Weekly Update: June 8 – July 30 (Summer Break Edition)
What an amazing graduation ceremony we had this year! The class of 2019 is now gone and we have a new crop of seniors and incoming freshman joining our ranks. We all have an opportunity to relax and reconnect with family and friends in the coming weeks. Enjoy and take full advantage of this time to recharge. As with graduation of students, we have some faculty leaving at the end of the year as well. We wish Anne, Marty, Helen and Daniel the best in their next journeys. You will all be sorely missed.
Enjoy your summer break!
Jacob
On the Far Off Horizon
- New Faculty Arrive, July 18
- Heads of Department Report, July 29
- All Faculty Report, July 30
- Orientation Day, August 6
- 1st Day A-H Schedule, August 7
- 1st ABCD Block Day, August 8
Staff Action Needed
- Relax and enjoy your break!
- 2019-20 School Calendar
- HS Day Calendar for the entire year for planning purposes
- HS Events that might impact instructional hours
- IBDP Deadline Calendar Class of 2020
- IBDP Deadline Calendar Class of 2021
- We will not drop SL classes from August 7 until August 30, so you will see all of your students SL/HL during the first month of school for Y1 and Y2 classes.
- We will not have HL/AP hours from August 7 until August 30.
- SL drop and HL/AP hours will begin on Tuesday, September 3rd after the Vietnamese National Holiday.
- An inquiry project or Project Based Learning unit needs to be embedded within one of your units in a course of your choosing next year. This could be a 1-2 day lesson to a fully developed Inquiry/PBL project that runs the course of the entire unit of study.  Here is more information that was covered during our May 29 meeting. Please see Thomas Galvez if you have any questions.
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Jacob Hendrickson
Jacob's 20 plus years in education have taken him from California to Seattle, Saudi Arabia and Vietnam as an educational leader. He is currently the high school principal at Saigon South International School.