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Weekly family facing memo that is modeled off of staff facing memo

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Weekly family facing memo that is modeled off of staff facing memo

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Re-design and Re-commit to Collab: All staff don't stay the full time on Fridays during collaboration and the opportunity for cross content/ cross grade collaboration isn't as robust

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Re-design and Re-commit to Collab: All staff don't stay the full time on Fridays during collaboration and the opportunity for cross content/ cross grade collaboration isn't as robust

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Can it be more than a share out of what each grade band is doing? Can we have a dei component? Can we have a share out from folks who attended conferences?

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Spend more of morning sing doing things that engage and are relevant to all kids, more sharing from wider variety of students (❤️ the times when we've done games or interactive songs have been great! ❤️)

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Get new materials for recess

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Support for families who have chronically absent students - transportation or other supports to be more proactive in helping families get students to school consistently

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Time within collaboration block to meet in smaller teams - very hard to get items done and have equity of voice when middle school meetings are >12 people

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Is there any flexibility with respect to testing? Students take soooo many assessments, so much learning time is spent testing

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Too many meetings get scheduled for Friday and it leaves no room for design time, schedule s3 meetings M-Th 3:30-4pm

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More time between assessments

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Parents and kids love overnights! These are the things that students will remember as representative of their entire experience at this school. How do we make these trips more manageable for the adults holding? How can we ensure continuity of funding so that these amazing trips can continue long term?

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Add 5 minutes at end of day for 4th and 5th grade to make up for mandatory minutes and allow for a morning recess on minimum days

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Add 5 minutes at end of day for 4th and 5th grade to make up for mandatory minutes and allow for a morning recess on minimum days

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get material  for shade yard and i can install

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get material  for shade yard and i can install

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STAFF RACE BASED AFFINITY GROUPS ALL YEAR.

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STAFF RACE BASED AFFINITY GROUPS ALL YEAR.

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More inclusion based conversations

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lots of white coaches, would love more choice in who my coach is

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Having more fun assembilies for students

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Give our sunshine crew a day in the summer to plan out events throughout the year!

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And more school-wide assemblies/gatherings led by students

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And more school-wide assemblies/gatherings led by students

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Collab time feels like it's not very collaborative and more of a regular grade brand meeting. It doesn't feel at all like it was originally described to me my first year.

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Collab time feels like it's not very collaborative and more of a regular grade brand meeting. It doesn't feel at all like it was originally described to me my first year.

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affinity spaces accessible to TK-5

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Have protected S3 committee time to enable us to achieve the goals of our committees

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we should have more staff celebrations regularly! (once a month/ biweekly)

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re design collab. Some meetings can be email. We should focus more time to design and prototype. 

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re design collab. Some meetings can be email. We should focus more time to design and prototype. 

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More extra - curricular chances for students (talent shows etc) - outside of After School Program

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More extra - curricular chances for students (talent shows etc) - outside of After School Program

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ALL STAFF setting and holding clear expectations for students, especially in communal spaces

BOY MAKING SURE STAFF ARE CLEAR ON THESE EXPECTATIONS

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Collaboration Time as time to collaborate instead of holding multiple structured meetings

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Collaboration Time as time to collaborate instead of holding multiple structured meetings

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Having a morning and afternoon crossing guard.

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Create more opportunities/avenues for parents to give feedback and share asks.

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BOY discussions and collaboration about pull out/ small group / intervention / S3 supports so it feels like an understanding and ways to integrate rather than something that justhappens

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I really appreciate Derrick & CT for making recess massively better. More structure. Students playing a VARIETY of games!

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4-5 weekly community circle in instructional minutes

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4-5 weekly community circle in instructional minutes

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Longer GLT time for just grade level connects

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Longer GLT time for just grade level connects

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multi age structures. Cascading mentorship 

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multi age structures. Cascading mentorship 

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crew should happen in grade classrooms everyday in the beginning and end of day. To start in community and end in community.

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loved adult recess let's do that more lol 

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loved adult recess let's do that more lol 

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Less PDs and more time for teachers to do the work they need to do. Why do we still hold Wednesday PDs when we have blue diamond days?? Especially when we have two blue diamond days back to back, the wednesday PD would be better used as an extra collab time

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Crossing walk safety and parking lot safety 

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Crossing walk safety and parking lot safety 

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more support for S3/support staff in building schedules across grade levels, especially weeks when minimum days + schedule shifts

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Discussions in crews, community meetings, etc. early in the year and throughout.

