Mustang Community Forum: MHHS Mastery Based Grading and Educational Best Practices Guest Presenter and Facilitator: Dr. Doug Reeves

What:  Community Forum on MHHS Mastery Based Grading and Educational Best Practices

When:  September 5, 2017, 7:00 p.m.-8:30 p.m.

Where:  MHHS Multi-Use Room

Who:  All MHHS parents, and any interested community members

Please Join us on September 5, 2017 from 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. for a parent and community forum focused on Mastery Based Grading and Educational Best Practices that continue to make MHHS stand out from the crowd in preparing our students for College and Career Readiness.

During this interactive community forum, Dr. Reeves will present and entertain questions from our parents and community.  We will consider questions during this forum such as:

• What skills are most important to learn in high school in order to succeed in college and future careers?
• How can teachers and school administrators best create an environment that promotes college readiness?
• What should we do when students are not succeeding in school?
• How do we provide opportunities for students to be admitted to the “best fit” college?
• What do college admissions officers really want?
• How can parents best support their children to make wise choices?

We will be joined by an internationally known expert in school success, Dr. Douglas Reeves.  Doug is the author of more than 30 books and 90 articles on education and leadership.  He was twice named to the Harvard University Distinguished Authors Series and received the Brock International Prize for his contributions to education.  He has worked in all fifty states and 25 countries.

Come out to our community Forum and learn more about how your high school is implementing educational best practices to prepare your students for college, careers, and beyond!

Donations for Product Design Class

The product design elective can use the following items, so if you're getting ready to get rid of those old Summer fashions and make way for Fall we can use the following:

• Old Fleece Blankets so we can practice hand sewing stitches onto fabrics.  
• Fabric by the yard - no small scraps we have plenty and we are not quilting.
• Safety pins 
• Elastic
• Any used sewing supplies
• Old buttons
• Used clothing
• Jeans and denim!! 
• Canvas - if you have any canvas tarps that are not too soiled I can take them for practice projects and recycled projects.

Please bring any donations you may have to the MHHS Main office and let the secretaries know it is for Mrs. Leyva's Product Design Class!  Thank you so much in advance for your donations.  These donations will be used to get ready for our second annual Fashion show in Spring 2018!

Pool Grand Opening and FREE Recreational Swimming

What:  MHHS Pool Ribbon Cutting Ceremony and FREE Recreation Swim.

When:  Friday, September 1, 2017 4:00 p.m. Ribbon Cutting 4:15 Free Recreational Swim

Who:  FREE to the first 500 participants willing to pick up tickets from MHHS main office starting Tuesday August 29th. (only 4 wristbands will be distributed per person)

Times:  30 minute Recreational Swim times for 100 swimmers at a time during the following times

• 4:15-4:45

• 5:00-5:30

• 5:45-6:15

• 6:30-7:00

• 7:00-7:15

• 7:15-7:45 

All swimmers MUST complete a Hold Harmless Agreement and review the Pool Rules.  Minors must have their form filled out by a parent.  CLICK HERE FOR HOLD HARMLESS AND POOL RULES.  All Swim times are first-come, first-served.  

How to Get Tickets:  Pick up your tickets from the ASB windows in the MHHS main office between 7:30 A.M. and 4:30 P.M.  Make sure to bring your Hold Harmless Agreement with you!

NOTIFICATION:  Please be aware that the MHHS Pool is a deep water pool that is 7 feet deep.  Only 1 lane is "shallow" and measures at 3.5 feet deep.  This lane quickly drops off to 7 feet.  

Parent Team Members needed for School Accreditation

Mountain House high school is going through our first full accreditation visit in the spring of this school year.  The Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) visited our campus 3 years ago and granted our school candidacy status in the accreditation process.  This year, the WASC committee will return to our campus to do a full visit for our full accreditation.  This notice is going out to engage our parent community to participate in the process.  If you are interested in being a part of this team who will look at our past progress, current status, and future plans in anticipation of the committee visit please fill out the WASC team member sign-up form.

Sign up here

http://tinyurl.com/MHHSWASC

The first meeting for the WASC accreditation team will be during our School Site Council meeting on September 13, 2017 at 4pm.
Please consider participating on the WASC team to help us gain our first full accreditation!

Back To School General Session Slides

Back To School Night was on August 25, 2017 and started with a general session in the large gym at 6:30 P.M.  We understand that the traffic coming back into Mountain House prevented a large percentage of our parent population from attending Back To School Night last night.  For those of you who were unable to make it to our general session, the slides for the general session are here in this post.  If you have specific questions for your child's teachers, please do not hesitate to contact them.

Back To School Night

Date: Thursday August 24th 

Time:  6:30 P.M.

Place:  Large Gym and Classrooms 

Back To School Night will start off by meeting in the gym, where you will get a chance to meet the school principal Mr. Ben Fobert and Vice Principals Joni Hellstrom and Athena Duran.  They will walk you through how to access Canvas, the resource used to view your student’s grades, assignments and much more. You will also get an overview of student centered blended learning and mastery based learning. 

The rest of the evening you will have the opportunity to attend each of your student’s classrooms, meet the teachers, and learn about the goals and expectations for each class. Back to school night is a great way to stay connected with your student’s education.   Students will be sending you a text or email on Thursday morning during their advisory period with their class schedule and room numbers so that you can be sure to get to all of the right classes.  We look forward to seeing you on Thursday Night starting at 6:30 P.M. in the gym.