Hopefully, today afforded you a few minutes to catch your breath.  Serving students can make each day feel pretty long and, at times, chaotic.  As we navigate through the challenges, let's remember to maintain clarity with our intentions and focus on the essentials and priorities.  "The main thing is to keep the main thing, the main thing"

Quote worth pondering...

Now, as I’ve suggested before, what is adaptive for children living in chaotic, violent, trauma-permeated environments becomes maladaptive in other environments-especially school. The hypervigilance of the Alert state is mistaken for ADHD; the resistance and defiance of Alarm and Fear get labeled as oppositional defiant disorder; flight behavior gets them suspended from school; fight behavior gets them charged with assault. The pervasive misunderstanding of trauma-related behavior has a profound effect on our educational, mental health, and juvenile justice systems.”

― Bruce D. Perry, What Happened To You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing

Spring Observations...  Warning... Heavy lift ahead...

We have been focusing on the Workshop Model and thinking strategies as our professional development and it makes sense that those should be the focus for the spring observation.  

1. Please sign up for a slot
2. Prepare a lesson using the workshop template (p. 97 of Phenomenal Teaching)
3. Incorporate a specific thinking strategy from Chapter 6 of Phenomenal Teaching.  As you think about a plan consider the content students will be learning, how they will make meaning of the content, and the kind of thinking you want them to do.  Then, choose a strategy that will facilitate that process.
4. After teaching the lesson (the observation) reflect on the process and what you might like to keep the same or tweak for next time.

I'm looking forward to this process and being in your classrooms.

Tutor.com

Tutor.com is a helpful resource to provide after hour and supplemental support for students.  Please take a look at this hand-out and share it with students.  My understanding is that it is already linked on Schoology.

Bus/Parking lot duty: Higgs and Levy

Monday 1/30: Non Work day

Tuesday  1/31: 

Wednesday 2/1:

Thursday 2/2:

Friday 2/3: Wellness

Bus/Parking lot duty: Eastman and Mahoney

Monday 2/6: Certified PD Day: Review Workshop, Thinking Strategies, TBRI

Tuesday  2/7: 

Wednesday 2/8:

Thursday 2/9:

Friday 2/10: Wellness

Bus/Parking lot duty: Hook and Fehling

Monday 2/13:  Non Work day

Tuesday  2/14: 

Wednesday 2/15:

Thursday 2/16:

Friday 2/17: Flex day/no school

Bus/Parking lot duty: Cooley and Smith

Monday 2/20:  President's day: no school

Tuesday  2/21: 

Wednesday 2/22:

Thursday 2/23:

Friday 2/24: Wellness

Bus/Parking lot duty: Baker and Doering

Monday 2/27:  PD Day Agenda

Tuesday  2/28: 

Wednesday 3/1:

Thursday 3/2:

Friday 3/4: Wellness