The Week Ahead
Advisory Slides Link
Monday, Sep 28
Tuesday, Sep 29
Wednesday, Sep 30
Thursday, Oct 1
Friday, Oct 2 - NO CLASSES
Action Items
Changes to the Week Ahead, Updates, & Reminders
Absent Students
Kudos!
The Month Ahead
Monday, Sep 28
- IAP kids on campus 8:00 am - 12:30 pm with Andrea and Clare in the Library.
- MS Chapel 2:00-2:15 pm - all to attend. This will probably overrun as we discuss our return next week.
- 2:20-3:00 pm - a reminder for students, these are NOT optional
- Grade 6 Toolbox class - Andrea
- Grade 7 Make it Monday class - Will making icecream
- Grade 8 Community Project - John and Angelica
- MS Leadership Team Meeting - review protocols and parent letter 3:00-3:30 pm
Tuesday, Sep 29
- IAP kids on campus 8:00 am - 12:30 pm with Andrea and Clare in the Library.
- Character Strong #3
- MS Leadership Team 2:20 pm - Cancelled
- MS Faculty Meeting - Review of schedule and procedures for an on-campus start Monday, October 5 2:30 pm
Wednesday, Sep 30
- IAP kids on campus 8:00 am - 12:30 pm with Andrea and Clare in the Library.
- Grade Level Team Meetings - Cancelled
- MS Town Hall - all please attend 6:00 pm Join Microsoft Teams Meeting
Thursday, Oct 1
- IAP kids on campus 8:00 am - 12:30 pm with Andrea and Clare in the Library.
- New Grade Level Teaching Assistants on campus for training (here is a description of their roles and duties)
- Molly Bergstrom - Grade 6
- Alexis Vanscoy - Grade 7
- James Kissler - Grade 8
- Advisory Challenge #2 + extended Advisory (until 2:30) to review return info and give advisees time to ask any additional questions
- MS Faculty Meeting 2:30-3:30 pm - Cancelled
- Grade Level Team Meeting - to review students who will be livestreaming. New Grade Level Teaching Assistants will also be present.
- Grade 6 - 2:30-3:00 pm
- Grade 7 - 3:00-3:30 pm
- Grade 8 - 3:30-4:00 pm
Friday, Oct 2 - NO CLASSES
- All faculty on campus to set up rooms
Action Items
- Who's on campus? If you need to find someone, here is a link to the results of the Google Survey I asked folks to complete by Monday morning. Here is the link to the survey and here are the results MS Faculty Teaching Locations. Everyone will be on campus on Friday to set up classrooms
- Interested in a monitor? A small group of teachers in LS and US have been using large monitors to see their kids rather than their regular computer screen. The idea for our return is that teachers could have the large monitor to display the faces on Teams of all the students who are online, this would then free up your screen to project items and potentially reduce the distraction for the rest of the class. We can purchase enough screens for everyone, but we would like to start with a trial of 4-5 teachers for the first two weeks and then expand after. The Tech Team will explain more, but if you already know that you are interested in being one of the first in the trial, please let me know.
- Duties Roster: With a return to campus, we will need to have supervision during snack and lunch. I am currently trying to organize this. Ideally, our plan is that no one covers a duty that has a class directly before AND after the assigned duty. Please look at your schedule and see if there are other issues that I am not aware of and should know as I look at assigning these duties.
- Please review the Sections Doc as these have now been updated with the changes for A, B, and C. Any issues, please let me know ASAP.
- Summative Assessments: As you start to assign your first summatives, we want to be able to give families a heads up about what is approaching. One way we have decided to do this is through the Grade Level Blogs. You will find a new tab on the Grade Level Meeting Doc called Units and Assessment. Please add your summatives here so that the Team Leaders can add this information to the blogs. Please see Will's Science example in there already.
Changes to the Week Ahead, Updates, & Reminders
- Meeting Changes: Please see the changes to this week's meetings listed above. I will send out all-new invites early on Monday. Tuesday's MS Faculty Meeting will be to review the new classroom protocols, the new schedule, and the tech team will also be present (as they will be all day on Friday) to answer questions ready for our start next week.
- Note that Thursday PM Advisory is a bit different this week: We will do the second Advisory Challenge, but we will also extend our PM Advisory time until 2:30 PM to allow us to review return details with students and give them time to ask additional questions. They will head to Athletics at 2:30 PM.
- Room Layouts: Please be aware that Mark, Judy, and I are putting the finishing touches to each room in regards to seating. Almost every room should have 12 desks and chairs, 6ft apart. We will also get tape that will be placed where these desks should stay, in case they get moved. Please note, that to accommodate this spacing, we had to move many teacher desks to the front of the rooms. Sorry!
- Opening tabs automatically in Chrome - Thank you Kyle for creating this video to help kids.
- Teams reminders
- A short video reminder of how to mute students directly through the chat or through settings.
- To stop the use of GIFS, stickers and memes, please follow these directions:
- For each of your teams, click on the three dots
- Then, click MANAGE TEAM
- Then, select SETTINGS
- Then, in FUN STUFF, de-check the boxes that allow for GIFS, stickers, memes, and custom memes
- How to Set Up Break-Out Rooms in Teams Video This is a great short video to watch to help you with
- How-To Technology Resources This is the Google document that has links to how-to written guides about Teams, Google Classroom, Microsoft Office, etc.
- Having a tech issue or need support from Erik or Eric? Please don't email, but submit and helpdesk ticket at helpdesk.aw.org. Please pick Online Academic Continuity Plan as the request type (it's the first choice on the list).
Sandra's PD Corner
- As always, that information and more is also available on the Professional Development Resource Board on MyAW, with links to several potential PD providers and opportunities.
- Here is the link for the "comment box." Reminder that this is for if there's anything else you need in terms of COVID support in the classroom, COVID testing questions, concerns about things you see, etc - whether you just want to let us know or want someone to follow up with you.
Faculty Dare
- Embrace the change and these will return when we find our new norm!
Absent Students
- Follow this link for Anticipated Absent Students
Kudos!
- I have continued to be impressed by the number of thoughtful and wonderful comments folks are sending via our Sunshine notes. Thank you for all going that extra mile to connect with our kids and their families.
- The transition back to campus AND teaching online too will be a struggle and require even more from all of you. Thank you in advance for your effort and commitment to this change and our students. I recognize that this is not easy.
The Month Ahead
- Please see the MS Calendar for now.
