Weekly Update: Nov. 29 – Dec. 13

I hope that everyone will be able to join us at the Sheraton Hotel on Saturday, December 7th at 6:00pm for the SSIS Faculty Christmas Party. It’s a great time to dress in our fancy clothes, eat some great food, toast one another, and even do a little dancing.

Please try to remember the times that your scheduled to supervise exams. Basically, if your students are writing an exam you will be expected to help supervise so that you can answer student questions if they arise.

Also, please get your report card comments and grades in on time.
Tim

Friday, November 29
Day 8- HEFG
HS Lock-in, 7pm-7am

Saturday, November 30
HS Lock In until 7:00am
Animal Welfare trip 9:00am – 12:00pm

Sunday, December 1

Monday, December 2
Day 1 – ABC Adv D
Advisory Schedule

Tuesday, December 3
Day 2 – EFGH
MS Drama Production at 6:00pm BBT

Wednesday, December 4
Day 3 – BCDA
No HS Divisional Meeting, Report Card Comment Writing

Thursday, December 5
Day 4 – BCDA
Advisory Schedule

Friday, December 6
HS Exam Sem 1-SY 2019-20-list for students
AS PTA Christmas tree Lighting in Plaza at 2:00- 5:00pm

Saturday, December 7
SAT Exam 8:00am
Staff Party at the Sheraton Hotel 6:00pm

Sunday, December 8

Monday, December 9
HS Exam Sem 1-SY 2019-20-list for students

Tuesday, December 10
HS Exam Sem 1-SY 2019-20-list for students

Wednesday, December 11
HS Exam Sem 1-SY 2019-20-list for students

Thursday, December 12
HS Exam Sem 1-SY 2019-20-list for students
MS Winter Concert at 6:00pm

Friday, December 13 Early Dismissal at 12:15pm
Advisory and House Activities / HS Assembly

On the Horizon

• Semester 1 Exams Start, December 6 Semester One Exam  Schedule 2019 – 2020
• Semester 1 Make-up Exam Days, December 11-12
• Early Release Day, House Leagues and Assembly, December 13
• Winter Break, December 14 – January 5
• Non-student day, January 6, 2020

Staff Action Needed

• Check out the IB section of the Dragon’s Lair for Jeff’s debut TOK blog post!
• HS Staff Requests for Mac Compatible Keyboard Mouse and Stand
• 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
• Begin writing your comments for S1
• Check your gradebooks. There should be a multiple data points for Q2 that include summative and formative. entries

Semester One Report Card Dates

• Semester One Exams, December 6 – 12th
• Share comments with a colleague by Friday, December 6 (some comments may need to be adjusted depending on how a student does on his/her exam)
• Review comments of colleague by Tuesday, December 10
• December 12 Quarter 2 Ends (Grades & Comments due by 9:00am)
• December 12 Quarter 2 Grades and Comment Verification Reports due 2pm
• December 13 Quarter 2 and Semester 1 grades sent electronically by 4pm

HS Staff Video– Every year, the staff in the C building make a hilarious video to showcase to the students before the Christmas break. Last year we did this video.  This time, the chosen song for us to act out is You Need To Calm Down. Please have a look at this scripting file to know which lines of the script you are going to act out. Each department has been randomly assigned with some lines in script to act out. We need each department to arrange 15 or 20 minutes for filming between NOW and December 6th.
Department Heads, please discuss with other members in your department and fill in the last two columns of the “Lines and Casting” sheet to indicate the location and time for me to come and film your department. An example has been made for the Administrators. It won’t take more than 20 minutes for filming all your department’s lines.
All the filming must be done by December 6th so that the video editing afterwards can be done timely.

Report Card Comments and Peer Review–  The links below will remind you of these expectations and you begin to write these for semester 1.   Additionally, each teacher needs to share the draft of their S1 comments with a peer for review by December 6.  Most teachers share their comments via Google Doc with someone in their department.  Peer editing should include looking for grammatical errors, spelling, correct student names, and adherence to the HS comment writing format.  We have created a quick guide about comment writing that is more useable than the previous documents.

Tripod Reflection Meeting Information- The results from the Tripod Surveys have been shared with you.  There are a few things that will be useful to you for when you review your feedback.  Tripod Reflection Protocol: This is created by Tripod and will be especially helpful for those who have never done a Tripod survey before.  The information is valuable and there is a reflection worksheet you could use.  Here is a shorter reflection form that we used few couple of years (you’ll need to make a copy).  If you want to use this one, we recommend using it in conjunction with the information in the Tripod Reflection Protocol.  Here are  2016-17, 2017-18, 2018-19 & 2019-20 Divisional Results for comparison.   As you can see our division results have significant increased in every category.  Great work all!  Huyen and Tram will schedule a 20 minute meeting with each of you to talk about your analysis and reflection on the data in January before Tet break.  Please review your data and complete the short reflection form before the scheduled meeting with Tim or Jacob.

Dragon Dance/Tet Celebration January 21-

The Dragon Dance celebration will take place on the main field, South West corner nearest the Elementary School building on January 21 @ 1:55pm.  It is imperative that we start on time which means your school should be seated and ready to go as the introduction from Dr. Moran will start at 1:55pm sharp. We will have a special schedule ending school at 1:45. Classes will be about 60 minutes in length.

• 1:55 – Dr. Moran’s welcome
• 2:00 – Performance Begins with Lion Dance and Drumming
• 2:08 – Dragon Dance
• 2:15 – Lions perform Pole Jumping
• 2:35 – Lions perform Pole Climbing
• 2:45 – Performance Concludes