- District Office: December 23 through January 2
- Hanford West High School: December 22, 23, 26-28 and 30 and January 2
- Sierra Pacific High School: December 26-30 and January 2
- Hanford High School: December 22 through January 2
- Earl F. Johnson High School: December 19 through January 2
- Hanford Adult School: December 19 though January 2
Monday, December 19, 2011
Office Schedules
HJUHSD Offices will be closed on the following dates for the holidays:
Thursday, December 15, 2011
Hanford High's Dwayne Tubbs named Educator of the Week
His inspirational efforts will be showcased on KSEE 24 News December 26.
As an Educator of the Week, Mr. Tubbs received a $124 gift certificate to GW School Supply and his name will be engraved on a brick in the “Teacher and Friends of Education Honor Wall” at the Kremen School of Education at California State University, Fresno. He will also be featured in an hour-long KSEE24 News Special at the end of the school year.
Watch for Mr. Tubbs on the KSEE 24 News at 5 a.m., 6 a.m., 4 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. on Monday!
Phone services are restored
UPDATE 12:05 p.m.: Incoming external calling had been restored. Thanks for your patience!
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We are experiencing phone service issues affecting all of our schools and offices this morning. Internal (room-to-room) calling is working and staff can make external calls, but we cannot receive incoming calls from outside lines at this time.
If you are trying to call in to our schools or offices and cannot get through, please try again later today. If you would like to email a staff member in the meantime, please see our Staff Directory listing.
We will post an update as soon as phone services are restored. Thank you for your patience.
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We are experiencing phone service issues affecting all of our schools and offices this morning. Internal (room-to-room) calling is working and staff can make external calls, but we cannot receive incoming calls from outside lines at this time.
If you are trying to call in to our schools or offices and cannot get through, please try again later today. If you would like to email a staff member in the meantime, please see our Staff Directory listing.
We will post an update as soon as phone services are restored. Thank you for your patience.
HJUHSD athletes earn WYL Honors
Congratulations to these outstanding HJUHSD athletes and coaches for earning West Yosemite League honors!
HHS Football
HWHS Boys Water Polo
The West Yosemite League Honors are a special award for students as they are selected by the coaches from the WYL who recognize their commitment to their athletic programs and their outstanding athletic contributions to their team.
HHS Football
- Head Football Coach Josh Young is WYL Coach of the Year!
- Brayden Sanchez: Offensive Player of the Year
- Aaron Johnston: Defensive Player of the Year
- All-League, 1st Team:
- Tanner Barnes, Defensive Line
- Michael Aguinaga, Linebacker
- Troy Smith, Defensive Back
- Cole Silva, Offensive Line
- Jake Young, Quarterback
- All-League, 2nd Team:
- Tyler Pepe, Defensive Line
- Victor Bonilla, Linebacker
- Isaiah Cantu, Defensive Back
- Cameron Kerr, Offensive Line
- James Jones, Wide Receiver
- Isaiah Cantu, Running Back
- All-League, 2nd Team:
- Nicole Conway
- Megan Ornellas
- Honorable Mentions
- Makala Davis
- Ashlee Cano
- Jeanna Vanfossen.
- Central Section Academic Champions, with an overall 3.28 GPA.
- All- League, 1st Team
- Tevon Loftis, runningback
- All League, 2nd Team
- Tanner Irwin, Wide Receiver.
- All-Valley, 1st Team
- Kaelyn Caretto
- Dagmar Gudmundsson
- All-Valley, 2nd Team
- Shannon Hallstrom
- Therese Quinn
- Honorable Mention
- Haley Baker
HWHS Boys Water Polo
- All-League, 2nd team: Tor Gudmunsson
- All-League, 1st team: Kalia Parker, Outside Hitter
The West Yosemite League Honors are a special award for students as they are selected by the coaches from the WYL who recognize their commitment to their athletic programs and their outstanding athletic contributions to their team.
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Online Gradebook Security Update
The Online Gradebook (ABI) will prompt you to enter your OLD password and then enter your NEW password twice, to make the change.
If your OLD password comes up automatically in the "Old Password" field, please highlight and delete that password and re-enter the old password manually.
If you have trouble changing your password, please email your school Testing Secretary (see contact information below) with: Your name, your student's name and your school name, explaining your problem.
We apologize for any inconvenience and appreciate your cooperation.
