Greetings Fashion Families from your Principal, Daryl Blank.
As you are planning your schedule for
the week, I hope you can attend our March Parents Association meeting this
Wednesday, March 20 at 6:00 pm in Room 821.
It was nice to see that some parents were able to attend our Family
Visitation Days this past Thursday and Friday.
We
are in full swing of the second marking period.
Speak to your child about the importance of the starting the marking
period strong. Make sure your child knows
where they stand in their classes and what needs to be done to continue their
success or turn things around. Students
must know that the grades they receive in June will be seen by colleges and
determine whether or not they go to summer school.
It is NYC Department of Education Parent Survey
time. These surveys have been sent out in
the mail and you should have received the survey by now. I am asking that all HSFI families please
complete the survey – it would be amazing if every family completed the
survey. You can fill out the survey in 2 different ways – by
filling out the paper survey that you receive in the mail in a green envelope
or you can fill it out online.
To complete the survey online:
(1) Go to nycschoolsurvey.org.
(2) Click on the link to the parent and guardian survey.
(3) Enter your access code found at the bottom of your paper
survey.
(4) Complete the survey.
(5) Click ‘Submit’.
If you don’t receive a survey in the mail? Don’t worry! You
can also call the school at (212) 255-1235 where we you can get your Access
Code for the survey or call the NYC Department of Education at 1-877-819-2363 to get an Access Code to
complete the survey online.
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 partnerships with Yale University and Harvard 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!
It is critically important that all
HSFI students check their HSFI email & Jupiter Grades everyday. We will be sending important information out
through these tools – if students do not check them, they will miss out on some
valuable opportunities and not know what is going on in the school.
Thank you!
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