Retired Elementary Teacher & School Counselor 🌺Promoting student success and well being. Educator/Advocate/Mom/
Cancer Survivor/Prayer Warrior #texastech
137 DAYS...
That's how many are left in 2020. How you choose to use them matters. I’m not buying the doom and gloom. I’m investing in faith, hope and love. I believe the best is yet to come.
Maslow applies to educators now more than ever. Leaders need to remember that when they’re talking about culture, mission, and all that stuff at the top of the pyramid... they have staff members & students who are worried about safety, security, and all that stuff at the bottom.
Lots of kids come to school with their invisible backpacks, weighted with struggles.
Stress, worry, fear, anxiety, trauma, lack of physical needs, loneliness, anger, sadness, & hopelessness can make them so heavy; too heavy for learning to happen.
Notice & love them instead.
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I hope schools keep in mind that most students haven't seen their classmates in 6 months. Don't punish kids for being kids when they get back in the classroom. They will want to talk, ,laugh, play, share experiences. Hopefully schools are making adjustments for this to happen.
Adversity...definitely reveals who we are at our core. Our strengths reveal, but it’s how we manage our blind spots that defines whether or not adversity makes us stronger. @ReformedSParent #JoyfulLeaders
Think about all the trauma that has occurred in 2020. The same kids who left us in March will not be the same kids who return in August. Principals, what are you doing to prepare your staff for the students who are coming back to us? #txpvi#leadforward#WeLeadEd#leadlap
Three things you control every day are your ATTITUDE, your EFFORT and your ACTIONS.
It doesn’t matter what others are doing or who you think is being unfair. Every day you can focus on being positive, working hard and making others around you better.