Week of October 1

UAI Staff News

Volume VI

Issue 7

October, 2018

[159 School Days Remaining]

Announcements

Fantastic Advisory Trip Success! UAI was all over the city on Friday.  From the Bushwick Art Collective to the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens to Dave and Busters in Times Square - advisory groups and teachers had a fun-filled day of learning experiencing our beautiful city and getting to know one another better.  I'll be sending out the annual UAI iPhoto sharing album for 2018-2019 later today.  Please do upload your 

To Do This Week

Monday PD.  This Monday is the first Monday of the month.  As such, we will be having grade team meetings to work on the upcoming PLOPs and to complete a quick survey to check in on how we're doing at UAI.  Please bring a computer to PD in room 409 today.

Follow us on Instagram and Facebook.  As we are in the height of recruitment season, we are trying to build up our followers in social media.  Please promote our Instagram and Facebook pages and encourage students and families to follow us.  Currently we have 155 followers on Instagram and we're trying to get that number up to at least 500 before the end of the month.  Please promote our pages with your family outreach and encourage students and families to follow, share, and get the word out about our fantastic, unique, and powerful school.  Given the current climate we are all living through, empowering young women in fields of power (like STEM) current be more important!  Let's get our name out there and connect to more young girls like ours!

Lesson Plans and Observations.  In a couple of observations last week, we weren't able to immediately pick up a lesson plan from the teacher nor was the plan readily available through the pacing guide.  If you are not planning on using your pacing guides, please have the lesson ready when we walk into the classroom.  All teachers should have their lesson plans on hand.  You don't need to make extra copies, I can scan it with my phone when I'm in the classroom.  In fact, the more your edit and make revisions to your plan throughout the day, the more you show how you are adapting to the assessment data you are getting from your students (3D).  So, don't feel shy about annotating and changing your plans!

SEL This Week

Collaboration.  6th graders have been learning how to collaborate in SEL. They’re working on sharing the work load and giving everyone a chance to contribute, assuming their group members mean well, being open minded to the opinions of others and how to disagree without being disagreeable. The activities their doing to learn how collaboration improves relationships and productivity are interactive and fun and hopefully will help in class on group projects and beyond!

Girls Inc Middle School has started afterschool stronger, smarter, and bolder than ever!  Our girls have had two weeks of exciting fun and games getting to know each other and our new staff!  Today we joined Free People in their Moving Together event as they partner with Girls Inc. to share a day of mind and body self care.  The girls enjoyed meditation, dancing and delicious food that fuels our bodies.  They also received a fanny pack filled with natural skin care products and a free app for meditation and mental health care.  Be sure to ask our middle schoolers about how much they are enjoying after school!

Girls Inc High School has also started stronger than ever!  This year Ms. Kimberly put together a fantastic offering of clubs for our HS girls!  Such clubs include our partnership with Girls Who Code, Mural, Cybergirls, Love your Selfie, Guitar, Japanese Anime, Cooking, and Girl Activism.  Participating in extracurricular activities is an essential part of a strong college resume.  Please encourage families and our students to join Girls Inc. to round out their UAI experience, make friends in the UAI community and best prepare themselves for college.   

Per Session Opportunities

First High School Dance The first high school dance will be on Friday, November 2nd from 6-10PM. We are looking for chaperones to work for these four hours.  We're looking for at least 10 chaperones.  Please email Ms. Jen if you are interested or would like more information.