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Building Better Bulldogs Activities

  • Spring Results Panaroma Social/Emotional Survey
    Twice a year, the district engages in surveying the students with the administration of the Panorama Social/Emotional Wellness Survey.  This survey that each student is asked to complete if permitted, obtains an understanding of how our students feel about their school environment and their ability to overcome obstacles as they navigate the social and academic aspects of the school. Our survey results provide an an indication of how our students view their environment compared to the rest of the district.  In this survey, we encourage honest and insightful feedback to help us devise programs (like the one above) so that we can meet the students' needs.  With this Spring Survey, while we met and/or exceeded the district average in each category, BHMS students rated themselves slightly lower from the fall administration of the survey.  
    The components the students rated themselves slightly lower were grit, growth mindset, self-efficacy, self-management, social awareness, and social perspective taking.  It seems that as the students matured physically through middle school this year, they had more concerns with managing all the social and emotional aspects of being an adolescent.  Ms. Egizi and I are committed to enhancing restorative practices for the students and staff as well as implementing positive systems of support.  Moreover, these results help shape our No Place for Hate and Building Better People initiatives at BHMS.
    Please go to this link: Panorama Survey Spring 2024 to view the results.
    May 28-31, 2024...Panorama Spring Social Emotional Survey
    Not everyone will be taking the survey.  If you have permission, your Social Studies teacher will have your name listed and you will be able to log in using your student ID number.  (This is also the password you use to log in for school and your lunch PIN.)  This will take about 15 minutes.  
    1. Click on the following link to access the social-emotional survey:  https://surveys.panoramaed.com/wtps/login
    2. Use your student ID number (password same as your lunch PIN) as your access code for the survey.
    3. Only students with parent permission should be able to access the survey.  Not all students will take the survey, If you do not have permission to take the survey, you will work on an assignment from your teacher.
    4. Complete all the questions truthfully.  The answers are used to help our student population in the future.

     

    May 28-31, 2024:  Barbie Dolls (Identity and Representation)
    • Click on the above link to access the full lesson plan
    • For a synopsis of the lesson, please see the information below

    Links for small group activity:

    Body Image, Representation and Barbie History - https://www.sutori.com/en/story/barbie-identity-and-representation--KMMdK8n2r4hSXhNHd2vqJDhC
    GI Joe https://www.bradley.edu/sites/bodyproject/barbie/gijoe/

    Microsoft reflection form:  

    https://forms.office.com/r/RnmMZk5V0k

     

     
    March 4-8, 2024:  Panorama Climate and Culture Survey
    • Click on the above link to access the survey

     

    February 29, 2024:  Officer Egizi's Anti-Vaping Presentation to 6th graders

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    January 16-24, 2024 Words that can Hurt and Heal
    In middle school, students sometimes do not recognize the magnitude of their words.  They are bombarded with stimulus in the media (whether songs, Snaps, Instagram, Youtube, TikTok) that often times lacks empathy.  Our job as educators is not only to help students along the path of academic success, but also (with the assistants of board policies, state laws, and local codes of conduct), provide an atmosphere to help children become the best versions of themselves in terms of respect and service to others as well as not repeating past mistakes.
    Typically, as the remembrance day of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. comes forth in the country, we need to take the opportunity to not only reflect on the accomplishments of one man, but on the responsibility for all of us that he illuminated through his words and actions.  This No Place for Hate Activity helps forge this understanding.
    Go to this link:  Words that can Hurt and Heal to view the lesson plan for the activity.  This will be presented in ELA or Social Studies Classrooms.
    Fall Results Panaroma Social/Emotional Survey
    At the beginning of last month, the district engaged in the fall admission of the Panoram Social/Emotional Well-Beign Survey.  This survey gives a snapshot of how students feel about their school environment and their ability to overcome various obstacles as they navigate social and academic aspects of school.  Our survey results provide an an indication of how our students view their environment compared to the rest of the district.  In this survey, we encourage honest and insightful feedback to help us devise programs (like the one above) so that we can meet the students' needs.  A point of note is this survey indicates that while students have a keen sense of self advocacy and emotional regulation, their social awareness sometimes gets in the way of how to properly respond to undesired stimulus.  The results are worth exploring.
    Please go to this link:  Panorama Fall Survey 2023 to view the results.
     
    December 4, 2023 Panorama Social/Emotional Well-Being Survey  

    Not everyone will be taking the survey.  If you have permission, your Social Studies teacher will have your name listed and you will be able to log in using your student ID number.  (This is also the password you use to log in for school and your lunch PIN.)  This will take about 15 minutes.  

    1. Click on the following link to access the social-emotional survey:  https://surveys.panoramaed.com/wtps/login
    2. Use your student ID number (password same as your lunch PIN) as your access code for the survey.
    3. Only students with parent permission should be able to access the survey.  Not all students will take the survey, If you do not have permission to take the survey, you will work on an assignment from your teacher.
    4. Complete all the questions truthfully.  The answers are used to help our student population in the future.

    Results Listed Here for the Spring 2023 Survey

    October17-19 and October 30-November 1 Bully Stoppers
    Bullystoppers
    October 2023 Bullying Prevention
    Please click the following link to review our Bullying Prevention Week and No Place for Hate Activity/Lesson Plan for the month of October
    *The "Embedded Links" are teacher activity lists.  Please review them to see how the students in 7th and 8th grade will be participating in various learning stations about team building and empathy.  Moreover, for the 6th grade, they will be discussing with their social studies teachers various scenario-based ideas that help them reflect on ways to provide more empathy to others.

    Click  here to view the press release on how BHMS took what Dr. Fowlin discussed and applied it to their activities for the day.

    September 7, 2023 Code of Conduct Presentation

    The code of conduct was presented to the students on September 7, 2023.  Discussion of What it Means to be a Bulldog and how to avoid HIB claims.  Click here for PowerPoint  

    July 2023 Panorama Spring Survey Results

    Click here for the survey results that help guide our Building Better Bulldog activities throughout the year.