Purpose Corner - This week I provide some important updates on moving to the hybrid model for instruction and once again encourage all families to save the date for Monday night December 7th, 2020 as we will be having our virtual "Welcome to West Night." Here is a link to the transcript of this video if you prefer to read the message.
Schedule for 11/23 & 11/24 - Please see the schedule below for next week Monday, November 23rd, and Tuesday, November 24th...
Welcome to West Night!!! - We will be having our virtual "Welcome to West Night" for all current and prospective Waukesha West families on Monday, December 7th 2020 from 6:00 - 8:00 P.M. The night will allow all attending virtually to choose from a variety of options for acquiring information prior to scheduling for next year. Please check out the info below for an overview of the virtual event. Look forward to seeing you there!
Girls State Swim - Congratulations to Olivia Wanner, Karlee Marusik, Claire Wright, Tori Bronstowitz, Elizabeth Beam, Madison Richter, Zowie Farence, Campbell Hilson, for placing 4th out of 30 teams at the State Swimming Championships. The 200 Medley Relay of Elizabeth Beam, Claire Wright, Tori Brostowitz, and Olivia Wanner placed 4th and broke the school record. In the 200 free Karlee Marusik placed 8th, in the 200 Yard IM Claire Wright placed 13th, in the 50 free Olivia Wanner placed 9th breaking the school record. In the 100 yard Butterfly, Tori Brostowitz placed 4th also breaking the school record. In 100 yard freestyle, Olivia Wanner placed 6th and Elizabeth Beam placed 11th. IN the 200 yard freestyle the team of Zowie Farence, Campbell Hilson, Madison Richter, and Claire Wright placed 13th. In the 100 yard Backstroke Elizabeth Beam placed 9th and Karlee Marusik placed 7th breaking the school record. IN the 100 yards Breaststroke Claire Wright placed 10th and Tori Brostowitz placed 2nd breaking the school record and in the 400 Free Relay the team of Elizabeth Beam, Karlee Marusik, Olivia Wanner, and Tori Brostowitz placed 4th breaking the school record. Congratulations Girls!
JIT (Just-In-Time) Morning Support - Our school day begins at 7:20 A.M. and West teachers are here and ready to support students at this time until class starts at 7:50 A.M. JIT is in place to help catch students up or prepare students for what is coming and can involve doing small group work, lab time, discussion time or make-ups. The expectation is work completion and student attendance is required if the teacher requests the students. How it works is that during morning check-in time, students who teachers need to see are notified where they need to report. Teachers are communicating with these students and when students are requested to come to JIT time, they are to show up at 7:20 A.M. and should deviate from their assigned arrival window. This is a great academic support process!!
Project Graduation - WE NEED YOU!!! - Every year our parent community puts on an amazing event for West graduating Seniors known as "Project Graduation." You cannot truly understand all of the work and effort that goes into making this go off without a hitch and more importantly a culminating event to celebrate our Seniors after a four-year journey through our halls. Please see the message below from our Project Graduation committee and please consider getting involved with this!!
WE NEED YOU to help the Class of 2021 have a graduation celebration!!!
Project Graduation is looking for parents from ALL grade levels to help plan and host West's annual Senior Celebration. Junior and Sophomore parents, come see what this is about so you can help plan your student's Senior Celebration. Not only can you help provide West's current senior class with a memorable send-off, but you'll also help ensure this event continues for underclassmen and future Wolverines.
With everything "subject to change” these days, we're staying flexible and brainstorming appropriate activities that fit within today's environment and are safe for all.
Come share your creativity at our upcoming Project Graduation meetings on 10/20 and 11/17 at 7:00pm in the West Media Center.
To learn more about this event, please visit the Project Graduation page under the Parent / Student section on the Waukesha West High School website, or contact projectgradwaukeshawest@gmail.com.
COVID Process - Now that we are having to deal with isolation and quarantine processes that come along with living in the COVID era, I wanted to share a district FAQ document that may help families understand that all the processes that West High School follow, come from our district and are not individually created by West. My role is to consistently follow these processes along with every other school in our district.
School District COVID Dashboard - Our school district does have a COVID dashboard that is public for anyone to follow.
Waukesha County has notified our district of new COVID testing opportunities where children and their families can receive testing. The additional testing times and locations are as follows:
1) Waukesha Free Clinic in partnership with Carroll University
237 Wisconsin Ave
For ages 5 and up
10/13 12-4PM
10/15 12-4PM
10/16 11AM-4PM
2) Village Primary Care (600 tests per day)
Waukesha County Expo
10/13 10AM-4PM
10/15 10AM-4PM
3) National Guard Testing (300 tests per day)
Waukesha County Expo
Every M, W, F through Dec. 9th (except Veteran's Day)
10AM-6PM
Principal Advisory Committee - The Principal Advisory Council for 2020-2021 met with me virtually on Wednesday, October 21st. We will be meeting again tomorrow on November 18th, 2020. Please contact any one of the representatives (below) with feedback and/or questions about anything West related. Please access the meeting minutes linked here:
