FAST FACTS...

Martin Luther King Jr. was born on January 15. MLK

Day was signed into law as a national holiday by

President Ronald Reagan in 1983.

DECA Regional Results

On January 7, one

hundred and nine-

ty-six Ridgewood High School students went to

Ramapo College and competed in the NJ DECA

Regional Competition, consisting of team and

individual scenario role-playing and testing,

which was conducted prior to the event.

RHS DECA had about ninety students qualify for

the next round of competition. In order to ad-

vance, students need to place in the top eight-

een of all students competing in their event,

and a student who placed top three on a test

or role-play received an extra award for recog-

nition of their accomplishments.

Some outstanding first place overall perfor-

mances included Abigail McKenna, for Apparel

& Accessories Marketing Series; Emily Press

and Elisabeth O’Neill, for Buying and Merchan-

dising Management Team Decision Making;

Rebecca Tomilchik and Samantha Constant, for

Financial Services Team Decision Making; Mad-

eleine Phillips and Shea Darienzo, for Mar-

keting Communications Team Decision Making;

and Grace McCormick, for Principles of

Marketing.

Those Ridgewood students along with the oth-

er placed students and teams will move on to

the State Conference held in Cherry Hill, New

Jersey, in February.

Upcoming

January 17:

Quiz Bowl

January 19:

SCHOOL CLOSED

Martin Luther King Jr.

Day

January 21:

ALTERNATE SCHEDULE

Exam Review Day

January 22 - 27:

Mid-Term Exams

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1/16/2015 A TRADITION OF EXCELLENCE

Google Education Trainers

Two Ridgewood High School

teachers were recently certi-

fied as Google Education

Trainers, World Langauge

teachers, Stefanie Gigante

and Daisy Sam. They both

achieved this distinction

after meeting criteria set by

Google.

First, they earned high scores on a series of

tests on Google Apps. Then, they each assem-

bled a resume of our training experiences, in-

cluding a case study. Finally, each candidate

made a two-minute instructional screencast to

demonstrate her technology teaching skills.

This is a great honor which will benefit RHS, by

having two officially accredited Google trainers

on staff to help further train faculty in the uses

of Google, and even have the potential to bring

in new resources and programs for the benefit

of the school.

Dr. Thomas Gorman and Jeff Nyhuis speak with over

forty Ridgewood Japanese Parents at the Ridge-

wood Ed-Center, on the educational process and

goals of the Ridgewood Public Schools.

New Players in Concert

Thursday 1/15 @ 7:00 pm

Friday 1/16 @ 8:00 pm

Saturday 1/17 @ 8:00 pm

Sunday 1/18 @ 7:00 pm

Enjoy music from Pippin,

Carrie, Godpsell, Spelling

Bee, and much more.

For more tickets visit

New Players online.

MID-TERM SCHEDULE

January 22

Period 1 & Period 5

January 23

Period 2 & Period 6

January 26

Period 3 & Period 7

January 27

Period 4 & Period 8

Students who do not have a

scheduled exam are allowed

to arrive late or leave early

depending on their schedules.

Daisy Sam and

Stefanie Gigante.

Course Highlight: Beat Generation

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RHS POLICY CORNER: Restricted Areas During Instructional Hours

While class is in session, students may not remain in the staff parking

lot or Heermance Place. Any area may become off limits if noise in-

terferes with the instruction of fellow students.

During the course of the school day, Heermance Place is regarded as

part of the Ridgewood High School Campus. As such, rules of behav-

ior are similar to those for any other part of the school grounds. Stu-

dents are also reminded that they cannot park on the west side of

Heermance Place, as it is for faculty only.

While classes are in session, students are not to congregate in the

hallways or areas of the building where classrooms are located. Un-

der no circumstances are students to engage in behavior that is dis-

turbing to the learning process going on in classrooms.

Students who are uncooperative or who are repeatedly disruptive

will be referred to the Grade Advisor and will be subject to 7:15 am

detention(s) and/or loss of Open Campus privileges.

Intermediate ballet will provide students an opportunity to study ballet with an emphasis on improving skills in technique utilizing the typical ballet class structure of barre, center work, and across the floor exercises. In addition, students will study classical ballet variations to synthesize the technique in a perfor-mance concert.

Students interested in this course must meet the pre-requisite of having one year of previous ballet instruction. The course will be available for the 2015-2016 school year.

New Course Highlight: Intermediate Ballet

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RIDGEWOOD HIGH SCHOOL

Website: http://rhs.school.ridgewood.k12.nj.us/

A Window Into Ridgewood High School

Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration

On Monday, January 19, the Ridgewood community will cele-

brate the thirty-third annual observance of Dr. Martin Luther

King, Jr.’s birthday with a full schedule of activities beginning at

10:00 am at the Ridgewood Methodist Church, 100 Dayton

Street. The theme for this year’s celebration is “Standing on the

Side of Justice.”

Services will be conducted by Rev. Dr. James A. Forbes, Senior

Minister Emeritus of Riverside Church, President/Founder of the

Healing of the Nations Foundation. The program will include the

annual Village march and a lively afternoon program of con-

sciousness raising and fellowship featuring Mack Brandon & the

Connection.

Members of the Adventure Leadership Peer Support group from

Ridgewood High School pose for the camera before skiing Gore Moun-

tain, after a cold night around a campfire in the Adirondacks.

QUOTE TO REMEMBER...

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about

things that matter.” -Martin Luther King Jr.

Students in Lisa Valenti’s art class use computers to

design T-shirt prints.

Students read and study the Odyssey together, us-

ing both paperback books and Chromebooks, in the

hallways of Ridgewood High School.

Freshman, Cate Becker, won “Mr. D’s Great Snow-

flake Challenge,” in Daniel DaSilva’s art class.