Week Ahead: September 28

Oh! It’s a week of meetings … from Learning Support Plan meetings to New Student/Parent meetings.  Thank you to all for your contributions and dedication to meeting student and parent needs.

Here is what’s up this week:

Monday, Sept. 28
Day 7 DABC
8:00 Learning Support Plan (Luis, Gr 6)
12:30- 1:45 New Student/Parent Mtgs (Amber Nguyen, Youngbean Kwon, Marielle Lazan, Jiwan Kim)
1:30-3:00 Sr Admin Team Mtg
3:15-4:30 MS Leadership Team Mtg

Tuesday, Sept. 29
Day 8 HEFG Early Dismissal
9:30-10:30 HOS/MS Principal Mtg
10:20-11:00 New Student/Parent Mtgs (Zitao Chen, Mai Nguyen Pham, Khoi Pham)
1-4:30 TTT

Wednesday, Sept. 30
Day 1 ABCD (Advisory Special Schedule)
Happy Birthday Eric Schoonard!
11:50-12:45 New Student/Parent Mtgs (Tram Anh Pham, Kayla Kim, Cindy Loke, Anglelina)

Thursday, Oct. 1
Day 2 EFGH (DEAR)
8:15-9:15 Principals’ Coffee (Parenting Your Teen – A Delicate Balance)
3:15 B Girls and C Boys BBall @ BVIS

Friday, Oct. 2
Day 3 BCDA
7:30 Morning Breakfast Sponsored by Tech/Specialists
8:00 Learning Support Plan Mtg (AF, Gr 6)
10-10:15 New Student/Parent Mtgs (Van Anh Nguyen, Dong Ta)
11:50-12 New Student/Parent Mtg (Daehyup Park)
12:00 Learning Support Plan Mtg (A Yang, Gr 6)

Sunday, Oct. 4
Happy Birthday Zach Post!

Upcoming (on the radar)

• Oct. 7; Grades/Comments due by 3:00; verification reports ready by 3:30
• Oct. 8; Verification Rpts due by 12:15, End of the Quarter, and Parent/Teacher Conferences from 4-8pm
• Oct. 9; Parent/Teacher Conferences, 8-1:00
• Oct. 14; International Week ES/MS Art Exchange
• Oct. 16; International Week Parade (8-9:30) and Food Festival (2:30-5)
• Oct. 19-23; Fall Break

International Week Update:  We have completed almost all the ES/MS match ups.  Please review the International Week Overview to ensure that you are aware of the whole school picture; and the International Week At A Glance (Middle School Focus).

Quarter Comments and Grades:  The deadlines for comments and grades is coming fast.  Please be sure to track those deadlines.  Suggestions for making comment writing easier can be found in the MS Faculty Handbook.  It is also recommended that you work with another colleague to review/proof grades.

Common Teaching Strategies: Thank you to Zach and Stacy for leading the division through a review of our common teaching strategies.  As we seek to continually push the achievement of our students, these strategies will be a major component in supporting their learning.  Thank you for your work on this.

Cool Instructional/Assessment Tip:  Hands Down!  What?!  Yep, what if we didn’t have students raise their hands to indicate they have an answer to our questions?  Would learning be improved?  Dylan Wiliams’ research suggests that it will.  Check out this article: Children learn twice as fast if they’re banned from raising hands in class
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1309268/Banning-children-putting-hands-class-makes-children-learn-twice-fast.html#ixzz3mfVmPDAc