Your HTH Newsletter - Dec. 11th

 

Join Our Private HTH Parents Facebook Group HTH PA HTH School Storm Athletics HTH School Calendar 20-21 Save the date: All School Exhibition Dec. 16th and 17th Winter Break: Dec. 19th - Jan 4th, School resumes Jan. 5th Click here for the latest information regarding the Corona Virus and HTH  “Comparison is the death of joy, and the only person you need to be better than is the one you were yesterday.” -  Rachel Hollis #hthpride #weareallinthistogether Mark your calendar! Virtual Exhibition 2020 is next week!  Wednesday, December 16th 5pm-7pm  9th and 10th grade Thursday, December 17th 5pm-7pm 11th and 12th grade  Look for an email from your student's teacher with details!  Plus how you can score an invitation to check out some of the other classes!    So What is Exhibition? Bring student work into the “real world” to share work with important community members and to foster meaning by putting student work in the position of serving others. Public presentations of student work—whether as an open house, formal presentations, conferences, or by placing student work among authentic users—drives project-design processes and creates opportunities for authentic dialogical assessment. Click here to watch the video EXHIBITION PREP: Senior Edward Guerra presented his research about"Vivid Dreams" yesterday in preparation for Exhibition. Throughout the semester, students learned about the 11 physiological systems of the human body and choices, habits, and behaviors that contribute to health and wellness.   Great news! The HTH Collaborative is in the process of distributing 40 grocery gift cards to our HTH families who could benefit from some extra help over the holidays.  These cards were funded by the HTH Dollars For Doers campaign. Thank you for your donations!    California rolled out a new opt in app to alert you of potential COVID-19 exposure. The new app — dubbed CA Notify — will send notifications to your cell phone informing you if you have been in close proximity to someone who has tested positive for the virus.   DEEPER LEARNING from the HTH Journalism Club  Humans Of San Diego By: Lucía C. López This was a project too interesting to pass up! In the weeks prior to Thanksgiving break, our 9th grade team has been working on different kinds of projects revolving around topics we are assigned such as Race Dynamics, World Events, CoronaVirus, LGBTQ+ Rights, etc. The “Humans Of San Diego” project is a slideshow shared with our team of interviews that every student had with a person in their life about an assigned topic. Some went to their parents and friends who would have more liberal views and others went for a unique take on this project interviewing conservatives in their lives or individuals that had less mainstream ideas. I decided to interview two students on my team who also did this project and see how their interviews went with their human sources and their thoughts on the assignment.  Read more...... PARENT WORKSHOPS If you couldn't join us for Ask Andrew Over Coffee this past week, here's the recording. We had a great reflection discussion about the highs and lows of this semester and looking forward to spring. Next Ask Andrew will be on Jan. 13th at 6:30 pm, hope you can join us. #hthpride #weareallinthistogether Si te perdiste la Pregunta a Andrew Tomando Un Café anoche, aquí tienes la grabación. Esperamos que se una a nosotros el próximo 13 de enero a las 7:30 pm   PAST PARENT WORKSHOPS   How to support yourself and your student from Covid fatigue with HTH Psychologist Shameeka Lewis - click here to watch "Most Likely to Succeed" Talkback with HTH Teachers Mr. Aguirre and Chris Nho and alum Samantha Fiallo. Click here to watch "HTH Digital Tools" - Quick demo lesson using Discord and Jamboard. Click here to watch.  "Basics of the IEP"? HTH Education Specialist Joyce Chen and HTH Emergent Bilingual Specialist Judy Zapien presented great information that you can watch in English or Spanish.   Still have questions, email Joyce at jchen@hightechhigh.org or Judy at jzapien@hightechhigh.org  Inside the HTH Digital Math Classroom with HTH Teachers Sarah Strong and Chris Nho - Click here to see the workshop "EZ Meal App Workshop" - High Tech High continues to highly encourage families who have not completed a meal application to do so as soon as possible through EZMealApp and check out our Parent Workshop recording here. Questions, email Amanda at athomas@hightechhigh.org   Yearbook photo proofs are in the teacher mailboxes, if you would like yours or the code to buy the photos online, please email Marcus at mbell@hightechhigh.org or your child's teacher.

