Nov 03 2008
Two freshman academy teams at RHS hosted a presidential debate on Thursday, October 30, 2008 during periods 1, 2, 3, and 4. Moderators for the debates were Dr. Jon Bullock, Mrs. Sharon Franklin and Mr. Michael Bremont. All teams did an outstanding job. Congratulations!!
Oct 29 2008
Congratulations to the RHS Girls Cross Country team, they are 2008 Academic State Champs! They had a team GPA (Varsity) of 4.0!!! The Dairy Farmers of Oregon are behind the award. Here is a link to the OSAA website announcement.
http://osaa.org/awards/allstate/0809/fall/girlcross.asp
Sep 06 2008
As many of you know this school year (2008-2009) both libraries from Redmond High School (Rimrock and Hartman buildings) are under my supervision. This is very exciting and challenging and I will need all your help and support. I know we will have a great year. Wish you the best, and welcome to your libraries and a super new start.
Jun 09 2008
Good Morning,
This email is the last “Week of” for the 2007-2008 school year, my last Monday communication with you, and my last week as Principal of the ISC and RHS-HH. I find it very difficult to face the fact that this is my last few days as being part of this school has been an amazing experience for me. It is not the school that is the important but all of you, our students and their families. It is the work we have done together to create a school environment focused on learning and excellence. I reflect on our three years together and see many accomplishments and good times. We have celebrated and we have cried together as we’ve written the chapters in the book on education at Hartman and the ISC. This current chapter is ending on Friday with a new one beginning on Monday. The new chapter will bring enriching opportunities for us all. As I write this last Monday email, I want to thank you all for your support, your friendship and love. I am honored to have worked with you.
A couple thoughts for you…
“The only limits are as always of vision.” James Broughton
“The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship.” Joseph Addison
“Shoot for the moon, Even if you miss it, you will land among the starts.”
Events of the Week
Monday, June 9th End of the Year Assembly - Regular Schedule
· A bell will ring at 2:05 to dismiss students to the gym. All students will dismiss at the same time. Please escort your students to the gym. When the assembly is over, the day will end.
· Ad Council today – 3:00
Tuesday, June 10th – Regular Schedule
Wednesday, June 11th - Regular Schedule – Final Schedule – Periods 1, 3, and 5
ISC Board Meeting – 5:00 at RHS-HH Library
Thursday, June 12th – Early Dismissal 11:15 – Remember – NO Buses will run between main campus and Hartman on Thursday
Thursday Schedule
7:21 – 7:45 - Teacher in rooms, please use this time to support students with finals and make-up work that needs to be completed.
7:45 – 8:54 - Period 2 Final
8:54 – 9:10 – Locker clean out
9:10-9:21 - Break
9:27-10:37 – Period 4 Final
10:37 – 11:15 Lunch
Friday, June 13th Last Day for Teachers
8:00 Coffee and Donuts in Bev’s room
12:30 End of year check out begins
Have a wonderful week, enjoy the last 3 and a half days.
Donna Howard,
Principal
International School of the Cascades
Redmond High School – Hartman Building
May 27 2008
Over the weekend, I had the opportunity to watch the full documentary “2 Million Minutes“.
Several key factors were loudly spoken in the documentary:
· American students are not globally aware
· Strong minds and discoveries happen everywhere
· Students in China and India view education as a means to economic opportunities
· American students score higher in self confidence than any other student group in the world
· American students work as hard as other students in the world. Often there work is attached to jobs outside of school and co-curricular activities
Concluding thoughts to ponder
American children are as smart and capable as other children of the world and are frequently viewed as having all the things that others in the world want. Children in other parts of the world are willing to work extremely hard to gain placement in US college and universities as they want what American children have. Education is their means of economic prosperity and a better life.
Events of the Week:
1. ISC Seniors: Finals begin Wednesday, period 4 and 5, conclude Thursday, periods 1,2,and 3. Graduation Practices is Friday following the Senior Breakfast.
2. OLY Luau – Friday, short assembly at the end of the day. Schedule is forthcoming.
3. ISC Graduation: Tuesday, June 3rd 7:00 at South Sister, DCFG. This is an exciting time for students and parents. Our work together is to make it memorable and respectful.
4. Finals: This week our ISC seniors are taking finals, next Monday and Tuesday Global Academy seniors take finals, the following week finals are scheduled on Wednesday, June 11th periods 1,3, and 5 and Thursday, June 12th period 2 and 4.
Once again, Thank you for the Welcome Back poster.
Have a wonderful educationally focused week.
Donna Howard,
Principal
International School of the Cascades
Redmond High School – Hartman Building
May 18 2008
Here are some snapshots of RHS 2008 Spring Musical, GREASE taken on Friday, May 16th. It was a pleasure to see so many familiar faces and two great teachers, Ms. Felton and Mr. Hanson from the main campus.
Congratulation to Mr. Neely and all his crew for a great show!
To watch the movie click on the following link RHS 2008 Spring Musical, GREASE (excuse the resolution but edublogs doesn’t accept more than 20 MB)
PS: I hope the drama department invites me to the next production when they need a character with Hispanic accent 
May 18 2008
A tribute to our ISC and Global Academy Seniors.
