With only 18 students online today and with some of those set to return to in-person classes on Monday, I feel that we have turned a massive corner. By the time Quarter 4 starts on March 28, our goal is to close the online program for all students except those who are overseas.

Over the last two years, we needed to narrow our focus and adapt our practices to ensure that key academic skills were covered online. I cannot be prouder of how we did this. It takes an incredible amount of energy and professionalism to become an expert at something you don’t really want to be doing! 

While our compassionate Mission and Vision has underpinned so many of the decisions we have made over the last two years for our students, the distance between us and our narrow academic focus has made it very difficult for us to immerse our students in our Mission. Many of our students have stepped onto our campus for the very first time in the last month and our Mission is still unfamiliar to them. 

When Quarter 4 begins on March 28, many of the obstacles that have made it difficult for us to integrate our Mission into the curriculum will have been removed. Our Mission is our purpose and it is very important that we reconnect with that purpose in Quarter 4.

We live our Mission by integrating into our curriculum our strategic themes of service learning, culture and diversity, environmental consciousness, inclusion, and technology integration. This will be our primary focus in Quarter 4 and I know it will be a reinvigorating one.

This Thursday before school, we will meet online to discuss how we will do this. In the meantime, consider how what was covered in our Compassion Conference might help us.

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!

Wellness In Action Series Starts This FRIDAY!

Please click HERE for the full explanation and organization – including schedules, timings, and responsibilities.

Next FRIDAY is the first day of a 3 day event focusing on wellness and mental health.   This student organized series of events features a set of highly interactive activities that students from grades 1 to 12 will engage in.  The ideas for the activities came from ISY students and secondary students will be running the activities.

Structure

• Once a month on these dates: (March 18, Apr 29, May 20)
• 4 activities per date will be run by members of the Peer Support Group 
• Each activity should take no more than about 7 to 8 minutes for a group of students to engage in.
• Teachers will escort their students to the appropriate station throughout the period.
• Each activity will have 2 high school students running the activity. The HS student will explain and give instructions for how to engage in the activity.
• There will be a corresponding online version for each activity which will be run by the counselors. 

Interdisciplinary Units

Curriculum Maps and Scope and Sequences

Here is where you can find our Curriculum Maps These are updated up to Quarter 2 using our Subject Blurbs from Semester 1 reports.

Here is where you can find our Q3 Scope and Sequence. 

To fill out this year’s Q3 Scope and Sequence, you might want to refer to the skills you focused on this time last year in this Q3 Scope and Sequence 2020-2021.

Please link your planning to the Scope and Sequence as you did for our Q2 Scope and Sequence. 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. 

Please also check off the standards that you intend to cover in your subject in Quarter 3. Please make sure there is an ‘x’ in the second column of any standard you will cover in these Grade Level Standards Checklists.

SEMESTER 2 SCHEDULE

Here is the link to the ES Semester 2 Schedule which is also available on the Elementary School Faculty Pages.

Note: The schedule has no transition times between periods. Please make sure that students are ready to start their next class on time and start recess and lunch on time.

SUPERVISION SCHEDULE

Here is the Supervision Schedule that we will use for Semester 2.

This week:

10:00 – 10:20 Grade 2-5 Recess Locations

• Front Steps End of Field / Front Steps Playground: Grades 4/5
• SAS Building End of Field / A Building Playground: Grades 2/3

8:00 – 8:20 Before School Play Duty

Here is the Before School Play Duty Schedule that we will use for Semester 2.

People on duty this week:

• Monday: Samia
• Tuesday: Sandy M.
• Wednesday: John
• Thursday: Dan
• Friday: Kristi

From our TIFs