The Bridge Forward: Transition to Middle and High School Leader Guide

The Bridge Forward has everything you need to successfully prepare students for all of the exciting experiences at their new school! The transition to middle school can be a thrilling and stressful experience for children and parents. This book is designed by experienced professionals to help teachers and administrators to not only guide their students who are just entering middle school, but also begin the transition for students who are preparing to enter high school! Shepherd an incoming or outgoing middle school class with this guide’s wealth of resources: - Peer mentorship program resources, including peer mentor training sample schedules, peer mentor application, and peer mentorship monthly activities - Visit day resources, including visit day sample schedules - Open house resources, including sample schedules - Counselor resources, including scripts for common scenarios - Orientation resources, including sample schedules and Responsive Advisory Meeting lesson plans - Ten additional Responsive Advisory Meeting plans - A preview of the parent resources - Directions for eleven developmentally appropriate activities Transition your new arrivals and soon-to-be graduates with ease using this helpful guide! This teacher's activity book helps educators motivate students during their transition to middle school. CRS Publishing is a division of Center for Responsive Schools, a nonprofit educational developer, publisher, and service provider of academic, social-emotional programs and products. Our mission at CRS Publishing is to celebrate, inspire and promote hope and joy in education by publishing books educators and students want to read. CRS Publishing has published a number of best-selling, award-winning, highly regarded, professional learning books, written by educators for educators through its brand, Responsive Classroom. In 2018 we added Avenue A Books, a children and adolescent book imprint under the Fly Five Curriculum division. Our books have earned the trust and respect of educators around the world thanks to authors who write books that are timely and relevant and speak to the heart and aspiration of education. Read more