710 Ikes Rd.

Taylors, SC

29687

Phone 864 355 7000

Fax 864 355 7077

The mission of the Northwood Middle School Guidance Department is to work with the school community in developing a guidance program that will focus on providing educational, emotional, social, cultural, and career awareness opportunities for all students.

Links

Parent Resources

Great Resources for Middle School Students and Parents

Reading Lists for Students

Pearson Youth Reading List - Pearson Recommended 6-8th summer reading
Book Suggestions for the Entire Family - List for great books separated by category and age range

The Future - Getting an Early Start on Careers and College

Explore Your Career Options - An interactive website from the Bureau of Labor and Statistics
The Princeton Review - Great test preparation and practice resources.
Find the Right College for you - Learn about which colleges are similar to your interests and your strengths
Test Practice with Coach - Standards based test preparation for kids, parents and teachers
Students.gov - student gateway to the US Governmen

Fun Educational Games

Free Rice - Quiz game where correct answers help raise money for global hunger
View the Earth from Space - View Earth from the Sun, the Moon or from any of a host of satellites in orbit.
Cheap Carl's Car Insurance Presents: The Mad Math Grand Prix - Math based racing game that helps improve addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division skills.
Be an A+ Math Ace - Math games based on bingo and hidden pictures, and a variety of flash cards.
Fun Trivia Games - Fun interactive quizzes

Resources for Parents

http://www.pta.org - Parent Teacher Association Webpage
Great Schools.Org - A middle school parents' preparation for college guide
Health Insurance Online - A database of health information for kids and adults
Read, Write, Think - Resources to help parents with their child's literacy
Middle School Web Resources - Valuable information for both parents and teachers
US Dept. of Education - search for student aid resources by state

Students With Disabilities

http://www.add.org/ - Attention Deficit Disorder Association
http://www.ldresources.com/ - Learning Disability Resources
http://www.ncld.org/ - National Center for Learning Disabilities
http://www.fcsn.org/ - Federation for Children with Special Needs

For Minority, Low-Income, First Generation Students

http://www.educacionsuperior.org/ - education information in Spanish
http://www.uncf.org/ - United Negro College Fund
http://www.aihec.org/ - American Indian Higher Education Consortium
http://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/oela/index.html?src=mr - Department of Education/Office of Bilingual Education and Minority Languages Affairs

Interim Progress Report Dates:

1st Quarter Progress Report: September 19
2nd Quarter Progress Report: November 28
3rd Quarter Progress Report: February 15
4th Quarter Progress Report: April 30

Report Card Dates:

End 1st Quarter.............................Oct. 21
End 2nd Quarter ...........................Jan. 12
End 3rd Quarter..........................March 21
End 4th Quarter..............................June 1

Carolina's Magnet Open House

8th Graders, are you interested in a technical career, engineering, robotics...... Then you may be interested in Carolina's Magnet program....click here for information

Sylvia Blassengale
Grade 8 and Grade 7 Team 7- 1

sblassen@greenville.k12.sc.us
(864) 355 7005 Fax 355-9700

Susan Rogers
Grade 6 and Grade 7 Team 7-2

csrogers@greenville.k12.sc.us
(864) 355 7005

Ms. Jami Crisman
Career Development Facilitator

jcrisman@greenville.k12.sc.us
(864) 355-7013

Charlene Durham
Guidance Clerk

(864) 355-7013 Fax (864) 355 9707

The guidance department encourages parents to communicate with their children's teachers. Parent/teacher communication is vital for your student's academic success. If you would like to speak to you child's teacher or schedule a parent/teacher conference, please call your child's team leader. You may call them or email them through our website..

Team 6-1 Jan Dalonas 355-7071
Team 6-2 Kim Hiott 355-7040
Team 7-1 Tracy Haltiwanger 355-7037
Team 7-2 Lisa Cook 355-7023
Team 8-1 Laurie Robison 355-7060
Team 8-2 Jennifer Steadman 355-7065