Week of June 26th

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UAI Staff News

Volume X

Issue 36

June 26th, 2023

Final Post of the School Year.  We DID it!!  We are in the final two days of the 2023-24 school year.   It has been an incredible year full of so many different twists and turns.  We didn't have to contend with socially distant or remote learning, but this year's hurdles of attendance woes and mental health struggles posed even greater challenges to teaching and learning.  In combination with these two huge conundrums, UAI also underwent an immense transition in staff with 17 new teachers, and the state put us on a naughty list because we had so many more kids opting out of testing last year (after Omicron and Delta).  

We've certainly had our share of shizznizzles this year.

And...we thrived.

Each one of you have put forth incredible efforts and sacrifices this year.  Day after day, you brought a tireless commitment to our students' academic and social-emotional well-being.  Through each of the challenges we faced this year, our community came together - our newest staff with their fresh perspectives and creative ideas and our returning staff with their institutional memory and wealth of experience.  Through our unity, our core values came alive.  We pushed each other to deliver rigorous lessons that reflected our students and created learning environments where our students felt included and heard.  We worked together to continue to find ways to cultivate student power and find true joy in our work with them.

We still have a ways to go to fully realize the outcomes we collectively crafted in our CEP, but perhaps for the first time in a long time, it feels like we are all on the same page about where we need to go and how we need to get there.  

For me - this alone - this alignment in vision and mission - is a HUGE achievement for UAI.  With the collective talents, experience, and commitment of our staff, we have both the fuel and the direction for real, impactful change.  It's electric!  It's exciting!   It is my favorite UAI win of the year.

As you close out this year, I encourage you to think back and reflect on your own favorite win.  Recognize the hard parts and mine for the lessons where things went awry.  Then look for the place where the sun shines brightest and treasure the win.

I thank you all for your unwavering dedication and commitment to our kids, families, and community.  I am honored to be your principal and to lead to such an amazing team.  I cannot wait to see what next year brings!!

I hope each of you find long stretches of relaxation and recharge this summer, and that slow down and make the time to savor each minute!

Important dates. 

• Monday, 26JUN23 - 8th Grade Stepping Up

• Tuesday, 27JUN23 - Last Day of School
• Students meet advisors in Advisory from 8:30-10AM
• Pick up final report cards
• Clean out lockers
• Return Tech
• Staff meets in Farm for Final Staff Meeting of the year at 10AM
• Teacher Exit To Do List (once staff meeting and list is complete, you are free to go!)

• Monday, 10JUL23 - First Day of Summer School (Mon-Thu only)
• 10JUL - 27JUL - Summer Splash (Enrichment & Credit Recovery Classes) 
• 31JUL - 15AUG - Regents Prep
• 16AUG - 17AUG - August Regents Testing

Announcements & To Dos

Today and Tomorrow.  Please review your schedule on for Monday & Tuesday.  Monday is a packed day with our 8th grade Stepping Up and our final day of classes.  Tuesday, all kids will report to school just to pick up report cards.

For Monday

• 6th & 7th grade students have a regular schedule.  They'll go to lunch and go up to the gym at 10:55 to get ready for the 8th grade graduation.  MS Teachers should meet their students and sit with them in the bleachers. Please actively work with students to focus on the ceremony and maintain respectful excitement.  
  
  
• 8-12th grade students will have an abbreviated schedule because of the 8th grade Stepping Up ceremony.  From 8:30-10:20, Students report to advisory room, have their attendance taken, review summer assignments, return tech & school materials (books rulers, calculators, etc) and clean out lockers.  Once that is done, they are released for the day (they also have the option of staying for lunch if they'd like). 
  
  
• All 9th grade advisories report to Room 307 w/ Rebecca. 
  
• All 10th grade advisories report to Room 405 w/ Judy
• All 11th grade advisories report to Room 415 w/ Liza
• All 12th grade advisories report Room 311 w/ Jake.
• Noelle, Thomas, and Danielle H have been assigned hall duty for the AM to help kids dismiss and/or clean out the hallways.
  
  
• All other staff should report to their specific 8th grade Stepping Up Ceremony Assignments.
  
  

For Tuesday

• All students report to assigned classrooms to pick up report cards from 8:30AM-10AM.  Students are dismissed after pickup.  After 10AM, students must pick up report cards in the Main Office.  Students report to the following rooms:

• All 6th & 7th grade Advisories & Advisors report to Room B49
• All 8th grade Advisories & Advisors report to Room 305
• All 9th grade  Advisories & Advisors report to Room 307
  
• All 10th grade  Advisories & Advisors report to Room 405
• All 11th grade  Advisories & Advisors report to Room 415
• All 12th grade  Advisories & Advisors report Room 311

• At 10AM, all teachers should bring remaining report cards down to the main office for distribution.
  
