Week of April 16

UAI Staff News

Volume V

Issue 29

April16th, 2018

[School Days 135-139]

[10 Days Remaining in MP5]      [39 Days Remaining in HS School Year]      [49 Days Remaining in MS School Year]

Announcements

College Trip.  The Class of 2019 is kicking off their college application journey with our annual College Trip.  This year students went upstate to see SUNY Oneonta and Syracuse.  Our students were curious, asked amazing questions, and represented both themselves and UAI beautifully.  In the upcoming weeks, more college trips are in the planning works for many grades.  Stay tuned to hear more!

Barclay's Center Fundraiser for our Adams Campus Lay Eagles.  Many, many thanks to Coach Elana for organizing the opportunity for our staff and student to play on a professional basketball court AND raise money fro our team.  In case anyone wants to buy additional last second tickets today, they are still available.  If you still want to go, you have the option to buy tickets at the door today.  Barclays will have staff there helping people purchase tickets. They will not be able to accept cash, however.  Please make sure to enter the arena at the Calvin Klein VIP Entrance on Atlantic Avenue. Enjoy the game!

Staff Spotlight

Del Carey.   Last week Ms. Del moved mountains to make sure we met all of our budget deadlines!  Every day, Ms. Del greets our staff and students with smiles and good cheer.  She also makes it a point to keep us all on our toes when it comes to payroll, benefits, and all other DOE details that are designed to be confusing.  She does all of this to make sure we get what we need to be excellent at our jobs.  Managing the details of over 40 staff members plus spending and tracking orders from everyone can be crazy at times.  Thank you Ms. Del for helping us get through it all with your charm, love, and great spirit.

Doris Twine.  This week Ms. Doris joined our juniors and seniors in the garden level to lend some more disciplinary support and to enter into a new role.  As we prepare for Ms. Martine's leave next year, Doris is stepping up to learn  the college ropes.  Wearing multiple hats is not easy, but Ms. Doris always rises to the occasion.  As the mother of a teenage daughter in high school, Ms. Doris brings a perspective to the college advising process that will deepen our college offices' capacity to support our girls.  At the first college meeting that the Class of 2019 had last month, only one family indicated that they have older children in college.  With this many families new to the college application process, Ms. Danielle and Ms. Doris certainly have their work cut out for them for the Class of 2019! 

To Do This Week

Monday PD.   Our annual retreat to Tarrytown is booked!  More details on the trip will come soon.  For now, save the date.  We will be leaving UAI Wednesday afternoon (06JUN17), spending the night and returning Thursday afternoon (Brooklyn Queens Day 07JUN17).  The retreat will be focused on refining and preparing curriculum for next year.  So, for the remaining Monday PDs in April and May, teachers need to use the time to upload lessons and units into their UAI Pacing Calendars.  Beginning Monday, we will work on making sure all September and October units and lessons plans are linked into the UAI Pacing Calendars.  Next Monday (23APR), we'll work on November and December.  On 30APR, we'll upload January, and February.  Monday, May 7th will be our last grade team meeting of the year, and Monday May 14th & 21st, we'll finish out the uploads for March, April, and May.  The goal is that by Jun 6th, all courses have completed Pacing Calendars (with daily linked lessons, materials, and units) so that we can use these as platforms for our curriculum work during the retreat.


Tuesday Family Outreach.  The DOE just recently extended the deadline for the online version of the NYC School Survey to April 20 for teachers, parents/guardians, and students.   Please reach out to your families who have not yet submitted their surveys (CLICK HERE to see who has) and you can find the parent codes HERE.  Families can go to schools.nyc.gov and then click on the survey link (bottom right) to complete the survey. If there are any students in your classes or advisory that still have not completed the survey, they can go to the same website and you'll find their survey codes HERE.  Please also invite parents to our next PTA meeting where we will be giving out the prizes to the survey raffle winners ($50 Amazon Cards).  It will also be our annual PTA elections, so we really need folks to come!  Our next PTA meeting is Tuesday, 08MAY2018 at 6PM.  Sursattie is also organizing a dance performance for our families that same night!

SEL Update

Digital Citizenship.  SEL classes are focusing on digital citizenship this whole month and using a social awareness and responsible decision making lens to dig deeper in to how digital media influences and impacts their lives.  Last week they were thoughtful and honest with themselves and their peers about their digital habits and especially their use of social media and its influence.  They also revisited cyberbullying and how to be brave and help if someone they know or themselves were experiencing it.  This week after they have acknowledged the benefits of being able to socialize online they will learn about safe online talk, will be asked to consider the outcomes to presenting yourself in different ways online and learn about gender stereotypes through dressing up their own avatars! 

Per Session Opportunities

None this week