In many ways, it is hard to believe the school year is almost over. As you go through the upcoming week, I know you will be saying many goodbyes - to students, colleagues and friends. Make sure you remember to reflect on the successes you have had with your students and the important lessons they (and you) have learned.
Some important reminders:
LRC Survey - As our LRC team continues to improve the programing and service delivery, we ask for your feedback. If you have not already done so, please take a few minutes to reflect on your working experiences this year with our LRC staff. By completing this anonymous survey, you will help us identify what we are doing well and what we need to incorporate into our future goals.
Preparing your rooms - To ensure an efficient start to next school year, please remember that it is your responsibility to leave your classroom in an organized manner with your instructional materials organized and stocked (this includes the teacher editions of any textbooks you may have. For ES and MS, this also includes the Units of Study). This is especially true if you will not be returning to AISC. Starting on Tuesday, June 2nd, you can send any supplies, materials and instructional resources that you do not use (and are not required to use) to the SHED. Please do not throw away instructional supplies, materials and resources that can be used by someone else. The intention of doing this is to help you sort through things that are actual reusable instructional items and things that are trash. In the past, there have been several instances of people sending both with the assumption that someone else would sort through it. Please only send items that could be readily used for instructional purposes. This means, please do not send old photocopied or mimeographed materials
What about out of date textbooks? If you still use them as secondary resources, then keep them (elementary teachers - you can send down your EDM textbooks unless you have plans to draw on them as a resource). If not, box them up and send them to the SHED. We will find a good home for them. Please note that Words Their Way, Reading and Writing Units of Study books are required.
What about FOSS kits? If you still have any kits in your classroom closets, please send those to Lori in 2148. She has collected most of them already.
What if I am leaving AISC? Please "pay it forward" and make sure you are leaving your classroom with the instructional materials, resources and supplies you wish you would have had (or probably did have) when you arrived here.
On Thursday and Friday (June 4th and 5th), the SHED will be open for you to come and find new treasures (from these items) that you want for your classroom next year. I hope this is helpful for you and I really appreciate you being thoughtful about the things you send down.
If you have excess furniture that you would like to get out of your classroom, please log the information in this Google Doc. Check this document often and if you see something on the list you want, just indicate that in the column marked, "Who wants this?". We will help facilitate the moving of the furniture over the summer.
New information:
TLC - Innovation Team Reports - On Tuesday and Thursday of next week, the TLC members will be presenting their Innovation Team Final Report to the Leadership Team. On Saturday, the Leadership Team will prioritize the recommendations from each report and use them to inform our professional learning and development planning for next year and beyond. Thanks goes out to all of you who served on a team and special thanks to the TLC members:
- Inclusion - Megha and Jason
- Personalized Learning - Carlina and Kevin C
- Design Thinking - Danieta
- Online Learning - Walter
- Information Literacy - Jet
- Fine Arts - Ed
- Science - Lori, Chris and Jenn
- Math - Calley
We would like to thank the following team members for their contributions to this work:
Walter, Ruth, Flor, Lakshmi V and Joelle for representing the high school
Kamani, Morgen, Kay C , Anna and Lori for representing the elementary school
Rebekah, Pepper, Bill, Monica, Ross, Jason and Alan for representing the middle school
AISC Assessment Philosophy and Common Agreements
AISC believes that the fundamental purpose of assessment is to improve learning. Assessment data informs educators and empowers students to take responsibility for their growth.
- Teachers will align all assessments to AISC standards.
- Teachers will use a variety of formative and summative assessment data to guide instruction and communicate student progress.
- Teachers will ensure consistency and accuracy through the use of common assessments and normed grading practices.
- Teachers will provide clear criteria regarding objectives and expectations appropriate to each assessment.
- Teachers will include students in the assessment process through self-evaluation and reflection.
Formative Assessments - monitor student learning to provide ongoing feedback that can be used by teachers to improve their teaching and by students to improve their learning. More specifically, formative assessments:
- help students identify their strengths and weaknesses and target areas that need work.
- help faculty recognize where students are struggling and address problems immediately.
Summative Assessments - evaluate student learning at the end of an instructional unit by comparing it against identified standards.
Criteria - guidelines, rules, characteristics, or dimensions that are used to judge the quality of student performance. Criteria indicate what we value in student responses, products or performances. They may be holistic, analytic, general, or specific. Scoring rubrics are based on criteria and define what the criteria mean and how they are used.
Objectives- statements summarizing important ideas and core processes that are central to a discipline and have lasting value beyond the classroom. They synthesize what students should understand—not just know or do—as a result of studying a particular content area.
One thing I have always known about the AISC community is how deeply we care about each other. For me, personally, that has been proven over and over again during these last two months. To all of you, thank you and I wish you the best summer - full of everything you love. I'll miss you until we met again. Now... go have a fantastic week ahead and a restful summer.
One thing I have always known about the AISC community is how deeply we care about each other. For me, personally, that has been proven over and over again during these last two months. To all of you, thank you and I wish you the best summer - full of everything you love. I'll miss you until we met again. Now... go have a fantastic week ahead and a restful summer.
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