Week Beginning March 16, 2020

The Week Ahead

Virtual MS Schedule

Advisory 8:00-8:15am 

1 8:15 - 8:50am

2 8:50 - 9:25am 

Break 9:25 - 9:35am

3 9:35 - 10:10am

4 10:10 - 10:45am

Break 10:45 - 10:55am

5 10:55 - 11:30am

6 11:30 - 12:05pm

Advisory 12:05 - 12:20pm

Monday, 16

• Absent:
•  Natalie Blake 
• Taiah Mitchell (family trip)
• In Advisory today: 
• 6, 7 & 8 - Check-in. Can every access advisory? Please let Shelli or Clare know if someone is struggling and we will reach out to help.

Tuesday, 17

• Absent: 
• Elizabeth Peterson (dance exam). Back online at 11am.
• Hannah Zhang (piano performance). Back online after 10:40am.
• Avah Snodgrass (late with no reason)
• In Advisory today: 
• 6, 7 & 8 - General check-in.

Wednesday, 18

• Absent: 
• Jack MacCord
• In Advisory today: 
• 6, 7 & 8 - If things are going well and your students seem to be navigating the virtual learning, please ask them to complete their Subject Reflections. 
• Changes to Grade 6 - See Shelli's emails
• Meeting with Blackbaud regarding Assessment (Clare, Shelli, Jen H, and Erik) 1pm in TEAMS.

Thursday, 19

• Absent: 
• None as of 3pm 03/15/20
• In Advisory today: 
• 6, 7 & 8 - Take Google Form Survey about the first week. Clare to send to all Thursday morning. 

Friday, 20 - End of Q3

• Absent: 
• None as of 3pm 03/15/20
• In Advisory today: 
• 6, 7 & 8 - If things are going well and your students seem to be navigating the virtual learning, please ask them to complete their Subject Reflections. 
• Changes to Grade 6 - See Shelli's emails
• Subject Overviews due by 8am 
• MS Faculty Meeting in TEAMS @ 1:30pm CHANGE IN TIME AND DAY
• Let's check-in about how the week went and what changes we need to make for after Spring Break. 

Microsoft Teams Tips and Updates

• It appears that we cannot record our meetings in channels. The reason we were able to record our meeting as a MS Faculty on Friday, was because this was as a whole team, and not subsections (6 Grade Advisory, 7B LA, etc.). However, the text chat that occurs apparently will be saved. 

• If you did want to record your lesson you can do this by starting Quicktime and selecting all your screen to record. Then simply post it to the channel. 

• Please wait until all your students have left a video or chat before you do! Once you are out, they cannot rejoin. 

• Having issues? Can't see your kids? 
• Please make sure you are in the App and not on the webpage. 
• Add Erik Weiss to your channel. We have no idea why, but it seems to work!

Action Items

• Welcome to AWS Virtual Middle School Just a reminder about the directions we have sent out to our students. Please review and refer to these as needed. All our students have this electronically and a paper copy. 

• Please email those students missing 3 minutes into class - you might want to make it more like 5+ being the first week. I will attempt to connect with students to help them get logged on if they are not present. 

Changes to the Week Ahead, Updates, & Reminders

• Subject Reflections: If you think your advisories can continue with these reflections, please go ahead and remind them about these. Below are the results of their answers. 
• Grade 6 
• Grade 7 
• Grade 8

• Subject Narrative Reports: We are pushing this back a week and they are now due on Monday, April 20. We hope to have these released to parents on what would have been conference day, April 24.  As things progress, we will review if this deadline still seems appropriate. 

Absent Students

• Follow this link for Anticipated Absent Students

Kudos / Funny Stuff / Anything other than work....

• So as much as I thought I might enjoy time alone at home, I can already feel the boredom setting in. Thank goodness for Netflix, online shopping, and a stack of books I have been meaning to read. If you have any recommendations for things to watch, read etc., please fire away! This week's recommendations are a curiosity of a lunchtime conversation with Ann, Sandra, and Shelli. What do you think? 
• Good Omen 
• Fleabag
• Sex Ed 

The Month Ahead

• Who knows......