Category: Staff

Service as Action

Dear Staff and Students

Today our Service as Action block will be an extended session (Advisory and Block 3).

This session will be a great opportunity to start thinking about Earth Week and how your group will be able to share with the community what that have learnt throughout their project.

New Students – you will notice you have a blank spot on your timetable in Block 3 today: this is where our Service as Action class occurs. To help you join a project, please meet me in LGR3 in the Hub at 10:30am and I will share some important information about Service as Action at NIS.

Have a great day!

 

Winners of the Pfrang Giving Tree Points Contest!

We would like to offer our congratulations to the winning Primary Homeroom and Secondary Advisory groups for their commitment and contributions to last month’s Pfrang Giving Tree Drive.

Primary: Mr. Fielke’s G5 Homeroom

Secondary: Ms. Boucher’s G9 Advisory

Both groups will enjoy pizza parties this week to celebrate their victories.  And to everyone else: remember, there’s always next year!

Thank you all again for making this year’s drive another huge success in our support of local students pursuing their dreams of a top quality education!

Feb 3-7 PLD schedules

Here is the PLD schedule for February 3-7, 2025.

We have an engaging week ahead, filled with valuable learning opportunities and meaningful connections. It’s truly inspiring to see NIS teachers and staff sharing their expertise and collaborating to create this enriching professional development experience. A heartfelt thank you to everyone involved in the planning and preparation. We appreciate you!

Feb 2025 PLD Schedule.docx

Please Bring Your MYP Design Productions Home

If you made fantastic products during last semester in Design Center, please come to pick them home before this Thursday. And this Friday, rest of these students products will be available for all community staffs. If you don’t pick them up by the end of this Friday, design center will recycle them.

 

CMB Notice

CMB Qixia Branch will CLOSE on January 28-31, February 2-4 and OPEN on February 1, 2025 during Chinese Lunar New Year.

Any application for telegraphic transfer and foreign currency exchange will NOT be processed at CMB from January 28 to February 4, 2025.

Student Feedback Survey

Dear Teachers,

As mentioned in Monday’s Briefing, it’s time for our Student Feedback Surveys  again.

This week, Weiwei will be sharing a link and QR code for your personalized Student Feedback Survey. Each survey is created specifically for you and will remain confidential, allowing you to individually reflect on your teaching practices. Please rest assured that leaders do not have access to the results and will not be reviewing them. While we require all teachers to participate in this important process, you have the flexibility to decide how to administer it (e.g., which class and which students to include). As a part of developing our professional practice, these surveys provide a valuable opportunity for our students to share their insights and feedback, which can greatly enhance our teaching and learning practices at NIS.

Please ensure that your selected class/students complete the survey by February 21st. Once your students have finished, kindly inform Weiwei, and she will provide you with the results.

Let’s embrace this opportunity to refine our practices and improve student learning together!

Choose your PLD Community Connections Activities

Please choose the connection activity that you would like to attend during PLD week. The activities will be first come first serve as some sessions have limited capacity.

Choose your activity by submitting the following form – https://forms.office.com/r/EiYq2HMiAy
The deadline for submission is Thursday, January 24th, 2025 so that we can notify our hosts.

Thanks to all our wonderful colleagues who are willing to host an activity! 🌹

PD Sharing: 12 Shifts to Move from Teacher-Led to Student-Centered Environments

I attended the InnovateEDU Conference this past weekend. One great takeaway I had from the conference was a session I attended presented by Kyle Wagner on 12 Shifts to Move from Teacher-Led to Student-Centered Environments. Here is a blog post explaining the 12 shifts that he presented on. https://www.gettingsmart.com/2024/05/21/12-shifts-to-move-from-teacher-led-to-student-centered-environments/ 

One really great resource he shared was an AI prompt he had crafted to use to help use AI as a thought partner to make our lessons make the shift he was sharing about above. I’ve add the resource below. It can also be used to support creating PD or workshops for parents. Hope you might find this useful in your practice as well! http://tinyurl.com/lessonshift 

New Warm Up Shirts …

have arrived!!!

If you ordered one in December, it has arrived in the Activities Office. All the shirts were delivered to school because it was faster and better for the environment to make one stop instead of 105.

If you didn’t order one, you can order now! The new orders will be sent in after CNY and delivered on March 10th.