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