Friday, June 5, 2026

Week Beginning June 8, 2026

  

Here's the last blog posting of the 25-26 school year!


ACTION ITEMS

  • Field Day: Shelli has reworked the plan for between 1:00 and 2:00 on Field Day.  We are going to move the temporary tattoos location in case of rain, and now have the playground fully from 1:00 to 2:00 pm as well. Please read over plan carefully so you know what you are responsible for and where you need to be. Thanks!
  • Learner Profile Award Speeches: Please review the doc linked here to see who is speaking about whom! The certificates will be printed and ready for you on the day, but you are responsible for your speech.
  • Best fit criterion scores & MYP levels: In Toodle by EOD on Wednesday. Need help? Please find Kelly!
  • CP: Scores and comments in progress reports by EOD on Thursday.
  • Faculty End of Year Checklist 2026: This is the to-do list to complete before you head out for the summer. Feel free to start the bits you can whenever you have time. It will appear in the Blog until the end of the year, and time will be put aside during in-service to complete this list, too.
  • Course Reflection Data: All of this should be processed by the end of Monday. I will send you each an individual email when yours is completed and ready to review. The great news is that the average scores for our team remain high - great work, one and all!
FYI

  • i-Ready Results: Feel free to share if students ask about their progress. Almost everyone is done! The formal results will be posted along with the end-of-year reports, no later than two weeks after school is out. 

First Aid & CPR Note: 

With the end of the school year upon us, I'm preparing for the next and reaching out to gauge interest for those wanting to get their First Aid/CPR/AED certification renewed. I'm an instructor through the American Red Cross and will be hosting class(es) during our Fall in-services. The cost would be covered by the school and supplies provided. Exact dates and times are TBD, but once we get a head count these sessions can be planned around your division/department meetings. 

The format is a "blended-learning" class meaning you must first complete the online modules and the complete the skills session with me in-person. The online training can be completed now and is valid for 90 days to complete the in-person class, or in as little as a few hours when you open your computers again in August after enjoying your summer. Feel free to reach out with any questions! 

Thank you, 

Gabe Jiles, MS, ATC, CSCS



TODDLE TIPS & TRICKS
You will find the Toddle Folder in the Shared Drive for all Toddle resources.

 USEFUL LINKS

WEEK AHEAD

Monday, June 8 - Field Day


Tuesday, June 9 - Grade 8 Gathering, Showcase 6&8, Grade 8 Retreat, & Geocaching 7
  • Special Schedule - no Bessler Gym
  • Visitors: None 
  • Faculty out: None
  • Grade 5 Summer Work distribution 8:05 am - Kelly & Voskuhl 
  • Please see the MS Special Schedule - Grade 8 Celebration Day 


Wednesday, June 10 - Closing Ceremony - Best fit criterion scores & MYP levels in Toddle by EOD

  • Special Schedule
  • Visitors: None
  • Faculty out: None
  • Please see the MS Special Schedule - Closing Day 
  • Drinks are on Clare at the Parkway right after school for all who can attend :-)


Thursday, June 11 - In-Service Day - CP: Scores and comments in progress reports by EOD


Friday, June 12 - In-Service Day
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Friday, May 29, 2026

Week Beginning June 1, 2026


Congrats to all Grade 8 students and to the CP team (Dimpy, Kelly, and Beau) for delivering a great set of presentations this week! 
  

ACTION ITEMS

  • Progress Reports in Toddle Open: You are welcome to start to input best-fit scores as of Tuesday, June 2.
  • i-Ready Testing: Tuesday and Wednesday this week. Those with separate testing will be emailed by Andrea and told of their location. Please review this document with details about all elements of group and separate testing. Schedules can be found on the June i-Ready tab in the MS Schedule sheet. This also includes some changes to duties during break times. 
  • Reimbursements: Jean loves a balanced budget, so if you have any receipts to submit, please do so this coming week. This is especially true of the Journeys or Common Ground groups.
  • Award Speeches: A reminder that for the Learner Profile, they should be very short and sweet! For the Grade 8 - no more than 3 minutes each (this includes pauses.....). Thank you. 
  • Faculty End of Year Checklist 2026: This is the to-do list to complete before you head out for the summer. Feel free to start the bits you can whenever you have time. It will appear in the Blog until the end of the year, and time will be put aside during in-service to complete this list, too.

