Principal Michael Podraza’s Weekly EGHS Update
Week of 9-18-2017
EGHS News and Information!
A weekly newsletter with information about upcoming events related to East Greenwich High School
In an effort to increase the dissemination of important information about upcoming events occurring at East Greenwich High School, I have created this newsletter which will usually be sent out to the EGHS school community once a week via the EGHS announcements email.
Also in an effort to not inundate your email inboxes, the EGHS main office will make every attempt to send only one email a day. It is our intention to have all announcements, information, links etc. in that email, so please review the daily email in it’s entirety so that opportunities are not overlooked.
Hope you find this a useful tool in navigating this school year.
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENTSGoogle Classroom Notifications/Email Summaries
As you are likely aware, East Greenwich Public Schools is a Google Apps for Education School District. As part of the high school’s movement to a 1:1 digital learning environment, a number of EGHS teachers have gravitated towards using various learning management systems such as Blackboard, Canvas and Google Classroom with the objective of enhancing collaboration and communication with students and streamlining workflow.
Last year, Google Classroom gave teachers the option of giving parents and guardians the ability to receive a daily or weekly “summary” of work that has been assigned or, according to Google, is missing.
As a school, we have identified a number of inconsistencies that can create misleading information distributed through these summaries. For instance, students can press a button to mark work as “completed” without submitting a work product. Also, assignments tagged as “missing” may still be in progress, be a group project that does not require an individual submission or perhaps a task that was completed on paper or through another platform.
The use of the parent notification feature of Google Classroom at EGHS, just like the use of Google Classroom itself, is at the teacher’s discretion. However, please know that those teachers who do not use the feature generally don’t use it in order to avoid sending information that may be inaccurate or confusing rather than helpful to you.
Checking Aspen and communicating with teachers through e-mail remains the best method to check on your student’s progress as needed.
FAFSA Completion Nights Scheduled Throughout the State
Who: Any student or family who needs or may need help paying for college for the 2018-2019 academic year.
What: The FAFSA is the form all colleges use to award federal financial aid. Many colleges also use data from the FAFSA to award their own funds. If you need money for college, the first step is to file the FAFSA! The FAFSA for the 2018/19 year will be available October 1, 2017 at www.fafsa.ed.gov.
Where:
- October 12 6PM Rogers High School, Newport
- October 26 5:30PM Hope High School, Providence
- November 1 6PM North Kingstown High School
- November 8 6PM Coventry High School
- November 16 6PM Shea High School, Pawtucket
- November 29 6PM Middletown High School
- December 5 6PM Classical High School, Providence
To learn more please visit the Rhode Island Student Loan Authority’s website at https://www.risla.com/
EGHS “Stats” Book Published in ASPEN
Through the tireless efforts of the guidance secretaries in keeping our college data up to date we are pleased to provide you with an online copy of the STATS BOOK that is incredibly useful to our students applying to colleges. This book shows past student acceptances, waitlists, and rejections by GPA and test scores from the last four years. When viewing this book remember that this is how EG students fare in comparison to their peers and these stats are sometimes different than what you might find posted online on a college website or in another type of college directory.
For clearer understanding the GPA is a weighted GPA, ED =Early Decision, RD = Regular Decision, RO = Rolling. Every once in awhile a student is accepted when it appears that those with similar academic profiles are rejected. We never know exactly why that is but it can be that the student was an athlete, had a unique talent or was an oboe player when the colleges last oboe player graduated. There can always be anomalies and sometimes we do not know the reasons behind them. In addition, these scores/numbers are only one part of the college admission process. The transcript, the rigor of the courses, the essay, student activities and letters of recommendation all play a part in the process. However, this book has been a tremendous guide for all counselors and students to use in the application planning process and we hope that you will find it useful in the college planning process. A hard copy of this book is available in the guidance office. Please click here to view the EGHS STATS BOOK for SY 17-18. This link will also be made available through an announcement in the parent portal of ASPEN.
THIS WEEK’S
UPCOMING EVENTS
Wednesday 9/20-
- EGHS PTG Meeting 9:30
- Senior Assembly: Post High School Planning
Thursday 9/21- No school
ADVANCED PLANNING
- Wednesday 9/27- Meeting for students enrolled in any Early Enrollment Program course (EEP) in the library during advisory.
- Thursday 9/28- Citizens Who Care meeting (CWC)
- Thursday 10/5- EGHS Open House
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
This week’s “Food for Thought” post by Seth Godin entitled Impossible, unlikely or difficult? and asks “What percentage of your time are you spending on the unlikely?”
Have a great week.
East Greenwich High School exists to EMPOWER
We, the EGHS community, strive to empower all members to achieve their full potential as learners, thinkers, and responsible global citizens. We take risks in order to inspire learning and discover passions.
We, the East Greenwich High School community, live our values:
- Respect: Be considerate of others' ideas and opinions while maintaining personal integrity and self- confidence.
- Creativity and Innovation: Embrace flexibility and individuality when explaining and demonstrating knowledge and skills.
- Relevance: Link concepts across subjects and make connections to today's global society.
- Enthusiasm: Generate excitement and curiosity about learning.
- Achievement: Work vigorously to obtain knowledge and skills measured against the highest standards.
We hold ourselves and each other accountable to these values in support of our mission.
East Greenwich High School
300 Avenger Drive, East Greenwich, RI, 02818
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