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Welcome to DHS 2019

Tonight’s Agenda

• Introductions
• Core Values, Beliefs, and Learning Expectations
• Academic Expectations
• Student Support Services
• Important Procedural Matters at DHS
• Communication Tips
• Questions?

DHS Building Administration

• Principal Jim Donovan - @DuxburyHS
• Assistant Principal Joe Scozzaro - @joesco77
• Assistant Principal Todd Warmington - @dux_hs

(Instagram)

• Director of Guidance Lisa Dembowski - @DuxGuidance
• Director of Athletics Thom Holdgate - @DuxAthletics

DHS Core Values

The Duxbury High School community provides students with individual and collaborative experiences that inspire them to approach learning with innovation, motivation, purpose and integrity.

DHS Beliefs about Learning

· Everyone can learn · Learning takes many forms · Learning requires a commitment to hard work and self-discipline · Learning requires a safe, supportive, and engaging environment · Learning occurs when meaningful connections are made · Learning is best achieved through an active partnership between the school and the community

Overview of Student Life:

Graduation Requirements

• 130 credits - enrolled in 35 per year
• Passing score in MCAS for Biology, Math, ELA
• Our Program of Studies will prepare your

students for College Admission requirements

• Plan for the four years

Helpful Hints

• DHS Grading Scale (65 is passing)
• Calculation of final grades (20% Q, 10% Ex)
• GPA - weighted and unweighted
• Courses taken outside of DHS
• Course changes
• Make academics the priority
• Get help - plan to stay after school

DHS offers over 80 clubs/ activities and over 30 varsity and sub varsity athletic teams

User Fees Co-Curricular Fee--$110.00 (for all students who participate, pay once, good for as many clubs as you want, online payment.) Athletic User Fee--$250 per sport with family cap $1250

Lunch Schedule

• 4 lunch periods during 4th block
• Students eat according to their floor of the

building (first floor - first lunch, etc.)

Overview of Student Support Services

Guidance Office Staff

Kelly Jurgens Patrick Maguire Bridget McDonough Jon Cucinatto Elizabeth Walsh Director of Guidance Lisa Dembowski (9th graders as assigned)

Role of Guidance Counselors

• Scheduling Appointments - flex hours
• Communication with counselors
• Stay informed - website, newsletter,

Naviance

Additional Supports and Resources

• School Psychologists/Social Worker

○ Michelle Ryan (9th and 12th) ○ Alissa Nemzer (10th and 11th) ○ Maria Battista (COAST Program)

• Nurses

○ Margaret Malone ○ Andrea O’Neil

Important Procedural Matters at DHS

DHS Student Handbook

iLab = Directed Study

• Self-Directed learning opportunity for students to

work individually and collaboratively.

• Students will be arranged by grade in a non-

alphabetized order

• Student will remain in assigned iLab group for the

entire year.

Attendance Procedure - Unexcused Absences

• Allowed 10 unexcused absences - full year

course

• Allowed 5 unexcused absences - half year course
• Loss of credit occurs on the 11th (full) and 6th

(half) absence in a class

• Warning letters are sent home at 3rd, 5th, 7th,

9th and 10th unexcused class absence

Attendance Procedure - Excused vs. Unexcused

Excused Absences: awarded under the following circumstances

• Medical excuse
• Bereavement or serious family illness
• Legal excuse
• Religious Holidays
• College Visits (11th and 12th grade only)
• Other - at discretion of administrator

Documentation to verify must be submitted to the main

• ffice within 10 days of the student’s return to school.

Notes from parents do not suffice to excuse an absence.

Tardiness

• Warning bell rings at 8:15 (No homeroom)
• Tardy bell rings at 8:20
• Allowed 5 unexcused tardies per semester
• Additional unexcused tardies result in

progressive disciplinary consequences

• Excused tardies are awarded for the same

reasons as excused absences

• Documentation to excuse must be

submitted by end of next school day.

Tardiness

• “20-minute rule”

○ unexcused tardy to school that exceeds 20 minutes (8:40 a.m) ○ student is ineligible to participate in co-curricular activities (includes athletics) for the day ○ also counts as an unexcused class absence

• “Extreme Tardiness”

○ students arriving unexcused after 9:15 a.m. ○ need parental verification before being sent to class (phone call, note) ○ email cannot be accepted

Mid Year and Final Exams

• End of each semester (Jan. 14-17, 2020

and tentatively June 10-12 &15, 2020)

• Count as 10% of final grade
• Excused absence required to make up the

exam

• Be mindful when planning trips,

especially in June

• Summer jobs, athletic camps do not

qualify as excused absences

Visitor Access During the Day

• Shared entrance for DHS/DMS
• All visitors must have ID and get visitor badge
• No ability to drop-off co-curricular and athletic
• equipment. This must be done at the end of day.
• Lunches must be walked down to cafeteria drop-
• ff table.
• Parents/Visitors with scheduled appointments will

be buzzed in to office to sign

• Call ahead process to Guidance/Nurse/DMS/

Athletics

DHS Communication

Connecting with Staff:

• Email
• “24-hour Rule”
• Open House - Sept. 5, 2019 (6:15-8:45-PM)
• Parent Conferences - Nov. 14, 2019 (6:30-8:30-PM)
• 2 week update in Aspen
• One LMS - Schoology

Questions?