Message from Principal Wilson
December 2025
Greetings Hudson High School of Learning Technologies Community!
As we move forward to the end of 2025, our focus remains sharply on ensuring every student achieves positive outcomes—both academically and professionally. Your support is the most powerful engine for long-term sustainability and growth.
To secure our future, we are working collaboratively on three key areas:
- Elevating Academic Performance: Targeting significant improvements in core subjects and on high-stakes assessments (like Regents exams).
- Strengthening Student Presence: Improving school-wide attendance to maximize instructional time.
- Defining Our Unique Niche: Clearly answering: What makes Hudson High School of Learning Technologies the essential choice for your child?
Expanding Pathways: Technology and the Future Workforce
We are thrilled to share updates on several strategic initiatives that are enhancing our technology strand and creating unparalleled opportunities for our students. This work directly leverages our strengths to prepare students for the future workforce.
AI Certification & Internship Pipeline
Thanks to our Project Pivot funds, we are launching a rigorous, daily Artificial Intelligence (AI) Certification course next term, in partnership with The Cipher Group. This program is designed to deliver a recognized industry certification.
Crucially, students who complete the AI Certification will be placed into summer internship programs at leading Technology and/or Fortune 500 companies.
This initiative dramatically strengthens our comprehensive technology offerings, which currently include Robotics, AP Computer Science Principles, and Graphic Design.
Gamification and Design
Student interest in technology is booming! Since launching our Gaming Club on December 6th, participation has exploded from two students to 30 consistent participants meeting during lunch and after school with Mr. Coyle.
- To support this remarkable engagement, we are securing additional consoles and expanding the club's space to Room B19 this week.
- We are actively exploring a partnership to potentially develop a Gaming and Program Design course for Term 2 (January 2026) or Term 1 (September 2026), creating yet another high-engagement academic pathway.
Building a Better System: Collaborative Design
Achieving these outcomes requires strong, responsive systems to support all our students.
We are launching a collaborative effort, led by Mr. Parker and involving our staff and other stakeholders, to investigate becoming a PROSE (Progressive Redesign Opportunity Schools for Excellence) school for the 2026-2027 school year.
The primary goal of this exploration is to customize a model that best serves our community. This could allow us to implement more robust Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) for students , create dedicated time for professional development, and explore new structures for extended learning and credit accumulation.
These critical conversations will include seats at the table for all staff members, parents/guardians, and students to ensure the new model reflects our collective vision.
We are also currently seeking bids to assist with rebranding and creating a unique visual display in our campus footprint to reflect the exciting changes happening within our walls.
Your continued support and collaboration are essential to making these initiatives successful and carving out our unique place as a premier high school of learning technologies.
Best regards,
Michael WilsonPrincipal