  
• At 10:30AM, all teachers should report to the farm for our final staff meeting of the year

• Agenda
• Celebrating our Staff!
• Final Announcements
• Collection of EOY Checklist - must be completely signed off on before you leave for the day

Final PD.  The last extended time of the year should be used to reach out to families and students to inform them of summer school assignments.  You should call and/or text AND email so they have both notifications.  All staff should refer to THIS LIST

• Advisors:  Please look at the "Summer Splash" tab for your students.  If you see your student on the list, please reach out to the student and family to let them know what they are programmed to take AND the following info
• Metrocards will be distributed on July 6th
• Classes begin at 9AM on July 10th and run Mondays-Thursdays 9AM-12PM through 27JUL23
• HS Credit Recovery class is MANDATORY, and students must report to summer school to do the work, or they may end up repeated the grade.
• All other Summer Splash courses are elective courses.  Students can take as many as they want (up to three and at least 1).
• Girls Inc offers programming from 8:30-3:30PM.  Students have the option to stay until 3:30PM after UAI Summer Splash if they want.
  
• Please email students and families this information & cc Kiri.  Please also call or text to let them know to look for the email.
  
  
• Course Teachers of the following Regent exams (ELA, ALG 1, USH, GLO, LIV, or EARTH).  Due to limited staffing, we are only able to support these regent exams for Regents Prep.  Students are MANDATED to come to Regents Prep and retake these exams if they scored <50 on the test in June (and are in 11th or 12th grade for ELA, only)
• Metrocards will be distributed on July 6th
• Classes begin at 9AM on July 31st and run Mondays-Thursdays 9AM-12PM through 15AUG
• June Regent Exams will be on 16AUG & 17AUG
• Please email students and families this information & cc Kiri.  Please also call or text to let them know to look for the email.

Technology Collection.  We will be collecting student technology this year to make sure all equipment is fully updated and inventoried this summer.  All 8th and 12th grade students should be bringing in their technology to school this week.  Jason will be collecting equipment in the Cafe and in the Main office this week.  

Staff technology must also be returned if you are not planning to return to UAI in the fall.  This includes all computers, document cameras, printers, plugs and peripherals etc. that you may have at home from remote school times.  If you are planning to return in the fall, you can hold on to these materials.

Please also message to students that they should also bring in any broken or non-functioning tech.  We'll use summer time to repair or dispose of the broken tech.

Per Session Postings

For ALL per session activities (view all 2022-23 postings here),
please complete Per Session Application For

Summer School.  If you are interested in working summer school, please complete THIS FORM.

Per Session Postings Now Closed

Week of June 20th

UAI Staff News

Volume X

Issue 35

June 20th, 2023

Father's Day & Juneteenth.  To all you fathers (or soon to be fathers) and to all your fathers (or father figures), I hope you celebrated a wonderful day with your family, friends and loved ones!

Today is Juneteenth, the day (19JUN65) when General Order No. 3 reached the slaves in Galveston, TX and they were finally free.  Juneteenth is a call to action to each of us to continually confront and disrupt the systems of inequity that persist today.

Each of you have had a part in that work this year.  As educators, we stand before our students and alongside their families as the cultivators of our students' dreams and potential.  Sometimes, the crush of content standards obscures our role.  Sometimes we fall into the pattern of believing that the goal is to get kids to pass this test or meet that benchmark.  But those tests and benchmarks are just individual rungs in their larger ladder to our students' dreams & futures.  

The rungs are not the goal or purpose.  They are roadside signs, marking a bigger, more significant journey.  Our students are the future, and our role is to make sure they are ready to create and implement a future that all of us deserve and need.

This year, each of you were activists of this social change through our core values

Rigor - You challenged students to improve their thinking and understanding with a wide variety of tasks, lessons, and learning experiences.

Power - You showed students where to find their own voice and inner strength to learn from their mistakes and failures, to grow and push their thinking and understanding, and to stand up for themselves and for those things that they believe to be just and right.

Equity - You made sure our students saw themselves in their curricula and/or were themselves seen and valued by you and your class.  

Joy - You connected with your students and showed them that they are loved, lovable and FUN.  You showed them that learning with them and their peers is joyous and fulfilling.

