Grizzly Time

The purpose of GRIZZLY TIME:
A place to build relationships, learn life skills, and create a community under the guidance of an adult who supports their social/emotional growth.

The month is broken into four types of lessons:

Week 1 - Heritage: Heritage lessons celebrate a variety of ethnicities and cultural groups during identified months of celebration. The goal of these lessons is to develop awareness of and appreciation for the varied communities that exist at Redmond Middle School and beyond.

Week 2 - Social Emotional Learning: This is also known as SEL and the lessons focus on building personal character.

Week 3: XELLO: Xello is the replacement curriculum for Career Counseling. Xello helps middle school students of all backgrounds, abilities, and aspirations become future ready.

Week 4: Mental Health: Potential topics of focus: Anxiety, Depression, Suicidality/Self-Harm, Harassment, Intimidation, and Bullying (HIB), Risk and Protective Factors, Eating Disorders/Body Image. Topics are adjusted to needs being raised by students.

Lessons

September

October

Week 1: Hispanic Heritage Month

This lesson comes in two parts
- Part 1: PPT with slides recorded by Latinx Cafe students with an overview of Hispanic Heritage Month
- Part 2: Kahoot game on Hispanic Cultural and Historical Trivia

Week 2: SEL Intro + Needs Assessment

Week 3: Fall Panorama Survey - districtwide: To meet our goal of growing our students' social-emotional learning (SEL) skills, we survey students grades 3-12 and ask them to reflect on their mindsets and approaches to learning. The data we collect helps us identify opportunities for growth and development. We've partnered with Panorama Education, a trusted leader in developing tools to help understand student experiences in education environments.

Week 4: Introduction to Mental Health

November

December

January

February

March

Week 1: Perspective Taking

Week 2: Woman's History Month

My Shero Poster PDF

Week 3: Xello/Career - College and Career Jeopardy

College and Career Jeopardy Key

Week 4: Mental Health - Screen Time

PowerPoint prepared by students from the Juanita HOSA (Health Occupations Students of America) Club

Week 5: Spring Panorama Survey - districtwide: To meet our goal of growing our students' social-emotional learning (SEL) skills, we survey students grades 3-12 and ask them to reflect on their mindsets and approaches to learning. The data we collect helps us identify opportunities for growth and development. We've partnered with Panorama Education, a trusted leader in developing tools to help understand student experiences in education environments.