23 July 12 Welcome UAI High School!
Hello UAI High School and Happy Summer!
I'm starting a weekly blog to primarily to keep you up to date on important happenings in the UAI High School. However, I welcome you all to interact and post freely to this blog. Ultimately, I want it to become a community blog! As a caveat, I'm super new to blogging so bear with me on my learning curve ;-)!
I hope you're all having a restful summer! We've been crazy worker bees at the building. Here are some of the goings on at UAI this summer so far:
- Summer School
- There are 4 high schools and 4 middle schools sharing our building this summer. In addition, we've become a Teach for America training site which means there's a lot of new faces populating the halls. In combination with our Carrerra summer programs, there's over 400 students and 50 staff coming to school every work day this month! It's not wonder that the schools feels like we're full of busy worker bees!
- Preparing for our First Annual Learning Cultures Summer Institute
- The Urban Assembly is hosting a summer professional development institute to support teachers and administrators across our network who are new to learning cultures. Our own Darby Masland is the host teacher this summer and she has been working like mad with our student interns to transform Room B53 into a model Learning Cultures classroom (Colleen - I can't wait until you see it!)
FYI - Administrator Week is July 30-Aug1st & the Teacher Week is Aug 6th-9th. If you still need to register, please do so ASAP, by clicking here. - Redesigning our Library and Computer Lab
- At the close of the year, Kelly & I negotiated with the other building principals to have the library for the sole use of UAI. Some of you participated in the reallocation of resources amongst the three schools. This summer, I've been working closely with our team of interns to redesign the library and computer lab. The library will also play host to our new teacher resource center and lounge. The girls have done amazing work and I've resurrected my tech coordinator skills from way back. Stay tuned for pictures! I can't wait for you all to see it!!
- UAI's First Graduating Class
- Our College Readiness Team is working hard in preparation for UAI's first graduating class. Mara, Krystal, and Ruben are working together to provide our young women with the support, opportunities, and experiences needed to gain entry and succeed in college. The first senior year will be jam packed with college applications, senior activities, and all types of important rites of passage. It's an exciting time for the girls and it's a wonderful moment in our school's development.
- Next Week's Post Topics
- Take a First Look at Final Fall Schedule and Classroom Assignments
- What's Happening with Advisory and Student Led Conferences next year?
- Why are we focusing on Independent Work Time, Individual Conferencing and Learning Cultures next year?
My Summer Reading
Finally, at the end of each of these blogs, I'm going to share some of my own readings. My higher brain function readings this month include a new one to me and an old favorite.
In case your interested in my low-brain function, pure guilty pleasure reading, here they are
- Fifty Shades of Grey - yes I read the whole trilogy - more because I was curious about all the hype, and I wonder how the French are receiving it (most likely without all the hoopla).
- World War Z - my husband Harvey tells me they're making a movie with Brad Pitt...to which I wonder how Brad Pitt will look as a zombie (yes, my zombie obsession continues on into the summer)
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