Weeks Ahead: April 24 – May 5
Last week brought us Talent Show Part 2, the last 2 days of CTP testing and the first 2 of this semester’s drama productions. All of those things took a lot of teamwork and support. (photo credits: Talent Show and G7 Drama, Tung Dang; G8 Drama, Patrick O’Brien)
The upcoming long weekend gives us all a chance to decompress and refresh. Please remember our homework guidelines … from the Faculty Handbook:
- Homework assigned before a long weekend will not exceed the normal expectations for homework given on a regular weekend.
Here is what’s up this week and the 2 days of the short week after the holidays:
- April 23-May 2 VEX Robotics Tournament in Dallas, TX (Student List)
Monday, Apr. 24
- Day 8: HEFG
- 1-1:40 Choir students in rehearsal for their concert
- 1-3:00 Admin Mtg (Molly and Phil attend)
Tuesday, Apr. 25
- Day 1: ABCD
- 9:30-10:50 CTP Make ups
- 6-8:00 pm HS Music Concert (including MS choir students)
Wednesday, Apr. 26
- Day 2: EFGH
- 8:15-9:15 SST Mtg
- 9:30-10:50 CTP Make ups
- 3:15-4:30 Divisional Mtg (Gradebook Review and Planning, library)
Thursday, Apr. 27
- Day 3: BCDA
- *Happy Birthday Sean Boyes!
Friday, Apr. 28
- Day 4: FGHE
- *Happy Birthday Rebecca Jardin!
Monday-Wednesday, May 1-3
- No school – International Labor Day, VN Kings Day, VN Reunification Days observed
Thursday, May 4
- Day 5: CDAB
- Dan Kerr visiting
- 9-11:45 in the division, meetings and classroom visitations
- 1-1:40 Student assembly – Welcome Mr. Kerr and “May the 4th Be With You” theme + activities
- 3:15-4:00 Meet and Greet with MS Faculty with Dan Kerr, Library
Friday, May 5
- Day 6: GHEF
- Dan Kerr visiting
- 8:15-9:15 Meet and Greet with G5-8 Parents, Library
- 3:15-5:00 MS Social with Dan Kerr (location to be announced)
Upcoming (on the radar)
- May 10 – Rising 6 Step Up day, StuCo Elections Executive Council
- May 12 – G8 Carnival at ALLS, 8:15-12:20 (about half of the G8 students)
- May 17-21 MRISA at ISPP
- May 25 – G8 Delivery/Performances to ALLS, 8:00-1:00 (second half of the G8 students)
- May 25 – Senior Walk Through (likely around 1:30ish)
- May 25 – Art Party, 3-5:30
- May 27: Graduation from 4:00-8:00pm @ Landmark 81
- June 9: Last Day for Students, Early Dismissal @ 12:15pm
- June 10: Last Day for Teachers (AS Faculty Assembly @ 10:00am; AS Faculty & Staff Lunch @ 12:00pm)
DAN KERR’S VISIT:
We are so excited to welcome Dan Kerr to campus May 4-8. There is a full schedule of meetings with all types of groups and people. Phil is overseeing his visit. If you have questions, please ask Phil. Events involving faculty are listed above – but for another view:
On Thursday:
- 9-11:45 in the division, meetings and classroom visitations
- 1-1:40 Student assembly – Welcome Mr. Kerr and “May the 4th Be With You” theme + activities
- 3:15-4:00 Meet and Greet with MS Faculty with Dan Kerr, Library
On Friday:
- 8:15-9:15 Meet and Greet with G5-8 Parents, Library
- 3:15-5:00 MS Social with Dan Kerr (location to be announced)
FROM OFFICE OF TEACHING AND LEARNING:
Eric Brown, our interim EC-12 Learning Coordinator, wrestled the multiheaded-hydra of power standards and unit documentation and delivered SSIS to place of clarity and progress. Further, the power standards and targeted standards are in the process of being uploaded and migrated into Chalk, our new curriculum documentation (and lesson planning if you choose) platform. You can see the status of Power Standards uploading here and the list of Power Standards and Targeted Standards here.
Unit documentation is well underway too. Eric reviews documents as indicated as “ready to review” by teachers. Upon approval, they are sent to the Migration Specialist for migration. The status of migration is below.
Eric will be with SSIS for two more weeks, April 28th being his last day on campus. Eric has agreed to continue with unit documentation review through June 9, so this process will continue virtually. This also means that Chalk Migration will continue through June 9. Good news!
On June 2, we have a full day PD. Likely, this day will include an faculty introduction to Chalk and a walk through to register. There will be time for exploring the platform and review current units that have been migrated. There will be additional time for your own or team curriculum work, closing of the year, and preparation for next year. More on June 2 next month.
About The Author
