The Storm Surge

10/21/25: RIS Talent Show 🎶

10/21 & 10/23: Parent Teacher Conference 4:00-6:00PM

10/24/25 - 10/27 Fall Break (No School) 🍂

10/24/25 - 10/27 Fall Break (No School) 🍂

10/28/25 - 10/31/25 - Red Ribbon Week 🎀

10/29/25: A/B Hallway Award Ceremony 2:15 PM

10/30/25: C/D Hallway Award Ceremony 2:15 PM

Our RIS Library reading olympics Challenge is happening now!

Students will read books books of their choice within the Olypic Event and track their progress toward their Reading Olympics goal.

Each time a student reads a book within the challenge they will add it to their RIS Reading Olympics Challenge paper. Along the way they will earn recognition for their efforts and celebrate their achievements at the finish line!

Start Date: August 13, 2025

Due Date: November 21, 2025

• What does it mean to Self-Direct?

  Self-Direction is the ability and learned skill to cast a vision of future goals and then take intentional steps toward who, where, and what we want to be. Instead of focusing on things to control or avoid, we emphasize our responsibility to make positive choices related to our emotions, attitudes, and actions.

  
  

  Why focus on Self-direction?

  • Self-direction strengthens relationships. Self-direction helps to grow social skills and develop meaningful, positive relationships with others.
  • Self-direction teaches personal responsibility. Learning to self-direct teaches students to take responsibility for their own actions.
  • Self-direction helps us to regulate emotions: Self-direction empowers students to regulate their impulses and emotional responses to situations and circumstances in their life.
    
    

  Self-Direction in Action:

  • Practice goal setting and action planning. When we establish goals and develop action plans, we learn to take intentional steps to successfully achieve goals.
  • Monitor and adjust. Provide students with regular feedback and opportunities to self-assess progress toward goals to make adjustments and improvements in their behaviors.
  • Reflect and evaluate. Facilitate discussions and reflection to prompt students to examine what they do, think, and say against their goals and vision for their life and learning.