Chinook I-Connect
Meeting Notes  
I-Connect November 2021

Tuesday, November 9, 8;30-10:00 a.m., Chinook Middle School Choir Room
Topic:  Keeping Up with Your Child’s Social Media Activity: What Chinook Parents Need To Know
Speaker: Assistant Principal Jason Clark


I-Connect October 2021

Tuesday, October 12, 8;30-10:00 a.m., Chinook Middle School Choir Room
Topic:  Everything You Didn't Know About Advisory Period
Speaker:  Chinook’s Susie Challancin, Instructional Technology Curriculum Leader


I-Connect November 2018

Thursday, November 1, 8;30-10:00 a.m., Chinook Middle School Library
Topic:  Supporting your Middle Schooler’s Self-Awareness, Self-Management, and Self-Efficacy Skills
Speakers:

  • Wendy Powell, Social Emotional Learning Curriculum Developer in Bellevue School District’s Teaching and Learning Department
  • Jamie Johnson, Chinook Middle School Counselor
Wendy Powell’s Presentation (slides attached):
  • What is Social Emotional Learning (SEL):  being aware of emotions and managing them, making responsible decisions
  • Studies show that acquiring social emotional skills boosts academic achievement
  • Overview of Bellevue School District priorities/ways in which BSD is supporting SEL
  • Overview of Washington State SEL standards and benchmarks
Jamie Johnson’s Presentation:
  • Technology is involved in 9 out of 10 bullying incidents at Chinook
  • Chinook-specific initiatives to address SEL:
    • Guest speakers – Luis Ortega, Storytellers for Change
    • Unity Week
    • Chinook Rocks (Respect, Ownership, Community, Kindness, Scholarship)
    • Taproot Theatre production on bullying and body image
    • Student-driven activities
      • WEB (Where Everyone Belongs):  students aiding students in the transition to middle school
      • National Junior Honor Society
      • Students Organized Against Racism (SOAR)
      • Peer Mediation
    • Jubilee Reach
    • Teachers are working to embed SEL within the content of core classes (e.g., when looking at math work, how are you developing these other skills?)
    • Schools are responsible for activities that occur online when those activities impact behavior at school
Interactive Activity Regarding Positive Online Behavior:  To better understand the impact of online behavior, meeting attendees watched a video of a real-life online situation involving harassment, intimidation, and bullying at a Bay Area high school.  We then discussed and reflected upon our own online impact and used our phone/email to send a positive message to someone we care about.  Our Chinook students engaged in a similar exercise to better understand the impact of online communication.      
Question and Answer Session/Discussion
  • Focus on teaching kids the language of emotion in order to help them better understand their own emotions, put words to the emotions that we are processing so that our kids can learn
  • Model the behavior we want to see in our children, including taking responsibility for our own mistakes
  • Provide our kids with tools for real-life scenarios/focus on the restorative process (empower those who have been harmed to convey the impact of the harm to those responsible, and those responsible to acknowledge this impact and take steps to put it right) 
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I-Connect October 2018
Thursday, Oct. 4, 2018 8:30-10am, Chinook Stage

Topic: How to make sure your child has a positive and productive online presence in the 21st century


  • Speakers:
  • Mr. Lander, Research Technology Specialist, Chinook Middle School
  • Ms. Myers, Assistant Principal, Chinook Middle School

  • Attached is Mr. Lander’s presentation.
  • Discussion afterwards:
  • Privacy:  ‘Would you open your house to everyone?’  If not, you play with the people that you know or your parents/caregivers know.
  • ‘Attention Merchants’ by Tim Wu (podcast available) is about how companies grab your attention, package it and sell it to advertisers.
  • Monitoring screen time:  use parental control apps to limit screen time; take the device away; better still is if the child can self-regulate their screen time.
  • Remind students that the number of ‘likes’ that child’s account attracts is not a reflection on them and should not affect their self esteem.
  • On social media, people present the best version of themselves rather than reality.  Social media is still an issue in high school, even though there is a very heavy workload.  Some high school students use social media as they do their work.​
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