Welcome Letter from Principal Wilson
2024 - 2025 School Year
August 29, 2024
Welcome Back HHSLT Families,
I hope you enjoyed your summer vacation! We are excited to see you all again as we start the 2024-2025 school year. The first day of school for students will be Thursday, September 5, 2024. It will be a regular school day; period 1 classes will begin at 8:20am and the school day will end at 2:40pm for most students. MetroCards will be replaced with OMNY passes for all eligible students; students will now be able to tap to pay for up to four free rides a day on MTA buses and subways.OMNY passes will be issued to eligible students at the conclusion of the students regularly scheduled classes.
Effective September 5, 2024, we will be making our school a phone-free space to improve teaching and learning using a system called Yondr. Yondr has been implemented in over 2,000 schools across 16 countries to facilitate an engaged learning environment. We believe that phones have great utility. We have also found that learning and social behavior improve drastically when students are fully engaged with their teachers and classmates.
The Yondr Program utilizes a simple, secure pouch that stores a phone. Every student will secure their phone in a personally assigned Yondr pouch when they arrive at school. Students will maintain possession of their phones and will not use them until their pouches are opened for lunch and at the end of the school day. Students are required to bring their Yondr pouch to and from school each day and are responsible for their pouch at all times. Our full cell phone policy can be found here: https://hudsonhs.com/policy-cell.html
This year we are excited to announce that our school will continue to participate in Cornell University’s NYC First STEM Center at Roosevelt Island. Students who are enrolled in the Robotics class will be going to Roosevelt Island for three hours, once per week from periods 5 through 9, for the 2024-2025 school year. The Roosevelt Island STEM Center offers a range of programs and workshops, including computer science, digital and non-digital fabrication, mechanical engineering, electronics, and sensors. Resources include 3D printers, laser cutters, CNC routers, miter saws, drill presses, metal saws, and a host of other tools. Students participating in this program will earn two credits in a college preparatory class.
Every school day matters at Hudson! Our goal this year is 90% overall attendance average. In order to do this we need your support to ensure that your child is in school, on time, every day so that they can be academically successful. School attendance will determine students’ ability to participate in trips, senior activities, sports, and extracurricular experiences. In order to incentivize strong attendance, we will continue our “Presence = Presents” program. Eligible students must have 90% attendance or better in ALL of their classes, including returning back from lunch on time for period 5, along with 90% or better on-time attendance to school. Students with attendance below 90% are listed as chronically absent by the New York City Department of Education.
Students and families use Jupiter to access attendance, gradebook, and anecdotals. Jupiter will be updated on Thursday, September 5, 2024.
Our School Has An APP! Please check out the HHSLT app. Make sure to turn on notifications to keep up-to-date with all the latest news from Hudson High School of Learning Technologies.
Once each month there will be a virtual thirty-minute coffee with the Principal to provide parents/gudardians with an opportunity to receive updates and share ideas on how we can continue to improve our school community. Please join us for the next event on Friday, September 20, 2024 from 8:00am - 8:30am
(Meeting ID: meet.google.com/nko-ndpy-axi |Phone Numbers (US)+1 636-452-0126 PIN: 918 175 311#)
There will also be monthly student luncehons during period 4 on the same date with Principal Wilson in his office for the first 10 students who sign up. Your Voices Matter!
Throughout the school year, our Teacher Teams will be participating in data-driven inquiry cycles so that we can leverage the collective expertise from our staff to develop targeted strategies for meaningful and measurable improvement in student outcomes. We, at Hudson High School of Learning Technologies, believe that all students can achieve mastery and success when they consistently engage in learning experiences that are standards-driven, culturally relevant, that center, respond to, and celebrate them and that require the gathering of information, discussion of ideas, and creating well-developed written responses, which is embodied in our 2024-2025 instructional focus: Gather, Discuss, Write!More information regarding upcoming events can be found below.
UPCOMING EVENTS
Date |
Day of the Week |
Event |
September 5, 2024 |
Thursday |
First day of school, please arrive by 8:10am. |
September 9, 2024 |
Monday |
Student Town Halls B19
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September 20, 2024 |
Friday |
-Virtual Coffee with Principal Wilson (8:30am-9:00am) Phone Numbers (US)+1 636-452-0126 PIN: 918 175 311#) -Student luncheon with Principal Wilson (period 4) |
September 26, 2024 |
Thursday |
Evening Parent-Teacher Conferences for high schools. All Parent Teacher Conferences will be conducted remotely during the 2023-24 school year. |
October 3-4, 2024 |
Thursday-Friday |
Rosh Hashanah, schools closed. |
October 14, 2024 |
Monday |
Italian Heritage / Indigenous Peoples' Day, schools closed. |
October 15-18, 2024 |
Tuesday-Friday |
HHSLT Homecoming |
November 1, 2024 |
Friday |
Diwali, schools closed |
November 5, 2024 |
Tuesday |
Election Day, students do not attend school. |
November 11, 2024 |
Monday |
Veterans Day, students do not attend school. |
November 13, 2024 |
Wednesday |
Senior Photo Day |
November 21, 2024 |
Thursday |
Afternoon and evening Parent-Teacher Conferences for high schools. All Parent Teacher Conferences will be conducted remotely during the 2024-25 school year. |
November 22, 2024 |
Friday |
Afternoon Parent-Teacher Conferences for high schools, K–12, and 6–12 schools; students in these schools dismissed three hours early. All Parent Teacher Conferences will be conducted remotely during the 2024-25 school year. |
This school year is going to be great. Together, let’s make it happen! In the words of the legendary painter Vincent Van Gogh, “Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.”
Sincerely,
Michael Wilson
Principal