Greetings!
I hope you are all doing well! We've had a great celebration of International Education this week. Each day we had a theme for students to focus their thoughts. Monday we focused on Passports and Tuesday we reflected on the power of our stories. Once student reflected, "You can change your story based on how you treat someone or look at life." That thought has given me a moment's pause and has encouraged me to think about how many times my story may change in any given day. Wednesday's theme was Cultural Communication and Thursday's was Grateful for Connection. Friday we focused on Reaching Out. Art Contest I would also like to say a special congratulations to Jayleena Naut and Gray Fandel for being our winners in our first Art Contest in honor of International Education week. Jayleena won the Best Interpretation of the Theme and Gray won the Best Impact of the theme categories. Congratulations to them both! Penny War! We had so much fun with our penny war this week! There was some good hearted competition going on and there was a lot of joy heard in the hallways. In total we raised $976!!! What an AMAZING response from our AIS community. After a very tight competition, our FRESHMAN class won with -12,021 points!! They chose UNICEF as their international charity of choice and our efforts will be donated to this charity. All grade levels should be proud of their contributions towards this. I am so proud of each of you! A special shout out to the Seniors for helping to get the spirit in to the game! I happened upon this yesterday and thought it was worth sharing. Check out the World Economic Forum's Pictures from NASA that highlight international borders from space. It gives some interesting talking points about our world. I am so grateful to each of you and for the contribution you bring to our community. I wish you a festive and restorative Thanksgiving with family and friends. We have school on Monday, November 21 and Tuesday, November 22. We will not have school on November 23, November 24 or November 25th and will resume classes on November 28th. Thanks again for your support in celebrating International Education Week! Cheers, Ms. W
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AuthorMs. Willett is the current Director of AIS. She is originally from Dearborn, Michigan and has lived in Charlotte for the past 13 years. Archives
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