Week of January 23rd

UAI Staff News

Volume IV

Issue 20

Week of January 23rd, 2017

This Week's Memories

 

All around the globe, millions of people took to the streets to stand up and against the oppression of women.  Locally, Ms. Kristin chaperoned our very own 10th graders, Nancy Adjalla, Laura St. Victor, and Tamara Noel-George who volunteered to run an engineering challenge at Eric Adams' STEAM brunch.  Saturday was a historic event.  It brought global attention to issues that we live with daily. Our mission is to take that momentum and feed it back into our work with our young girls.  Through our daily jobs, we cannot help fulfill the mission set forth by Saturdays' protests!

To Do's for this Week

[MONDAY, 23JAN17] Full Staff PD.  Your summative assessment should be finalized by now.  Please make sure that it is uploaded to the folder that Colleen shared.  We will be using these in PD on Monday.  They need to be in a finished state.  Please bring a device, something to write with, and something to write on for PD.  The goal of Monday is to provide feedback on summative tasks in order to inform the unit planning work that we will be embarking upon for the 30JAN PD day.

[CHANGE of DATE, WED 25JAN17] Prepare for end of the semester. Marking period 3 ends Tuesday, 24JAN17. We found out last week that the PID deadline is earlier than usual.  The PID students need to be entered into the system BY Friday.  So, we're asking that ALL grades be completed by Wednesday 25JAN at 3PM.  This will move the official end of this marking period to Friday 20JAN.  Ms. Jennifer will still be producing report cards on 30JAN17 which will be distributed on the first day of the Spring term on 31JAN during 8th period.

[PLEASE DO THIS ASAP] Preparing for 30JAN PD day.  We are gathering data to check in on our progress towards school goals.  In preparation for a data share back with staff on the full staff PD day, we're asking three things

• Parent Survey.  Only 3 parents have responded thus far.  Please reach out to them to get more responses!  Email (or text) this link:  https://goo.gl/forms/jpDsZdUbLP28C6u62 to your advisee's parents.  Please ask them to complete the survey by Wednesday.  

• Teacher Survey.  Please take a few moments to complete this survey.  Please take a few moments to complete this survey now. Only 10 teachers have completed it thus far.

• Student Survey.  This survey was emailed out to students.  Please make sure they complete it during advisory on Monday, 23JAN.  THE SURVEY .  Ms. Kerry, will you have the 10th graders complete this in class?

[23JAN17] Most of the School Viewing of Hidden Figures. Kree, (from her sickbed!) confirmed 300 tickets for our school to see Hidden Figures and UA Court Street Cinemas! Thank you to Kree and Girls Inc!!!!  We will be taking 11th & 12th graders (because we need to free those classes for flood damage restoration), and we'll be taking the middle school.  The 9th graders are going bowling, and any extra tickets will be distributed by Jen and Kree as they become available. Unfortunately, we just weren't able to take everyone this time around!  But we are trying to take as many as we can!  
For these grades, students will remain in advisory until departure. While you await your departure time, please make sure students complete THE SURVEY.  Kree and Jen will be coming around to the advisories in the AM to coordinate. Here's the departure plan:

• 9:15AM 11th Grade: Chaperones Ilyana, Brodie, Anna, Mike, James, Paula, Vanessa (Girls Inc) and Kree
• 9:20AM 6th Grade:  Chaperones Alison, Matthew, Phillan & Lauren, and + 1 Girls Inc Chaperone leave at 9:20 AM.
• 9:25AM 7th Grade:  Chaperones Kristina, Christina, Cherry, Natalie and Basya (Girls Inc) leave at 9:25AM.
• 9:30AM 8th Grade: Chaperones Marsha, Meaghan, and Jade (Girls Inc)
• 9:35AM 12th Grade: Chaperones Tracy, Elana, Jen,  Martine +2 Girls Inc Chaperones

[30JAN17] Door Decorating Competition. Ms. Kree and Girl's Inc are working hard to help get student volunteers assigned to each classroom to assist teachers in completing door decorations. We will start this work the week of January 30th. For questions, please reach out to Ms. Kree or Ms. Jen C.

• [10FEB17] February's Family Friday.  Ms. Kristina & Ms. Marsha are planning a celebratory event to have their students show off their written work with their families for our Family Friday (which occur the first Friday of every month) in February!  Thank you Kristina & Marsha for your hard work in getting our parents in to celebrate our girls' academic achievements!
• [15FEB17] Winterfest.  Our annual celebration of After School activities and display of students arts and artistic talent will be on Wednesday, 15FEB17.  Please join us in celebrating our girls in the gym from 6-8PM.
• [17FEB17] Black History Month Assembly.  We will be having our next full school assembly on Friday, Feb 17th.  This will be a slightly early assembly to accommodate a staggered rapid dismissal for the building (SLJ and AIL are dismissing early on Friday).  The Assembly will begin at 1:30 and we will rapidly dismiss at 2:15PM.

SEL Updates

As a capstone to national no name calling week, students at 6th/7th grade lunch on Friday decorated quilt panels on the importance of kindness. We'd love if you could help us keep the ball rolling by positively reinforcing acts of kindness in your MS classes next week and helping the HS students know the work of the MS by sharing it in your classes when they return from Regents!






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