12/15/19
Good afternoon, Students and Families of Belmont High School!
As you have been informed by Superintendent Tursi (in an email sent on 12/11/19), there has been a slight change to the Shaker Regional School District calendar in the weeks following our coming vacation. Specifically, the professional development day that had previously been scheduled for 1/17/20 has been moved back a week (to 1/24/20). Therefore, students will have classes as normally scheduled on 1/17, but 1/24 will be a day for only professional staff at BHS.
This change has brought about our ability to schedule and communicate specifics regarding the end of the first semester of the 2019-20 school year. We wanted to take this opportunity to outline the salient dates/events through this final stretch of the semester to ensure that all members of our school community are on the same page!
Semester One at BHS will end on 1/23/20, the day before the rescheduled professional development day. Students will have through 1/23 to work with faculty and staff to complete work and ensure that they have achieved adequate standard and course scores to gain credit(s) in the courses they are enrolled in.
Speaking of standard and course scores, our faculty has committed to a post-vacation schedule of meeting with each student individually to communicate where each stands academically in their courses during the two days following the holiday vacation (1/2/20 and 1/3/20). By doing this, your BHS student will be aware of his/her academic standing as we enter the final weeks of course(s); he/she may, with an educated and aware outlook on their progress, elect to work with teachers to reassess and/or refocus academic efforts should he/she be dissatisfied with the scores he/she would receive as of that juncture.
We are also proud to offer, for the first time, academic "Precovery" over the course of the two weeks following 1/3. This grant-funded program allows us to provide BHS students 90-minute (2:45 - 4:15pm) sessions of focused, facilitated, and supported work with qualified teachers in various content areas; the allocated funds can even pay for district-provided transportation to participating students. More information regarding Precovery will follow this message in the coming days, but (in general terms) this is a tremendous opportunity for qualifying students to engage in reteaching, relearning, and reassessing in an effort to increase their level(s) of proficiency in given course standards - and to potentially increase standard/course scores prior to the end of the semester (and avoid having to recover after the start of semester two)!
While we will also offer recovery in the weeks following the end of semester one to qualifying students, as is our learning community's practice, students who recover standards/courses are only able to achieve the minimum passing score(s) in courses/standards; however, in precovery, students' assessment/standard scores can work toward achieving any assessment, standard, and/or course score outcome that teachers deem appropriate in their professional judgement(s).
The conclusion of Semester One represents the next official end-of-quarter eligibility check for athletics and extracurricular activities; students' scores in their semester courses will determine their participation eligibility status. Please refer to our Student and/or Athletic Handbook(s) for additional details regarding eligibility.
On behalf of all of us at Belmont High School, I would like to wish you and your loved ones a pleasant, rejuvenating, and safe holiday season! We at Belmont, regardless of the role(s) we play, are a family. We look forward to many more opportunities to collaborate with students, families, and community partners to enable our students to reach their full potentials!
Thank you!
Mr. Matthew Finch
Principal, Belmont High School
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