Realizing and enacting our core values each day is an ever-evolving process, and each of are getting better at it with each day.  As we do, we celebrate and honor the beauty of Juneteenth.  Working alongside our families, we push our students to bring their dreams to life - to write a new future in which our young, black & brown people become the authors of a world that challenges the systems that keep folks down and raise up new systems that breed justice and equity.

In so doing, we join them in writing a better future into existence.

Juneteenth serves as a reminder to each of us that, as educators, we should be conduits of change and the catalysts of transformation.  It is a reminder that our role in the lives of each of our students has the potential of becoming the inspiration to the next president, climate activist, inventor of the next great tech invention, or the doctor who cures cancer.  

I will remind us that we already stand in our students lives as mentors, role models, and loved teachers. And on behalf of the teenagers (who never say it enough) and our families (who say it to me all the time), I say thank you for all that you have done this year and all you will undoubtedly continue to do as the amazingly, committed and talented educators that you are! 

Important dates. 

• Tuesday, 20JUN23 -
• Geometry Regents Exam (9AM)
• 8th Grade Yearbook Signing (9:30-12:30)
• 12th Grade BBQ @ Brooklyn Bridge Park (11:15-2:50)

• Wednesday 21JUN23
• 8th Grade Graduation Rehearsal 12-2:50PM
  
  
• Thursday, 22JUN23
• 8th Grade Gown Pick Up (9:30-12:30PM)
• 12th Grade Graduation Rehearsal 12:30-2:50PM
  
  
• Friday, 23JUN23 - 
• High School Graduation at City Tech Theater (9:30AM)

• Monday, 26JUN23 - 8th Grade Stepping Up

• Tuesday, 27JUN23 - Last Day of School
• Students meet advisors in Advisory from 8:30-10AM
• Pick up final report cards
• Clean out lockers
• Return Tech
• Staff meets in Farm for Final Staff Meeting of the year at 10AM
• Teacher Exit To Do List (once staff meeting and list is complete, you are free to go!)

• Monday, 10JUL23 - First Day of Summer School (Mon-Thu only)
• 10JUL - 27JUL - Summer Splash (Enrichment & Credit Recovery Classes) 
• 31JUL - 15AUG - Regents Prep
• 16AUG - 17AUG - August Regents Testing

Announcements & To Dos

This Week.  Tuesday & Wednesday will be our last two days of tutoring.  All grades have been uploaded and here is the final failing list with links to work to be completed for summer.  Tutors this week should meet with students to review what is required.  This week, teachers with failing students should meet with students to support them in understanding what is required and to complete as many tasks as possible.  What is not finished on Tuesday or Wednesday will be completed in summer school. 

Teachers MUST share links to ALL work (including forms, docs, etc.) with Kiri & Kelly so that we can monitor and support student completion of tasks and assignments.  

Please review the June Regents Schedule for your schedule on for the rest of this week and next.  I'm currently updating it - so please keep checking!

Summer School.  UAI Summer School is Ready to Kick Off.  Many thanks to folks for signing up to join our summer school.  Our summer school is broken up into three components

1. Summer Splash! - Fun Learning Experiences to stoke the creative and ambitious fires of our young, brilliant minds.  Summer isn't supposed to be punishment!  Summer is another way to get kids to plug into a lifetime of learning.   That is our goal for UAI Summer Splash.  Getting kids STOKED to learn!  This program runs 10JUL-27JUL Mondays-Thursdays
   
   
2. Summer Credit Recovery.  We use June Regents Exam week to leverage the instructional component of traditional summer school.  Students learn best with their teachers, and most teachers need summer breaks!  So, June Regents time is the best happy medium of these two truths.  For those students who are not able to complete the required assignments during the June Regents intervention time, we will have our sub teachers working with them to complete those assignments in July.  This program runs concurrently with Summer Splash 10JUL-27JUL, Mondays thru Thursdays (Students can enroll in both).  Students are automatically enrolled in Summer Credit Recovery, based on final June Grades.
   
   
3. Regents Prep.  For those students who didn't quite reach their exam goals in June, we offer another at bat during the summer.  From 31JUL-17AUG, students can attend regents prep classes run by their teachers (Mon-Thu only) with testing on 16AUG & 17AUG.  Enrollment is automatic (based on June Regent scores), and mandatory for graduation requirement regent exams (E.g. Earth/Living, Algebra 1, ELA, and USH/GLO).  We do not have staff to offer GEO, ALG2, or other exams during the summer.  Students can take those again in January 2024.

