While there is a little truth in that statement, Andy Stanley, a Leadership Enthusiast, reminds us that success and failure go together. When we work on anything worthwhile (a marriage/relationship, coach a team, teach/impact youth) we should always expect it to be an uphill battle and expect that we will fail. The key to success is to never make excuses for these failures, only adjustments. Learning from mistakes is the most powerful way to move forward.
Failure in life is inevitable. I think we must teach our children this and model the importance of never letting fear get in the way of progress and learning.
As you move into this week, I want to challenge all of you to "stink" at something this week! Take a risk, expect failure and celebrate the success that comes from it. You will be glad you did!
HERE is an article from Forbes about the power of failing as well!
Important Information:
Best Practices of the Week:
CREATING Engaging Lessons:
* Carol Schwoeppe had a great interest approach this week as she talked about the future of work. She showed a video clip of the Jetsons (I am not sure the kids knew who they were - but I did!) Interest Approaches are a great way to get student's attention and build engagement and excitement into the lesson.
* Seth Gehlhausen told his PLC team that he has noticed an 80% increase in student participation by using playing cards in his room. Each students gets a playing card and he draws - basically selecting students randomly to answer questions or participate. This is one great example of a total participation technique and a great formative assessment tool. See Seth for details!
COLLABORATING Teams:
* Social Studies team set goals to try some visible learning strategies around disciplinary literacy last week. They each tried a new strategy and then at their PLC on Friday they shared their struggles and successes! It was a great day of learning and collaborating!
House Leader Meeting - We will have a House Leader Meeting for teachers on Thursday, September 29th at 7:30 a.m. Lauren would like to brainstorm some surprise and delight ideas and create a schedule for small competitions. We will also have our quarterly competition on Friday, October 14th - details to come! See you this Thursday morning!
AVID - Tuesday, a small group of junior high teachers will travel to Paoli to learn about a program called AVID. We learned about this opportunity through our Early College Network. Basically, AVID is a system that could be really helpful in developing those important executive functioning skills for our students - there is a whole school and tier 2 system - we are thinking we would focus on grades 6-8. We know we will learn a lot from our friends down the road!
We will also be hosting a lunch and learn on Friday, September 30th from an AVID representative. Our friends from Crawford County are going to come to the meeting as well to learn with us.
MTSS - As we end the first 9 weeks, we would like to start collecting names of students that are struggling academically so our MTSS team can meet. Please fill out the following form for students that are struggling in your class. It is quick and easy. Please add names by October 5th.
College GO! Week - Just a reminder this is College Go! Week! Teachers are encouraged to wear jeans and also a shirt or something to represent where they gained their training from! Thanks to Dana for pulling the week together.
Welcome Alyssa - Some of you may start seeing a familiar face this week. Alyssa Hill is going to be an assistant for us. She is going to school on-line for education and wanted to gain some experiences. No better place to learn than at school! We are happy to have her join us!
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