Week Beginning February 7, 2022

The Sunshine Club was spreading the love in MS on Friday. You will likely see these stuck on doors and windows throughout the MS. 

 Action Items

• COMPUTER ISSUES: 
• The Tech team needs to physically work on every student's laptop over the next few weeks. Schedule:
• Grade 8 - Wednesday, Feb 8
• Grade 6 - Wednesday, Feb 23
• Grade 7 - Wednesday, March 2
• TUESDAY OFFICE HOURS: Have each 8th Grader put their first and last name on a piece of masking tape on the front of their laptop. Shelli will bring around masking tape. Please also remind them to fully chart their laptops Tuesday night.
• If you are teaching 8th graders during 6th Period on Wednesday, at the end of class, please have them LOG OFF their computers and deliver them to the Tech Team in their office at 2:10 pm  
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• Please also remind them during Office Hour that they should make sure their laptops are FULLY charged when they arrive to school on Wednesday. I’ll post a reminder of this on the Tuesday AM slides as well.

• TICKET TO THRIVE: All MS faculty, please save the date for Saturday, February 12, 9am - 12 noon for our annual admissions event. Want to learn more? Click here We will also meet for 20 minutes on Thursday to discuss the expectations etc. See you all there!

• VISITING STUDENTS: If you have the opportunity to interact with one of the many students who visited MS this last week, we would really like your feedback on them. Please complete the Committee Review in myAW as soon as possible. Here is the link for the directions to do this. 

Useful Links

• MS Morning Slides (show during period 1)
• MS Schedule
• SEL MS Lessons
• MS Folder Vidigami
• Transcript Progress Tracker
• Sunshine Tracker document

 The Week Ahead

Monday, February 7

• Bri out - Gloria subbing
• MS Gathering
• To be confirmed
• VARSITY Soccer has an early release at 2:15 PM
• All School Chapel
• MS in attendance. Focus on Black History Month

Tuesday, February 8

• New Faculty Meeting in the MS Faculty Workroom @ 8:10 - 8:55 am
• Focus: MYP with Bri
• Advisory Period
• Character Strong Lesson:
• 6th Grade - lesson # 14 onwards (whichever one you need to do next)
• 7th Grade - lesson #12
• 8th Grade - lesson #12
• VARSITY Basketball has an early release at 2:15 PM
• Reports released by 4:00 pm in myAW

Wednesday, February 9

• Advisory Period
• Advisor Choice
• Grade Level Team Meetings -
• 2:45 - 3:15 pm  - 8th
• 3:15-3:45 - 6th 
• 3:45-4:15 - 7th 
• Grade 8 to take their laptops to the Tech Department at the end of P6. They will not have them overnight. 

Thursday, February 10

• Dimpy & Bri out - Mara subbing
• Advisory Period
• Advisor Choice
• JV and VARSITY Basketball has an early release at 1:45 to catch ferry
• MS Leadership Team Meeting 2:30 - 3:10 pm in the MS Faculty Workroom 
• MS Faculty Meeting - 3:30-4:00 pm Amanda's room. 
• Quick overview of Ticket to Thrive

Friday, February 11

• Dimpy out - Mara subbing 
• Advisory Period
• Advisor Choice
• Discussion Club #1

Changes to the Week Ahead, Updates, & Reminders

• LUNCH LOCATIONS JAN 31 - FEB 4: 
• Grade 8 & Wagstaff - Bamford Commons
• Grade 7 & Strate - Dining Hall
• Grade 6 & Iwamoto/Wilde - Tent

• STUDENT SUPPORT:
• Checkin/checkout (CICO)
• Ben Smith; Rachael Turnipseed (trial week) Luke Ionescu (specific subjects only)
• Lunch Club (with Wilde in the lunchroom)
• No one at present. 

• PROGRESS CONCERNS: 
• Thank you for keeping our families updated about their students' progress. When writing these, consider that while they need to be factual, they also need to be supportive and action-oriented. We have a context to the reasoning behind the concern; families may not. If you need help crafting what you need to say, please reach out for help from Shelli or me. Thank you. 

The Month Ahead

• Saturday, Feb 12 - Ticket to Thrive 
• Thursday, Feb 17 - Inservice Day 
• Friday, Feb 18 - No school 
• Monday, Feb 21 - No school
• Saturday, Feb 26 - Gator Gala