Middle School Principal’s Letter
Dear Parents,
Thank you for taking the time to read this week’s version of the News and Views. We are in the second week of semester two, and all is well.
This is a reminder that Semester One reports are posted today on Skyward. We encourage you to take time to sit with your child and go over their ATLs. You will find a correlation between ATLs and the Standard-Based Grades.
We are preparing to build next year’s master schedule in the upcoming weeks. We will meet with the current grade seven and six students to explain the selection of their electives for next year. This is a labor of love; building the schedule from scratch takes a lot of human resources. The elective courses we have such as 2050/DIT and The Future of Finance are courses no other school is currently offering to their students.
Food for thought: The world is not okay because institutions and the people who run them keep wanting to hold on to deeply outdated orientations to life on the planet that perpetuate the status quo and fail to deal with the root causes of our ills.
Learning will not happen when this amount of stress and anxiety is present and growing. And regardless of how our schools or our education system have or have not contributed to these ills, our conception of what school is and how it operates is no longer sustainable. The world has changed too much.
As good ancestors, in the Middle School and High School we are trying to be more forward thinking. We want to change education to make itself for the world that will be. It seems very likely that our students will always lag a bit behind the crest of the wave if we teach them what is.
In the 2050/DIT, and The Future of Finance classes, we try to aim at the world learners are likely to face as they leave CAC and enter college and then the workforce in some capacity. For example, in Disruptive Innovation and Technology (DIT) classes, we challenge students to imagine, not how they might address existing issues, but to anticipate issues yet to arise that they or even their children may face soon. Encourage your child to sign up for these electives.
Thank you for your continuous support of the middle school.
In Partnership,
Courtney Bailey
The Middle School Principal
Announcements
From The HoS Office
Core Values Award – Every Year the Board of Trustees honors individuals who have exhibited CAC’s Core Values contributing exceptional and varied voluntary service to the CAC Community in which CAC students are engaged and/or of benefit to the broader CAC community. All members of the community not currently on the Board of Trustees are eligible to be considered for this award. If you know of someone who has made a difference in the lives of our CAC community while exhibiting the CAC core values, please nominate this person for the Core Values Award. The nomination form is available here. Nominations are due no later than 3:00 pm on February 11, 2024.
Board Community Representative Elections – The CAC Board would like to encourage parents to actively participate in the upcoming Board elections. The CAC community elects two board members biannually. CAC parents and guardians who are not employed by CAC and who are not relatives of CAC employees are eligible to apply for a two-year term for the academic years 2024 – 2026. Interested community members are encouraged to get in touch with the Board Election committee at elections@cacegypt.org or request the election information packet to get familiar with the roles, responsibilities and duties of trusteeship.
Board Election Committee
Dustin Harrison, Karim Alaa and David Chi
From PTO
INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL
CAC PTO’s International Festival 2024 will be held February 16th from 12pm – 5pm. Mark your calendars!
The DEADLINE for country teams to sign up is January 24th at 11:59pm. This will give both festival and booth organizers time to collaborate to ensure the best event possible for our community. Sign up by filling out this Google Form AND joining our International Festival WhatsApp Group.
If you are interested or planning to participate join our organizers on Monday, January 22nd at 8:15 for important information and planning deadlines.
MS After School Activities
Parents! Do you have an idea for a Season 3 Activity?
Please fill out this form if you have an idea for a Season 3 Co-Curricular Activity that you would be willing to lead for our Middle School Students.
Please see Ms. Ennis in the library if you have any questions.
From the MS/HS Library
Battle of the Books Elimination Round #2 is this week!
This week we had our first Elimination round for this year’s Battle of the Books. The top 10 teams will move forward to the 2nd Elimination Round this Tuesday!
We will meet in the MS Hall during lunchtime on Tuesday January 23rd!
Three Cheers
Three Cheers to all teachers for completing report cards on time.
Three Cheers to our new families joining our CAC community.
Three Cheers to Ms. Shalaby and Ms. Torky for taking students to the Panorama of the European Film.