RAMLINE
Volume 9, Issue 6 - November 15, 2019
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NEWS YOU NEED:
Education, Events, Activities and Links
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Important Links for Families & Community
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Saturday, November 16, 2019 10:00 a.m.- 4:00p.m.
(Proceeds Benefit Afterprom)
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"
Life Coaching Skills for Parents" ~ Free Workshops
The Next Session is Thursday
November 21st~7pm
What if you could become aware of your default way of listening to your children, and discover a new way of listening.....that creates a whole new interaction with them?
For More information and workshop description click
HERE
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Parents
ALWAYS
have the discretion to excuse their children from school on bad weather days.
District Policy:
Unless the storm is extreme, school will not be canceled. We know the definition of “extreme”
varies from person to person,
but parents can always make the call not to send their children to school that day if they feel it is unsafe.
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NAVIGATING SUBSTANCE EXPERIMENTATION IN TEENS
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A two-hour- Free Parent Workshop - offering information and support for parents or caregivers whose teen experimenting with alcohol, marijuana, vaping and other substances.
- Interactive, judgement-free and practical
- Led by counselors from Denver Family Therapy Center
- Held the first Wednesday of each month (next one is December 4th) from 6-8 pm at Jefferson County Public Health in Lakewood 645 Parfet Street, Lkwd -Free parking
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NO SCHOOL
November 25-29
Enjoy your
Thanksgiving Break!
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2 LITER PLASTIC BOTTLES NEEDED
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Jeffco Schools Community Night with the Colorado Avalanche
Friday, December 13th ~ 7:00 PM ~ Pepsi Center
Tickets start at $26
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LOOKING TO SAVE MONEY?
ENTERTAINMENT BOOKS AVAILABLE FOR YOU!
The GMHS Math Department is selling Entertainment Books.
Entertainment Books can help your family save a lot of money on food, entertainment, services, and travel (coupons for local restaurants, fast food, King Soopers, movies, lift tickets, museums, bowling, car washes, dry cleaning, clothing, shoes, and much more...). See more information and how to
get your Entertainment Book here...
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Lisa Trujillo, Ed.D. -
Assistant Principal - 11th Grade
Scheduling
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2nd Semester Schedules
- Schedules will be released on Monday, November 18 at 3:30pm.
- If you feel a change is necessary, the Schedule Conflict Form will be available through Friday, December 6 at 3:30pm.
- All signed AP/Honors drop forms will be due Friday, December 6 by 3:30 in person to your counselor. Your teacher of the class you want to drop, will print this form for you.
- The Schedule Conflict Form will be available at GMHSRams.org. Students must be signed into Google to submit a request to the Schedule Conflict Form.
Schedule changes will only be made for academically compelling reasons, such as:
- Wrong level
- Too few classes
- Class needed for a pathway or graduation
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First Semester
- Friday, November 15 2nd 6-week POSTED to Parent Portal
- Friday, December 6 D&F Autodialer
- Friday, December 20 Term Final Grades POSTED to Parent Portal
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Curriculum, Instruction & Assessment (9th grade Assistant Principal)
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Practice PSAT and Practice SAT results from October 16th
Students in the 9th, 10th, and 11th grade will be receiving their results along with their exam booklet either on
November 20th during RamTime
. Please ask your student to see their results and
encourage them
to go back through the exam booklet
to
correct the problems that they missed
. Their results sheet will contain the answer they selected along with the correct answer.
A few strategies to improve Standardized Test scores
- Do not leave any items blank. Students have a 25% chance of guessing the correct answer for a multiple choice exam question. If a student is running out of time they should at least fill in every answer before time is called to have a chance at getting the correct answer.
- No Penalty for guessing. Back when most of us took the SAT you would earn 1 point for getting the question correct, earn 0 points for leaving it blank and get deducted 0.25 points for getting it incorrect, so we were encouraged not to guess. That is no longer the case. Students now earn 1 point for the correct and earn 0 points for leaving it blank or getting it incorrect, so encourage them to guess even if they have no clue.
- Do the easy questions first. All questions on the SAT are worth 1 point regardless of how difficult the item is, so if they don't know an answer it is better to just guess and move on to get to the problems that they do know how to do.
- Write in the test booklet. In some cases, especially for the practice tests we do in October, students get their test booklets back, so it is helpful for them to look back to see what they were thinking when they get their results and booklet returned to them.
PSAT/NMSQT results from October 16th
Students in the 11th grade that took the PSAT/NMSQT will receive their results from College Board on December 11th. Your student should receive an email that results are available. They need to log into their College Board account to access results. After results are released their exam booklet will be returned to them.
