Programs and Special Events:
Reflecting on September 11th Through Poetry - 2006
- 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.
Websites:
- The Long Island Social & Emotional Literacy Forum
- This We Believe
- Good Character.com
- Teen
Files Challenge Day (View the Teen Files Trailer Day video
at this site)
- 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)
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- 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).
- Parents
as Partners in Social Emotional Learning
- 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)
- The Eleven Principals
of Effective Character Education (from The Character Education
Partnership).
- 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 includes The
Petition and Pledge for Emotional Literacy
- 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
- Character Education
Resources by Midge Frazel
- Project Wisdom.com: Helping
Students Make Wiser Choices
- Character
Education Resources by Jerrie S. Cheek
- 6 Seconds Emotional Intelligence
Network
- Teaching
Social Skills (from the classroom of Laura Candler)
- Responsive
Classroom: Revisiting Classroom Rules
- Guys Read
- Sticks
and Stones: Safe Schools: NW Education
- 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
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