Week of Sept. 11, 2017
ADHS Magnet Minute
Magnet Theme Happenings!
There are so many exciting ways the magnet theme is being integrated in our school! Here are just a few examples:
- Mrs. Goins and Mrs. Clarke’s AP Capstone classes are partnering with Ms. Hall’s forensic science class to hear a forensic psychiatrist, discuss his career and mental illness in a cross- cultural perspective.
- Ms. Hairston and Ms. Hatmaker are incorporating a UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) blog post assignment as part of an American History 2 project.
- Ms. Benbow will be working on a prosthetic limb 3D printing project that is phenomenal!
Please let us know what you are doing to integrate the magnet theme into your class! Click here to share what you are doing in class!
The Worth In Wellness
Wellness was an important part of the original magnet grant application. Wellness is an integral part of medical science. So here is are a few ways we’ll be promoting wellness in our school community:
1. Room 1034 is our new fitness room. Please come use it! We’ll be adding some decor and upgrades as the year progresses!
2. Cyrene Hardy has helped to create a faculty fitness challenge! Here are the details:WE ARE OFFERING faculty and staff an opportunity to participate in a school wide fitness challenge! The challenge will take place from September 18- December 15. Participants will be asked to set an activity goal and track their progress. There will be 2 categories of challenges:
Challenge 1- Record # days/ week you engage in cardio, weight training, and/or resistance training
Challenge 2- Weight/ % body fat/ measurements
You can do challenge 1, 2, or both.
You can work individually or in partners/ groups! If interested, please fill out this survey by Tuesday, September 12!
3. We’d like to encourage our students to be healthier, too! Help us create ways to make a healthier school community!
Sneak Preview: Upcoming Magnet Theme Professional Development
- National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) is working very hard to prepare relevant professional development for teachers of 11th grade students and biology- not a 11th grade course. The key topics will be sickle cell anemia, genetics, and the civil rights movement. More information will be coming soon about this event!
- UNC- Chapel Hill Worldview group is working to create professional development for teachers of 10th grade students. Mrs. Hinton will be dropping into PLT groups to gather input soon about this event! The key topic will be mental health and socio-emotional learning.
- The overall theme by grade level so far looks like this:
- 9th grade- Introduction to medical sciences and global health
- 10th grade- mental health and socio-emotional learning
- 11th grade- medical sciences, global health initiatives, and social justice
- 12th grade- tba
- November 3 will be the One Health Day symposium. One health concept states that interdisciplinary collaboration for health of humans, animals, and the environment. We will have several guest speakers representing One Health to speak in the auditorium. More information coming soon!
- November 21- We will have medical and global health experts on site for the early release to chat with PLT groups. What best way to find integration inspiration than to hear stories from the field?