RAMLINE
Volume 9, Issue 7 - December 1, 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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Give Where You Live—Support the
Green Mountain High School Foundation
on Dec 10 - Colorado Gives Day!
Did you know....GMHS has
- Expanded Health Program - one of 2 schools in the state of Colorado to offer Pharmacy Technician Course and Certification
- Developed Educator & Leadership Program
- Geometry in Construction students built a house for Habitat for Humanity that has been delivered to a family
- GMHS received the 2018 Colorado Succeeds Excellence in Education Innovation Award...
- and more
....some of the amazing programs at your community high school. Our goal this year is to raise $50,000 to ensure our unique Academy Program continues to thrive and grow. The funds raised this year will support:
READ MORE
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"
Life Coaching Skills for Parents" ~ Free Workshops
The Next Session is Thursday
December 19th~7pm
Learn an invaluable life coaching tool that reveals the impact our our assumptions have on our actions...and on everyone else around us
For More information and workshop description click
HERE
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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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Holiday Band Concert
Please join the GMHS Band Program on December 9th for the annual Holiday concert. You will hear from our concert, jazz, and percussion programs. The concert begins at 7 PM in the auditorium! Free admission
Please join the band for classics and an evening of great music!
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GMHS Area Orchestra Concert
Elementary/DMS/GMHS
at School of Mines Bunker Auditorium
Wednesday, December 11, 2019, 7pm
Please join us for a holiday concert at the Bunker Auditorium. There will be a silent auction, baked goods for sale and of course, all Green Mountain Area orchestra students from 5th-12th grade will be performing. Tickets will be sold at the door for $5 - we hope to see you there!
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GMHS Choir Concert
Come out either December 11th or 12th at 7pm for the GMHS Choirs performance at Holy Shepherd Lutheran Church. (10th & Kipling)
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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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Green Mountain Area Innovation Fund:
"The purpose of the Green Mountain Area Innovation Fund is to support our students and teachers with the innovative work flourishing in our classrooms. By raising money, we aim to fund more classroom projects and student experiences. Our K-12 students will directly benefit from these authentic and relevant learning opportunities. All monetary donations will go 100% back into our academic classrooms."
Check out the Awarded Grants here:
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NO SCHOOL
December 23-January 3 Enjoy your
Winter 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!
Sale ends December 6th
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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Family-School Partnership Survey 2019-20
Tell us how we are doing!!
Our school is committed to ensuring that your experience with our school is collaborative, successful and helps your child(ren) learn and grow. We want to know how we are doing. We will be sending out a separate email, with a link to the survey, about family school partnerships. The survey is anonymous and will only take 10 – 15 minutes. Results will be used to improve our school and your child(ren)’s learning environment. The survey opens Monday, Dec. 2 and closes Friday, Dec. 20. Thank you for taking the time to give us feedback! Please be looking for the survey by December 6th
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Lisa Trujillo, Ed.D. -
Assistant Principal - 11th Grade
Scheduling
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2nd Semester Schedules
- Schedules were 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 are 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 is also available at GMHSRams.org homepage. 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 Grades were 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 should have received their results along with their exam booklet on
November 20th or 21st 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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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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Seniors:
Many college application deadlines occur in December and January.
In order for teachers and/or your counselor to complete letters of recommendation and other required documentation, students need to make requests for transcripts, and teacher letters of recommendation,
before December 13th
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Transcripts fees are $3.00 and must be paid before they will be submitted for you. See Mrs Griffin ASAP if you have any questions or to make requests.
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Athletic Director (12th grade Assistant Principal)
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Check the above calendar link for scheduled competitions
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Winter Sports:
- Boys Basketball
- Girls Basketball
- Girls Swim and Dive
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Library & Technology News
Wendee Walter-Vezzetti, Digital Teacher-Librarian
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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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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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Student's Personal Google Accounts
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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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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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GMHS CRAFT FAIR 11-16-19 SUCCESS!
Thank you to those who helped!
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