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Help SHS in our efforts toward local sustainability!
Did you know that Summit High School is certified as an Oregon Green School? Here are some ideas for how to be more sustainable (and save money!) at home:
- Recycle your plastic bags...and lots of other plastic film (think produce bags, overwrap, bubble wrap, cough drop wrappers...any plastic film that is not dirty! Send them with your student to SHS and we’ll take care of it! We participate in this recycling program.
- Deschutes County’s Rethink Waste website (recycling questions and more)
- The Energy Challenge of Central Oregon (free LED lights!)
- Calculate your water footprint (keep in mind that this affects your sewer bill as well as your water bill!)
First Step Oregon
www.firststeporegon.org is a GREAT first stop to assist students! See the letter to parents HERE.
Inside First Step you will find resources like, "3 Ways to Help a Friend," "Getting Through Today," contacts for free counseling and two featured resources: SafeOregon and YouthLine.
Free Counseling and Support: Free counseling and support can be accessed by contacting our community partners at Deschutes County Behavioral Health, St. Charles Health System Behavioral Health, OSU Cascades Counseling Clinic, and Lutheran Community Services NW though links in First Step.
Safe Oregon is a new way to report information 24-hours a day that involves students, the safety of their fellow students, or their school. With SafeOregon, students can report anything from vandalism to theft to cyberbullying via text or phone, email, or online.
YouthLine is a free and confidential teen-to-teen help line. Students are encouraged to contact YouthLine via phone, text, chat, and email to talk about anything that may be bothering them. Teens are available to help daily from 4-10pm Pacific Time (adults are available by phone at all other times).
FirstStep is made possible thanks to the Bend Police Department, Lines for Life, SafeOregon and many other incredible community partners. We are very grateful for their continued support of our shared commitment to the well-being of all our students and staff.
Articles about Cell Phone and Social Media:
- We Need to Talk About Kids and Smartphones
- When Should You Come Between a Teenager and Her Phone?
- How Smartphones are Making Kids Unhappy
- Generation M2: Media in the Lives of 8-to-18-Year-Olds
- Cell Phone Addiction: A Review
- Do Smart Phones Make Us Smarter?
- Use of Multiple Social Media Platforms and Symptoms of Depression and Anxiety: A Nationally-Representative Study Among U.S. Young Adults
- 5 Apps That Should Terrify Every Parent, According to Experts
- Research on Teens and Social Media from the PureSight website
- School shootings are extraordinarily rare. Why is fear of them driving policy?
Book Resources
iGen: Why Today's Super-Connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy--and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood--and What That Means for the Rest of Us
by Jean Twenge, PhD.
A
highly readable and entertaining first look at how today’s members of
iGen—the children, teens, and young adults born in the mid-1990s and
later—are vastly different from their Millennial predecessors, and from
any other generation, from the renowned psychologist and author of Generation Me.
With generational divides wider than ever, parents, educators, and
employers have an urgent need to understand today’s rising generation of
teens and young adults. Born in the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s and
later, iGen is the first generation to spend their entire adolescence in
the age of the smartphone. With social media and texting replacing
other activities, iGen spends less time with their friends in
person—perhaps why they are experiencing unprecedented levels of
anxiety, depression, and loneliness.
But technology is not the only thing that makes iGen distinct from every
generation before them; they are also different in how they spend their
time, how they behave, and in their attitudes toward religion,
sexuality, and politics. They socialize in completely new ways, reject
once sacred social taboos, and want different things from their lives
and careers. More than previous generations, they are obsessed with
safety, focused on tolerance, and have no patience for inequality. iGen
is also growing up more slowly than previous generations:
eighteen-year-olds look and act like fifteen-year-olds used to.
As this new group of young people grows into adulthood, we all need to
understand them: Friends and family need to look out for them;
businesses must figure out how to recruit them and sell to them;
colleges and universities must know how to educate and guide them. And
members of iGen also need to understand themselves as they communicate
with their elders and explain their views to their older peers. Because
where iGen goes, so goes our nation—and the world.
Becoming Brilliant: What Science Tells Us About Raising Successful Children
By Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek
In just a few years, today's children and teens will forge careers that look nothing like those that were available to their parents or grandparents. While the U.S. economy becomes ever more information-driven, our system of education seems stuck on the idea that "content is king," neglecting other skills that 21st century citizens sorely need. Becoming Brilliant offers solutions that parents can implement right now. Backed by the latest scientific evidence and illustrated with examples of what's being done right in schools today, this book introduces the "6Cs" collaboration, communication, content, critical thinking, creative innovation, and confidence along with ways parents can nurture their children s development in each area.