Announcements:

Monday: No School- Break

Tuesday: No School-Town Meeting Day

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Thursday: Welcome Back

Please take some time to check in with each other. Suggested prompts:

1. What was one high light or low light of your break?

2. What are you looking forward to this week or month?

3. What is inspiring you right now?

4. What clubs, activities, or sports are you doing now?

• Play some Women's History Month Trivia

Announcements:

• Talent Night is coming up.

Tuesday: Woman's History

Start here. Discuss Why A Women’s History Month? Have each person turn and try to answer this to their neighbor.

 This link can give some context and answers if students are having a hard time answering the question. 2024 Theme- 

• Which woman would you choose to highlight as an advocate for equality? 

• Who is a groundbreaking woman you’ve never heard about?

• Pick one of the women featured in the links below and choose one as "the storyteller of your generation"

• https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/29/us/forgotten-womens-history.html

• https://storycorps.org/womens-history-month/

Thursday: Spring Conferences Work

• Click on the Spring Conferences page dropdown tab.  Review the information here. Then please have students review the 11th-grade prompts and conference options. Ask that students reflect on what style feels more comfortable to them and which prompts they'd like to discuss.

• Advisors- please make an effort to check in with each of your advisees 1:1 and talk with them about the prompts that speak to them most or that they feel would be most interesting to discuss. 

• Students who don't regularly attend advisory- please reach out to these students by email or phone. The conferences are part of the Vermont PLP law and are required. If you need help contacting students please reach out to Mr. Dransfield.

While you meet 1:1 others can pick one of these activities to do together.

• Read this Character Lab together and discuss

or

• Play Pictionary together on the whiteboard.

Announcements:

• Spring Conferences will take place during the afternoons of 4/4 and 4/5.

• A full Eclipse of the Sun will happen in Vermont on 4/8!

Monday: Stephen Hill Presentations

From Meg's email: Stephen Hill will share his struggles with substance abuse and provide insight into prevention to our school community.  He has spoken to both the MMU and Rice student bodies and comes highly recommended.

In recognition that the topic of substance abuse is triggering for many, I invite you to view a couple of his clips (Clip 1 Clip 2) where he shares his story. Please know that if you need support for this presentation, you can contact our Employee EAP. If during or after the presentation any of your students need support, please send them to Guidance.

Schedule for the day

Tuesday: Stephen Hill Reflection and Debrief

• Have a conversation with your group about these Assembly Reflection Questions 

  • Hard copies of this conversation guide will be available in the Main Office on Monday.

• Give each student a handout to allow them to privately respond to question 7. 

Thursday: Spring Conference Prep. and Women's History Month

Spring Conference Prep.-

• Review your current conference sign-ups and tell kids when and where they'll have their conferences.

• Review the letter sent by Admin. regarding conferences. 

• Review the 11th Grade Spring Conference Doc. HERE

Have students talk with a friend about which option they think they'll use and start to think about their responses to the prompts.

Women's History Month-

• Collaboratively, make a one-slide slide show that features the woman you chose for "storyteller of your generation" last week. Send your slide to mdransfield@sbschools.net so that your work and this great woman can be shared.

• Or

• Play some Women's History Trivia. https://www.iowacityschools.org/cms/lib/IA01903939/Centricity/Domain/64/Womens%20History%20Month%20Trivia.pdf

Announcements:

•  FRIDAY is the end of the quarter. Review your Schoology to make sure you aren't missing work or have corrections you would benefit from doing. Make a plan and schedule for how you will tackle this work. Feeling organized and prepared can lower your stress making you healthier and more productive.

Tuesday: Spring Conference Planning and End of Quarter

• Please schedule- and confirm- a time during the afternoons of 4/4 and 4/5 to have a 15-minute conversation with your parent/guardian and your advisor. Feel free to invite additional people who you feel will help you reflect on your high school experience so far if that would be helpful to you.

• Please make a point to do this. We may not have conference prep. time next week! Click on the banner at the top of this page and find the 11th-grade conference outline. Review this if you haven't done so already and pick a few conversation prompts that you feel are meaningful. Sketch out some thoughts or talking points about these prompts. Once you have your ideas roughed out on a piece of paper talk about them with a neighbor. Be an active listener to your peer as they share their ideas, ask questions that allow them to expand on their thinking. 

• Advisors- If you haven't seen some of your advisees in a while feel free to use this letter in a Schoology message or email to these students to help get them in for a conversation.

All set with conference stuff? Here are options for celebrating Women's History Month.

• Collaboratively, make a one-slide slide show that features the woman you chose for "storyteller of your generation". Send your slide to mdransfield@sbschools.net so your work and this great woman can be shared.

Or

• Play some Women's History Trivia. https://www.iowacityschools.org/cms/lib/IA01903939/Centricity/Domain/64/Womens%20History%20Month%20Trivia.pdf

Thurssday: HIGH FIVES

• Pass out sticky note (2-3) each. Each student will write a "high five" note to someone else in the school.

• Go down as a group to post your notes on the HIGH FIVE poster in the cafeteria hallway.

• Read the notes that are there- maybe you got a "high five"