Jody PassanisiChaos to Context
A Parent's Guide Through the Middle Grades
Jody Passanisi has been working with middle graders for 15 years. She is the director of the upper school at Gideon Hausner Jewish Day School in Palo Alto, California, and teaches social studies methods to teachers at Mt. St. Mary's University and Hebrew Union College's DeLeT program. She has written about education for Scientific American and Education Week and is the author of History Class Revisited (2016, Routledge). She advises parents about how to support their kids through middle school @chaostocontext on Instagram.
1. Spoiler Alert: It's Puberty. Puberty's the Problem 2. Unveiling the
Adolescent Brain 3. It's Time for Identity Exploration 4. The Changing
Social Dynamics of Middle School 5. The Role Of Grown-Ups in the Middle
Grades 6. Academics and Middle School: A New Frontier 7. Our Collective
Challenge: Technology, Social Media, and the Middle Grades 8. Good People
Who Do Good Things