hello welcome welcome
in Spanish
start really shortly and I guess as
the more people come in we will let them
in but I just wanted to welcome you to our virtual
open house
I am the new student
recruitment sorry student
recruitment coordinator
year and I will be the main point
of contact when you do if
you see any emails or calls for me I will be in car
are you guys going forward about like the lottery
process and stuff like that but
to jump off tonight we will start
with our principal and I can play a
little bit about color
I everyone's all introduce myself first I
am Laura Edouard I'm
the principal of City on
a Hill I've been with the school for
I think 16
years I have trouble keeping track of the exact number
but I've been with sitting on your life like I
said I think about 16 years I started out as a
history teaching fellow then I
became a history teacher and a Dean then
I was vice principal and now I'm principal
so happy to be here
happy you could join us and before I hand it off
to my vice president want to give Nakia
a little shout-out something she didn't tell you about herself
is it she is actually a former city
on a hill student who I talk to
tell everyone my name is Katie Breen I'm the
vice-principal I've been with cinnamon
help for 6 years yeah this is my
sixth year, I started as a literacy tutor
then I was an English teacher that
I was lead English teacher and now
I am very excited to be the vice principal
all right so I'll start us off just by
talking a little bit about Simeon Hills Mission
what makes us you
and they're different
from the other high schools in
the other charter schools in the area so
he'll
graduate responsible
resourceful and respectful democratic
prepared for college and to
advance Community culture and commerce and
to compete in the 21st century and
then we've got the four pillars of our mission
through the areas that we focus on to
achieve that goal
which is academic achievement is one
citizenship is another
teacher leadership is 1/3 and public
accountability is 1/4
and we can buy and all those things to
help really just prepare our
our students to become citizens of the world
and
the academic requirements
that we have so different people talk
about different areas but we do have
a rigorous College Prep academic
course load where we require
students to take four years of
English and four years of math we
require 3 years of History three
years of science
years of a foreign language which
is Spanish unless students have English
as a second language and then we have
our Capstone course which
really ties together a lot of the pillars
of our mission which is city project
and in that course students
learn about local
and state issues
they have to pair with a nonprofit agency
to complete 100 hours of
City service and that's really that's the course
where we tie together the citizenship
part of our mission with the academic achievement
as well as the
public accountability because dude is actually put together a
project
proposes a solution to some of the issues we face in
our community
good evening
folks hi my name is Linda Edmund and
I am the college counselor here at City on it
Angel this is my six year
at city on a hill and as
of and as a college counselor part of
our curriculum for juniors
seniors we
do is Junior seminar Junior
when I introduced the college process and
they'll start taking
placements exam such as the AC
TRS-80 will
provide them with the waiver to cover the car we
allow students
take the test at the school days he kept the school so we will
actually Proctor the act for them twice
within the year we
also offer one-on-one
counseling that's part of the College
counseling curriculum I'm so sorry folks
what's the baby
also
within senior seminar that's
when we do all of the application of
applying for the applications students
will do all the process of applying
what is a recommendation to ask your teachers will
send out transcripts whatever
the school needs from us we could fill that within
that class and then the second
half of the year it's reviewing financial aid looking
at what it looks like helping students
make the right decision we
also hold a financial at night for families
so that we can fill out the fast for which is a
form required for any
school students want to go to so
the application opens in
October so we'll do a few fast tonight to help
families complete the form and if it
is a little bit cumbersome but will
help you every step of the way we also
offer a dual enrollment program we partner
should we partner with UMass Boston
where a professor comes to us and we offer
a course we weren't able to offer
it this year due to covid and they have an extra people in the
building but that is something that we're really passionate
about and I hope you'll come back next
year hoping hoping
but we also
partner with the Community College to just touch as
a r c c Roxbury Community College
or Bunker Hill there's also do enrollment
through them so once those
opportunities open up students are able to take
classes at the community colleges while
still being a high school student with us we
all we
have advanced placement courses which is are AP
classes this year we were able to offer free AP classes
each year
the number to change it a little bit depending on
the teacher availability but
I'm going to we've haven't had we've
always maintained about 3 I'm going to say and
then it already mixed
in the internship which is part of dark Ops 2
do all seniors will complete $100
internship in
order to graduate and lots of lots
and not least is our ACT SAT prep
program this year we partnered
with Kaplan so students were able to take
Captain course in order to help them prepped for
the ACT test that they took in
