Weekly Update: February 21 – 28

The video quality is not the best but I think you can quickly see how it relates to our Virtual School. Every day, and every week, we continue to make great improvements to our online learning for our students and, hopefully, for our teachers as well.

I am trying to send out lists of missing assignments (more than 10) to parents and students. yesterday, I sent over 35. The response has been very positive. Please let Jacob or I know if we can help you in any way.

Tim

Friday, Feb. 21st
Day 5 – CDAB

Monday, Feb. 24th
Day 6 – GHE Adv F
Advisory Schedule
HS Leadership Meeting 11:30am – 12:45pm

Tuesday, Feb. 25th
Day 7 – DABC

Wednesday, Feb. 26th Early Dismissal Schedule
Day 8 – HEFG

Thursday, Feb. 27th
Day 1 – ABC Adv D
Advisory Schedule

Friday, Feb. 28th
Day 2 – EFGH

On the Horizon

• February 27 to 29, Positive Education Training
• March Parent Teacher Conferences Modified
• March 23 to 25, IBO Accreditation Visit
• IB Mock Exam Information and Schedule
• TOK – The Map is Not the Territory Blog

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

Essential Learning Outcomes– David Chadwell has created this Essential Learning Outcomes for a Unit document to help you determine which learning outcomes are essential in a Virtual School environment for non-AP/IBDP classes. He will be attending our HSLT meeting on Monday and is available to support departments and individuals.

Missing Assignments and Consolidation Days– Look for ways to adjust your delivery of curriculum by utilizing the Missing assignments function within PowerTeacher Pro. Run the report and ask yourself the following questions. Do I have a significant number of students missing assignments? What patterns do you see within the data? Is it time for a “Consolidation” block? The further behind our students get, the more likely they are to shut down and give up. Assigning more tasks that put our students further behind can have unintended consequences.

Consolidation Blocks– You have the ability to schedule “Consolidation” blocks with your students.  During these blocks no new work or activities are required of your students, but instead they have additional time to complete prior tasks/activities.  During this Consolidation block, you might schedule a variety of Google Meets with an assortment of students that need additional support to complete the tasks.  If you are going to do this please post as “Consolidation Day” in PSL and list the activities the students should be working on. Do NOT list in PSL as a catch-up, slow down, easy, break or time off day.  These titles may send an unintended message to our parents.