Student Council elections are part of middle school. As a teacher I used to dread holding them in my classroom, until the year that most of my class ran. I know it sounds counter intuitive, but by having so many candidates I actually had to enforce “campaign rules”. Students also had to take their campaign seriously. Standing up and promising to make recess longer was not a campaign promise that anyone in the room was going to fall for, because…
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July 2014
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The school year is about to begin (or perhaps yours has already begun). You want to get to know all of your new students, and bond with them. Here are five…