Week of October 16th

UAI Staff News

Volume XI

Issue 09

October 16th, 2023

First UAI Spirit Week.  This week is our first UAI Spirt Week!  Please DO show your school spirit and join in for the day!

Important Upcoming dates

• Monday, 16OCT23 - Spirit Week Kicks Off!
• Monday, 16OCT23 - PD - Teacher Work Time & Reflection on Goals
• Monday, 23OCT23 - PD - Class Rubric Introduction
• Wednesday, 25OCT23 - Girls Volleyball Home Game
• Tuesday, 31OCT23 - Halloween - Wear your best costume - themed outfits are the best!
  
  
• First Marking Period Benchmarks are coming the first week of NOVEMBER
• Wed, NOV 1st - ELA & Theater Benchmarks
• Thu, NOV 2nd - Science & Spanish Benchmarks
• Fri, NOV 3rd - Social Studies & Computer Science Benchmarks
• Mon, NOV 6th - Math & PE Benchmarks

Announcements & To Dos

Progress Reports.  Progress reports will be going out on Monday via email to students and families, along with directions for logging into SyncGrades.  There are no students who continue to remain unlinked to their uai gmail accounts.  If they have not yet joined your Google CLassroom, please track them down individually to make sure they do.  As a reminder - 

• Please make sure you only have two categories:  Progress & Performance and that those are weighted 30% Progress and 70% Performance in Google Classroom, and that you have turned ON your weights in the Google Classroom settings.
• Please make sure that you have turned all missing assignments to 50 and have unassigned any excused assignments.  

Per Session Due.  The last day of this last Per Session period was Friday, 15OCT23.   As per the agreement with the consultation committee, Per Session sheets will be due at 3PM on 17OCT23 (2 days after the close of the period).  Dai's message is an auto-send message (I think) and she'll be updating that soon!  I will be asking Dai for a complete list of folks her submit their per session late (after 3PM on Tuesday 17OCT23).  Please do not be late.  Folks her are late two or more times can be blocked from being eligible to work ANY other per session activities for the remainder of the school year.

Don't want to be late?  Here's what you can do

• Set a recurring reminder on your phone that goes off during your lunch or prep time, 1 day after per session closes (per session closes on the 15th and last day of each month).  
• Set a second reminder on your calendar to make sure you completed the per session sheet on time and no later than 2 days after the close of the period.
  
• I appreciate folks taking the necessary steps to get their per session in on time - Thank you!!! 

PD Calendar.  This Monday we're giving PD time back to planning teams to use to catch up, work on their Google Classrooms, and/or get head in the planning.  Next week, we'll be launching our first round of Equity Team Circles

• 16OCT23 - Independent Work Time
• 23OCT23 - Equity Team Circles
• 30OCT23 - Class Rubrics
• 07NOV23 - Subject Team Benchmark Grading & Analysis
• 08NOV23 - Election Day PD (Circles, Benchmark Analysis, Progress Monitoring on Goals)

Weekly Outreach Log Checks.  The next rounds of outreach log checks will be going out Monday.  These will be for the weeks  25SEP-01OCT and 02OCT-08OCT.  Please remember to update the outreach log by midnight tonight for this weeks' outreach.   Lots of GREAT improvement this week!  Thank you, folks!!

The week of outreach always goes from Monday through Sunday.  As a reminder,  you MUST document all 55 minutes of remote time.  I'll be checking the log twice a month.  The next check will be on 28OCT.

Office Hours.  Any student who is not earning >75 in your class should be told to attend your office hours.  Please make sure you are reaching out to homes to let them know about the Office Hours and to let families know about the current level of performance in your class.   Please make sure to indicate that you have successfully made contact and communicated with families about progress and office hours in the outreach log.   In the next outreach log check, I'll be looking for those notes!

Please Continue to Promote After School.  Please continue to help promote clubs this week!  Here are the amazing clubs that folks have agreed to run:

• Black Student Union - Joanna & Pauline (Rm 411) - Tuesdays & Thursdays 3-4:30
• Arts & Crafts Club - Tiffany & Jennifer (Rm 311) - Mon/Tue/Weds - 3-4:15PM
• Theater Production Club - Noelle (Rm 315) - Tues/Thurs/Fri - 3-5:30PM
• Student Government - Sue, Marsha, Phillan, and Girls' Inc's Kassi (Rm 309) - Tuesdays - 3-4PM
• Youth Leadership Council - Kelly  (Rm 307) - Tuesdays 3-4PM
• Photo Club - Tom(Rm 205F) - Wednesdays 3-4:30
• Cheer - Mary & Lia - Various days depending on Game Days
• Anime & Art Club - Adelle & Francis (Rm 409) - Tuesdays & Thursdays 3-5PM
• Running Club with Camryn (starts after the marathon is over)
• Dance Club - Girls Inc - Room 503

We're still looking for folks to advise the following clubs.  Please email Kiri ASAP so we can get these clubs up and running, too!

• GSA Club
• Muslim Student Association

Per Session Postings

For ALL per session activities, please complete Per Session Application Form"

After School Clubs.   If you are interested in running an after school club, please complete THIS form by EOD TUESDAY 26SEP23  AND submit the Per Session Application Form.  Clubs are slated to start next week.  Clubs must have a steady roster of at least 8-10 students per week in order to NOT be cancelled.  Rosters & Attendance lists MUST be submitted with per session time cards.  If your club goes three consecutive weeks with less than 8 students, your club will need to be cancelled (so that we can optimize funds for other uses - so sorry...wish we could fund everything all the time, but unfortunately, we don't have endless sums of funds).  After school sessions can be 3-4PM or 3-4:30PM or 3-5:30PM (teacher's choice)up to three days per week.  So per session hours can range from 1-7.5hrs per week).  Posting Expires 10OCT23.

PSAL Supervision.   Posting Expires 10OCT23. PSAL Games are starting up soon. Please submit the Per Session Application Form if you are interested in supervising student spectators.  Hours vary depending on games.  Each game (basketball or volleyball) is usually 4-6pm (is) so each supervision session is about 2hours.  Staff are welcome to sign up for as many games as they'd like.  Please see UAI calendar or PSAL website for game dates. Duties include making sure

• students remain safe and orderly during games
• only eligible students are admitted to games
• all students fully dismiss from the building at the conclusion of the games

CSI Planning & Supervision.   Posting Expires 10OCT23. This posting if for supervision per session to plan, supervise, monitor and coordinate extra improvement efforts to address UAI achievement gaps and improve student performance in target metrics.  Activities include analyzing and reviewing data, planning and executing professional development experiences to improve staff performance, analyzing and editing video footage to improve teacher lesson execution and lesson implementation, and supervising out of school activities - including recruitment, staff planning, and after school activities.  Hours vary per week depending on task and work completed.  Hours range 1-7.5 hours per week.

Classroom SetUp.  All classroom staff are invited to come in to set up and plan for up to 10 hours all together any day this week Monday-Friday 9AM-2PM.  Staff must clock in AND out each day, and cannot be in the building after 2PM.  Please adhere to guidelines set out in the blog post above.  All Staff MUST also apply to this position by completing the "Per Session Application From" - see link above.  [Posted 27AUG23] - Posting CLOSED and JOB is over.