Weekly Update: October 23 – 27
Parent/Teacher Conferences are almost upon us. Thank you advance for all of your time over these long two days. These days are a critical component in providing context to grades and comments given in PowerSchool. The end of the week will be upon us before you know it.
Have a great end of the week,
Jacob
Thursday, October 19
Early Release Day
Day 9- ABCD
Parent/Teacher Conferences 4:00pm – 8:00pm
Jacob Gone
Friday, October 20
Parent/Teacher Conferences 8:00am – 1:00pm
Jacob Gone
Monday, October 23
Day 1- ABCD
Advisory Schedule
Jacob Gone
Tuesday, October 24
Day 2- EFGH
Jacob Gone
Wednesday, October 25
Day 3- BCDA
HS Faculty Meeting, 3:15-4:30 (MPR)
Jacob Gone
Thursday, October 26
Day 4- FGHE
Advisory Schedule
Jacob Gone
Friday, October 27
Day 5- CDAB
On the Horizon
Author Visit, Nov 6-8 (Special HS Schedule on Nov 6)- See below
Early Release Day, Nov 7
MRISA Pep Assembly, Advisory Schedule (Wed Nov 8)
Staff Action Needed
- Take some time this Wednesday afternoon with no divisional or all school meeting to send a quick email personally inviting the parents of your students that are struggling in your classes to our parent teacher conferences.
Jacob Away on School Visits– Molly, Dan, Tina and Mark are already in Boston for training for our new standardized test from the ERB. I will be joining them at the end of the week, as we visit nearby schools. We will be looking at programs and facilities among other things during our visits. We will be visiting Boston Latin School, Phillips Exeter Academy, The Roxbury Latin and The Windsor School to name a few of them. I will return to school on Friday, October 27th.
Parent/Teacher Conferences Oct 19/20– Just a reminder that our PTC’s take place on Thursday (4-8pm) and Friday (8am-1pm). We will have some food in the fitness lab C014 (HS basement down by the music rooms) on Thursday evening around 3pm and a light breakfast and sandwich/salad bar for lunch on Friday. You are welcome to leave school at 12:30 on Thursday and return by 3:30pm for conferences that start at 4pm.
Oct 25 Faculty Meeting: Feedback for Grade 11/12 WWW– We will be discussing our programs for grade 11 and 12 students during WWW’s during our October 25th faculty meeting while our memories are still fresh.  We will be using a Critical Friends Group protocol to help us envision how we can best serve the interests of students during this time frame in the future.
November Author Visit -Poet Luka Lesson
HS Author Visit Assembly Monday, November 6th Schedule
| TIME | |
| A Block | 8:00 – 9:00am (60 min) |
| B Block | 9:05 – 10:05am (60 min) |
| BREAK | 10:05 – 10:20am (15 min) |
| C Block | 10:20 – 11:20am (60 min) |
| D Block | 11:30 – 12:30pm (60 min) |
| LUNCH | 12:30 – 1:15pm (45 min) |
| ADVISORY | 1:15 – 1:50pm (35 min) |
| AUTHOR ASSEMBLY | 2:00 – 3:00pm (60 min) |
Week of November 6 Unique Schedules– The upcoming week of November 6th has a lot of unique schedules. We wanted you to know well in advance of these changes for your planning. We intentionally added the author visit to Monday’s schedule with advisory, so it would help your planning with two back to back days of 60 minute classes.
- Monday, November 6- Author visit schedule and advisory (60 min classes). See schedule above.
- Tuesday, November 7- Early release day (60 min classes)
- Wednesday, November 8- Advisory Schedule for MRISA Pep assembly
- Thursday and Friday are regular schedules
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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.