- UAI Staff News
Volume VI
Issue 12
November 5, 2018
(134 school days remaining)
Announcements
Halloween Fun! Nearly the entire staff joined in the fun of dress up last Wednesday! Those in costume paraded through breakfast causing a tidal wave of teenage paparazzi that was a sight to behold! Once again the 6th-grade team brought out their A-game with their Wonderland Themed gear, but close on their heels this year was the 7th grade with their Coco/Day of the Dead inspired costumes and the 10th-grade team in the garb of the 4 estates of the French Revolution. Finally, Annie wowed all the grown-ups with her dead ringer costume of the Honorable RBG, but alas, too many of our young students recognized her only as Judge Judy. On the upside - if our students knew everything already, we'd all be out of jobs! Overall, it was a wonderfully fun day!
To Do This Week
Monday PD. Due to our Superintendent Visit on Wednesday, we are shifting Monday PD time to school beautification. Annie will introduce more of this in PD on Monday, but we will be moving PLOPs and Grade Team meetings to 19NOV18 (next Monday is a holiday). We want to give teachers time on Monday to fill out our bulletin boards with student work (that has actionable feedback and is posted up with a description of the task and its rubric). In addition to attending to our bulletin boards, teachers can use the Monday time readying their lessons for Wednesday's visit.
Tuesday PD. All staff should expect to report to UAI on Tuesday unless you have previously spoken to Annie or myself in person. Tuesday's PD is critical to the work we have been doing for the last few years around planning and elevating the quality of our classroom instruction. On Tuesday, we will be focusing on developing the quality of our Look Fors in our lesson plans.
Tuesday PD. All staff should expect to report to UAI on Tuesday unless you have previously spoken to Annie or myself in person. Tuesday's PD is critical to the work we have been doing for the last few years around planning and elevating the quality of our classroom instruction. On Tuesday, we will be focusing on developing the quality of our Look Fors in our lesson plans.
- 8AM - Breakfast Optional
- 8:30AM - State of the School Address
[Kiri] - 9:00-11:00AM Investigating the Power of High-Quality Lesson Look Fors
[Annie, Kelly, Suzannah, and Zack] - 11:00-12:00PM Lunch
- 12:00-1:50PM Lesson Planning For Observations (with Planning Partners)
- 2:00-2:50PM Prepping for the Visit (lesson planning and bulletin boards)
SEL Update
9th Grade: Last week, we dived into the word "perspective" and took a look at how individual perception shapes the way we tell stories and interact with the world. During our Thirteen Reasons Why novel study (and in 9th grade ELA!), we began looking at different perspectives and started to understand how there are multiple layers to every issue, relationship and story. Our goal is to tie the work we've done around two overarching SEL skills (relationship building and social awareness), relationship builders and damagers, effective collaboration techniques and our novel study together via a socratic seminar. We have a busy but fun week ahead of us!6th graders worked more on learning to solve conflict constructively. One of those strategies is reflecting their friends feelings as a way to allow them to feel heard and understood. They practiced how to confront someone using “I” statements and learned how starting with you can contribute to a less productive outcomes. We even saw them trying to use these new skills in action as we helped with several mediations this week!
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