Toot Your Horn Thursday:
Jess Zupansic and Rachel Peterson are our receipents for Toot Your Horn Thursday!
Jess was nominated anonmously for Jess is such a postive force at McKinley. All the kids know and love her. She does such a wonderful job supporting students and holding students to a high standard. We appreciate all she does for our students. I also want to give Jess a HUGE shout out for taking on the science fair! This is a big job and has so many moving parts. Thank you for making this happen for McKinley!
Rachel was nominated anonymously for Rachel has stepped into her new role and done a really wonderful job. It is fun for the big kids to be able to work with a familiar face in intervention and she has a wonderful balence of care and high standards. I also want to say a big thank you for helping to put the science fair on for McKinley students. The science fair take a lot of work to plan and put together. We appreciate all the extra time and effort! Thank you!
If you see Jess and Rachel today, thank them for being amazing!
Pot of Positivity Challenge - next week!
Join us in a Pot of Positivity Challenge next week to acknowledge all the postiive, amazing people in this building every single day. Remeber - you can turn in as many 3 by 3 sheets as you'd like. For every one you complete, you get a new entry in for some amazing prizes (you do not need to be present to win).
Family March Newsletter:
The family newsletter was sent last week - just sharing!
School Social Worker Week:
This week is School Social Worker Week! Thank you to Annette for all the love, knowledge, and advocacy she brings to our building. Annette is an amazing school social worker and we are so thankful for her every day!
No Excuses Mentality:
I'm going to be vulnerable with you in this post. I have followed Eric Jensen for years - and was reminded of this quote a few days ago. Full transparency, it was the reminder I needed at this time of year. I'm not sure if it's the time of year, that it's February, or what the reason... I have fallen into the blame game. And, I don't think I'm alone. This is the time of year that gets hard. I'm fully acknowledging - and admitting - my patience and "fuse" are short.
This quote reminded me that I play a role in this, too. And, that's sometimes a hard pill to swallow. As much as a student plays a role in their learning, we do too. If they isn't being successful in the environment, some of that falls on them.... and some falls on us.
I put this quote in the blog to remind us of our mindset. We have impact and we get to decide what that impact is. I'm going to re-focus on my mindset around the "no excuses" mindset. I have impact and I'm deciding that impact will be positive and purposeful. (If you have read this far, please email Justin to be entered for a drawing)
Building Weekly Newsletter:
Have a great weekend!
-Justin
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