Welcome Back!

Hello! My name is Andi Rosenblatt and I am your child’s Advocacy Teacher for the 2023-2024 school year! Advocacy is a time for students to build supportive relationships with their peers and with an adult they can trust. We will be focusing on the students’ social-emotional learning, which we incorporate into core academic subjects as well. It is a time for everyone to feel recognized and welcomed into the school community. As your child’s Advocate, I will be your primary point of communication, and I look forward to working with you and your child throughout the year. 

 

This is my third-year teaching at Westgate Community School. I am so excited to be back! I received a B.A. in Psychology, a minor in Educational Studies, and a certificate in Health Studies from Dickinson College. I also received a certification through the Public Education Business Coalition. It is going to be a wonderful year 😊  

This year, your students will have some of the other awesome 3/4 teachers for their core academic subjects. These class rosters will be solidified within the first few weeks of school. You can look on the 3/4 team page to access the other teachers Edlio pages. 

This is my Advocacy page. I have subscribed  so you will receive updates to your email automatically. On all of the 3/4 pages, we will be posting academic information for you to look at, so please subscribe to your students specific teachers. Monthly, we will post Advocacy-specific information. Please subscribe to the Specials Teachers’ pages for important information throughout the year. We are starting this quarter with i-Lab, so please subscribe to Mr. Anderson's page.

This month, our August Advocacy theme is RISE!  

At Westgate, Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) is a part of our Whole Child Education program. PBIS is a system in which students, staff, and community create a set of school-wide behavioral expectations/ core values, we teach those expectations in all of our various environments, and then we CELEBRATE when we see students doing those things! At Westgate, we RISE (Respect, Integrity, Safety, Empathy).  

 

Week 1 

R 

 

What does RESPECT mean? 

Being kind to people, property, and yourself. Being considerate of our community.  

Week 2 

I 

 

What does INTEGRITY mean? 

Telling the truth and doing the right thing even when nobody is looking. 

Week 3   

S 

 

What does it mean to be SAFE at school? 

Act in ways that won’t harm yourself or others. 

Week 4 

E 

 

What is EMPATHY? 

Understanding and caring about the feelings of others. 

 

We will be teaching students what these 4 words mean—focusing on a different part of RISE each week—and what it looks like to live these values out during school and at home. We will use RISE all year to celebrate positive behaviors.