Brooks Middle Matters News
Our use of Canvas is continuing to allow students to access course content electronically, turn in work via the iPad, collaborate with classmates, create content to show their understanding and communicate with classmates and staff.
The Assessment Policy Committee has recently completed formalizing the next stage in this process: retakes/redos/test corrections.
In an effort to deepen our understanding of the 10 IB Learner Profile Traits, every month each team of teachers nominates a maximum of two students to honor as the IB Student of the Month.
Officer Collins is the Student Resource Officer at Brooks Middle School and was selected as the sole D97 representative in the educational service personnel category for the Those Who Excel Awards.
The Brooks Math Team wrapped up its season this past week with a celebration event. The Math Team season ran from October through March.
Help support the PTO's efforts to support Brooks teachers' innovation. See the great initiatives supported so far this year.
During the six-week Science Fiction unit, students used eight novels from the genre to explore themes connected to the fate of humanity, the creation and/or misuse of modern technology, and the possibility of life on other planets. Three of the books were classics, but new to the school and bought by the PTO.
Students and Mrs. Murray worked with our guest artist Alecks Cruz to conceptualize, design, and create the beautiful works of art filling the blank walls in the stairwell of Brooks.
The Brooks team, which was led by head coaches Tom Kennedy and Sule Kivanc-Ancieta and parent volunteer Victor Ancieta, competed against 19 other schools in 23 events and earned three medals.
Under the direction of new coach, Brian Shinners, the team grew overall, increased the percentage of girls participating, and took part in more competitions than ever before. Plus two of our teams, Muppets and Hydra Resurrection, took home top awards from the VEX Robotics State competition!
In 2015-16, students and teachers will become digital creators who will use the rare items from the Ernest Hemingway archives in conjunction with project-based digital learning lessons to get a unique look at Hemingway, his local ties and his literary contributions.
The Festival takes place in Atlanta Georgia, and was attended by 4,500 people representing 104 schools from the United States, Canada, South Korea and Australia.
The terrorist attacks at the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris on January 7 prompted students in Ms. Lohman’s French classes at Brooks to create a shrine to honor those who were killed in the attacks.