Testing Secretaries:
- Hanford High: Cathy Hatfield
- Hanford West High: Christine Lee
- Sierra Pacific High: Sonja Thomas
- Earl F. Johnson High: Irma Lopez
HELPFUL HINTS FOR STRONG PASSWORDS
Do NOT write down your password in an unsecure location (i.e.: in a desk drawer, in your wallet or in an unsecure file on your computer) … even better, don’t write it down at all.
- DO create a strong password
- Use lowercase AND uppercase letters
- Use more than 8 characters
- Use your whole keyboard – combinations of letters, numbers, punctuation and other and special characters make for a stronger password.
- BUT, for an even stronger password, try not to use “common” letter-to-symbol conversions, such as “E” to “3” or “S’ to $” or “to” to “2”
- DO check your password strength at Microsoft's Password Checker
- Do NOT use the same password for everything: You might not mind so much if someone steals the password to your streaming music site … but if that is also the password to your online banking account, you’ll be much more concerned.
- DO change your passwords often: Microsoft recommends every 3 months.
- DO use a “passphrase”. METHOD #1:
- Start with a "random" sentence that you will remember:
- Complex passwords are safer.
- Remove spaces between the words
- complexpasswordsaresafer
- Randomly capitalize a few letters
- complexpaSSwordSareSafer
- Replace at least one letter with a number or symbol.
- c0mple&paSSwordS@reSafer
- DO use a “passphrase”. METHOD #2:
- Think of a sentence at least 8 words long that is unusual, yet easy for YOU to remember
- My Dalmatian, Charlie, loves rawhide bones and long naps
- Shorten it the first letter of every word in that sentence
- mdclrbaln
- capitalize at least one letter
- mdClrbalN
- change at least one letter to a number or special character
- mdClrb@lN
HOW SECURE IS YOUR PASSWORD?
Excerpted from How I'd Hack Your Weak Passwords
Pay particular attention to the difference between using only lowercase characters and using all possible characters (uppercase, lowercase, and special characters – like @#$%^&*). Adding just one capital letter and one asterisk would change the processing time for an 8 character password from 2.4 days to 2.1 centuries.
| Password Length | All Characters | Only Lowercase |
|---|---|---|
| 3 characters 4 characters 5 characters 6 characters 7 characters 8 characters 9 characters 10 characters 11 characters 12 characters 13 characters 14 characters |
0.86 seconds 1.36 minutes 2.15 hours 8.51 days 2.21 years 2.10 centuries 20 millennia 1,899 millennia 180,365 millennia 17,184,705 millennia 1,627,797,068 millennia 154,640,721,434 millennia |
0.02 seconds .046 seconds 11.9 seconds 5.15 minutes 2.23 hours 2.42 days 2.07 months 4.48 years 1.16 centuries 3.03 millennia 78.7 millennia 2,046 millennia |
Remember, these are just for an average computer, and these assume you aren’t using any word in the dictionary. If Google put their computer to work on it they’d finish about 1,000 times faster.
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Final Exam Schedule
HJUHSD FIRST-SEMESTER FINAL EXAM SCHEDULE
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Period 1: 7:45 a.m.-8:23 a.m. 38/5
Period 2: 8:28 a.m.-9:06 a.m.38
Snack: 9:06 a.m.-9:20 a.m.14/5
Period 3: 9:25 a.m.-10:03 a.m.38/5
Period 4: 10:08 a.m.-10:46 a.m.38/5
Period 5: 10:51 a.m.-11:29 a.m.38
Lunch: 11:29 a.m.-12:12 p.m.43/5
Period 6: 12:17 p.m.-12:55 p.m.38/5
Period 7: 1:00 p.m.-3:02 p.m.122/380
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Period 1: 7:45 a.m.-9:46 a.m.121
Snack: 9:46 a.m.-10:10 a.m.24/5
Period 4: 10:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m.120/246
Thursday, December 15, 2011
Period 2: 7:45 a.m.-9:46 a.m.121
Snack: 9:46 a.m.-10:10 a.m.24/5
Period 5: 10:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m.120/246
Friday, December 16, 2011
Period 3: 7:45 a.m.-9:46 a.m.121
Snack: 9:46 a.m.-10:10 a.m.24/5
Period 6: 10:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m.120/246
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Period 1: 7:45 a.m.-8:23 a.m. 38/5
Period 2: 8:28 a.m.-9:06 a.m.38
Snack: 9:06 a.m.-9:20 a.m.14/5
Period 3: 9:25 a.m.-10:03 a.m.38/5
Period 4: 10:08 a.m.-10:46 a.m.38/5
Period 5: 10:51 a.m.-11:29 a.m.38
Lunch: 11:29 a.m.-12:12 p.m.43/5
Period 6: 12:17 p.m.-12:55 p.m.38/5
Period 7: 1:00 p.m.-3:02 p.m.122/380
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Period 1: 7:45 a.m.-9:46 a.m.121
Snack: 9:46 a.m.-10:10 a.m.24/5
Period 4: 10:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m.120/246
Thursday, December 15, 2011
Period 2: 7:45 a.m.-9:46 a.m.121
Snack: 9:46 a.m.-10:10 a.m.24/5
Period 5: 10:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m.120/246
Friday, December 16, 2011
Period 3: 7:45 a.m.-9:46 a.m.121
Snack: 9:46 a.m.-10:10 a.m.24/5
Period 6: 10:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m.120/246
HW collects Toys for Tots
Join the Hanford West Octagon Club
and the United States Marine Corps
in making Christmas dreams
come true.
