September at Scott Carpenter has been a blast!
We have worked extremely hard at creating a strong classroom culture that allows all
students to feel safe, supported and listened to.
We have worked through many lessons this month including: Creating Community,
Coat of Arms, Shared Agreements, Spaghetti Towers, Speed Matching, and Culture.
We watched a short movie about Ubuntu, which is a South African concept that deals with
community and at its base explains, "If you're ok, I'm ok. If you're not ok, I'm not ok."
The students then created their own definition of Ubuntu and created shared agreements
based on those definitions. We had a blast working together to build spaghetti towers!
This month we also played a game called Shark-Tank that the students loved!
They got a random object and had to create a sales pitch for the object and sell it to a panel
of judges, or sharks. The creativity was amazingly silly and impressive.
We have worked extremely hard at creating a strong classroom culture that allows all
students to feel safe, supported and listened to.
We have worked through many lessons this month including: Creating Community,
Coat of Arms, Shared Agreements, Spaghetti Towers, Speed Matching, and Culture.
We watched a short movie about Ubuntu, which is a South African concept that deals with
community and at its base explains, "If you're ok, I'm ok. If you're not ok, I'm not ok."
The students then created their own definition of Ubuntu and created shared agreements
based on those definitions. We had a blast working together to build spaghetti towers!
This month we also played a game called Shark-Tank that the students loved!
They got a random object and had to create a sales pitch for the object and sell it to a panel
of judges, or sharks. The creativity was amazingly silly and impressive.
We also made projects to represent our cultures. Students worked incredibly hard on these and still perfecting them!
This month I would like to highlight a student has shown tremendous growth.
Angelo started the year off with a little bit of a struggle.
He had a hard time focusing, staying in his seat and sometimes keeping his hands to himself.
He and I worked together to create a behavior plan that worked for the both of us and since
then Angelo has shown impressive growth. He is on task, he works hard,
he contributes positively in classroom discussion and most importantly he has taken leadership
roles without being asked. He is even helping Mentors who are struggling with their Mentees.
Angelo started the year off with a little bit of a struggle.
He had a hard time focusing, staying in his seat and sometimes keeping his hands to himself.
He and I worked together to create a behavior plan that worked for the both of us and since
then Angelo has shown impressive growth. He is on task, he works hard,
he contributes positively in classroom discussion and most importantly he has taken leadership
roles without being asked. He is even helping Mentors who are struggling with their Mentees.
Then there is Ms. Ana. She has stepped into the Mentor role for the second time this year and
I cannot be more grateful for her!
Her class has a student who is need of a special kind of person to mentor them.
This student is very active, very unfocused and all over the place both physically and mentally.
He was placed with a mentor who had been unable to interact with him in a consistently
positive way. Ana stepped in, without being asked but asking me instead, to give it a try.
She has shown incredible patience, grace, and guidance to this young man.
I cannot be more grateful for her!
Her class has a student who is need of a special kind of person to mentor them.
This student is very active, very unfocused and all over the place both physically and mentally.
He was placed with a mentor who had been unable to interact with him in a consistently
positive way. Ana stepped in, without being asked but asking me instead, to give it a try.
She has shown incredible patience, grace, and guidance to this young man.
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