WICOR is a collection of teaching and learning strategies to guide students in comprehending concepts and articulating ideas at increasingly complex levels. Writing, Inquiry, Collaboration, Organization and Reading. WICOR strategies support student learning in any classroom at Nichols.
WICOR is an instructional approach involving both teachers and students that places students at the center and empowers them to take ownership and agency in their thinking and learning. When educators create instructional experiences integrated in the rich layers of WICOR, students are actively engaged with content through productive struggle, cognitive wrestling, and critical thinking to access rigorous content from a multitude of perspectives and use it to create new innovations, challenge old ideas, and positively impact the world around them.
Nichols' focus is to incorporate WICOR strategies in all classrooms at all grade levels.
Nate
Favorite thing about AVID: I like that it has time for me to catch up on work and my teacher is really nice and it helps for future stuff.
How has AVID helped you as a student: It helps me be interested in notes and helps me be calm.
Would you Rather...go to school 50 years in the future or 50 years in the past? in the past because if you go in the future you will have two of yourselves
Shakur
Favorite thing about AVID: Either the field trips or the teachers
How has AVID helped you as a student? Take better notes
Would you Rather...go to school 50 years in the future or 50 years in the past? Future because there's more technology, but (thinking more about it) in the past, we would learn better because it was harder. There was no technology and no one would get screen addicted.
Zayvion
Favorite thing about AVID: You get to go to colleges and see what you will do later in life.
How has AVID helped you as a student? Note-taking skills and it helps me study more.
Would you Rather... go to school 50 years in the future or 50 years in the past? Future, because I already know what happened in the past, but I don't know what happens in the future.
Jailyn
Favorite thing about AVID: Sets me up for college and without AVID I wouldn't know that you can get grants and scholarships for college.
How has AVID helped you as a student: Made me more on time for class, my notes are better now and I'm more appreciative for AVID because some of the teachers that have been coming for the TRF's have been really helpful.
Would you Rather...go to school 50 years in the future or 50 years in the past? Future!
Tez
Favorite thing about AVID: I get to hang out with the people I like and I get to study some things that I need to work on.
How has AVID helped you as a student: I've gotten better at puncutation and taking better notes for classes that I need to study up on.
Would you Rather... go to school 50 years in the future or 50 years in the past? Future!
Lucille
Favorite thing about AVID: It's fun and helps me get organized. Also learn more about colleges which puts me ahead.
How has AVID helped you as a student: Helped me organize things a lot better now and my binder is much more organized. Now I have better habits with organizing things.
Would you Rather... go to school 50 years in the future or 50 years in the past? Future!
ETHS Freshman Registration
Important dates are listed on the Incoming Freshman Deadlines & Events webpage. Information about transition events is available on the New Student Information pages.
December 5: Special Education Transition Information Night for parents of incoming freshmen
December 13: Online registration and documents are due to ETHS.
Are you and your student interested in a tour of ETHS? The ETHS Virtual Tour can be viewed at any time from anywhere via laptop, desktop or mobile device. We also host Campus Tour Days on select Saturdays during the school year. Registration is required for these 60-minute guided tours, which offer an optional Q&A session.
Have Questions?
For questions about the freshman transition process, please contact me at harta@eths202.org or 847-424-7047.
For registration questions, please contact Adriana Aviles, Student Enrollment Specialist, at 847-424-7915 or email avilesa@eths202.org. You may contact Adriana Aviles in English or Spanish.
For help in languages other than English or Spanish, contact Mercedes Fernández, ETHS Latino Liaison/Minority Languages Coordinator, at 847-424-7166.
ETHS Course Review for students @Nichols
ETHS teachers will be coming to Nichols to present to our 8th grade students. The purpose of the presentation is to share information about the elective courses available at ETHS for incoming freshman. Elective courses in Music, Theatre, FCS (Family & Consumer Services for example Culinary, Child Development & Fashion), Industrial Tech, Visual Arts and Business will be discussed.
Nichols Middle School Dec. 17, 10:00 - 11:15
Time Management and Organization
How does effective organization of time and materials lead to academic success? What can we do at home to support our student with organization?
Time management is one of the first organizational skills a student will want to master. Developing time management skills requires students to analyze how they spend their time, decide upon priorities, and start to plan ahead. The ability to implement a time management system is crucial to student success.
Time management is -
- Focusing on school work while in class
- Staying on task
- Asking for clarification when needed
- Completing class work and homework on time
- Knowing what to do when work is completed
- Scheduling both Study Buddy time and independent study time
- Allowing preparation for projects
- Beginning homework after school every day
- Acquiring supplies for projects ahead of time
- Providing quality study time
- Managing project timeliness effectively
Please see below for daily and weekly time management templates. Feel free to ask your school counselor for copies and help with implementation.