FYI
  • GLTM canceled this week: Please see the note about the Grade 8 Advisors meeting on Tuesday, though. If you need coverage to attend, please reach out. 
  • Common Ground: The last meeting is on THURSDAY this week due to i-Ready. The AAIP group will be in the Great Hall and will extend their meeting into Advisory. Dimpy will be leading this. 
  • Gators Got Talent: Practice is now on Tuesday at 3:30 pm in the Kemper. This will be our one and only practice, so come one, come all!
  • Bessler Gym: Out of use Thursday, June 4, Monday, June 8, and Tuesday, June 9 - US exams. 
  • Departing Students: An email is set to go on Monday to all students who are not returning to AWS next year regarding getting their laptops reimaged. Their advisor has also been copied on this email. 
  • New Students: All new students enrolled in MS received a welcome email from the MS this morning. If you would like to review it, it is linked here. 


TODDLE TIPS & TRICKS

Progress Reports are open and ready for your scores! Please make sure everything except for CP is completed by EOD on Wednesday, June 10. Here are the slides from this week's faculty meeting if you'd like to review the expectations. For teacher name, let's stick to the teacher(s) who taught each specific section this semester. Reach out to Kelly if you've got questions or students you'd like to talk through.

Thank you for all your help in making CP Presentation Day a success! All CP materials will be ready for grading starting on Monday, June 1, via the CP Button at the top of your Toddle Homepage. A reminder that everything lives in the Process Journal this year, as well as the appendix at the very end of your group's presentation. Need materials digitally? Here are all the CP materials from the printed packet you received on Wednesday (organized in tabs).

 USEFUL LINKS

WEEK AHEAD

Monday, June 1

  • B Day 
  • Visitors: None
  • Faculty out: 
    • Clare - no sub
  • MS Gathering (Great Hall)

    •  Pride Month; i-Ready; Field Day; Gators Got Talent; intro to the last Advisory Challenge

  • All School Chapel (Chapel)
    • Grade out RED Grade 8 & Gators Got Talent Dress Rehearsal 
    • After Chapel, those not in extra support should go to the following meeting spots to complete their Reflection Form in Toddle.
    • 6 - Kelly's room 
    • 7 - Bessler Gym 
    • 8 - Dance Studio

Tuesday, June 2 - i-Ready Testing
  • A Day
  • Visitors: None 
  • Faculty out: None
  • Grade 6 GLTM 7:45-8:15 am (room 2432) 
    • No GLTM, Instead: Grade 8 Advisors to meet to discuss Off-Campus Retreat - Cantor's room. 
  • Advisory Activity:
    • Advisor Choice
  • Advisory Planning Meeting 3:30-4:00 pm - all welcome - Canceled - Practice for all wishing to participate in the swimming talent. Meet in the Kemper Theater. 


Wednesday, June 3 - i-Ready Testing

  • B Day
  • Visitors: None
  • Faculty out: None
  • Grade 7 GLTM 7:45-8:15 am (room 2432) 
    • Canceled 
  • Advisory Activity:
    • Advisor Choice
  • MS Admin Team Meeting 2:30-3:30 pm (Learning Support Workroom) - Canceled -  i-Ready data processing instead for Wagstaff, Strate, Stangenberg & Voskuhl
  • Reading Group Award off campus (if i-Ready testing is complete) 1:00 - 3:00 pm
    • Kelly, Price, Dunbry

    • 6th: Violet, Ida

    • 7th: Eliana, Evie, Penny, Charlie

    • 8th: Peter, Finn, Ashok, Robyn, Cate, Ethan, Ashlyn, Autumn, Evelyn

  • MS Faculty Meeting 3:30 - 4:30 pm (room 2432) - Canceled - i-Ready data processing instead for Wagstaff, Strate, Stangenberg & Voskuhl. 


Thursday, June 4 - Someone's birthday that we aren't allowed to celebrate :-)

  • A Day
  • Visitors: None
  • Faculty out: None
  • Grade 8 GLTM 7:45-8:15 am (room 2432) 
    • Canceled 
  • Common Ground
  • Advisory Activity:
    • Make decisions for the Field Day Advisory Relay Challenge and partners for the Water Balloon Challenge - Field Day Slideshow here  - Shelli will also drop off a hard copy of the Field Day Planning packet
    • AAPI meeting in the Great Hall during this time, too. 
  • OH: Math team to meet to make decisions on math placements 
    • Phan, Fire (Parker to cover 7A in G412), Miller, and Voskuhl in the Math Center. Math placement letters to be sent to families on Friday. 

