Week of April 20th

UAI High School Staff News

Volume II

Issue 33

Week of April 20th, 2015

Announcements

The Last 10 Days of Marking Period 4. There are only 10 school days remaining in this 4th marking period. Throughout mini-lessons this week, it's important that students are reminded of upcoming deadlines and the importance of adding work time outside of class to compliment and deepen their work and learning in class.  Please make sure you are uploading grades into Skedula regularly so that students have an accurate picture of their progress.   Frequent and early reminders to complete work will go some ways to ameliorate the end-of-marking-period procrastination stress.  

Year End Observations.  The large majority of you have only one more official evaluation remaining for the year.  There are a couple of you who I am still working on for mid-year.  Over the next few weeks, you should expect to see me popping in for observations.  In an effort to just get these done, I will not be announcing these final visits.  I'm just going to squeeze them in where I can. The goal is to have all observations for the year completed by the end of May and to have all year-end conferences completed by June benchmarks.

Busy Friday.  Please review the Important Dates below.  There are a number of things happening this Friday.  Firstly, the last administration of the DRP will take place Friday morning.  After lunch, all teachers need to lead groups in a massive locker spring cleaning event.  Then, last period, we will be having our monthly assembly.  Abby from Carrera is planning an assembly centered on celebrating April as poetry month.

Instructional Rounds Visit on 4/27.  Cynthia, Kerry, Julie, Kelly, and Emily will be visiting as part of our principals' Instructional Rounds visits.  One of the things I really want their feedback and ideas about is how we use Responsibility Teams and the efficacy of student briefs in the learning process.   We will be visiting classrooms with Responsibility Teams.  Currently on the docket, we will definitely see Paula & Brodie, and Darby to see the work of their Pod in action.  We will also drop in to a math and science classroom.  Please reach out to me if you'd like us to visit!

Important Dates

• Friday, 24APR15 - April Assembly during 8th Period
• Friday, 24APR15 - Final DRP Administration in AM
• Friday, 24APR15 - Spring Cleaning of Lockers
• Monday, 27APR15 through Friday 01MAY15 - Last week of 5th Marking Period - Please DO NOT SCHEDULE any field trips for this week.

• Monday, 04MAY15 - MP6, the last marking period of the year, begins.
• Wednesday, 06MAY15 - MP5 Grades are Due
• Friday 15MAY15 - Annual High School Honor Roll Breakfast at 9AM
• Wednesday 20MAY15 - Senior Awards Night
• Monday, 25MAY15 - Memorial Day, NO SCHOOL
• Thursday, 28MAY15 - Springfest, our 2nd Parent Outreach night (the 2nd of 2 that were added with the new UFT contract) - Teachers report at 6PM (Springfest is 6-7PMish)

• Tuesday, 02JUN15 - Common Core Regents - NO CLASSES
• Thursday, 04JUN15 - Brooklyn Queens Day at UAI - Just UAI HS at UAI HS
• Wednesday, 10JUN15 - Tech Carts are due to Allan by the end of the day
• Thursday 11JUN15 and Friday 12JUN15 - Final Benchmark Exams
• Friday, 12JUN15 - End of the 6th Marking Period
• Monday, 15JUN15 - High School Field Day (Details TBD)
• Tuesday, 16JUN15 - Regents Week Begins
• Wednesday, 17JUN15 - Final Grades are Due
• Wednesday, 24JUN15 - Plato Training
• Thursday, 25JUN15 - High School Graduation at Kumbel Theater
• Friday, 26JUN15 - Last Day of School

Per Session

Hiring Committee.  I've scrounged up some minimal hours for the Hiring Committee using excess funds from Per Diem (Great Job on Attendance this year, you guys!!)  We have some extra funds in the sub bucket to use for per session activities!  Current Members: Martine (chair), Darby, Kristin, Danielle, Jamie (did I miss anyone??).  I need to first verify with Nicole on how many folks signed up for the next After School session and then I will be able to state how many hours are available.

Session II After School for STEM electives.  Darby, Paula, Marianna, and Ilyana have signed up for session II of after school!

Cabinet Per Session is relaunching.  Cabinet meetings will resume on Tuesday, 21APR15 and continue through Tuesday, 09JUN15 from 2:55-3:55 in room 403.  Cabinet members (which include all Learning Cultures lead teachers, grade team leaders, and subject team leaders) will be paid for the time after the extended day that ends at 3:25.  Cabinet meetings are open to all who want to attend.  However, only official members will earn per session.