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some kind of platform (WhatsApp or Slack) for staff communication with norms around what should be emailed vs what can go through whatsapp/slack. It is unprofessional and unsafe to be using out personal phone numbers for work communication.

**inclusivity around communication

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Morning sing more student centered and led.

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Have time carved out each week for teachers to discuss student porgress, supports, and interventions in grade band or grade level teams.

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Choice in coaching/who your coach is, maybe selecting a fellow teacher! Coaching here at ASCEND is very white

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Updated staff Google Calendar for whole school year

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Updated staff Google Calendar for whole school year

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Planning time to recognize/support when we don't have materials required by the curriculum (eg: manipulatives in Eureka lessons)

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When free dress is earned, students help hold each other accountable more!

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Monthly times to connect at Happy Hour

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Timeliness!

Staff are frequently late to meetings.

Leadership often starts late.

Meeting almost always run behind schedule.

We need data tracking to support accountability around this.

Unpopular opinion but I think between PD and Collaboration weekly we have so much time together that people don't feel an urgency to use it appropriately.

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align 4-5 morning recess (easier to move kids in together)

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align 4-5 morning recess (easier to move kids in together)

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Focused and intentional unified thematic programming around diversity, identity (esp disability) across grade levels

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Focused and intentional unified thematic programming around diversity, identity (esp disability) across grade levels

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have folks who are willing to step up create some initial structure and materials/supports for all grade levels that can be implemented during existing blocks (CREW/Morning Sing/Other?)

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equity in coaching and instructional support for all staff, not just classroom teachers

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bring back Ascend Fall Festival

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affinity spaces for kids

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more training around CREW so that it is actually done properly and is not just a major guessing game

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More strict/clear expectations for where middle school students are and are not supposed to be during lunch time -- especially upstairs expectations!

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Science Data included or gathered across grade levels

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Science Data included or gathered across grade levels

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More time to prepare our classrooms at the beginning of the year

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More time to prepare our classrooms at the beginning of the year

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Personally I appreciated the shifts in schedule for expo timing this year compared to previous years

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Hold space/time for adult crew to break bread together at the start, middle, and end of year - possibly off campus?

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Yard Safety: ways to put privacy screen on bottom half and secure gate closure so smaller students can't get through

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Yard Safety: ways to put privacy screen on bottom half and secure gate closure so smaller students can't get through

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More time scheduled into all-staff events for union updates and information to be shared.

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fewer assessments/shorter assessments so we lose less instructional time

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fewer assessments/shorter assessments so we lose less instructional time

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Keep crew within classrooms from 8:30-9 M/T/Th. Allows community building/SEL within classrooms.

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Also having materials and thoughts partners available to support newer teachers

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Inclusivity and Bias Training BOY and MOY

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Inclusivity and Bias Training BOY and MOY

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Can grade band schedules be more aligned with how S3 splits their caseload. This will allow us to meet student minutes with more fidelity than having to just do whatever fits in the calendar

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materials support for teachers who shift space a lot to hold multiple student spaces (basket/cart/materials)

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I think it's big ask to require middle school team to develop additional curriculum/materials for enrichment without much support from coaches or admin. Is there a way to restructure this space so that there is not as much load on classroom teachers and clinicians?

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Support with hallways (challenging/impossible to ask of teachers when they have back to back classes ) - parent volunteers to support??

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Block for k-5 math enrichment (similar to MS enrichment)

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Block for k-5 math enrichment (similar to MS enrichment)

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Having marginalized groups contribute first in spaces (think BTC protocols)

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Having marginalized groups contribute first in spaces (think BTC protocols)

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When an advisory vote is coming up, hold ~15 minutes at beginning of collab time so advisory reps can meet with their consituents - getting input from staff should be built in, rather than something “extra"

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Supply closet open more often or more regularly 

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Supply closet open more often or more regularly 

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consistent hallway supervision

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Could shift humanities time blocks so not all teachers across 6th-8th are teaching at the same time, so they could do reading intervention for other grade levels

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Having both math block s flow all the way through without any splits

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Norms & hallway expectations and expectations for all communal spaces shared with staff during BOY PD → support during BOY to set norms for students in communal spaces