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The weekly newsletter for Gwinnett Online Campus

Thursday, December 1, 2022

GCPS recently announced a Digital Learning Day scheduled for Tuesday, December 6. This Digital Learning Day will not impact GOC's final exam schedule. Final exams will be held on campus this day.

The testing season will be in full swing on campus beginning Monday, December 5 for full-time GOC students in grades 1-12. Please visit the Testing Schedule available on the Final Exam page of GOC's main website. Testing will begin on Monday, December 5 for students in grades 1-5 and Thursday, December 8 for grades 6-12. The last day of testing will be on Friday, December 16.

Parents, please encourage your students to finish the semester strong.

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Grade 11: SAT for All School Day - Parent Survey

Students enrolled in U.S. History for the 2022-23 school year will be given the option of taking the SAT for a school day administration on Wednesday, March 22 or the Gateway Writing Assessment in U.S. History on Monday, March 27. Students must successfully sit for one of these assessments to meet graduation requirements.

Parents will receive a survey via email to submit your selection. The survey will be open from Friday, November 18 through Friday, December 16.

For more information, click HERE.

Please contact the Assessment Office with questions.

Grades K-12: Winter Social

For students who registered by the deadline, we look forward to seeing you at the Winter Social tomorrow, Friday, December 2. Doors will open 15 minutes prior to the start time of each session.

Support our service project by bringing new socks, hats, and gloves to donate to a local charity.

Please contact Ms. Hope Campbell with questions.

Grades K-5: We Need Your Feedback!

As we continue to plan more fun events for the spring semester, we would like to collect some feedback from our families of students in grades K-5.

For students in grades K-5, please share your ideas and thoughts with us regarding our upcoming Gaming Tournament by clicking HERE and our upcoming Dance by clicking HERE.

Students in grades 6-12 received a feedback request to their school email. Please be sure you share your ideas with us by checking your email and completing these surveys.

Please contact Ms. Hope Campbell with questions.

Grades 4-12: Life Skills

The Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning defines social and emotional learning (SEL) as an integral part of education and human development. It is how people develop the knowledge, skills, and attitudes of healthy identities, manage emotions and achieve personal and collective goals, feel and show empathy for others, establish and maintain supportive relationships, and make responsible and caring decisions.

Gwinnett County Public School's Department of Social Emotional Learning provides professional development to staff and leads advisement and peer leadership for students. Click HERE for more information.

The GOC Social Emotional Learning team partners with the Language Arts Department to provide SEL Advisement to students at GOC! This effort is best when an adult takes 10-15 minutes weekly to go through the mini-lesson. The lesson is a fun and interactive Nearpod which the student can access in their Language Arts course! It will foster great conversation and an opportunity for rich discussion. Parents, please complete this weekly Nearpod with your student in grades 4-12.

Please contact Ms. Teshia Dula, Ms. Barbara Santiago-Fecht, or Ms. Jessica Pompilus with questions.

Extracurricular Podcast

Make sure to check out the latest episodes of Extracurricular, GOC's podcast about the amazing hobbies and interests GOC students, staff, and faculty members have outside of school. There are two episodes this week!! You can listen by clicking on the links below or searching for Extracurricular on your podcast app.

GOC 5th grade student Gianna sits down with Mr. Lollis to talk about gymnastics skills, routines, competitions, teamwork, travel, making friends, and how to deal with being nervous in a difficult and competitive sport. Click HERE to listen.

GOC custodian Mr. Bryce Hurd sits down with Mr. Lollis to talk about computers, gaming, streaming, tech gear, video game collecting, and getting into shape. Click HERE to listen.

If you are interested in sitting down to chat about a hobby or interest you have outside of school, please contact Mr. Dan Lollis. He would love to have you on the podcast!

Grades 6-8: VIRTUAL Breakfast with Buddies

We are excited to announce a new “Breakfast with Buddies” Program. Our vision for this program is to encourage students to enjoy breakfast with their school counselor every Wednesday at 8:30 a.m. to develop meaningful relationships with peers and caring adults! This connection may positively impact the student and their learning!

Please click HERE to reserve your spot for next Wednesday. The counselors will provide a participation link to those who have reserved a spot for this event.

For questions please contact your middle school counselor, Ms. Teshia Dula or Ms. Nikita Johnson.