April 14 - One week to go

 

Students prepping for Wednesday night's concert. 

We are heading into the time of year when student exhibitions, testing, performances, trips, etc seem to be occurring almost everyday. If we were a sailing ship, we'd be heading into high winds, choppy waters, and crystal clear skies. In other words, we want this challenge and excitement. And, while its an exciting time of year, as you know, we need to hold on tight and try to enjoy the ride. Thank you to everyone who is helping to provide awesome high level experiences for our students in your classrooms and various activities, and to everyone who is trying their hardest to smooth the waters with some less than exciting things (ex: Vt Cognia Test). 

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Quote of the Week: 

  “If we knew there was one thing that would substantially – even swiftly – narrow achievement gaps and increase overall achievement, would we implement it?”

 - Mike Schmoker (“We Need Coherent, Teacher-Built Curriculum – NOW!”; Educational Leadership, February 2023)

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This Week's Link(s):

If you can open this, it's quite interesting and good information to have
when talking to your students about college. 

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Updates: 

1- Family Grading Communication (4.0 Scale/GPA)

2- Monday Best Practice: We will meet at 3pm in the library. We will start with a debrief from this week's TA conversation about school safety. The remainder of the meeting time, most of it, will be for PBL work in depts.

3- Remaining Best Practice Schedule 2022-23

4- POWERSCHOOL - there are some changes coming to Powerschool during break. Be sure the review the coming next week from Katy Durgin which details the changes. 

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Calendar

4/17 - Best Practice  

Amazing Art show!!

4/18 & 19 - English VTCAP Training & Testing, grade 9

4/24-28 - Spring Break!

5/1-5/9 - AP Testing

5/2-5/4 - Math VTCAP Training & Testing, grade 9

5/8 - Best Practice  

5/8-5/19 - STAR Testing Window

5/15 - Emergency Drill - Lockdown - 12:50pm

5/16-5/18 - Science VTCAP Training & Testing, grade 11

Check these out and do the QR code

5/18 - NHS Induction : details TBD

5/19 - Spring community service and fun day

5/24 - Guest Speaker in the afternoon - 1 ½ hours

6/1 - Emergency Drill - Evacuation - 1:35pm

LSUU Professional Development Calendar

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TA (Teacher Advisory) 

Links to activities and scripts for TA this week: 

Tuesday (4/18):  

You gotta go see the art

NO TA - Community Meeting - students should report to TA for Attendance and sit with their TA during the meeting. Seniors up front. 

Friday(4/21):  Flex sign up; Announcement

Heads up May 16 (Tuesday) 8th graders will join your TA. They will also be attending community meeting on May 23.

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Schoolwide Happenings: 

Some students got a special escort at their Norwich U college fair visit

Reading Romeo & Juliet aloud

Getting to Y retreat with Margot

Integrated Science parachute design and doll drop

The testing season is upon us. (SAT above) Thank you to everyone who is making it as smooth as possible.

Training to Proctor - Thank you!

Practicing for Cognia with Moira, Bill, and Karen on the ready. 

Astronomy students working with 5th graders

Prepping for AP Chem - practicing timed answer ?'s

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Celebrations: 

ZERO! The number of students who arrived after 8am for period 1 on Thursday. (Only 7 on Wednesday and 3 today) We're making progress! Below, we offered students lollipops today to reward their collective effort.

Senior musicians/singers who performed their last PA show on Wednesday night. 

See PA to the Left - Congrats to PASC for making it back to NE - and they'll get another banner!

Happy Birthday

Jim Calhoun  April 17

Chris Player  April 20

Margo Warden  April 20