Adolescent Brain Development

Looking for a great resource to help you and your child understand the complexities of the adolescent brain?

Check out The Owner's Manual for Driving Your Adolescent Brain by JoAnn Deak and Terrence Deak.

New Parent Night Resources

Hello! Thank you to those of you who were able to come to our new parent information night on March 22. We very much appreciated the opportunity to meet you, and look forward to meeting parents who were not able to attend! In case you wanted to revisit some of the materials we provided to you, we thought we would post them below.

In this chart, we discuss the developmental needs of adolescents, the implications those needs have for teachers, and the ways Team Pathfinders meets these needs.

This presentation contains much of the information referenced above, but in a Google Slides format.

Middle School is Not a Building

Middle School is Not a Building, published by the Vermont Association of Middle Level Educators, does a wonderful job of describing middle level best practices. You can access the full-text PDF here: https://www.vamle.org/cms/lib/VT07001554/Centricity/Domain/4/docs/Middle_School_is_Not_a_Building.pdf

Movement in the Classroom

This New York Times article makes the case for why movement is so important in school. It focuses mainly on elementary-school children, but applies equally to our 7th graders.

AMLE: This We Believe

This poster from the Association of Middle Level Educators (AMLE) lays out the key recommendations for effective middle level programs they articulate in their publication This We Believe. You can read more here: http://www.amle.org/AboutAMLE/ThisWeBelieve/tabid/121/Default.aspx.