CHEC bulletin for Week of September 27, 2021
MISSION AND COMPREHENSIVE SCHOOL PLAN FOCUS FOR THE WEEK
CHEC CELEBRATES HISPANIC/LATINX HERITAGE MONTH
MS. BRUGGEMAN'S SPANISH CLASS
MARIA TUKEVA’S (MT) MESSAGE:
As part of our mission to “develop cultural ambassadors, ”CHEC celebrates the rich heritages of all of our students throughout the school year. The heritage months serve as a culminating event, when we highlight the different cultures. September 15 through October 15 is Hispanic/Latinx Heritage month. In order to highlight the rich history and contributions of our Latinx students and faculty, please take advantage of the many resources that exist to enrich your curriculum and instruction. If you would like to get involved with planning our Heritage Month Assemblies, please contact our Heritage Month Committee!
This Week’s Focus
This week, the focus is on the phrase from the mission which states, “All Columbia Heights Education Campus graduates will be prepared to succeed in college.”
This aligns to the Culture of Achievement Domain, which has as one of its goals:
- By June 2022, we will reduce the percentage of students receiving one or more F by 30%
- Subgoal – By June 2022, 100% of all classes will have a failure rate of less than 10%
In order to succeed in college, students must succeed in our classes. As we prepare to issue progress reports to students this Friday, it is a prime time to ensure that we are providing students with the feedback and support they need to pass all of their classes. An F has an impact beyond just one advisory. It can create a pattern for a student of feeling disengaged, like a failure, and discouraged. It takes our whole team to support all students to succeed, so if you have a student in your class who is failing, look at all assignments and missing work, analyze the support you have given, reach out to the student and parent, and reach out to colleagues to support. Working as a team, we can ensure that failure is not an option for any of our students.
MEETINGS THIS WEEK:
All Departments and SLC’s send individual notifications of their meetings
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WEEK 5
Strats/Analyze Product
Monday, September 27, 2021
Sukkot Ends
Tuesday, September 28, 2021
COVID 19 SERT Team Meeting – 3:45 pm
Wednesday, September 29, 2021
Thursday, September 30, 2021
Friday, October 1, 2021
Term 1 Progress Reports Due in Aspen
GRASP Draft
UPCOMING EVENTS
COVID 19 UPDATES
The COVID 19 SERT Team will meet again on Tuesday, September 28, at 3:45 in the Cafeteria and virtually.
Update on Testing and Cases:
Since the last update, we have tested 106 students, and there has been one additional positive case. Below are the notes from the first COVID 19 SERT meeting, as well as recommendations and suggestions.
- In response to the need to maintain a healthy and safe environment, we will be implementing the following:
- All desks in classes should be facing forward.
- We must continually reinforce proper wearing of masks – we will reintroduce our COVID 19 prevention videos, and will train student health ambassadors to support adherence to all norms and protocols.
- We will provide weekly data on the number of cases, so that the community can be aware of current data and conditions.
Suggestions for follow up:
- We are communicating by email, whenever a student has to quarantine, so that teachers can be aware and provide work and access to classes. To make this more efficient, we will check to see if there is a way for ASPEN to provide immediate notification of a student in quarantine.
- We are still in need of volunteers to support lunch and recess duties, as this is the time when most students are
- We will be exploring ways to raise funds to purchase tents and furniture for outdoor lunch and learning.
SHOUT OUTS
- Shout out to the entire CHEC Team for Back To School Night!
- Shout out to Mr. Tobias and Lance Swinton for Tech Distribution!
- Kudos to the Dean Team for organizing Restitution speeches and building a Restorative Climate!
- Kudos to SLC Administrators and Counselors for their work on MTSS planning!
- Shout out to the Dean Team for the Orientations and coordinating the Asymptomatic Testing!
WE HAVE A RECOGNITION! HONORED TEACHERS PARTNERSHIP CONTINUES THIS YEAR!
Columbia Heights Education Campus’s great teachers deserve to be recognized! We’re proud to partner with Honored Schools again this year to do just that! Go to HonoredSchools.org to tell Columbia Heights Education Campus teachers how they’ve made a difference. Please share this with parents and students! Once recognized, teachers get an email with your recognition story and we’ll celebrate them! Last year our very own Ms. Ramirez won the Life-Changing Teacher Award and a $5,000 cash award!
