Woodson Weekly -
November 1st
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Woodson Weekly is published every Friday to provide the community with important information about school life at Woodson High School.
Vision Statement
We are a school community where all students have purpose and value!
 Woodson Drama presents "Letters to Sala" tonight through November 9th.
Important Upcoming Dates
Monday-Tuesday, November 4th-5th - Student Holidays
Wednesday-Friday, November 27-29 - Thanksgiving Holidays
In this Issue
1. Fall Production: Letters to Sala
2. Federal Impact Aid Forms
3. Early Check-outs from School
4. SIS Reports, Gradebook, and Report Cards
5. Activating Weekly Progress Reports
6. Technology Support Fee
7. Nominate a Cavalier
8. Administrative Changes at Woodson
9. Environmental Club Tree Planting
10. Cav Cares Cards
11. Parents as Partners Session 3
12. Substance Abuse and Prevention Specialist
13. Governor's School
14. National Career Development Month
15. Volunteer Training for the Clinic
16. Frost Falcons 5K and Fun Run
17. Reserve Your Yearbook
18. FCPS Cares
1. Fall Production: Letters to Sala
Woodson Drama's fall play, Letters to Sala will run on the weekends starting tonight, Friday, November 1st through Saturday, November 9th.
Adapted from the book Sala’s Gift by Ann Kirschner and based on a true account, Letters to Sala is a remarkable story of a young girl's survival during wartime Germany. Five years. Seven Nazi labor camps. Over 350 hidden letters. Sala Garncarz Kirschner kept her secret for over fifty years, concealing her incredibly painful history in a Spill and Spell box. Everything changes when Sala reveals the cache to her grown daughter, Ann.
Tickets are available online at www.wtwdrama.org.
The Connection Newspaper featured a story on Woodson's production in today's issue.
2. Federal Impact Aid Forms
Federal Impact Aid forms were sent home last week and were due today. Please complete the form promptly and have your teen return it to their 7th Period teacher. FCPS requires 100% of forms to be completed, signed and returned. Calls and emails will be sent to parents whose forms are not returned today in order to achieve the required 100% participation.
Returning this form is important because information from this survey results in an anticipated $3 million dollars in grant funds each year from the U.S. Department of Education. These funds are used to support all Fairfax County public schools and centers.
For each school-aged child in your household, please complete, sign, date, and return the survey to your child's school. If sections 1 and 2 of the survey do not apply to you, just check the box in Section 3 and sign the form. All forms were due today. All results are CONFIDENTIAL.
3. Early Checkouts from School
For early dismissals, please complete this Check-Out Form or write a note that includes the student name, date, time your student needs to be released from class, reason for early check-out, parent signature, and contact number. Students must bring the note to the Attendance Office in the morning to receive a pink check-out pass. At the time of dismissal, your son/daughter will bring the pink check-out pass back to the Attendance Office for verification before meeting you outside.
Due to staff responsibilities at the end of the day, we are not able to honor unannounced early dismissals within 15 minutes of school dismissal.
Please know that during the school day we will do our best to retrieve students for unannounced early dismissals; to ensure timely dismissal please follow the procedures above.
For full details on Attendance Procedures, please visit the Attendance page on the Woodson website.
 Students celebrate Hey Day, a clubs and activities fair last Wednesday.
4. SIS Reports, Gradebook & Report Cards
Today is the last day of the first quarter.
Report cards will be distributed through 7th period classes on Friday, November 15th. Students who do not have a 7th period class may pick up their report cards in Student Services starting on Friday, November 15th.
FCPS Weekly Progress Reports will not be sent to parents Wednesday, October 30th through Friday, November 8th during first quarter grading and report card generation.
Additionally, the Grade Book and Report Card modules in ParentVUE and StudentVUE will be closed Friday, November 1st, at 4 p.m. through Saturday, November 9th, at 6 a.m.
5. Activating Weekly Progress Reports
If you have registered for SIS ParentVUE and have a primary email address recorded in ParentVUE, you can receive your student’s Weekly Progress Report via email. This report provides a summary of your student’s grades for the current quarter.
To activate the Weekly Progress Reports via email, login to your SIS ParentVUE account and verify that you have a primary email address within the system. It is listed under the “My Account” tab. If it is blank, enter the email address where you would like to receive the progress reports, and click on “Update account.”
