While I may be the first woman in this office, I will not be the last—because every little girl watching tonight sees that this is a country of possibilities.
“We have two choices: try to correct behavior by continuing to punish, or spend time building relationships, getting to the root of issues, and helping students to repair the harm they caused.” -#Hackingschooldiscipline@NmaynardEdu@WeinsteinEdu
“We need to own our own bias... learn our own uncomfortable truths and then unlearn them.” Such wise words shared by Natalie @factualitygame #HappeningNow#AlwaysGrowing
“You aren’t going to punish a kid into respecting you. You aren’t going to punish a kid into creating a good relationship with you” 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 #Hackingschooldiscipline
“When our kids spend eight hours a day in a system that is looking for reasons to punish them, remove them, criminalize them—our kids do not get to be kids.” -Ijeoma Oluo
When managing conflict, I give scholars a chance to share out and feel heard, but want to work on taking responsibility for any part I might have played when things went wrong, acknowledge and apologize. #Hackingschooldiscipline#dismantleWSC
We use class meetings to teach social skills. My students’ favorite activity is our opener, “Give, Get, Pass” where they can choose to give a compliment, get a compliment, or pass. What are your favorite class meetings activities?? #socialskills#classmeeting#morningmeeting
I find writing to be one of the more challenging classes to create hands-on activities for. This is a punctuation lesson we did! What ways do you make writing hands-on?