Week of October 8th

UAI Staff News

Volume VI

Issue 8

October 9th, 2018

[154 School Days Remaining]

Announcements

College Visits.  Last week Ms. Danielle took a group of seniors to visit LIU Brooklyn's Nursing school today where they were able to sit in on a Skills Assessment Lab and shadow nursing students, watch students use a simulation lab with life-like dummies, and meet with the Deans of Admission.  Visits like this and those from college admissions representatives are key activities for our seniors as they and their families make one of the most important decisions of their future - where they want to go to college after they graduate from UAI.  We do appreciate our teachers who support our students when they miss classes for experiences like these!

To Do This Week

Tuesday Outreach.  Next Monday is our first of three parent-outreach workshops.  During this workshop we will be revisiting and revising the mission and vision of UAI.  The goal of these workshops is to build stronger relationships between our families and our staff.  This first workshop seeks to do that my co-creating a common mission and vision for our school!  As a reminder for staff, this was an SBO voted into place to combine Monday and Tuesday extended day time into one three times a year (October, December and April).  Please reach out to your families today to invite them to the event on Monday, 15OCT18 from 3-5:20PM.   Enter your RSVPs here today.  The goal is to get at least three families per advisory.  Each advisor will be working with their own advisory parents. 

Lesson Plans and Observations.  We will be finishing up our first round of unannounced observations this week.  Please upload your lessons and units to your pacing guide or have them ready for pick up when we walk into your classroom.

SEL This Week

Working Together. In SEL 6th graders have continued to learn the best ways for productive and peaceful collaboration. They especially enjoyed doing skits that helped them learn how it feels to assume others mean well and how to disagree without being disagreeable. They will begin the week with a fun review game of what they’ve learned and practiced so far.

Relationships. Last week in SEL, 9th grade reflected on the great and not-so-great academic and personal relationships we’ve made over the years. We thought about adults and friends at school/home that we have a positive relationship with and examined why they fell under this category. We also identified different qualities we look for in a friend, and began to work on ways that we can build stronger, healthier relationships with peers or adults at school we have yet to connect with.

Per Session Opportunities

None this week