Day in the Life

A Day in the Life of a Middle School Student
Each day students arrive between 8:15 and 8:30 and have breakfast before heading off to Crew. Crew is a meeting of 10-15 students with one adult staff that is meant to develop smaller more intimate relationships within our larger community. Students are working in Crew to develop healthy relationships, reflect on and monitor their academic and social emotional progress, and prepare to make an informed high school choice. Students engage in a greeting, read a message, engage in an initiative, journal, reflect, read and discuss literature, and participate in a structured debrief. After Crew, students head to one or two academic classes before going to lunch or a cultural arts class. Each academic class is about 75 minutes and cultural arts is about an hour. During academic classes you’ll see students working with their hands, creating art, recording their thinking on charts, discussing new learning, and working in small groups. In cultural arts students are expected to learn the history of the discipline as well as the skills of the discipline. Students are almost always working towards a performance, final presentation, or culminating activity. All students at SBCS do have outdoor recess at our school. This physical activity and outdoor play is an important opportunity for students to apply some of the work from Crew and other classroom learning. Students often play football, swing, play Frisbee, talk, sing, or take a walk around Carroll Park.