Week of November 21

UAI Staff News

Volume IV

Issue 12

Week of November 21st, 2016

This Week's Memories

Last week was packed full of activities.

Matthew works with Cheyenne, Kristal
& Amiinah (Class of 2023)

Alison has a blast working with
Reema & Donna (Class of 2023)

On Tuesday - Artisan Teaching Wow!  Alison and Matthew put together an amazing lesson on unit conversion and measurement. It was a true artisan lesson and all of their 6th graders were thoroughly and intellectually engaged for both their math and science periods.  Over 100 minutes of focus time for 10/11 year-olds is amazing and worth the celebration!

Erica (Class of 2017)
get a little help 

Ashanti, Niya, & Shaniah
(Class of 2017)
are hard at work with their families

Tuesday - Family Fafsa Night.  We had record breaking attendance at our annual FAFSA night. With the new earlier deadlines this year, it was extra important to get our families in early! Mara coordinated a robust crew of volunteers and partners to support our girls and their families, and now the Class of 2017 is well on their way to college!

Thursday & Friday - Our First Round of SLCs and Benchmarks went smoothly.  While we are still trying to reach our goal, I was happy to welcome 279 families into UAI.  Great work everyone!

Starlet (Class of 2017)
Ran Dance Security

Janna, Cijae, Samajae & shy Sahi
(Class of 2019) enjoy the Dance

Friday - First High School Dance.  Many thanks to Doris and Jen for weathering the storm that is dance organization, and many more thanks to the wealth of chaperones who stepped up to provide a fun evening for our girls.

Ruby, Mary, Kalila, & Uneeka (2018)
Give prospective parents & students
an overview of the school

Saturday - Open House for New Students.  Many thanks to Ms. Val for working all hours to put together and amazing event.  Big shout outs to all our open house volunteers (particularly the ones who pulled back-to-back shifts with the dance on Friday and the Open House on Saturday morning).  It was a well-attended event, and the interest in UAI is brewing!

To Do's for this Week

• [MONDAY, 21NOV16] Gradebook Upload.  Only three teachers have uploaded their gradebooks to the shared folder.  Please do this now.   Download your MP grades from Skedula.  CLICK HERE for directions on how to download your gradebook.   CLICK HERE to upload those gradebooks to our UAI google space.  Please make sure that you name your gradebooks as follows:  YOUR NAME_CLASS_GROUP_MP1_2016_17

• [WEDNESDAY, 30NOV16] Schedule all Advisor SLCs.  As a school, 60% of student-led conferences were completed as of today, 20NOV16.  Our goal is to complete at least 80% of our SLCs.  Many teachers held SLCs during allotted grading time and left early for parent teacher night.  This resulted in grading conflicts and low SLC completion.  Please try to complete as many SLCs as you can between now and next Wednesday.  Please do not schedule any SLCs after 5, and on Wednesday 22NOV, do not schedule any SLCs after 1:30.  Here are the results of our SLCs as of today:

• [WEDNESDAY 23NOV16] Benchmark Grades.  We weren't able to complete as much grading as originally planned because the SLC/grading conflict.  We'll fix that for next time.  For this round, please work on completing the grading during your professional periods this week.  You can suspend usual professional activities to do this.  If you need assistance, please reach out to Val or Joanna for help.  Grades should be uploaded to this document (CLICK HERE) by the end of the day on Wednesday.

Announcements

Snack Karaoke -  We will be doing our Karaoke Snacking on Monday, in lieu of Monday PD.  I changed my mind from Tuesday because these short weeks made it difficult to actually complete observations.  So, it seemed that Monday was the better choice for our Karaoke.  Don't go crazy on cooking (unless you want to).  Just bring your favorite snacks!  Stay tuned for the email on location.  We're trying to see if the cafeteria is available. 

SEL Updates

This is another short week, so no new updates from the SEL team.  However, the holidays can be particularly stressful times for our students (and us!).  Please keep your eyes open and reach out to students who are feeling stress.  Make sure that they know you care, and that you understand that holiday celebrations aren't always celebrations for all!

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

No New Postings This Week