2000-2001 Reading Club Club membership is encouraged among the students at Northside. NMS News is shown daily throughout the school during homeroom each morning. The NMS News began production in the fall of 1996. Peer Mediation is a process of solving disputes and conflicts with the help of a neutral third party, a mediator, who facilitates the process. Mediation allows disputing parties to bring their problem to the mediation table in order to cooperatively work out their differences.
Mediation is non-judgmental.
The goal is not to determine guilt or innocence, but rather to work out differences constructively. Peer mediators are recommended by their teachers and receive two days of extensive training before they serve as mediators. Northside began using peer mediators in 1995-96. Mrs. Glenas Green, guidance counselor, and Mrs. Jennifer Smith, behavior modification teacher, serve as their sponsors. Athletics are offered to the students who desire to participate in sports on the interscholastic level for seventh and eighth graders.