Weekly Update: April 24 – May 8

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Friday, April 24th
Day 4 – FGHE

Monday, April 27th
Day 5 – CDA Adv B
Advisory Schedule

Tuesday, April 28th
Day 6 – GHEF

Wednesday, April 29th
Day 7 – DABC

Thursday, April 30th Holiday No School

Friday, May 1st Holiday No School School

Monday, May 4th
Day 8 – HEF Adv G
Advisory Schedule

Tuesday, May 5th
Day 1 – ABCD

Wednesday, May 6th
Day 2 – EFGH

Thursday, May 7th
Day 3 – BCD Adv A
Advisory Schedule

Friday, May 8th
Day 4 – FGHE

On the Horizon

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Staff Action Needed

• Review Virtual School Students of Concern
• Review Virtual Learning Guidelines 2.0
• Read the all school Wellness Blog from the WELL Core Team
• Review Check important dates that impact instruction here
• Send a kudos to a colleague

Grade 12 Student’s Last Day of Classes:
Full IBDP Year 2 students are finished once their last Dp exam is over.  The last exam is scheduled for April 29th.
AP classes are over once the College Board’s AP exam is written.
The last day for other grade 12 students is May 15th.

• All SSIS faculty report to SSIS on Tuesday and Wednesday of this week in preparation for the potential return of our students.
• Convert all of your summative and formative marks in your gradebooks to a minimum of 50% by Wednesday at 3:00pm.  See below for more specifics.
• We will be having a HS Faculty meeting on Wednesday at 11:45.  The main subject is preparing for a possible student return to school.  Here is the Google Meet link.
• We had a few faculty with questions in regards to the changes to assessment and reporting.  Below is the Q & A document and other important related information.  Please reach out to Tim, Jacob, David Chadwell or your HoD if you have questions at any time.
  • Link to Faculty Q and A
  • Google Meet Recording of Faculty Meeting
  • Meeting Talking Points
  • SSIS Grading and Reporting Adjustments COVID April 2020

• IBDP Y2 and AP class end times are coming to an end soon.
  • IBDP Y2 classes officially end once exams finish for each class or April 29 at the latest.
  • Review for AP courses during class time takes place until the day of the official exam in May.  Between the date of your official exam and the end of the school year AP teachers will be available for any of their students via Google Meets to answer questions if they have students taking the June testing session.   
• IB End of Course Exam Schedule April 22-29
• HS Admin Office Hours on Tuesdays (2-2:30) and Thursdays (2-2:30).
  
• We have a number of leadership opportunities available next year.  Apply by May 4th.
  • Head of Department
  • Grade Level Dean (3 positions)
  • AP Coordinator (1 position)
• Check in with each of your advisory students one-on-one between now and April 29.  This window of time is a bit shorter due to the holiday weekend.

• We had a few faculty with questions in regards to the changes to assessment and reporting.  Below is the Q & A document and other important related information.  Please reach out to Tim, Jacob, David Chadwell or your HoD if you have questions at any time.
  • Link to Faculty Q and A
  • Google Meet Recording of Faculty Meeting
  • Meeting Talking Points
  • SSIS Grading and Reporting Adjustments COVID April 2020

• We had a meeting with grade 12 parents.  This is the recording and here are the talking points if you would like to review.  The main topics were graduation, Senior Transition Program, university, emotional support of seniors and Q and A from the parents.  I sent the recording out to all grade 12 parents last night as a follow-up.
• We have a number of leadership opportunities available next year.  Apply by May 4th.
  • Head of Department
  • Grade Level Dean (3 positions)
  • AP Coordinator (1 position)
• Check in with each of your advisory students one-on-one between now and April 29.  This window of time is a bit shorter due to the holiday weekend.   Please log your meeting date and relevant info here.  These meetings make a difference in the lives of our students and have been positively recognized by our parents in survey and PTA forums. 

Interested in leadership opportunities next year?  Start thinking about department head, dean and AP coordinator positions.  I will be sharing applications for these positions starting next week.Don’t forget to convert your missing summative tasks to zeros AND also flag them as missing by 3pm Thursday afternoon.  Also, continue to utilize the collected only designation for those formative tasks that do not impact the percentage grade of your students.
A reminder that our AP students will be taking exams at 1:00 and 3:00am during the following times listed below in May.  Your head of department will be chatting with you this week in regards to other assignments and assessments during this time frame.  More than 50% of our students take AP classes and will be impacted by this decision by the College Board.  Our normal policy during AP exams is that students do not have to attend classes for school-based courses the morning before an afternoon exam or the afternoon before a morning testing session.  We will have to make some adjustments to this policy.  Please share your insights with your HoD this week.  The HSLT will make a recommendation to the admin team at our meeting on April 14. 

• A reminder that our AP students will be taking exams at 1:00 and 3:00am during the following times listed below in May.  Your head of department will be chatting with you this week in regards to other assignments and assessments during this time frame.  More than 50% of our students take AP classes and will be impacted by this decision by the College Board.  Our normal policy during AP exams is that students do not have to attend classes for school-based courses the morning before an afternoon exam or the afternoon before a morning testing session.  We will have to make some adjustments to this policy.  Please share your insights with your HoD this week.  The HSLT will make a recommendation to the admin team at our meeting on April 14.  

Exam	Course Specific Question	New Date	New Time (HCMC) 	Number Students
AP Calculus AB	2 FRQ	Wed May 13	1:00 AM	19
AP Calculus BC	2 FRQ	Wed May 13	1:00 AM	6
AP Human Geography	2 FRQ	Wed May 13	3:00 AM	25
AP English Lit and Comp	1 FRQ	Thu May 14	1:00 AM	20
AP Chemistry	2 FRQ	Fri May 15	1:00 AM	11
AP Physics 1	2 FRQ	Fri May 15	3:00 AM	7
AP US History	1 DBQ	Sat May 16	1:00 AM	8
AP Biology	2 FRQ	Tue May 19	1:00 AM	20
AP Psychology	2 FRQ	Wed May 20	1:00 AM	54
AP English Lang and Comp	1 FRQ	Thu May 21	1:00 AM	19
AP MicroEconomics	2 FRQ	Thur May 21	3:00 AM	30
AP World History	1 DBQ	Fri May 22	1:00 AM	27
AP MacroEconomics	2 FRQ	Fri May 22	3:00 AM	31
AP Statistics	2 FRQ	Sat May 23	1:00 AM	29
Art	Portfolio	NA	NA	6