Mustang Morning. This week our sophomore seminars are meeting during Mustang Morning. Please remember that students should have passes when they are in the hallways during Mustang Morning (and at other times too). We’re trying hard to make sure students are signing up and using Mustang Morning for advancement. If you have students in the hallway, please remember that you are responsible for them and they should be provided a pass. 

This Friday will be an extended 1st block for PSAT Pre-test Administration. Details will follow. 

Friday is a B-Day. No Mustang Morning or clubs. 

Parent-Teacher Conferences: Thursday 10/17 , both from 4:30-7:00.

October 16: PSAT / CWRA Tests (3rd and 4th periods will meet) 

Diabetes training

If you are going on a field trip with a student who has diabetes, a chaperone on the field trip is REQUIRED to be diabetes trained. Training is a combination of online (4-5 hours) and includes a one time hand-on portion. The latter is being offered from 4:15-5:15 on October 21 at Center 1/Seminole Place. You will not be able to go on a field trip if you have a diabetic student and no diabetic-trained chaperones. List of students attending field trips should be provided to Ms. Tomlin 3 weeks prior to the field trip. For a helpful field trip checklist, click here. See Ms. Tomlin for more information. 

Once an employee completes the training and passes a test at the end, he/she will be issued a certificate of completion that counts as being trained. Recertification credit will be granted. 

ACPS AVID is hosting a Fall Workshop on October 22-23.  If you are interested in attending this workshop, please click on the link below and submit your names in the attached Form.

To be considered AVID trained and receive recertification points participants must attend both days (there are 5 topics discussed). 

For those deciding to attend, please request your subs early.  If you are unable to attend this workshop there is a second workshop in February. The February workshop is the same as October. 

AVID Fall Workshop Sign-Up

October 31: End of Quarter; 10th grade field trip to Career Expo (will miss Mustang Morning and 2nd period) 

Field Trips

French Tours: Through October 11

Job Shadowing: October 8 @ PVCC

October 10: Paramount Field Trip

October 31: 10th grade Career Expo (all 10th graders) 

October 31-November 3: Theater Trip/Competition 

Birthdays

October 12: Paula Loving

Shout Outs

Mike Schafer inspired this week’s Excellence in Education for how he used  John Gast’s American Progress/Spirit of the Frontier painting in his ST US/VA History. It was great to see a lively conversation and the ahh-has when students developed a greater understanding of the painting as it related to the time period. When one student referenced Manifest Destiny, I thought to myself, “mission accomplished.” 

Rick Vrhovac, Principal

Monticello High School