​Olathe North parent enrollment meeting will be Monday, February 3rd in the commmons from 6-8pm.  This is an informative meeting to help with all needs for Olathe North students enrollment for the 2020-2021 school year.  We will have presentations in English and Spanish.  The presentation will be given by the Olathe North counseling department.  See you Monday night.    Please park in either front or the back of the school.  Please enter the school through Culinary entrance or south commons entrance.  
 
Jason Herman
Principal
Olathe North High School 

Dear Olathe North parents,
 
We wanted to make you aware about an addition to our visitor management process. This school year, Olathe Public Schools will begin using the Raptor Visitor Management System in select buildings before implementing in all buildings across the district. The Raptor system will strengthen our ability to screen visitors, contractors and volunteers in our school in alignment with our current school safety initiatives.
 
Similar to our current protocol, visitors will still be asked to show ID, such as a driver’s license or government-issued ID, at our doors. Visitors who wish to go beyond the front office will be asked to show their ID again which will be scanned or manually entered into the Raptor system. By entering an ID into the Raptor system, the identity will be compared with the national database of registered sex offenders.
 
Data from the ID will not be shared with any outside agency.
 
Once a visitor has been cleared, a printed visitor badge will be issued with the individual’s photo, date and purpose of their visit. This sticker is to be worn during the entirety of a visit, much like our current procedure.
 
Please understand this new layer of security is not intended to discourage parents from visiting their child at school. We welcome visitors and encourage parents to be play an active role in their child’s educational experience. The goal is to simply enhance the safety and security of both students and staff by prohibiting school access who pose a potential threat.
 
As the safety and security of students, staff and our patrons is our top priority, we appreciate your patience as we strengthen our safety and security practices. Please let me know if you have any questions.

Please see the attached video links for detailed information.
English:    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbwoOEVmHEM
 
Spanish:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnB4P2zKQOQ


Jason Herman
Principal 
Olathe North High School

Olathe North will be celebrating Black History month during February.  Please see the tentative plans listed below.  We will also be teaching the understanding of cultural appropriation, to ensure that all students and staff are sensitive and appropriate during spirit week. 
 
February 2nd: Hall decoration @Olathe north from 12:00-3:30, 00  hall, 400 hall, Upper commons, 900 hall, etc. (Quotes, Positive Images, Trivia Questions, Flyers and Etc)

2/03/20. Monday Announcement:
Black History Month is a month set aside to learn, honor, and celebrate the achievements of Black men and women throughout history.
Carter G Woodson created and promoted “Negro History Week” in 1926. It was expanded to “Black History Month in 1976.
Please keep your ears open for announcements this Month.

2/04/20 “I Have a Dream that my four little children will one day live in a Nation where they will not be judged by the Color of their skin, but by the content of their character” … Dr. Martin Luther King Jr

2/05/20 “Black History Month must be more than just a month of remembrance; it should be a tribute to our history and reminder of the work that lies in the months and years ahead.” —Marty Meehan

2/06/20“Black history isn’t a separate history. This is all of our history, this is American history, and we need to understand that. It has such an impact on kids and their values and how they view black people.” —Karyn Parsons

2/07/20 “Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.” —Coretta Scott King
2/010/20.    “Won’t it be wonderful when black history and Native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. history.” —Maya Angelou

2/11/20 “Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.”
—Langston Hughes

2/17/20 “Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.”
—Booker T. Washington

2/18/20 “One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don’t invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.” —Michelle Obama

2/19/20        I am America.  I am the part you won’t recognize.  But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me.” —Muhammad Ali

2/20/20   “I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality…. I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.” —Martin Luther King, Jr

2/21/20 “Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals.      ----Dorothy Height

2/24/20  “I need to see my own beauty and to continue to be reminded that I am enough, that I am worthy of love without effort, that I am beautiful, that the texture of my hair and that the shape of my curves, the size of my lips, the color of my skin, and the feelings that I have are all worthy and okay.” —Tracee Ellis Ross

