The Week Ahead
Monday, April 26
- Faculty Out
- Nate out from 2:00 pm
- Advisory to join Calcote
- Emily out all day:
- Molly to cover P2 Math; P4 Math
- Heidi out all day:
- Sub Ashley
- Alice out all day
- James to cover P3, P4, P5, and advisory
- Chapel 2:25 - 2:45pm
- Poem in your Pocket celebration
- Devon to announce Authentic Connections survey (maybe postponed)
- MS Faculty Quick Meeting 3:45 - 4:15 pm
Tuesday, April 27
- Faculty Out
- Nate leaving early at 2:30 pm - James to cover advisory
- Emily out - James to cover P1 Math and P2 Math
- PM Advisory 2:25 - 3:10 pm (Grade 7 will already have had a SH today)
- Grade 7 Chat POSTPONED
- MS Football Team dismissed at 2:30 PM (roster on AM Slides)
- MS Leadership Team Meeting 3:15 - 4:15 pm
- Faculty Out
- None
- Normal daily schedule
- Athletics or early dismissal at 2:25 pm
- Grade Level Team Meetings
- 2:30 - 3:00 pm Grade 7
- 3:00 - 3:30 pm Grade 8
- 3:30 - 4:00 pm Grade 6
- Faculty Out:
- Nate leaving early at 2:00 pm - Molly to cover 6 PHE and James to cover advisory
- MS Track Team early dismissal - 2:15 PM - roster on AM slides)
- PM Advisory 2:25 - 3:10 pm (all Grade 7 & 8 will have had a SH already today)
- AUTHENTIC CONNECTIONS SURVEY POSTPONED
- MS Faculty Meeting 3:15 - 4:15 pm
- Faculty Out:
- Nate leaving early at 2:30 pm - James to cover advisory
- Commencement Practice on the Bamford Commons all day.
- PM Advisory 2:25 - 3:10 pm
- Grade 8 - Please show part of last year's 8th Grade Chapel presentation to stimulate ideas and the student part of the 8th Grade video (about 12 minutes long) to give ideas.
- Grade 6 & 7 Study Hall
Action Items
Changes to the Week Ahead, Updates, & Reminders
- New:
- Grade 8 Advisors and teachers, please continue to be extra vigilant about the interactions between our students in 8th grade particularly.
- Continuing:
- Summer Work: As I mentioned at the MS Faculty meeting, please start to reflect on if you wish to give summer work. Traditionally, this has only been given in Math, LL and LA. At this point, I assume that these subjects will continue to do so. Here is the link to the template for this summer. Math, LL and LA, please add or delete as necessary. If you would like your subject to also assign work, please consider the following and then set up a time for us to connect:
- The purpose of this work
- How this will be monitored and graded
- The consequences of students NOT completing this work
- Sunshine Notes: Please attempt to send 2 sunshine notes each day this week. Please review the list of Sunshine & PC recipients but remember that this data is not automatically updated once a note is sent.
Changes to the Week Ahead, Updates, & Reminders
- MyAW Grading Reminders to Ignore: The Advisor Letter-Spring Advisor Letter and MS Academic - MS Q3 Grade, please ignore! These will remain as reminders in myAW until the Tech Team can address this. Thanks for your understanding.
- New Meeting: Please see the notes above about Monday's extra meeting.
- Affinity Day: Sorry team! If you normally teach on Wednesday, please make plans to do so. More information to come.
- Future PD:
- Friday, May 14 - TBD & DEI 10:30-12:30 pm
Sandra's PD Corner
Thank you, all for all your work today - in preparation for the PYP and MYP visits, and in further conversation with Kisha. It's all such important and good work. I hope Jake's laying out of the Leadership (and leadership) opportunities gives you a lot to think about. We'll send out more information soon with more details - but please feel free to reach out to me directly if any of them are particularly speaking to you or you want to discuss further!
Additionally, know that we are looking to be more intentional about how PD and these opportunities are linked - and how we can better deploy PD to support you in a variety of ways. Stay tuned for more communications on this. To that end, please remember that if you have a suggestion for PD that you think might be interesting or you are looking for a particular TYPE of PD and wish for some targeted outreach, let me know here! Link is also in the Idea Box in the F&S Teams. As always, the PD and DEI Resources pages continue to be updated. Kudos? Please share them here, we'd love to shower some praise on our colleagues and community members.Sunday is the Jains celebration of Mahavir Jayanti, and next Wednesday is the important Baha'i Ninth Day of Ridvan. Thursday at sundown the Jewish celebration of Lag BaOmer begins, the Eastern/Orthodox Christian church celebrates Holy Thursday, and the UN holds the Day of Remembrance for all Victims of Chemical Warfare. Friday the 30th is Holy Friday for the Orthodox/Eastern Christians and Lag BaOmer ends. That same day, the Pagan/Wiccan/Celtic celebration of Beltaine begins, and for our Vietnamese students and families, Friday the 30th is Liberation Day/Reunification Day, an immensely complicated day of remembrance that also holds deep significance for many in our armed forces.
Did you know there are 21 Questions of the Week? 5 are unanswered, and 5 only have one answer. 3 words for you: June. Trivia. Prizes. Would love to have more to work with!!
Kudos
- Kudos to Angelica and John for overseeing the Community Project Days. This has been a hard year to engage our students in remote service but this team has done this! Thanks for all the extra work they both put in last week.
- It was Administrative Professionals Day last week and so we celebrate Ruth and Anelisa for all their hard work! Our jobs are made significantly easier because of the work of these two folk. I certainly do not know what I would do without them! THANK YOU!
- A big thanks to Devon, Eireann, Jeremy, and Mike for leading the 8th grade chats on Thursday. While things currently feel very raw within the class, these chances to be open and honest were needed and the team did a great job facilitating such conversations.
Absent Students
- Follow this link for Anticipated Absent Students
The Month Ahead
- Friday, April 30 - Civvies Day
- Wednesday, May 5 - Friday, May 7 - MYP Virtual Visit
- Friday, May 14 - PD Day
- Friday, May 28 - Civvies Day
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