Summer Splash Sign Up.  Please Share THIS FORM with your advisory students.  All middle school students who sign up will also be enrolled in our Girls Inc Summer Camp and will have the opportunity to stay until 3PM each day.   

• Digital Design & 3D Printing with Ms. Judy.  Learn how to turn your creations into reality with Ms. Judy's Digital Design and 3D Printing Class this Summer!  Open to all students!
  
  
• US History Through Comics with Mr. Sean.  Love US History?? How about Comic Books or Graphic Novels?  Come join Mr. Sean this summer to have a fun exploration of our nations history!
  
  
• Fashion Design with Ms. Freida. Are you interested in exploring or deepening an interest in Fashion?  Join Ms. Freida this summer to do just that!
  
  
• Visual Art with Ms. Frances.  Visual Art is both a beautiful and therapeutic process.  Come join Ms. Frances to explore various art forms and to add some beauty to your summer.
  
  
• Cosmetology with Ms. Syan.  Do you have an interest in hair and makeup?  Are you interested in learning how to develop your own products that are both natural AND work?  Then join Ms. Syan this summer to learn from one of the best!

Technology Collection.  We will be collecting student technology this year to make sure all equipment is fully updated and inventoried this summer.  All 8th and 12th grade students should be bringing in their technology to school this week.  Jason will be collecting equipment in the Cafe and in the Main office this week.  

Staff technology must also be returned if you are not planning to return to UAI in the fall.  This includes all computers, document cameras, printers, plugs and peripherals etc. that you may have at home from remote school times.  If you are planning to return in the fall, you can hold on to these materials. 

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Per Session Postings

For ALL per session activities (view all 2022-23 postings here),
please complete Per Session Application For

Summer School.  If you are interested in working summer school, please complete THIS FORM.

Per Session Postings Now Closed

Week of June 12th

 

UAI Staff News

Volume X

Issue 34

June 12th, 2023

Final Weeks and Prepping for Summer.  June is zooming by!  This week marks the end of regular instruction for kids in grades 8-12 and the kick off to Regents week. 

It's hard to believe that we are at the end of the year already.  This was the first year that the year felt...normal again.  It's true - "normal" has shifted in meaning, but this year we were able to catch a rhythm and step fully back into the structure and systems of a school year.  For sure, our snow days have become remote "air quality" days, and absenteeism has been somewhat ameliorated (or exacerbated) by Google Classrooms and email.  BUT, we have stepped back into a regular heartbeat of teaching and learning.

Part of that regularity is the June rush of activities, stress, and excitement of the end of the year activities, followed by the relaxation and joy of summer vacations.  As we wind up these last two weeks, remember to keep the perspective that even though it seems like everything is crazy and we're all losing our minds. this is actually part of our natural rhythm (like the final sprint in a long race, or digging deep to push hard through a difficult task).  Also, remember that the balance to this intensity is the release of summer (just like the finish of that race or pushing through to the culmination of that task)!

So, let's dig deep and rev up today.  These next two weeks are our collective last big push until we reach then end of this school year!  Summer is waiting just days ahead!

Important dates. 

• Monday 05JUN - Tuesday 06JUN - Senior Overnight Trip to Dorney & Hershey Park 

• June 5th - 12th - These are the final performance tasks of the year.
  Final Exam Week - all finals happen during regular class time
• Monday, 12JUN - Breadth/Elective Final Exams AND any missed Math/Science Exams
• Tuesday, 13JUN - Any Missed Math/Science Final exam
  (if you didn't have class on Monday)

• Monday 12JUN23 - 
• Senior Parade 1:45PM
• African History Final Presentations 2PM 
• Student Awards Dinner 6-7:30 (gym)

• Tuesday, 13JUN23 - Last day of High School Classes

• June 14th-June 23rd Regents Week
  Please see June Regents Exam Schedule and Student Lists
• Wednesday, 14JUN - AM English; PM Living Environment
• Thursday, 15JUN - AM Global; PM Algebra 1
• Friday, 16JUN - AM Earth Science; PM Chemistry
• Tuesday, 20JUN - AM Geometry; PM Spanish
• Wednesday 21JUN - AM Algebra 2; PM None
• Thursday 22JUN - AM Physics; PM None
• Friday, 23JUN - Rating day

• Monday, 19JUN23 - Juneteenth - NO SCHOOL

• Friday, 23JUN23 - High School Graduation at City Tech Theater

• Monday, 26JUN23 - 8th Grade Stepping Up

• Tuesday, 27JUN23 - Last Day of School
• Students meet advisors in Advisory from 8:30-10AM
• Pick up final report cards
• Clean out lockers
• Return Tech
• Staff meets in Farm for Final Staff Meeting of the year at 10AM
• Teacher Exit To Do List (once staff meeting and list is complete, you are free to go!)

