Week Beginning September 11, 2023

 Congrats to the four folks who picked Safeway! Kyle, Katie, Kerrin, and Tracey lead the competition with 1 point each. Good luck for next week!

ACTION ITEMS

• Emergency Drills: Make sure to review the emergency drill booklets in your classrooms. We will have a drill each month. If you are missing one of these, please contact Jean Webber.

• Calls to Advisee Families: A quick reminder that if you haven't yet called your advisory families, please do so. Here is an outline of what you might say!

• Review the Handbook - from Omari: Once done, in paycom, go to Documents - Action Required to state you have. You should have received communication from Omari about this 

• Review the Snapshot: Edited or updated for: 
• Grade 6 - Myla
• Grade 7 - Paisley, Colin, Sammy 
• Grade 8 - No one

• Service PD: Last call for this! If you are interested, please chat with Dimpy for more information and then email Dimpy and me. 

FYI 

• Learning support pull-out starts this week. Families and students were emailed on Thursday

• DEI Committee: The meetings will start on Tuesday, the 19th, not this week due to the Curriculum Night this week. 

• MS Faculty Meeting Cancelled :-) Thanks instead for your extra effort at the Curriculum Night this week.

• RI/Growth Measure Directions: Coming later this week. 

 USEFUL LINKS

• MS Morning Slides (show during period 1)
• MS Schedule 23-24
• MS Sections 23-24
• Transcript Progress Tracker and HS Transcript and Recommendation Sharepoint instructions
• Sunshine Tracker document
• Ordering Link
• Classroom Behavior Tracker Google Form
• Classroom Behavior Tracker Responses
• Committee Review Directions- New Student Applicants
• IAP Snapshot 23-24
• MS Cell Phone Numbers
• Middle School Norms: What AWS MS Faculty Should Know! 
• Quarter 1 Calander (please see the MS Schedule and the Q1 tab)

WEEK AHEAD

Monday, Sep 11

• A Day 
• Visitors: None
• Faculty out: Will - Sub Mara
• MS Gathering - in the Great Hall

• Overview expectations 

• All School Chapel  
•   All grades in the chapel
• After School Meeting with Westgate Captial 403b planning - Mandatory for new folks. 3:30-4:30pm

Tuesday, Sep 12

• B Day
• Visitors: None 
• Faculty out: Will - Sub Mara
• Grade 6 GLTM 7:45-8:15 am (Carie & Bri's room) 
• Focus on new students 
• Advisory:
• Review Habits and Collect Feedback with 7 & 8 by Advisory (please click here for the template for your discussion - see directions on Slide 2)
• Flex 3 - Grade 7 writing sample #2
• Office Hours - Grade 6 writing sample #2
• DEI Meeting 3:30-4:00 pm - CANCELLED. Starts next week
• MS Curriculum Night #1 6:00 - 7:30 pm Great Hall 

Wednesday, Sep 13 - LINH'S BIRTHDAY!

• A Day
• Visitors: None
• Faculty out: Will - Sub Mara; Andrea out from 11 am Sub Zach
• Grade 7 GLTM 7:45-8:15 am (Carie & Bri's room) 
• Focus on new students 
• Advisory: 
• Advisory Choice
• RI/Growth Measure testing in LL in Grade 6- directions here
• MS Leadership Team Meeting 2:30-3:30 pm
• MS Faculty Meeting 3:30 - 4:30 pm (Carie & Bri's room) 

•   CANCELLED

Thursday, Sep 14

• B Day
• Visitors: None
• Faculty out: None
• Grade 8 GLTM 7:45-8:15 am (Carie & Bri's room) 
• Focus on new students 
• Advisory: 
• Reflections 
• RI/Growth Measure testing in LL in Grade 7
• US to lunch early at 12:15 pm 

Friday, Sep 15

• A Day
• Visitors: None
• Faculty out: Amanda - Sub Mara; Linh - Sub Zach 
• Fire Drill at 10:45 or 11 am
• Advisory: 
• Advisory Choice
• US to lunch early at 12:15 pm 
• Clubs Time: Teacher Trivia Advisory Challenge 
• Meet your advisory in your room to take attendance
• Remind students to bring a writing utensil with them
• Then all head to James Memorial Field together and sit with your advisory at the far end of the field
• Shelli will give directions, and then she will ask all advisors to spread out around the back half of the field (so the kids have to run to us)
• Advisories will have 20 minutes to get as many correct answers as they can to the trivia questions she will provide.
• The top five winning advisories will earn points in the competition - and those advisories will be announced at our next MS Gathering