AJH Scheduling

Mr. Harcula and Mrs. Johnson will be in 6th and 7th grade classrooms on February 27, 28 and 29 to do scheduling with 6th and 7th grade students. Scheduling packets and scheduling agreements can be found below. All scheduling agreements are due back to your school counselor no later than March 7. If your agreement is not turned in by March 7 your classes will be selected for you.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1whiH-l4xpzYxakxTWtIp_UnlvQtrGdSlypOFOw-GF2A/edit

https://docs.google.com/document/d/19XesSlhKEZPKlFfKJr6jKJPrAC1bydY4dHh3c1DrOJM/edit

5th Grade Scheduling at Nord

Mr. Harcula and Mrs. Johnson will be at Nord on March 12 and March 13 to go over scheduling and answering any AJH questions for Nord students. Honors placement letters will be handed out at this time as well.

9 Weeks of Rox Thus Far!

The ROX Program is well underway. As trained and certified ROX facilitators, Mrs. Johnson (AJH school counselor) and Mrs. Krichbaum (AJH social worker) are co-facilitating the ROX Program with 8th graders.

This month we will be exploring 'girl drama', building female friendships, social media, dating violence and leadership.

Say Something Week March 4-8

Say Something Week raises awareness and educates students on the power of See Something, Say Something. Say Something Week reinforces the power young people have to prevent tragedies and protect a friend from hurting themselves or others. The three goals of the Say Something program are to teach students how to: Recognize warning signs and threats of someone who may be at-risk of hurting themselves or others. Say something to a Trusted Adult to get help. Grow a community of Upstanders who look out for one another. All students are being asked to wear the color green all week to support Say Something week!

Mrs. Johnson has started a Best Buddies Chapter at AJH! (https://www.bestbuddies.org/) 

Mission

Best Buddies International is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to establishing a global volunteer movement that creates opportunities for one-to-one friendships, integrated employment, leadership development, and inclusive living for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD).

Who We Serve

The IDD community that Best Buddies serves includes, but is not limited to, people with Down syndrome, autism, Fragile X, Williams syndrome, cerebral palsy, traumatic brain injury and other undiagnosed disabilities.

Programs

Best Buddies is the world’s largest organization dedicated to ending the social, physical and economic isolation of the 200 million people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). Our programs empower the special abilities of people with IDD by helping them form meaningful friendships with their peers, secure successful jobs, live independently, improve public speaking, self-advocacy and communication skills, and feel valued by society.

Best Buddies Friendship Programs

Best Buddies Friendship programs represent one of our organization’s four key mission pillars.  These programs build one-to-one friendships between people with and without intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD), offering social interactions while improving the quality of life and level of inclusion for a population that is often isolated and excluded. Through their participation, people with IDD form meaningful connections with their peers, gain self-confidence and self-esteem, and share interests, experiences and activities that many other individuals enjoy.

BESTBUDDIES® Middle Schools

Fosters one-to-one friendships between middle school students with and without IDD, in which they share interests, experiences, and activities. Students with IDD are often isolated and left out of social activities. Best Buddies Middle Schools helps to create an inclusive middle school culture for all students early on in their educational development.

If you are interested in being a part of Best Buddies please reach out to Mrs. Johnson!