The Week Ahead
All Week
Snack Duty: Wagstaff!
Monday, August 26 - In-Service
- 9:00 - 10:30am MS Technology Orientation (Wagstaff, Heath, Weiss, Shandrow), Library.
- 11:30 - 12 noon Grade 6 Pilot Summative Grading Overview meeting (Grade 6 teachers only), Strate's room.
- 1:00 - 2:30pm myAW Training: Gradebook set up and New Attendance Procedures (all MS), MS Lounge. Please review myAWResources for Teachers doc.
- 2:30 - 3:30pm How to use the Assignment Center (New Faculty), MS Lounge
- 5:00 - 6:30pm MS Technology Orientation (Wagstaff, Heath, Weiss, Shandrow), Library
Tuesday, August 27 - In-Service & Gator Day
- Gator Day
- 9:00 - 10:30am New MS students to AWS in the MS Lounge (Strate & Student Council)
- 9:00 - 11:00am Information sessions for new parents in Kemper (Wagstaff)
- IAP Training, MS Lounge
- 1:00 - 1:15pm Grade 6 teachers
- 1:15 - 1:30pm Grade 7 teachers
- 1:30 - 1:45pm Grade 8 teachers
- 1:45 - 2:00pm Library Resource Intro, MS Lounge (all MS)
- 2:00 - 2:15pm EPI Pen training, MS Lounge (all MS)
- 2:15 - 4:00pm Advisory Team Meetings doc
- Grade 6 Advisors, Strate's Room
- Grade 7 Advisors, Price's Room
- Grade 8 Advisors, Calcote's Room
Wednesday, August 28 - Opening Day
- Opening Day Schedule
- Please review the special lesson schedule below. This is also linked on the Opening Day Schedule above.
Thursday, August 29 - MS Orientation
Friday, August 30 - MS Orientation
Action Items
- Extra Duties Schedule occurs just on Wednesday this week. Please check this schedule.
- Orientation: Please remember if you are attending Orientation to bring a lunch for Thursday and your sleeping bag if you are staying overnight.
- In preparation for Opening Day, please ensure:
- Classroom has:
- At least 16 student chairs and sufficient desks (ideally 17 in case of a visitor)
- Posters of: PSA, MS Ten Essentials, ATL Skills (coming soon), IB Mission, & AWS Mission
- Emergency Flip Chart and Orange Emergency bag (please see Melanie Aamidor if one or more of these are missing)
- Statement Of Inquiry displayed (if you know this already)
- HW displayed as well as on myAW
- Outside your classroom on the bulletin board:
- SuperHero You!
- The big question associated with your class
- Extras you might like to add:
- Posters; student work examples; photos; Currently I am Reading poster.
Changes to the Week Ahead, Updates, & Reminders
- The Cheat Sheet for most of the important documents the MS Faculty might need to access is being updated as we speak. Please find this on the MS Team Drive or linked above.
Absent Students
- Follow this link for Anticipated Absent Students
Kudos!
- Thank you all for such a great start and for being so willing to jump in with all the training and classroom set up. It's been a pleasure to get to know all the new folk this last week, and I am excited to continue to build a remarkable MS team!
The Month Ahead
- Please see the MS Calendar online and linked MS Calendar doc.
