✓MIDDLE YEARS MATTER

GIVING MIDDLE SCHOOLERS THE RIGHT TOOLS TO BALANCE SCHOOL, SPORTS, FRIENDS, AND EVERYTHING LIFE THROWS AT THEM!

Executive Functioning Skills
Study Strategies
Social/Emotional Learning
Classroom Confidence
Organizational Skills
Team Building
Mindfulness

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Our goal is to empower students, teachers, and parents with tools for a balanced and positive middle school experience. Our emphasis is on teaching the executive function skills, social-emotional management, and teamwork and problem-solving strategies necessary feel confident in and out of the classroom. An attention to wellness underpins all we do, as we’ve learned that it is essential to *feel good* before you can *do well*.

Our Mission

MEET THE TEAM

We are a team of creative, fun and highly experienced teachers and administrators. We are also counselors, coaches, *and* parents. Together, we have a combined *seventy-five years* of experience working with middle school students. We know better than anyone how the middle school years can be a messy, challenging time for kids and families.

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Our Services

Highlights

We were featured in a Greenwich Country Day Girls Lacrosse Team video! Click on the image to see some of our team building workshop in action.

Here is a highlight video of our visit to the Waterside School in Stamford, CT.

5th Grade Community Building Workshop Reflections

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middleyearsmatter@gmail.com