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In middle school, learners will engage in a variety of Future Ready/ACP activities through classes, activities within their houses, the online platform Xello, and all-school events. These opportunities provide avenues for learners to continue to build self-awareness, explore career opportunities and various post-secondary paths, and acquire practice in creating and monitoring personal goals.
In middle school, learners will engage in a variety of Future Ready/ACP activities through classes, activities within their houses, the online platform Xello, and all-school events. These opportunities provide avenues for learners to continue to build self-awareness, explore career opportunities and various post-secondary paths, and acquire practice in creating and monitoring personal goals.
Some of the specific ACP opportunities that our 7th grade learners will engage in include:
Some of the specific ACP opportunities that our 7th grade learners will engage in include:
Self-Management: Executive Functioning Skills - My Learner Profile: Learners will consider how they learn best, and create a profile based on this information that they can share with their teacher
Self-Management: Executive Functioning Skills - Where, When, How: Learners will revisit the definition of executive functioning skills and review the Where, When, How approach to organization, planning, and task initiation
Self-Management: Executive Functioning Skills - Task Initiation: Learners will do a deep dive into task initiation and procrastination, and strategies to stay on task
Self-Management: Executive Functioning Skills - Test Taking Habits: Learners will examine ways that they can prepare for summative assessments, and strategies to employ while completing these to minimize anxiety and maximize success
Relationship Skills: Bullying 101: Learners will explore different types of negative peer interactions and learn to identify when bullying is occurring
Relationship Skills: Bullying Behavior in Pewaukee: Learners will review, in depth, the impacts of bullying behavior on all involved, how to report bullying behavior, potential consequences to bullying behavior, and how we can contribute to a culture of kindness and support for one another
Social Awareness: Building Social Awareness: Learners will recognize ways to identify how others are feeling
Self-Awareness: Understanding Emotions: Learners will examine the biology of how our brain generates emotions
Self-Awareness/Self-Management: Understanding Stress: Learners will examine how stress is a normal emotion, and what might trigger the feeling of stress
Stress Management - Negative Thought Patterns: Learners will focus on identifying and rewriting negative automatic thoughts to build a more positive growth mindset
Stress Management - Coping Skills: Learners will identify productive strategies that they find helpful in preventing and responding to stress
Self-Awareness: Career Matchmaker & Life Experiences: Learners complete Xello's interest inventory, explore careers, and analyze how current learning is providing critical skills needed in careers
Self-Awareness: Personality Styles: Through Xello, learners will explore how aspects of their personality align with their career interests
Self-Awareness: Career Back-Up Plans: Learners will consider additional careers that are related to their top careers of interest, and examine how skills can be transferable from one career to another
Social Awareness: Empathy & Inclusion: Learners will explore perspective-taking, discuss choosing to care about others, and explore how to demonstrate care and compassion for others
Self-Management - Personal Well-Being: Learners will explore the concepts of mental wellness as well as how to develop and exercise habits of well-being
Self-Management - Communicating with Assertiveness: Learners will practice advocating for themselves appropriately
Relationship Skills - Conflict Resolution & Resiliency: Learners will revisit strategies to resolve conflicts with peers and will practice ways to constructively and appropriately advocate for themselves with others
Financial Literacy: Learners will be introduced to foundational concepts of financial literacy
Transitions: Learners will focus on how to build healthy habits for the summer, especially regarding screen time and social media
Course Selection: Select elective opportunities from a wide array of elective courses for their 7th-grade year, expanding on areas of interest and trying new experiences
Service Learning: Learners collaborate to develop and complete a service learning project utilizing the design-thinking process
ACP Journey Self-Reflection: Learners will assess their progression in self-awareness and career identity
Future Ready/ACP Conferences: Each year in middle school will culminate with a personalized conference between learner, parent, and ACP advisor. Learners will share their experiences as they relate to the Graduate Profile, what they have learned about themselves, and their future-ready plans at this meeting
How Parents Can Get Involved at ACP in School
How Parents Can Get Involved at ACP in School
Participate in your child's annual Future Ready Conference
Stay up to date on Future Ready activities through the ACMS newsletters and Parent Square
Discuss how your child is performing on standardized tests and in course standards
Explore the Course Description Guide together to discuss elective offerings for the following year
Attend Parent-Teacher Conferences
Set up and observe your child's Xello Account
Know the goals that your child has set
Discuss your child's identified work values, learning styles, and interests
Share your own journey into your current career!
Volunteer to talk to students about your career and life experiences
Discuss finances related to post-secondary pathways, and model how to save and make responsible financial decisions
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