A Common Goal: Checking In

In your experience, do all students at Birchland have an opportunity to learn and achieve in classes?

• Definitely. 100%. All the time!

• Most students are able to learn and engage during classes.

• Sometimes. It depends on the students and the class.

• Rarely. Some students probably learn and achieve, but most can't or don't.

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Is Birchland a safe and healthy place to make and maintain friendships?

• Completely! Everyone is comfortable with each other and feels comfortable most of the time.

• Most of us have a good friend group. Sometimes there are problems, but we can fix them ourselves.

• Some friend groups are more welcoming than others. Not many of us are trying to make new friends.

• Friendships are challenging. It's hard to know who to trust and how to deal with conflict.

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Does Birchland encourage students become independent?

• Yes, but sometimes there's TOO much pressure to do things on our own!

• We're encouraged to take risks and do things independently, but in a good way.

• Adults don't really give us enough opportunities to try things on our own; sometimes they baby us.

• Some students have more opportunities to be independent than others.

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Are all students treated with the same amount of respect by other students in their classes?

• Not really. Friend groups are respectful to each other but not everyone else.

• Absolutely! I feel like I'm friends with or at least respected by everyone in my classes!

• Most students treat everyone respectfully; there are only a few instances where people who don't get treated well.

• Definitely not! Being together in classes is like swimming with sharks. It's brutal!

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When you are at school, do you learn about opinions and experiences that are different from your own?

• Totally! I've learned a lot about different belief systems, values, and life experiences here at school.

• Not really. We're all different in a lot of ways but we don't really need to talk about it.

• Sometimes in classes, but in real life we don't really think about or talk about different perspectives.

• I learn more about different perspectives and experiences outside of school than inside.

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How comfortable do most students feel if they answer a question incorrectly in classes?

• It's no big deal! Making mistakes is part of learning!

• It really depends on the class or the situation.

• 50/50. Some people probably don't mind it, but some are terrified!

• Making a mistake like that in public is the worst. Totally mortifying!

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What's the best thing about your middle school experience so far?

• making and being with friends

• learning things and exploring ideas in classes

• interacting with so many different people throughout the day

• friends, classes, new people, iReady... what's not to love about middle school?

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