Week of May 23rd

UAI Staff News

Volume III

Issue 30

Week of May 9th, 2016

UAI Celebrations

Wendy did amazing work putting together a press packet for our school.  In it, she highlights some of the wonderful achievements our teachers have made over the years.  I wanted to share with everyone to celebrate our committed and talented family of teachers! Thank you Wendy for putting this together, and thank you all for your continued commitment to improving your pedagogy and for bringing those talents and skills back to our girls at UAI!

Announcements and To Dos

Last Benchmark Entry of the Year! Click HERE to enter the final HS benchmark scores.  We will need to use these scores to make final adjustments to the Regents lists.  Students who score below a 45 will be automatically enrolled in summer school and will sit for the Regent in August.  All other students will be registered for the exam.  Please make sure that your data is uploaded by Friday, 27MAY16.

Begin Planning for Final Exams.  There are only 11 instructional days before High School Final exams and 18 instructional days before Middle School exams.  We are in the home stretch, and we want to make sure that each of these last few instructional days lead our girls to be able to demonstrate their best performances during the final exams.  There are many ways to demonstrate proficiency.  Check out this out-of-the-box final exam structure by CLICKING HERE.  We will be using the benchmark schedule for Final Exams.  Remember, whatever genre you choose, your final exam will only be as good as the expectations you set before the kids.  The more clear you can be in your rubrics, the better your students will understand what to do, and the better they will perform!

  

MP 5 Failures.  Click Here  for MP5 Failures and PID students. Please make sure that you have spoken to the family members of any students who are currently failing your class.  Sharing the specific goals that you've set with your students is a key step to helping our families support their children.  You should also be specific with parents.  Identify tangible steps they can do to help support the learner.  For example, "Student and I spoke about how she needs to do X, Y, and Z by this date.  Could you help her at home by asking her to show you X, Y, and Z and explain what she learned? Also, it would be really helpful if you kept the due dates on her mind.  For example, put a calendar on the fridge or mirror."  Specificity, achievability - these are two critical components to growth.

Important Dates

• Monday, 23MAY16. Pod Share 5 of 6 and Grade Team Meetings
• Wednesday, 25MAY16.  Senior Awards Night

• Monday, 30MAY16. Memorial Day- NO SCHOOL
• Wednesday, 01JUN16.  Algebra II Common Core Regent Exam
• Thursday & Friday 02JUN-03JUN16. 8th Grade Science Test

• Monday, 06JUN16.  8th Grade Science Written Test
• Monday, 06JUN16.  Pod Share 6 of 6 and Prep for Staff Share
• Tuesday, 07JUN16.  Night of Stars (6th & 9th Grade teams are invited to welcome our new and incoming students)
• Wednesday, 08JUN16 and Friday 10JUN16.  High School Final Exams
• Thursday, 09JUN16. Brooklyn Queens PD Day
• Friday, 10JUN16.  Annual Staff Party (location TBD)

• Monday, 13JUN16.  Last High School Day of Classes. End of HS MP 6
• Tuesday, 14JUN16.      AM Regent: Global    PM Regents: CC ELA
• Wednesday, 15JUN16. AM Regent: Liv.Env.  PM Regent: US History
• Thursday, 16JUN16.    AM Regent: CC Alg.  PM Regent: ELA - HS Grades Due at 3PM. 8th Grade Failures Due
• Friday, 17JUN16.  AM Regent: Trig & Earth Sci  PM Regent: Geometry

• Monday, 20JUN16 and Tuesday 21JUN16.  Middle School Final Exams
• Tuesday, 21JUN16.  AM Regent: Chemistry
• Friday, 24JUN16.  8th Grade Stepping Up
• Monday, 27JUN16.  High School Graduation, MS early dismissal at 10AM.
• Tuesday, 28JUN16.  Last day of school.  Students dismissed early.

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

Per Session Posting

Summer School.  Sarah, Matthew, Michael, and Doris (maybe) have agreed to do summer school.  THANK YOU.  If you are interested in working summer school, but can only do a couple of weeks, I am also planning a Regents Prep summer school from August 8th-Aug 18th.  Please email me ASAP if you're interested.

Summer Subject Team Institutes.  (See description above in blog post) Subject team members will select dates in subject team meetings this week.  Staff who attend will be paid teacher training rate.  Hrs and dates TBD.