Team Sirius Overview

Team Description

Our team is a two-year seventh and eighth grade looping team. We will have students for two years to help us get to know each student better as an individual and as a learner. Most of the time students will be taught in grade level classes, but there will be opportunities for us to be together as a whole team. Like any good team, we expect the results of our work, as a team, will be better than what we could accomplish as individuals.

SIRIUS Mission Statement

The “Sirius” Team will work collaboratively to create a positive school climate and promote high student achievement. We meet regularly to create activities consistent with the school mission and work toward achievement of the action plan goals. We are willing to try new approaches that will help students succeed. On a regular basis we will celebrate students’ and team successes and model positive habits. We will coordinate student assignments and assessments while creating interdisciplinary opportunities that help students make connections. Members of our team, including teacher advisors, will discuss student-centered issues to promote positive learning opportunities for every student.

Curriculum

The SIRIUS team will work together to provide a core academic curriculum that is relevant, challenging, integrative, and exploratory. Each content area will have its own set of skills and key questions, but the team will collaborate to help make meaning and connections for students. We work together to teach reading and writing across the curriculum with the support of our language arts teacher. Details of the curriculum will be provided at Open House by the teachers and in a printed guidebook given to all parents.

Sirius (see-ree-yus): Sirius, also called the dog star, is the brightest star in the sky. Sirius is the heart of the constellation Canis Major, the Big Dog. [Latin Sirius, from Greek Seirios, meaning burning or scorching.]