Madison Middle School

Hi Madison Staff

Here’s what’s happening this week:

This Week’s Schedule:

Quick Links: Please make sure you’re signed into your 4J Google Account to access many of these links.

• SPED/Gen Ed Collaboration Log – Please complete the log.   
• Focus Lesson for Week 6: 
  • Monday: Canvas Self Check
  • Tuesday: Reflection from part of Amanda Gorman’s inauguration poem
    • 8th Graders will be in a NEHS AVID presentation
  • Thursday: Best Part of Me Activity
  • Friday: Team building – Scattergories

MADISON INFORMATION                  

• Wednesday Staff Meeting and PD: There is no Staff meeting this Wednesday but we still have PD at 11am.  The Not Required Committee will meet at 9:45.
       
• Virtual EA Extravaganza on Friday: Educational Assistants and other interested classified staff, please see the Extravaganza Email and the EA Extravaganza Offerings & Zoom Links for what to do this Friday for PD while licensed staff work on report cards. 
          
• SafeSchools: If you haven’t yet completed your SafeSchools trainings, this is a reminder to get those trainings completed. Your log in is your 6-digit employee ID number.
         
• Weekly Check In:  The weekly check in will now include a section to celebrate one another. I’ll be sharing these out in staff meetings and in our blog. Let us know who we should celebrate and why! Linked here is the staff weekly check-in. I’d like to know how you’re doing and be able to offer support for those who need it.
  Here are the shout-outs from last week:
  • The 8th grade team. We operate like a support group, a steering committee, and a cheer leading squad. We can admit struggles to each other, and because of that, we can also share ideas and solutions. Then, when we have GOOD news to share, we can all celebrate the success!

DISTRICT INFORMATION                 

• Vaccination Update: We are starting today.  The LIPI and office staff at Madison are in the first wave. District-wide, over 800 4J staff members were able to receive their first dose. We haven’t heard about the second wave yet.
    

PROFESSIONAL LEARNING AND OTHER INFORMATION

• UOTeach-In on Educational Equity & Anti-Oppressive Pedagogies: Misael Flores Gutierrez, the 4J Equity, Instruction, & Partnerships Administrator, asked principals to share the linked email about this year’s annual UOTeach-In. The online events will take place Feb. 22-27. The keynote is Dr. Bettina Love, author of We Want to Do More than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom, and co-founder of the Abolitionist Teaching Network. Other speakers and sessions will focus on the anti-oppressive pedagogies and anticolonial and Indigenous pedagogy.
      

What’s Coming Next Week: 

This is our first of six 5-day kid week until Spring Break. 

Peter and Gina