• Monday, 10JUL23 - First Day of Summer School (Mon-Thu only)
• 10JUL - 27JUL - Summer Splash (Enrichment & Credit Recovery Classes) 
• 31JUL - 15AUG - Regents Prep
• 16AUG - 17AUG - August Regents Testing

Announcements & To Dos

Monday PD.  We will be meeting in the farm to review the draft schedule and sharing out staff assignments for the fall.

Final Grades Due.  The last day of the marking period for ALL students (yes, and middle school) will be Tuesday, 13JUN23, with final grades due on Friday, 16JUN23 at 3PM.   Grades for the final week of middle school will be used to change grades if needed.  We need to have final grades by 16JUN in order to effectively program for summer school, and prep final lists for graduation.

For ALL students who are failing your course(s) (including Advisory), please make sure to add tasks to the Progress Report sheet if they are not already there.  Students will be working over the summer to complete assigned tasks to meet minimum mastery.

UAI Grading Policy Reminder.    As a reminder, here the UAI grading policy:

• The UAI Grading Scale is 50-100.  The UAI grading scale is 50-100.  
  
  
• The ONLY failing grade is 55 or F (if Advisory Pass/Fail). There is only 1 failing grade (55).  Any grades lower than 55 will automatically be changed to 55.  Any grade higher than 55 will be changed to 65.
  
  
• Use 100 as an exceptional grade only.  Use judiciously.

Finals Week Ends.  If you were unable to give your Math/Science final on Friday due to the remote instruction day, please give that exam on the next class you have with that section (e.g. either Monday or Tuesday).  

Summer School.  UAI Summer School is Ready to Kick Off.  Many thanks to folks for signing up to join our summer school.  Our summer school is broken up into three components

1. Summer Splash! - Fun Learning Experiences to stoke the creative and ambitious fires of our young, brilliant minds.  Summer isn't supposed to be punishment!  Summer is another way to get kids to plug into a lifetime of learning.   That is our goal for UAI Summer Splash.  Getting kids STOKED to learn!  This program runs 10JUL-27JUL Mondays-Thursdays
   
   
2. Summer Credit Recovery.  We use June Regents Exam week to leverage the instructional component of traditional summer school.  Students learn best with their teachers, and most teachers need summer breaks!  So, June Regents time is the best happy medium of these two truths.  For those students who are not able to complete the required assignments during the June Regents intervention time, we will have our sub teachers working with them to complete those assignments in July.  This program runs concurrently with Summer Splash 10JUL-27JUL, Mondays thru Thursdays (Students can enroll in both).  Students are automatically enrolled in Summer Credit Recovery, based on final June Grades.
   
   
3. Regents Prep.  For those students who didn't quite reach their exam goals in June, we offer another at bat during the summer.  From 31JUL-17AUG, students can attend regents prep classes run by their teachers (Mon-Thu only) with testing on 16AUG & 17AUG.  Enrollment is automatic (based on June Regent scores), and mandatory for graduation requirement regent exams (E.g. Earth/Living, Algebra 1, ELA, and USH/GLO).  We do not have staff to offer GEO, ALG2, or other exams during the summer.  Students can take those again in January 2024.

Summer Splash Sign Up.  Please Share THIS FORM with your advisory students.  All middle school students who sign up will also be enrolled in our Girls Inc Summer Camp and will have the opportunity to stay until 3PM each day.   

• Digital Design & 3D Printing with Ms. Judy.  Learn how to turn your creations into reality with Ms. Judy's Digital Design and 3D Printing Class this Summer!  Open to all students!
  
  
• US History Through Comics with Mr. Sean.  Love US History?? How about Comic Books or Graphic Novels?  Come join Mr. Sean this summer to have a fun exploration of our nations history!
  
  
• Fashion Design with Ms. Freida. Are you interested in exploring or deepening an interest in Fashion?  Join Ms. Freida this summer to do just that!
  
  
• Visual Art with Ms. Frances.  Visual Art is both a beautiful and therapeutic process.  Come join Ms. Frances to explore various art forms and to add some beauty to your summer.
  
  
• Cosmetology with Ms. Syan.  Do you have an interest in hair and makeup?  Are you interested in learning how to develop your own products that are both natural AND work?  Then join Ms. Syan this summer to learn from one of the best!

