Wednesday, September 5, 2012
The Cheese
At the beginning of each new school year, my principal finds one or two clips or short videos that aim to inspire our school's staff and serve as a bolt of energy to get our engines going. After watching the cheese video, I thought about how our staff would react to that video. It would be a great motivator and reinforcer to those who are active and proactive, but would the people who sat back and waited really get the point? I am not sure if we have ever been asked to really self-reflect on our weak areas. In many ways, we have a very strong and positive school. We spend time reflecting as a staff and as teams, but I don't really think that we spend much time thinking about ourselves as individuals. The one time that does happen is during an administrative review, but it needs to happen more often, with focus on improvement. However, who really wants to hear about their faults?
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Maybe this video would be a good precursor to a discussion of a planned change. If you already know who the Haws are, put them together in the same group when you ask everyone to brainstorm how Haw can be helped.
ReplyDeleteAfter that discussion then bring up the matter of the real planned change. Again, have all the Haws discuss together how Haw can be helped with the planned change.