The creative juices were certainly flowing Friday afternoon! The chaotic nature of this event is wonderful to watch, but I certainly acknowledge that it can also feel like a lot for the advisors supervising and navigating this Advisory challenge. A big thank you to all the advisors for rallying the troops at the end of a long week and helping implement this annual tradition. They look amazing!!
ACTION ITEMS
- ED during In-Service: If you need this, please use this Google Form to let us know.
- Sunshine Notes: Please review who you have not yet sent a Sunshine Note and consider taking 5 minutes to write a quick, but thoughtful one. GLTM time this week for 6th and 7th will be given for us to collaborate and write them for certain kids. 8th grade team, we won't have a GLTM for you, so please feel free to independently do this.
- Committee Review Notes: If you haven't filled in the Committee Review for visiting students and for TtoT, please do this ASAP, especially if you have strong observations we should be aware of.
FYI
- The In-Service schedule is planned and linked in the Special Schedule doc. There will be department work time and time for updating units in Toddle. Each subject department can spend the time collaborating as they see best. So please reflect on whether your team will use this time to look at alignment across the grades, moderation of a summative, digging into how the habits are taught and assessed in your subject, IDU opportunities, connections to a Journey, etc.
myAW – Attendance Update: Sorry team, this is out of our control.... At some point in the future (no clear start date has been provided), the way we take attendance will shift – most likely without warning. Here’s what will happen:
- We will no longer have an ALL PRESENT option. As teachers, we will need to select a status for each student
- Individual student boxes will no longer default to PRESENT (MS and US only) – again, we’ll need to manually make a selection for each student.
- If our tech team has control over the order in which options appear, they will select PRESENT to go at the top, but they are unsure whether they will have that control
- Reports: The logistics of getting everyone's narratives into the system and then compiling them with the criterion reports sounds simple, but it is not. Ruth has worked a lot of hours on this and she is doing the final tweaks, so we HOPE to have this done by the end of Tuesday.
- Grade 8 Special Schedule Days: A reminder that when we return after the long weekend, Wednesday and Thursday (Feb 21 & 22) will be special schedules for all Grade 8 students and no regular classes. We are currently finalizing the schedule for these two days. Assume if you normally teach Grade 8 on either day, that you will be involved in some way with the activities being led by Heidi and Lei' La'. More to come!
- MS Morning Slides (show during period 1)
- MS Schedule 23-24
- MS Sections 23-24
- FRIDAY CLUBS ROSTERS
- Transcript Progress Tracker and HS Transcript and Recommendation Sharepoint instructions
- Sunshine Tracker document
- Ordering Link
- Student Classroom Issue Form 23-24 (response sheet)
- Committee Review Directions- New Student Applicants
- IAP Snapshot 23-24
- MS Cell Phone Numbers
- Middle School Norms: What AWS MS Faculty Should Know!
- Testing Accommodation Support Request Google Form
WEEK AHEAD
Monday, Feb 12 - reports released in myAW
- B Day
- Visitors: None
- Faculty out: Dimpy - Mara. Linh - Linda Johnson, Carie - Internal, but Jennifer Cox also present to support
- MS Gathering - in the Great Hall
Lunar New Year focus
- Varsity Girls' Basketball and Varsity Boys' Soccer have HOME games with early releases at 2:30 PM; JV Basketball also has a game, but no early release is needed
- All School Chapel :
Red House (10th, 6th, and 2nd Grades) will be having its next House Social on Monday beginning at 2:30 PM. During the social, we will be making house-colored origami paper cranes that will later be used in an all-school art installation.
- Families #1-15 should meet in the LIBRARY (Ariel to lead)
- Wilde and Johnson and Aveline to support
- Families #16-30 should meet in the Great Hall (Shelli to lead)
- Dodge and Golding to support
Tuesday, Feb 13
- A Day
- Visitors: None
- Faculty out: Dimpy - Mara.
- Grade 6 GLTM 7:45-8:15 am (room 2432)
- Who needs a Sunshine Note?
- Advisory:
- Continue and finish working on the Heroes Activity
- Tentative JV Soccer HOME game at 3:15 - if it ends up happening, JV Soccer will have a 2:30 early release
- DEI Meeting 3:30-4:00 pm
Wednesday, Feb 14 - CIVVIES DAY!
- B Day
- Visitors: None
- Faculty out: Dimpy - Mara.
- Grade 7 GLTM 7:45-8:15 am (room 2432)
- Who needs a Sunshine Note
- Common Ground
- Advisory:
- Continue and finish working on the Heroes Activity
- Varsity Boys' Soccer has a HOME game with a 2:30 early dismissal; Varsity Girls' Basketball has a HOME game with a 2:45 early dismissal. JV Girls' Basketball also has a game, but no early dismissal is needed.
- MS Leadership Team Meeting 2:30-3:30 pm
- MS Faculty Meeting 3:30 - 4:30 pm (room 2432)
Narratives check-in, Common Ground, and a few other bits and bobs!
Thursday, Feb 15, In-Service Day
Friday, Feb 16, NO SCHOOL!!!!!
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