Guiding Principles: To graduate from The New School, students must demonstrate ways in which they embody our six Guiding Principles. All of our learning adventures support growth in one or more of these principles. Students at TNS strive to become Responsible and Involved Citizens, Clear and Effective Communicators, Creative and Practical Problem Solvers, Collaborative and Quality Workers, Self-Directed and Lifelong Learners, and Integrative and Informed Thinkers. As our Seniors shape their final year at TNS, they are keeping the Guiding Principles in mind while designing their Senior Projects.

Involved Citizens: The whole school is learning more about what it means to be Responsible and Involved Citizens in our Public Policy, Arts, and Activism class. This week we learned the basics of the legislative process and how an idea can become a bill and eventually a law. Ask a New Schoolian about the official state crustacean or the official state dessert. Next week we will be holding mock public hearings and also learning more about what happens in legislative committees.

Student Committees: Speaking of committees...our student committees had their first full work session last Thursday. Students interested in restorative practices have formed a book group with Christine and are reading The Little Book of Restorative Justice by Howard Zehr. The link will take you to a free pdf of the book if you are interested in what we are learning about and discussing. Our student facilities committee may be a committee of one, but Cohen Arpino isn't letting that stop him from getting stuff done! He planted some bushes and is installing our Little Free Library out in front of the school.

Student Meetings: Democracy is messy, time-consuming, and sometimes frustrating. Ultimately, going through the process of working with others can be rewarding. A huge shout out to all of our students for working together to find solutions for ways to make their student meetings more productive. What a difference a week makes! The student meeting on Wednesday might not have gotten through its entire agenda, but all the students leaned into the discomfort of disagreement, listened to one another, and began the process of crafting some meeting processes that will really work. Great Job New School!

Another request! You can help us with some powerful free advertising by taking 15-20 minutes and leaving reviews of the school at some key websites. It takes 25 reviews to for us to “level up.”

These links should take you directly to the school’s page with instructions.

Niche.com

Privateschoolreview.com

Google.com

Yelp.com

Greatschools.com

Let us know if you encounter problems. scott.hamann@tnsk.org Thanks for helping!

Sarah is our new consulting health practitioner. She most recently worked as a family nurse practitioner for a pediatric primary care practice.

Sarah is a graduate of University of Southern Maine’s Family Nurse Practitioner program, magna cum laude.

At The New School, she is responsible for reviewing all student health records for compliance with Maine’s student health requirements. She also advises the school on its health policies and programs.

We welcome Sarah as part of our TNS community!

Volunteer Teams are selected for the 2021-2022 school year! (team coordinator in bold)

FACILITIES

Bill Howell

Seth Cheikin

Susan Babin

Mike Ouellet

Stacey Morin

Gary Woods

EVENTS

Sharon Boyd

Alie Charpentier

Jodi Castallo

Nat Saywell

Fern Brown

Tanya Cattabriga

Nancy Goldberg

ADMISSIONS

Jacquelne Brown

Maureen & Eric Kruger

Coordinators, can you please email your team (and cc me) to get an email thread going for communication? Also, let us know your meeting time and whether it's in person or on Zoom.