INSTRUCTION:
MR. JORGE SANCHEZ'S ALGEBRA I CLASS
WEEK 5 OF ADVISORY 1
The Advisory is now one half over, and progress reports will be issued this Friday. This is a reminder that progress reports are extremely important for both students and parents, and their timely completion is critical. Please make sure you are keeping grades up to date. A recommendation is to build in time for conferencing with students, perhaps during work period, so that you can give them personal one on one feedback. In last week’s ALT team meeting, the group discussed and voted on which tier 1 interventions to focus on across the school. The five top strategies were: Integrating SEL and Content, Conflict Resolution, Vocabulary, Grade Calibration and Progress Monitoring, and Goal Setting. Department Chairs and LEAP Leaders will be following up to gain the feedback of all departments on how to build our proficiency in these interventions.
During this week, the first GRASPS should be close to complete – Portfolio presentations are in just four weeks! During our walk throughs this week, we will be providing feedback on SEL openers and strategies, Tier 1 interventions, and the level of engagement in the current GRASPS. After the introduction of the GRASPS, each lesson builds on the content and work, so that the final product is completed through both work and class and outside of class. If you need any assistance with sequencing the instruction of your GRASPS, please see your department chair or SLC administrator.
Thank you for all you do to make instruction engaging for all students!
INSTRUCTIONAL CALENDAR
The Instructional Calendar is a living document that houses all the major curricular requirements, assessments, and schoolwide events. The Instructional Calendar is complete for the moment, however changes may be made and will be noted. If you have any requests for additions to the Instructional Calendar, please contact Mr. Magee,, peter.magee@k12.dc.gov, or your SLC Administrator.
Please view the Instructional Calendar for 2021-22 here.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT:
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Please contact Mya Ferguson or M. Tukeva if you would like to offer Office Hours, or if there is a topic you would like to see offered in Office Hours.
OPPORTUNITIES:
UPDATES FROM: I DONORS CHOOSE I LIBRARY NEWS
DONORS CHOOSE - MS. MICHAELS HAS CREATED A NEW PROJECT FOR HER STUDENTS!
Ms. Michaels’ classroom project Building Identity through Love for Reading was recently posted at Donor’s Choose.
My Students
My DC students this year have been so adaptable and resilient to the challenges brought into the classroom by COVID. We are working everyday to build community with each other, and different supplies and resources would support my students throughout this school year.
My Project
These materials will make a difference in my students' learning as they will have multiple ways to access the novel in our class. They can either listen to the audio book, or they can read along in the actual text with a class copy. Without the class copy of books, students will either only be able to access the book digitally or printed out in sections.
This unit, we will be learning about how to overcome challenges. We are reading our anchor text in order to better understand the resilience and strength of indigenous people, and making connections to our own lives.
Where Your Donation Goes
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian • AKJ EDUCATION $9.12 28 $255.36
Kensington Hi-Fi Headphones, Black (K33137) • STAPLES $14.79 12 $177.48
Materials cost $432.84
Vendor shipping charges $6.00
State sales tax $25.97
3rd party payment processing fee $6.49
Fulfillment labor & materials $30.00
Total project cost $501.30
Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms $88.46
Total project goal $589.76
Still needed View calculation $490.76
The DonorsChoose team
P.S. Check out your school page at DonorsChoose to see all the teachers posting projects from your school. You can trade tips and tricks with colleagues to get your projects funded.
DONORS CHOOSE - DR. BARNETT HAS A PROJECT FUNDED
Dr. Barnett’s classroom project "Onward & Upward for the CHEC String Orchestra" was recently funded by Donors Choose.
My Students
The students at our school are some of the most hard working, engaged, and creative student in DC Public Schools. Their ability to manage rigorous curriculum and explore and expand their own creativity is truly remarkable. In addition, many of our students think outside of the box in regards to their future jobs and opportunities while understanding that that their music education will only serve to enrich and enhance their lives. Students also use the music program as an expressive outlet.
My Project
In the fall of 2018, I started a 6th grade string orchestra with a group of inquisitive, precocious, and wildly talented young musicians. This group of students were learning faster than any I have ever had. We were on track to perform at the DCPS Music Festival at the Kennedy Center. Then, March 2019 happened, and we began to learn at home. You expect me to say we stopped playing at that time, but absolutely not! These students persevered in ways that are truly inspirational. Home visits were made to tune instruments. Family and friends helped keep them going, and we not only continued but students thrived musically.
This group of students are now back in-person already making music.
There were techniques and skills that were hard, if not impossible to teach, during the pandemic. I want to make sure that I do not skip any steps in their technique building so that they continue to play throughout their lives. The method books I'm requesting are a strong way to make sure that they have all the skills they need to continue.
The resources for this project include:
- Strictly Strings, Bk 2: Violin x 20
- Strictly Strings Book 2 Conductor's Score x 1
- Strictly Strings Violin Book 2 x 20
- Strictly Strings for Viola, Book 2 x 10
- Strictly Strings Cello Book 1 x 10
- Strictly Strings Book 2 Bass x 4
The DonorsChoose team
P.S. Check out your school page at DonorsChoose to see all the teachers posting projects from your school. You can trade tips and tricks with colleagues to get your projects funded.