Technology Collection.  We will be collecting student technology this year to make sure all equipment is fully updated and inventoried this summer.  All 8th and 12th grade students should be bringing in their technology to school this week.  Jason will be collecting equipment in the Cafe and in the Main office this week.  

Staff technology must also be returned if you are not planning to return to UAI in the fall.  This includes all computers, document cameras, printers, plugs and peripherals etc. that you may have at home from remote school times.  If you are planning to return in the fall, you can hold on to these materials. 

June Regents Schedules & Intervention.  Please review the June Regents Exam schedule.  It is still getting updates and things change.  So, please check the document frequently. Please do look for mistakes and conflicts.  So, please if you see anything, do email Kiri! 

Now that we've had a dry run on Regents Tutoring Support during the US History Regent, I'm going to make some adjustments to optimize our tutoring and communication with students.

During Regents Week - ALL tutoring will happen on the 5th Floor

1. 8:30-9:25:  Advisory Tutoring & Outreach.  All advisors report to the rooms below (if not proctoring).  If you students are not in school by 8:30, please call and email student & families (cc kiri) to get them to come to school.  Work with students to create Tutoring Schedule for the day.
• Room 507: 8th and 9th Grade Advisories
• Room 509:  10th Grade Advisories
• Room 511:  12th Grade Advisories
• Room 515:  11th Grade Advisories
  
  
2. 9:25-2:00 Tutoring Sessions.  When you have tutoring on your program, please report to these rooms.  Teachers in these rooms are expected to support and tutor whatever student shows up - regardless if they are your student.  The goal is to help the student complete what they need to complete successfully!   Please refer to your own schedule for Prep/Lunch assignments
   
   During down time, teachers need to also call the student and families to find out where the student is if she is not with you for tutoring.  The goal is to make sure the kids show up and get the help they need to successfully complete the requisite tasks.
   
   
• Room 507: English, Theater & Spanish Tutoring (All ELA Teachers)
• Room 509:  Math Tutoring (All MATH Teachers)
• Room 511:  Social Studies Tutoring (All SOC Teachers)
• Room 515 : Science Tutoring (All SCI Teachers)
  
  

Per Session Postings

For ALL per session activities (view all 2022-23 postings here),
please complete Per Session Application For

Summer School.  If you are interested in working summer school, please complete THIS FORM.

Per Session Postings Now Closed

Week of June 5th

UAI Staff News

Volume X

Issue 33

June 5th, 2023

Happy Pride Month!!   June is a month of celebration for so many reasons.  Not only does June herald the end of the year and the start of summer, but June is also a month filled with love, acceptance, and celebration as we honor Pride Month!

UAI is a nurturing, inclusive space for our young people, as we each play a crucial role in fostering an environment where every person in our community feels supported, included, celebrated, loved, and seen.  As we give special attention to the LGBTQ+ community this month in celebration of June Pride, here are some things to do to celebrate and embrace those both within and outside of our school who are members of the LGBTQ+ community!

• Highlight Success in Your Curricula:  We are in the midst of finals week, but not all classes are having finals on the same time.  Take a few moments to highlight the achievements of LGBTQ+ folks within your discipline.  The first step to creating a welcoming home for all students is letting them know that there are folks just like them doing amazing and great things.  They have role models and footsteps in which to follow.  Show them who they can learn from and give them opportunities to be PROUD!

• UAI GSA Advertisement:  We have an active GSA, facilitated by Ms. Freida.  This year the kids have done so many different and exciting activities.  There is a contingent of committed students, but kids may not know about the club or who to talk to.  Make sure they know where to find Freida (or how to contact her) to learn more!
  
  
• Safe Spaces & Advisement:  Students have many options at UAI if they need a safe space.  Our deans office, counselor offices, admin offices, or a trusted teacher's. classroom are each filled with someone who is there to listen, help, and support.  We are a committed community to supporting and loving all of our young ones.
  
  
• Activities.  While we may not have time to get final trips off the ground (for the upper grades at least), there are a boatload of things happening to celebrate Pride this month.  Please google or visit sites like Brooklyn Pride to see calendars of events and activities for yourself and/or to share with students and families!

June Pride is a time to celebrate diversity, promote acceptance, and create an inclusive environment where everyone feels valued and respected.  It is a wonderful month of celebration and a beautiful way to bring our year to a close.  Happy PRIDE all!!

Important dates. 

