Call to Care
Dear Parents of 4th/5th Graders:
Every year in fourth and fifth grades at Woodside, we offer our students many lessons
and experiences that help them develop socially and emotionally. We focus regularly on our
foundation: the three schools rules (safe, respectful, responsible). All the teachers are using The
Responsive Classroom to develop vibrant learning communities. We teach the second step
curriculum to encourage empathy building, problem solving and anger management. We
celebrate all students who set goals and work to achieve them through Models of Success.
Again this year we are enriching these efforts by naming all the lessons and experiences
we offer “ A Call To Care,” A phrase coming from the literature of social/emotional learning, we
hope it will help us unify all these educational experiences for our students, in order to explicitly
teach our hopes for their growth in these areas. I will be doing instruction in every classroom
about the meaning of this phrase (call=to make a request; care=to give serious attention to doing
something well), and how learning to care makes us better learners, better people, and better
contributors to our community and world. We hope it will teach and enrich all our students in
areas such as self management, kindness, tolerance, balance, motivation, optimism and
teamwork.
Attached to this letter you will find an overview of all the Call to Care lessons and
experiences we will be offering fourth and fifth graders this year. You will see that it is a
combined effort of our teachers, our counselor and other community partners. We are fortunate
to partner with SASSM, the Riverview Foundation, the Cromwell Center for Disability Rights
Education and other community members that come as models of success. We are so fortunate
to have a caring staff and many community members that help us with this very important effort.
If you have any questions or would like to know more about this effort, please contact me
at any time.
Sincerely,
Helene McGlauflin (Mrs. McG)
School Counselor
[email protected]
(207)725-1243
Every year in fourth and fifth grades at Woodside, we offer our students many lessons
and experiences that help them develop socially and emotionally. We focus regularly on our
foundation: the three schools rules (safe, respectful, responsible). All the teachers are using The
Responsive Classroom to develop vibrant learning communities. We teach the second step
curriculum to encourage empathy building, problem solving and anger management. We
celebrate all students who set goals and work to achieve them through Models of Success.
Again this year we are enriching these efforts by naming all the lessons and experiences
we offer “ A Call To Care,” A phrase coming from the literature of social/emotional learning, we
hope it will help us unify all these educational experiences for our students, in order to explicitly
teach our hopes for their growth in these areas. I will be doing instruction in every classroom
about the meaning of this phrase (call=to make a request; care=to give serious attention to doing
something well), and how learning to care makes us better learners, better people, and better
contributors to our community and world. We hope it will teach and enrich all our students in
areas such as self management, kindness, tolerance, balance, motivation, optimism and
teamwork.
Attached to this letter you will find an overview of all the Call to Care lessons and
experiences we will be offering fourth and fifth graders this year. You will see that it is a
combined effort of our teachers, our counselor and other community partners. We are fortunate
to partner with SASSM, the Riverview Foundation, the Cromwell Center for Disability Rights
Education and other community members that come as models of success. We are so fortunate
to have a caring staff and many community members that help us with this very important effort.
If you have any questions or would like to know more about this effort, please contact me
at any time.
Sincerely,
Helene McGlauflin (Mrs. McG)
School Counselor
[email protected]
(207)725-1243