MS Faculty Blog: Week Beginning October 28, 2019

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Athletics Winter 1 begins

The Week Ahead

Monday, October 28

We will be introducing Experience Days. If we finish early, we will return to advisory to work on Self-Reflections. Christian advisory will join Calcote.

Price's advisory to join Burton advisory
Athletics Practice for 7th and 8th grade Boys Basketball and Girls Soccer 2:05 - 2:35pm. No need to change into athletic gear.

IB Self-Study Meeting 3:30pm (LL & ART). If your teams cannot meet at this time, please let Angelica know when you will be meeting. This needs to be documented for the Self-Study.

Tuesday, October 29

Faculty Absent: Will, Shelli, and Angelica at Engaging Students Through Enquiry @ CWA 9am - 3pm. Subs: Randy Schneider for Will, Margie Bonzer for Angelica
MS Leadership Team Meeting @ 8:10am
Advisory Flex- Please ask students to:

Complete their Self-Reflections
Take the Experience Day Interest Survey that will be sent on Monday after chapel

Grade Level Team Meetings in the MS Faculty Workroom. CANCELED. Please use this time to work on your narratives

Wednesday, October 30

Long Advisory - starting at 10am to allow enough time for the pumpkin carving. Please have the pumpkins on the tables outside Angelica and Mary's room. They will be judged later that afteroon.

Following my seriously dodgy and gross eye last week, this idea I saw spoke to me!! If only I hade an advisory this year!.....

Thursday, October 31 - All School Civvies NO COSTUMES!

Please check in with Shelli regarding reports during this time. She will be in her room.

MS Faculty Meeting @ 3:15pm - Meet as advisory teams to plan activities for the upcoming full grade advisories. If you decide to meet at another time, please simply let Clare know.

Friday, November 1

Please remove all parts of the pumpkins you wish to keep by 3pm. The rest will be thrown away after school.
NO LS and MS Chapel today.
LS Fall Play @ 7pm in the Kemper

Action Items

Homework on Thursday: It is Halloween, so please don't set any homework on Thursday that is due Friday. Thank you.
Attendance of Meetings: There were a number of folks missing from our MS Faculty Meeting on Thursday. We rarely have these, but when we do the information is important and Shelli, Angelica, and I really do appreciate your attendance. If you cannot, and we know attendance is especially difficult for cross-divisional and PT teachers, it is essential that you please review the MS Faculty Meeting document. Please see us if there is something you need clarification on. We are here to help!
LS Play: Unfortunately, due to the lack of space, MS will not be attending the LS Play that is occurring during the day. We hope that we will take MS students to the future plays that our students are staring in.
Subject Reports: Just a reminder of these dates:

You each have your own folder to submit your narratives to linked here. Please send a quick email to Ruth. Clare, and Shelli, if you get ahead of the game and submit them prior to November 8, so we can start to review them. THANK YOU!

Changes to the Week Ahead, Updates, & Reminders

IB Webinars: For those of you interested in some of the changes we mentioned for MYP, here are the webinars I have been part of. They are really great and excellent PD if you have time to watch a recording of one.

Student Reflections: Please look at these and use them in your comment making for reports.

AWSPA Performance Booked! On January 27th, the whole MS will be attending the Peking Acrobats at the Pantages Theater in Tacoma. A modified schedule will be created for that day. But please mark your calendars for this amazing event!
Observations: Formal observations start next week and run until early January for our new teachers. Please note that peer observations are always welcome and I am happy to facilitate this if you would like. Otherwise, reach out to other teachers and spend 10-15 minutes watching another lesson. I have learned so much from doing these observations and it really is the best PD anyone can do!

Absent Students

Kudos!

A big thanks goes out to everyone for getting in their Subject Overviews for their subjects. THANK YOU! Keeping to the deadlines set is super helpful and makes the whole process go much smoother.

The Month Ahead

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