• Monday 05JUN - Tuesday 06JUN - Senior Overnight Trip to Dorney & Hershey Park 

• June 5th - 12th - These are the final performance tasks of the year.
  Final Exam Week - all finals happen during regular class time
• Monday 05JUN - English Final Exams
• Tuesday, 06JUN - Social Studies Final Exams
• Wednesday, 07JUN - Math & Science Final Exams
• Thursday, 08JUN - Brooklyn Queens PD Day - NO Classes
• Friday, 09JUN - Math & Science Final Exam
• Monday, 12JUN - Breadth/Elective Final Exams

• Tuesday, 13JUN23 - Last day of High School Classes

• June 14th-June 23rd Regents Week
  Please see June Regents Exam Schedule and Student Lists
• Wednesday, 14JUN - AM English; PM Living Environment
• Thursday, 15JUN - AM Global; PM Algebra 1
• Friday, 16JUN - AM Earth Science; PM Chemistry
• Tuesday, 20JUN - AM Geometry; PM Spanish
• Wednesday 21JUN - AM Algebra 2; PM None
• Thursday 22JUN - AM Physics; PM None
• Friday, 23JUN - Rating day

• Monday, 19JUN23 - Juneteenth - NO SCHOOL

• Friday, 23JUN23 - High School Graduation at City Tech Theater

• Monday, 26JUN23 - 8th Grade Stepping Up

• Tuesday, 27JUN23 - Last Day of School
• Students meet advisors in Advisory from 8:30-10AM
• Pick up final report cards
• Clean out lockers
• Return Tech

• Monday, 10JUL23 - First Day of Summer School (Mon-Thu only)
• 10JUL - 27JUL - Summer Splash (Enrichment & Credit Recovery Classes) 
• 31JUL - 15AUG - Regents Prep
• 16AUG - 17AUG - August Regents Testing

Announcements & To Dos

Final Progress Reports.  Please distribute FINAL PROGRESS REPORTS during Advisory this week. Also, added to the Progress Report sheet are tabs for "Graduation in Doubt", "Grades 9-11 Summer School/Grade Repeat", and "6/7 Summer School". Here is some info about what happens when students fail a course.

• 12th Graders:  Students who fail a class required for graduation, will not graduate.  They will be mandated to summer school.  They will not be able to graduate with their peers.  If they wish, they will be able to attend citywide graduation ceremonies in August, provided that they attend and pass summer school.
  
  
• 8th Graders.  8th graders must pass all core classes (Math, Science, Social Studies, and English) in order to graduate and participate in Stepping Up ceremonies.  If they do not, they will not be able to participate in ceremonies and will be mandated to summer school.

• 9th-11th Graders.  Students who fail 3 or more classes may have to repeat the grade.  At most, students can make up credits for two courses due to seat time restrictions.  Therefore, students failing more than two classes may have to repeat the entire grade.
  
  
• 6th & 7th Graders.  6th & 7th graders are only required to pass Math & ELA in order to promote to the next grade.  It is recommended that they pass all four core classes (as that is the requirements for 8th graders).   
  
  
• NOTE:  The June Regents Credit Recovery days are the days that students will be able to work with their teachers to get support and guidance to complete work.  In summer school, students will work with our UAI Subs to complete assignments (see assignment tab on the Progress Report sheet) and earn credit.   

UAI Grading Policy Reminder.    As a reminder, here the UAI grading policy:

• The UAI Grading Scale is 50-100.  The UAI grading scale is 50-100.  
  
  
• The ONLY failing grade is 55 or F (if Advisory Pass/Fail). There is only 1 failing grade (55).  Any grades lower than 55 will automatically be changed to 55.  Any grade higher than 55 will be changed to 65.
  
  
• Use 100 as an exceptional grade only.  Use judiciously.

Finals Week Begins.  This is the final week of new instruction.   You are not required to give a final exam or test.  However, all classes are required to give a course summative assessment (could be final presentation for example).  This summative assessment should ask students to demonstrate skill & content mastery of the entire course (not just the last unit).  Students who pass this summative assessment have demonstrated a level of course mastery from minimal (65) to mastery (>85).  For any student who is failing your course, they MUST pass your final course assessment in order to demonstrate at least minimal course mastery.  If you have students who are failing your course(s) (including Advisory), please add tasks to the Progress Report sheet if they are not already there.

