Week of December 12th

UAI Staff News

Volume IV

Issue 15

Week of December 12th, 2016

This Week's Memories

I Define Me!  Last month, our juniors who take a college-level engineering class at NYU Poly were subject to racial slurs the day after the election.  The media reported a spate of these occurrences. However, unfortunately, this was not the first nor will it likely be the last time our young women will be subjected to acts like this.  It seems like lately, the news only reports on racist incidents when someone is shot or beat.  These young women want to turn the tide on this type of messaging.  They created a social media campaign to stop the world from telling them who and what to be.  Instead they want the world to know that they define themselves.  Please help them spread their campaign, by sharing the post from the UAI facebook page or searching for #Idefineme and sharing their post. Yes, we're working on other social media venues (but we first have to set up accounts).

To Do's for this Week

[WEDNESDAY, 14DEC16] Superintendent's Visit. Deputy Superintendent, Richie Cintron will be visiting UAI on Wednesday to evaluate our progress for the year.  He will be her for most of the day, and we will be visiting classrooms and meeting with me and Colleen.  In particular, Richie has requested to see a PE class and tenuring teachers.  Here's the schedule. For this visit, it is very important that we all put our best foot forward and make sure we have our best and most inspiring lessons on display for Wednesday.  Richie will also be reviewing lesson and unit plans that day.  So, I am requesting that all current units be uploaded to this folder by the end of the day Monday and that all lessons for Wednesday be uploaded to this folder by the end of the day Monday as well.  Here's the tentative agenda for the day.

• 8:30-8:55 Intro Meeting with Kiri & Colleen
• 8:55-9:10 Matthew & Alison
• 9:10-9:25 Kristin & Tom
• 9:25-9:35 Debrief with Kiri & Colleen
• 9:35-9:50 Cherry
• 9:50-10:30 Debrief & Meet with Kiri & Colleen
• 10:30-10:45 Michael
• 10:45-11:00 Michelle
• 11:00-11:20 Meeting with Danielle & Tiffany - we will discuss the Artisan Lesson for Weds.
• 11:20-12:30 Debrief and Meeting with Kiri & Colleen
• 12:30-12:45 Anna
• 12:45-1:00 Kerry & Tiffany
• 1:00-1:15 Elana
• 1:00-2:00 Meeting with Kiri & Colleen
• 2:00-2:30 Debrief with Kiri & Colleen

[FRIDAY, 09DEC16] Grades Due @ 3PM.  Marking Period 2 ended last Friday.  Grades are due this Wednesday by 3PM and Report Cards will be distributed during last period class next Friday, 16DEC16.   Please make sure grades are entered into Skedula and your gradebooks are downloaded.  By the end of the day on Wednesday, please upload your grade books to this shared folder.  Please use the following nomenclature to identify your files:  YOURNAME_COURSE NAME_GROUP_MP2_2016-17

SEL Updates

MS SEL

Over the past week, 6th graders in SEL finished discussing how to resolve big problems using the SOLVE strategy (Stop and think, Objectively state the problem, List possible solutions and outcomes, Voice your choice and act on it, and Evaluate & adjust if needed). They also reviewed strategies they have learned so far this year through a "family feud" style game. In this upcoming week, 6th graders will develop their skills in recognizing their own emotions as well as reframing negative thinking that may be bringing them down.  Please challenge students to use more advanced vocabulary when describing feelings in themselves and others as they develop their emotional awareness over the next few weeks.

HS SEL

This week we began work on Improving Memory Skills, which will be a two part lesson continued next week. The students across both grades seemed to enjoy the memory activities. It is their task to use the knowledge of their strongest type of learning (auditory, visual or Kinesthetic) when studying and learning in school. The 9th grade additionally received an introductory FLSE lesson from our 11th grade peer educators and their incredible FLSE educators. January will be used to reinforce and review what was learned, what has been effective out of the SEL room and how to continue to understand SEL in school, at home and in our personal lives. They will receive a packet that will play a large part on their pass or fail grade come the end of the semester.

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Per Session Posting

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