As I continue to navigate my way through this first year of administration, I have learned that choice and priority are two things that I always have to consciously be aware of when it comes to what tasks and accomplishments I need to get done each day. It is so easy to get held up in your office or have new tasks that keep popping up (that is just part of it!) throughout each day and lose your hold on what you really need to be focusing on...the students and teachers. The building and fostering relationships aspect of education is what I enjoy the most, and I want to help myself make sure that it stays at the front of my role as an assistant principal. So, I wanted to make myself a friendly personal challenge/set of goals for the month of January that I could use to hold myself accountable for keeping relationships number one! It is not a daily challenge, but it could certainly be used as one! Instead, it is a list of actions that I have either started and want to ...
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Setting Classroom New Year Goals
Goodbye 2016, Hello 2017! Here's to a fresh start, new beginnings and updated goals! Goals...that is where today's quick post comes in. Every year, I like to spend the first day back from break checking in with the students and resetting our focus as a classroom and as individuals. What are goals? What are OUR goals? What is important to us? How are these goals going to help us be successful? Why will these goals help us climb to success? I use this activity as a springboard to the kickoff of the second half of our year for a couple of reasons. 1. Students are more focused. 2. Students better understand what they need and how to accomplish that. 3. Classroom community is stronger and there is more support. Today, both of our classes brainstormed a list of things that they wanted to focus on for the remainder of the school year. They thought about what they wanted to accomplish as a class and as individuals and then they chose ...
