8th GRADE

Self - Management: Executive Functioning Skills - Planning & Chunking:  Learners will examine and practice planning and breaking down large tasks into smaller, more manageable parts

Self - Management: Executive Functioning Skills - Note-Taking:  Learners will examine examples of notes, and identify methods to create productive, organized notes.  Learners will apply their note-taking skills through an activity

Self - Management: Executive Functioning Skills -Decision-Making:  Learners will practice a framework for making tough decisions

Self-Management: Executive Functioning Skills - Accountability:  Learners will examine why being accountable for their decisions is important, and explore various ways to demonstrate accountability in different situations

Relationship Skills: Bullying Behavior in Pewaukee & Beyond: 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

Relationship Skills: Bullying Behavior - Developing Values as Guides Online:  Learners will learn strategies to identify and appropriately respond to cyberbullying as well as evaluate their own challenges of adhering to their personal values in an online environment

Self-Management - Personal Wellness Tracker:  Learners will personalize a wellness tracker, collect and analyze their own data on physical and social-emotional wellness and reflect on their goals through Health class

Self-Management - REDgen Resiliency: Learners will focus on building resiliency through a series of lessons in Health class

Self-Management - Goal-Setting: Learners will use their own personal data to create their own authentic future-ready goals.  They will self-monitor their progress on these goal throughout the year within their Health class

Self-Management - Goal-Setting based on Values: Learners will explore how their values, habits, influences, and goals connect with they envision and plan for change

Self-Management: Goal Setting - Habits:  Learners will do a deep dive into how to write goals and how they can create positive habits that support their goals

Self-Management: Goal-Setting - Overcoming Obstacles: Learners will identify things that can get in the way of them achieving their goals, and plan for how to combat those obstacles

Self-Awareness: Career Exploration:  Learners will continue to explore various careers that might be of interest to them, and identify their top five

Self-Awareness: My Six-Year Plan: Learners will engage in comprehensive exploration of opportunities at the high school, and begin to map out course pathways

Self-Awareness: What Are My Work Values?:  Learners will engage in an introduction to work values and determining what aspects of a work environment and responsibilities are most important for you

Self-Awareness: Post-Secondary Pathways Introduction:  Learners will explore the different post-secondary pathways available to them after high school

Responsible Decision-Making - Preliminary Post-Secondary Path Identification:  Preliminary planning of post-secondary journey, including identification of a potential pathway

Financial Literacy: Applying for Jobs:  Learners will explore the process of looking for part-time employment, including work permits, job applications, interviewing skills, and professionalism

Self-Awareness: Understanding Emotions - How Emotions Work:  Learners will the science behind how we experience emotions

Self-Management: Emotional Regulation: Learners will be introduced to strategies to help them regulate emotions, practice strategies, and identify those which they feel are most successful when they are faced with feeling overwhelmed 

Self-Management: Anxiety, Nervousness & Fear: Learners will examine the similarities and differences between these emotions, and evaluate when these emotions are beneficial/normal versus when additional support would be appropriate

Self-Management: Emotional Regulation & Your Career:  Learners will examine the importance of emotional regulation in professional environments

Pre-ACT Testing:  Participation in the ACT Suite of assessments

Transitions: Intro to PHS: Learners will hear from PHS counselors about how scheduling works, and learn about the various ways they will be supported in their transition to high school

Transitions: Course Selection:  Select elective opportunities from a wide array of elective courses for their freshman year, expanding on areas of interest and trying new experiences

Transitions: Preparing for High School:  Eighth graders will prepare for the transition to high school with introduction into our high school grading system, transcripts, homework expectations, scheduling, credits, GPA, high school student supports, and opportunities to get involved in clubs and athletics

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