Week of May 6th

UAI Staff News

Volume VI

Issue 34

May 6th, 2019

(24 Instructional Days Remaining)

Announcements

College Match Day!  May 1st was National College Match day in which our seniors committed to their future colleges and universities.  The Class of 2019 has some pretty special outcomes including matching to schools like Barnard & Columbia.  Most significantly, our college advisors, Ms. Doris & Ms. Danielle worked hard with our students and families to match our young women to schools that best fit their skills, financial capacity, and interests!  Congratulations Class of 2019, and congratulations to Ms. Danielle and a special shout out to Ms. Doris who successfully completed her first year as a college counselor!

Staff Out This Week

• Monday 06MAY:  
• Judy out - Algebra for All PD
• Phil out - Personal Business

• Tuesday 07MAY: 
• Amanda out - Personal Business

• Wednesday 08MAY: Mock Regents Day One
• Rebecca F out - Personal Business

• Thursday 02MAY: Mock Regents Day Two  
• No One 

• Friday  03MAY: Mock Regents Day Three
• Jamie out - LINCT PD

To Do This Week

Monday PD.  This Monday will be our penultimate grade team meeting for the year!!  We will all meet in room 409 to do the following

• Complete the 2019-2020 Preference Sheet if you didn't already do so.  We will be using these preference sheets to launch our end-of-the-year conferences which will begin later this week.
• Complete the End of the Year DESSA (so please bring your laptops to PD)
• Review the Summer School/Repeater Lists for the grade

Tuesday Outreach.  As a reminder, Thursday May 9th is our next parent conference.  Please use Tuesday time to contact any and all students who are currently failing your class.  Please use prep time this week to update Skedula so that families and students have access to their performance data in your classes.  When you contact home, here are some points to address with their families:

• How is there attendance to class?
• How well are they participating in class, what can be improved?
• How well are they performing on class assessments?  What can families do to help?
• How well are they doing on class assignments?  What can families do to help?

As a reminder,  for Promotion In Doubt records, we need to document our interventions.  Your contact home is part of that intervention.  Please make sure to enter your outreach into Skedula.  

Final Parent Conferences Thursday, May 9th.  This final parent conference session will be structured like traditional parent conferences with teachers meeting with their classroom students (rather than their advisees) from 5-8PM.   Advisors and classroom teachers have been reaching out to families of parents who are failing classes, and we will be sending home targeted messages based on MP5 grades.  Please make sure you are prepared to hold meetings with students and their families to explain how students have progressed through the year, and what families can do to intervene and support student learning in this last marking period. 

Student Support Services Update 

Per Session Posting

8th Grade "Prom".  We are looking for chaperones to chaperone the 8th grade "Prom" in our gym from 5:30-10PM.  If you are interested, please contact Jen for details.  The number of chaperones will vary depending on the number of students who RSVP.  Please reach out to Jen by the end of the day on Friday May 17th.