The Ethel Walker School Curriculum Guide
WELLNESS COURSES Middle School Wellness is comprised of four units: Study Skills, Social Emotional Learning, Library and Information Studies, and Girl Talk. Each grade will rotate through these units during the academic year.
GIRL TALK The Girl Talk program is part of the Middle School Wellness Program and meets once a week for eight weeks with girls from our Upper School. Girl Talk is part of a national program with a very simple premise: high school girls mentor middle school girls to help deal with the triumphs and trials of the early teenage years.
STUDY SKILLS The Middle School Study Skills Seminar meets once a week for eight weeks. The curriculum is designed to improve study skills and testtaking strategies within the context of the class curriculum. Students participate in skill-building activities designed by SMARTS Executive Function Curriculum.
SOCIAL JUSTICE Middle School Social Justice is rooted in building communities of belonging, as students work to understand identity and stereotypes through introspection and perspective. Students explore the many ways identity is formed by reflecting on their own identities, assumptions, stereotypes, prejudice, and bias in the world.
DIGITAL LIFE In the Middle School “Digital Life” Seminar, we explore how mobile digital devices, the Internet, and social media impact the ways that we live and learn. Regardless of one’s individual technology use, we are all citizens of a digital era, and we feel the effects of the devices around us and the ways that information spreads. Through class discussions and activities, we reflect on the ways that we are both more connected
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