Greetings Fashion Families from your Principal, Daryl
Blank.
I hope your children enjoyed
their vacation. It is time to get back
to work as classes begin again. Monday
is a regular school day. Unbelievably,
the end of the first marking period is two weeks away on March 15.
Thursday, March 16 and Friday, March 17 will be the dates where
Fashion families have an opportunity to come and observe HSFI classes. I am very excited about this event that will
bring the school and our families closer together. I hope to have more details on these visits for
you next week!
Parent-Teacher
conferences are March 23 & 24. Start
to contact the teachers of the classes that you want to speak with at those
conferences.
We have some school-wide
committees this Monday that I want to invite you to attend. The Advocating and Preparing for
Post-Secondary Success committee will take place on Monday from 9:00 am to 9:45
am in Room 821. This committee’s primary
purpose is to develop a comprehensive four-year plan to getting Fashion
students ready for the college application process so the college acceptance
rate at HSFI increases.
The Social Emotional
Learning committee will take place on Monday from 11:40 am to 12:15 am in Room
821. This committee is focused on our
school-wide belief that emotions matters and that paying attention to the
emotions of our staff, students and families will have a positive impact on
engagement, relationships, health, decision-making and academic success. We are asking school staff to do
social-emotional check-ins with our students during classes or office
visits. We want our staff to take a
couple of minutes to find out how students are feeling before moving forward
with their lesson or interaction.
If you are interested in volunteering and being part of
either committee, please just show up.
There is
one month left in the Air Conditioner campaign.
Currently, we have raised almost $18,750. We still need to raise another $16,000 to get
us to $35,000. On March 31, the campaign
will end and I will order as many air conditioners that we can afford. If we raised this remaining $16,000, we would
get to $35,000 and then our Advisory Board would probably donate another $15,000
to get us to $50,000. At that point with
the matching donation, we would reach $100,000 and have enough to air condition
the entire building. Right now, we would
only be able to air condition a small number of classrooms.
As you
know, I have done the math – if every HSFI family contributed $11 each, we
would reach our goal.
If you or someone
you know wants to contribute cash, please bring the money to Room 819 where we
can give you a receipt. If you want to
write a check to contribute to the campaign, the check should be made out to HSFI Alumni Association. Your child can drop it off in Room 819 or it
can be mailed to the school at 225 West 24th Street, New York, NY
10011 and made to Attention to me, Daryl Blank, Principal. Remember, only $11 is needed from each HSFI
family.
Link to the GoFundMe
Campaign:
Link to the DNA Info
article on the AC Campaign:
I want to remind all Fashion families that our student
computer lab is open every day, just as it has been all year, from 7:30 am
through 2nd period, during all lunch periods and from the end of 8th
period until 5:00 pm. Students have
access to a classroom full of computers and printers all day long.
Make sure you and your child are
checking Jupiter Grades to know where they stand in their classes. Students should be checking their HSFI email
every day.
We maintain a weekly blog for HSFI Parents - the link is: http://hsfifashionabletimes.blogspot.com/
The school website has a section specifically for HSFI Parents –
the link is: www.fashionhighschool.net
Thank you!
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