Apr 28 2008
Good Morning,
“Leave a Legacy” is the sixth and final directive from The Janitor. Everyday you come to work to teach and students come to learn. In reality you give a gift of knowledge that will transcend high school.
Many times this year, we’ve talked about building futures, “One World, One Dream, One Future”. Our future is the legacy you leave in the minds of the students who sit in your classrooms, come to your attendance window, swim at the pool or research in the library. Our school will leave a legacy.
Prom this Saturday was part of a legacy. The event was exceptional. It seemed that students had a great time and all things went very well. Two of our students were honored as King and Queen. Stephen Rigsby and Samantha Ryals were the honored guest. Congratulations to the King Stephen and Queen Samantha.
I want to thank Juanita Clarno for selling Prom ticket here at Hartman. Her work honored the Hartman students and made it ease for them to purchase Prom tickets.
Important Information:
The posting for the Hartman administrative position closed on Friday, April 25th. Interviews are to occur this week.
Oregon’s stand on exit exams. As you have read in Jon’s email, Oregon is very likely to require exit exams for high school graduation. In the proposal students may have options other than a written exam to demonstrate proficiency. The ISC has assessment exam already in place so the addition of required exit exam should be of minimal impact. I would encourage Denise Roberts and the new administrator to work closely with the State to accept IB exams. The GA has implemented a Senior Project which could with development become a proficiency exam.
Events Of the Week:
Monday, April 28
Ad Council today, agenda – School Improvement Plans for District schools and 2008-2009 Budget
Athletics:
SB home Mc Nary
Golf @ N Salem
BB @ Mc Nary
Tuesday, April 29
2:30 SA meeting
Athletics:
Tennis home McKay
Wednesday, April 30
MYP meeting
Athletics:
SB @ W. Salem
Track @ McKay
BB home W. Salem
Thursday, May 1
2:30 Staff meeting
Athletics
Tennis home Summit
Friday, May 2 – Teacher Work Day
Athletics: SB home N. Salem Track at Gresham Invitational
May 3 BB @ No Salem
Have a wonderful week, enjoy the teaching and learning the occurs in your classroom.
Donna Howard,Principal
International School of the Cascades
Redmond High School – Hartman Building
Apr 21 2008
Good Morning, I do hope you had a great weekend. It was a good weekend to catch-up with oneself, spend quality time reading and with family. As I look out over the calendar for the next few weeks, I realize we have only 7.5 weeks remaining in this school year. The past seven months have gone so fast that I am sure the next 7.5 weeks will do the same. It is my goal that we stay focused on curriculum and learning. For several weeks now I have been sharing with you thoughts from the book, The Janitor but Hoskins and Hilbert. Directive 5 from the book is “Don’t spend; invest!”. The concept supporting this directive is foundational in education. Investing is to ensure that quality of learning is the fundamental foundation of what we do in school. Our teaching, learning culture, and content is to be our focus. The “glitz and glitter” and social fun events of school is great fun but can not come at the expense of loosing quality learning and teaching. Thus we must always use question the value of activities that take our attention away from curriculum. As events are planned through the remainder of this year and into next, we need to ask, “Is this spending or investing on the learning of our students?” Today we welcome Mr. Tatsuya Omi to our campus. He will be an investment in the education of our students. Mr. Omi will spend the next year with us to support teaching in the Japanese language classes, classes with international perspectives. Accolades and Kudos: I want to thank Ben Parsons for the outstanding organization of LHD and opportunities provided for students during the day. A thanks to all of you for your flexibility as last minute changes were made to accommodate scheduling and student needs. The “debriefing” sessions that I heard were purposeful and thought provoking. A second thanks to Renee Hamilton for organizing and supporting the MYP Personal Project night. Many exceptional projects were displayed and presented.
Events of the Week:
Monday April 21 – Regular Schedule.
Please welcome Mr. Tatsuya Omi. This is the first day of his year long adventure with us at Hartman. Please come to the library Wednesday morning at 7:00AM to meet Tatsuya. We will do an introduction and share coffee and donuts. 6:00 Talk of the Town, Televised conversation with the district and community regarding the Bond measure and its structure. You are invited to participate in this event.
Athletics
M/W Golf @ Eagle Ridge
Baseball at McKay
Softball here with McKay
Tuesday, April 22 – Regular Schedule
Junior Day at the Career Center and Junior Information Night at RHS- main campus Career Center.
Athletics:
M Golf @ Corvallis,
Trysting Tree Softball @ So Salem
Wednesday, April 23 -
Passport 1st period
First Period Passport Class first 20 minutes of class. Passport will be support the introduction of Mr. Omi to the Hartman student body and several leadership activities.
5:30PM RHS School Board meeting
Athletics:
M Golf @ Crescent Valley,
Trysting Tree Track home with Sprague
Thursday, April 24
S.K.I.D. Assembly – We will dismiss at 9:10 to walk to the football stadium. Assembly will run through second period. The bell schedule will run on a regular schedule.
Athletics:
W Golf At Henley
Friday, April 25 – Regular Schedule
Tennis home Mt View BB @ SpragueSB @ Sprague
Saturday, April 26 – Prom
Have a wonderful week.
Donna Howard,
Principal
International School of the Cascades
Redmond High School – Hartman Building
