Week of January 20th

UAI High School Staff News

Volume II

Issue 22

Week of January 20th, 2015

Announcements

Chancellor's Visit. The Chancellor's visit was an amazing success!!  We got to share our history as a school and explain how we have leveraged Learning Cultures to transform our community into a Well-Developed school.  Special shout outs to Marianna, Jamie, Kerry, & Danielle.  They opened up their classrooms to our visits and the girls and their work with them thoroughly impressed Chancellor Farina.  The very next day she spoke of our school at a meeting for Superintendents and the next day at meeting for Assistant Principals.  We are definitely on her radar as a positive to be modelled!  It is well-deserved praise for the work you do!!

Benchmark Exams.  We have our 3rd Benchmark Exams on Thursday and Friday of this week.  Please make sure to post the schedule up for your students to review.  Also, Benchmark exam grades will be due next Friday.  Please make sure to have your grades ready to enter into the Benchmark document.  These 3rd benchmark results in conjunction with DRP and 3rd Marking Period grades will be used to identify students in need of intervention.  Please enter your graded exam data on time.

Marking Period Three Ends on Friday.  The last marking period of the fall ends on Friday.  MP3 grades will be due no later than 3PM on Wednesday.   Marking Period 4 will begin on the first day of the spring term (February 3rd).  We will be using these grades to identify students who will receive promotion-in-doubt letters.  So, please be on time with these grades so we can generate the letters out to the kids on time.  As a reminder, please call home and document in Skedula all students who are failing your class for the fall semester.  Families should not be hearing about school failure for the first time with a letter.


Cabinet Meeting Moves to After School on Tuesdays.  We are meeting in room 403 on Tuesdays after school.  All are welcome to join anytime.  At tomorrow's meeting we will setting agendas and goals for spring meetings.

Regents Week Starts on Monday.  Please make sure that you have reached out to each of your advisees to let them know which exam(s) they are taking and when the exam(s) happen.  In your classes, please emphasize the importance of studying for exams at home and use our resources (through Work Out plans, Study Island, Regents Prep.org, etc.) to help them study.  Additionally, students should reach out to our Carrera partners for academic support everyday after school.

Important Dates

• Monday, 19JAN15 - MLK Jr. Day and Kelly D's Birthday
• Wednesday, 21JAN15 - Eagles Home Basketball Game vs. Westinghouse 4:30-6PM
• Thursday 22JAN15 - Friday, 23JAN15 - Benchmark III Exams (Fall Finals)
• Thursday 22JAN15 - Visiting Harvard Researchers visit UAI (Middle School Classes)
• Friday, 23JAN15 - Marking Period Three Ends
• Friday 23JAN15 - Eagles Home Basketball Game vs. John Jay Campus 4:30-6PM
• Monday, 26JAN15 -  Thursday, 29JAN15.  Regents Week
• Wednesday 28JAN15 - 3rd MP Grades are DUE by 3PM
• Friday, 30JAN15 - End of Fall Term, Regents Rating Day - NO CLASSES 
• For teachers not grading or presenting on 02FEB, there will be an agenda for the day 
• Monday, 02FEB15 - Chancellor's PD Day at Green Careers
• Wednesday 04FEB15 - Last Regular Season Home Game for the Lady Eagles 4:30-6PM

Per Session Postings

No postings this week...

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