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9th Grade Home Visits
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| High School Staff Visits Incoming 9th Grade Homes |
Today, we finished our summer home visits to the incoming 9th graders. For our first attempt, we were happy to have about 25 visits scheduled with new and returning students. Ideally, we would have wanted more, but families were away, not available, and/or wary of us coming to the homes. We've learned a lot - both for future visits and of the girls & their families themselves. The teams will meet to share details, but in general the experience has been a valuable look into the lives of our students, developing a stronger bond between school and home. Thanks so much for your work - John, Darby, Doris, Noam, Martine, Jen, Elena, Carol, & Nicia!! Wazina & Adaora - we'll be sure to add you guys in next time!!
Who's Who in the High School
Tuesday, September 04th will be here faster than you can imagine! We will certainly have time to match names to faces, but for now, take this list as your first intro of names and titles! If I were fancier and more prepared, I'd have included pictures - but I'll shoot for that next year!!
- Administration & Support
- Kiri Soares, High School Principal
- Kelly DeMonaco, Middle School Principal
- Nicia Fullwood, Assistant Principal
- Jen Cusa, Supervising Social Worker
- Emily Jarrell, Urban Assembly Achievement Coach, Learning Cultures
- Tara Silva, Instructional Support Coach UAI, Learning Cultures [WELCOME TO UAI!]
- Doris Twine, High School Dean
- Channay Cross, Middle School Dean
- Mara Tucker, Director of Development, Partnerships & College Readiness
- Carol Keenan, Parent Coordinator
- Del Carey, Payroll Secretary
- Nancy Johanssen, Pupil Accounting Secretary
- Chris Maestro, Director Carrerra Treasure Academy Programs
- Odette Nemes, Director Girls Inc Programs
- 9th Grade Team
- Colleen DiGuiseppe, Global Humanities I, Grade Team Leader
- Darby Masland, Global Humanities, Learning Cultures Leader
- Noam Pillischer, 9th Grade Math, Learning Cultures Leader
- Elena Brollo, Spanish, Language Team Leader, Learning Cultures Teacher
- Damon Noland, Living Environment, Learning Cultures Teacher
- Martine Mercier, Instructional Support Specialist, LC Teacher [WELCOME TO UAI!]
- Wazina Zondon, Carrerra Family Life and Sex Educator
- TBD, Carrerra Social Worker
- Ruben Rivera, Carrerra Job Club and College Readiness Teacher
- Jillian Crowther, Carrerra High School Academic Coordinator
- 10th Grade Team
- Jessica Chen, Chemistry, Grade Team Leader
- Natasha Mehta, Global Humanities II, Learning Cultures Teacher
- Marianna Wiles, Global HumanitiesII, Learning Cultures Teacher [WELCOME TO UAI!]
- Tom Leibering, 10th Grade Math, Learning Cultures Teacher
- Raquel Mazo-Infante, Spanish
- Ian Palmer, Instructional Support Specialist, Learning Cultures Teacher
- Shannon Riley & Marni Brand, Carrerra Social Workers
- Alex Stevens, Carrerra Family Life and Sex Educator
- Ruben Rivera, Job Club & College Readiness Teacher
- Jillian Crowther, Carrerra High School Academic Coordinator
- 11th &12th Grade Team
- Brodie Crawford, US History & Economics, Grade Team Leader
- Heather Nordstrom, American & 12th Grade Literature, Humanities Team Leader
- Kelly Smith, 12th Grade Humanities Teachers, Tech Coordinator
- Mike Somersel, 11th & 12th Grade Math, Dance Company Teacher
- Hassan Mojtabaeezamani, 11th & 12th grade Science
- Denise Lee, 11th Grade French and ESL teacher
- Jen Swartzel, Instructional Support Specialist
- Jen Cusa, 11th & 12th Grade Social Worker
- Adaora Ezika, Girls Inc. Instructor
- Tiffani Credle, Girls Inc. Instructor
- Krystal Cason, Girls Inc. High School Coordinator
Dos
Many of you are gearing up to get back into the swing of school. Here are some things you should definitely put on your to do list!- Resource Research & Gathering - Take some time this week to start gathering manipulatives, digital and print resources for students to use in your classrooms! Your classes will need to be structure to have a significant amount of independent work time so that you can conduct learning conferences with individual students (add to that Unison Reading and other formats for LC classrooms). In order to have productive independent work time, you need to amass a number of resources that students can independently access as needed. Many of our teachers are adopting flipped classroom methods to execute on this expectation. We do have some funds (limited) for resources. Please put together and submit your wish lists as soon as possible!
- Get to Know the following Rubrics Very Well
- Classroom Environment
- Independent Work Time
- Conferences
- and for LC teachers, Unison Reading
I am so glad we did this. It was really great coming into the homes of our future students and meeting the families. I do have to say a message that I got from a lot of parents was why dont we have uniforms! One parent spent almost 20 minutes talking about the benefits of uniforms and how much she would prefer if we had one. In any case the visits made me even more excited for the upcoming year and the terrific task of educating the children of these wonderful families. Thank you (and to Carol) for organizing this, it went really smoothly.
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