Greetings Fashion
Families from your Principal, Daryl Blank.
This week we are very
excited to welcome HSFI parents to our
Family Visitation Days on Thursday, March 15 and Friday, March 16. During HSFI Family Visitation Days, you will
be able to observe your children in action in their classes. You may come
and leave when you wish during those days. During your child’s lunch
period, you and your child are invited to lunch in the Principal’s conference
room. Assistant Principal Danielle Silva will be welcoming you in the
school lobby and giving you an orientation for the visit. Use the website link below to fill out an online
survey where you sign up for our Family Visitation Day.
This Wednesday, March 14, many students
are planning to participate in what is being called “#ENOUGH National School
Walkout” to be held on Wednesday at 10:00am to commemorate the 17 victims from horrific
school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida on
February 14. The walkout is scheduled to
be 17 minutes long. While we support
students participating in civic engagement and exercising their First Amendment
rights, we want to remind you that regular classroom schedules will continue as
usual. We want to create an environment
inside the school for students who choose not to participate. Our ultimate goal
is to ensure a safe, supportive learning environment for all students at all
times. We will send you more details on
our preparation for the walkout before Wednesday. On the school website is a letter
from Schools Chancellor Carmen Farina about the walkout.
It is NYC Department of Education Parent Survey time. These surveys have been sent out in the mail
and you should have received them by now.
I am asking that all HSFI families please complete the survey – it would
be amazing if every family completed the survey. I would be so grateful if you filled out the
survey to reflect all the hard work that I, along with my staff, put into
making HSFI a unique learning community.
Please consider how we work to build partnerships and
relationships with you as Fashion Parents to help your children learn, perform
to their highest levels and meet their needs inside and outside the
classroom. Students’ needs are met
academically through challenging instruction and industry partnerships
connected to our fashion, art and business major classes; social-emotionally
through all our clubs and activities, Fashion Dollars and our partnership with
Yale University; and health-wise with our School Based Health Center that
provides free health and dental care to all Fashion students.
Please consider all our communication efforts – my weekly Sunday
at 5:00 pm phone calls and emails through School Messenger; our use of Jupiter
Grades for messages and updating you on your child’s grades; our maintenance of
a private website along with social media accounts including Facebook, Twitter
and Instagram; and an Assistant Principal specifically devoted to Family
Engagement and who makes sure all parent communication with the school is
followed up on.
Please consider our weekly invitations for you to volunteer at the
school. Please consider our Family
Visitation Days in the Fall and Spring where families are invited into the
school to observe classes and see your children and our teachers in
action. Please consider our invitations
to you to attend student performances like our SING musical production and the Holiday
Windows Unveiling with Barneys NY – these invitations will heat up in the
Spring with our annual Fashion Show, the International Center of Photography
exhibit and our Senior Art Show.
HSFI parents’ participation in these NYC Department of Education
surveys mean a tremendous amount to me, so please when you get the survey, fill
it out to reflect our efforts to make the High School of Fashion Industries the
best school possible!
Thank you!
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