Week Ahead: July 30 – Aug. 3
Welcome back! Summer is a great time to refresh, relax, and reinvigorate. And every 4 years, it’s a chance to cheer your head off for your favorite World Cup team. As I rooted on teams who ultimately didn’t make it to the finals (sometimes not even out of the group stage), I couldn’t help but reflect on some of the broader messages of the World Cup. One that really hit me as applicable to our work with middle school students is that to really reach for something extraordinary, to really push yourself beyond what you thought might be possible, you have to open yourself up to failure. That’s not a small thing to ask of a person. How do we help our students open themselves up to possible failure in the quest for something amazing? How do we support them, encourage them, and celebrate them all along the way? Fortunately, we have an amazing group of educators joining together to tackle this. I can’t wait to see the stunning victories our students will have during the year. I, for one, am ready to cheer my head off!
Here is what is up in the coming week:
Saturday, July 28
4:15-? Ben Thanh Street Food Market (sign up here if you want to go on the bus)
Monday, July 30
9-10:30 MS Leadership Team Meeting
10:45-12 New Hire Divisional Meeting
1-3:00 Critical Friends Group Training
Tuesday, July 31 – Friday, Aug. 3
Full Faculty Inservice (be sure to check the online schedule – small updates are being made)
8-4:00
Friday, Aug. 3
see schedule above, and to highlight …
4:00-6:00 All School BBQ (families too!)
Upcoming Dates:
- Aug. 7, 1-3:00 MS Orientation
- Aug. 8, 1st full day of school (A-H schedule)
- Aug. 16-22, Molly out of the building – taking daughter to college
- Aug. 21, 6:30-8 MS Curriculum Night
- Aug. 24, 4-7pm MS PTA Blast!
- Aug. 25, 3-6pm HCMC International School Happy Hour Social, Saigon Outcast (D2)
Welcoming our New Faculty:
We are excited to welcome our new faculty. Here is the whole list.
- Lili Dubois: EAL, Digital Literacy, Exploratory Writing
- Matthew Grove: Social Studies
- Liz Hendrickson: Library (part-time)
- Geneva Hinchliffe: Math
- Abigail Morgan: EAL
- Ryan Pool: Learning Support
- Mona Schraer: Math
- Joycelyn Wei: Mandarin
- (And though not new to SSIS) William Medina: Spanish in both MS and HS
Useful Things:
About The Author
