The Week Ahead
All Week
Monday, September 9
- Student Council Rep packets are available from Shelli. Please encourage your advisees to run as a Representative for their grade.
- First MS Chapel 10:15 - 10:45am
- Grade 6 Recognitions
- Please sit with your advisory in the assigned seats.
- All School Meeting 3:30 - 5:00pm in the Great Hall
- If you are unsure of your Incident Command System team, please ask Melanie.
Tuesday, September 10
- Grade Level Team Meetings in the MS Faculty Workroom
- Grade 7 3:15 - 3:45pm
- Grade 8 3:45 - 4:15pm
- Grade 6 4:15 - 4:45pm
- Please read the summer and transition notes on students and add any noteworthy observations prior to 3pm on the Grade Level Team Meeting Notes.
Wednesday, September 11
- Long Advisory - Topic of Inclusion
Thursday, September 12 - Dress Uniform (remind your advisees about this!)
- Picture Day Schedule
- 10:10am Grade 8 & Advisors
- 10:20am Grade 7 & Advisors
- 10:35am Grade 6 & Advisors
- New MYP Faculty meeting with Angelica @ 2:20pm in the MS Faculty Workroom
- No MS Faculty Meeting
- Curriculum Night #1 6:30 - 8:00pm in the Library
- Design; PHE; Science; Math
Friday, September 13
- First LS & MS Chapel @ 2:00 - 2:15pm - Please ensure that students are departing your class a little early if possible. Leave bags in classrooms and do not bring to Chapel.
- Revised Math sections communicated to Grade 7 and 8 families.
- Back to School Picnic 5-7pm. All are invited.
Action Items
- Introduction to Advisee Families: If you have not yet done this, please make a priority by the end of Monday. Thank you.
- Curriculum Night #1
- Presentation: Please make sure you have added to this Google Slide presentation no later than the end of Wednesday. The directions for what to include and who is presenting at what time can be found here.
- Dinner: If you are planning on staying through and would like to stay at school for dinner, please let Ruth know by Wednesday at noon, so we can loop the kitchen in.
- NAIS People of Color Conference: If you are interested in attending the POCC conference on Friday, December 4-7, 2019, please submit this form (it will take 2 seconds, promise) as soon as possible. Sandra is looking to finalize the cohort before the end of September.
- Clubs: Clubs will start on Friday, September 20, 10:15 - 10:45am, for a total of 8 sessions. Shelli will be sending out an email regarding offering you may be interested in sharing with the students.
Changes to the Week Ahead, Updates, & Reminders
- Looking for Devon? Here is her current schedule.
- Welcome to Mary Reynolds! We were very lucky to find a replacement for John so quickly. Mary comes to us with a background in Oceanography and a passion for MS aged students. She spent Thursday and Friday observing lessons, getting caught up on the logistics of being at AWS, and planning for the weeks ahead. Mary will take over all of Niki's classes and advisory. To give the Taylor advisory a little more stability, Liz Sullivan will also be joining Mary to help support this group.
- Long Advisory Inclusion Lesson: All material will be supplied at the Grade Level Team Meetings on Tuesday for this. Thank you, Shelli.
- MS Faculty Meeting schedule is still a work in progress, but Angelica and I hope to get the dates and topics sorted this week and confirmed on the MS calendar ASAP.
- Students missing athletics: If a student says they cannot take part in athletics, please still send them to the Sports Department. There is no waiver anymore to supervise them in MS. If they are sick, please send them to Paula and she will decide if they should stay with her or return to sports and sit out.
- I got to spend a lot of quality time with the Board last week, with Diversity Training run by Alison Parks all Thursday afternoon and the Board meeting on Friday. I had the honor of presenting about the MS on Friday, in a short ten-minute presentation about the goals of MS this year. We will talk about these as the year progresses but please see me if you have specific questions. They were as follows:
- MYP: Begin the MYP Self Study, completion of Action Plan, and wider community education on our program
- Teacher Excellence: Onboarding of new teachers and teacher retention; Highlight and build excellence
- Math: Developmental and successful implementation of new courses
- Social-Emotional Learning: Enhanced opportunities to promote social and emotional safety, wellness and learning.
- MS Growth: Evaluate the impact of MS potential student capacity
Absent Students
- Follow this link for Anticipated Absent Students
Kudos!
- To Will Wilde for the onboarding of Mary and helping team teach the Grade 7 and 8 lessons this week. A lot of responsibility fell on Will, but he stepped up and helped the sub and Mary really find their way. Thank you for coming across as way more experienced than an AWS teacher of 4 weeks should be!
- Thank you to the Tech Department - Eric, Erik, and Angela for Tech Orientation this year. As usual, we host a number of opportunities for students and their families to learn more about their new laptops and our policies here at AWS. In addition, Erik and Eric have spent many hours setting up the new student laptops and helping with the Grade 6 training on Wednesday. Thank you all for your skills, patience, and ability to problem-solve with us all these last few weeks.
The Month Ahead
- Monday, September 9 - Student Council Class Rep packets available
- Thursday, September 12 - Picture Day & MS Curriculum Night #1 6:30 - 8:00pm
- Friday, September 13 - Back to School Picnic 5:00 - 7:00pm
- Monday, September 16 - SC Campaign Week - SC Class Rep packets due back to Shelli
- Wednesday, September 18 - All School Spanish Collaboration Day
- Thursday, September 19 - Grade 6 Parent Coffee 7:45am
- Wednesday, September 25 - Grade 6 Ropes Course all-day
- Thursday, September 26 - Grade 7 Parent Coffee 7:45am
- Friday, September 27 - All School Civvies
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