Margaret has done a great job in her first week at BMS! Thanks to everyone who has introduced themselves or helped her out in any way to make her feel welcome this week.
"The disease of our times is that we live on the surface. We're like the Platte River, a mile wide and an inch deep. " Steven Pressfield
The data meetings on Thursday are always a hard day. It's hard because they are important. Each meeting we try to figure out the right amount of support to give each student to meet them where they are at...so that they can still be challenged to learn and grow academically. This balance is often different for every kid as each student will have unique circumstances that impact their learning. So is it easy.....no. Just keep in mind that these meetings are not an event but a process and it takes everyone working together to find that point where support and challenge meet and where students can find their "flow"
"People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I don't think that's what we're really seeking. I think that what we are seeking is an experience of being alive." Joseph Campbell (author of The Hero with a Thousand Faces)
I received a call yesterday from one of our volleyball refs. He wanted to talk to me about how fantastic he thinks Bill and Dan are with their players and the way that they coach and vocalize their support for the girls while stressing teamwork and sportsmanship even in their losses. Pretty amazing to get a positive phone call like this. Congrats guys!
"People think focus means saying yes to the thing you've got to focus on. But that's not what it means at all. It means saying no to the other hundred good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully. I'm actually as proud of the things that we haven't done as the things I have done. Innovation is saying no to a 1000 things." Steve Jobs
I will be coming to see you if you are on cycle to set up our first formal observation.
The PTA shared a lot of information on Tuesday night i will make my way around to teams to share this early next week. We have 23 PTA members on our staff...I am hoping this will grow. There are forms in the teacher mailbox room.
An expert is a person that has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field." Niels Bohr (Danish Nobel Prize winner)
I appreciate Josh and Vanessa spending time to get the maker space ready in anticipation of the start of the Maker Club.
I appreciate everyone's hard work on Wednesday's early release day including input I received on the SIP and work that was done analyzing IAR scores. The science resource committee also saw a good presentation from MCGraw Hill.
"I can't give you a surefire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time" Herbert Bayard Swope (first recipient of the Pulitzer Prize)
Just copying Dr. Filas's message about our Biometric/Flu shot day coming up in November:
6:30am - 9:00am
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