2/25/20 “True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.” —Arthur Ashe

2/26/20” No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”----- Alice Walker
 
2/27/20 “We have learned to fly the air like birds and swim the sea like fish, but we have not learned the simple art of living together as brothers. Our abundance has brought us neither peace of mind nor serenity of spirit.” —Martin Luther King, Jr

2/28/20  "Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” —Barack Obama
 
Feb 24-28 BSU Black History Spirit Week
February 24th- “Icon Day” favorite black athlete or celebrity/entertainer.
February 25th- “Culture who, Culture you” represent your culture.
February 26th- “Soul Train” favorite blackmusic artist
February 27th- “College Apparel Day” favorite college shirt or sweatshirt.
February 28th- “Black Out” wear all black for BSU presentation and spirit day.

Olathe Student Receives National Accolade:

Olathe North High School senior Eddie Dai was one of 300 students named as a scholar in the Regeneron Science Talent Search. Dai’s project, titled “Differential Expression of Retrotransponsons in Stem Cell Lineages of the Preimplantation Embryo,” will make him the beneficiary of a $2,000 award with an additional $2,000 going to Olathe North.
“We are so proud of Eddie and all his accomplishments,” Olathe North Principal Jason Herman said. “Not only is he being recognized for this prestigious award, he has also represented Olathe North in many other academic and activity spaces. He scored a 36 on his ACT, National Science Bowl Team, 2018 Scholars Bowl Kansas 6A State Championship, National Qualifier in Congressional Debate, Science Olympiad State Champion, National Merit Semifinalist and many other awards and honors. Congratulations Eddie, you deserve all the accolades.”

​Olathe North Theater Director Named Teacher of the Year:
Dustin Pence, Olathe North High School theater director, was honored at the Kansas Thespian Festival by being named as the Kansas Thespian Region 2 Teacher of the Year. The festival was held Jan. 10, in Wichita, Kansas.
“Congratulations to Mr. Pence for being named the 2020 Region 2 Thespian Teacher of the Year,” Olathe North Principal Jason Herman said. “This award is so deserved; he is passionate about his students and the Olathe North Theater Department. The productions he and his students put onstage are absolutely amazing.”
Olathe Students Thrive at Kansas Thespian Festival

Due to the inclement weather forecast, the following decisions have been made:

• No Friday USD 233 events can begin after 6:00 PM. 
• All Saturday events are canceled, including out-of-town trips and practices.
• All facility rental groups are canceled for Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.
• We have some high school groups that are already out-of-district for various trips and returning on Saturday.  Their return back to Olathe will be determined tomorrow.  I will communicate with athletic/activity directors on Saturday to determine the best plan of action.  

 
Many thanks to our snow removal crews who will work diligently all weekend to have parking lots safe for Monday! Thanks for your understanding, flexibility, and support!  Stay safe this weekend and Go Chiefs.
 
Tim Brady
Director of Athletics/Activities
Olathe Public Schools
14160 Black Bob
Olathe, KS 66063

​Due to the impending bad weather this Saturday, the ACT prep class for January 11th has been moved.  The class will now be held on Saturday, January 25th from 8:30am-12:45pm in the Library.  If you hadn’t signed up, but are interested in the class you are still able to sign up.  Just bring registration information and money to Mrs. Sherraden in the front office.

Enrollment for the 2020-21 School Year is just around the corner. All 9-11th grade students will be working on enrollment Jan 16th and 23rd in both Advisory & Seminar. They will be receiving folders with all needed information next Thursday and students will have roughly 2 weeks to complete. Counselors will meet with students to finalize and submit online enrollment in classes as follows:
 
Juniors via US History Tues, Jan 28th
Sophomores via English II Friday, Jan 31st
Freshmen via Modern World History Tues, Feb 4th
 
If you have questions, please contact your student’s counselor!

****MORE INFORMATION TO COME!!