Principal’s Weekly Highlight Welcome Back! The SCHS Team hopes you enjoyed a safe and restful holiday with family and friends. Term 2 has begun and staff and students quickly returned to rigorous teaching and learning this week. Thank you to all parents for enduring inconveniences in our parking lots during our solar project. The SCHS grid is now complete, and we are on the verge of being energy independent and environmentally responsible. The Steele Canyon community attended the State Championship Football Game en masse on December 16. It was both thrilling and prideful to see so many of you rooting for our kids and our team. Thank you for supporting the 3A State Champions. It was a great run!
Now Enrolling for 2018-2019 for NEW students Know a student interested in becoming a Steele Canyon Cougar? Click HERE for registration information and the intent to enroll online application.
PTO and Foundation Information ● ●
There is a Foundation meeting on Wednesday, January 17th, at 3:30pm. We hope to see you there. Look for our PTO table at different school events to purchase your SCHS embroidered Fleece Blanket!
chool Related News and Activities S ● There is no school Monday, January 15th in observance of Martin Luther King Day ● Curriculum Night, our parent night, is on Thursday, January 18th. We hope that all parents can come to meet the staff and learn how to support their student in Term 2 ● Senior Events Calendar: CLICK HERE ● Testing Schedule: All students are testing on January 24th and 31st, school will begin at 9:00am for all students. The day will end at 1:35pm for grades 9-11th, and seniors will be dismissed at 11:00am. All bus routes will be operating based on the 9:00am-1:35pm schedule on those dates. Additional testing info CLICK HERE ● Viejas Ice Skating Fundraiser: Come support your school on Jan 19th. Tickets are on sale in the student store during lunch for $17
Counseling and Scholarship Information ● ● ● ●
Next College Application Deadlines is January 15th - Keep updated on YOUR deadlines and visit the Counseling office to let us know when your information needs to go out. Remember to add the Colleges you are applying to in Family Connection! Seniors - San Diego Foundation Common Scholarship Due Feb 1. Current Scholarships in Family Connection: ○ American Council of Engineering Companies Scholarship $2,000 Due Jan 31 ○ Ford's Salute to Education Scholarship $1,000 and a new vehicle Due Feb 16 ○ Helix Water District Scholarship $1,000 Due March 1 ○ Italian Catholic Federation Scholarship $400 Due March 15 ○ Cabrillo Civic Club of CA. Scholarship $500 Due March 15
The Dreyfuss Initiative Civics Scholarship Congratulations to SCHS Senior Jacob W. for winning The Dreyfuss Initiative (TDI) first annual Civics Essay Competition! Jacob’s essay was chosen over three schools in two districts in the states of New York and California. As part of the award, American actor, philanthropist and founder of The Dreyfuss Civics Initiative, Richard Dreyfuss came to Steele Canyon on the first day of Term II to present the scholarship award. Mr. Dreyfuss also spoke to a small group of students about a variety of American citizenship topics.
Digital Citizenship and ESLRs One of our schools Expected Student Learning Results (ESLRs) is for students to become Effective Communicators. This means they can receive information and construct meaning through reading, listening, writing, and viewing skills. They can use verbal and non verbal techniques to communicate effectively, exchange and process information when collaborating, and express ideas visually and physically. This includes what students do when they are online. Digital life is both public and permanent. Everything our teens do online creates digital footprints that migrate and persist. Something that happens on the spur of the moment – a funny picture, an angry post – can resurface years later. If teens aren’t careful, their reputations can be harmed. Your teen may think he or she just sent something to a friend, but that friend can send it to a friend’s friend, who can send it to their friends’ friends, and so on. That’s how secrets become headlines, and how false information spreads fast and furiously. The stakes only increase when we remember that all of this takes place in front of a huge, invisible audience. So what can you do? ● Help teens think long term. Explain to teens that everything leaves a digital footprint with information that can be searched and passed along to thousands of people. Others can pass on that information too, so if they don’t want to see something public tomorrow, they’d better not post it today. ● Teach teens to keep personal information private. Help teens define which information is important for them to keep private when they’re online. To start, we recommend that teens not share their addresses, phone numbers, or birth dates. ● Make sure your teens use privacy settings on their social network pages. Encourage teens to think carefully about the nature of their relationships (close friends, family, acquaintances, strangers) and adjust their privacy settings accordingly. ● Remind teens to protect their friends’ privacy. Passing along a rumor or identifying someone in a picture (called “tagging”) affects other people’s privacy. If your teen is uncomfortable being tagged in friends’ photos, they can ask to have the photos or the tags removed. ● Remind teens that the Golden Rule applies online. While teens don’t always have control over what other people post of them, they can be proactive and help guide which snapshots of their lives are taken in the first place. What goes around comes around. If teens spread a rumor or talk badly about a teacher, they can’t assume that what they post will stay private.
Volunteer Opportunities ● A list of several volunteer opportunities can be found HERE. ● Noah Homes has new volunteer opportunities! Click HERE for more information ● The San Diego Festival of Science and Engineering has volunteer opportunities for high school students at our EXPO Day event held at PETCO Park on Saturday, March 3. Now in its tenth year, the festival depends on the assistance of over 200 dedicated volunteers to ensure the success EXPO Day! EXPO Day provides interactive, hands-on science, technology, engineering and math exhibits and activities to budding K-12 science lovers. EXPO Day volunteers receive a festival t-shirt. Students under 16 may volunteer with a parent or guardian. For questions regarding volunteering email Julie Lupo at
[email protected]. To sign up to volunteer please visit http://signup.com/go/GTXgKTj.
