Wednesday, March 3, 2021

Wednesday, March 3, 2021

  • Highlighting Women's History Month:

    The historic induction of Kamala Harris as the first female, Black, and Asian Vice President into office this year is a reminder that our country is willing to give women with diverse backgrounds more respect than in the past. President Joe Biden picked Harris to run alongside him while also assembling a menagerie of intersectional Cabinet member picks, including Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland, the first Native American Cabinet member in history, the first woman to be Treasury Secretary, Janet Yellen, the first woman to be Director of National Intelligence, Avril Haines, and the first woman of color to be US Trade Representative, Katherine Tai, among many others. However, these landmark firsts also bring to mind the fact that America’s highest governmental positions should not have been possessed solely by white men from its birth until 2021. There is still much work to be done in order to successfully break down the systemic sexist and racist blockades of the gender-and-race-based pay gap and to further grow the essential intersectional feminist movements of today, so that America’s population will live in an equitable and barrier-free society in the future.

    Tomorrow, we will start our highlights of influential intersectional women of history with Bessie Blount Griffin. Stay tuned!

    WRC Women's History Month presented by Olivia Cox

  • It's Wellness Wednesday!-
    What is Wellness Wednesday? 
    Wellness Wednesdays give us an opportunity to reflect on and focus on our health and well-being. This is a practice that is happening at schools, workplaces and communities all over. We are excited to bring it to ARHS! 
    Each Wednesday in the announcements, we will highlight an activity, a skill, a resource focused on bringing awareness to building healthy habits and focusing on our physical, & emotional wellness. We hope these are meaningful for you!
    We also welcome ANYONE (teachers, staff, students, entire classes, clubs, etc!) to reach out to share ideas and tips, too. Email Ms. Peters @ petersk@arps.org

    This week our Wellness Wednesday Tip is: Give yourself a Shout Out!
    It can be easy as we go through our days to forget to pay attention to things we've done throughout the day that are AWESOME. This week, we challenge you to spend a few minutes each day and think of at least 1 thing you've done during the day that you are proud of. Why is this important? Well, it's easy to focus on the negative, (our brains are actually wired this way.. it's called the Negativity Bias) This can affect us in BIG WAYS, as you can imagine. 
    Taking a few minutes each day to point out for yourself a SPECIFIC thing you did that was helpful & positive can help us fight back against this negativity bias and help us see things that we may miss. 
    Try it right now. Do it every day. And notice its impact. I bet you will find a bit of a SPRING in your STEP after a few days. 
    Want to read more about the Negativity Bias and ways to decrease its influence? 

  • The Minks (the ARHS Literary Magazine) is open and accepting all student work! Whether it’s an essay, poem, story, or any other piece of writing, email it to minks@arps.org, and your work could be included in this year’s edition!  

  • "The Environmental Action Club has partnered with an organization called Tree-Plenish to plant trees in the Amherst community! Our goal is 230 trees, which will offset the school’s yearly paper consumption. THE NEXT 40 TREES ARE FREE. If you or anyone you know would like to request a tree, go to https://www.tree-plenishevents.org/amherst. Trees are only $5! We’re offering red oak, red maple, or river birch saplings; pictures of these trees are on the website. You can also volunteer for our planting event on April 24th through the same sign up sheet on that website. The deadline for ordering trees is March 24th."

  • MIT Museum is hosting the popular Virtual Teen Science Café again this spring! Please encourage your high school students to join our next event, Teen Science Café: Equity in Healthcare, which is planned and hosted by my peers on the Teen Programming Council. Meet experts in the field of equity in healthcare in this Zoom Webinar, with the opportunity to ask questions and dive deeper into the topic. This is a free event for interested high school students only. The event occurs on Friday, March 5, 5:30-7:30 pm EST. Pre-registration is required. Teens can register and learn more at this link: https://mitmuseum.mit.edu/program/teen-science-caf%C3%A9-equity-healthcare 


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