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SOUNDINGS is back for the 2010-2011 school year!
This coming September, Soundings XI will officially begin. We are excited to welcome the 40 students that will make up this new group.
A NOTE TO STUDENTS AND PARENTS/GUARDIANS OF SOUNDINGS XI:
Please email Mrs. Jacobson and Mr. Mercurio with your email information as soon as possible so we can stay in contact over the summer and give you info about this coming year.
We HAVE updated the website. Please see the Annoucements page for our Welcome Letter as well as a list of supplies you will need for the coming year. You can also access the letter by clicking on the link below.
Parents/Guardians, below you will find a link for information regarding your email address(es). Students, please ask your parent/guardian to fill this sheet out and have it returned to us when we see you in September.
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Welcome to SOUNDINGS:
Fostering Scholarship and a Love of Learning
An Integrative Learning Community for Eighth Graders: Where Every Student is Gifted
Wayne, PA 19087
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SOUNDINGS challenges eighth graders to explore student-selected themes that merge their adolescent concerns with global issues. It works something like this: following a process of asking, analyzing, and grouping lots of questions, the class works together to decide which questions they most want to study. These then become our themes for the year. For each theme selected, students learn to set goals and objectives, develop and initiate plans to achieve those aims, present their results, and assess their performance. As they experience this process with its emphasis on both quality performance and higher order thinking skills such as analysis, synthesis and assessment, students master essential skills and concepts from all academic disciplines and apply them to real world issues.
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SOUNDINGS XI PARENTS & STUDENTS:
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Feel free to e-mail Mr. Springer if you have any questions about the development and implementation.
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