Once your email is confirmed, return to the “My Account” tab to activate and select your preferences for receiving these reports. Emails will be sent according to your selected preferences. Weekly Progress Reports for all of your middle and high school students will be included in one email. For additional help, refer to the quick reference guide for FCPS parents/guardians.
6. Technology Support Fee
As a reminder, the technology support fee for the FCPSOn student laptop will be billed via MySchoolBucks on Monday, November 4th. For more information about this technology support fee, please visit the FCPSOn site.
7. Nominate a Cavalier
Woodson HS is now accepting nominations for the 2019 – 2020 Outstanding Teacher/Staff Award Nominations.
Nominations are open in the following categories.
1. Outstanding Teacher/librarian: At least (3) three years experience.
2. Outstanding New Teacher/librarian: less than (3) three years experience.
3. Outstanding Leader: At least one year experience as an Assistant Principal, Director of Student Activities, or Director of Student Services.
4. Outstanding Professional Employee: At least on year experience as Technology Specialist, Assessment Coach, Career Center Specialist, Psychologist, Social Worker, SOSA.
5. Outstanding Operational Employee: At least one year of experience in current position as Administrative Staff, Safety and Security Assistant, Custodial Staff, Food Service, IA's, Parent Liaisons.
Nominations for Woodson Teachers & Staff are due by Friday, November 8th. Please feel free to nominate in one category or all of them it is up to you! Be as detailed as possible as your nomination will be used to complete the nomination packet for the selected staff member. If you have any additional questions about the categories or which category a specific staff member should be nominated in, please e-mail Marc Brooks at drbrooks@fcps.edu.
The nomination form can be found at https://tinyurl.com/y6xu7e93. Thank you so much for taking the time to recognize W.T. Woodson Staff.
8. Administrative changes at Woodson
As we announced two weeks ago, Dr. Disalvo will be going to Annandale High school for a new experience. We are excited for her to have this opportunity but sad to see her go. She will return in a few months!
I am pleased to share that Mr. Marc Brooks has been promoted to acting assistant principal to fill Dr. Disalvo’s position. In this role, Mr. Brooks will be the 10th grade administrator.
Mr. Brooks has been with us as our Dean of Students for the last 14 months, a role that has helped to decrease our tardies and class cuts by 15%. He has also been an active member of our Equity and Cultural Responsiveness team and is an assistant cheer coach. Prior to coming to Woodson HS, Mr. Brooks taught special education at Langley HS and served our country in the Navy. Mr. Brooks can be reached at drbrooks@fcps.edu or 703-503-4609.
Ms. Ellen Hagan-Bowerman will now assume the role of working with students on tardies and class cuts. She will work closely with the counselors to help find the source of the behaviors and collaborate with families to problem solve the individual student situations. She is a member of our Health and Physical Education department. In addition to working with students in this new role, she will continue her responsibilities as Woodson's building use coordinator. Ms. Hagan-Bowerman can be reached at emhaganbower@fcps.edu or 703-503-4686.
Please help me welcome these staff members into their new roles! Feel free to reach out at any time if you have any questions or concerns.
Thank you,
Dr. Floyd, Principal
 Mr. MacNabb’s 8th period government honors class working on political party identification posters this week.
9. Environmental Club Tree Planting
Volunteers are needed to help the Environmental Club and Fairfax ReLEAF plant native trees near Pat Cunningham stadium on Saturday, November 9th from 10 a.m. until 1 p.m. There is no need to sign up ahead of time; just show up to help!
Please bring gardening gloves, water, and a shovel if you have one. Extra shovels will be available. Contact Woodson science department chair and Environmental sponsor Lauren Kinne at lwkinne@fcps.edu.
10. Cav Cares Cards
Cav Cares cards are a way that students, parents, community members and staff can recognize Woodson faculty and staff members with notes of appreciation.
This month, Ms. Kelsey Treague received a Cav Cares card that said, "Ms. Treague is always available to answer my questions and never makes me feel bad for bugging her! I totally appreciate it!"
You can recognize a Woodson faculty or staff member by filling out a Cav Cares card in the main office.
11. Parents as Partners Session 3
We hope you can join us on Wednesday, December 4th for our next Parents as Partners Series #3 on Alcohol, Vaping and other Drugs.
