The Buzz of Teaching

to remind myself... all students deserve equity all students should be held accountable staff shouldn't be terrible staff should be professional adults should be able to make decisions students should feel comfortable and supported by their school

Someone from our PBIS team decided to spontaneously get upset and worried that we don't have anything to present to the staff at our next staff meeting. I thought she was asking for ideas we could do for our next extended planning room lesson to the students, so I gave some good ideas. An administrator shot them down because they didn't like that I suggested they need to hold students accountable. long story. anyway. the PBIS lady kept asking what we should do and i finally just told her that i'm not doing anything half-assed. She agreed and calmed down. I swear to god it's like some staff members run around like chickens with their heads cut off until someone tells them what to do. Why can't people think for themselves?????????????????? leadership goal = going great?

My goal was originally to use my role in PBIS to help unite the staff. That backfired. So then my goal was to back off from doing PBIS work. That didn't work because I care too much. Right now something I'm working on, which can be applied to my role in PBIS as well as my position as a teacher, is I am using my strategic, achieving skills to learn how to disseminate important information to staff and students efficiently. I have been in communication with a representative from my District Comunications Department about how to advertise for school-wide events on the District website, the school website, as well as Facebook. She was super helpful and now I finally have a concrete list of steps to take to achieve my goals of distributing important information in an efficient way while actually reaching MORE people instead of less. I strongly believe what I'm doing right now, and my research, should have been conducted by our Activities Director and not me - a random clas...

I needed to find a digital copy of the graphic novel March: Book One by Rep. John Lewis. I used Megan's suggestion, Epic!, to try to find it. I created an account and searched through the website. While I did find some short non-fiction texts about Civil Rights, I soon learned that that service did not host March: Book One  by Rep. John Lewis. I did some more research and actually found it for only $4 on ComiXology, an Amazon-owned company that specializes in digital comic sales. While I didn't find Epic! helpful or useful in my content area, I think there's a good chance it could be applicable in our EL classes.

Hey, so I looked at the Purdue University website that was linked and discovered that the Kolb's Model is just a more detailed version of our WOW Blog from last mod? So I'm not sure what else to say. I will say it's ironic (?) that my original goal was to find ways to use PBIS to create cohesion among the staff at my school, but then less than a week later I had some experiences that made me go....eeeeeeh nope I'm done. They can figure it out on their own and have a worse time at it because I can't handle working with babies anymore. What a form of whiplash.

1. My goal was to cut back from PBIS, even though I'm passionate about the work. I tried to carry out my goal by not going out of my way to research, email, or create materials for the team. This was very difficult because we are a 4 person team and I think I've been informally designated the leader, even though I'm not the PBIS Internal Coach (and don't want to be). While I pulled back a little, I didn't verbalize it to anyone so I still had people reaching out to me. It was kind of nice to be a person to bounce ideas off of instead of the person who feels like he has to create the ideas. 2. It's more relaxing to not be so involved, but as much as it's relaxing, it can be just as frustrating because I'm watching things happen that I don't 100% approve of, and things are passing through that aren't up to my standards. So it kind of sucks. Would I rather be stressed and annoyed but producing great products or relaxed but apathetic about my commu...