Click on the image above to read the Morning Announcements!
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View Grades Online!
San Jose Unified School District offers parents and students the opportunity to keep track of school assignments, grades, and attendance through the Pinnacle Internet Viewer.
Pinnacle Internet Viewer
Click on the link above and get started:
1. Enter your student ID number
2. Enter your PIN Code
1st two letters of student's last name
2nd & 3rd digits of student's ID number
4th & 5th digits of your phone number
The number 5
3. Select "Willow Glen High School"
4. Click "Request Report" button
For complete directions on how to use the Pinnacle Internet Viewer, click here:
PIV Directions (PDF)
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Having Problems sending email to your student's teacher?
Click on the following link to the San Jose Unified School District website to get instructions on how to register your email address so your email gets through!
Parent_Email_Registration
For a full list of Willow Glen High School teachers by department, with links to their email addresses, click here:
http://www.sjusd.org/sites/high/WillowGlenHigh/staff.html
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SAT TEST PREPARATION AT WILLOW GLEN HIGH SCHOOL
WGHS SAT Preparation
WGHS is pleased to offer FREE SAT test preparation. Students may register to use the CollegeBoard Online SAT Preparation Course free of charge. Students wanting to use the course must get their personal registration code from the College and Careers Center.
Revolution Test Prep.
In preparation for the spring SATs, Willow Glen High School has teamed up with Revolution Prep to hold classes on campus leading up to the March 1st and May 3rd SAT test dates. The next round of classes will begin on March 15th to prepare for the May 2008 test date.
For more details on Revolution Prep classes offered at Willow Glen High School, please click on the link below:
Revolution SAT Preparation Courses
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Willow Glen High School Partners with Get In 2 College
Get In 2 College is a web-based resource through which the "Get In 2 College Handbook", a guide to college exploration and application for students of all grade levels can be downloaded and printed.
In addition, WGHS is granted access to the Get In 2 College non-public website. This website offers many links to web-based resources on a wide range of college/career topics, including information on College Exploration, Two-year College Resources, College Planning for Athletes, College Planning for Minority, Low-Income, First-Generation Students, Financial Aid, Scholarships, Summer Programs, Internship/Gap Year Programs, Personality and Career Assessments, Help with Essays, Resumes and Applications, and much, much more!
Also included are other materials such as calendars for students at each grade level, college check lists by grade level, check lists for college visits and applications, and off- to- college check lists.
Click here to check out Get In 2 College
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Willow Glen High School in Partnership with Dynamite Sports!
In an effort to provide resources and educate our staff and families with regards to college athletics and the recruiting process, we recently purchased an On-line Educational Recruiting System. This POWERFUL system has three integrated websites and includes over 120 streaming videos, 15 power-point presentations and hundreds of charts and documents. They will provide us ALL the tools necessary to make knowledgeable choices and decisions and ultimately help our student-athletes be more prepared and find the right opportunity.
Use this system to create a “Blueprint for Success” and help Willow Glen HS student-athletes achieve their ACADEMIC & ATHLETIC goals for college, whatever they may be!
Click on the following link to view the system components and gain access:
Willow Glen High School and Dynamite Sports
Be sure to bookmark this link or “Add to your favorites.”
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RAM Pride sweatshirts available at last!
Only $45 for the basic sweatshirt small, medium, large, x-large (xxl=$50). Once ordered sweatshirts will be available for pick up at WGHS in the student store. Please include an accurate phone number for us to contact you when they come in.
Call today to place your order 408-535-6330 ext. 608 or email Melissa Foster, Director of Activities at mccoymus5@yahoo.com
Checks made out to WGHS can be mailed in with the specific order.
Click here for a look at the RAM Pride Sweatshirt!
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Homework Help Online!
Here are links to two free online resources for help with homework.
Hippocampus
The goal of HippoCampus is to provide high-quality, multimedia content on general education subjects to high school and college students free of charge. Subjects covered are: Algebra, Biology, Calculus, Environmental Science, Government, History, and Physics.
www.hippocampus.org/
San Jose Public Library Online Tutoring
Live homework help offered everyday from 1 pm to 10 pm. Spanish Language assistance in Math and Science available Sunday to Thursday from 1 pm to 7 pm.
*Connect one-to-one with real tutors
* Grade 4 through Sophomore Year College
* Math, Science, English and Social Studies
http://www.sjlibrary.org/services/reference/live_homework.htm
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Homework Center
The Homework Center is open Monday to Thursday from 2:15 pm to 3:45 pm, in the Gene and Mickey Long Media Center. Computers will be available for students to do word processing and teacher and peer tutoring will be offered.
Click on the following link for more information.
WGHS Homework Center
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Calling all Volunteers! Want to help at WGHS?
The Administration, Teachers and Parent Club would like to invite you to volunteer at WGHS. If you can spare an hour a week, an hour a month or would just like to help with special events please click on the link below for our Volunteer Form.
Calling all Volunteers (PDF)
Calling All Volunteers SPA (PDF)
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WGHS Introduction Video
Rick Guptill, husband of Kim Guptill, President of the Willow Glen Foundation has put together a really cool video about Willow Glen High School. This video is only for high speed internet users!!! If you are on dial-up you will not want to wait for it to load, this video is over 13min. in length! Click here to see the video, it should open up in a separate window.
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