Thank you to the parents who came to our Parents as Partners Series #2 on Wellness in October. Here is the link to the article as well as the Fairfax County Youth Survey: https://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/health-humanservices/fairfax-county-youth-survey and the link to the 3 to Succeed information: https://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/health-humanservices/3-succeed
12. Substance Abuse and Prevention Specialist (SAPS)
As a support to students and families across all of FCPS, Regional SAPS have been hired. Ken Johnson is the SAPS for our Region of the County, and is available to help students with any substance abuse/substance abuse concern. Students and parents should contact the school counselor to receive the referral form. This service is free and confidential.
Mr. Johnson will be a speaker at our Parents as Partners Series #3 on Alcohol, Vaping and other Drugs on Wednesday, December 4th at 7 p.m.
13. Governor's School
The application process for the 2020 Summer Residential Governor’s Schools has begun.
The Summer Residential Governor’s Schools program is open to current high school sophomores and juniors and provides students with intensive educational experiences in visual and performing arts; humanities; mathematics, science, and technology; or through mentorships in marine science, medicine and health sciences, or engineering.
STUDENTS must indicate interest by completing the interest form no later than Tuesday, November 5th in order to be considered:
Academic
Visual and Performing Arts
Please contact Elizabeth Walter (ehwalter@fcps.edu) or Matt Dell’Orso (MIDellOrso@fcps.edu) with any questions.
Girls Volleyball beat the Robinson Rams to win the 2019 Patriot District Championship!
14. National Career Development Month
Career research in high school can help students discover what they enjoy giving direction for potential post-secondary training.
Career research is college research because planned careers suggest majors that might support chosen careers. Students can then seek colleges with those majors and/or post-secondary training that supports chosen careers.
Spend some time this month doing focused career research. See what you can discover!
Visit the Career Center Newsletter found on the Woodson website.
15. Volunteer Training for the Clinic
Parents--are you interested in volunteering in the school health room/clinic?
Free training for volunteers will be held from 10 a.m. to noon on Thursday, November 14th in the Herndon/Reston District Office of the Fairfax County Health Department, 1850 Cameron Glen Dr., Room 600-Multipurpose Room, Reston, VA 20190. Phone: 703-481-4242.
No registration is required.
16. Frost Falcons on the Run 5K
Frost’s Falcons on the Run 5K and Fun Run community event and ONLY school-wide fundraiser is on Saturday, November 16th. Frost hopes you will join in the fun.
This event has supported our efforts with our outdoor classroom, solar stream, instructional technology, and many other initiatives at Frost MS. We will be donating a portion of our earnings to Hope for the Warriors in honor of our military families again this year.
For full details and to register, visit the Frost on the Run website.
17. Reserve Your Yearbook
Did you know that last year’s yearbook sold out? Did you know that the 2020 yearbook will never be cheaper than it is today?
Order your yearbook now, before the crush of the school year!
17. FCPS Cares Program
Recognizing Woodson staff who go above and beyond!
FCPS Cares is an opportunity for parents, staff, and community members to recognize FCPS employees for going above and beyond to help others and show they care. We invite you to submit your story so we can all acknowledge the good work of our Woodson staff. https://www.fcps.edu/careers/employee-recognition-programs/fcps-cares-program
Mental Health Resources | 24/7 Emergency Numbers
If you are in crisis, text NEEDHELP to 85511, call 1-800-273-TALK, or dial 911; TTY dial 711
CrisisLink Regional Hotline: 703-527-4077 (CrisisLink is a hotline for individuals in crisis or family/friends seeking guidance for how to help a loved one)
Dominion Hospital Assessment and Referral Line: 703-536-2000
Inova Emergency Services: 703-289-7560
Mobile Crisis Unit: 1-844-627-4747
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-TALK or 1-800-SUICIDE
Merrifield Center Emergency Services: 703-573-5679; TTY dial 711 (The Merrifield Center of the Fairfax-Falls Church Community Services Board, offers a range of clinical programming. Emergency Services, staffed 24 hours per day, seven days per week, works with people in psychiatric crisis who need immediate attention.)
Plan D Nova https://www.plandnova.org/ (a website for Northern Virginia teens who suffer from depression: #breakthestigma)
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