Reflecting on September 11th Through Poetry - 2006
Websites:
- Social and Emotional
Development and Learning (SEDL) ("In accordance with New
York State Children’s Mental Health Act 2006 and Education
Law Section 305 subdivision 35, the Commissioner (of education)
shall, in cooperation with the Commissioner of mental health, develop
guidelines for voluntary implementation by school districts that
incorporate social and emotional development into elementary and
secondary school education programs.")
- Schools to Watch
- Challenge
Day!
- Teen
Files Challenge Day (View the Teen Files Trailer Day video
at this site)
- Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning Act of 2009
- Long
Island Social and Emotional Literacy Forum
- My Emotional Intelligence Solutions
- GSANetwork
- Think Before You Speak
- A
Year After Teen Suicide Spate, More Gay Students are Speaking Out,
Schools Taking Action (By Associated Press, Published: October
22)
- Lack
of Knowledge Stymies Efforts to Stop Bullying (article in
Education Week by Dakarai Aarons)
- Find Youth Info (Through
the Youth Topics series, the Interagency Working Group on Youth Programs
provides information, strategies,
tools, and resources for youth, families, schools and community organizations
related to a variety of cross-cutting topics that affect youth including
Bullying - Positive
Youth Development - Transition
Age Youth -Afterschool
Programs )
- 18
and Under - At Last, Facing Down Bullies (and Their Enablers) -
NYTimes.com By.Perri Klass, M.D.
Published: June 8, 2009
- The
Long Island Social & Emotional Literacy Forum
- This
We Believe
- Good Character.com
- Life on a Train Power Point Presentation
or Life
on the Train (website with pictures by Kim Anderson)
- Long
Island Social Emotional Literacy Forum
- Jericho Middle School's Katrina
Buddy School Web site
- Pictures
of students from Fifth Ward Junior High enjoying their Minda and
Hearts tee-shirts (our Katrina Buddy School)
- The
Illinois Learning Standards for Social Emotional Learning (from
the Illinois State Board of Education)
- Committee for Children (Committee
for Children, a nonprofit organization, is an international leader
in social, emotional, and academic learning).
- The Center for Social Emotional
Education (CSEE - is an educational and professional development
organization dedicated to supporting effective social emotional
learning, teaching and leadership in our K-12 schools).
- CharacterEd.Net (The Character
Education Network is a place for students, teachers, schools and
communities to facilitate character education. This site is dedicated
to providing quality online, ready-to-use curriculum, activities
and resources that integrate with and enhance the classroom experience).
- Operation Respect: Don't Laugh at
Me (Operation Respect is a non-profit organization working
to transform schools, camps and organizations focused on children
and youth, into more compassionate, safe and respectful environments.
Founded by Peter Yarrow of the folk group Peter, Paul & Mary,
the organization disseminates educational resources that are designed
to establish a climate that reduces the emotional and physical
cruelty some children inflict upon each other by behaviors such
as ridicule, bullying and-in extreme cases-violence).
- Character Education Lessons (from
Legacy Education Resources)
- Do Something: Young People Changing
Their World
- EQ.org (the Internet's leading directory
of Emotional Intelligence / EQ / EI sites, sources, and organizations.
Emotional intelligence is a set of abilities essential to personal
and organizational effectiveness.)
- Kids EQ: The Children's Emotional
Literacy Project
- Leading Thoughts from
LeadershipNow.com (provides quotes for character education).
- Tolerance.org (a Web project
of the Southern Poverty Law Center)
- Facing History and Ourselves:
Examining History and Human Behavior
- Goodcharacter.com: Character
Education: Free Resources, Materials, Lesson Plans
- Project Wisdom.com: Helping
Students Make Wiser Choices
- Character
Education Resources by Jerrie S. Cheek
- 6 Seconds Emotional Intelligence
Network
- Toys of Hope: Non-profit Children's
Charity
- The Character Education Partnership
(CEP)
- The Random Acts
of Kindness Foundation
- Defining
Hate Crimes (by Ricco Villanueva Siasoc, available from Infoplease)
- Bullying
Activities on Education World
- Character
Education Teaching Ideas-Activities
- Leading Thoughts -
Quotations listed by topic or character trait
- Values/Character
Education - Character Counts - Separate book lists for 25 different
positive character traits
- Character
Education through Children's Literature
- Character
Education from New Horizons for Learning - Links provide access
to a variety of thoughtful articles on character education. Practical
tips are listed for including literature in the classroom.
- Character
Education: Kids Who Care - Web sites selected by Utah's Character
Education Program
- Bullies
in Children's Literature - Literature specialist Carol Hurst
introduces a variety of books related to bullying for preschool
through young adult age range.