October they're going to take it again at the end
of the year all the materials that was available
to them through Kaplan is over still available to
them so that they could get ready for the second
that's just some of the things we offer
within our College counseling program
all right
and so I'll talk a little bit next about sports
and clubs
once we have a number of number of sports and
clubs the sports are pretty
recurring from year to year and
we maintain the same ones that we've got soccer we
have cheerleading men's and women's
basketball
baseball and then track
for men and women as well and
then for clubs those are a little
bit more fluid we do always have
National Honor Society and student government
as well as yearbook Club
and it's some of the other more common ones that we have had
recurring our newspaper Club video game
club and model un like
I said clubs are a little bit more fluid so
if we've got students who are interested and teachers
who are interested
happy to run different
shirt of clubs this year a
new one that didn't make it to this list that
we have started is Harvard
model Congress so we
have a teacher and a group of students doing
that we also have a gender
and sexuality Alliance most
years some
years we have Art Club other years we've had a
singing Club love
to offer clothes as long as we've got enough
and a teacher interested in running it
hey everyone my
name is Justina Hammond on the doctor specialized
Services I'm happy to
it's my second year at city on the hill so
I oversee
the special education at a department as
well as the English language learner department for
special education all
of our students with IEPs are assigned to Keith man
the case manager is in charge
of ensuring progress on gutentight
Eagle as well as progress in the classroom
and special education teachers
and a general education teachers co-teach
on our English math classes
provide differentiated instruction for students for
students who need
a substantially separate program we have that as well so
that would be for any students were significantly
below grade level in this
environment students will receive small group instruction
for all of their core classes we
also offer on Spectrum Services
at city on a hill so we had on individual
counseling we have speak and speech and
language therapy we also had
a DEA and occupational therapy
and
for English language Learners we had students at city
on a hill for a multilingual Learners so
those students are in r e l d
or a r English language development
classes I'm in these courses
focus on all four domains language students
are working on their listening reading
and writing and speaking skills and
students will attend their ELD courses
in a classroom and
whether receive individual I support
abided by a Massachusetts license educator
for students to reach
their English proficiency things
alone
hello again I'm going to talk
a little bit about our uniform policy
the students must come to school everyday in their uniform
it's a really simple uniform
and it's just the top I'm so as you
can see in the picture we offer a short sleeve polo
there's a long sleeve polo there
is a fleece and then there's a variety of
check from year to year that are considered uniform shirt
everyday and
their uniform and school starts at
8 a.m. and then depending on
the school year school is dismissed around 3:30
it's usually only on five more
after 3:30 if it changes and
then we also have early dismissal days on Fridays
where students are dismissed no later than 1:15
I'm in the beginning of school
year varies from year to year but typically it
is during the last week of August
I'm going to speak a little bit more
on the other and things that we offered City on the
hill versus advisory which is one of my favorite
programs I got to be an advisor Once
Upon a Time which is advised
every student at city on a hill is a member of
The Advisory Group they meet Monday through Thursday
for half an hour and they also meet for about
35 to 40 minutes on Fridays the
gold advisory is
to not only acclimate or soon as the school
create a sense of community among the students
and the teacher and they do a variety of things
study hall on games
on team building and
typically stay with their advisor
from here to here's what they're really great experience
can a student get to stay with your advisor and graduate
with that same advisory we also
offer town meeting until meetings
take place on Friday unfortunately we do have
town meeting on a pods for the moment because of
covet we hope to bring it back in the spring
what to do to town meeting debate before covid
I made a stop but tell me the
place where is birational moments we just
celebrations at the end of quarters we do different
community building activities and we also do
my favorite which is fluoride to be
is student-led and didn't get to speak on a
different topic but they are passionate about we
also offer a couple other
things we offer the Marshall Brennan boot
Court competition which is through our constitutional
literacy class that is offered to
Juniors and seniors Miss Edmonds spoke on
this already but we offer dual enrollment program and
we do a corporate Shadow day when
Cove it allows it also another saying
when covid allows it is our Washington DC trip
and is typically for the juniors where they go to war
did DC for 5 days I want to
get to visit colleges and also get to see I'm
all the Glorious museums in Washington DC and
the last thing is service
on days which is where we go
out into our community and we give back
Trinity weather is at a homeless shelter cleaning
up a park or I'm making care
packages
hello
everyone my name is nadezhda I am
director of operations of our nurse
