Week of October 24th

UAI Staff News

Volume IV

Issue 8

Week of October 24th, 2016

To Do's for this Week

• [MONDAY, 24OCT16] Pods Resume. We will begin our 2nd round of Inquiry Pods on Monday.  This cycle will run from Monday 24OCT16 through Monday 23JAN16. This cycle will focus on lesson planning and execution.  We will be working in subject teams to examine and workshop three components of the lesson.  Ilyana will kick us off by sharing how she approaches planning her lessons.  Please click here to preview the lesson she plans to share with us on Monday.  Below is the calendar for this Pod cycle and here are the pods:
  
  Marsha, Phillan, Lauren, Kristina, Joanna, Christina [Special Curriculum Development Pod to participate in a new project with LDC i3 - More info to come on this on Monday and in your emails]
  
  Danielle, Mike, Tiffany        Alison, Tom, Kristin, Paula       Elena, Anna, Michelle 
  Cherry, Matthew, Jamie        Meaghan, Damon, Martine    
  Ilyana, Cassandra, Kerry, Rebecca, Erick
  Michael, Brodie, Suzannah, Natalie           Sursattie, Tracy, Elana
• Cycle One:  The Mini Lesson [24OCT16; 31OCT16; 7NOV16]
• 14NOV16 - Mini Lesson Staff Share
• 22NOV16 - TUESDAY SWAP for Staff Potluck
• Cycle Two:  Work Time Practice [28NOV16;05DEC16; 12DEC16]
• 19DEC16 - Work Time Staff Share
• Cycle Three: Closure [09JAN17; 16JAN17; 23JAN17]
• 30JAN17 - Closure Staff Share

• [THIS WEEK] Phone Calls Home.   Please reach out and invite all advisees' parents to our Parent/Teacher Karaoke Night (THIS Thursday 5-7PM) and Mother-Daughter Spa Day (Saturday, 05NOV16).  If you are still unable to reach homes, please notify Nancy ASAP!

• [THURSDAY, 27OCT16] PTA Karaoke Night.  The PTA is hosting a Karaoke night this Thursday in the cafeteria.  Join us to belt out your favorite tune!

Announcements

DRP Data.  Joanna shared the DRP Data earlier this week.  Reading and English teachers should be scheduling DRP data conferences to share this data with students and construct reading goals to build their levels.  All teacher should review the data to inform how to select appropriate resources and texts for the classroom and lessons. Building strong literacy skills is crucial to achievement in all content areas.

The next administration will be in January.  Please reach out to your peer coach or to Ms. Colleen if you need support in figuring out how to best use this data in planning.

As a reminder, all behavior incidents in the classroom which lead to intervention by the dean team must be logged into Skedula by the classroom teacher. Please enter a low inference anecdotal and CC your coach for each incident.   Your coach can help support your classroom management routines and implementation to create sustainable, positive, learning environments. 

Please remember to call the Dean Hub at x.30211 if you need dean support in your class. Students should not be escorted or sent to the SAVE room under any circumstances.

SEL Updates

Week 6 of SEL.  6th grade SEL this past week was all about emotions! 6th graders learned the 7 primary emotions, how to recognize when someone is feeling these emotions, and ways to reflect how someone is feeling back to them. Next week, students will continue practicing active listening, as well as effective collaboration (using the 5 strategies listed here). Students will visit "stations" where they practice disagreeing politely, giving equal time to participate, and presuming positive intent. When you ask students to work in groups, please prompt them to use some of the strategies they learned for effective collaboration in SEL.  Ask them to select one of these strategies they can practice in their group at the moment that would improve how they are collaborating with one another.

The 9th grade is learning to really appreciate the SEL skills they are gaining. Last week, they enjoyed coming up with ways to scale back their technology use as they now better understand some on the negative impacts of being a "digital zombie". While getting to know their new Girls Inc. SEL teachers (half have Marni and half have Vanessa) they learned how to better tune in to others through a better understanding of reading other peoples' emotions.

Add this calendar to your own!  See that little "+" sign in the bottom right hand corner?  Click on it to have it show up in your personal google calendar!

Per Session Posting

None this week!