On Saturday, May 18th from 12:00-4:30pm NIS will host a pdacademia-sponsored professional learning event focused on student agency. Our friend and pdacademia head Michael Iannini is looking for a member of the NIS staff to assist with planning and hospitality. If you are interested please let Kasson know this week or early next! Thanks.

Dear All,

Please find attached NIS Whistleblower Procedure for your information.

NIS Whistleblower Procedure

Proposals to present a workshop or lead a job-alike at the Norther China IB Spring Job-Alike are still being accepted.

Registration for participants will open after the presenters are finalized.

Good morning,

Thanks to everyone who has signed up for their break out sessions. If you have not yet signed up, please do so today before 4pm. Thank you!

Sara

https://forms.office.com/r/jn1V0hNCZd

Sign up for PLD breakout sessions close at 4pm today. Any Primary teacher who has not yet completed the form, please do so today.

Dear All,

Please find attached NIS Whistleblower Procedure for your information.

NIS Whistleblower Procedure

Good morning,

About half the secondary staff has signed up for their break out sessions on the form. If you have not yet signed up, please do so. Thank you!

Sara

https://forms.office.com/r/jn1V0hNCZd

Please tell us, what is your preference to document the information in the 2 UDL sessions during our PLD. Is just ONE question!

https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=6uQay-F6SkCIg5HQRu5GRu0HUpuQ5cpEnecpdzYU8rlURTczREo3SUJJUlQ4WkZHNFZCR1BVTFZPNS4u

                      Student JEDI initiative

Interrupting Insensitive Language

As part of a school wide student JEDI initiative, all staff will be asked to complete a survey on microagressions at NIS. The survey will be sent to your inbox on Monday June 29 and should take less than 4 minutes to complete.

The NIS Annual Report 2023 is here!

The NIS annual report is part of our commitment to our parents and community to be transparent about our use of finances and NIS’s authentic status as an independent, non-profit school. The reports have been ready in each staff’s mailing box, and homeroom teachers/advisers will distribute one report to the youngest student in each non-teaching staff family starting Monday, January 29th.

Dear All,

Please find attached SLT meeting minutes of Week 20 for your information.

SLT – Jan 24

Great News!

We now have access to Bing Chat Enterprise AI-powered copilot for the web. This gives us access to ChatGPT 4.

We can use Copilot to get work done faster and be more creative. All of this can be done with the confidence that user and school data is protected and will not leak outside the organization. For example, Copilot can help us quickly generate content, analyze or compare data, summarize documents, learn new skills, write code, and more. While we do this, we can be assured our organizational data is protected.

To log in please follow the instructions found here. https://nanjingschool.sharepoint.com/:b:/s/NISTech/EfdHlLhTvi5Oo5Ft01AhSvEBNaqnECj-aFzQfQYquaw-MQ?e=56vv72

To do more with CoPilot, it is best to use it through the MS Edge Browser. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/edge/download?form=MA13FJ.

If you have any questions or need help, please see us in the IT Office.

Student JEDI initiative:

Interrupting Insensitive Language

As part of a school wide student JEDI initiative, all staff will be asked to complete a survey on microagressions at NIS. The survey will be sent to your inbox on Monday June 29 and should take less than 4 minutes to complete.

Dear All,

One way transportation will be provided for 2024 Lunar New Year Staff Dinner Party. Departure from school at 17:00.

Best wishes,

Jenny