World-Class!!!

Today was a very encouraging. All teachers returned from summer break refreshed, excited, and optimistic. After meet and greets, we conducted a team building exercise, then we got right down to business! Our Principal explained the county and school's vision and mission for the upcoming school which is basically to be a world-class organization, with world-class classrooms that produce world-class results. To help us understand what that entails, we participated in a thoughtful, and reflective activity that was intended to remind us of what actions should take place daily in classrooms.

First, we were asked to individually complete a list of fifteen characteristics that should be present in a world-class classroom where everyone achieves at his/her highest potential. Then, we reconvened as a departments and decided on the fifteen characteristics that were common among all individuals. Finally, we came together as one team/faculty and decided on the fifteen most common characteristics from each department. There were many characteristics that were common among every group.

A key part of our challenge this year is to ensure that our classrooms reflect the very things we think, believe, and know should be in a world-class classroom everyday. Here are a few: safe, creative, structured/organized, responsive, fun, focused, data-driven,  engaging, student-centered, etc.

Every student deserves to be in a class that has these characteristics! So I charge each of you to make your class a world-class classroom every single day - our "world" depends on it!

Comments

  1. UnknownJuly 23, 2017 at 4:56 PM

    Glad getting back was so energizing! Love how your principal focused the collective voices!

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  2. Karen DozierJuly 30, 2017 at 10:09 AM

    Excellent activity and one that focuses your department to have the same focus.

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