Happening This Week Jan 24-29 2021

 

Be a Learner  Be Responsible   Be Respectful   Be Safe

Happening This Week Jan 24-28

Welcome back to this week’s edition of “Happening this week”. First, thank you all for all the work you have been doing all year under the difficult positions we are in. It has been an interesting year, to say the least, and you all have done a great job of moving forward. 

Dr. Lori and I are continuing with Class visits. For more information please click on the tab at the top of this landing page “Class Visits”. One of the goals of the class visit is to let teachers know they do not have to go it alone.  Please see the link at the top for an idea of what to expect with the classroom visits

Below you will find:

A video greeting from me

Important upcoming dates

A link to the Sunday Morning Announcements

A link to the ‘Weekly Family Update’

An update on Students at Risk

Video Greeting

It has been difficult to meet people this year, and we are spread all around the world . So here is a video greeting from me for this weeks update.

Important Dates:

• Tuesday Meeting. IBDP ATL Collaboration and Integration meeting For IB. Principal Staff Meeting For all others.
• Jan 3-March 10 Quarter 3 Start and Finish
• Feb 25-28 no School. National Day/Liberation Day
• March 18 Parent-Teacher Conferences

A note on dates. We have about 32 school days left in this quarter. Since classes generally meet 3 time a week and there are some days of, there are about 15 class meetings left. Time does fly! It will be helpful to plan to have assessments done the week before March 10 to leave time to follow up on missing work or failing students and to finish grading.

Link to Sunday Morning Student Announcements

 The Sunday Morning Student Announcements are being sent out each Sunday Morning. There is a focus on Students making use of office hours, and keeping their cameras on in class. Here is this Sunday's Announcement, Sunday Jan 24

Link to Weekly Family Update

We are also trying to keep families and students involved with the 'Weekly Family Update'. We are stressing the importance of students communicating with teachers and using office hours, and of parents seeing NEO and grades on NEO on a regular basis.

A reminder for communication.  Mr. Patrick is the contact for grade 9-12. Dr. Lori is the contact for 6-8.

Here is a link to the Weekly Family Update

https://acakw.neolms.com/blog/show/8133378 

Students at Risk

We have the failure list for Semester 1. All Students in grade 9-12 will have to take online courses at the University of Nebraska to make up work. We are still working on a plan for 6-8.

Reminder, please to be in contact with students and parents who are failing or missing work. If you are having trouble contacting parents or are not hearing back, contact myself, Mr. Patrick for 9-12 and Dr. Lori for 6-8. CC Ms Abeer. We can set up a meeting.

At the end of Q1 there was a lot of confusion over grades and we were very flexible as it was a very unusual circumstance. At the end of Semester 2 we are standing confidently behind our grades. This is because of the work teachers did following up with students and families. Please continue doing this, and we will continue encouraging families to follow their children's grades on NEO and we can stand by grades that the students earned.

Have a great week!