{"id":958,"date":"2024-10-01T14:50:47","date_gmt":"2024-10-01T18:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/?post_type=article&#038;p=958"},"modified":"2024-10-01T15:18:03","modified_gmt":"2024-10-01T19:18:03","slug":"heres-what-hs-principal-justin-king-saw-from-students-in-the-first-two-days-of-school","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/article\/heres-what-hs-principal-justin-king-saw-from-students-in-the-first-two-days-of-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s what HS Principal Justin King saw from students in the first two days of school"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Kindness<\/strong><br \/>\n11th and 12th grade students who are \u201cbigs\u201d lead personalized tours to their \u201clittle\u201d throughout the school, and genuinely build positive relationships with them. I saw one new 7th grade girl sitting with her big today at the lunch table, and it almost brought a tear to my eye.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Initiative<br \/>\n<\/strong>A 10th grade student saw a middle school student ask me where a particular classroom was. Without any prodding from me, the student quickly jumped in and said, \u201cI know where that is. Can I take you there?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joy<\/strong><br \/>\nTeachers and students laughing together, students smiling in the hallways, and alumni returning to school to pick up their yearbooks and bringing gleeful hugs to friends and staff.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Executive Functions<\/strong><br \/>\nTeachers are placing an emphasis this year (particularly in 9th and 10th grade) on teaching executive function skills through their efforts on adding clarity, routine, and modeling to everything they are doing. Parents of 9th and 10th graders, ask your students to show you their planner!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kindness 11th and 12th grade students who are \u201cbigs\u201d lead personalized tours to their \u201clittle\u201d throughout the school, and genuinely build positive relationships with them. I saw one new 7th grade girl sitting with her big today at the lunch table, and it almost brought a tear to my eye. Initiative A 10th grade student&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":970,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"issuem_issue":[39],"issuem_issue_categories":[],"issuem_issue_tags":[],"class_list":["post-958","article","type-article","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","issuem_issue-fall-2024"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=958"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":971,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/958\/revisions\/971"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"issuem_issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issuem_issue?post=958"},{"taxonomy":"issuem_issue_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issuem_issue_categories?post=958"},{"taxonomy":"issuem_issue_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issuem_issue_tags?post=958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}