Monty

Welcome to seventh grade!  I love seventh graders!  It’s fun to see the growth this important year will bring.  My primary goal is to prepare these young adults to be literate students of the world, so this year will be both rewarding and rigorous.  It will require dedication and hard work, personal goal setting and reflection.  My emphasis this year is on the three R’s:  Rigor, Relevance, and Relationships.  Rigor, to me, means providing challenging educational experiences that ask students to reach beyond their usual comfort zones.  Relevance means making it real for students, involving them in real world issues, and in helping them make personal connections with the curriculum.  Positive relationships that are built with and among community members, parents,  and staff are absolutely essential for success in the lives of our most important possessions, which are, of course, SEVENTH GRADERS!