Friday, June 5 - Last day for late work to be submitted 
  • B Day
  • Visitors: None
  • Faculty out: 
    • Bloodworth - Mark Kelly subbing 
  • Advisory Activity:
    • Geo Guessr Advisory Challenge - HERE IS THE SLIDESHOW you need, and Shelli will be around with the hard-copy packets you will need on Thursday!
  • Activity Clubs: - Gators Got Talent 2:00 pm in the Kemper. Leave P5 at 1:50 to get seated. Seating chart will be on AM slides and Shelli will bring around hard copy. Catch Up Club may still occur. More to come.  - NEW
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Friday, May 22, 2026

Week Beginning May 25, 2026

  


Happy May Day, one and all!


ACTION ITEMS

  • Course Reflections: It's the last week for Course Reflections! If you need more time, please let me know.
  • i-Ready Proctoring: Please check that you are not double-booked on the schedule. This will occur next week. 
  • Faculty End of Year Checklist 2026: This is the to-do list to complete before you head out for the summer. Feel free to start the bits you can whenever you have time. It will appear in the Blog until the end of the year, and time will be put aside during in-service to complete this list, too.
  • CP Presentations: CP Presentations will take place during Office Hours on Thursday, May 28. Please review your location for the day on this spreadsheet—you should be in the same location as your mentor group and (for 6th and 7th grade advisors) as your advisory. Presentations for each room should run in the order set out on this sheet. Students will be in charge of connecting a laptop to the projector for their presentations. We will also provide a sheet of possible CP questions that audience members can ask. Dimpy and Kelly will hand out paper copies of your scoring materials at the faculty meeting on the 27th. Spot any issues? Let Dimpy or Kelly know. 


FYI
  • i-Ready Reading and Spanish Support ended last week. Students should rejoin advisory and the All-School Chapel. Math will end this week. 
  • Deadlines: As last year, the Flash this week states that the last Missing Assignment email will go out on May 29. The last day to submit any missing work is Friday, June 5. Thank you!
  • IAP Student Survey: This went out to students this week and is linked in myAW. If you have a student in your advisory with an IAP, please ask them to confirm they have completed it. 



TODDLE TIPS & TRICKS
You will find the Toddle Folder in the Shared Drive for all Toddle resources.

 USEFUL LINKS

WEEK AHEAD

Monday, May 25

  • No School 

Tuesday, May 26 - Course Reflections Wk 2
  • B Day
  • Visitors:
    • Bray'Lynn Holiday (6F) - Cheyenne (6C)
  • Faculty out: 
    • Gretchen - no sub
  • Grade 6 GLTM 7:45-8:15 am (room 2432) 
    • General 
  • Advisory Activity:
    • MS Gathering: Pride Month;  SC Officers; 60 Hour Reading Rewards; Scene Recreation Challenge and Advisory Update
  • Advisory Planning Meeting 3:30-4:00 pm - all welcome 
    • Canceled - instead practice in the Kemper for the Gators Got Talent. All interested in participating, please attend so we can figure this spectacular show out! - THIS PRACTICE ALSO CANCELED as of 7:25 am 05.26.26


Wednesday, May 27

  • A Day
  • Visitors: None
  • Faculty out: 
    • Dimpy - Jacob Wojcik subbing 
  • Grade 7 GLTM 7:45-8:15 am (room 2432) 
    • General 
  • Lunch meeting 12:45 - 1:00 pm MS Office for Grade 8 Chaperones to review the awards - Miller, Wood, Ward, Golding, Voskuhl, and Wagstaff
  • Common Ground

  • Advisory Activity:
    • Advisory Choice
  • MS Admin Team Meeting 2:30-3:30 pm (Learning Support Workroom)
  • MS Faculty Meeting 3:30 - 4:30 pm (room 2432) 

    • Bits and bobs TBD

    • Possible Gators Got Talent Practice TBD


Thursday, May 28

  • B Day
  • Visitors:
    • Skylee Brighton (7F) - June (6C)
    • Wynter Brighton (8) - Chloe (7A)
  • Faculty out: None
  • Grade 8 GLTM 7:45-8:15 am (room 2432) 
    • General
  • Advisory Activity:
  • OH: CP Presentations
    • Please see above for more information 

Friday, May 29
  • A Day
  • Visitors: None
  • Faculty out: None
  • Advisory Activity:
    • No Tech Community Building
  • Activity Clubs: 
    • APCC presentation for all Grade 6, 2:30 pm, Great Hall - Bloodworth. Pastore and Strate to support.
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Friday, May 15, 2026

Week Beginning May 18, 2026



Gators Got Talent Teacher Edition: Everyone, please fill this in with your thoughts on your role. You do not have to be a swimmer; in fact, we will need folks to help in other ways, too. Here is the survey. 

