Every vote counted
Math, reading, and speaking up for yourself and your friends
Seventh grade made “I voted!” stickers as part of a conversation about advocacy and non-verbal communication.
Early Childhood was invited to help choose one to be printed up and distributed on Election Day.
Parents and caregivers are invited to pick up their stickers in the Commons or at the front desk on Tuesday.
Election Day is a major holiday at a school that asks each child to find and use their own voice, and that strives to model how people in a diverse community can find common ground.
Conversations on voting rights begin in Early Childhood, and extend through eighth grade, when students travel to Georgia and Alabama to meet with veterans of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement and meet with activists working today to keep the election process open and accessible.
More on that trip at www.gordonschool.org/civilrights
Election lessons from this fall include:
Facing a new chapter a reflection from our Head of School
This is what it looked like Election Day lessons across the school
Using our voices in the New York Times with two eighth grade leaders
The mysteries of the electoral college in seventh grade
Disagreeing with grace in Middle School and among our adult community
Exploring debate in seventh and third grades
Democracy and activism taught alongside math and reading in Young Kindergarten and second grade
Talking to young people about the election - six tips for caregivers