Week Ahead: January 19

Thank you all for giving us such a great start to the new year!  Here is what is up this week:

Monday, Jan. 19
Day 6 GHEF
1:30-3 Admin Team

Tuesday, Jan. 20
Day 7 DABC
10:30-11:30 HOS and MS Principal Mtg
3:15-4:30 Middle School Leadership Team Mtg
3:30ish Boys B Team @ SSIS

Wednesday, Jan. 21
Day 8 HEFG, Early Release
*ECES Sports Day
1:30-4:30 Divisional PD (see below)

Thursday, Jan. 22
Day 1 ABCD
9:30-11:30 Admin Mtg
3:45ish Game: A Teams @ BIS

Friday, Jan. 23
Day 2 EFGH
4:00-7:00  PTA Blast!

Upcoming:
Sun. Jan. 25, Campus Pest Control
Weds. Feb. 4, WWW Parent Mtg, 7:00pm
Thurs. Feb. 5 – Sun. Feb. 8, MathCounts at SSIS
Thurs. Feb. 5, MS Dance 6-9pm
Fri. Feb. 6, PD – No students
Sat. Feb. 7 – Sun Feb. 8 Ralph Fletcher EARCOS Workshop

Wednesday PD Activities
We have a variety of things happening this Wednesday.  We will be working in several different groups during the course of the afternoon.  Please refer to the schedule below … if you have questions or concerns, please let me know right away.

1:30-2:30  All teachers of Grade 7 – EAL and LS meeting in Library (remaining teachers please work on updating Rubicon Atlas)
2:30-3:30 Department Mtg Time (focus on on-going projects or developing semester work)
3:30-4:30  All division meeting in Library  – divisional catch-up

Upcoming Student Celebration during Advisory (updates in bold)
The next Student Celebration is January 30th.  This is to give us a bit more time to prepare.  The focus for student recognition for 1st semester / 2nd quarter will be students Academic Citizenship, students who basically make the classroom better by being there.   Think about students who create and support a positive atmosphere, who help other students to contribute, who are open minded, who take academic risks, who help create a community of learners, who you (and the other students) miss when they are not there.  Bonnie will be collecting names as you submit them (there is no suggesting number of names, nor expectation … just those students who you believe fit the description).  We also want to showcase awesome academic happenings from 2nd quarter.  Please forward photos, video and/or descriptions to Bonnie.

Cool Instruction and Assessment Tip of the Week
Asking great questions is a master teacher skill.  This Edutopia article focuses on how to get students asking great questions.  How to Teach Students to Ask Probing Questions   http://www.edutopia.org/blog/who-wants-know-use-student-questions-drive-learning-suzie-boss