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Dear Nixon Community,

I hope everyone is enjoying the fall weather! As you may have heard already from your student, this year we have a new emphasis on Social Emotional Learning. Each month, we will have a social emotional theme and each week we will have a focus. We will develop the theme by having a: monthly assembly, teaching weekly lessons aligned to the theme, weekly morning announcements, and recognizing students who model our focus through shout outs. On a weekly basis, teachers will nominate students for a "shout out." Students who get a shout out will be highlighted on our bulletin and will also receive a small prize. By organizing our whole school community on a shared focus, we know that we can continue to strengthen our students social emotional skills.
This month, our schoolwide theme is skills for learning: listening, focusing attention, using self-talk to stay on-task, and being assertive when asking for help with a learning task. Teachers will lead Second Step lessons to teach skills for learning. You’ll be receiving Home Links describing why these skills are important and including fun activities to do with your child to practice them. We hope you enjoy them! We are excited to work together to help make Nixon an even more positive place.
Kindly,

Principal Chavarria

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Do you have a 6th grader?  Join us on Friday, October 19 at 8:30am to learn about and apply to Middle School options for your student. 

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Thank you to all of the volunteers that made our new playground a reality.  Nixon School and the community is grateful for your help and dedication to our students and school.

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