Two of my good ideas

We had staff development and I said two things that were positivity acknowledged so I’ll mention them here.

• Always take home the positive things that happen at school and leave the bad ones behind.  If nothing else, it will help YOUR attitude.

• The second was about our advisory period – it would be much more effective if we kept the same subset of kids each year.  I know there will be reasons we lose kids and have to add kids to the group, but if at least 50% were the same, I think it would make a difference.

Advisory is a 1/2 class period where we are supposed to be working with kids and making a different, and I think if we could build a long term relationship it would really help. 

We’re doing a book study of “Teaching with Poverty in Mind”, and relationship building is mentioned often in that book.