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Counseling & Future Center
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Coffee, Juice, Muffins and Treats
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Tuesday, November 19, 2019:
Helping your Student
Navigate High School
8-9am in the library
Learn how to help your student organize, manage their time, and study for tests
What is developmentally appropriate for high school students?
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THE FUTURE CENTER
The Future Center hours this semester are 9:00 am - 3:00 pm unless posted otherwise.
Seniors please visit the
Future Center web page
for important information about requesting transcripts, teacher letters of recommendation, college visits to Green Mountain High School, and upcoming College Fairs.
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Athletic Director (12th grade Assistant Principal)
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Winter Athletic Registration
closed on November 11th.
Winter season practices/try-outs start on
November 18th
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If you have questions regarding a specific sport please contact the coach directly. Coach Contact information is listed on their websites. Please call the school if you can't find Coach information. Physicals are required when registering and must be uploaded in order to complete the online registration. Please read specific information on the
GMHS Athletic registration website.
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Mark your Calendars...
Winter Season
Sports Meeting
November 21, 2019~6:30 pm GMHS Auditorium
Parents, Athletes and Coaches
The purpose of this meeting is to provide parents and athletes with important information from the athletic office in regard to CHSAA By-Law updates, district athletic information, eligibility, communication, and expectations. Many times, this information is misinterpreted so we take this opportunity to explain further. After the meeting in the auditorium, you will meet with your coach in a classroom to go over specific information for the program your child is participating in.
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Library & Technology News
Wendee Walter-Vezzetti, Digital Teacher-Librarian
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Google Hangouts Chat Available for
High School Students
After a year-long pilot and collaborating with high school PAC, Google Hangouts Chat (an IM platform) will be available for students in grades 9-12 to install using their @jeffcoschools.us account effective 10/7
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Reminder:
ChromeBook Warranty
If you have a district-issued device, we strongly suggest you consider purchasing an accidental damage protection warranty. For example, a 4-year unlimited warranty claims/year is $86.32. To replace a touch-screen, the cost is $100+. There are there warranty options and terms available. Here is the link for more information
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JEFFCO Warranties
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Charge and Bring
Your Devices
Please remind your students to charge their devices at night and bring them to school every day. Also, the 1:1 District initiative requires students (9th grade) to bring their district-issued device (kindly, no BYOD for 9th grade).
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Jefferson County Public Library
JCPL has some ahhhh-mazing online resources FREE to library card holders. Students have access to research databases for any content, especially science, social studies, and English.
Need math support? Checkout the videos on Kanopy. There are resouces for kids, teens and adults!
Go to the "Online Library" tab of
Jeffco Public Library
and search the A-Z list for your resource. Below are some of my personal favorites:
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- CreativeBug: has more than 1,000 award-winning art & craft video classes taught by recognized design experts and artists.
- Kanopy: Watch over 26,000 independent, international, classic, or docuentary films. For SmartTVs, Kanopy is an app like Netflix that you can search and connect with your Jeffco Library account.
- Hoopla: Check out, stream, or download video, music, audiobooks, comics, and e-books.
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- Axis 360: Browse, check out, and download e-books and audiobooks to your computer or device.
- Freegal Music: Stream music from a collection of about 15 million songs, including Sony Music's catalog of legendary artists, on your computer or mobile device.
- Lynda: courses taught by industry professionals on software, computer programming, web design, photography, video, job and career skills and more. Create an account to access over 4,200 video courses free with your library card.
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Congrats to the 2019 Marching Rams
for finishing 4th place overall in class 3A. The band continues to grow and improve. The band scored a 75.00, the Marching Band program's highest score since 2007!!
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State Choir Participants
Congratulations to Josiah Gerber, Bradley Hall, and Connor Burns! These three will be representing Green Mountain in the
Colorado All State Jazz Choir
in January at the Broadmoor Hotel. They are the only students chosen from any Jeffco high school to be part of that State Jazz Choir. Way to go, guys!
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Recognition ads (aka baby ads) are a wonderful way to let your student know how proud you are of his/her accomplishments. Graduation from high school is a major milestone which should be celebrated! Don’t miss out on this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
For more information on pricing and how to submit your ad, please visit
www.TheYearbookCompany.com
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The deadline is Tuesday, November 19
th
. Don’t delay, as space may be limited! If you have already purchased a baby ad for your senior, THANK YOU!
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PTA News & Parent Involvement
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PTA MEETING
Our next PTA meeting will be
December 9th at 6:20 p.m.
in the Library, following the GM Community Connections meeting at 5:30. Please join us for our next meeting. All parents are welcome!
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