 ACTION ITEMS

  • Course Reflections: To make this easier for teachers this semester, each of you will receive your own personalized survey with all your classes listed (except 6th Toolbox, 7th Milk Boats, all free reads, and OH). I hope this makes it easier for you to distribute and walk your kids through. This link will be shared with you so you can share it directly with your classes.
  • End-of-Year Special Schedules: Please review these tabs to check for your role in the special end-of-year events. For this coming week, especially Milk Boats and May Day.
  • Semester 2 Units in Toddle: Following up from the MS Faculty Meeting and Kelly's reminder, please make sure the following are done by EOD on Wednesday: 
    • Unit dates are correct
    • Image attached
    • Global Context and SOI are correct
  • May Day Advisory Challenge: Take a look at the May Day Advisory Challenge and reach out to Shelli with any questions. We’ll let kids know what the challenge is during the MS Gathering. 
  • Habits Reflection: A printout of your Advisee's final habit scores will be in the MS Office by the end of the day on Monday for you to collect. The reflection doc we use will be in Toddle, and a hard copy will also be available in MS Office. 
  • Sunshine Notes: A reminder that you should complete at least one Sunshine Note per student you teach at the end of the year. These should be personal and specific. Here is the sheet to track who you have given them to - Sunshine Notes Tracker 2025-2026.
  • Faculty End of Year Checklist 2026: This is the to-do list to complete before you head out for the summer. Feel free to start the bits you can whenever you have time. It will appear in the Blog until the end of the year, and time will be put aside during in-service to complete this list, too.

FYI
  • Awards: Discussions will occur during GLTM and then with the MS Faculty. The final voting survey will be sent on Thursday, May 21, and will end the following day at 4pm. 



TODDLE TIPS & TRICKS
You will find the Toddle Folder in the Shared Drive for all Toddle resources.

 USEFUL LINKS

WEEK AHEAD

Monday, May 18 - Course Reflections Wk1

  • A Day 
  • Visitors: None
  • Faculty out: None
  • MS Gathering (CHAPEL)

    • Special schedules; SC Officer elections; A, A and A rescheduled CP

      Advisory Recycling Challenge results; Gators Got Talent announcement; May Day Advisory Challenge overview

  • All School Chapel (Chapel)
    • Grade out 7 - Green House Social 
    • After Chapel, those not in extra support should go to the following meeting spots to complete their Reflection Form in Toddle.
    • 6 - ADVISORIES + Golding to Bloodworth's room
    • 7 - Bessler Gym 
    • 8 - Dance Studio

Tuesday, May 19
  • B Day
  • Visitors: None 
  • Faculty out: None
  • Grade 6 GLTM 7:45-8:15 am (room 2432) 
    • Awards Discussion 
  • Advisory Activity:
    • Habit Reflection 
  • Advisory Planning Meeting 3:30-4:00 pm - all welcome 
    • Cancelled. Replaced by the Journey Leader meeting 
  • Early release for MS Track and Field - 1:30 PM
  • Early release for MS Football - 2:20 PM


Wednesday, May 20 - Semester 2 units checked by EOD

  • A Day
  • Visitors: None
  • Faculty out: None
  • Grade 7 GLTM 7:45-8:15 am (room 2432) 
    • Awards Discussion 
  • Common Ground
  • Advisory Activity:
  • OH
    • Grade 6 and 7 to the Great Hall for SC Officer speeches. Return to Office Hours for voting directly after.
  • MS Admin Team Meeting 2:30-3:30 pm (Learning Support Workroom)
  • MS Faculty Meeting 3:30 - 4:30 pm (room 2432) 

    •   Nominations for Awards Discussion. Confirmation of roles at GGT.


Thursday, May 21 - Milk Boats - Please see Special Schedule 


  • Visitors: None
  • Faculty out: None
  • Grade 8 GLTM 7:45-8:15 am (room 2432) 
    • Awards Discussion 

Friday, May 22 - MAY DAY - Please see Special Schedule 

ALL ATTENDANCE WILL BE TAKEN VIA SPREADSHEET - SENT VIA EMAIL and POSTED HERE: ATTENDANCE SHEET FOR MAY DAY




  • Visitors: None
  • Faculty out: Voskuhl out. Beau to cover advisory 


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