The official student newspaper of Miami Country Day Middle School
The Spartan Chronicle
TABLOID NEWS • SUNDAY • OCTOBER 11
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VOL. 1, No. 1 ~ Miami Country Day School, 601 NE 107th Street ~ Miami, Florida 33161
CAMPUS CELEBRATIONS
ENTERTAINMENT PAGE 8
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MR. ROUHANIFARD’S JOURNEY TO SUCCESS
EDITORIALS PAGE 12
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Compassion in Action
MCDS celebrates learning differences and neurodiversity
Mrs. Brill believes that the Learning Resource Program helps students by empowering them. This is done through creating courses that allow accommodations for each student’s exceptionalities. “The Learning Resource Program helps make specialized lessons for each child to help them better themselves as students,” Mrs. Brill said. According to Mrs. Smith, the director of the Learning Resources Program, the program helps students to be advocates for themselves. It also helps students to develop those self advocacy skills so that they can be in control of their learning. “I think that that’s one of the main goals. It also helpsthem to learn about how they learn best,” Mrs. Smith said. The program provides students with the tools to help them succeed in life and to prosper. This pushes a sense of academic independence and the idea that students should learn to uphold themselves and be confident in their own abilities as students. continued on page 11
by ISABELLA LOVERDE The Learning Resources Program (also known as the LR program or LRP) is a cooperative unit built to support neurodiverse students with learning differences, and to assist them on their learning journeys at MCDS. This program embraces that there are all kinds of minds and that students all learn differently. The program services students with documented learning differences, believing in the potential of all students by recognizing and celebrating their learning intelligences.
The LR program was enacted for the purpose of “meeting the needs of students with average to superior intelligence and creativity that have learning differences.”.
gram provides students with flexible resources and guidance to help them become better students and be more confident and persistent in their learning.
Mrs. Brill, a STEM - Technology teacher believes that the Learning Resource Program should be emulated in every school.
Mrs. Hayes has taught at MCDS for several years and is one of the many teachers working to help students in the Learning Resources Program.
“I feel that each student is unique and this is celebrated. This program allows the teachers the privilege of teaching and learning from our kids.” Mrs. Brill said.
“In the Learing Resources Program we really try to understand each student, and more about their unique strengths and how to help students achieve their full potential,’’ Mrs. Hayes said.
The Learning Resources pro-
REMEMBERING 9-11 by ELOISE CHARALAMBIDES Schools all over the country commemorated the 20th anniversary of the tragic event, known as 9/11. Miami Country Day was no exception. The program for this historic day included many activiites
schoolwide. The day started with a message from our President and Head of School, Mariandl Hufford, then a flag raising to honor the lives that were lost. After the national anthem and a moment of silence, Mr. Turf gave a short speech on remembering, healing, and com-
passion. Middle school students then watched a five minute Gander documentary. The music students gave a moving performance of “38 Planes” from the Broadway musical hit, Come From Away. continued on page 2