Week Ahead: February 2

It’s a big day for football fans!  Let’s all help those out who don’t want to know the outcome of the game until they can watch it in full after school.  Shhhhhhhhh !

It’s going to be a great week!  Here is what’s up:

Monday, Feb. 2
Day 8 HEFG
1:30-3 Admin Team Mtg
3:05-3:30 Team Ldr WWW Mtg

Tuesday, Feb. 3
Day 1 ABCD
6:45am depart – 1:30ish MS/HS Track Meet
11:00-11:15  New Student Parent Mtg (Tracy Le)
2:00-2:15  New Student Parent Mtg (Aunreet Bali)
3:15-4:30  Leadership Team Mtg

Wednesday, Feb. 4
Day 2 EFGH
3:15-4:30  Vertical Team Mtgs
7-8pm WWW Parent Meeting

Thursday, Feb. 5
Day 3 BDCA
MathCounts Teams Arrive
8:15-9:15 MS Principal’s Coffee
9:30-11 Admin Mtg
11:15-12:00 Grade 8 and 9 with Ralph Fletcher
12:45 Molly on airport for SAS
12:00  Release B Team Girls for lunch and tournament prep
1-1:45 Grade 6 (and 5) with Ralph Fletcher
1-4:00ish – SISAC Girls B Soccer Tournament (not sure about release time yet)
6-9 MS Dance

Friday, Feb. 6
MathCounts Competition
PD Day (see Tina’s email)

Saturday, Feb. 7
MathCounts Competition
Ralph Fletcher Weekend Workshop

Wednesday Vertical Meetings
Wednesday, 4 Feb is Vertical Team Meeting.   Each team’s agenda and meeting location is listed here.

Since the agendas represent the work to be completed this school year, please scroll down the document to see the heading: Agenda, 4 Feb.  Please assign someone to keep notes linked to the agenda or make comments on the agenda so I can keep up with the progress.

Thanks,  Tina

Friday PD
As part of our school wide focus on writing, Friday’s PD session will be with Ralph Fletcher, author and consultant.  The full faculty will meet with him from 8:45-12:00 in the HS gym.  The session will be appropriate for all teachers, as we focus on making writing a part of all subject areas.  The afternoon focus is a book study, as a group has read his book. Even if you haven’t read the book you are welcome to join.

The details schedule for the day is:

• 8:00-8:30 Team Building, MS Gym (new teams, be sure to check the list)
• All sessions in the HS Gym
• 8:45-10:00 Session 1: Writer’s Notebook vs Writing Notebook (Teachers engaged in writing)
• 10:00-10:30  BREAK
• 10:30-12:00  Session 2: Revision
•  12:00-1:00 LUNCH, school cafeteria
• 1:00-2:30      Session 3: Book group discussion: Boy Writers: Reclaiming their Voice
• 1:00-4:30  Division principals will inform you if there is other divisional meetings or work.   MS if not in book group, work on Rubicon Atlas or other dept. work

If you have any questions, or your name doesn’t appear in the attached chart, please let me know,     Tina

Repeat Announcement: New Attendance Codes for PowerSchool
To assist with tracking tardies to school, a new code has been entered into PowerSchool.  Please use TM (for Tardy Morning) if a student is tardy to the first block of the day.  This will save Mai Anh a great deal of time as she tracks students who are late to school (which is generally a different issue than if students are late to later blocks during the day).  We have also added a code for In School Suspension (SI) to differentiate it from an Out of School Suspension (S).

Repeat Announcement: Special Visits Coming
We have several special visitors coming the next few months.  Please add these to your plans:
Feb. 5:  Ralph Fletcher, author – 11:15-12:00 is Grade 7 and 8 (with some of Grade 9); 1-1:35 is Grade 6 (with Grade 5).  This is an add-on to the EARCOS Weekend Workshop.
March 2:  George Hart, mathematics rock star – Mark Crowell is working up this schedule and should have it ready to be published ASAP.  Another cool link related to George Hart is his daughter’s, Vi Hart, YouTube site.  Way cool!
March 12-14: Luka Lesson, slam poet – this schedule is not finished, but there will be opportunities for classes to meet with Luka as well as an all division assembly time for a performance.  Luka will also be performing and working with the MRISA Arts Exchange.

Cool Instruction and Assessment Tip of the Week
Want to find a way to include the SuperBowl in your lessons?  Here’s one way!

Using the Oscars, Super Bowl to teach media literacy
The upcoming Academy Awards and the Super Bowl offer opportunities for classroom teachers and librarians to use the popular events to teach media literacy, asserts high-school teacher-librarian Joyce Valenza. In this blog post, she offers tips and resources to help teachers integrate the events into the classroom. School Library Journal/Neverending Search blog