unfortunately her name is Felicia she was not able to be
here today but since I'm supervisor I'm going to talk about her
health services we do have a full-time nurse
and she has been working very very
hard this year
Stephen Covey the years we offer I mean we
still on for this but the nurse does all the typical
nurse stuff she does like medicine
if you have diabetes
insulin inhaler she make
sure that all of that stuff is happening we also
do regular screenings for hearing Vision
BMI an expert
and expert is about early intervention for
like substance abuse and other disorders also
offers
training to our staff for any
emergencies are epipens and
during this coronavirus coronavirus epidemic
pandemic sorry
she has been working very very hard working with our
parents and our staff to make sure that the building is safe and
they're all our students and staff are being tested on a
the song nursing program
thank you so much and
I just spoke good morning everyone and afternoon
my name is Eric wash and
I'm the director of climate and culture
I'm iscribes Dean's here at city on the hill and
you know here at Kohl we really
strongly believe that our students
are the leaders that our community needs and
deserves to be believing the miserable
potential of our young people and worked
build and maintain a network of young leaders
who are committed to personal and Community success
come as you are graduate as
a part of a network of leaders Who challenged
the status quo and create a better more
Equitable Society
we definitely here at KOA have high
expectations for our students but we also
support them through our positive
behavioral interventions and supports Ardennes
you currently have
three full-time beans at city on a hill
and we really work towards not just addressing
behavioral issues but more so trying to engage
students into the community and provide
them various opportunity to contribute
to a healthy and strong School
community
we also have on the slide up the contact information
for Ardennes so that you can also reach out to
them or myself to get more information about how
we support
to going to help
hello everyone my name is
Charlene Williams I am a school counselor here at
KOA so I wanted to talk
a little bit about what is poop counseling and what does that look like in
person and also virtually if
it comes to that because of the
right now I'm so what is for counseling
it's a service that can include short-term
Individual Counseling group counseling Crisis
Support and referrals as needed
counseling services are aimed at
supporting the social emotional well-being up to
if your student is stressed out for any reason
if they're anxious if there's any
depression or anything like that going on I'm
I do support students in that nature these
Services I will say are not intended
as a substitute for ongoing Mental Health
so if your student already has a counselor please
keep them on board I'm also just a recognized
as a support an additional layer of support
for your student while they're at school I do
not diagnosed prescribe
anything again I am a
support for student account the other student for
your student on wall that color so
if we were to go online on I assure
you that it is safe and private we do
you use length to zoom for example
is Hippa regulated and so any Commerce
are protected by HIPAA
as well as in person as well so
any conversations that I have with your student here are
protected unless they are going
to be a harm to themselves or others then I
will also reach you in the end I'm involved
I will give quick updates to you
all about how I'm things are going with you and if I
am meeting with his doing so any progress schools
that I want them to work on a home which I'm with
their permission I will always share that with you so that way we
all can work together to support
holistically again things
are safe and private whenever I have conversations with
them and is also reliable so
in person I meet the students every single day checking
on them make sure that they're feeling good making
sure that they're staying on top of their work in class
that's why I mean if you have any additional questions of
what counseling looks like Echo if you are
feel free to reach out to me
okay
great I think it so much
I just wanted to quickly go over and let you guys
know that we we are currently still taking
applications so if you would like to apply
the applications are due and February
on the 28th you do have time if you have not
already and then
day of our actual lotteries
on March 9th so that's the day that you know I
will be in contact with you guys and let you guys know if
your student has gotten
in and if there's any open seats or anything
like that
and then if you offer me some information please feel
free to go on to our website where
you can all see a lot of posts and information there
and right now during the time we're just
going to take any questions if you had any
how we're going to do it if you have a question we'll
give you a few minutes to post it in the chat here
and I will be able to read it out loud and
then he will be Best But to
answer your question depending on what it is. I'll give
you guys about like a minute or so
if you'd like to just go ahead and put it
in any questions that you have into the chat
I'm
out of here while you guys are
typing or thinking of any questions that
you may have I just wanted to let you guys know about
some of the socials that we have
but you have Instagram Twitter and Facebook where
you can also get some more information on there
about on any upcoming like
a Benz or anything like that that we have going on any
important poles that we have going on in like
the school you can follow us on there just be up
date with all the things that we offer