Tuesday, February 15, 2022

Principal Blog Week of February 14th, 2022

Purpose Corner -This week I say thank you to all of the parents and community members that support Waukesha West High School through their time and efforts! You can access the transcript of the video through this link.


Family Connect Conferences - Our one night of virtual Family Connect (formerly known as Parent/Teacher) conferences for West High School is tomorrow Wednesday, February 16th, 2022. Conferences will start at 4:30 P.M. and go until 8:00 P.M. We will be continuing on with our recent format for these virtual conferences by having them as an appointment only with a focus on family connection. The format of the connection time will be 7-minute conferences with teachers leading the conference by asking these two questions:


1. What successes and challenges have your student shared with you about their performance in this class? 
2. What do I need to know about your student academically and/or personally in order for your student to have a successful learning experience in my class? 
These conferences are in the place of traditional student/teacher conferences where grades and work completion were predominately discussed. Grades and work completion are just as important as they have always been, but technology allows families to track these things and communicate more efficiently with teachers. So, I have purposely changed the format so that connections can continue to be made to support student success! The sign-up sheet for the conferences is linked here, and was has been emailed to families, and is also on the West Website!!
February 17th and 18th Schedule - West High School students have an early release day on Thursday, February 17th, and No School on Friday, February 18th, 2022. The schedule for this week is below:


Valentine's Orchestra Dance - Thank you to all who attended the Valentine's dance this past weekend and supported the West orchestra. Below is some video and a picture from the event...






FBLA - West FBLA competed at Regionals on Saturday, February 5th! Congratulations to Isabella Rotfield and Ethan Tillis who finished 1st and are all headed to State in Madison! Good luck at state!
Dance at State - Congratulations to our dance team as they participated in the state competition on February 5th. They qualified to go in their Jazz and Poms routine!




Cheer to State - They will be participating in the state competition this coming weekend! Congratulations and good luck!!


Snowboard to State - Your Waukesha Women’s Snowboard Team is Conference Champion in Boardercross and your Men’s Team is Conference Runner up! Both teams head to State this coming weekend in LaCrosse! Congrats and good luck!!




 


Little Shop of Horrors - The West End Players will be performing the musical "Little Shop of Horrors" in early March. See the information below:



Graduation 2022
 - Graduation day for all three Waukesha legacy high schools will be Saturday, June 11th, 2022. Waukesha West High School will be holding graduation ceremonies in the West Fieldhouse on this date beginning at 11:00 A.M. As we are one community divided into three high schools, this year graduation times among all three high schools are staggered to enable friends and family to attend multiple ceremonies if they so choose. South High School ceremonies will begin at 9:00 A.M. and North High School ceremonies will begin at 1:00 P.M. on this date. Please begin informing friends and family who will be attending!

Principal Advisory Committee - The Principal Advisory Council for 2021-2022 will be meeting on Wednesday, February 23rd, 2022. The meeting minutes are linked here. Please contact any one of the representatives (below) to bring up topics or questions you have to bring forward for the next meeting.

Angela Schaaf
Erica Kasseckert
ericak0409@gmail.com
Keva Estrada
Fourestrada@gmail.com
Kim Sadowski
kimbersadowski@gmail.com
Karen Anderson
Tera Nehring
 Teranehring@gmail.com
Michelle Cameron
Krista Bitzan
Dean Chyla
dean@chyla.com 
Patti Bloom
pbloom27@wi.rr.com
Susan Fogelstrom


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