Faculty Announcements

Happy Birthday Meredith! A reminder that we have a full faculty meeting today from 3:15-4:15. We will talk about the upcoming field trips as well as Curriculum Night. Please have your syllabus (Upper School) or class overview (Lower School) printed (probably about 10 copies) and uploaded as well by Thursday morning. Click here for the folder to upload to.

Hello! A reminder that a college rep from the College for Creative Studies (CCS) in Detroit will be here today at 9 to present to the Upper School in the main commons. Please be sure to focus on making sure rooms and common spaces are clean and organized - Curriculum Night is Thursday.

Hello and Happy Monday! This Thursday is Curriculum Night, so please focus this week on making sure your classroom space is clean and organized. Be sure to put student work on the walls and have some out on the tables in your room for Thursday evening.  I am running payroll today or tomorrow for the weeks of September 7-18, so please be sure your hours are in for part time and aftercare folks ( click here for the form ).

Happy Friday!  Today for the Upper School Town Hall, a rep from WCC will be in to talk about the school. Thank you to Jake for arranging this event :) A reminder to register for the Place Based Education Cohort if you're interested (below is from Brianna): The Great Lakes Stewardship Institute facilitates the Place-Based Educator Institute: a place for new and seasoned K-12 educators to learn about/get a refresher on place-based education, develop professionally in a cohort of educators across the Great Lakes region, and work on developing a place-based education project in their specific field of education. It is free to attend, and participants who complete the virtual (mostly asynchronous) 7-week program receive a $200 stipend. They are encouraging teachers who've been accepted to invite local educators to attend and work in a cohort together. If you are interested in doing this with me, or generally want to find out more, go to this link for details and the application: htt...

Hello! Family Coffee Hour today from 8:30-9:30 am in the main commons. We also have a visitor observing the school and some of the students today. Her name is Nikki Opeodu and she's a social work candidate from MSU. She's interested in working with neurodivergent children, and her husband's two children attended Ann Arbor Academy (she's married to Matt Mathias, if that's someone you remember). She would like to see what a neuroaffirming school looks like in action.

  Happy birthday Jack!

Reminder that Laurence is out this morning and Vily is out all day today. I want to share with you this YouTube video about teaching reading and writing to students with ADHD. If that resonates with you, please take the time to watch and let me know what you think, or if there are any strategies you'd like to explore or get more support for enacting.

Click on Read More in the bottom right of the initial display to read this with proper formatting. We will meet online at 9 am using the Faculty Classroom Meet Link ( click here ) This is an all day meeting with a break for lunch Click here for the agenda

Reminder - Fire Drill today at 1:20 (after the town hall meetings in Lower and Upper School). Students will go to advisories and we will do the fire drill from there. 

Happy birthday Jake! PD will be online on Monday. Schedule is: 9-10 am - learning and discussion on OCD - led by Hannah Abdelhady, LMSW 10:15-12:00 - Student go around (Lower School and Upper School are separate) 1:00-3:00 - Student go around (LS and US still separate) - finish whatever is needed from before lunch and if you finish early, stop before 3

Reminder! Fire Drill this Friday at 1:20 pm Register today for the ISACS Conference on Friday, November 6, if you haven't already. Click here for registration.