José Luis Menendez
High School Principal
We will not be changing our daily class schedule this week due to the shortened week. Students will begin with their G period class and will see all of their teachers at least three times this week.
Over the past few weeks, I have been having conversations with students and faculty about how we communicate our assessment schedule to students. I learned that we needed to provide a way for students and faculty to see the big picture of an academic week with regard to major assessments. And so last week, we installed a whiteboard outside the faculty workroom where teachers post their major assessments and students can view when their upcoming assessments will be.
This is an addition to our teachers posting their dates in google classroom and on digital calendars. The beauty of everyone being able to see what is coming up on a whiteboard allows for more communication between faculty, and between students and faculty.
As I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, we want to teach students how to advocate for themselves, especially when they are feeling stressed about upcoming workloads. The calendar allows them to better communicate with teachers in a more timely fashion about their upcoming workload.
On February 26th, the High School along with the rest of CDS will take part in Pink Shirt Day! Pink Shirt Day was started as a response to a student who was bullied and harassed for wearing a pink shirt to school. The response started a movement to not only raise awareness about bullying and its effects on students but that together, we can end harassment and bullying.
And so let’s see if we can get every High School student to wear pink February 26th as we speak with one voice that bullying is not welcome at CDS!
Here is a link to a great article that explores 7 behaviors parents do that keep children from growing into leaders.
Mr. Tucker posted a great article in his newsletter section about how coddling children is fuelling mental illness in teenagers. Check that article out here.
