Week of March 28th

UAI Staff News

Volume III

Issue 27

Week of March 28th, 2016

UAI Celebrations


Successful Women's History Month Celebration.  Once again, many, many thanks to our Carrera and Girls Inc partners for organizing and executing a fantastic day of workshops and activities celebrating women and inspiring our young girls.  Our mission at UAI is to provide students with both the academic and social emotional learning activities to equip them for college completion.  In so doing, we also aim to provide them exposure and access to role models and female empowerment concepts to help the prepare to work towards bringing increased equity for women, particularly women of color.  Thursday's activities was one step towards that goal!  Thanks to Wazina and Alyssa for organizing the activities that got our girls moving in the workshops.  Thanks to Kree for gathering an amazing group of women who presented to our girls.  Fianlly, thanks to the staff of Carrera and Girls Inc and our teachers for facilitating 

workshops and activities.  Particularly, thanks to Tracy & Sursattie for stepping
in at the last few minutes to run our artistic workshops!  It was made a wonderful
day because of everyone stepping up to do their part!  Thank you!!!
 

Announcements and To Dos

REPOST 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.  

Benchmark Use.  Please use benchmark data to set measurable goals for students during conferences this month.  Here's where you can find the data:  Middle School Benchmarks and High School Benchmarks. Students need to focus on make small, incremental goals that lead to measurable outcomes (e.g. I want to get 15 more multiple choice questions correct on the next benchmark.  I did the best on X topic and kinda ok on Y topic, but Z topic I totally missed.  So, I will study hard on Y (to make it more solid) and review X.  For Z, I will ask my teacher for a learning group and try to get 3 more questions right in that topic by the next benchmark in May. I'll test myself in two week to see where I am in meeting this goal AND I'll check in with my teacher in two weeks to review progress and check in on this goal.)

Four Weeks Until Spring Break.  These next four weeks are going to be significantly important for our school and our girls.  For our middle schoolers, they begin taking their state exams next week and the week after.  For our high schoolers, this is penultimate batch of weeks to introduce new content.  When we return from spring break, we will have 5 weeks leading up to the exam-heavy schedule of June.  For this month, we will be looking to see how well you are able to plan and execute all of the formats.  To prepare, we will be sending you calendar invites for your final observation dates.  If the dates fall on exposure or non-LC dates, we will move the observation to a day that works better.  Let's make these last months the strongest and most consistent of the year!

Important Dates

• Monday, 28MAR16.  PD Topic:  Teacher Survey Completion please bring a computer or tablet [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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