Check out this video of our haumana talking about what skills they think are important in Middle School.
Monthly Archives: February 2014
Students Learn Better with Engaged Parents
This article talks about the importance of parental involvement in education as our students approach and enter high school, but parental involvement is important at all levels of education. Check out the report done by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) on how parental involvement in school correlates with higher grade point averages. Here is the link to the article.
Students Learn Better with Engaged Parents – US News.
Attendance Crisis
This website is a great resource for parents and educators to gain awareness about the national attendance crisis. Attendance Works provides tips, tools, and research to help you make a difference at your school.
Attendance: Everyday counts toward achievement!
While preparing relevant information for our counseling parent night, our counseling team found out how important attendance is to developing good work habits in our students, supporting their achievement, and predicting their future. S/O to the Get Schooled website for being an awesome resource for educators, parents, and students! Click on the image to read more about attendance.
There’s no I in team!
I found this great article explaining how group work often turns into one or two students doing all of the work while other students have mastered the art of getting grades for group assignments that they did not really earn. How do we get students to collaborate and work well as a team? This article made a lot of sense to me as we often break up into groups, I mean teams haha, for guidance lessons. Here’s the link fellow educators.
