Important Notes for This Week

Lots of key details for this week to toss into one email for you tonight...

Friday is the last day to for students to change a class from conventional grading (A, B, C, etc.) to Pass/ Fail grading! The forms are in the counseling center and require a parent signature. If you plan to switch a class to pass/ fail, please be sure to pick up a form and return it before Friday! Friday is also the last day that students can drop a class without an F on their transcript. This is only possible if students have above the minimum number of classes required (5 for seniors and 6 for sophomores and juniors). And yes, it is way too late to add a class. Sorry.

Tuesday is the Black History Month Assembly.  Two of my students, Sasha Estice and Sasha Bomser, have worked with Mrs. Glaros and the administrators to plan for this year's assembly.  WKHS is excited to welcome back a Kilbourne Grad, Kyle Strickland, who works as a Senior Legal Analyst for the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity.  It should be an impactful assembly.  Please note that we will be on a 3A/ 3B assembly tomorrow and that students who are in CC+ classes during the assembly will still need to attend their college course as scheduled.  (You will be able to catch the end of the assembly after class ends.)  Below is the bell schedule for tomorrow.

1st period: 7:45 - 8:27
2nd Period: 8:32 - 9:14
3rd Period: 9:19 - 11:09
4th Period: 11:14 - 11:57
5th Period: 12:02 - 12:44
6th Period: 12:49 - 1:31
7th Period: 1:36 - 2:18
8th Period: 2:23 - 3:05

And then, for the parents, on Wednesday, February 12th, the online system to schedule Parent/ Teacher Conferences will open.  Conferences will be held on Thursday, February 20^th from 5:00pm - 9:00pm and Monday, February 24^th from 3:30pm – 7:30pm.  Each conference will be scheduled in 15 minute time blocks.  Conferences allow parents the chance to learn about your student’s classroom performance from the teachers, it allows the opportunity for you to ask questions and they provide an opportunity to build a dialogue with the teachers regarding any thoughts and concerns you might have.

Parents, if you are interested in arranging to meet with one of your son or daughter’s teachers during conferences, you should be able to sign up starting Wednesday.  Conferences will be scheduled as people sign up for them, so if you want to make sure you have times that work well for you, I strongly encourage you to register right away.

Please follow the steps below to register for a parent/ teacher conference:

•      Go to http://ptcfast.com/schools/Worthington_Kilbourne_High_School.  This will take you to the conference scheduler.
•       Click on the teacher you would like to meet with for a conference.
•       Sign up by entering your child’s last name, first name, your name and your e-mail address and then click Submit.
•     The next screen will direct you to check your e-mail inbox for a message with the subject “Select Date/ Team for Teacher Conference Now.”
•     Open the e-mail and click on the link to select a conference time.  If you do not receive an e-mail, please check your junk/ spam folder.  Please note, you MUST follow the link in the email in order to complete the sign-up process.
•      The link will take you to a Time Picker.  Available time slots will appear on this page.  If there are no available appointments that suit your schedule, please e-mail the teacher directly to set up an alternate meeting time.
•      After submitting your time slot, you will be prompted to finish, schedule another appointment for the same student or register another student.  Once you have completed your reservations, you will receive an e-mail confirming the date and time of your conferences and a link by which you can make changes to your date or time if you need to do so.