Wide eyed. Scared. Confused. Curious. If you have ever been in a high school the first day of a new school year and looked at the face of a freshman, this is what you have seen. Making the transition from middle school to high school is a huge problem for many freshman. The school is bigger. The kids are bigger. The lunch line is bigger. The home work is bigger. EVERYTHING is bigger.
In the past at Brandon High School (to varying degrees of success), we have run some sort of freshman transition program. My feeling and the feeling of the teachers I talk to is that we need something in place for these freshman to make this crazy and hectic time in their lives a little less crazy and hectic. For the next 16 weeks, I will be researching different freshman transition programs around the country. I will read articles, talk to colleagues, discuss programs being run in other buildings with the people that run. I want to develop a program here at BHS that rocks. My ultimate goal is to have a plan, team, and program in place by the time the first semester is over. That will give us an entire semester to think about it and work out kinks. I hope to have this rolled out by the time school begins for the 2014-2015 school year.
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