FRAMINGHAM HIGH SCHO OL The Friendly Flyer INSIDE THIS VOLUME 3, ISSUE I SEPTEMBER 2017 ISSUE: Principal’s 1 Corner Welcome Back from Mrs. Banach Department 2-14 News Social Studies 2 Dear FHS Community, Health/Phys. Ed. 3 High school is a time of significant importance in the life of a student. The Math 3 decisions that are made throughout the high school years impact academic, college, career, and personal opportunities for our students. We are committed Tech/Engineering 4 to providing students with a supportive and safe learning environment whereby World Language 5 they can experience extraordinary development in their academic and personal goals. Visual/Performing 6 Arts A school culture of purpose and belonging inspires students to achieve. English 7 Connecting our students with educators, curricula, and learning opportunities that match their post-secondary goals, brings meaning to their high school Special Education 8-9 experience. We teach our students’ that in high school, all their efforts matter. Over the four years, a student’s dedication to academic excellence, co-curricular Bilingual/ESL 9 activities, leadership, and service tells a story. Each individual high school story Library 10 unfolds from the first day of the freshman year and concludes upon graduation. We are committed to supporting our students throughout this journey ADC 11 and developing the confidence and stamina necessary to succeed in high school and beyond. Cornerstone 12 RFL 13 Please visit the FHS website throughout the year for school news, updates, and information. Bridge 14 Announcements 15 Thank you so much for your kind and warm welcome; I am honored to be your Principal. For Seniors 16-17 Very best regards, Important 18-19 Dates Mrs. Banach Please visit our website at: www.framingham.k12.ma.us Follow us on Twitter! @PrincipalBanach @FHSFlyersSports P A G E 2 Social Studies The Social Studies department had a terrific summer. Our students read a variety of books such as 12 Years a Slave, The Jungle, In Our Defense, and Rise to Rebel- lion. Other students experienced history this summer by visiting various local sites. As far as our teachers, we were busy with travel and professional development. Susan Corcoran attended Choices PD, Di Summer spent time updating the Peer Leadership calendar and curriculum, and Jon Marshall took three PD classes in- cluding Conflict in The New World, Native People's of America, and Military Lead- ers: Strategies and Philosophies. Finally, our World curriculum team spent lots of the summer rewriting and revising our curriculum maps using the Understanding by Design template with a focus on historical thinking skills. Our senior class advisors, Maria Sequeniza and Taylor Collins, spent lots of the summer organizing the successful Seniors Helping Fresh- men tours and buddies. Department News The Social Studies department would also like to extend a huge welcome to Ellie Kaufman who will be joining our team. She comes highly recommended from Brandeis University. She has spent a year teaching humanities in New Hampshire and just finished up a second Master's at Bread Loaf in Vermont. Meghan Harrison will also join our department in a larger capacity. We are lucky to have her experi- ence and expertise with marginalized students as she moves into a full time role in our department! All in all we had a great summer and we are looking forward to a great school year. VOLUME 3, ISSUE I P A G E 3 Health and Physical Education The HPE department is off to a great start this fall! We welcomed Ed Mantie to the department. He is teaching both health and physical education classes. We were also fortunate to get Emily Viti full time teaching health for the department this year. During the summer, amidst summer school health and PE classes, we had a small contingent of folks work on updating our 10th grade health curriculum. We were able to work alongside middle school folks doing similar updates. We have added a new course to HPE this year. Two sections of Yoga 2 will be run second semester. We are happy to be able to offer additional venues for mindfulness and meditation within a standards based curriculum. HPE is looking forward to this school year and many new and continuing projects and partnerships. Math Karen Strader and Mark Morabito did some summer work for ALBERT. They spent countless hours creating multiple choice questions for an online program. They were required to write questions of varying difficulty and set up (i.e. choose all that apply, multiple choice etc). They had to submit an answer key as well as an explanation as to why each wrong answer was incorrect. They learned a great deal through this work and plan to bring to the department this year. P A G E 4 Technology/Engineering Students in the Introduction to Technology/Engineering class participated in the Marshmallow Challenge. Teams are given eighteen