As we come to the end of the school year, I am looking back on blog posts from the last two years. Here is some parent feedback from back in November 2020:

“First of all I want to express our deep appreciation to your flawless preparation to the most absurd situation the world is facing. Your solid delivery of your planned sessions and your relentless patience in this new teaching environment is impeccable. You all have shattered our expectations with the amount of effort you put on every day of the week. We are so grateful to your extraordinary execution and management and we are pleased to be part of ISY community.”

“I have a huge respect for you all. I am a teacher myself and I am amazed by the ideas, patience and effort you have /make every week.”

“(Child) loves his class and his school, like nothing I’ve seen before, that’s a credit to his teachers and school.”

“We thank you in sustaining our children’s education, morale, and academic curiosity through this most unprecedented moment in history, and appreciate all that you do.” 

“I want to take the opportunity to thank the whole team for the extraordinary work you are doing with the children during these challenging times – it is very impressive!”

“Thank you for continuing to research innovative ways to improve virtual learning with the many challenges while also balancing the core priorities.”

“The way ISY has been engaged with its students in this new norm is itself commendable. Even our younger son who will be turning 4 next August looks forward to attending school.”

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 Reports

Here is a link to the Semester 2 Report Writing Instructions and Timeline.

Timeline:

By 12pm on Monday, May 23: Subject Blurbs to be completed.

By 12pm on Thursday, June 2: Individual Student Comments to be completed. Please share your Google Document directly with Mike as soon as you have completed your comments. For individual student comments, you take the blurb and adapt it to fit the student.

By 12pm on Monday, June 6: Individual Student Comments and Grades to be entered into Powerschool.

Reports go out on Wednesday, June 8

QUARTER 4 SCHEDULE

Here is the link to the ES Quarter 4 Schedule which is also available on the Elementary School Faculty Pages.

ZOOM LINKS (Semester 2)

Here is a link to the Zoom Links that we will use for Semester 2.

ISY Learner Attributes

Thank you again for all you did to promote our ISY Learner Attributes during Spirit Week. Please keep the focus on these attributes as we finish out the school year. If you have any ideas on how to promote any of the attributes, please add them to this ISY Learner Attributes Activity Menu.

Q4 Interdisciplinary Units

Scope and Sequences

We now have confirmed Enduring Understandings and Essential Questions for our Quarter 4 units. Please refer to the Q4 Scope and Sequence and update it as necessary.

Specialist teachers, please strive to connect to the Enduring Understanding and/or Essential Questions.

Everyone, please strive to integrate our Mission and Vision, Attributes and the SDGs (which inevitably hit our strategic themes) into this last quarter.

Consider how what was covered in our Compassion Conference might help us integrate Service and Action.

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Here is where you can find our Q4 Scope and Sequence 2021-2022 Scope & Sequence. 

To fill out this year’s Q4 Scope and Sequence, you might want to refer to the skills you focused on this time last year in this Q4 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 4. Please make sure there is an ‘x’ in the second column of any standard you will cover in these Grade Level Standards Checklists.