Week of March 21st

UAI Staff News

Volume III

Issue 26

Week of March 21st, 2016

Super short post today....

Happy First Day of Spring.  I guess it's fitting that we end one of the mildest winters of record with an impending snow storm. Well in any case, Spring is here which means summer is not very far behind.  With time ticking away, let me just jump straight in on some key points for this week.

Announcements and To Dos

Complete Student Led Conferences.  As of Friday, 18MAR16, we have completed 50% of our conferences.  We're still shy of our 80% target completion rate. So please make sure that you continue to reach out to families to complete your SLCs by next Friday, 01APR16. As an incentive to guiding their advisories to parent and student survey completion, advisors who have a 100% completion rate (for both parent and students) will receive your own Kindle Fire! Carol and Nancy will be contacting you to see how they can best support your outreach.  Please make sure that you have updated the appointment sheet with all information so that they can correctly identify advisors who need outreach assistance. Here's the Appointment Sheet: SLC Appointment Sheet.  Also, please make sure you return ALL surveys (completed or not completed) to Carol on Monday by 9AM.  We will try to get more completed during Tuesday's Family Engagement Night Dinner.

Benchmark Update.  Our third benchmark is complete!  Please update the benchmark documents with the March scores.  As you prepare for the upcoming state exams in April and June, please make sure that you set measurable and achievable goals.  Students are overwhelmed when they focus on getting everything right. If they simply focus on being better than they were yesterday, they will eventually get where they need to be.  Remember that the goal is growth, not perfection.  As you conference with students around their benchmark performance, please make sure to target content goals AND test-taking skills (stamina, strategies for focusing, pacing, etc.)  Please enter you benchmark grades in these documents by Thursday, 24MAR16 by 9AM:  Middle School Benchmarks and High School Benchmarks.

Spring Family Dinner, Science and Awards Night.  Please make calls to your advisees on Monday to personally invite them to our Spring Family Dinner, Science, and Awards Night.  We will be celebrating MP4 Honor Roll and Perfect Attendance students.  Sarah is coordinating Science Tables run by some of our High School ladies.  All staff are also invited to attend this fun, family night.  This is also the second stab at getting those surveys in. So, when you call home to invite families, please remind them to bring in those surveys that went home!

Important Dates

• Monday, 21MAR16. PD Topic:  SEL and the Formats
• Tuesday, 22MAR16.  Family Awards & Science Night Dinner 5:30PM
• Thursday, 24MAR16.  Women's History Month Full School Assembly (12:00-2:30PM) followed by rapid dismissal
• Friday, 25MAR16.  Good Friday, NO SCHOOL
• Monday, 28MAR16.  PD Topic:  Staff Share OR Disagreeing without being Disagreeable during Shares [Grade Team Time follows]

• Monday, 04APR16. Pod Cycle IV Launch [Grade Team Time moved to Tuesday]
• Tuesday, 05APR16 thru Thursday, 07APR15.  Middle School NYS ELA Exam
• Wednesday, 13APR16 thru Friday, 15APR15.  Middle School NYS Math Exam
• Friday, 15APR16.  5th Marking Period Ends
• Monday, 11APR16. Pod Share 1 of 6 and Grade Team Meetings
• Monday, 18APR16. Pod Share 2 of 6 and Grade Team Meetings
• Monday, 18APR16.  6th Marking Period Begins
• Wednesday, 20APR16.  5th Marking Period Grades Due at 3PM
• Friday, 22APR16.  5th MP Progress Report Distributed 8th Period
• Friday, 22APR16.  Poetry Slam Full School Assembly 1:45-2:30PM
• Monday, 25APR16 thru Friday 29APR15 - Spring Recess, NO SCHOOL

• Monday, 02MAY16. Pod Share 3 of 6 and Grade Team Meetings
• Monday, 09MAY16. Pod Reflection - Grade Team Meetings moved to Tuesday
• Monday, 16MAY16. Pod Share 4 of 6 and Grade Team Meetings
• Monday, 23MAY16. Pod Share 5 of 6 and Grade Team Meetings
• Tuesday, 24MAY16.  Grade Teams meet Tuesday
• Monday, 30MAY16. Memorial Day- NO SCHOOL

• Monday, 06JUN16. Pod Share 6 of 6 and Pod Share Prep - Grade Teams meet Tuesday
• Thursday, 09JUN16. Brooklyn Queens PD Day

For All UAI School Important Dates, please add "UAI School" calendar to your google calendars.

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