Week Ahead: Feb. 27-Mar. 3

A great week ahead!  The first of three amazing PE dance units is ready for the culminating performances.  If you are free Block G and/or E, please feel free to come watch the performances.  If you aren’t, don’t worry.  We will be recording the performances.  Another great thing this week is having Jan Chappuis on campus all week.  A huge thank you to Thao for making all the arrangements for sub coverage so that faculty can attend sessions.  And to cap off the week, it’s the 25th Anniversary Gala (which has sold out … incredible!).

Here is what’s up this week:

Monday, Feb. 27

Day 4: FGHE, Early Dismissal

• • Rotation of classes:
  • Block F – 8:00 am – 8:55 am (55 min)
  • Block G – 9:00 am – 9:55 am (55 min)
  • BREAK – 9:55 am – 10:15 am (20 min)
  • Block H – 10:20 am – 11:15 am (55 min)
  • Block E – 11:20 am – 12:15 pm (55 min) (G8 PE group 2 performs)
• *G8 PE Dance Celebration, see schedule and details below
• 1:00-3:30 PD with Jan Chappuis, Auditorium

Tuesday, Feb. 28

• Day 5: CDAB
• *Spanish Field Trip

Wednesday, Mar. 1

• Day 5: CDAB
• *Happy Birthday Joycelyn Wei!
• *Spanish Field Trip
• 3:15-4:30 All Faculty, Auditorium

Thursday, Mar. 2

• Day 6: GHEF
• 1:30-3:00 Admin Mtg (Molly and Phil attend)
• 6:30-7:30pm Rising G6 Parent and Student Information Night

Friday, Mar. 3

• Day 7: DABC

Saturday, Mar. 4

• 6pm 25th Anniversary Gala

Upcoming (on the radar)

• Mar. 7 – Launch SLCs in advisory / Dragon Time
• Mar. 9 – Whole School Photo (8:00-8:30)
• Mar. 10-13 – Spring Break
• March 16, 17 & 18 – “Once on This Island” – High School Musical
• Mar. 25 – PTA International Celebration Day

G8 PE DANCE PERFORMANCES:

It’s so exciting to have the PE dance performances starting!  First up is the G8 groups.  Here is the overall schedule for Monday.  Please see Sean Boyes’ email for the full list of names in each group.

MARCH 30 “Extra Day”:

Phil is working on determination of what the schedule for March 30th will be.  The discussion at the MS Leadership Team meeting brought up an idea of running a special schedule rather than add another rotational day.  This will be sorted as soon as possible.  High school has decided to run a Day 8 HEFG.

UPCOMING – INTERNATIONAL DAY:

PTA needs volunteers!  Please contact the PTA International Day Coordinator, Angeline Lee (ptaes@ssis.edu.vn)  if you are willing to help out!

From PTA:  We are organizing an event called “SSIS International Day” to celebrate our diverse community on Saturday, March 25th 2-5pm. I am writing not only to invite you to attend but to help in organizing this special event together with the parents.  Each community will be organizing food stalls and arranging performances and activities for its students. If you think you can help represent your country, please contact us (ptaes@ssis.edu.vn) and we can discuss the details further.

Thanks very much in advance.
Angeline Lee, Sophia Woo.      SSIS PTA International Day Event Co-chairs

FIRST AID CERTIFICATION:

Thank you Nicol Stevens for working to get additional First Aid certification courses for SSIS staff members.  As a reminder, all teachers in the 23-24 school year are required to have first aid certification.  This is a great opportunity to get this requirement met.

CURRICULUM – Unit Documentation:  

From Office of Teaching and Learning – how to update unit documentation.

Ideal Timeline

• March 24 – Semester 1 Units will be “Ready for Review”
• April 15 – 3rd Quarter Units will be “Ready for Review”
• May 10 – All 2022 – 2023 Units will be “Ready for Review”
• June 2 – PD Day – Chalk Unveiling

Procedure to be “Ready for Review”

Teachers should use their respective divisional document below and subject tab for unit documentation.

Teachers will revise their 2022-2023 Units of Study for what was assessed and taught during the current school year. Once the migration is complete, any edits for Units of Study for 2023-2024 will be edited within Chalk.

1. Middle School Teachers will continue to use the MS Tracking Document
2. High School Teachers will continue to use the HS Curriculum Documentation
3. Watch THIS Video (6:56) to understand what to do (maybe speed up to x1.25)
4. Required to be “Ready for Review”:

• • Unit Name
  • Academic Standards
  • Essential Questions
  • Enduring Understandings
  • Summative Assessments
    • Name of the Summative Assessment
    • Provide a link to the appropriate Google Shared Drive

• • Key Formative Assessments

    • Name of the Formative Assessment
    • Provide a link to the appropriate Google Shared Drive

• • Learning Plan

    • What you have in your Learning Plan section will be transferred over to Chalk. Be sure to double check all external links are viable and Google Suite documents are linked to to the appropriate Google Shared Drive.

5. OPTIONAL: If you have completed these within your existing unit plans in Stage 1 and are comfortable including:

• • Knowledge
  • Skills
  • Vocabulary

6. When finalized, change “Under Revision” to  “Ready for Review” in your division Unit Documentation sheet and tab.

7. Units will be checked for the above requirements and marked as either:

• • “Ready for Migration” –  No further action is required and the Migration Specialist will migrate your unit to the Chalk Platform.
  • “Revision Required” – You’ll receive an email with feedback and necessary revisions.  When finished revising, mark as “Ready for Review” once again. It will then be marked as “Ready for Migration” or “Revision Required.”