Summer School.  UAI Summer School is Ready to Kick Off.  Many thanks to folks for signing up to join our summer school.  Our summer school is broken up into three components

1. Summer Splash! - Fun Learning Experiences to stoke the creative and ambitious fires of our young, brilliant minds.  Summer isn't supposed to be punishment!  Summer is another way to get kids to plug into a lifetime of learning.   That is our goal for UAI Summer Splash.  Getting kids STOKED to learn!  This program runs 10JUL-27JUL Mondays-Thursdays
   
   
2. Summer Credit Recovery.  We use June Regents Exam week to leverage the instructional component of traditional summer school.  Students learn best with their teachers, and most teachers need summer breaks!  So, June Regents time is the best happy medium of these two truths.  For those students who are not able to complete the required assignments during the June Regents intervention time, we will have our sub teachers working with them to complete those assignments in July.  This program runs concurrently with Summer Splash 10JUL-27JUL, Mondays thru Thursdays (Students can enroll in both).  Students are automatically enrolled in Summer Credit Recovery, based on final June Grades.
   
   
3. Regents Prep.  For those students who didn't quite reach their exam goals in June, we offer another at bat during the summer.  From 31JUL-17AUG, students can attend regents prep classes run by their teachers (Mon-Thu only) with testing on 16AUG & 17AUG.  Enrollment is automatic (based on June Regent scores), and mandatory for graduation requirement regent exams (E.g. Earth/Living, Algebra 1, ELA, and USH/GLO).  We do not have staff to offer GEO, ALG2, or other exams during the summer.  Students can take those again in January 2024.

Summer Splash Sign Up.  Please Share THIS FORM with your advisory students.  All middle school students who sign up will also be enrolled in our Girls Inc Summer Camp and will have the opportunity to stay until 3PM each day.   

• Digital Design & 3D Printing with Ms. Judy.  Learn how to turn your creations into reality with Ms. Judy's Digital Design and 3D Printing Class this Summer!  Open to all students!
  
  
• US History Through Comics with Mr. Sean.  Love US History?? How about Comic Books or Graphic Novels?  Come join Mr. Sean this summer to have a fun exploration of our nations history!
  
  
• Fashion Design with Ms. Freida. Are you interested in exploring or deepening an interest in Fashion?  Join Ms. Freida this summer to do just that!
  
  
• Visual Art with Ms. Frances.  Visual Art is both a beautiful and therapeutic process.  Come join Ms. Frances to explore various art forms and to add some beauty to your summer.
  
  
• Cosmetology with Ms. Syan.  Do you have an interest in hair and makeup?  Are you interested in learning how to develop your own products that are both natural AND work?  Then join Ms. Syan this summer to learn from one of the best!

Technology Collection.  We will be collecting student technology this year to make sure all equipment is fully updated and inventoried this summer.  Please be on the look out in morning announcements for specific plans to collect (i.e. the specific where and how of collection).  For now, please message to students and families that we will be collecting beginning the week of 12JUN. 

June Regents Schedules & Intervention.  Please review the June Regents Exam schedule.  It is still getting updates and things change.  So, please check the document frequently. Please do look for mistakes and conflicts.  So, please if you see anything, do email Kiri! 

Now that we've had a dry run on Regents Tutoring Support during the US History Regent, I'm going to make some adjustments to optimize our tutoring and communication with students.

During Regents Week - ALL tutoring will happen on the 5th Floor

1. 8:30-9:25:  Advisory Tutoring & Outreach.  All advisors report to the rooms below (if not proctoring).  If you students are not in school by 8:30, please call and email student & families (cc kiri) to get them to come to school.  Work with students to create Tutoring Schedule for the day.
• Room 507: 8th and 9th Grade Advisories
• Room 509:  10th Grade Advisories
• Room 511:  12th Grade Advisories
• Room 515:  11th Grade Advisories
  
  
2. 9:25-2:00 Tutoring Sessions.  When you have tutoring on your program, please report to these rooms.  Teachers in these rooms are expected to support and tutor whatever student shows up - regardless if they are your student.  The goal is to help the student complete what they need to complete successfully!   Please refer to your own schedule for Prep/Lunch assignments
   
   During down time, teachers need to also call the student and families to find out where the student is if she is not with you for tutoring.  The goal is to make sure the kids show up and get the help they need to successfully complete the requisite tasks.
   
   
• Room 507: English, Theater & Spanish Tutoring (All ELA Teachers)
• Room 509:  Math Tutoring (All MATH Teachers)
• Room 511:  Social Studies Tutoring (All SOC Teachers)
• Room 515 : Science Tutoring (All SCI Teachers)
  
  

Per Session Postings

For ALL per session activities (view all 2022-23 postings here),
please complete Per Session Application For

Summer School.  If you are interested in working summer school, please complete THIS FORM.

Per Session Postings Now Closed