Sixth grade parents and students are invited to the ARMS Family Education Night on Tuesday, January 27 at 7 pm in the ARMS library. Please join us for a panel discussion concerning "Socialization and the Middle Schooler" - how to help your child navigate the potentially choppy waters of middle school life.
The topic for this Family Education program is "Socialization and the Middle Schooler" and an expert panel will cover many different aspects of supporting the growth of our young adolescents. An earlier email regarding this program describing topics to be discussed erroneously stated that team placement would be discussed. Any specifics regarding team placement/formation or any other information appropriate for administrative, not guidance, responses will be covered at the Middle School orientation session for families of rising 6th graders held later this year.
Topics of discussion will include what the school can and does do for kids with social/emotional disabilities. Also issues around ostracism, real-time- and cyber-bullying, queen bees and wanna-bes and all the myriad aspects of social life of young adolescents (and how many of us would like to redo our middle school years?!) Presenters will be De Boyd and Talib Sadiq- 7th and 8th grade Guidance Counselors, Denise Green- School Psychologist, Paul Lyons-Therapeutic Teacher and Sue Tippett- School Adjustment Counselor We thank these ARMS staffers for their time and expertise and hope you will have lots of questions for them following the presentation! Students are welcome to participate. Hope to see you there!