- Love
Quotes (Over 3,500 Love Quotes and Romantic Sayings)
- Heartwood Institute
- The Gift of Friendship
- CASEL
Resources (Linda Lantieri and Roger Weissberg have graciously
provided the attached documents from the CASEL Forum on Monday.
One is highlights of the forthcoming CASEL report and the other
is a great set of documents about SEL)
- The Search Institute (Search
Institute is an independent nonprofit organization whose mission
is to provide leadership, knowledge, and resources to promote healthy
children, youth, and communities).
- The
George Lucas Educational Foundation
- LGBTeach ( ElisaWaters has
started up this website with a colleague from another school geared
towards educators and parents of LGBTQ youth. The site is a combination
of our own experiences, thoughts, lesson plans, links, current events
and more to help anyone looking for information to help LGBTQ youth
of today and tomorrow).
- Louis Posner
Memorial Library (part of the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance
Center of Nassau County)
Programs and Special Events:
- PTSA meeting March 3, 2011 : Jenn Maichin's
presentation on Developing the Growth Mindset in Our Children
and Ourselves
- BRAVE Training for Sixth Graders - March
2, 2011
- Mr. Gately's Family Book Discussion about
Bystander - January 14, 2011
- Personal Best Day - February
18, 2011
- The New York Islander's mascot Sparky the
Dragon came to Jericho Middle School to Promote Teamwork! - February
15, 2011
- Seventh Grade BRAVE Training - February
11, 2011
- Diversity Day February 10, 2011
- Personal Best Awards - February
4, 2011
- Eighth Grade BRAVE Training January
28, 2011
- Team 7B Hunger Banquet : A Taste
of World Hunger - January 20, 2011
- Personal Best Awards November
18, 2010
- SADD Red Ribbon Week and Halloween Pictures
- Our Middle School Book Fair was once again
a tremendous success!
- Mr. Gately gives our 2009 Summer
Reading Jericho Middle School Literacy Leaders certificates of recogntion
and awards!
- Personal Best Awards May
21, 2010
- Personal Best Awards March
19, 2010
- Personal Best Awards January
22, 2010
- BRAVE Training for 7th Graders Monday,
December 14, and Tuesday, December 15, 2009
- Joanne Verdino : News 12 Teacher
of the Month!
- Team 7B Hunger Banquet : A Taste of World
Hunger December 1, 2009
- Personal Best Awards - November
2009
- Red Ribbon Week, Italian Celebration,
and Halloween 2009
- Personal Best Awards May
22, 2009
- Seventh Grade BRAVE Training May
18, 2009
- Joey Testaverde Returns to Jericho Midddle School
April 11, 2008
- Personal Best Award - March
2008
- Personal Best Day - February
15, 2008
- Diversity Day - February 8, 2008
- Personal Best Awards January
2008
- Personal Best Awards - November
2007
- Personal Best Kickoff Day
- September 12, 2007
- Holocaust Survivor Day - Friday
May 18, 2007
- Personal Best Awards - April 2007
- Joey Testaverde Returns to Jericho Midddle School
- Personal Best Awards - March 2007
- Seventh and Eighth Grade SEL Luncheon - February
27, 2007
- Eighth grade BRAVE training
January 30, 2007
- The sixth grade
student BRAVE Ambassadors read SEL picture books to sixth grade students
during lunch
- SEL Read Aloud January
5, 2007
- Jericho Students Accept Rachel's Challenge
- Rachel's Challenge Website
- BRAVE Training for Eighth Graders 2005 - 2006
- Joey Testaverde Comes to Jericho Midddle School
- Fifth Ward Jr. High
(part of St. Tammany Parish Public Schools,
Fifth Ward Jr. High is Jericho Middle School's hurricane Katrina buddy
school)
- SEL Read Aloud Activity 2005 - Grade 6
- SEL Read Aloud Activity - Grades 7 &
8
- BRAVE. Training for Eighth Graders 2005 at
Jericho Middle School
- BRAVE Ambassadors Breakfast
- Voices
of Love and Freedom (Voices of Love and Freedom (VLF) is a non-profit
educational organization that promotes literacy, character education,
and drug and violence prevention. We believe that one of the most effective
ways to comprehensively improve our schools is to combine the improvement
of literacy instruction with the promotion of character education).
- Ruby Bridges visits Jericho Middle School
Reading Lists:
These reading lists, created by Pat Minikel and Joan Kearon,
include books on various reading, interest, and maturity levels.
Students should check with their teachers, librarians, and/or
parents to select books appropriate for them. All of the books
on these lists are available at the Jericho Middle School Library.
Jericho Middle School's monthly SEL themes:
These titles were chosen in order to encourage
students to think about the SEL theme of the month.
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