Daniel Keegan
Growing a Growth Mindset: Unlocking Character Strengths Through Children's Literature
Growing a Growth Mindset: Unlocking Character Strengths through Children’s Literature provides teachers with an innovative approach to teaching children the positive psychology constructs that underlie self-belief, goal motivation, and happiness. Through selected children’s books, the book brings to life the latest research and strategies for developing growth mindset (attribution), hope, grit, character strengths, and happiness. Each of these positive psychology constructs is explored through a set of three picture book classics that makes the research understandable to even the youngest learner. The National Council for Social Studies inquiry approach drives each book-driven analysis of the selected stories. This inquiry-based approach is organized around a compelling question and provides a complete outline, including formative and summative questions and assessments, as well as extensions that share this vital learning with parents. Lessons in this book have been created by outstanding teachers and have been field tested in classrooms across the region with extraordinary results.
January 11, 2017
“No Place For Hate”
“All Students Are Accepted Here”
Such signs currently hang around Oceanside Middle School, where the Anti-Defamation League has chosen to pilot its latest “No Place For Hate” program to combat bullying and bias incidents in schools.
“We want kids to see that,” OMS Principal Dr. Allison Glickman-Rogers said. “It sends a message that this is what the adults believe and if they need help, there are adults that they can go to. Every child deserves to walk through these doors and feel safe and accepted, because if they don’t then they are not ready to learn.”
November 9, 2016
"Middle Level Institute at Oceanside Middle School"
Oceanside Middle School hosted a Middle Level Parent Institute on Nov. 5. The institute featured author Rosalind Wiseman and was attended by roughly 200 local parents. It provided valuable resources for parents to help their children navigate the awkward difficulties of adolescence.
The institute was a collaborative effort among multiple local school districts and was spearheaded by Oceanside Middle School principal Dr. Allison Glickman-Rogers and Oceanside school district’s director of English, Dr. Beth Zirogiannis.
The main feature of the institute was a detailed presentation by parenting educator Rosalind Wiseman, author of “Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends, and the New Realities of Girl World” The book was the inspiration for the popular Hollywood film, “Mean Girls.”
OMS Pledges to Stand Up to Hate
OMS Pledges to Stand Up to Hate
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May 20, 2016
If there's power in numbers, hundreds of students at Oceanside Middle School made it known today that their school is no place for hate.
They stood side by side — about 800 students in total — lining the hallways of the school.
And in their hands, they held up pledges in which they signed their names and vowed to stand up to hate.
“Being a part of that felt really good because I've seen people being bullied first hand and I've seen their reactions,” says 7th grader Max Coppola. “And just to know that we're all doing something to try to make a change is a really good feeling."
Coppola and all of his fellow students at Oceanside Middle School are now part of a movement started by the Anti-Defamation League in which about 400 schools nationwide are pledging that their school is no place for hate.
November 12, 2014
The presentation reflected the school’s three-year journey to creating a curriculum for using new technology in the classroom, including a pre-planning and research phase, a pilot phase and then full implementation. Social studies teacher Joe Kachuba, special education teacher Eric Van Eron, math teacher Dan Art and ELA teacher Evelyn Piniero all participated in the presentation at the annual AMLE conference in Nashville on early November. Assistant Principal Dan Keegan and school psychologist Kristin Lamparello were also instrumental in writing the proposal to AMLE.