Hawks TGIF Dispatch SY 2026-2027

Dear Teachers and Staff,

Thank you for a great first week of school—it was filled with smiles from staff, families, and, most importantly, our students. This week's bulletin contains important updates and information for the coming days.

Curriculum Night

This week, we will open our doors for Curriculum Night. Thursday all grades from 5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. Please Note: funds have been put aside to pay for teachers to present at curriculum night.

• The first session will begin at 5:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m., followed by the second session at 5:45 p.m.- 6:15 pm.

• We will have support with Aspen parent portal and student fees by the main office.

• We will have backpack give aways for our families who attend in the cafeteria.

During your sessions, please provide each family with a raffle ticket and have them put their child's name and room number. Collect them and turn them into the main office where a jar will be there to collect all the tickets. We'll announce the winners during Friday morning announcements of a few prizes, which include a free game of Novelty Golf at Bunny Hutch, Lou Malnitis' $50 gift card, and we will raffle off two free Henry shirts.

ILT Learning Cycle/PLCs

Last week during PLCs, we took some time to ensure our gradebooks are all set up and started to discuss the make-up work policy. If you have any questions regarding this, please bring them to our PLCs on Wednesday. We will also review the components of what we want to see in lesson plans.

This week, our PLCs will begin the first ILT Learning Cycle. Your ILT leads will provide support and guidance throughout this process. As a reminder, please ensure that Pillar 1 is clearly evident in your classrooms. Specifically, learning targets, success criteria, and language objectives should be posted for all students. During our classroom visits this week, we will be observing for Pillar 1 while your PLCs focus on planning for Pillar 2.

With gratitude,

MA and Luna

Monday, August 31st

• Staff Handbook Acknowledgement Past Due
• Emergency and Media Release Forms Past Due
• Gradebook Setup Past Due
• Attendance Challenge Begins!
• BOY Testing Window Opens
• BHT Meeting @ 10:00 Room 105
• ILT Meeting @ 3:30-4:30 Room 301
• Boy's 7th/8th Grade Soccer Practice 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
• Girl's 7th/8th Grade Volleyball Practice 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Tuesday, September 1st

Wednesday, September 2nd

• PLC in Room 105
• Vision and Hearing Testing
• Boy's 7th/8th Grade Soccer Practice 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
• Girl's 7th/8th Grade Volleyball Practice 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Thursday, September 3rd

• Curriculum Night
• 1st Session 5:00 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
• 2nd Session 5:45 p.m. - 6:15 p.m.

Friday, September 4th

• Grades inputted in the Gradebook
• Dance Friday into the 3 day weekend!

• 9/1 BOY Testing Begins
• 8/31-9/14 Attendance Challenge
• 9/8-9/11 HAWK Safety Week
• 9/8 LSC Regular Meeting @ 4:00 p.m.
• 9/11 Emergency Lesson Plans Due
• 9/14-9/18 HAWK Spirit Week
• 9/24 Loteria Night @ 5:00 p.m.

Please complete by date indicated.

All Staff/Teachers

• Please be sure to read through the staff handbook and complete the Acknowledgement and Receipt form in the office and place it in Ms. Reynolds' mailbox: Due Friday, 8/28/26
• Don't forget to log into your Safe Schools Account to complete the required trainings.

Teachers

• Homerooms, collect all emergency forms and media consent forms. Please make a copy and place the copies in the file folder with you homeroom number in the file cabinet under "Henry the Fish". Due Friday, 8/28/25 to the main office.
• Emergency Lesson Plans: Turn them into the main office file cabinet by "Henry the Fish" Due Friday, 9/11/26.

PLCs

• Upload Curriculum Night information Curriculum Night will be held on Thursday, 9/3/26 from 5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
• Upload Curriculum Newsletter in Google Classroom by Monday, August 31st.
• Lesson Plans will be reviewed weekly. Upload them in Google Classroom.
• Please be sure to complete the ACCESS Score Plotting as well as Unit 1 Internalization work from our Week 0 professional development.

Dear Teachers,

BOY Testing officially starts Monday! This year we are going to roll out testing a tad bit slower. We are going to start Star360 with 5th-8th and i-Ready with 2nd grade. As technology gets updated, I will add 3rd-4th and K-1 into the schedule.

SPED- **schedule coming soon*** We are going to test middle school GenEd first.

