Weekly Update: May 7-11

Short week and Dragon’s Lair this week.  A few critical updates about the end of the year and master schedule for 2018-19.

Have a great weekend,

Jacob

Friday, May 4
Day 5-CDAB

Saturday, May 5
Faculty Follies, 6:30 (Auditorium) Ticket Signup

Monday, May 7
Day 6-GHEF
Advisory Schedule

Tuesday, May 8
Day 7- DABC
HSLT Meeting, 3:15-4:45 (C300) Agenda Here

Wednesday, May 9
Day 8- HEFG
HS Faculty Meeting, 3:15-4:30 (C322)

Thursday, May 10
Day 9- ABCD
Last Day for Seniors in non-DP Courses
Advisory Schedule

Friday, May 11
Day 10- FGHE

On the Horizon

• Final Exams for Seniors in non-DP or AP courses, May 14-15
• Prom, May 19 (Reverie)
• Student Film Festival, May 21
• Yearbook Assembly, May 24
• Final Exams Printed and Delivered to Ms. Huyen, May 25 by 3pm
• Graduation, May 26

Staff Action Needed

• Please review the draft master schedule for 2018-19
• What’s in your grade book?  We are 5 weeks into Q4
• Start your grade 9-11 student comments.  Grade 12 students do not need to have any comments written for Q4 unless their grade has dropped by a letter grade or more from Q3.
• Finalize your semester exams.  Printed exams are due to Huyen in the main office by 3pm on Friday, May 25.

Master Schedule Update– The master schedule for next year is pretty locked into place.  Teachers were all able to get the courses that were shared by their respective department heads.  It took a lot of work to get to this point.  Moving any class to another block at this point is virtually impossible.  The counseling team is now looking to clean up the schedules of those kids that did not get all of their requests.  Special thanks to David and Nghi (on the PowerSchool scheduling side of things) and our counseling team.  Many days and countless hours have gone into this schedule.  Nothing is ever perfect, but this schedule is pretty close on a macro level.

May 9 HS Faculty Meeting– We will be using a CFG protocol to get feedback on updated grade descriptors next Wednesday.  Since the MPR is being used for IB testing, we will start in C322.  After grabbing a quick snack, we will split into two groups and use a Tuning Protocol on the descriptors to get your feedback.

No Early Release on May 17– May 17th is now a regular day from 8am-3pm.  Tina will address the issues of this in more depth.  Just recognize that this is now a regular day NOT an early release.

VEX World Championship Update– Congratulations to our VEX robotics team led by Evan who just returned from the USA.  Our kids were the only ones representing Vietnam and did very well.  In fact, the earned the “Inspire” award for their division.  You can see their trophy in the main office.

End of Year Key Dates
May 24-31 Only review information (no new content), no HW, quizzes/tests that impact student grades (except final exam/project).  This is also known as a dead week.  If a teacher has a summative project such as a final exam, students are able to work on this during dead week.

May 24-31  Review time with students (grades 9 & 10)

May 24-25   Group 4 Project (all grade 11 students are off time table and working on Group 4 for two days)

May 28-31 Review time Grade 11

May 28-30  Y1 students completing their IOCs for English
IOCs should not impact students missing classes.  These will take place during English class time or study halls.  In a rare instance, a handful of students might have to miss part of another class.  If this is necessary, information will be shared with impacted teachers at least a month before the date.

June 1-6  Final Exam Schedule

June 7  Last day of school (early release)

Key Grade 12 Information– Here is the letter to seniors and families about end of the year important dates and events.  Please review, especially if you teach seniors.