Bring a NEW, UNWRAPPED gift
to school on December 15 or 16
We will be collecting gifts
before school and at break and lunch.
Monday, December 12, 2011
HHS Winter Concert is Tuesday
The Hanford High School Choirs and Soloists will present a Winter Extravaganza at St. Brigid's Church at 7 p.m. Tuesday, December 13. Admission is $5 and children 5 and under are free. Doors will open at 6:15 p.m.
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
HW Jazz Band A takes 1st in Delta Jazz Festival
Congratulations to the Hanford West High School Jazz Band "A" for taking 1st Place in the Intermediate Division of the Delta Jazz Festival in Stockton on Saturday. Other bands in the division included Buchanan, Folosom, Maria Carrillo, Exeter, Sacramento County, Oakridge and Carson. Soloist awards were also presented to: Laura Sasser on Trumpet, and Jared Colvard on Tenor Sax.
Monday, December 5, 2011
Congratulations to Kings Young Masters winners
Congratulations to the following Hanford West High School art students who placed in the Young Masters at Kings Art Center yesterday:
- Painting
- Tayla Atkins - 2nd place
- Kelsey Lopez - 3rd place
- 3-D
- Sammi Blue - 1st place
- Allyson Unich - 2nd place
- Teresa Beltran - 3rd place
- Photography
- Ilse Reyes - 1st place.
- Special awards
- Robert Lee
- Alyana Manasan
- Honorable Mentions
- Stephanie Delagado, Adam Herring, Christian Lewis, Jhorien Osana, Rachel Anne Pagador, and Kayla Williams, Lauren Novencido, Brandon Perriera, Sierrah Esparaza and Madisyn Jeske.
SPHS Book Fair is Dec. 5-9
"Reading is Out of This World" at the
Sierra Pacific High School Scholastic Book Fair!
Books will be on display and on sale
during school hours December 5 though 9.
Sierra Pacific High School Scholastic Book Fair!
Books will be on display and on sale
during school hours December 5 though 9.
Thursday, December 1, 2011
HHS Teachers Incorporating Larry Bell’s 12 Powerful Words
Hanford High School staff recently received professional development on Larry Bell’s 12 Powerful Words. Bell was a high school teacher at a school with more than 3,000 students and 36 different languages. He has been recognized for his innovative classroom strategies that allowed his students to excel.
The 12 powerful words can help students in several ways. First, these are higher order thinking skill words. They cause all students to think at the highest level possible. By asking teachers to model these 12 powerful words in daily conversation, questioning, and on tests and quizzes, all students will be exposed to them all year long so they are not intimidated by them when they appear on their STAR exams in the Spring. These are “power verbs” because they empower students with knowledge and confidence.
We encourage you to incorporate these words in your conversations with your students. Total immersion of these words will allow our students to continue to succeed.
The 12 powerful words can help students in several ways. First, these are higher order thinking skill words. They cause all students to think at the highest level possible. By asking teachers to model these 12 powerful words in daily conversation, questioning, and on tests and quizzes, all students will be exposed to them all year long so they are not intimidated by them when they appear on their STAR exams in the Spring. These are “power verbs” because they empower students with knowledge and confidence.
We encourage you to incorporate these words in your conversations with your students. Total immersion of these words will allow our students to continue to succeed.
- Trace– List in steps
- Support– Back up with details
- Analyze– Break Apart
- Explain– Tell how
- Infer– Read between the lines
- Summarize– Give in short version
- Evaluate– Judge
- Compare– All the ways they are alike
- Formulate– Create
- Contrast– All the ways they are different
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