Monday, December 19, 2011

Office Schedules

HJUHSD Offices will be closed on the following dates for the holidays:
  • 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
We wish all of our staff, students and families and safe and happy holiday season!



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Thursday, December 15, 2011

Hanford High's Dwayne Tubbs named Educator of the Week

Congratulations to Hanford High School teacher Dwayne Tubbs, who was selected as a KSEE 24 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!



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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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HJUHSD athletes earn WYL Honors

Congratulations to these outstanding HJUHSD athletes and coaches for earning West Yosemite League honors!

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
 HHS Girls Water Polo
  • All-League, 2nd Team: 
    • Nicole Conway
    • Megan Ornellas
  • Honorable Mentions
    • Makala Davis
    • Ashlee Cano
    • Jeanna Vanfossen. 
HWHS Football
  • 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. 
 HWHS Girls Water Polo
  • 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
HWHS Girls Volleyball

  • 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.


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Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Online Gradebook Security Update

Parents, students and other users with HJUHSD Online Gradebook accounts will be required to change passwords on your next login as part of a system 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:


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.
    • If you have to write SOMETHING down to help you remember your password, instead write down an obscure HINT that will remind YOU of your password, but NOT mean anything to someone else.
    •  OR use a secure password management program, such as Roboform or ewallet 
  • 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 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.


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