October 12, 2018

Have you ever considered sending a Google Survey to your students to get feedback from them on how THEY feel about your class?  Have you ever considered getting their input as to how they best learn?  Think about it.  If you created a survey that was anonymous and couldn't be mean, what would they say?  Would they share how they learn?  Take a minute to watch this video on how kids feel about engagement and how we can make it MEANINGFUL for our students!!

ENGAGEMENT is a topic that we will ALWAYS be addressing.  

LIGHT A FIRE UNDER IT!  Whether "IT" is your lesson, your attitude, your demeanor, or your students!  ANY ONE of these has HUGE payoffs!  Check out THIS ARTICLE for 10 unconventional ways to motivate middle school students!  Some of these we have repeated NUMEROUS times and they are worth repeating until the levels of engagement in crease exponentially!  C'mon people!  Let's bring OUR A GAME!!! Don't you think our #KIDSDESERVEIT already?? 

  

WOULD YOU WANT TO BE A STUDENT IN YOUR CLASS???

IF YOUR STUDENTS DIDN'T HAVE TO BE IN YOUR CLASS, WOULD THEY SHOW UP ANYWAY??

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SUPER HERO SHOUT OUTS!

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• SUPER awesome shout out to Sandy for always looking out to her fellow teachers! ~Carol
• SUPER awesome shout out to Kevin for being my wing man and having my back! ~Carol
• SUPER awesome shout out to Elizabeth for helping out with our 6th graders and getting to the bottom of things! ~Heather P.
• SUPER awesome shout out to EB, CL, and KC for finding fun things for the student store! ~Sandy
• SUPER awesome shout out to Carol for helping me and Fulton with Soul Shoppe! ~Sandy
• SUPER awesome shout out to Heather T for taking on our 504s and SSTs!!!  MUCH appreciated!
  SUPER awesome shout out to PE Department for the help with Soul Shope and flexibility!
• SUPER awesome shout out to our staff involved with Soul Shoppe for being patient, flexible and understanding as we navigate through the new program!
• SUPER awesome shout out to Kevin for helping out in a pinch with copies! ~Sandy
• SUPER awesome shout out to Katherine for sharing your experience with lesson 13 and cutting all of the unnecessary stuff! ~Heather P.
• SUPER awesome shout out to Ms. Kristy for helping me with the gates in the morning and helping KC with the cross walk in the afternoon! ~Rosa and KC
• SUPER awesome shout out to Dustin for saving me with a cup of coffee after mine spilled on the way to work! ~Kimberly
• SUPER awesome shout out to my Secret Pal!  You are awesome! ~Katherine
• SUPER awesome shout out to Lynn for sharing the resource about Khan Academy lessons with Open Up!~ Katherine
• SUPER awesome shout out to Jason for sharing the Aeries-Google Classroom connection and offering to help!!