Week Beginning January 20, 2025

 

It turns out a student has already offered to share some sunshine on Tuesday, so I will not be able to make everyone appreciate how great the Bills are during Gathering :( 

So, I cannot miss this (possibly final) opportunity to celebrate my team! Happy 3-day weekend, one and all!

ACTION ITEMS

• Advisee Phone Calls: Please reach out by phone to your advise families, ideally before the end of the semester. This is in place of the narratives we used to write. You are welcome to start these as soon as you like. Please review the End of Semester Advisor Phone Calls doc for what to chat about and add a few notes to the special column in the GLTM doc. 

•  Attendance at Meetings: We have such a short amount of time for our GLTMs, and so much to cover that starting even a few late for the meeting can have a significant impact. I ask that we all make a big effort to be in the room and ready to go by 7:45 am. If you are running late, please text me. I, too, need to be better, so I appreciate us all holding each other accountable for this start time. Thank you, team.

FYI

• MathCounts: Deanna (Nate's mum) has established an MS math team to compete in the MathCounts competition. They hope to practice in the Great Hall on Sunday, Jan 26, from 4:00 - 6:00 pm. Here is the ask, would anyone be willing and able to simply be present for this to occur on campus? There is nothing you need to do to help or support, other than be there so the practice can occur. If you can help, please let me know. 

• Hotbox: Ann Dicks has asked that we remember that should we leave any dishes in the hotboxes, those dishes must be scraped and rinsed clean. No food or trash can be left on them at all. Thank you!

• Winter II Athletics start competitions this upcoming week. Early releases are below in green.

• Bessler & GH: A reminder that there are US mock exams this week and that on Wednesday-Thursday, the Bessler and the Great Hall are out of action for our usage. 

TODDLE TIPS & TRICKS

Here are the slides about end of semester reports from Wednesday's faculty meeting. Please reach out to Kelly if you'd like some help with Toddle or some support thinking about trickier best fit scores.

 USEFUL LINKS

• MS Morning Slides (show during period 1)
• MS Schedule 24-25
• MS Special Schedule 24-25
• MS Sections 24-25
• IAP Snapshot 24-25
• Middle School Norms: What AWS MS Faculty Should Know! 24-25
• Testing Accommodation Support Request Google Form
• Ordering Link
• MS Cell Phone Numbers
• Committee Review Directions- New Student Applicants
• Transcript Progress Tracker and HS Transcript and Recommendation Sharepoint instructions
• Toddle Directions 
• Adding a Formative or Summative to Toddle 
• Creating and Assigning Learning Experiences in Toddle
• Toddle Folder in the Shared Drive for all resources 
• Planner Resources 
• MS Faculty Meetings Slides 24-25
• Sunshine Note Tracker 
• Advisory Reflection Responses
• Grade 6 
• Grade 7 
• Grade 8 
• Service Rotation - who is off campus, when, and where? 

WEEK AHEAD

Monday, January 20 - NO SCHOOL

Tuesday, January 21

• A Day
• Visitors:
• Amber Chen (6th for 7th) - Maisie Latshaw-Mcllvride 6C
• Faculty out: None
• Grade 6 GLTM 7:45-8:15 am (room 2432) 
• General 
• Advisory Activity:
• MS Gathering 
• MLK Jr. Day. Grade 8 to stay after to meet with US DD's
• Advisory Planning Meeting 3:30-4:00 pm - all welcome 

Wednesday, January 22 - NO BESSLER GYM

• B Day
• Visitors: None
• Faculty out: None
• Grade 7 GLTM 7:45-8:15 am (room 2432) 
• General 
• Advisory Activity:
• Semester Reflection (use the Google Sides and/or the Google Form)
• Common Ground

• Varsity Boys' Soccer - early release at 2:30 for their game
• Girls' Basketball - early release at 3:00 PM for their game
• MS Admin Team Meeting 2:30-3:30 pm (Learning Support Workroom)
• MS Faculty Meeting 3:30 - 4:30 pm (room 2432) 
• Review Black History Month activities 

Thursday, January 23 - NO BESSLER GYM - TRACEY'S BIRTHDAY!!!

• A Day
• Visitors:
• Philip Bob (6th) - Viraat Singh 6C
• Valerie Galeas (6th) - Teagan Iwamoto 6A
• Jayleah Fresnilla (6th) - Lilia Latona 6B
• Faculty out: None
• Grade 8 GLTM 7:45-8:15 am (room 2432) 
• General 
• Grade 6 Art Showcase during Grade 6 Art. No other grades to attend
• Advisory Activity:
• Advisor Choice

Friday, January 24 - END OF THE SEMESTER. NO BESSLER GYM from 2:30 pm

• B Day
• Visitors:
• Kat Statler (6th) - Allie Cai 6C
• Ellie Lee (6th) - Vendella Dunning 6A
• Sebastian Anderson (6th for 7th) - Gavin Weston 6B
• Faculty out: None
• Advisory Activity:
• No Tech Community Building
• Grade 7 Art Showcase during Grade 7 Art. No other grades to attend.
• Varsity Boys' Soccer - early release at 2:30 for their game - they will miss end-of-day Advisory so we will pull them after lunch to get them their new planner pages and schedules
• Girls' Basketball - early release at 3:00 PM for their game
• Activity Clubs: by advisory: Give out Q3 Planner Pages and new schedules (new sections revealed), next semester club survey. PLEASE USE THIS SLIDESHOW TO GUIDE THE ORDER OF OPERATIONS - THANK YOU!