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Thanksgiving is coming - hold on... |
ITEMS:
1. Meetings this week:
November 13 - Shared Staff
November 14- Conferences (begin at 3:30 )
November 15 - LT/DH Meeting
Ellis Island Day for 8th Grade
Ellis Island Day for 8th Grade
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My Great Grandparents on my Mom's side Tavianini They entered the United States through Ellis Island in the 1920's. |
November 20 - Full Faculty (MTSS) - Middle School meets separately
Thanksgiving coming soon - Wednesday November 21
2. Let me know how I am doing. (second try) Three times during the school year I will ask the staff that I work with how I am doing.
4. Commons
Below is a sketch of a proposal for the Commons next year (where the lockers are now). I would have had students help me with the design, measurement etc.. but timing did not work out as I found out on Friday that I needed to have an idea and estimation of prices by Monday.
1. Lockers to be moved to located to wall
2. Carpeting (same as we have now) in the area of the lockers.
3. Furniture for both side of the room for both meetings and areas for students to be....
4. Movable plant containers
5. Schedule
Thanksgiving coming soon - Wednesday November 21
2. Let me know how I am doing. (second try) Three times during the school year I will ask the staff that I work with how I am doing.
The only way to improve is to know how things are going
and what needs to stop, start or continue.
Please take a minute to fill out this quick survey (four questions)
so help me help you in ways that are meaningful.
Thanks! https://goo.gl/forms/ThFW8w1uVIJ4OMjn2
3. What Makes Young Adolescents So… Interesting
and what needs to stop, start or continue.
Please take a minute to fill out this quick survey (four questions)
so help me help you in ways that are meaningful.
Thanks! https://goo.gl/forms/ThFW8w1uVIJ4OMjn2
3. What Makes Young Adolescents So… Interesting
“I hated middle school,” says Amber Chandler (a teacher in western New York State) in this article in AMLE Magazine. Specifically, she hated how her mind worked back then – “the constant second-guessing of myself, the tears I simply couldn’t stop, the ups and downs of every relationship, the elation and devastation of my first crush, and the constant feeling of being caught off guard.” Nowadays kids still feel the pressure to appear confident and cool, and there’s the added element of social media and an online audience of thousands.
Chandler suggests that educators working with young adolescents can keep their sanity by coming to terms with three characteristics that define this age group:
•Self-conscious– Chandler says of her eighth-grade daughter, “I’ve watched her change clothes three times just to go to the grocery store, vacillate on the music she likes, and lose sleep over the most minute things… It isn’t that she isn’t thoughtful and kind, but rather, just like all her peers, she is always thinking of the world in relation to herself and her place in it.” Reminded that other kids are way too busy worrying about themselves and aren’t paying attention to her, the girl said, “I know they aren’t, but it feels like they are, and it is the same thing.”
•Social– Middle-school kids are torn between “No one look at me” and “Please pay attention to me.” They are dying to be included and yet want to stand away from the group. As a middle-school teacher, Chandler makes a point of creating “a place where it isn’t acceptable to be judgy about each other, and a space that celebrates all kinds of talents and personality quirks…” She tries to be empathetic about how tough middle school is, and allows her students to be social while they learn.
•Sensitive– Chandler says that in tense moments in the classroom, her male students are “frequently operating from a place of hurt or embarrassment, not anger.” She believes there’s been progress in males being able to express their sensitive side, and she works on creating a climate where that is okay.
“The 3 S’s of the Middle-School Mind” by Amber Chandler in AMLE Magazine, October 2018 (Vol. 6, #4, p. 39-40), no e-link available; Chandler is at amberrainchandler@gmail.com.
4. Commons
Below is a sketch of a proposal for the Commons next year (where the lockers are now). I would have had students help me with the design, measurement etc.. but timing did not work out as I found out on Friday that I needed to have an idea and estimation of prices by Monday.
1. Lockers to be moved to located to wall
2. Carpeting (same as we have now) in the area of the lockers.
3. Furniture for both side of the room for both meetings and areas for students to be....
4. Movable plant containers
5. Schedule
Lunch Dismissal
Math Rooms First
Mon
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Tues
| Shared Staff - Bill Rich ( |
Wed
| Parent Conferences |
Thurs
| Ellis Island Duane out at 1:30 for Administrative Meeting |
Fri
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