Friday Focus - February 18, 2022

 

Great Things I Noticed this Week:

*A student's email reply to a staff member said, "Thank you for not giving up on me."
* I overheard a student telling a classmate that she just wanted to go home for the rest of the day. He replied to her, "You made a decision to get up and come to school today, so you already won the first battle of the day. Don't go back on that, you can make it the rest of the day!"  He had such wise words of encouragement!
*Students were meeting with book club partners to discuss character traits that collided to develop life lessons from the book they were reading. 
*Students practicing writing with different types of transitions, with topics of their choice.

Upcoming Events:
Today: No Fun Friday for Middle School due to lack of gyms. Today's aspire is for MS locker cleaning! 

In case you are planning to come in to work this weekend, we are hosting Wrestling Sectionals on Saturday so the parking lot will be packed. 

Wednesday - Workout Wednesday

Thursday - I will be out of the building at a conference

Mark Calendars - District-wide staff meeting (for certified and paraprofessional staff) onWednesday, March 9th regarding technology. (No IEP meetings should be scheduled during this time)

"Nuts & Bolts" Notes:

*For the next 2 weeks, Juniors will need to remain in their Junior Advisory groups for ACT Preparation.  The ACT is on March 8th and we are going to utilize their aspire time (not taking away from class time) for ACT Prep/Test-taking strategies. 

*Here's the HS IEB/Advisory Doc for next week: Week of Feb 21

PD and Motivation:

This is a repeat for those that attended the Mentors/Mentees meeting...Mrs. Huelsman shared tips on how to Thrive through winter (because February is such a blah month!) and I wanted to share with all to help you get through...

Stress is a normal part of life, however, there are different types of stress:

A helpful factor to decide between if stress is felt to be tolerable vs toxic is RELATIONSHIPS. We know that have students who are able to be supported by relationships from supportive adults at school. WE each need to have people to help support each of us as well.  Who is your thinking partner to talk thorugh things at school?  Laughter really is the best medicine...who do you go to for a good laugh each day? Don't be afraid to ask someone for help when you need it!