HOLIDAY SHOPPING? (EARN FREE MONEY FOR HTH ON EVERY PURCHASE) Set up Amazon Smile with HTH as the beneficiary on your browser AND your mobile app (.5% earned) Bookmark our HTH Amazon Affiliates link in your web browser for shopping convenience! (avg 5% earned) To make it more convenient, consider making ‘one time’ purchases of a retailer gift cards using Benefit App then use that gift card credit through your Benefit App ‘wallet’ throughout the year. For example, buy a $500 Amazon card and apply it to your Amazon account to use as the ‘payment method’ throughout the year. For example, buy a $50 Starbucks gift card through the Benefit App and apply the code to your Starbucks app for purchases Still have questions, check out this tutorial or email hthpacommunications@gmail.com College News  It’s time to start celebrating! Ten of our seniors have already been accepted to college and one has committed! Woohoo!  Still a few more days for our students to apply to the Cal State University system. The Universities extended its priority deadline to December 15th due to Covid related challenges for students.  I met with all the Junior teams, and over the next few months, I will be meeting with all of the students individually in January to talk about college goals. Juniors will need to complete their Junior Year College Survey in SCOIR by Dec. 18th. At the 1on1 session, students will receive a Junior Year Timeline -- a personalized "to-do" list, based on their post-secondary goals. As always, you can email me anytime at nwyatt@hightechhigh.org  Nicholle For Juniors: No PSAT:  take SAT by March for National Merit Eligibility The PSAT will not be administered during the 2020-21 school.  College Board is allowing juniors to use an SAT score as an alternative to taking the PSAT for National Merit consideration. (UC's are test blind through 2024; CSU's not made announcement as of 12/2020) For 9th-11th Grade        Save the dates!  Jan. 20th 2021 - Coastline Case Studies Program for Grade 9-11 Families This is an awesome opportunity to witness a mock admissions committee (of current college admissions representatives) discuss 3 student applications and collectively decide which fictitious students to admit, waitlist, and deny. Students and parents are encouraged to participate. After the event, there is a virtual college fair.  Jan. 28: Virtual College Information Night for Grade 9-11 Families, 6pm HTH Village College Counselors will host grade-level college information workshops with families.  Grade 9 families will be via HTHMA; Grade 10 families via HTHI and Grade 11 via HTH.  Zoom links will be provided the week prior to the event. College 411 Workshops will resume in February -- monthly college presentations by college admission representatives.  Be on the lookout for a survey in January to generate topic ideas. SPORTS NEWS IMPORTANT SPORTS UPDATE: Good Afternoon Team, CIF announced last week that all sports will be moved from Dec 12th to January.  Here is the CIFState release and our CIF San Diego Section release. Please take a look, let me know if you have any questions or concerns. I'd love to collaborate with you to come up with creative ways to keep our kids moving and engaged.  I know it's been hard for many and seems like it keeps getting harder.   Thanks for all your support and resilience through this crazy time.   We are in this together! Coach O'Kelley Director of Athletics and Wellness High Tech High mokelley@hightechhigh.org   CIF Update on Calendars for the year,  Update on CIF Master Calendar How do I sign up for HTH Athletics? Please make sure all athletes create or update their athleticclearance.com profile. This is important so coaches can be in contact with their athletes as we begin our seasons.   Not only do all athletes need to be in athletic clearance with all their paperwork filled out and signed, they also need an updated sports physical for the 20-21 school year.  If you want to be a part of HTH Athletics please do these 2 important things as soon as possible. Create a Profile on AthleticClearance.com Sign up to get an updated physical with HTH Download the physical form. Sign and turn in all paperwork to Coach O’Kelley Athletic clearance confirmation page Signed physical by physician Signed Teacher Acknowledge Form  Copyright © *2020* *High Tech High*, All rights reserved.