Happy Sunday! I hope you had a wonderful weekend. It was great to see many of you at Ashland Day! I hope your groups all did well sharing their message and/or raising some funds.
I thought I shared this article a few weeks back and realized tonight that I never did. Kudos to all of you for the part you play in making AHS a great school!
Monday is picture day. Please make sure to get your picture taken as it is needed for you ID. We will start with freshmen when Grynn & Barrett is ready and go up from there.
Departments are scheduled to meet this week. Every meeting this year should be focused on curriculum work (liaisons have meeting guide/focus questions). This is a Priority Area of Concern that NEASC will look at when they come this spring (the language from the report is shared below). They will look to see that we have made growth and I believe we have. Keep up the great work you are doing.
Foundational Element 2.2a - Student Learning
Narrative
The school does not yet have a written curriculum in a consistent format for all courses in all departments across the school. The curriculum is a work in progress. The school decided to adopt the UBD model of curriculum design, but has not yet incorporated it throughout all curriculum areas and within all academic departments and individual courses.
For some courses, there appears to be no written curriculum or only the blank UBD template at this time. Forothers, the format does not yet conform to the UBD model. In some cases only individual units in a course are represented and in other instances, the curriculum does not adequately address essential questions and/or identify assessment practices. Nevertheless, the curriculum entries for some some courses, such as Psychology and Early American History, are exemplary. Some individual teachers' websites contain syllabi that augment the information in the written curriculum and complement the curriculum components that are insufficiently presented or missing.
Rating
Does Not Meet the Standard
Full NEASC report
A reminder that Thursday is Parent's Night from 6-8pm. Parents will begin in the auditorium. Here is the schedule for the evening. I will remind parents that it is not an evening for discussions about individual student needs and we will be around at the end to help move them along.
When you are completing any Google forms (field trips, PD, etc.) please send them to signing parties in the order requested...teacher should send to department liaison who then shares it with me. Please do not share it directly with all parties. The liaison will share it with me once they sign it. Make sure you make a copy of any Google documents before typing in your information so that your new information is entered on a new sheet, rather than overwriting a previous form, which may still be active. Emergency plan must be done for all field trips and should be linked to the form. You should not send it separately. Search your Google drive for Curriculum Dept forms if you need to find the original folder. Thanks for your attention to these little details.
Please take time to review the attached PowerPoint and complete the activities included: Equity in Learning- please complete the learning activities embedded in the presentation by September 30. Thank you!
We just received a new delivery of tissues from Decisions. Thanks to Holly Leblanc's students for putting the STAND stickers on them. Stop by to grab a box.
I thought I shared this article a few weeks back and realized tonight that I never did. Kudos to all of you for the part you play in making AHS a great school!
Monday is picture day. Please make sure to get your picture taken as it is needed for you ID. We will start with freshmen when Grynn & Barrett is ready and go up from there.
Departments are scheduled to meet this week. Every meeting this year should be focused on curriculum work (liaisons have meeting guide/focus questions). This is a Priority Area of Concern that NEASC will look at when they come this spring (the language from the report is shared below). They will look to see that we have made growth and I believe we have. Keep up the great work you are doing.
Foundational Element 2.2a - Student Learning
Narrative
The school does not yet have a written curriculum in a consistent format for all courses in all departments across the school. The curriculum is a work in progress. The school decided to adopt the UBD model of curriculum design, but has not yet incorporated it throughout all curriculum areas and within all academic departments and individual courses.
For some courses, there appears to be no written curriculum or only the blank UBD template at this time. Forothers, the format does not yet conform to the UBD model. In some cases only individual units in a course are represented and in other instances, the curriculum does not adequately address essential questions and/or identify assessment practices. Nevertheless, the curriculum entries for some some courses, such as Psychology and Early American History, are exemplary. Some individual teachers' websites contain syllabi that augment the information in the written curriculum and complement the curriculum components that are insufficiently presented or missing.
Rating
Does Not Meet the Standard
Full NEASC report
A reminder that Thursday is Parent's Night from 6-8pm. Parents will begin in the auditorium. Here is the schedule for the evening. I will remind parents that it is not an evening for discussions about individual student needs and we will be around at the end to help move them along.
When you are completing any Google forms (field trips, PD, etc.) please send them to signing parties in the order requested...teacher should send to department liaison who then shares it with me. Please do not share it directly with all parties. The liaison will share it with me once they sign it. Make sure you make a copy of any Google documents before typing in your information so that your new information is entered on a new sheet, rather than overwriting a previous form, which may still be active. Emergency plan must be done for all field trips and should be linked to the form. You should not send it separately. Search your Google drive for Curriculum Dept forms if you need to find the original folder. Thanks for your attention to these little details.
Please take time to review the attached PowerPoint and complete the activities included: Equity in Learning- please complete the learning activities embedded in the presentation by September 30. Thank you!
We just received a new delivery of tissues from Decisions. Thanks to Holly Leblanc's students for putting the STAND stickers on them. Stop by to grab a box.
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