Dear Students
and Parents,
Three cheers for all of the
High School student volunteers that made Feb Fling a success! HS service clubs
and the HS Student Council, supported by dozens of HS student and staff
volunteers, raised 185,000 rupees or nearly 3000 USD to support AISC HS service
club efforts and expenses.
Congratulations
as well to those students who were successfully appointed to MUN and CHEMUN
leadership positions after an extensive interview process!
CHEMUN
Secretariat:
Co-Secretary
Generals: Seojin Park & Minha Park
Deputy
Secretary Generals: Prahalad Giridhar, Junwon Choi, & Hee Won Hwang
Security
Council & Advisory Panel President: Gyanendra Sengar
International
Court of Justice Advisor: Reuben Nielsen
HS
MUN Club Leadership:
Co-Presidents:
Manav Chakravarthy & Vinay Sriram
Vice
President: Serin Kim
Deputy
Secretaries: Harin Jeong & Choha Kim
Everyone
is invited to the upcoming Schoolwide Concert!
Semester Two Student Parent Teacher Conferences - Appointment Link
Live
This semester we will run
one full day of conferences by appointment from 8:00 am until 6:00 pm on
Wednesday, March 14th in teacher classrooms. Appointments are ten minutes in
length. The link to schedule an appointment with teachers is available here.
Next Early Release Wednesday - Repeat Announcement
A quick reminder that
Wednesday, March 7th, will be our next Early Release Wednesday. Students are
expected to depart campus in a timely and organized fashion upon dismissal at
2:00 pm. We appreciate your patience with traffic on these days as all three
sections are picking up students at the same time. In preparation, please plan
on allowing longer time for entry and exit to the school at release time. For
our Middle and High School students, hot lunch will be served.
At the request of the
student advisory forum, the iHub will remain open until 2:30 pm as an air
conditioned place for high school students to wait for drivers. Please note
that food service will continue to close at 2:10 pm.
Student to Teacher Feedback Survey - Coming Soon - Repeat
Announcement
On March 8th and 9th
students will have the opportunity to give their teachers feedback via an
anonymous survey. The first ten minutes of each class period on these dates
will be dedicated to the process. As always, the schedule is arranged such that
students will not complete the survey in the presence of the teacher they are
giving feedback to.
Teachers will receive the
feedback right after Spring Break and will share, in broad strokes, their
takeaways with their classes.
Student Parent Teacher Conferences Next Fall - Your Input Needed
My hunch is that more
families will want to meet with teachers after the first standards based report
is published in October. Thus, after consulting with members of the faculty and
representative parents, I am strongly leaning toward providing more opportunities
for conferencing in the first semester. Official progress reports will be sent
home on Friday, October 26th, and conferences will take place shortly after the
Diwali holiday to coincide with our CHEMUN conference, an event already
disruptive to our class schedule. The schedule I am considering is as
follows:
Thursday, November 8th
8:00 am - 2:00 pm -
By appointment conferences in classrooms (preference given to CHEMUN delegates)
2:00 - 4:00 pm - Drop in
conferences in the gym
Friday, November 9th
(CHEMUN conference)
8:00 am - 4:00 pm - By
appointment conferences in classrooms
Should you have any
feedback, kindly email me at hsprincipal@aischennai.org. I am especially interested in feedback regarding the necessity
of additional appointment slots as well as the balance of scheduled time
between by appointment and drop in conferences.
Counselor's Corner
Summer program
information for 2018 is now available. Counselors will add to this list as more
information is shared with them. Check out the listing here: Summer Programs 2018
Joelle
Basnight
High
School Principal
