Ok, I realize that many of you feel like the school supply shopping list was hard work too!!
The weeks up to school are extremely busy. When you come in on Wednesay, and I invite every parent to do so ... yes, even the parents of our 7th and 8th graders, who may be mortified if you walk in with them ... you will see the changes that are taking place at the EKA. But those are the changes you will only see on the surface; there are many underlying changes, and not just the Judaic Dual Track program. At Meet the Teachers Night, on Tuesday, August 24th at 6:30 pm, I'll talk more about the changes.
I would love for you to all know what the teachers and staff have been doing during these days leading up to the start of school. Besides working hard to set-up their classrooms (which is a huge project after camp uses the classrooms during the summer), they have beent taking part in the following workshops:
1. A couple of weeks ago, the general studies teachers spend two full days learning about our new writing program, SMILE.
2. At our welcome breakfast we spoke specifically about the importance of Derech Eretz, Mutual Respect, and Professionalism.
3. The teachers and staff have all reviewed in-depth our new Agenda (thank you Shweiki Media!) and Handbook.
4. We covered in depth the new Values curriculum that is the our guiding behavior curriculum. There is also a harassment/bullying policy and procedure in place as well as a general discipline policy and procedure: They reviewed the details of both.
This is just a small glimpse of what we have been up to and we cannot wait to see you on Wednesday to hear about whay you all have been up to!
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