Sunday, December 18, 2016

Week of December 19th

UAI Staff News

Volume IV
Issue 16
Week of December 19th, 2016

This Week's Memories

Generation Citizen!  Last week, Ms. Suzannah and Mr. Brodie took two groups of seniors to participate in the final project of Generation Citizen.  In their civics classes, Mr. Brodie and Ms. Suzannah worked with the seniors to develop civics oriented projects.  Because of her work and efforts in class, Noor Khan, Class of 2017, was one of two Changemaker award winners who got to give a 3min speech and meet with Chancellor Farina during the event.  Thank you Mr. Brodie, Ms. Suzannah for your work with the Class of 2017 on their Civics work. Congrats to Noor!


Holiday Cheer!  After a long week of visitors and evaluators, it was such a treat to celebrate all of the hard work that everyone at UAI has done this fall to create such an amazing and positive transformation.  On Tuesday, Ken visited to push and support Colleen & me in our development of staff and leaders. On Wednesday, Richie (Deputy Superintendent) visited to evaluate our progress.  Finally, on Thursday, a group of UA Principals visited to give feedback on our work thus far.  All three said the same thing this week.  While we have work to do, what we have done thus far is pretty amazing, and we are definitely on the right track and making all the right moves! Excellent work everyone!  Cheers to you!!!

To Do's for this Week

[MONDAY, 19DEC16] Advisory Calls Home and Family Craft Night. Please make sure to reach out to all of your advisee's parents to make sure they received the report cards that were distributed on Friday.  At the same time, please also personally invite families to Wednesday's Family Craft and Caro-oke evening.  Dinner and Desserts will be provided, so please RSVP with a total head count from your advisory to Carol by Tuesday at noon. 

[THIS WEEK] Structure and Vigilance. This last week leading up to a holiday break is particularly stressful.  To ease the stress, please make sure you work with your grade team to not schedule major assessments on the same day.  In addition, please keep up your regular routines to create a predictable and comforting pattern of behavior in your classes this week.  Ritual and routine can be very soothing to the anxiety that some of our students are facing as they approach the holiday break.  In addition, please make it a point to be in the hallways during transition, particularly before and after lunch. With your help, students will more rapidly move from one class to another.

[FRIDAY, 23DEC16] Rapid Dismissal.  We will be dismissing at the end of 7th period at 1:50PM.  SLJ is dismissing at 2PM and to make sure we're not stepping over each other outside, I'm moving us up 10minutes for dismissal.  To make this an effective dismissal, all staff must make sure all students are ready to rapidly dismiss, and all staff must escort their classes out of the building.  Staff should plan to rapidly dismiss with students on Friday.  The building will not be open over the holiday break. Take the time to get some well-earned rest!


SEL Updates

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Over the past week, students discussed how to recognize emotions in themselves and others, and learned about the power of thought loop. 
This week, students will continue discussing how they can change their thinking to better manage their emotions. We will also dive into other emotion regulation strategies, including belly breathing, positive self talk, and eliminating "triggers" from their environment.


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