jazz Band zero block, meeting with teachers for tutorials, clubs, etc. Please understand we had to make this decision since the official start time for staff is 8:15. Thank you for understanding this additional measure we put in place for the safety of all individuals who arrive to our campus. As a reminder from the e-mail I sent to the staff Friday afternoon, when the 8:10 bell rings, students can spread out down the entire main hallway. They can go to the cafeteria as well. Students should not be roaming any part of the D building, A building, upstairs and downstairs C halls (where classes are), etc.

If you see any students, simply ask where they are going….

Responses that are acceptable:  to see a teacher for testing, homework, tutoring… to the media center.

Not acceptable…. To drop their bag off in a classroom, walking the halls, to use the bathroom (Note: there are bathrooms on the main halls)

This will take all staff on board to let students know they are not hanging out anywhere they want in the building or roaming the campus before the 8:35 bell. If we continue to allow this to happen, we are is just asking for potential issues down the road.  Thank you for reinforcing and understanding. I appreciate you all using your best judgement during this process.

Grading - Please make sure you are calling families on the students who have been demonstrating some difficulties early on.Even when Parent Assist starts back up in a week, let's not rely solely on the computer to communicate grades and absences. 

Teachers and Support Staff -  Please go to your NCED cloud/True North Logic accounts and complete the Self Assessment and the Orientation activities. This self assessment is in the PDP container. The Orientation is in the observation container

DO NOT start your PDP until we guide you on the School system/School wide goals.

Reminders:

- Make sure you are in connection with any parents about their child's grades especially since Parent Assist/PowerSchool will not be available until 9/11. 

Remember to reference CANVAS (or that important links page) for all pertinent information. If you find that a document is not located on CANVAS, please inquire with one of the Assistant Principals, Karen Meier or Tinisha Shaw.

- Mr. Hettenbach

As it relates to athletic schedules, feel free to visit the SWHS Athletics page at www.cowboysports.org and contact Coach Christman ro the student's coach with any concerns.

AM SUPERVISION

Front Lobby to Attendance                 J. Cox

Attendance intersection                      Hurt (Ramey)

Outside Media Center                        Davis

Inside Media Center                           Cheriyan

Cafeteria Inside (late bus)                  Baker

Cafeteria inside                                  Long

Cafeteria outside                                Rodriguez

Student lot outside gym                      Mode

Gravel lot behind cafeteria                 Vonsteen

Card Swiping Student lot                    Boulton/Nadeau
Card Swiping Front Door                    Vogel/Chambers/Miller

Academy gym (inside)                        Lovett

Academy gym (hallway)                     Corriher

LUNCH

1^st Lunch

Teacher 1                                             Byrd

Teacher 2                                             Anderson

Teacher 3                                             Chapman
Teacher 4                                             Holmes

2^nd Lunch

Teacher 1                                             Bassett

Teacher 2                                             Haith

Teacher 3                                             Connolly
Teacher 4                                             Shavers

3^rd Lunch

Teacher 1                                             Cheriyan

Teacher 2                                             Lasher

Teacher 3                                             Davis
Teacher 4                                             Steely

4^th Lunch

Teacher 1                                             Brady

Teacher 2                                             Gann

Teacher 3                                             Dusek
Teacher 4                                             Larson

Please assist us in keeping students seated until the bell rings. Also – if you have lunch supervision, you can dismiss your class 2 minutes (no earlier) in order to get to the cafeteria before the students arrive.

Teacher 1 = Inside Cafeteria at Cashiers transitioning to old section of cafeteria

Teacher 2 = Outside serving line inside old section of cafeteria transitioning to large section of cafeteria

Teacher 3 = Outside line in hall transitioning to cafeteria exit

Teacher 4 = Float between both dining rooms

This week....

Monday, September 3
NO SCHOOL - LABOR DAY

Tuesday, September 4
4:00 PM Womens Varsity Golf Cancelled- Conference Meet @ Maple Chase Away 
5:00 PM Womens Junior Varsity Volleyball Dudley Senior High School Home 
5:30 PM Mens Junior Varsity Soccer Northern Guilford High School Home 
6:30 PM Womens Varsity Volleyball Dudley Senior High School Home 
7:00 PM Mens Varsity Soccer Northern Guilford High School Home 

Wednesday, September 5
8:00AM - 8:30AM Faculty meeting - Media Center
8:35AM - 3:35PM EC Verification Day - Media Center
4:30 PM Womens Varsity Tennis Ragsdale High School Away 
5:00 PM Womens Junior Varsity Volleyball Ragsdale High School Home 
5:30 PM Mens Junior Varsity Soccer Northwest Senior High School Home 
6:30 PM Womens Varsity Volleyball Ragsdale High School Home 
7:00 PM Mens Varsity Soccer Northwest Senior High School Home

Thursday, September 6 
4:00 PM Womens Varsity Golf East Forsyth High School Away 
4:30 PM Womens Varsity Tennis Western Guilford High School Home 
5:00 PM Womens Junior Varsity Volleyball Western Guilford High School Away 
6:30 PM Womens Varsity Volleyball Western Guilford High School Away 
7:00 PM Mens Junior Varsity Football Ragsdale High School Home 
7:00 PM Womens Junior Varsity Cheerleading Ragsdale High School Home 

Friday, September 7 
7:00 PM Coed Varsity Cross Country Friday Night Lights XC Festival @ Ivey Redmon Park Home 
7:30 PM Mens Varsity Football Ragsdale High School Away 
7:30 PM Womens Varsity Cheerleading Ragsdale High School Away

Saturday, September 8
11:00 AM High School Theater Dramatic Reading - High Point Public Library 901 N Main Street

COMING UP...

Monday, September 11
Time TBD Underclassmen Picture Day

Wednesday September 13
7:45AM - 8:30AM Leadership Team Meeting

Friday, September 15
ALL DAY PTSA Chic Fil A day - just mention SWHS so a portion of the proceeds goes back to the school

Monday,September 18
Interim reports are distributed to ALL students

We are... Southwest!

As it relates to athletic schedules, please visit the SWHS Athletics page at www.cowboysports.org.

Remember, you are always able to access this message on our school website under School News and titled Principal's Weekly Updates or on Facebook and Twitter and soon, Instagram. Please follow Southwest High School at SouthwestGHS for Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram! This is a great way for us to communicate and stay connected. 

We are... Southwest!