minutes to build the tallest free- standing structure out of 20 sticks of spaghetti, one yard of tape, one yard of string, and one marshmallow. The marshmallow needs to be on top. This lesson serves as a fun introduction to the Engineering Design Process. Over the next few months, these students will rotate through the Tech Ed teachers and learn about our course offerings, including: Digital Graphics, Television, Engineer- ing Design, Electronics, Web Design and Digital Photography. Department News VOLUME 3, ISSUE I P A G E 5 World Languages New/Returning Staff The World Languages Department welcomes several new staff members. Currently we have three visiting teachers from Spain. Ana Palacio-Erdozain, Estibaliz Vivanco and Luis Jimenez are teaching Italian and Spanish in our department. We also welcome Aiping Dong, our new Chinese teacher. Aiping will be teaching Chinese here at FHS as well as at King Elementary School. And finally we are delighted to welcome back French/Spanish teacher Karen Hennelly who was on leave last year. We are thrilled to have her back. FHS Students Abroad Over the summer several FHS students traveled abroad thanks to the Global Navigator Scholarships awarded to our students from The Council on International Educational Exchange (CIEE). These scholarships are intended to open the world to students, helping them navigate across languages, connect with other cul- tures, and develop global competencies for thriving in today’s interconnected world. Students can choose from a variety of programs, including global entrepreneurship, marine ecology, public health, community de- velopment and cultural experiences. The following FHS students traveled with CIEE during the summer of 2017 and participated in the programs indicated. Brooke Perreault Youth Development in Santiago, Dominican Republic Ivy-Jolie Camacho Italian Language & Culture in Ferrara, Italy Jennifer Milgram Education as a Human Right in Cape Town, South Africa Julia Long Spanish Language & Chilean Culture in Valparaiso, Chile Mason Matzker German Language & Culture in Berlin, Germany Philip Matta Japanese Language & Pop Culture in Tokyo, Japan We are also delighted to announce that the Global Navigator Scholarships has earmarked $25,000 in scholar- ship dollars for Framingham High School students to study abroad during the summer of 2018. Freshmen, sophomores, and juniors who elect to apply to the CIEE Summer High School Abroad programs will be con- sidered for the awards, based on both academic merit and financial need. Watch for materials and announce- ments regarding this opportunity and please encourage students to apply. There will be a parent information meeting about the summer 2018 CIEE travel scholarships October 3 at 6:30 in the FHS library. Anyone who is interested and cannot attend should contact Cheryl Jones ([email protected]). P A G E 6 Fine & Performing Arts Tickets for FHS Drama Company's production of Mary Poppins are available now online at www.showtix4u.com. Performances are November 10, 11, 17, 18 @ 7pm. We have a representative for the Framingham State Working Assumptions Photogra- phy Exhibition! Hayley Maskell! Very excited. Here is the letter from the organization… “I just sent out emails about work accepted into the show--Hayley Maskell's work will be included! We are also printing a newsprint-type photo annual with a picture from each "excellent" student, which will be ready by the time the show opens in November. All of the MA students and teachers will be invited to the opening reception.” Department News On Saturday 9/16, the Framingham High School Marching Band competed at the NESBA (New England Scholastic Band Association) festival in Randolph, MA (5:30PM) This was the first time the band performed their entire show in public for the 2017 competitive season. This year's show, entitled "Be" is an exploration of the emo- tion behind our favorite Beethoven and Bernstein works. The band can be seen this fall at all FHS home football games and several NESBA festivals. Please visit fhsinstru- ments.weebly.com for more information. VOLUME 3, ISSUE I P A G E 7 English Mr. Geoghegan was the Director of the FHS Summer School program for the seventh year in a row, and his English Department colleagues: Mr. Chancey, Ms. Falzone, Ms. Sicotte, Ms. McPherson, Ms. Wood, and Ms. Joy all taught Summer School classes. Along with Mr. Ocampo, Ms. Fischer worked as an aide for students with autism at the Extended School Year program at Barbieri Elementary School. Here's a photo of her holding a Chinchilla on "Curious Creatures" day. They brought a turtle, a rabbit, a chinchilla, a snake, an alligator, a tarantula, and even a flying squirrel for the students to pet. Mr. Pimentel went fishing this summer and enjoyed a bountiful catch! Ms. Anza started her Master's degree program in the Education Department at Framingham State University.