UAI Staff News
Volume V
Issue 5
September 25th, 2017
[School Days 13-17]
[School Days 13-17]
This Week's Announcements
Girls Inc. Updates! Girls Inc has partnered with Millie, a luxury brand clothing line. Some of our beloved middle school students were chosen to participate in a photo shoot, modeling clothing created especially with the Girls Inc mission to inspire all girls to be strong, smart, and bold! Proceeds will support GINYC so click here to check them out! This Monday we start our official 2017-18 after-school year. We will be offering such exciting classes as knitting, guitar, cheerleading, step, dance, Media literacy, theater performance, homework help and much more!
True Grit. Our 11th cohort of NYU Engineering students are ending their first month of classes at Poly this week. They are struggling! This course is purposely put here at the start of their junior year to create a sheltered opportunity for them to develop the grit needed to thrive in their actual college years. When you see our current cohort, give them some recognition for their hard work. One crucial step to developing the persistence and resilience they need to is to recognize them for the hard work that they are doing! Give them a shout out in class, a high five in the halls, or maybe even just quiet side-conversation highlighting the specific achievements they've had in your class and at Poly!
- Group T: Nancy Adjalla, Taylor Anderson, Ojeida Austin, Shaquanna Bearam, Daneya Burroughs
- Group U: Shamina Chowdhury, Nesma Elazzab, Tasmin Emu, Fatoumata Jobe, Anaya Jordan
- Group S: Dianni Libert, Nia Matthew, Tamara Noel-George, Deana Patterson, Laura St. Victor
Girls Inc. Updates! Girls Inc has partnered with Millie, a luxury brand clothing line. Some of our beloved middle school students were chosen to participate in a photo shoot, modeling clothing created especially with the Girls Inc mission to inspire all girls to be strong, smart, and bold! Proceeds will support GINYC so click here to check them out! This Monday we start our official 2017-18 after-school year. We will be offering such exciting classes as knitting, guitar, cheerleading, step, dance, Media literacy, theater performance, homework help and much more!
True Grit. Our 11th cohort of NYU Engineering students are ending their first month of classes at Poly this week. They are struggling! This course is purposely put here at the start of their junior year to create a sheltered opportunity for them to develop the grit needed to thrive in their actual college years. When you see our current cohort, give them some recognition for their hard work. One crucial step to developing the persistence and resilience they need to is to recognize them for the hard work that they are doing! Give them a shout out in class, a high five in the halls, or maybe even just quiet side-conversation highlighting the specific achievements they've had in your class and at Poly!
- Group T: Nancy Adjalla, Taylor Anderson, Ojeida Austin, Shaquanna Bearam, Daneya Burroughs
- Group U: Shamina Chowdhury, Nesma Elazzab, Tasmin Emu, Fatoumata Jobe, Anaya Jordan
- Group S: Dianni Libert, Nia Matthew, Tamara Noel-George, Deana Patterson, Laura St. Victor
Things To Do This Week
Monday PD and Curriculum Night Progressive Dinner. We will be meeting in room 409 at 3PM to prepare for our Curriculum Night Progressive Dinner. As a reminder, this is one of the four parent-conference that are mandated for all staff this year (September Curriculum Night, November SLCs, March SLCs, and May Springfest). We'll be reviewing the schedule during PD, and preparation expectations which include
Observations. As an ongoing reminder, Annie, Val, and I will be looking in the following folders for your planning materials and to evaluate your performance in Domain 1. Please make sure these materials are uploaded into the correct folders. Please see Brodie for support in getting your files uploaded.
Effective Collaboration. In Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) this week, 6th and 9th grade students began their focus on effective collaboration skills. They opened their lessons on collaboration with a team-building "paper tower challenge" similar to the one we did as a staff using balloons.
Over the upcoming weeks, students will be developing and practicing 4 main collaboration skills, in order to support their work in partners and groups in your classes:
- Course Syllabus and Current Unit Plan - Please be prepared to share your course syllabus and current unit plan (student facing contract) so that parents can understand your course expectations and current, specific due dates. Final versions will be collected at the end of Monday PD so the office staff can make packets for parents.
- Bulletin Boards. You will have time during PD to prepare hall and classroom bulletin boards to showcase your course and student work. This first parent event is our opportunity to welcome parents into their child's learning environment. The bulletin boards are only the first impressions that they will have. It's important that we make them good impressions.
- Mini-Activities and Parent Q & A. For the evening, you will be organized by grade teams. Each team will have two rooms - one for humanities teachers (ELA, Social Studies, Language) and one for math and science teachers. Multigrade teachers for Art, Dance and PE will have their own section as will Girls Inc. You will also have time on Monday with your grade-partners to plan a mini-activity for parents and prepare for a brief Q & A.
Observations. As an ongoing reminder, Annie, Val, and I will be looking in the following folders for your planning materials and to evaluate your performance in Domain 1. Please make sure these materials are uploaded into the correct folders. Please see Brodie for support in getting your files uploaded.
- Curriculum Map: CLICK HERE FOR THE TEMPLATE
- Pacing Guide: CLICK HERE FOR THE TEMPLATE
- Unit Plan: CLICK HERE FOR THE UNIT TEMPLATE
- Lesson Plan: CLICK HERE FOR THE LESSON TEMPLATE
- Curriculum Folder: CLICK HERE TO ACCESS THE FOLDER TO UPLOAD PLANS
PLOPs. Next Monday is the first Monday of the month. We will be meeting in 409 in grade teams to write PLOPS (present level of performance) for our students who have annual reviews coming up in October. This year, the first Monday of the month will be dedicated to this activity for upcoming IEP reviews. Take this week to begin gathering your observations and data on the following students. Please access SESIS (using your DOE credentials) to read their current IEPs. This will help you reflect on their present levels of performance. In addition to these students, teams should review data and observations on students who they believe may need to have an initial evaluation.
- 8th Grade: Amanda Smith
- 9th Grade: Shaunji Herring, Taerica Grant
- 10th Grade: Samantha Woods, Chinaza Hayes
- 11th Grade: Mia Green, Destiney Shepherd Wroten
- 12th Grade: Tarheeb Gadelrab
SEL This Week
Effective Collaboration. In Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) this week, 6th and 9th grade students began their focus on effective collaboration skills. They opened their lessons on collaboration with a team-building "paper tower challenge" similar to the one we did as a staff using balloons.Over the upcoming weeks, students will be developing and practicing 4 main collaboration skills, in order to support their work in partners and groups in your classes:
- Provide equal opportunities for everyone to speak
- Assume your group members mean well (presume positive intent)
- Be open-minded to the opinions of others
- Disagree without being disagreeable
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