Letter from the MC Principal
Hello MC families,
We will be seeing many of you in the building this week as we get going with student-led conferences. During these conferences students will be talking to you about their successes, areas of growth, and how they have taken the feedback they have received since their end of semester reports were sent out. It’s important to note that these conferences are truly student-led. While it can be tempting for parents to take over these conferences and ask their own set of questions, your students will have their own presentations prepared. Please follow your student’s lead, as students reflecting and sharing about their own learning process is a big part of how we help our students learn how to use their minds well (Coalition of Essential Schools).
Today is a teacher work day for staff and an asynchronous work day for students – the building is closed to students as you know. Teachers will be in meetings and catching up on planning and grading. Today is an A day, so students had work posted in Google Classroom for Advisory, Power30, and their A day classes starting at 8:00am this morning.
As a reminder, the middle campus class schedule rotates three times during the year – in October, in January and in March. Yesterday, the schedule rotated for the final time this year. Students stay in the same class groupings, the classes just happen at different times. For every student their last class will become their first class, and classes 1, 2, and 3 will all move back a slot in the rotation (1 becomes 2; 2 becomes 3; and 3 becomes 4). The goal of the schedule rotation is for students to experience each class at different times of the day, and also for their teachers to experience who the students are at different times of the day. Students don’t have the same class all year long right after lunch and recess, or the same class at the very end of the day all year long.
Finally, our spring musical Music Man, Jr. will be taking place this weekend! Performances will be Friday, March 21st at 7pm; Saturday, March 22nd at 2pm AND 7 pm; and Sunday, March 23 at 2 pm. Students and our drama department, led by Performing Arts teacher Jacob Dewey, have put a lot of work into this production. Each year these productions are amazing and I’m looking forward to another great show. There are students from 2nd grade to 8th represented in the show this year. All of the shows are at the Elementary Campus and tickets cost $10. You can purchase tickets using this link. Best of luck to the cast and crew and we hope to see you at the shows this weekend!
As always if you have any questions feel free to reach out.
Kind regards,
Mark
Mark Sanders
Mark Sanders began teaching at ANCS in 2011. Before coming to the school, Mr. Sanders worked in New York City. He spent three years teaching 7th and 8th grade mathematics at Middle School 50 in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and two years at Harlem Village Academies teaching Geometry and Algebra 2/Trigonometry. He taught 8th grade Math/Science/Technology at ANCS for five years.
