It's hard to believe that we are in our final full week of the school year! It feels like just yesterday that I was meeting each of you, learning about Clough School, and moving into my new office. It has been an amazing first year together, and I look forward to what the future holds at Clough. Thank you for reflecting on all of our "glows" and "grows" at our last staff collaboration time. I had Julia type them all up and put them on one document for us. (Glows and Grows)
I also wanted to include all of the Reasons to Be Proud of Clough that we listed earlier in the year...
We have a lot to celebrate and a lot to be proud of this year. We continuously worked to improve our teaching practices. We collaborated as teams. We hosted several new events. Besides celebrating, we also have been reflective throughout the year, recognizing that we can always grow and improve. I have been sharing a survey with parents and caregivers asking for their thoughts on what we need to AMPLIFY, what we need to SUNSET, and what we need to CREATE. I would love to hear from all of you your thoughts about what we did that we can improve upon, what we should stop doing, and what new ideas you have. Please take some time to add your thoughts to this survey.
I have also done this type of end of the year survey with students. They have lots of ideas about what they liked and didn't like, and also great new ideas that sometimes we as adults have not thought of. If you end up surveying your class using this format or a different format, be sure and share the results with me so I can add it into the mix as I spend time planning for next year over the summer.
I just started listening to a new book, What We Carry: A Memoir. Probably going to be a tough one for me to listen to because it's about a mother and daughter and their bond and what happens to that bond as the mother is living with Alzheimer's. I also got a new book PD book that I started reading this weekend...Write Here and Now: The Mindful Writing Teacher's Guide to Finding the Zen in Their Pen. Looking forward to reading this book as I work on my own writing and as several of us work on a writing curriculum plan this summer.
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