Character Education and Core Values
Please refer to Dr. Tinari's Virtual Mail Bag from January 2009 to learn more about our character education program and core values.
"Since I last wrote on the topic early in the school year, we have been continuing our work on the community curriculum and character education program. You may recall that we began last year with a Middle School – wide initiative to help the girls examine their behavior, identify meanness and name and set their own standards for the school culture they wanted to create.
"We also set out to name those values and character traits that would form a solid foundation for the girls as they moved through the Middle School years. Under the heading, What Do You Stand For?, we identified honesty, empathy, integrity, respect, courage and citizenship as values to direct the character education work. In advising, service and our regular assemblies and special gatherings, we have created opportunities for the girls to define and understand these values, describe how they influence our day to day interactions and provide venues to enact them."
"Since I last wrote on the topic early in the school year, we have been continuing our work on the community curriculum and character education program. You may recall that we began last year with a Middle School – wide initiative to help the girls examine their behavior, identify meanness and name and set their own standards for the school culture they wanted to create.
"We also set out to name those values and character traits that would form a solid foundation for the girls as they moved through the Middle School years. Under the heading, What Do You Stand For?, we identified honesty, empathy, integrity, respect, courage and citizenship as values to direct the character education work. In advising, service and our regular assemblies and special gatherings, we have created opportunities for the girls to define and understand these values, describe how they influence our day to day interactions and provide venues to enact them."
Core Values Collaborative Mural Activity
Please feel free to browse some of our core values work that was introduced during the opening week of school. You can click on the file attachment below to view the handout describing the collaborative mural activity. Student work will be displayed in the lower Middle School hallway by lockers and the MS office.
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Being a Safe, Savvy, Digital Citizen
Parents and students, please feel free to browse some links and materials about digital citizenship. The materials offer suggestions of how to better multitask, manage time, as well as protect and promote you online identity in a safe way.
Video from Common Sense Media: http://www.commonsensemedia.org/digital-citizenship/csm_digital_citizenship_video_viewer?content=http://video.commonsensemedia.org/digitalcitizenship/DC_DL_Our-Digital-Life.flv&thumbnail=http://video.commonsensemedia.org/digitalcitizenship/DC_Our-Digital-Life_LTN.jpg
Interactive Brochure: "10 Things Every Girl Should Know To be a Strong, Safe & Savvy Digital Citizen --
http://www.springside.org/home/content.asp?id=7865
Video from Common Sense Media: http://www.commonsensemedia.org/digital-citizenship/csm_digital_citizenship_video_viewer?content=http://video.commonsensemedia.org/digitalcitizenship/DC_DL_Our-Digital-Life.flv&thumbnail=http://video.commonsensemedia.org/digitalcitizenship/DC_Our-Digital-Life_LTN.jpg
Interactive Brochure: "10 Things Every Girl Should Know To be a Strong, Safe & Savvy Digital Citizen --
http://www.springside.org/home/content.asp?id=7865