• If you are in the inclusion setting during testing time, you will help support the teachers in the classrooms.

• Separate setting hours will all still take place as normally scheduled.

• Separate Setting Teachers: My ask- if needed, please take any inclusion kiddos that are not testing for the hour. For example if 6th grade 307 is testing, and Ms. Brock has 6th graders in her room, the inclusion kids can do work in her class. We can also work out if SECAs want to take the students to a room instead, that will work too.

5th-8th GenED

• BOY schedule document

• Do not test any students with 504s or IEP

• If students are not finished before it is time to transition to a new class, myself or a Sped teacher (Thank you Fickes and Nina!!!) will take them to either 105 or the computer lab.

2nd will test in the morning of September 1st and 2nd at 8:45.

3rd-4th: Schedule will be shared soon.

K-1: Your schedule is coming soon. Use this time to continue norms and routines. You will also be getting your QR codes ahead of time.

Testing Protocol Guidelines

• SPED Teachers: Minimize student and teacher time outside of the primary classroom setting.

• Students can engage in silent independent work within the classroom during active testing periods.

• Ensure the testing environment conducive for all participants (quiet halls and classroom, lights on)

• Pay attention to IEPs by providing separate testing environments for eligible students. Do not test students with IEPs or 504s with your whole class!

• Complete all assessments within a single day or session.

• Be aware of testing fatigue and do not test multiple subjects/ tests in a day (ie Reading and Math together or a Reach PT)

In the BOY schedule document you will find the following:

Your testing schedule: GenEd classrooms will be testing on Tuesday and Wednesday. Sped teachers will test starting Thursday (look for the schedule soon).

• i-Ready: Please look closely at your scheduled time. Plan to have your ipads/ chromebooks out and ready to go on tables. Your proctor will be in the classroom to help you log in and facilitate. Take your kids to the bathroom and assign a silent task ahead of time.

• Star 360: Please have chromebooks charged and ready to go and have bathroom and drinks taken care of. Send your kids to the bathroom and assign a silent task ahead of time.

A makeup list: Gen Ed and Sped, please add your kids names to the list as you go, even if you plan on making them up yourself. It is easier for me to keep track of who still needs to finish.

• Ms. K and Mr. Hussey will be supporting makeups for K-4 and Sped.

• 5-8 teachers please plan to do makeups during your advisory periods.

Testing Norms and Slides: We want our testing norms to be the same in every classroom K-8. Please display the slides in the classrooms to help establish the norms. We created slides for before testing, how to log in through the portal, and during testing.

***For Star 360 student login i-Ready Student Login

List of 3-8 students testing in Spanish: Dorado and I have looked through previous scores, access scores, and program years to determine who will test in Spanish. Please follow this list. We need the data in English to drive our instruction. We have added appropriate accommodations within the test for those students with an Access score below a 3.5 with OMME guidance.

I will be around to help support you with issues or questions that may arise!

Lindsay Krizanovic

MTSS Coordinator

Boys Soccer 7/8 grade (starts 8/31/26 )

Fútbol Masculino 7/8 grado

Coach Ms. Daicy Martinez

Monday and Wednesday

Lunes y Miércoles

3:30 pm – 5:00 pm

Boys Soccer 5/6 grade (will start 9/7/26 )

Fútbol Masculino 5/6 grado

Coach Mr. Aaron Belcher

Tuesday and Thursday

Martes Y Jueves

3:30 pm – 5:00 pm

Girls Volleyball 7/8 grade (starts 8/31/26 )

Volibol Femenil 7/8 grado

Coach Mr. Derek Arias

Monday and Wednesday

Lunes y Miércoles

3:30 pm – 5:00 pm

Girls Volleyball 5/6 grade (will start 9/7/26 )

Volibol Femenil 5/6 grado

Coach Ms. Irma Ortega

Monday and Wednesday

Lunes y Miércoles

3:30 pm – 5:00 pm

Thank you Mrs. Carrion for supporting our Middle School Team during Week 0 PD.

I'm very proud of our recess/lunch/security staff/SECAs for taking ownership of monitoring our students. We appreciate all you do!

🎂Happy September Birthdays 🎂

16 ~ Selena Rios

19 ~ Zenaida Rivera

30 ~ Vernice Cabrera

30 ~ Mykie Moya