November 9th Weekly Blog (Tuesday Edition)

Purpose Corner - Welcome back! This week I provide some important COVID mitigation reminders and encourage all families to save the date for Monday night December 7th, 2020 as we will be having our virtual "Welcome to West Night." More to come on that in the future. Here is a link to the transcript of this video if you prefer to read the message.

Dracula Vs. COVID - Congratulations to the West End Players for their successful work in mitigating the play Dracula for adapting it to the COVID era. Below is a 3 minute clip of some moments from the show which played the weekend of October 23rd. It was live-streamed and had audience members enjoy the show through the live stream from all around the country. Great job!!!

  

Quarter Grades Posted - This is a reminder to families that quarter grades have been posted. Please check Infinite Campus to check on the academic progress of your student. Thank you.

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!!

West HS Recognition - West High School was recognized statewide by Niche as the 22nd ranked public high school in the state out of 500 plus! The JSOnline article is linked below where you can see the criteria for the ranking and access the Niche site to browse further. This is a community recognition!!!

JSOnline Article

Niche Website Link

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.

 

Please click here to access this link

COVID-19 Testing - Please access the information below regarding COVID-19 testing:

Link to Waukesha County COVID-19 Testing Information

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 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:

Angela Schaaf	angelamschaaf@gmail.com
Cheryl Jeffers	cherylmjeffers@gmail.com
David Clark	superdavefive@gmail.com
Deshondria Baggett	deshondriabaggett@gmail.com
Karen Anderson	kammom@att.net
Kathleen Phelan	Talldoc@wi.rr.com
Michelle Kuokkanen	mkuokkanen@yahoo.com
Carri Marlow	carrimarlow@yahoo.com
Mercedes Rawson	Rawson96@wi.rr.com
Patti Bloom	pbloom27@wi.rr.com
Rebecca Flaherty	Becflaherty@gmail.com
Susan Fogelstrom	beezerpup@gmail.com

Archived Announcements (Link) Please access this link to find all of the information in our daily announcements from previous weeks. 

GO WOLVERINES...WHOOP!!