Text Box: Planning Ahead Text Box: As the summer wave you have been riding breaks along the shore, it is my pleasure to welcome you back to Holdrum for the start of another exciting new school year. The turbulent years of adolescence is quite often a great balancing act much like riding a wave while avoiding being thrown into the wash cycle. Each of us stand in a significant place in the lives of our young grommets. The middle school years are filled with new academic, social, psychological and developmental changes. Our challenges as our learners take off include ensuring that their Text Box: academics do not stall, they do not burn their peers and they rise to new challenges and hang ten. Before you “Catch a Wave” to Holdrum, here is a bit of a preview of the new challenges before us. We will complete the second year of the differentiated instruction state goal. Each Holdrum teacher will be responsible for developing one assignment or project reflective of differentiated instruction. Our new state goal will address curriculum mapping for the purpose of cross content articulation for the purpose of increasing our interdisciplinary connections. In addition, Text Box: to these two formal goals, I would like to share with you our new K-8 character education initiative through the program Character Counts! Please take some time to review the website at http://charactercounts.org/ to learn a bit more about this program. The tides will also take us to Pacific Rim this year with the new Global Cultural Exchange Project where we will partner with a middle school in Beijing. All My Best for an Exciting and Productive 2008-2009 school year! Sincerely, Mrs. Jaynellen Behre Jenkins Text Box: Riding the Wave in the Middle Text Box: Inside this issue: Text Box: Holdrum Middle School News Text Box:

Volume 5, Issue 1

 

Summer 2008

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Riding the Wave in the Middle

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Please Welcome Our New Holdrum Family Members

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