Friday Memo - 4/15/22

Important dates
April 12 to 14 - 6 Unity to Camp Wyman
April 19 to 21 - 6 Integrity to Camp Wyman
April 21 - 8th grade After School Dance Party, after school until 5pm
April 22 - Kona Ice visits Hixson during lunches
April 27 - Choir Concert, 6:30 pm
April 28 - Orchestra Concert, 6:00 pm
May 2 - 6 - Teacher Appreciation Week
May 3 - 5 - 6 Bravery to Camp Wyman
May 5 - Jazz Concert, 6:30 pm
May 6 - Kona Ice visits Hixson during lunches
May 9 - 12 - MAP Testing
May 12 - Fine Arts Festival
May 9 - 13 - Panorama window #3; School Resource Officer Appreciation week
May 13 - 8th grade Six Flags Trip
May 17 & 18 - NWEA Testing
May 23 - 8th grade Promotion Ceremony, Roberts Gym (WGHS), 7pm
May 25 - Band Pops Concert, 6pm
May 27 - Last day of school; Kona Ice visits Hixson; early dismissal at 12:32 pm, Faculty luncheon, 12:45 pm to 1:15 pm

110th issue of Hixson Happenings

Staffing updates
Please read the staff updates below.

• We had to repost the 0.5 Library Media Specialist position because the one candidate that we wanted to move forward to the BOE decided to continue pursuing a different opportunity with another school.
• We currently have no candidates for the 0.5 FACS position. Our search continues.
• We currently have no candidates for our 0.6 French position. Our search continues.
• We will start the interview process for our Office Secretary position next week.
• Angela Myles (Clinic Aide) has decided to move on to another opportunity. Her position is now posted.
• Math - We have a math candidate that we took to the BOE last night for approval. I will introduce her to the staff next Friday so that she has time to let her school know that she is leaving at the end of this year. This completes our hiring for the math department.

Library Collection for student materials (Not including Chromebooks):  

May 17th - 8th Grade 

May 18th - 7th Grade

May 19th - 6th Grade

Statesmen Time Teachers will get overdue notices starting Friday, April 8th and continue each week until library book collection begins. Please go over all missing and lost book titles with the students in your ST classes.  

The Chromebook collection will begin on May 19

We will be collecting during Science classes this year. The details of the process will be sent out as we get closer to the collection date.

Collection dates for teachers are as follows:

May 19 Kenney

May 20 Garwood, Vorel, Geringer

May 23 Tobey, Creath, Geringer, Oliver

May 24 Rodriguez, Meyer, Lopez, Williams

Late Start Days
Thank you to all who have confirmed your CLT Leader so far for next year! I am still waiting on some groups, while other groups cannot confirm until we finalize some staffing details. I hope to wrap this up by the end of next week. 

Here's a bit of info about late start days next year. On late start days, your CLT meetings will start at 8:05 am and end at 9:15 am. Doors will open to students at 9:25 am and school will begin at 9:40 am. Here are the dates for late start days for the 2022-2023 school year.

• September 12th & 26th
• October 10th & 24th
• November 14th & 28th
• December 12th
• January 9th & 23rd
• February 13 & 27th
• March 13th & 27th
• April 10th & 24th
• May 8th

Please let me know if you have any questions!