Week Beginning September 15, 2025

The playground has been a big HIT!

ACTION ITEMS

• Curriculum Night: Please be back on campus no later than 5:45 pm and in the Great Hall. Your rooms should be interactive and display an insight into your class and teaching. We will have a 7:30 pm sharp finish :-)

• Coaching Observation Meetings: If you haven't already done so, please reach out to Kelly by 9/30 to schedule your first 30-minute meeting for your Coaching Observations.

FYI

• AWS MS Restaurant Recommendations List: As Dan mentioned at the MS Faculty Meeting last week. Feel free to add away to these lists.

• Student Support: For Math, Reading, and Spanish support starts this week! To see the i-Ready data and plan, please review the i-Ready & Spanish Support Fall 25-26 sheet. Teachers running this support, we will register the students in your P6 class. Please take attendance as usual in myAW. 

• I-Ready Still Not Finished: The following students should go to the Learning Support Classroom with Andrea and Kerrin to start/finish their i-Ready during the MS Gathering. Those still not finished will continue during All School Chapel: 
• Grade 6 
• Thomas B (Reading & Math) 
• Rio (Reading & Math)
• Grade 7 
• Virraat (Reading & Math) 
• Roxanne (Math & Reading 62%)
• Lizzy O (Math & Reading) 1:1 support
• Edie (Reading) 
• Liam (Reading 44%)
• Grade 8 
• Rose G (Math & Reading) 1:1 support 
• Ellie A (Reading)

TODDLE TIPS & TRICKS

You will find the Toddle Folder in the Shared Drive for all Toddle resources. Here are the slides from Wednesday's Faculty meeting for keeping docs open/editable for students after an assignment has been returned. Reach out to Kelly if you've got any questions!

 USEFUL LINKS

• MS Schedule 25-26
• MS Special Schedule 25-26
• MS Sections 25-26
• MS Morning Slides (show during period 1)
• MS Faculty Meetings Slides 25-26
• Learning Support
• IAP Snapshot 25-26
• Student Support Referral Process
• Learning Support Request Form 
• Advisory Reflection Responses
• Grade 6 
• Grade 7 
• Grade 8 
• Office Hours 
• OH Expectations Explanation (teacher-facing
• OH SLIDES - Expectations and Teacher Availability
• Middle School Norms: What AWS MS Faculty Should Know! 25-26
• Ordering Link
• MS Cell Phone Numbers
• Transcript Progress Tracker and HS Transcript and Recommendation Sharepoint instructions
• Toddle Folder in the Shared Drive for all resources 
• Sunshine Note Tracker 25-26
• Notes from the Nurses 
• Service Rotation - who is off campus, when, and where? (coming soon)
• How to enter a conduct violation in myAW
• Free Read Directions

WEEK AHEAD

Monday, September 15

• B Day 
• Visitors: None
• Faculty out: 
• Will out - Trilby subbing 
• MS Gathering (Great Hall)

• Intro to Hispanic Heritage Month - Melissa Casteneda; SC Rep packets due. Top 3 Club Choice survey. Case Studies; Advisory Update + Next Advisory Challenge; Kelly in classrooms 

• All School Chapel (Chapel)
• Grade out 6:
• Monday, September 15 is the day for the Blue House Social for Grades 2, 6 and 10
• • Families 1-15 in the Kemper Gym; Families 16-30 in the Bessler Gym
  • 2:30-3:00 PM
  • There will be family numbers on the floor of the gyms. Each student should sit next to their family number.
  • Tracey has Spanish Support so she will not attend
  • Linh and Dave, if you do not have a Math meeting this week, please head to the KEMPER GYM
  • Victoria, please head to the BESSLER GYM to support
  • Shelli will support in the KEMPER GYM 
• After Chapel, those not in extra support should go to the following meeting spots to complete their Reflection Form in Toddle. AND Clubs survey.
• 6 - Kelly's room 
• 7 - Bessler Gym 
• 8 - Dance Studio

Tuesday, September 16

• A Day
• Visitors: None
• Faculty out: 
• Victoria out for the morning - Mark Kelly subbing 
• Grade 6 GLTM 7:45-8:15 am (room 2432) - CANCELLED
• Advisory Activity:
• 6 - Check in about laptop (day 2 of having it). Decorate journals
• 7 - TRM Presentation to Grade 7 1:00-2:30 PM in GH - more to come from Dimpy
• 8 - Advisory Choice 
• Office Hours: SC Officers meeting 
• Advisory Planning Meeting 3:30-4:00 pm - all welcome 
• Review HHM Activity & Thrivability Case Studies 
• MS Curriculum Night 6:00-7:30 pm 

Wednesday, September 17

• B Day
• Visitors: None
• Faculty out: None
• Grade 7 GLTM 7:45-8:15 am (room 2432) 
• General & name pronunciations 
• Advisory Activity:
•  Advisor choice
• Grade 6 and 7 Math Support Tier 2 kids to meet with Gretchen in the MS Lounge - please see her email to see if you have any Advisory kiddos who should be there
• MS Admin Team Meeting 2:30-3:30 pm (Learning Support Workroom)
• MS Faculty Meeting 3:30 - 4:30 pm (room 2432) - NOW HAPPENING!!!
  

Thursday, September 18

• A Day
• Visitors: None
• Faculty out: None
• Grade 8 GLTM 7:45-8:15 am (room 2432) 
• General & name pronunciations (short - for new students)
• Andrea to review IAP (most of the allotted time)
• Advisory Activity:
• EMOTIONAL COMMUNICATION and PHYSICAL ACTIVITY Thrivability Questions in myAW. Followed by the Academic Honesty Policy Signed Due.

Friday, September 19 - SC Speeches due today!

• B Day
• Visitors: None
• Faculty out: None
• Advisory Activity:
• Teacher Trivia - Shelli brought the salmon colored answer sheets to your classroom. She also sent via email a slideshow you can use as a resource for kids. It is also linked here for your reference.
• Activity Clubs: 
• Begins! As does Catch Up Club!

• Girls' Volleyball teams have their first games today. They all will have an early release at 2:15 PM, and Shelli will post the rosters on the AM slides for your reference.