Weekly Update: November 20 – 27th

Tim Chute | November 19, 2020 | Weekly Update | No Comments

Our Theater 2 students performance last night (and again tonight at 6:00pm) is excellent. two one act plays, “Return to Roswell” (Zen Doan, Nguyen Chau and Mehar Rajpal) and “Antigone Now” (Laura Phan, Teresa Nguyen, Ethan Yam and Nolan Wolf) were well casted and our students performed very well.

Friday, Nov. 20th
Day 4 – FGHE

Saturday, Nov. 21st
HS Computer Science Competition 11:00am – 3:00pm
SSIS MUN Team at ISHCMC

Sunday, Nov. 22nd

Monday, Nov. 23rd
Day 5 – CDA Adv B
Advisory Calendar 2020 – 21

Tuesday, Nov. 24th
Day 6 – GHEF
HS Band and Music Concert 6:00pm

Wednesday, Nov. 25th
Day 7 – DABC
HS Divisional Meeting 3:15 – 4:30pm MPR2

Thursday, Nov. 26th
Day 8 – HEF Adv G
Advisory Calendar 2020 – 21
American Thanksgiving

Friday, Nov. 27th
Day 1 – ABCD
HS S- Factor 6:00pm

On the Horizon
November 18 – 19th. – Theater 2 Drama Performances
November 24th – HS Music Concert 6:00 – 8:00pm
November 27th – HS S-Factor 6:00pm

Staff Action Needed:
Chaperone Sign-Up HS Teacher Chaperone signups 2020-2o21

GRADEBOOKS
It is really important for parents to be able to quickly see how their child is doing in your class. Several HS teachers are now using standards based grading and not percentages. If you are one of these teachers you need to be overriding the C1 grade every two weeks to show what grade level your students are working at (i.e. A, B or C). Most parents do not know to click on the “i” to get a more detailed look of their child’s grades. Even the parents that do are confused by assignments that indicate “Excluded”. Please do not wait until he end of the semester to update the letter grades of your students.

Assessment Calendar: Be sure to use the Assessment Calendar for all major assessments and IB due dates. These items should be on the Assessment Calendar two weeks prior to the due date or assessment date.

IB SL Drop Blocks: Please remember that if you have a SL/ HL slip class that on the SL drop block classes the SL students are to work in the Library or in a. Study Hall room. If you have an SL only class (SL English or an ab initio class) then these students remain in your classroom for a Study Hal time.

Assessments during the SL Drop Block classes: SL student cannot do an assessment during their SL drop block class as this would increase their number of hours of instruction. The drop block class is a Study Hall for SL students.

Tripod Surveys
Each day, two blocks are designated for the Tripod surveys. Each teacher will have at least 3 of their blocks take the survey for them. We will be using the short version of the survey that takes about 10 minutes.

Teachers will receive individual survey tickets for your students and a script to read beforehand. Here is the list of HS blocks/courses that will be surveyed.

Please read through the administration guide and script and the Teacher Toolkit for Tripod for more information about the Tripod Survey and the data you will receive. Here is the schedule for the blocks that need to be surveyed:

Nov 9 Block F / Block G
Nov 10 Block C / Block D
Nov 11 Block H / Block E
Nov 12 Block A / Block B
Nov 13 Early Dismissal / PD Afternoon
Nov 16 No School
Nov 17 Make-up Day for Blocks ABCD
Nov 18 Make Up Day for Blocks EFGH

Teachers will receive an envelope of Tripod tickets for each block/classes that you need to survey. The student tickets will be delivered to your mailbox by Friday this week ( 6 November 2020).

Counselors:
University counselors (Kelly and Sam)
School counselors (Julia and Chris P)
caseload is based on the four Houses to balance out the workload.