LINCOLN LIBRARY NEWS
Banned Books Week & Hispanic Latinx Heritage Month Resources
Banned Books Week is recognized each year in September and this year falls during the week of September 26th. It celebrates the freedom to read and the value of free and open access to information. Check Instagram and the library displays throughout the week. Find additional resources here: https://bannedbooksweek.org/resources/
Hispanic Latinx Heritage Month Resources: https://www.smore.com/w70tc
Lincoln Library Closed on Fridays
Ms. Falkenberg will open and manage the Bell HS Library on Fridays for Bell students and staff until the HS Librarian starts. Please note, book check out will be unavailable to Lincoln MS students during this time. Thanks for your understanding and flexibility. Email angela.falkenberg@k12.dc.gov to schedule HS Library visits.
Schedule Library Visits and Collaborations
Email angela.falkenberg@k12.dc.gov or call extension 4018 to schedule Library Visits and/or lesson collaborations. These collaborations include co-teaching, resource curations, reading promotions, GRASP assistance, etc.
Angela Falkenberg (she, her, hers)
Columbia Heights EC - Lincoln MS
School Librarian, M.Ed
WEEKLY SPORTS UPDATE
Athletics are an integral part of the educational program and a means to accomplish the goals of education. Our athletic program exists for the welfare of students and the contributions it makes to their educational experience. Athletic participation builds self-esteem and confidence and provides the necessary tools for success. The interaction between individuals on the fields of sport teaches students the value of teamwork, while developing the proper competitive spirit, combined with a sense of fairness.
LAST WEEK'S RESULTS
The football team defeated Eastern via forfeit. The HS VB team defeated McKinley Tech but lost to Roosevelt. The HS girls soccer team defeated Cardozo. The HS boys soccer team defeated Roosevelt but lost to St. Johns and DCI. MS competition begins the following week.
COACH MOLINA GIVES PEP TALK TO BOYS SOCCER TEAM AT HALFTIME
LINCOLN
Archery: 0 - 0
BSOC: 0 - 0
GSOC: 0 - 0
VB: 0 - 0
BELL
BSOC: 1 - 2
FB: 3 - 0
GSOC: 1 - 0
VB: 1 - 0
THIS WEEK'S SCHEDULE
MONDAY:
HS BSOC vs. Coolidge at Riggs LaSalle @ 3:30pm
HS GSOC vs. Banneker at Cardozo @ 4pm
MS VB vs. Browne at CHEC @ 5pm
HS VB vs. EL Haynes at CHEC @ 6pm
TUESDAY:
MS BSOC vs Hardy at Deal @ 5pm
HS VB vs. Dunbar at Anacostia @ 5pm
WEDNESDAY:
MS XC at Lafeyette Invitational @ Colmar Manor @ 12pm
MS VB vs. Hardy at CHEC @ 5:30pm
THURSDAY:
MS GSOC vs. MacFarland at CHEC @ 4pm
MS BSOC vs. MacFarland at CHEC @5pm
HS VB vs. Eastern at Dunbar @ 5pm
FRIDAY:
FB vs. Coolidge at Cardozo @ 6pm
SATURDAY
No games
To participate in sports, including tryouts, students must complete participation paperwork and upload their physical via https://www.thedciaa.com/participation-forms . Anyone with questions, should contact the CHEC athletic director, Coach A in room D236, or via email at desmond.alexander@k12.dc.gov.
Fall sports include:
Middle School
Archery: TBD (desmond.alexander@k12.dc.gov )
Cross Country: Coach Lionel Edmonds (lionel.edmonds@k12.dc.gov)
Boys Soccer: Coach Jhor Chavez (jhor.chavez@k12.dc.gov)
Girls Soccer: Coach Maria Borrego (maria.borrgeo@k12.dc.gov)
Volleyball: Coach Constance Hanlon (constance.hanlon@k12.dc.gov)
High School
Cheerleading: Coach Dionne Wright (dionnewright02@gmail.com)
Boys Soccer: Coach Victor Molina (victor.molina@k12.dc.gov)
Girls Soccer: Coach Rhina Merino (rnmerino123@gmail.com)
Football: Coach Daniel Tyson (dnltysn@gmail.com)
Volleyball: Coach Mafope Alao (mafopa.alao@k12.dc.gov)
Desmond Alexander, CAA
Athletic Director
Columbia Heights Educational Campus
Bell/Lincoln Multicultural Schools
(202)939-7700 Ext: 5207 (office)
(202)576-9147 (fax)