Social Distancing:
As difficult and counterintuitive as it may be to us as educators, please be mindful of the time you spend standing next to and working with individual students. Please do the work that needs to be done with the student and then step away to a safe social distance from the students.
Vocational Teacher Testing:
The next written exam for a vocational license is scheduled for January 9, 2021. The deadling date for registration is quickly approaching and the only allow 25 participants per test. Please utilize the attached link for further information.
The performance exams are schedule for February 27, March 13 & March 27, 2021. You will be assigned one of these dates and you can not choose the date. Once again, spots are limited. Please utilize the attached link for further information.
SEI Endorsements:
A number of staff, vocational and academic, still need to complete your SEI teacher endorsement. You have been or will so be contacted by a member of administration about wrapping up the is requirement for your teaching license.
MCAS Dates: The junior class will be taking their postponed MCAS from last spring in January and February.
- The ELA test will be administered on Tuesday-Thursday, January 19 thru 21st.
- This schedule will result in Wednesday, January 20th being a remote day for cohort 1 & 3 and an in person day for all juniors.
- The Math test will be given on Tuesday and Thursday, February 2nd and 4th.
- We are still developing a classroom usage and bell schedule for these dates.
- We can not speak to the vocational impact as of yet.
From the Vocational Office:
Exploratory - Congratulations on finishing a successful freshman exploratory experience! December 14th will be the freshmen’s first day in their selected shops. A list of materials /uniform requirements along with program expectation sheets should be provided to each freshman student during their first week of shop. Students will need to continue wearing their exploratory uniform until shop uniforms are ordered. When planning lessons for incoming shop students, please move OSHA instruction towards later in the year.
Job Cards- Job cards are required for all work. Job cards can be accessed in the Mojo section. Please fill in all fields and once the card is entered you will receive an email stating whether it is approved or denied. Any work that is expected to be over $100 is required to be paid for up front.
IRC’s/Benchmark Assessments- If you have not documented program IRC’s and individual grade benchmark assessments please plan on doing so once we return from the holiday break. Benchmark assessments should be logged into PowerSchool and should include a pretest, a formative assessment and a summative assessment (grades do not need to count towards final grade) there should be at least one benchmark assessment per each grade level.