1st Edition
Chaos to Context A Parent’s Guide Through the Middle Grades
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
Biography
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.
