It goes without saying that this year has had its challenges and in many ways it is a year that many of us would like to forget. But before you forget, I hope that you all take a moment to think back on those challenges and how you stepped into them to support your colleagues, our students and their families. It has been another enormous effort by all of us.

The second half of this year will be a busy one with many of its own challenges. So whether you are getting ready to return to Yangon, or waiting in Yangon for your colleagues to return, or preparing to finish the year from afar, I hope that you find some time to relax and recharge over the next three weeks. 

Happy holidays!

We all know we are doing our best…. even when we are not at our best!

Check in. How am I? What do I need? How are they? What do they need from me?

Ask for help and be helpful.

Be present and patient. Take time to fully understand others and allow time for others to understand you. Pausing, Paraphrasing and Posing Questions promotes our common understanding.

Share your ideas and be open to the ideas of others. Once shared, they become our ideas and anything could happen!

 Semester 2 Schedule 

Christina and I are working on Semester 2 schedule. We will share the draft schedule with you next week for your feedback.

 Semester 1 (Q1 + Q2) Reports

Here are the overviews for Semester 1 Report Writing:

• Pre-Kindergarten & Kindergarten
• Grades 1 to 5

TIMELINE:

By 12pm on Wednesday, January 12: Subject Comments to be completed. 

By 12pm on Friday, January 21: Individual Student Comments to be completed. Please share your Google Document directly with Mike as soon as you have completed your comments.

By 12pm on Tuesday, January 25: Individual Student Comments and Grades to be entered into Powerschool.

Reports go out on Friday, January 28

Interdisciplinary Units

Curriculum Maps and Q2 Scope and Sequence

Here is where you can find our Curriculum Maps (updated for Q1 using report subject comments).

Here is where you can find our Q1 Scope and Sequence. Please link your planning to the Scope and Sequence. I have done this for PE and Culture and Communication to give you an example. We want to give you some autonomy as to how you organize your planning and resources but your planning needs to be in an ISY Shared Drive. 

Here is where you can find our Q2 Scope and Sequence. 

To fill out this year’s Q2 Scope and Sequence, you might want to refer to the skills you focused on this time last year in these Q2 scope and sequence documents:

PK-1 Q2 Scope and Sequence 2020-2021

2-3 Q2 Scope and Sequence 2020-2021

4-5 Q2 Scope and Sequence 2020-2021

Please also link your planning to the Scope and Sequence. 

If you have not already, please check off the standards that you intend to cover in your subject in Quarter 2. Please make sure there is an ‘x’ in the second column of any standard you will cover in these Grade Level Standards Checklists.

These documents are really taking shape and will be a valuable resource in years to come.

From our TIFs